May 18, 2026 • 15 mins
1. Accusations towards Democrats
- Democrats want to expand government power and undermine constitutional structures.
- They are openly expressing radical intentions in modern politics.
- They are attempting to change institutions (Electoral College, Supreme Court, Senate rules) for political advantage.
2. Kamala Harris Statements
- Harris is advocating:
- Electoral College reform
- Supreme Court changes (including expansion)
- Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico
- These ideas are efforts to consolidate Democratic power, not as policy debate.
3. Political Manipulation
- Democrats want to:
- “Neutralize” opposition states
- Control elections through population-heavy cities
- Penalize political opponents under the guise of accountability
4. Immigration and Crime Fairfax County, VA
- Illegal immigrants are responsible for ~50% (or more) of murders in Fairfax County, VA.
- Immigration enforcement is failing
- “Sanctuary policies” allow dangerous individuals to remain free
- There is systemic bias favoring undocumented immigrants in legal outcomes.
5. Criticism of Legal System
- Prosecutors:
- Are influenced by political ideology
- Give lenient sentences to undocumented offenders
- There are double standards in justice (harsher on citizens, lenient on immigrants).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Not a light bill.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I thought he was a great senator, but he made
the political decision he tried to. He voted to impeach
pros Trump, which would have ruined his political life. He
could never run for office again. Mass Season on the
ballot Tuesday. He votes against Trump all the time. What's
the headline? Trump strong? Those who try to destroy Trump politically,
stand in the way of his gender are gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Updated. We've got two major stories
for you. First up, Kamala Harris declaring war on the
foundations of this country. She wants to go after the
Supreme Court, our Constitution, and even the Bill of Rights,
and she says, you're just elect Democrats. They're gonna change
(00:48):
this whole country fundamentally. Also, you may be shocked to
find out than in a county very close to Washington,
d C. More than fifty percent of all the murders
this year have been done at the hands of illegal immigrants.
How did we even get to that point. We'll break
it down for you, but first let me tell you
(01:08):
about Patriot Mobile. America is entering the two hundred and
fiftieth year, and the direction of this country is being
decided right now in our culture and our economy, and
who we choose to support matters more than ever. Most
wireless companies don't care who you are or what you believe.
They just want your money. Patriot Mobile they're different. For
(01:30):
more than twelve years, they've stood with Americans who believe
freedom is worth defending, funding the Christian Conservative movement when
others stay silent. That's what they do. So here's the deal.
You don't have to give up quality or service when
you switch to Patriot Mobile. They deliver premium priority access
on all three major US networks, so you'll get the
(01:53):
same or better coverage than you have today. Think switching
as a hassle, It isn't anymore in twenty twenty. You
keep your number, keep your phone, or upgrade, and their
one hundred percent US based support team can activate you
in minutes still paying off a device. Patriot Mobile even
offers a contract buyout. This is a defining year. We
(02:15):
must work together to save our country. So go to
Patriotmobile dot com, slash ben forty seven or call ninety
seven to Patriot and if you use the promo code
BEN forty seven you'll get a free month of service.
That's Patriotmobile dot com. Slash ben forty seven or nine
seven to Patriot and switch today. It's a forty seven
(02:39):
morning update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Democrats, if you listen carefully, will always tell you exactly
what their plan is now. In the olden days, Barack
Obama didn't actually tell you he was a socialist. He
just said that we wanted hope and change, and he
would dress it up in a different way. Bill Clinton,
for example, didn't tell you that he wanted there to
be massive expansion of government. Instead, he said that we
(03:05):
needed to make government smaller but also take care of
the poor. Translation, a massive increase in the number of
people on food stamps and government aid. But in twenty
twenty six, the Democratic Party is no longer holding back
how much disdain they have for the government of the
United States of America, which oddly enough, they are a
(03:26):
part of. They don't like that the government has checks
and balances. They don't like that the government has different
branches in it that they cannot control. That actually keeps
other individuals in our government in check. In other words,
they don't like it when they're told no. And so
when they are told no, they now are saying what
(03:48):
they really believe out loud that when they don't get
their way, they want to destroy and completely alter and
change the United States of America's government. That would also
mean that you would get rid of our constitution, you
would get rid of our Bill of Rights, you would
get rid of anything that actually stands in their way
of power. Now, Kamala Harris is dressing it up, saying
(04:12):
it a little bit differently, saying that we need to
have big and bold conversations and have these strategy thinking sessions.
But I want you to listen to what she actually said.
Now this was put out online, and I want you
to listen to Kamala Harris talk about destroying our government
all because Donald Trump and other conservatives have been elected
(04:34):
and they don't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Say, look, this is a moment where there are no
bad ideas, no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like
to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm,
we talk about what we need to do and think
about doing around the electoral College. We talk about the
idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
(04:57):
We invite a conversation about multi members districts. We talk
about what look that if we win the Senate, which
we should and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee
should have rules that they put in place so when
these people come before as nominees to the Supreme Court
and lie, that they are held to account and consequence,
(05:21):
not just that somebody goes on cable news and says
they lie, but that there are rules in place to
actually penalize people for lying to a Senate Judiciary committee.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Now let's just pause there. Let's go through the list
of people that we know have lied to Congress. Guy
by the name of Anthony Fauci, former FBI director, James Comy,
former CIA director John Brennan, the list, James Clapper, The
list goes on and on of individuals that have lied
before Congress. Now, they have not been held accountable for
(05:52):
their lies, whether it's dealing with COVID, whether it's Majorcist
lying to Congress saying the border is secure when he
knew that there were millions of people coming across the
border illegally. The number of people that Kamala Harris in
her party that have lied to Congress, the Steele dossier,
Russian collusion, the impeachment of Donald Trump one and two.
(06:14):
Adam Schiff is a great example. These are all individuals
that have gone before Congress and that have lied before that.
She says, we need to be held accountable. But to
be clear, she's not saying they need to be held accountable.
She's saying, we want to accuse any Republican that disagree
with that comes before Congress of lying to Congress, and
then we can silence them. There was also something else
(06:37):
she said that was very interesting. She said, we need
to talk about the electoral college translation, get rid of it.
Why because she wants the presidency to be picked by California,
by la by New York, by Chicago. She doesn't want
states like North Dakota, South Dakota, or many of the
Southern states like Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina to
(06:58):
have power. She certainly does in which states like Iowa
New Hampshire to have any power who the President of
the United States of America actually is. She wants to
change it all so that liberal cities will control who
the president is every presidential election cycle. She wants the
presidency to come down to where if you're a Democrat,
(07:20):
you only really have to campaign in five or six cities,
not even states, just five or six cities in America
because the population is soedents there you can just win
election by getting the majority of those people to vote
for you. She wants to have the majority of the
country befly over country. But she's not done there. And
this is again all because Donald Trump was elected president
(07:42):
and she hates the majority of American voters in this
last election. Keep listening to her radical ideas.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That we agree that it is right to have ethics
rules for Supreme Court justices, and let's put those in place.
Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico d These are
the things I think that we've got to do. We've
got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue
(08:09):
states expanding their maps, and all of this I think is, Look,
we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing
to win. We gotta play to win.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We've got to fight fire with fire. We have to
play to win. Now. These are the words of an
individual who knows that President Trump has had multiple assassination
attempts against him. She doesn't care. She wants to incite
that type of anger and violence. But you also notice
what she said about she wants her to be two
senators from Washington, d C. And two senators from Puerto
(08:39):
Rico because she believes it easily and based on the makeup,
Washington d C. Would immediately elect two Democratic centers, and
she believes that Puerto Rico they could probably do a
very good job there and get at least maybe one,
if not two of those sinners to go for the
Democrats as well. And she very well may be right.
But you notice what she's talking about here, it's about
(09:01):
stacking the deck. And by the way, you notice she
mentioned in there she would like to redo how we
do the Supreme Court. Why would she want to redo
how we do the Supreme Court. It's a very simple answer.
She wants to redo the Supreme Court. Every time they
give her a ruling that she doesn't like, she wants
(09:21):
to go after and attack those Supreme Court justice and
maybe get them kicked off the court. And if that
is not enough, then she wants to pack the court.
And every time she needs to make it bigger, then
they would just make it bigger. And every time that
the Supreme Court needs to get even bigger to give
them what they want, they just want it to get
bigger again. So no longer would it be nine. It
(09:44):
could be fifteen, and it can be twenty one, then
it can be twenty nine, then it can be thirty five.
Where would it stop. As long as they have power,
that's all they really want is more of the power.
So this is the Democratic Party. They're saying it out loud.
Believe them when they tell you this is what they believe.
(10:05):
Believe them when they tell you that they want to
destroy this country, because Kamala Harris just laid out their
entire game plan.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now story number two.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
According to statements tied to the Department of Homeland Security,
illegal aliens are responsible for roughly half I'm gonna say again,
roughly half of all the murders this year in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Now that is one of the wealthiest and most politically
powerful counties in America. It's in essence, a suburb of Washington,
(10:37):
d C. We're not talking about some struggling border town
overwhelmed overnight by cartel violence. We're talking about Fairfax County,
an affluent liberal county in Virginia that neighbors Washington, d C.
This is home to federal contractors, intelligence officials, lawyers, diplomats,
tech executives, and some of the highest medium household incomes
(11:00):
in all of the United States of America. This is
the affluent northern Virginia suburb. This is the backyard of
our federal government itself. And now this country has become
the center of a bigger problem for Democrats, and that
is how did they even get to this point. You've
got a major, growing national firestorm over legal immigration, over
(11:23):
violent crime, over sanctuary city and sanctuary policies, and whether
political leaders are deliberately ignoring repeated warnings until innocent Americans
end up dead. Now, the controversy exploded after the Department
of Owned Security officials told the truths They highlighted murder
cases involving illegal immigrants in Fairfax County during a heated
(11:44):
house hearing this week. And that is when the new
head of the Department of Owned Security, Mark Wayne Mullen,
came out to tell the American people exactly what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Roughly fifty percent of the murders in Fairfax Virginia. The
purpose are illegal should even be in the country. To
the US, we have, you know, politicians that want to
protect the criminals. President Trump is still protecting all our neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You listen to him saying that they're they're protecting all neighborhoods.
How is it even possible that you can have fifty
percent of murders in Fairfax County, nowhere close to the border,
happen and be killed Americans be killed by illegal immigrants now,
according to DHS link figures cited during the debate, not
(12:27):
only is that one of the biggest problems, but they
also say in some cases, officials reference it being even higher,
as as seventy five percent of the murders in Fairfax
County so far this year. Those numbers are being debated,
of course politically now, regardless of where you stand on
this issue, the individual cases now drawing national attention are horrifying.
(12:49):
One of the most shocking involved in an a legal
immigrant from Sierra Leone who was accused of brutally murdering
a forty one year old seventy mentor at a Fairfax
County bus stop earlier this year. The details should infuriate everyone.
According to the reports, the girl had been or the man,
I should say, the illegal immigrant had been arrested roughly
(13:09):
thirty times before the murder. Let me say that again,
thirty times, thirty encounters with the justice system with law
enforcement charges ranging from assault to wounding and other violent allegations.
And yet somehow that illegal immigrant remained on the streets
because the sanctuary city policies in Virginia. Federal immigration authorities
(13:31):
had reportedly logged detainers against him earlier in the year.
Police repeatedly warned prosecutors that he was a major dangerous
society and still, according to the reporting, he was not
removed from the country and allowed back on the streets.
Then came the deadly stabbing that shocked the community, and
many Americans are asking the very simple question, how does
(13:53):
someone get arrested thirty times and remain free in the
United States of America even if you're not an illegal immigrant?
Question is now the center of this massive political and
legal battle that's unfolding in northern Virginia. Now Fairfax County
Commonwealth Attorney is a progressive prosecutor backed you guessed it
by George Soros and the left wing criminal justice reform movements.
(14:15):
He's now under federal investigation by the Department of Justice
over allegations that his office may have been giving preferential
treatment deliberately to illegal immigrant defendants. In other words, the
system was going harder on American citizens and looking the
other way when they caught in illegal In one case,
in particular, two illegal immigrant defendants accused in Fairfax County
(14:39):
of murder, they received plea agreements that resulted only five
years behind bars, despite facing much deeper potential sentences. The
Department of Home Insecurity blasted the deal publicly calling it
an insane sweetheart plea deal. Now the language from DHS
lit up conservatives on Capitol Hill, as it should have.
Critics say, these policies are creating a exactly the kind
(15:00):
of environment where repeat offenders believe there are no consequences
even if you're rested thirty times. So here we are
roughly fifty percent of murders in Fairfax County, Virginia are
by people that are illegal, that shouldn't even be in
this country in the first place. Trump administration making it
clear they're not backing down on this and expect more
(15:24):
justice to come.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Thank you. For listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson, Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Not a light bill.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I thought he was a great senator, but he made
the political decision he tried to. He voted to impeach
pros Trump, which would have ruined his political life. He
could never run for office again. Mass Season on the
ballot Tuesday. He votes against Trump all the time. What's
the headline? Trump strong? Those who try to destroy Trump politically,
stand in the way of his gender are gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Updated. We've got two major stories
for you. First up, Kamala Harris declaring war on the
foundations of this country. She wants to go after the
Supreme Court, our Constitution, and even the Bill of Rights,
and she says, you're just elect Democrats. They're gonna change
(00:48):
this whole country fundamentally. Also, you may be shocked to
find out than in a county very close to Washington,
d C. More than fifty percent of all the murders
this year have been done at the hands of illegal immigrants.
How did we even get to that point. We'll break
it down for you, but first let me tell you
(01:08):
about Patriot Mobile. America is entering the two hundred and
fiftieth year, and the direction of this country is being
decided right now in our culture and our economy, and
who we choose to support matters more than ever. Most
wireless companies don't care who you are or what you believe.
They just want your money. Patriot Mobile they're different. For
(01:30):
more than twelve years, they've stood with Americans who believe
freedom is worth defending, funding the Christian Conservative movement when
others stay silent. That's what they do. So here's the deal.
You don't have to give up quality or service when
you switch to Patriot Mobile. They deliver premium priority access
on all three major US networks, so you'll get the
(01:53):
same or better coverage than you have today. Think switching
as a hassle, It isn't anymore in twenty twenty. You
keep your number, keep your phone, or upgrade, and their
one hundred percent US based support team can activate you
in minutes still paying off a device. Patriot Mobile even
offers a contract buyout. This is a defining year. We
(02:15):
must work together to save our country. So go to
Patriotmobile dot com, slash ben forty seven or call ninety
seven to Patriot and if you use the promo code
BEN forty seven you'll get a free month of service.
That's Patriotmobile dot com. Slash ben forty seven or nine
seven to Patriot and switch today. It's a forty seven
(02:39):
morning update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Democrats, if you listen carefully, will always tell you exactly
what their plan is now. In the olden days, Barack
Obama didn't actually tell you he was a socialist. He
just said that we wanted hope and change, and he
would dress it up in a different way. Bill Clinton,
for example, didn't tell you that he wanted there to
be massive expansion of government. Instead, he said that we
(03:05):
needed to make government smaller but also take care of
the poor. Translation, a massive increase in the number of
people on food stamps and government aid. But in twenty
twenty six, the Democratic Party is no longer holding back
how much disdain they have for the government of the
United States of America, which oddly enough, they are a
(03:26):
part of. They don't like that the government has checks
and balances. They don't like that the government has different
branches in it that they cannot control. That actually keeps
other individuals in our government in check. In other words,
they don't like it when they're told no. And so
when they are told no, they now are saying what
(03:48):
they really believe out loud that when they don't get
their way, they want to destroy and completely alter and
change the United States of America's government. That would also
mean that you would get rid of our constitution, you
would get rid of our Bill of Rights, you would
get rid of anything that actually stands in their way
of power. Now, Kamala Harris is dressing it up, saying
(04:12):
it a little bit differently, saying that we need to
have big and bold conversations and have these strategy thinking sessions.
But I want you to listen to what she actually said.
Now this was put out online, and I want you
to listen to Kamala Harris talk about destroying our government
all because Donald Trump and other conservatives have been elected
(04:34):
and they don't like it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Say, look, this is a moment where there are no
bad ideas, no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like
to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm,
we talk about what we need to do and think
about doing around the electoral College. We talk about the
idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
(04:57):
We invite a conversation about multi members districts. We talk
about what look that if we win the Senate, which
we should and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee
should have rules that they put in place so when
these people come before as nominees to the Supreme Court
and lie, that they are held to account and consequence,
(05:21):
not just that somebody goes on cable news and says
they lie, but that there are rules in place to
actually penalize people for lying to a Senate Judiciary committee.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Now let's just pause there. Let's go through the list
of people that we know have lied to Congress. Guy
by the name of Anthony Fauci, former FBI director, James Comy,
former CIA director John Brennan, the list, James Clapper, The
list goes on and on of individuals that have lied
before Congress. Now, they have not been held accountable for
(05:52):
their lies, whether it's dealing with COVID, whether it's Majorcist
lying to Congress saying the border is secure when he
knew that there were millions of people coming across the
border illegally. The number of people that Kamala Harris in
her party that have lied to Congress, the Steele dossier,
Russian collusion, the impeachment of Donald Trump one and two.
(06:14):
Adam Schiff is a great example. These are all individuals
that have gone before Congress and that have lied before that.
She says, we need to be held accountable. But to
be clear, she's not saying they need to be held accountable.
She's saying, we want to accuse any Republican that disagree
with that comes before Congress of lying to Congress, and
then we can silence them. There was also something else
(06:37):
she said that was very interesting. She said, we need
to talk about the electoral college translation, get rid of it.
Why because she wants the presidency to be picked by California,
by la by New York, by Chicago. She doesn't want
states like North Dakota, South Dakota, or many of the
Southern states like Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina to
(06:58):
have power. She certainly does in which states like Iowa
New Hampshire to have any power who the President of
the United States of America actually is. She wants to
change it all so that liberal cities will control who
the president is every presidential election cycle. She wants the
presidency to come down to where if you're a Democrat,
(07:20):
you only really have to campaign in five or six cities,
not even states, just five or six cities in America
because the population is soedents there you can just win
election by getting the majority of those people to vote
for you. She wants to have the majority of the
country befly over country. But she's not done there. And
this is again all because Donald Trump was elected president
(07:42):
and she hates the majority of American voters in this
last election. Keep listening to her radical ideas.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That we agree that it is right to have ethics
rules for Supreme Court justices, and let's put those in place.
Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico d These are
the things I think that we've got to do. We've
got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue
(08:09):
states expanding their maps, and all of this I think is, Look,
we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing
to win. We gotta play to win.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We've got to fight fire with fire. We have to
play to win. Now. These are the words of an
individual who knows that President Trump has had multiple assassination
attempts against him. She doesn't care. She wants to incite
that type of anger and violence. But you also notice
what she said about she wants her to be two
senators from Washington, d C. And two senators from Puerto
(08:39):
Rico because she believes it easily and based on the makeup,
Washington d C. Would immediately elect two Democratic centers, and
she believes that Puerto Rico they could probably do a
very good job there and get at least maybe one,
if not two of those sinners to go for the
Democrats as well. And she very well may be right.
But you notice what she's talking about here, it's about
(09:01):
stacking the deck. And by the way, you notice she
mentioned in there she would like to redo how we
do the Supreme Court. Why would she want to redo
how we do the Supreme Court. It's a very simple answer.
She wants to redo the Supreme Court. Every time they
give her a ruling that she doesn't like, she wants
(09:21):
to go after and attack those Supreme Court justice and
maybe get them kicked off the court. And if that
is not enough, then she wants to pack the court.
And every time she needs to make it bigger, then
they would just make it bigger. And every time that
the Supreme Court needs to get even bigger to give
them what they want, they just want it to get
bigger again. So no longer would it be nine. It
(09:44):
could be fifteen, and it can be twenty one, then
it can be twenty nine, then it can be thirty five.
Where would it stop. As long as they have power,
that's all they really want is more of the power.
So this is the Democratic Party. They're saying it out loud.
Believe them when they tell you this is what they believe.
(10:05):
Believe them when they tell you that they want to
destroy this country, because Kamala Harris just laid out their
entire game plan.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now story number two.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
According to statements tied to the Department of Homeland Security,
illegal aliens are responsible for roughly half I'm gonna say again,
roughly half of all the murders this year in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Now that is one of the wealthiest and most politically
powerful counties in America. It's in essence, a suburb of Washington,
(10:37):
d C. We're not talking about some struggling border town
overwhelmed overnight by cartel violence. We're talking about Fairfax County,
an affluent liberal county in Virginia that neighbors Washington, d C.
This is home to federal contractors, intelligence officials, lawyers, diplomats,
tech executives, and some of the highest medium household incomes
(11:00):
in all of the United States of America. This is
the affluent northern Virginia suburb. This is the backyard of
our federal government itself. And now this country has become
the center of a bigger problem for Democrats, and that
is how did they even get to this point. You've
got a major, growing national firestorm over legal immigration, over
(11:23):
violent crime, over sanctuary city and sanctuary policies, and whether
political leaders are deliberately ignoring repeated warnings until innocent Americans
end up dead. Now, the controversy exploded after the Department
of Owned Security officials told the truths They highlighted murder
cases involving illegal immigrants in Fairfax County during a heated
(11:44):
house hearing this week. And that is when the new
head of the Department of Owned Security, Mark Wayne Mullen,
came out to tell the American people exactly what's going on.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Roughly fifty percent of the murders in Fairfax Virginia. The
purpose are illegal should even be in the country. To
the US, we have, you know, politicians that want to
protect the criminals. President Trump is still protecting all our neighborhoods.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You listen to him saying that they're they're protecting all neighborhoods.
How is it even possible that you can have fifty
percent of murders in Fairfax County, nowhere close to the border,
happen and be killed Americans be killed by illegal immigrants now,
according to DHS link figures cited during the debate, not
(12:27):
only is that one of the biggest problems, but they
also say in some cases, officials reference it being even higher,
as as seventy five percent of the murders in Fairfax
County so far this year. Those numbers are being debated,
of course politically now, regardless of where you stand on
this issue, the individual cases now drawing national attention are horrifying.
(12:49):
One of the most shocking involved in an a legal
immigrant from Sierra Leone who was accused of brutally murdering
a forty one year old seventy mentor at a Fairfax
County bus stop earlier this year. The details should infuriate everyone.
According to the reports, the girl had been or the man,
I should say, the illegal immigrant had been arrested roughly
(13:09):
thirty times before the murder. Let me say that again,
thirty times, thirty encounters with the justice system with law
enforcement charges ranging from assault to wounding and other violent allegations.
And yet somehow that illegal immigrant remained on the streets
because the sanctuary city policies in Virginia. Federal immigration authorities
(13:31):
had reportedly logged detainers against him earlier in the year.
Police repeatedly warned prosecutors that he was a major dangerous
society and still, according to the reporting, he was not
removed from the country and allowed back on the streets.
Then came the deadly stabbing that shocked the community, and
many Americans are asking the very simple question, how does
(13:53):
someone get arrested thirty times and remain free in the
United States of America even if you're not an illegal immigrant?
Question is now the center of this massive political and
legal battle that's unfolding in northern Virginia. Now Fairfax County
Commonwealth Attorney is a progressive prosecutor backed you guessed it
by George Soros and the left wing criminal justice reform movements.
(14:15):
He's now under federal investigation by the Department of Justice
over allegations that his office may have been giving preferential
treatment deliberately to illegal immigrant defendants. In other words, the
system was going harder on American citizens and looking the
other way when they caught in illegal In one case,
in particular, two illegal immigrant defendants accused in Fairfax County
(14:39):
of murder, they received plea agreements that resulted only five
years behind bars, despite facing much deeper potential sentences. The
Department of Home Insecurity blasted the deal publicly calling it
an insane sweetheart plea deal. Now the language from DHS
lit up conservatives on Capitol Hill, as it should have.
Critics say, these policies are creating a exactly the kind
(15:00):
of environment where repeat offenders believe there are no consequences
even if you're rested thirty times. So here we are
roughly fifty percent of murders in Fairfax County, Virginia are
by people that are illegal, that shouldn't even be in
this country in the first place. Trump administration making it
clear they're not backing down on this and expect more
(15:24):
justice to come.
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