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Speaker 1 (00:01):
These Somolians have taken billions of dollars out of our country.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
They've taken billions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
They have a representative, ilhan Omar, who they say married
her brother.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's a fraud.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
She tries to deny it now, but you can't really
deny it because you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Know it just happened. She shouldn't be allowed to be
a congresswoman.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I'm sure people are looking at that, and she
should be throwing the hell out of our country.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Good Thursday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Outdate, and we've got two
major stories for you coming out of the White House.
First up, the White House announces that the Trump administration
is taking historic action to lower costs for American consumers,
including what you're paying for automobiles. We'll have the list
for you and what it means to your bottom line
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in just a moment. Also, in a major announcement, President
Trump freezing all immigration and asylum applications from nineteen high
risk nations wine after the attack on the National guardsmen
in Washington, d c The President said he had no choice,
and we'll give you those countries and what it means
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as well. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
starts right now.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Story number one.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
President Donald Trump talking about affordability and saying that his
administration is taking major action to lower costs for American
consumers and make buying a car much more affordable. How
is he doing that by lowering gas admission standards. This
on top of the fact he's lowering the price of gasoline,
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and the price of goods and services, and the price
of eggs and bread and butter and milk. The list
is actually getting pretty long. This is making the Democrats
go crazy, and the President made it clear from the
Oval Office today that he's just getting started when it
comes to the issue of affordability. Here's part of what
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the Present had to say today.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
My administration has taking stork action to lower costs for
American consumers, protect American auto jobs, and make buying a
car much more affordable for countless.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
American families and also safer.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We're officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdens some horrible actually
cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems,
gave all sorts of problems to automakers. And we're not
only talking about here, we're talking about outside of our country.
Because nobody could do it, nobody wanted to do it,
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and it was ridiculous, very expensive. It put tremendous upward
pressure on car prices. Combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate,
Biden's burdened some regulations helped cause the price of cars
to soar more than twenty five percent, and in one
case they went up eighteen percent in one year. Today,
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we're taking one more step to kill the new scam
as part of the greatest scam, probably well other than Russia, Russia, Russia,
and a few others in good name, the greatest scam
in American history, the Green new scam. And it's a
question end the gasoline powered car. This is what they
wanted to do, even though we have more gasoline than
any other country by far, and people.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Want the gasoline car.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
They want everything, they want electric, they want any they
wont a half, lots of alternatives, but they do want
the gasoline car.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Right now. It's leading away by a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
The car business is a very interesting business, but we
want to keep it that way.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
One of the most interesting things about what the President
said the White House is he is looking at all
areas and trying to find ways to help Americans. Affordability
is the number one priority of this administration, which brings
us to Mark Meadows, former White House Chief of Staff,
was asked today about what he believes is the timing
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of the two one thousand dollars Trump teariff checks and
when they could go out take a listen to what
he had to say about that big victory as well.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Says affordability, that's the top thing. But listen to what
President Trump said about affordability yesterday.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And you know, there's this fake narrative that the Democrats
talk about affordability.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They just say the word. It doesn't mean anything any good,
You just say it. So, which is it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
So I would probably tend to be more with President
here than Congressman left Wise choice here's the reason. But
here's the reason why is this is not about affordability
as much as it is about getting the prices of
groceries down, the price of energy down. When we start
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looking at that, affordability is an abstract term. That's very difficult.
What do we need to do. We need to make
sure the price of ground beef goes down. We need
to make sure that the average man or woman going
into the gro grocery store and purchasing is actually seeing
the price of those things go down. I can tell
you the President and Kevin Hassett and others are laser
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focused on that. But I think the other thing that
should be coming out that actually will make things, if
you want to use the word affordable, I think the
Trump checks. I'm in favor of that as a conservative member.
Some of my colleagues and friends are not for that.
But I think these two thousand dollars Trump tariff checks
need to go out next year. That will be that
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will be something that actually others can spend the money
and maybe reduce some of the pain of the higher
inflationary prices they're seeing at the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So even Mark Meadows saying I think the two thousand
dollars Trump tariff checks will go out next year, which
brings us to the President's total goal. Whether it's gas,
whether it's grocery prices, whether it's car prices, whether it's
the cost of basic goods and service is the President
wants you to feel like you're in control and winning
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in America's economy. He also mentioned as well that he
wants to get rid of the income tax, and the
tariffs are helping us move towards that. And then there's
the issue of the national debt, which the White House
also says they're looking to help tackle that issue as well,
which goes back to what President Trump ran on putting
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Americans first and cutting out waste, fraud, and abuse. And
now we're witnessing just how successful the President is starting
to become on a major issue now.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Story number two.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
President Donald Trump also promised Americans when he was running
for election that he was going to keep you safe,
that he was going to secure the border, and he
was going to make sure that we didn't have terrorists
coming into this country across that open border. Many that
came across many that we're concerned about now, including sleeper cells,
and we have seen some of these recent attacks on
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National guardsmen, on ICE members, and the President is now
saying it is time for us to take a look
and why we're letting in so many people from so
many parts around the world where we know they are
hotbed for terrorism, which brings us to this. President Donald
Trump's deputies have now shut down the legal migration pathways
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for people from nineteen countries pending the completion of security
checks and interviews. The Trump administration is making every effort
to ensure individuals becoming citizens are the best of the best.
That coming from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency,
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which went on to add this, we will take no
chances when the future of our nation is at stake.
The Trump administration is reviewing all immigration benefits granted by
the Biden administration to aliens from countries of concern. Now
the freeze is the unprecedented, is what a former agency
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official said to CBS News. The new guidance indicates that
the immigration crackdown directed by Donald Trump following last week's
shooting of the National Guard members is much broader in
scope than previously reported. The policy is a huge shift
from Joe Biden's presidency as well, which sought to legalize
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several million wage cutting, rent spiking illegal immigrants. Biden's deputies
and judges pushed their migrants through many quasi legal pathways,
including friendly asylum reviews, deportation freezes, and the award of
temporary protected status and humanitarian parole. Like it was candy
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on Halloween, the Trump shut down is now freezing asylum
claims for all who want to avoid deportation as well.
It also shuts down paperwork proceedings, green cord approvals, and
naturalization ceremonies from people from nineteen high risk national populations
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who enter the United States under President Joe Biden's watch,
Clearly many of them unvetted. The freeze also applies to
migrants from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Ecuadorial, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Soudan, Yemen, Cuba, Togo, Turkmenistan,
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and Venezuela, to name a few. Nine of the countries
are predominantly Muslim. Most of the countries are small and backward,
but four of them, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iran in Somalia, have
large populations in the United States. Christinam, the Secretary of
the Department of Home in Security, has h the list
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may be expanded, and at least one report says ten
additional countries may be added very soon. Now, the policy
is not a complete shutdown, despite much demand for a
total freeze. The shutdown policy does not include migrants from
Mexican and Central American countries, which together account for a
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large share of recent migrants. It also exempts migrants from India,
which is in a huge population five million legal, illegal
and quasillegal migrants via complex networks of companies into white
collar jobs, trucking jobs, and hotel related jobs sought by
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Americans throughout the United States. The USCIS announced the policy
on Tuesday afternoon via a memo to staff, saying this
memorandum mandates that all aliens meeting these criteria undergo a
thorough review process, including a potential interview and if necessary,
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a reinterview, to fully assess all national security and public
safety threats along with any other related grounds of inadmissibility
or ineligibility. The letter also said that the individuals should
go by a case by case review. An assessment will
be done of all relevant information and facts. The USCIS
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will also conduct a comprehensive review of all relevant policies, procedures,
and operational guidance for compliance, accuracy, and needed improvements during
this time. The guidance outlines the adjudicated hold procedure requirements
and processes for the review, the interview or reinterview of
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affected aliens. The USCIS personnel are instructed to prioritize national
security and public safety concerns and ensure compliance with all
applical laws and regulations to ring the adjudication process. All
findings must be documented in accordance with established protocols to
support any subsequent determinations or actions present, making it clear.
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As he was also asked about this at the White
House today and here's what he had to say, You've made.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Changes for Afghani's ability to apply for asylum.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Do you blame all Afghans for this?
Speaker 6 (12:23):
One man's no. But we've had a lot of problems
with Afghans because they had a lot of them coming
in on these planes. So again I show you this picture.
We had a lot of them coming in on this
these planes that are there was no checking. They just
poured into the plane. And many of these people are criminals.
Many of these people are people that shouldn't be here,
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and many of them have been gotten out. I mean,
we've gotten out a lot of the people that you know,
we've taken a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Of many here, but they came in. Yeah, I know
the field story. Many are wonderful. Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
What should they think? Well, they can't be happy, Okay,
they can't be happy because what's taking place between that.
If you look at Somalia, they're taking over Minnesota and
they are we got a lot of problems with the gangs,
with all of the things taking place in Minnesota. We
have an incompetent governor. Dope, we have a dope governor.
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They can't be happy about what's going on.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And if you.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Talk about the Afghans, you know there's a problem because
so many bed ones came in on the planes. They
just walked on whoever the strongest people were physically in
a way, but whoever the strongest they got on the planes.
There was no checking. They just swamped the planes. They
took off. We had no idea.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Who they were.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
So think about what the President just said there. You
had no idea who they were. What the President is
guaranteeing you now is they're going to do everything they
can to make sure they find out who they are
and keep you and your family safe.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
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