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Good Thursday morning.

It's nice to have you with us on the 47-morning update and we've got a very big story for you.

We now have data from the first year President Trump's time in office when it comes to illegal

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Story number one.

I want to start with a story that the mainstream media doesn't want to spend a lot of time

talking about because it completely destroys the narrative that they push for years about

border enforcement.

When Donald Trump ran for office again, he made a very clear promise to the American people.

Secure the border and remove the most dangerous criminals who entered this country illegally.

Now, let's be clear.

This is a story right now that matters when it comes national security.

We all know about the real concerns over sleeper cells, terrorists that came in across

our southern border that have been activated because of what we are doing in Iran and in

the Middle East in general.

That is a reason why this story of immigration is now coming back to be a much bigger story

than just people running across the border from Latin American countries.

There are many people that came across our southern border that was wide open under the

Biden administration who were in fact on the terrorist watch list.

How do we know that?

Those are our own government, including during the time that Joe Biden was present, said

it was actually happening more than any of us could have imagined that men and women were

coming across the southern border and many of them were on the terrorist watch list.

Now, when Trump ran for office, he said, I promise to the American people I will secure

that border and not only has he done it, but he's done it in the way that many Americans

say was a very humane way of doing it.

Now, he didn't just talk about securing the border as many others have done the past.

He literally did it.

And now that promise is being backed up with hard numbers.

According to the immigration and customs enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, enforcement

operations surged almost immediately after President Trump took office again in the first

50 days alone.

We now know that federal agents arrested more than 32,000 illegal immigrants in nationwide

enforcement operations.

Let me repeat that.

32,000 arrests in just the first 50 days.

And here's the part that the media won't talk about at all.

Nearly 70% of those arrests already had criminal convictions over facing criminal charges.

These weren't random people being picked up.

These were criminals.

Many of them violent and some of them on the terrorist watch list.

Now, out of those arrests, we also have learned now that more than 14,000 of them were

illegal immigrants already convicted of crimes, not in other countries, but crimes in the

United States of America.

Another 10,000 were facing pending criminal charges, not in other countries, but in the

United States of America.

And then when you dig deeper into these numbers that we now are seeing, it gets even more

shocking.

Several agents were now being told arrested, 1,155 suspected gang members in the first 50

days.

44 foreign fugitives wanted in other countries, 29 individuals flagged as suspected terrorists.

Yes, I'm going to give you that number again.

In the first 50 days that Donald Trump was back in office, 29 individuals were flagged

as suspected terrorists.

That is what the Democrats led into this country with open borders and they knew it.

Now the story gets even more disturbing when you look specifically at crimes against children.

Because one of the top priorities of these operations under Trump's leadership have been

tracking down illegal immigrants who are accused or convicted of sexual crimes involving

minors.

For example, in just the Houston, Texas region alone, ICE reported arresting 214 illegal

immigrants charged with or convicted of child sex crimes in the first six months of the

Trump administration.

That is 214 child predators in one single region.

And officials say the number has already surpassed the total arrests of those crimes during

the entire previous year when Joe Biden was in charge.

Now these cases included crimes like sexual assault of a child, child molestation, sexual

exploitation of minors, possession of child pornography.

And now we've gotten the newest numbers to add to that base.

We now know from ICE that 400 and 14 illegal alien child sex offenders were arrested in

the Houston area alone during present Trump's first year in office.

Why is the media not telling you this story?

This isn't nationwide, this isn't one city.

The headline from the local paper reads this way.

More than 400 criminal illegal aliens have been charged with or convicted of child sex

crimes have been arrested in Houston, Texas.

An official stated parents can sleep a little bit better knowing those individuals are no

longer a threat to their family.

Now these are the same people the Democrats want you to feel sorry for.

ICE announced on Monday that the enforcement and removal operations in Houston not only

netted the 100 and no wait, I'm sorry, the 414 illegals during present Trump's first

year back in office.

But officials said the number almost doubled that of predators arrested during the final

year of Joe Biden's administration.

As a group, the arrested criminal legal aliens accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525

other criminal offenses ranging from homicide to robbery the announcement states.

ICE then listed some of the arrestees who came from countries such as Honduras, Mexico,

El Salvador, Colombia and the United Kingdom.

Now these are the crimes that have been committed and some of them are absolutely heinous.

Illegal aliens have been accused of or convicted of committing crimes against children in the

United States of America at extremely young ages.

One report in January was that an illegal alien was accused of raping a 14 year old girl

with autism in the sanctuary state of California for example.

The following month an illegal alien fugitive was charged with possession of child sexual

abuse material, commonly known as child pornography.

In another case, Texas Highway Patrol troopers on horseback tracked and arrested an illegal

alien on a remote border ranch in Maverick County on New Year's Day.

The troopers closed in on their target just outside of Eagle Pass, Texas shortly before

noon.

Troopers identified the man as a previously deported illegal alien, a convicted sex offender

with multiple convictions for child-related sexual crimes.

ICE has also arrested 1,505 illegal aliens in November, including gang members, child

rapists and foreign fugitives, the outlet also reported, and there's also yes more on

the terrace watch list.

Now regarding the 414 illegal aliens convicted of or charged with child sex crimes who were

caught in Houston alone, ICE enforcement removal operations acting field director said

this, while elected officials and media pundits across the country were zealously trying

to manipulate the American public with fake news stories about ICE, public safety missions,

the brave men and women of ICE were quietly going about their business to arrest and remove

more than 400 dangerous child predators from our local community in Houston.

Based to their tireless efforts, parents across southeast Texas can sleep a little bit better

tonight knowing that these pedophiles and child rapists are no longer a threat to their children,

which brings us back to the big part of the conversation.

Why is the media not covering this?

And why is it that the media, which is now obsessed with sleeper cells in the country, even

new warnings of possible attacks in California, for example, by these sleeper cells?

Why are they not telling you about how many people on the terrace watch list have been caught?

How many of them came across the border that we know are in this country illegally and

that the Biden administration knew for a fact that the open border policy was allowing for

terrorists to come into America.

Many of them may be in the sleeper cells that so many are now concerned about.

This is exactly why I wanted to spend the time talking to you about it right now.

Not only is the border and national security issue, but it's also a national security

issue, not just from a terrorism perspective, but from a child safety perspective.

There are so many people that came across our border and the former administration and

the Democratic Party knew that there were really bad people that were coming across.

And they deliberately chose to allow those people across while flooding this country

with tens of millions of illegal immigrants.

Why did they do it?

Because they want to fundamentally change this country.

They want to change the fabric of this country, the values of this country, just like we

are witnessing right now in Europe and other nations around the world.

That is the plan of the Democratic Party.

Now, the President of the United States of America has one thing that is really working

to his advantage.

There is new CNN polling that is out right now that says today.

Dems are polling worse on immigration than they did during Trump's first term in office.

Which party do you trust more on immigration?

Take a listen to this from CNN's own reporting.

I think it's so important to note.

After all the events in Los Angeles, after all the events in Minneapolis, after all the

events of the last year on immigration, Democrats actually take advantage on this issue.

Now, look at the polling suggests actually no.

They're in a worse position than they were at this point during Donald Trump's first

term.

Take a look here.

Trust which party more on immigration.

In 2018, Democrats had an edge of about six months.

You come over to this side of the screen now.

Look at that.

Republicans are the ones who have actually had an edge on immigration.

So this whole idea that Democrats are going to be able to take advantage of the immigration

group, of the immigration issue actually doesn't bear itself out in the polling despite

everything that's been going on.

In fact, Democrats are in worse position than they were during Donald Trump's first

term.

Maybe they don't like what Donald Trump, the president is doing, but they don't think Democrats

will do a better job.

Correct.

They think Democrats will do a worse job on immigration than Republican.

All right.

What about border security in general?

Okay.

Border security in general.

So this is immigration at large.

What about border security?

Look at this.

Look at these numbers.

Hello.

Party trusted more on border security.

Again, at this point, Trump's terms.

Look at this in 2018.

Republican said a 13-point advantage.

If anything, the advantage is a little bit larger now, Republicans up by 15 points.

So when you put it all together, you put immigration with border security, and the idea

that Democrats will be able to take the ball and run away on it, the polling data suggests,

no, no, no, this is actually an issue that Republicans should be more comfortable running

on than Democrats.

Democrats running an immigration may actually be to the Republicans at advantage.

What about it?

So you listen to CNN's unreporting now.

And now you realize that the Dems are polling worse on immigration than they did during

Trump's first term.

Why is that?

Because of this.

Nationwide, immigration officials say roughly 70 percent of all ICE arrests now involve

illegal immigrants who have already committed crimes in the United States of America.

That means the focus of these operations is very clear.

They are literally removing the most dangerous offenders first.

And you look at the broader enforcement picture under President Trump.

The scale of the crackdown becomes even clear.

Federal authorities say immigration enforcement teams are now targeting violent offenders,

gang members, terrorists, repeat border crossers, human traffickers, sex traffickers, and

child predators.

All part of what the DHS calls a strategy to remove the worst of the worse.

So even as Democrats claim that the Republicans and Trump and law enforcement are just rounding

up random sweet people, that is a lie.

More than 70 percent of ICE arrests now involve illegal immigrants who have already committed

crimes in the United States of America.

President Trump campaigned on restoring law and order at the border.

And according to Federal law enforcement statistics, tens of thousands of arrests later, including

hundreds of predators targeting children and people on the terrorist watch list.

The Trump administration says that promise is now becoming a reality.

Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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