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April 21, 2025 • 20 mins
  • Democratic Party and Alleged Terrorist Connections:

    • We claim that the Democratic Party is protecting terrorists and gang members, specifically mentioning MS-13 gang members and a Venezuelan gang member living with a Democratic judge in New Mexico.
    • The judge resigned after immigration agents arrested the gang member.
  • Trump Administration's Actions Against Harvard University:

    • The Trump administration is planning to cut $1 billion in federal grants and contracts for health research from Harvard University due to its refusal to comply with policy demands.
    • Harvard's response to anti-Semitism and its handling of foreign students are highlighted, with threats to revoke its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not comply with reporting requirements.
  • Arizona Immigration Bill Veto:

    • Arizona's Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would require local and state law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials.
    • The bill aimed to prevent local jurisdictions from blocking federal immigration actions and funding, and to ensure local police inform federal officials about immigrants in custody.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Monday morning. Nice to have you with us on
the Ben Ferguson Podcasts, and we have got a very
special show for you this morning because, as I am
normally doing this on Monday, we are flying for some
big interviews that you guys are gonna hear as we
are going to be live from the White House on Tuesday.
I am doing a combined show this one with the

(00:22):
forty seven Morning Update because of the travel schedule to
get up there to Washington, DC. And this week, you
are not gonna want to miss any one of these
shows because I will have several top level cabinet officials
sitting down with me and talking about what's going on
behind the scenes with the Trump administration on many different issues,

(00:43):
from tariffs to national security issues. The list goes on
and on. It is going to be incredible, So make
sure you do not miss an episode of the Ben
Ferguson Podcast this week. So with that being said, we've
got three big stories for you that we're gonna be
talking about this morning, And if you missed the forty
seven Morning Update, it is that short podcast I do
about ten to twelve minutes long each and every day

(01:04):
with the three biggest stories coming out of the White House.
Here it is right now. There's a pretty interesting trend
that is happening now with the Democratic Party. They are
now in love with terrorists, terrorists that are in radical
gangs in this country, and they're doing everything they can
to protect them, and say the American people, We've seen
this from congressmen and senators that are running down to

(01:26):
meet with MS thirteen gang members held in Venezuela, for example.
And now we may know a little bit more about
just how corrupt the Democratic Party is, how compromised they
are by these gangs that have been declared terrorists organizations
look to the New headline. A Democratic judge in New

(01:47):
Mexico has been forced to resign from his bench after
immigration agents arrested a alleged trend diiragu gang member living in
his home. Legal alien entered into the US in Alpaso, Texas,
before being released on an immigration parole. Due to overcrowding,

(02:08):
he eventually moved, we've now learned to New Mexico. Federal
prosecutors in the District of New New Mexico alleged at
the twenty three year old was illegally in possession of
a firearm and has direct ties to the hyper violent
Venezuelan gang. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump in the

(02:28):
US State Department declared the gang to be a foreign
terrorist organization. Police arrested Lopez while executing a search warrant
on February the twenty eighth at the home of on
A County, New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife, The
Albuquerque Journal is reporting now. The report follows a detention

(02:49):
hearing where prosecutors claim the illegal alien is a flight
risk and an alleged trende Aragua gang member Kanu. A
former police officer, allowed the gang member to file a
request for immigration relief using the judge's residential address. This
isn't a joke, now, That's not all We also now

(03:12):
in court exhibits, have seen pictures that were posted on
social media of the foreign national with the judge. Yes,
they're good friends. Court records obtained revealed that Lopez, a
Venezuelan national, entered the United States illegally an Eagle Pass
during the peak of the Biden border crisis in December

(03:33):
of twenty twenty three, and then due to overcrowding in
the Eagle passed attention facility. He was released three days later.
Social media posts obtained by the US Attorney's Office for
the District of New Mexico show Lopez and other illegal
aliens at a shooting range. They appeared to be in
possession of multiple firearms at a large quantity of handguns

(03:57):
and rifle ammunition. In one image, as the man is
also holding an AR fifteen style rifle in one hand
and a semi automatic pistol in the other. A video
shows the Venezuelan migrant in possession of another AR fifteen
equipped with a suppressor. He fired the rifle until it
was empty and then reloaded it with a new magazine,
which he continued to fire. The prosecutor stated now the

(04:20):
photos and videos show Lopez displaying the Trende Raga gang tattoos.
The United States government recently declared this violent gang to
be a quote transnational criminal organization as well. Investigators found
additional firearms in a neighboring home owned by Nancy Kano's
daughter that would be the judge's daughter. Lopez was seen

(04:42):
in possession of several of these firearms. Investigators report that
the Venezuelan national move to Olpasso after being released by
Border Patrol agents. There, he roomed with five other people
Court document state, and while living there, Lopez met Nan
Kano and began doing construction and handi man jobs. Kano

(05:05):
extended an offer for the illegal alien to live in
the casita behind her home. Now, other images from Lopez's
cell phone obtained by breit Bart News show graphic images
of multiple decapitated and mutilated bodies. Let me say that again.
Other images from Lopez's phone obtained by breit Bart News

(05:26):
show graphic images of multiple decapitated and mutilated bodies. Lopez
is currently in the Donna, Ana County Detention Center, where
he's charged with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms. Now,
it's not clear if Judge Kano or his wife Nancy
will be charged with harboring an illegal alien or providing

(05:48):
material support to a foreign terrorist organization. But if you
want to know whose side the left is on, well
just take a look at this new Mexico Democratic judge
and what did it cost him when he was busted
for all this only I just had to resign after
Ice arrested the gang member in his home. I want
to take a moment and talk to you real quick

(06:10):
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has resumed from the Huthis, from Hesblam and Hamas' enemies
seeking Israel's destruction. Here in America, we cannot imagine living
under this constant threat of terrorism and rocket attacks. This
is the reality in Israel. Parents taking their children to school,
falling to the ground to lay on top of their

(06:30):
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(07:18):
The Trump administration seems to be playing chess while Harvard
is playing checkers. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting
that the Trump administration is planning to cut one billion
more from Harvard after tensions have continued to escalate. Now,
the Trump administration is now planning to pull that other
one billion in federal grants and contracts for health research

(07:42):
from Harvard University amid the escalating high stakes battle between
the government and the university over institutional oversight in independence.
This again coming from the Wall Street Journal. Last month,
the Trump administration announced it would freeze two point two
billion and multi year grants and sixty million in multi

(08:03):
year contract value after Harvard said it would not follow
policy demands from the Trump administration. People familiar with the
matter said officials were surprised when the university made public
a letter from the Task Force to Combat Anti Semitism
before Monday. Quote the administration was planning to treat Harvard
more leniently than Columbia University, but now officials want to

(08:25):
apply even more pressure the nation's most prominent university, according
to people talking to the Journal. Others familiar with Harvard's
response say there was no guarantee or no agreement to
keep the letter private and that its contents, including requirements
at Harvard allow federal government oversight of admissions and the

(08:46):
ideology of students and staff, were a quote non starter.
Last month, apparently conceding to administration demands, Columbia University made
policy changes in a dispute over federal funding, including restrictions
on demonstrations, new disciplinary procedures, and immediately reviewing its Middle
East curriculum. On the heels of President Donald Trump's revocation

(09:08):
of four hundred million in federal funding over campus protests
that were clearly anti semitic. Now here's the newest response
from the Trump administration. They have announced that Harvard University
quote must provide information on misconduct involving foreign students by
April thirtieth, or else it will lose the ability to

(09:31):
enroll them at all. The Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nomes,
saying in a pressed statement that she was canceling two
point seven million in grants awarded by her department, one
that had produced a study disparaging conservatives as a security risk. Yes,
your tax dollars paid for that study and another study

(09:53):
that Christy Nomes said had promoted quote public health propaganda
about the Corona virus pandemic. In addition to that, Nomes
said this, the Secretary also wrote a scathing letter demanding
detailed records on Harvard's foreign student visa holder's illegal and
violent activities by April the thirtieth or face immediate loss

(10:17):
of student in Exchange Visa Program certification known as the
SEVP program. Quote Harvard benning the need to anti Semitism,
driven by its spineless leadership, fuels acsessible of extremism, riots
and threatens our national security, the secretary said. With anti

(10:38):
American pro Hamas ideology poising its campus and classrooms, Harvard's
position as a top institution of higher learning is a
distant memory. America demands more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars. Now.
Since hamasa's October seventh attack on Israel, Harvard's foreign visa

(10:59):
holdings and faculty have spewed anti Semitic hate targeting Jewish students.
With a fifty three point two billion dollar endowment, Harvard
can find its own chaos. DHS won't know continued and
if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance with
its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of

(11:23):
enrolling foreign students. Christy Nome clearly speaking on behalf of
the present, making it clear that they're not putting up
with this any longer now. Harvard has struggled with anti
Israel encampments and anti Semitic protests since the October seventh
tier attack by Hamas, which dozens of Harvard's student organizations

(11:43):
blamed on Israel in a signed statement. More than one
in four students at Harvard is an international student, with
twenty seven point two percent of the entire student body,
graduate and undergraduate being from over In fact, some six thousand,
seven hundred and ninety three students are from abroad. According

(12:06):
to the university's own data. There is a correlation between elite,
expensive colleges and the likelihood of anti Israel encampments. Christynome
went on to say the high presence of foreign students
at more elite institutions may be one explanation for this phenomenon.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also getting in on the action.

(12:29):
He has said that the US had already deported hundreds
of foreign students who were involved in radical protests in
the past eighteen months, which have brought anti Semitism to
many college campuses. Now, Harvard is valed to fight the
Trump Administration's directives on fighting anti Semitism, among other changes,
though some nine billion in federal grants are now at stake,

(12:52):
two point two billion of which have been suspended now.
As I mentioned earlier, the Trump administration has also ordered
the Internal Revenues Service to prepare to revoke Harvard's tax
exempt status, which is also allowed it to amass a
fifty three billion dollar endowment. Translation, Donald Trump's not putting

(13:13):
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Patriot Radical Democrats are added again, this time left wing

(15:20):
Arizona Democratic Governor Kitty Hobbs has vetoed a bill passed
by the state legislature, supported by the citizens of Arizona,
that would simply require local and state law enforcement to
do their jobs by cooperating with federal immigration officials you

(15:40):
know them as ICE. The Republican led legislature passed a
very simple bill that outlined local jurisdictions from passing ordinances
that would prevent local police from working with federal immigration
authorities or block federal immigration action and funding. Now, this

(16:02):
is something that obviously is very popular in Arizona the citizens.
They are sick and tired of countless legal immigrants not
being handed over to ICE when they are found to
have broken the law, and the left has obviously been
a big fan of this will. This bill was put
in place to set the record straight of what the

(16:24):
law says in Arizona. And this bill would have also
required locals to cooperate on immigration detainers and also to
inform federal officials about immigrants being held in custy right
now that we're about to be released from jails and
or prisons. Again, this is what the federal law says

(16:45):
you should do. This is not radical, and most importantly,
this is what the people in Arizona voted for now.
Supporters of the bill said the measure was needed to
help the federal government have a safer and more orderly
system of taking foreign criminals into custody for deportation, and
also for state officials to be quote a partner and

(17:08):
not an obstacle to federal immigration policies and laws. But
what did the governor do? The governor insisted in her
veto statement that it is wrong quote to force state
and local officials to take marching orders from Washington. Yes,
she's now saying, I am not going to do what

(17:30):
the federal government says or abide by what the laws
say from the federal government. Now. The bill would also
have required state jails and prisons to enter into agreements
with the federal government to temporarily house detainees that are
awaiting deportation until ICE can get involved. Further, the bill

(17:52):
would require the state to withhold funds also from jurisdictions
that deliberately violated the new law. Again Arizona, the people
voted for this, and the legislature listened, but the governor No, No, No,
Hobbs veto runs contrary also to polls showing that voters
are increasingly leaning towards stricter immigration policies. Last year, for instance,

(18:17):
poll showed that sixty three percent of Arizonans supported Proposition
three point four, a measure that would criminalize entering the
state illegally. Another poll last year found that a strong
majority in Arizona felt that the US had lost control
also over the border under Joe Biden. And once the

(18:38):
dust settled from last year's elections, Arizonans had sent more
Republicans to the state legislature, and in November, the Arizona
Speaker elect told the state as well as the media
that Arizonans had rejected the Democratic Governor Hobbs and her
agenda by expanding Republicans' control over the state House. So

(19:02):
yet again here we are with another activists in our government.
This time the Arizona Governor vetoing a bill requiring police
to cooperate with ICE. What's even more shocking is many
of the people that are being released into the community
are violent offenders. Many of them that have had to

(19:23):
be in jail for the crimes that committed that are
actually needing to then be deported from the country are
being released from jail, and they are not telling the
federal authorities, so they're being released among us. Many of
them stay in Arizona, and many of them travel all
over the country. Now the question becomes this, how will

(19:44):
the Trump administration respond, How would the Department of Justice respond,
How would the Attorney General respond? How would the Department
of Homeland Security respond. It's very clear this is a
test case for others, specifically in the Democratic Party, to
what happens when you, as a governor decide to stand
up to the people in your state as well as

(20:07):
to the federal government and not abide by federal immigration laws.
I expect this case to play out, and I expect
that the Trump administration will have all hands on deck
when it comes to standing up to this radical left
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(20:29):
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