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April 21, 2025 • 16 mins
  1. Arizona Immigration Bill Veto:

    • Arizona Governor Kitty Hobbs vetoed a bill that would require local and state law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials (ICE).
    • The bill aimed to prevent local jurisdictions from passing ordinances that block cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
    • Supporters argued the bill was necessary for a safer and more orderly system of deporting foreign criminals.
    • Governor Hobbs opposed the bill, stating it was wrong to force state and local officials to take orders from Washington.
  2. Federal Funding and Harvard University:

    • The Trump administration is planning to cut $1 billion in federal grants and contracts for health research from Harvard University.
    • This follows Harvard's refusal to comply with policy demands from the Trump administration, including oversight of admissions and the ideology of students and staff.
    • The administration has already frozen $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value.
    • Harvard is required to provide information on misconduct involving foreign students by April 30th or face the loss of its ability to enroll them.
  3. Anti-Semitism and University Policies:

    • The Trump administration has taken a strong stance against anti-Semitism on college campuses, particularly targeting Harvard University.
    • Harvard has struggled with anti-Israel encampments and anti-Semitic protests since the October 7th attack by Hamas.
    • The administration demands detailed records on Harvard's foreign student visa holders' illegal and violent activities.
  4. Democratic Judge and Gang Member:

    • A Democratic judge in New Mexico resigned after immigration agents arrested an alleged gang member living in his home.
    • The gang member, a Venezuelan national, entered the US illegally and was released due to overcrowding.
    • The judge allowed the gang member to use his residential address for immigration relief requests.
    • The gang member was found in possession of multiple firearms and graphic images of mutilated bodies.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
He's a fake. I know him, I know them all.
They're all fake and they have no interest in that prisoner.
That prisoner's record is unbelievably bad. A talk about how
evil I am that this man would be thrown out
of our cart. This man is a according to certified
statements that we get, is a very violent person.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Monday morning, nice to have you with us on
the forty seven Morning Update. Ben Ferguson with you, and
here are the three big stories you need to know
about that we're going to talk about today. First up,
Arizona's Democratic governor Hobbs has a Vetota bill requiring police
to cooperate with ice. Why did she do it to
protect illegal immigrants, including those that are in terrorist organizations.

(00:48):
I'll break that down for you in just a moment. Also,
Harvard and the Trump administration are at it again. This time,
Donald Trump is planning to cut another billion dollars from
Harvard after r Harvard is refusing to cooperate when it
comes to getting activists that are advocating for terrorists off
their campuses. And finally, in a shocking story, a New

(01:10):
Mexico Democratic judge has been forced to resign after ICE
arrested an alleged trend de aragu gang member living in
his home. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
starts right now.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Radical Democrats are added again, this time left wing 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 know

(01:49):
them as ICE. The Republican legislature passed a very simple
bill that outlined local jurisdictions from passing ordinances that would
prevent laws local police from working with federal immigration authorities
or block federal immigration actions and funding. Now, this is
something that obviously is very popular in Arizona. The citizens

(02:13):
there 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. While this bill was put
in place to set the record straight of what the
law says in Arizona and This bill would have also
required locals to cooperate on immigration detainers and also to

(02:37):
inform federal officials about immigrants being held in custody right
now that we're about to be released from jails and
or prisons. Again, this is what the federal law says
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

(02:59):
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
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

(03:23):
and local officials to take marching orders from Washington. Yes,
she's now saying, I am not gonna do what 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

(03:43):
the federal government to temporarily house detainees that are awaiting
deportation until ICE can get involved. Further, the bill 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,

(04:05):
Hobbs veto runs contrary also to polls showing that voters
are increasingly leaning towards stricter immigration policies. Last year, for instance,
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

(04:27):
majority in Arizona felt that the US had lost control
also over the border under Joe Biden. And once the
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

(04:50):
agenda by expanding Republicans' control over the state House. So
yet again here we are with another active 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

(05:12):
are violent offenders. Many of them that have had to
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

(05:35):
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, as
to what happens when you, as a governor decide to
stand up to the people in your state as well

(05:57):
as 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 governor in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Next story number two, The Trump.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
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 from Harvard University

(06:38):
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 year contract value

(06:58):
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 apply even more

(07:19):
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 ideology of students and staff,

(07:39):
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 of four hundred million in

(08:00):
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 the thirtieth, or else
it will lose the ability to enroll them at all.

(08:22):
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 that
Christy Nomes said had promoted quote, public health propaganda about

(08:46):
the coronavirus 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 activity
by April the thirtieth, or face immediate loss of Student
and Exchange Visa Program certification known as the SEVP program.

(09:09):
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 American pro
Hamas ideology poising its campus and classrooms, Harvard's position as
a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory.

(09:32):
America demands more from universities and trusted with taxpayer dollars now.
Since Hamas's October seventh attack on Israel, Harvard's foreign visa
holding rioters and faculty have sputed anti Semitic hate targeting
Jewish students. With a fifty three point two billion dollar endowment,
Harvard can find its own chaos. DHS won't known continued,

(09:56):
and if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance
with its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege
of enrolling foreign students a Christinome clearly speaking on behalf
of the president, 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

(10:18):
seventh tier attack by Hamas, which dozens of Harvard student
organizations 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 overseas. In fact, some six thousand,

(10:40):
seven hundred and ninety three students are from abroad according
to the university's own data. There is a correlation between elite,
expensive colleges and the likelihood of anti Israel encampments. Christinome
went on to say the high presence of foreign students
at more elite institutions may be one x one nation
for this phenomenon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also getting

(11:04):
in on the action. 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

(11:27):
are now at stake, two point two billion of which
have been suspended now. As I mentioned earlier, the Trump
administration has also ordered the Internal Revenue 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 up with this any longer on

(11:49):
college campuses, especially those that accept our tax dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And lastly, story number three.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
There's a pretty interesting trend that is happening now with
the Democratic Party. They are now in love with terrists,
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 sentators
that are running down to meet with MS thirteen gang
members held in Venezuela, for example. And now we may

(12:19):
know a little bit more about just how corrupt the
Democratic Party is, how compromised they are by these gangs
that have been declared terrists organizations look to the new headline.
A Democratic judge in New Mexico has been forced to
resign from his bench after immigration agents arrested a alleged

(12:41):
trend diiragu gang member living in his home. The illegal
alien entered into the US in Alpaso, Texas, before being
released on an immigration parole. Due to overcrowding, he eventually
moved we've now learned to New Mexico. Federal prosecutors in
the District of New New Mexico alleged at the twenty

(13:01):
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 US State
Department declared the gang to be a foreign terrorist organization.
Police arrested Lopez while executing a search warrant on February

(13:22):
the twenty eighth at the home of Don On, a
County New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife, The Albuquerque
Journal is reporting now. The report follows a detention 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

(13:45):
for immigration relief using the judge's residential address. This isn't
a joke. Now, that's not all We also now 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,

(14:08):
entered the United States illegally an Eagle passed during the
peak of the Biden border crisis in December 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

(14:29):
at a shooting range. They appeared to be in possession
of multiple firearms at a large quantity of handguns and
rifle ammunition. In one image, 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

(14:51):
and then reloaded it with a new magazine, which he
continued to fire, the prosecutor stated. Now the photos and
videos show Lopez displaying the Trendea 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

(15:15):
that would be the judge's daughter. Lopez was seen 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 Nancy Kano
and began doing construction and handyman jobs. Kano extended an

(15:38):
offer for the illegal alien to live in the casida
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 show

(15:59):
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 Kanno or his wife Nancy
will be charged with harboring an illegal alien or providing

(16:19):
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? Elly, I just had to resign after
Ice arrested the gang member in his home.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
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