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BONUS POD: Dems Demand Return of Deported MS-13 Gang Members plus Social Security Benefits for Illegal Aliens

2025/4/15
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Tuesday morning. Welcome. It is the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. And here are the three big stories you need to know about that we're talking about this morning. First up,

El Salvador's president came to the Oval Office and the media tried to turn on Trump and the president of El Salvador. Well, guess what happened? The media got schooled and busted in their lies about a MS-13 gang member

that was an El Salvadorian citizen that was deported. You don't want to miss that audio. Up next, President Trump promised he was going to bring great jobs back to America. Well, America is winning as NVIDIA is announcing that they're investing $500 billion to build AI chips and supercomputers in Texas.

with high-paying jobs. And finally, government bureaucrats tried to stop Trump from canceling illegal alien Social Security benefits, and they got caught red-handed. It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now. Story number one.

It is amazing what Democrats will say and do just to be against Donald Trump and the American people. We had an election and it was very clear the American people said they wanted a secure border. We had an election and it was very clear the voters said they wanted to start locking up violent criminals, especially those that are in MS-13 gangs and other gangs from around the world. We also know that the president had a mandate to close

clean up everything that had been broken by the open border policies of the Biden administration. We'll fast forward just a few months into his second term in office, and now Democrats are actually in a position I didn't even think they were dumb enough to put themselves in. Yet, here we are. Democrats are now going together, standing and demanding the return of deported MS-13 gang members.

members. One senator in particular is leading the charge, Senator Chris Van Hollen. He's a Democrat from Maryland, and he is now requesting a meeting with El Salvador's president, who was in the Oval Office on Monday, to demand the return of an individual that is known as an MS-13 gang member who was deported to El Salvador. Now, this is the best

audio I've heard in a long time to explain just how radical the left has become and also our media as they're trying to spin a story to their advantage, saying that an individual that left America should immediately be returned. Someone who broke into this country and also someone who is an MS-13 gang member. I want you to listen carefully.

to Pam Bondi and the President of the United States of America dismantle the media's narrative as the El Salvador president not only refused to return the deported resident, but explained that he was happy to take even more.

...returned the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported. Which one is it? The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Well, let me ask Pam, would you answer that question? Sure, President. First and foremost, he was illegally in our country. He had been illegally in our country. And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13 and he was illegally in our country.

Right now, it was a paperwork. It was additional paperwork that needed to be done. That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That's not up to us. The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if, as El Salvador wants to return him, this is international matters, foreign affairs, if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane. So will you return him, President? And you are doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you.

Can you just also respond to that question? Because, you know, it's asked by CNN and they always ask it with a slant because they're totally slanted because they don't know what's happening. That's why nobody's watching them. But would you answer that question also, please? Yes, gladly. So, as Pam mentioned,

There's an illegal alien from El Salvador. So with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador. So it's very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.

as two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13. When President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the INA, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States. So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law, he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation.

This issue was then by a district court judge completely inverted and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised with the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously stating clearly

that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of MS-13, which as I'm sure you understand, rapes little girls, murders women, murders children, is engaged in the most barbaric activities in the world, and I can promise you if he was your neighbor, you would move right away. So you don't plan to ask for any help to get him back?

What was the ruling in the Supreme Court, Steve? Was it 9 to nothing? Yes, it was a 9-0.

In our favor. In our favor against the district court ruling saying that no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States. As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador's sole discretion was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time. No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador. That is the president of El Salvador. Your questions about it per the court can only be directed to him. I

I asked President Bukele, can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him? Well, I'm supposed to have suggested that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right? How can I smuggle, how can I return him to the United States? If I smuggle him into the United States, of course I'm not going to do it. It's like,

I mean, the question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States. But you can release him inside of the United States. Yeah, but I'm not releasing... I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. I mean, we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere, and you want us to go back into the...

Releasing criminals so they can go back to being the murder capital of the world. That's not going to happen. Well, they'd love to have a criminal released into it. I mean, there's a fascination. They would love it. Yeah. These are sick people. Mark, did you have something to say about that? Yeah, I mean, Steve and I, I don't understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country. That's where you deport people, back to their country of origin.

Except for Venezuela that wasn't refusing to take people back or places like that. I can tell you this, Mr. President. No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. It's that simple.

This may be one of the best clips I have ever seen come out of the White House. And the beatdown for Caitlin Collins at CNN is truly incredible. So make sure you make a liberal angry. Share this audio wherever you can. Share it on social media because this was a glorious takedown with the facts of the

bias media and the Democrat machine advocating for bringing a terrorist back into the United States of America. Next, story number two. One of the major promises from Donald Trump was we are going to bring jobs back to America with manufacturing. And we're going to bring back jobs for things that we need that are very important to this country, including on the issue of national security. Well, if you want to know if his tariffs

are working and if Americans are starting to win big time, just look at the big headline on Nvidia. They have announced they're going to invest not 100, not 200, not 300, not 400, but 500

$100 billion to build AI chips and supercomputers in Texas. NVIDIA announcing their plan to build the AI supercomputer in Texas and invest up to that $500 billion in AI production within the United States of America. Ask yourself this question. Why is this happening now? It is 100% because of one thing. Because of the tariffs that Donald Trump has been putting on NVIDIA.

nations overseas that are taking advantage of America. This is also very much about national security. Barron's is now reporting that AI powerhouse, Cividia, has commissioned quickly over a million square feet of manufacturing space in Arizona and Texas to build and test its Blackwell chips and AI supercomputers. This marks the

first time that NVIDIA will be producing its cutting-edge AI technology entirely within the United States of America. NVIDIA's Blackwell chips have already started production at TSMC's chip plant in Phoenix, Arizona. Meanwhile, the company is constructing supercomputer manufacturing plants in partnership with Foxconn in Houston, Texas and in Dallas.

Mass production at these facilities is expected to ramp up, they say, within the next 12 to 15 months. Now, the manufacturing of NVIDIA's AI chips and supercomputers in America and their AI factories, they say, is projected to generate hundreds of thousands.

Let me say that again. This project, they expect to generate hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security in the decades ahead. The NVIDIA founder and CEO stated that, quote, the engines of the world's AI infrastructure are now going to be built in the United States.

for the first time. Adding, American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthening our supply chain and boosts our resiliency as a company. Now, the AI chip and supercomputer supply chain is highly complex. It requires the most advanced manufacturing packaging.

and testing technologies to support this endeavor. NVIDIA is collaborating, they say, with multiple other companies for packaging and testing operations in Arizona, bringing in countless jobs. They say over the next four years, NVIDIA plans to produce up to half a trillion units

worth of AI infrastructure in the United States through its partnership with multiple companies they are also bringing in to help in America. They say these industry-leading companies are deepening their ties with the most powerful company in the AI space, expanding their global footprint while strengthening supply chain resilience as well. Now, while all

All of this is happening. China is trying to retaliate wherever they can. And if you think it's just America that China's at a trade war with, you're wrong. Chinese, we're now being told, are going after London. That's right. China is being accused of attempting to sabotage UK's

final primary still mill as London enacts emergency nationalization. Accusations of sabotage have swirled over the fate of Britain's final primary still plant. Yet Beijing warns London against, quote, turning economic.

and trade cooperation into political and security issues. Simply put, China is now threatening any other country that doesn't do what they say. And this time it's Britain they're going after. It's another reminder of why Donald Trump said it's time for us to decouple France

from China and the power that they're holding over us and other industrialized nations just like the UK. And this is exactly why Donald Trump is leading on the issue. And yes, it is not only about giving Americans great jobs, but also the issue of national security so that we're never in the position that the UK is in right now. And here is story number three. The resistance is

is very real when it comes to the deep state doing everything they can to stop Donald Trump. We now have a new example that should make every American angry. Government bureaucrats were now being told, tried to stop President Donald Trump's administration from canceling Social Security benefits for us.

illegal aliens costing you hundreds of billions of dollars, including those who were released into the United States of America by former President Joe Biden. More than a dozen current and former Social Security Administration officials leaked various information regarding the issue to the Washington Post, seemingly in an attempt to sow outrage among Americans over Trump's

cancellation of Social Security numbers for more than 6,300 illegal aliens. Now, while the Trump administration probed how to revoke Social Security benefits for illegal aliens, a number of bureaucrats inside the Social Security administration, they decided to push back on the plan. In other words, acting like they're the president of the United States.

including one such technology expert who was removed from his position as a result of his actions. There was a man by the name of Greg Pierre who oversaw a staff of hundreds of technology experts. He had pushed back on the Trump administration's plan to move the migrant names into a Social Security death database.

eliminating their ability to legally earn wages and officials hope spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pierre had clashed with Scott Cutler, the new chief information officer installed by Elon Musk. Pierre told Coulter that the plan was quote illegal. It was crazy.

and risked declaring the wrong people dead. That according to three people familiar with the events. But his objections did not go over well with Trump's political appointees. And so on Thursday, the security guards at Pierre's office told him it was time to leave. In another case, a Social Security Administration official resigned from his position saying,

Claiming the move to cancel benefits for illegal aliens was, quote, an illegal attempt to repurpose the agency for immigration enforcement. Again, all of this according to the Post. Since Trump's cancellation of Social Security benefits for thousands,

thousands of legal aliens announced late last week. The Social Security Administration's Office of the General Counsel is working on a report that will, according to the Washington Post, claim the move is a violation of privacy laws.

I'll say it again. If you want to know just how entrenched the deep state is with radicals, this is a perfect example. They have infiltrated their way into every aspect of our government, including places that are supposed to be nonpolitical like the Capitol.

Social Security Administration. And most recently, by the way, the Trump administration ensured a deal between the Internal Revenue Service, you know it as the IRS, and Immigration and Custom Enforcement, known as ICE, that will allow federal agents to more easily locate, detain, and deport illegal aliens by following their financial history in the U.S. Now, the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE,

And the officials there recently stated that they found potentially millions of illegal aliens on Social Security. Let me say that again, that they had found potentially millions of illegal aliens on Social Security and Medicaid rolls and thousands.

thousands of them on voter rolls, meaning not only could they be canceling out your vote, but also costing you billions and billions of dollars. So this is another example of what Donald Trump is up against. Thank goodness he's not afraid to fire those bureaucrats who tried to stop him from canceling illegal alien Social Security benefits.

This is what the American people said they wanted. And unfortunately, there are far too many people in our government now that are doing everything they can to undermine Doge and the president, but ultimately the American voters. Thank you for listening to the 47 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,

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