The Self Deportation Proclamation, Justice comes to Antisemitic Campuses & COVID-era Loans to Children Week In Review
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The bona fide boot camp for critical thinking. You can get in on it for free at the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Just search our names, play and balk, listen and subscribe. Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Week in review, Ben Ferguson with you. And two things I got to tell you before we get into the big stories you may have missed, and that is this.

On Monday and on Wednesday this coming week, we will be joined by Elon Musk. So make sure you do not miss Monday's episode or Wednesday episode. We did the interview at the White House on Friday, and it is going to be one hell of a show. You're not going to want to miss it. There's some news is broken as well and some big things.

from Elon Musk that will blow you away. So again, make sure you hit that subscribe or auto-download button, and on Monday and Wednesday, we will be joined by Elon Musk on Verdict. Now, here are the big stories you may have missed that we talked about this week. First up, it is a reverse UNO card, as the app that used to let you just run into America, the Biden administration used, is now a self-deporting app. I'll give you those details in a moment.

Also, the Biden administration did nothing to stop the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses. Well, now some of those students are being arrested. We'll have the difference maker and what's happening at the White House behind this. And finally, Elon Musk and Doge have uncovered unbelievable amounts of loans going to children, young children during the pandemic.

It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now. Let's deal with a really fun story, and it deals with an app called

It is I call it the reverse Uno card. You remember that app that allowed for countless people to come into this country and just walk in knowing they were here illegally. And it was an app that was exploited by the Biden Harris administration. Well, we got a reverse Uno card now, Senator, because we've got a new app and it does actually the exact opposite of that, which is you can hurry up and self-deport yourself.

Well, it's beautiful. So the Biden administration launched an app called the CBP One app. And here's what Bill Mlusion, who's the best reporter on immigration for Fox News. Here's what he reported. Quote, Scoop, the Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home that launches today.

DHS tells me any migrants who had prior CBB1 app will have it auto-update to this new app, and DHS can use data from prior CBB1 registrations to track migrants for removal. The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the U.S. to register with CBB to self-deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship,

which country they plan to return to, their alien registration numbers, contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity. All of it then is submitted to CPB as they leave the country. You may ask yourself, why would an illegal alien want to self-deport?

In a statement to Fox News, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem answered the question. Quote, the CBB Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport immediately.

so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return, Noem said. The Biden administration exploited the CBB1 app to allow more than one million aliens to enter the United States.

With the launching of CBV Home App, we're restoring integrity to our immigration system. This may be one of the simplest yet biggest turn of events for a win on law and order at our southern border dealing with the issue of legal immigration. I just got to say well done to the Trump administration on this one. And they keep paying off on their promises to the American people.

So, Ben, I got to say, I don't know if this is going to work or not, but I got to say, if you're an illegal immigrant, you came to this country,

You went to a human trafficker. You were coming from, say, Central America. You came up through Mexico. And the Biden administration said, hey, we've got an app. Fill out your information. You can come here and we'll let you in. And you filled it out. You came to America. And suddenly over your cell phone, you get, oh, crap. Wait, they want me to go home? And if I don't go home, they're going to find me. They're going to arrest me. They're going to send me home. And the consequences are I can never come back.

I don't know how many people are going to respond to this, but I think this is fabulous. Listen, my view on immigration is simple. I've summed up my immigration view in four words many times. Legal, good, illegal, bad. For the people who are here illegally, the Trump administration is leaning in, saying we're going to secure the border. We're going to remove you. And by the way, going back to our first story, if you were a pro-Hamas, radical anti-Semite protester,

and you're not a U.S. citizen, bye-bye. You're going to be deported. You're going to be expelled. You're going to be thrown out of this country. That is a view that makes an enormous amount of sense to me. And we will see, and by the way, if we get the data on how many people have used this app, we'll report on this data on this podcast. But the simple act of saying, all right,

The prior administration opened up our borders and let you in. We're now enforcing them. I say bravo, bravo, bravo. Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week. Now on to story number two.

This is something that you guys have also been focused on on Capitol Hill when it comes to calling out the Biden administration for doing nothing about the anti-Semitic protests that took place on our college campuses. And part of this is you've got to have a spotlight on it. Yep. So this past week, the Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing on anti-Semitism. Now,

Now, you might think, given the massive rise in anti-Semitism, particularly following October 7th, given the acts of violence against Jews across America, you might think the Senate Judiciary Committee would be looking at this.

Do you know how many hearings we had on anti-Semitism when the Democrats had the gavel? I'm going to go out on a limb and say zero. Wow, you got it precisely right to the 100-decibel point. That would be 0.000. They do not care at all. If you listen every day, I don't usually get these trick questions right, so I feel good. Even a blind squirrel. Not a one.

So a month into the new Congress, Republicans have the majority. We held a hearing this past week on anti-Semitism. The Democrats were terrified. They didn't want to talk about it. But I took the opportunity. Listen, I got to say, this issue pisses me off what we've seen happen to our schools. And so I want you to listen to my questioning of the witnesses and what I had to say last week at the hearing on anti-Semitism. Give a listen.

anti-semitism is evil it is wrong and it is flourishing with the acquiescence and in many cases active participation of student

of students, of faculty, of administrators, and government officials. And sadly, the Democrat Party has a deep and pervasive problem confronting this evil. For the last two years, in the wake of October 7th, this committee held zero hearings on anti-Semitism in the United States, despite the fact that Republicans repeatedly called for it. The acts of violence prior to October 7th, 3,669 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in the United States.

Following October 7th, in less than three months, that number spiked to over 5,000. In 2024, that number skyrocketed to 10,005 anti-Semitic incidents. This problem is particularly acute on our college campuses. Columbia University. Columbia University was a major epicenter where they encouraged, tolerated, and celebrated this vicious and vile anti-Semitism.

Rabbi Eli Buehler emailed every Jewish student on campus and said, quote, the events of the last few days have made it clear that Columbia University's public safety cannot guarantee Jewish students' safety in the face of extreme anti-Semitism and anarchy. I would strongly recommend you return home. This is the rabbi at the university saying your school will not protect your safety. And Columbia didn't do a damn thing about it. And I'll tell you what, the rabbi wasn't crazy.

Here is one picture taken on the campus of Columbia. In the back are Jewish students waving American flags and Israeli flags. In the front is a Columbia student wearing a mask because these cowards are oh so brave they cover their faces, holding a handwritten sign that says Al-Qassam's next targets. Al-Qassam is the military branch of Hamas. Understand what this student is saying. She is calling for the murder of

of her Jewish classmates. And by the way, this student, the internet being what it is, she's been identified now on the internet. This is not a Palestinian who's subject to oppression. This is a rich blonde girl from Atlanta whose parents are multi-millionaire real estate developers. And they got so proud, I'm sending my child to an Ivy League education where she'll be indoctrinated to dress up and advocate Hamas murdering Jewish students because they are Jews.

Now, if you agree that is evil and vile, let me ask you something. Where are the Democrats? Not a one is here. And it's because the Democrat Party has decided the pro-Hamas wing of the party is more important than protecting Jewish students in America. And if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer.

Texting with Columbia said the following. On January 4th, then-president of Columbia, Schaffach explained to Shipman and her fellow co-chair David Greenwald that she had met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who advised Schaffach that universities' political problems about anti-Semitism are really only among Republicans. We the Democrats, we don't care about this anti-Semitism stuff. Ms. Lewin, am I the only person that has noticed...

that these anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, that the tents all match.

No, you are not the only one to have noticed. Is it clear that there is significant money funding these attacks on Jewish students and attacks on America? It is clear that there is coordination and there must be some common funding. In the last two years under the Biden Justice Department, are you aware of any investigation to follow the money behind these protests? I am not. Are you aware of anyone who has been indicted for funding these protests? I am not.

Are you aware of any university that has had their Title VI federal funds cut off because they've tolerated, welcomed, celebrated, and as Senator Hawley put out, had their own officials cheering on anti-Semitism as even one university lost their funding? I am not aware of any university having actually lost their fund. And I'll point out also, some of the defenders say free speech, free speech. You're right. You have a free speech right as an American citizen to say vile, hateful, bigoted things. Let me ask you something. If a university student...

went into the public square, dressed up in a Klan outfit, burned a cross and said we should murder African-American students. Do you have any doubt the university would expel that student? I am fairly certain that the universities would take action and ensure that their policies were followed. They should expel them if they're foreign students. They should be deported and

And mark my words, if you are horrified at the anti-Semitism, you will see the Trump Department of Justice follow the money, prosecute the people who are paying for this, prosecute those engaged in violence, and cut off the money from universities that are tolerating and celebrating this. That is the rule of law.

And ask yourself, why did the Biden Justice Department do absolutely nothing about this horror that is unfolding? Senator, it was unbelievable to hear you call it out. And I do think we just have to remind people this is systematic on our college campuses, especially the Ivy Leagues. I go back in my head.

to Harvard and just the defiance of some of these individuals when they were testifying before Congress. They had no problem standing with these anti-Semitic protesters. Look, because they believe the same things. The administrators, they have been teaching the same poison. The faculty has been teaching the same poison. And I'll note that that clip you played while I was speaking

questioning at the hearing on anti-Semitism, as I noted, not a single Democrat senator was in the room. The hearing room was empty. And that really spoke volumes. They don't want to talk about this. And the problem is a political problem. In today's Democrat Party, there is a real and meaningful pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party. And the Democrats are terrified of that pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party. The question I've asked repeatedly, and look,

Most of the people who listen to Verdict are, I think, politically right of center or conservative or libertarians. But we actually have a fair number of reporters who listen to Verdict. And, you know, I'm hoping we have a handful of open-minded, free-thinking liberals, people who consider themselves left of center but recognize that if you want to actually have

an intelligent understanding of the issues than you want to hear from a wide spectrum of views and try to process and ascertain what is right. If you at home are one of those, let's say you're a Democrat who lives in New York City. Let's say you voted for Kamala Harris. You voted for Joe Biden. Maybe you voted for Barack Obama. If you disagree with

with the pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party, if you don't like the vile anti-Semites that have flourished on college campuses and that have threatened the safety of Jewish students, you ought to ask yourself very seriously what happened in the last week. Columbia got its money cut off. One of the organizers of the protests is going to be deported.

Why didn't any of that happen under Joe Biden? There was nothing to prevent the Biden administration from doing this. They had every bit of legal authority. As far as I can tell, they didn't even investigate it. They didn't ask where the money came from. I certainly asked the attorney general and the FBI repeatedly if they were doing that. If they were investigating it, they refused to tell the Senate. They refused to tell me. And we do know that no one paid any consequences for it because no one was indicted. And

That ends up encouraging more of this. And you have to ask yourself, was that an accident? Or was there a reason? Listen, if Kamala Harris, God forbid, had been elected president in November...

Ben, let me ask you this. What do you think are the odds Columbia would have had that 400 million cut off if Kamala Harris were president? No, 0%. And I bet you the anti-Semitism would explode on college campuses because they would not have any worries. She might be marching with the pro Hamas protesters. And by the way, this, this organizer who's being deported, the odds of his being deported, if Kamala were president are zero elections have consequences. And this issue, this issue matters. So,

So, Senator, let's take people back in time to a campaign promise from the president. He made it clear that if you are one of these students that is from overseas, has gotten a special special invitation, the ability to come and study in America and you are on campuses and you're, you know, actually going out there and advocating for violence and taking over buildings on college campuses, you're

We're going to kick you out of this country. Well, guess what? There was one radical on a college campus. This is exactly what happened is ICE detained and they said, look, we're going to revoke your green card. And now Democrats are protesting the arrest of this Syrian radical in New York. Yeah, it really is astonishing. And let's look at what happened in the United States following October 7th. Following October 7th, we saw protests on college campuses across this country.

predominantly in left-wing college campuses in blue states, where radical pro-Hamas protesters stood up and they denounced Israel. They chanted things like, "We love Hamas. We are Hamas." They threatened Jewish students. They engaged in acts of violence, and they threatened even more acts of violence. And astonishingly, Ben, the Democrats were silent.

You know, there are some folks who said in the wake of these protests, well, gosh, it's terrible, but they're happening all over the country. That's not right. They were only happening in blue states with blue elected officials. They happened in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Washington State. They didn't happen to Florida. They didn't happen in Texas. Actually, in Texas, we briefly had protesters at the University of Texas protest.

And officials sent in police officers that arrested them all. And it was done within a day. The places that it happened, it happened because the university administrators agreed with the protesters and the elected officials. They had been indoctrinated in the leftist ideology that said Israel is the bad guy and Hamas is the good guy.

Now, one of the things you and I have talked about at length, and by the way, if you did not listen to Monday's podcast, you should listen to Monday's podcast, because we did a deep dive on the Trump administration rightly cutting off $400 million of grants to Columbia University. Columbia was probably the single worst actor in all of these universities in terms of tolerating and celebrating these anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests.

But not only that, arresting a pro-Hamas protester. And let me be clear, this is the first of many. I believe we will see many more of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested and deported. And what I've said from the beginning, if you are threatening other students, if you are attacking America, if you are embracing terrorists, and you're a foreign student, you should be expelled and you should be deported. And what happened, Mahmoud Khalil,

who is from Syria. He came to the United States, my understanding is in 2022. He came to be a student at Columbia. He married a woman from the United States. He got a green card. So 2022 is three years ago. It's not very long. He got a green card very quickly. And in his time in America, he came into America and he organized anti-America, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic pro-Hamas protests.

Now, it's interesting. There have been a number of people online, a number of leftists who are saying, well, this is free speech. This is allowed. Let me be clear. Under U.S. law, American citizens are protected by the First Amendment. Foreigners are not. A visa to come to this country as a student, that is a permissive decision. And you do not have a right, if you are a guest to this country, to actively undermine America. Let me be clear to anyone.

If you hate America, if you want to undermine America, do not come to this country. And the Trump administration rightly arrested and plans to deport Mahmoud Khalil for organizing anti-Israel, anti-America, pro-Hamas protests. And what's stunning, Ben, what do you think the reaction of the Democrats is to this? They stand with us.

Khalil. They stand with the anti-Israel pro-Hamas protesters. So if you want to know where you stand, if you stand with Israel, if you stand with American Jews, if you stand with freedom, if you stand with the right to be free from oppression and violence, that ain't the Democrats. They stand with those engaged by.

As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed. I want to move to this other story, and the headline is one that is not a joke. It is real. Doge has now said that they have uncovered $312 million, Senator, in loans to

that were given to children during the COVID pandemic. Yes, to children, like nine-year-olds, 11-year-olds. There was 312 million that was approved and given to children. Well, you said this is not a joke, and sadly, I wish it was. Here's what Fox News has reported. Quote, Doge said it identified the Small Business Association administration, I assume,

granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers who only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. The loans were issued in 2020 and 2021, and it is unclear what they were used for. Quote, while it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, 593 loans issued

as they all also used a social security number with the incorrect name. Doge and the SBA government are working together to solve this problem this week. While making the announcement, Doge shared a post on X from Tuesday, where it also revealed that in 2020 and 2021, the SBA issued 3,095 loans for $333 million.

to borrowers over 115 years old. The borrowers were still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, a 157-year-old individual received $36,000 in loans, the agency said. Look, this is, I feel very confident that

that nobody is 157 years old. And if they are, and they're getting $36,000, that is fraud.

It's fraud. And we all know this. And look, this goes back to what President Trump said in his address to Congress on Tuesday. When he talked about he said there was millions of people aged over 100 that were listed on Social Security databases, with one being as old as 360 years of age. And I go back to Trump's quote there. I know some people who are. I want to know, is that guy the vampire Lestat?

Is he like literally an ageless vampire who like flies with the bats?

Yeah, right. Exactly. And this goes back to Elon Musk and a job that he's doing that I got to say, rarely in my life I thought there's a job that only one guy could do well. It seems to be Doge and Elon Musk because finding this type of waste, fraud, and abuse is exactly what Donald Trump promised, and they're paying off on it. But every American that pays taxes should be enraged by the fact that we're giving this much money

to people that are children or this much money to someone that's as old as 360 years of age? To be clear, if you're giving millions of dollars to a five-year-old, you're not. That is an adult engaged in theft. If you're giving millions of dollars to someone who's 150 years old, you're not. That is an adult engaged in theft. What this report indicates is that the Biden administration didn't give a damn

about whether the money was actually going to real people who had real needs, who were engaged in the purposes for which Congress appropriated the money. Instead, they were just shoveling money out the door. And tragically, the fraud was rampant in many instances.

the fraud was going to radical left-wing Democrat groups because the Biden administration believed in paying off their buddies. In other cases, they're just lazy. They don't care. When a six-year-old puts in an application for government money, the answer should be no because you're six and you ought to be playing with blocks in kindergarten and not trying to get millions of dollars from the government. But if you're a corrupt Democrat, you give the millions of dollars and let the parents use it for the political purposes they want. Absolutely.

As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Don't forget to download my podcast and you can listen to my podcast every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each day when you listen to Verdict afterwards. I'd love to have you as a listener to, again, the Ben Ferguson podcast. And we will see you back here on Monday morning.

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