BONUS POD： ICE Detention Center Attacked as Democrats continue Rhetoric Onslaught
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On Wednesday, a gunman opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, leaving one migrant detainee dead and two others in critical condition. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has also revealed that at least one of the shell casings from the attack was etched with anti-ICE messaging, indicating a left-wing ideological motive.
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In 2024, the UN budgeted $372 million in cash assistance to support an estimated 624,000
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The UN is supporting people that are illegally coming into the United States, and then we
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The UN also provided food, shelter, transportation, and debit cards.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update, and there's one major story we're covering
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today, and that is the demonizing of ICE agents is now causing more attacks.
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This time, the second time we've seen an attack on ICE facilities in Dallas alone.
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And Democrats continue to demonize, even hours before the attack, federal immigration law
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All right, I want to take a moment, and I want to talk to you real quick about what you can
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It was nearly two years ago that the terrorists murdered more than 1,200 innocent Israelis, and
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Today, it seems as if the cries of the dead and dying have been drowned out by the shouts
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of anti-Semitism and just pure hatred, not just in America, but around the world.
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And the most brutal attack on Jewish people happened.
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It happened since the Holocaust, and now it's like they're trying to act like it never happened.
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Now, this is where it is important for us to stand with the people in Israel.
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It's a movement of love and support for the people of Israel, and this is where I want
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It's being organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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And on October the 5th, you can stand with Israel and the victims proudly.
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Just a few weeks away, millions across America will prayerfully plant an Israeli flag in honor
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and solidarity with the victims of October the 7th, 2023, and stand with their grieving families.
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It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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On Wednesday, a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE facility
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in Dallas, Texas, leaving one migrant detainee dead and two others in critical condition.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations, the FBI Director, Kash Patel, has also revealed that
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at least one of the shell casings from the gunman's bullet was etched with anti-ICE messaging,
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indicating a left-wing ideological motive for the attack.
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For months in the lead-up to the attack on the Dallas ICE facility, Democrats have continuously
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made statements demonizing ICE agents, doxing ICE agents, and also going after the agency's
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Todd Lyons has publicly asked him to halt the rhetoric for fear of a targeted attack, just
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Now, there are eight different occasions when Democrats could have chosen the high road,
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but clearly in a coordinated effort, are continuing to go after ICE agents for enforcing federal
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Gavin Newsom, for example, claims ICE agents will help suppress voter turnout.
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In fact, just eight hours before the attack in Dallas, he was demonizing ICE agents on national
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That's happening in the United States of America.
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Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight,
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zero accountability, happening in the United States of America today.
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People ask, well, is authoritarianism, you're being hyperbolic?
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If you're a black and brown community, it's here in this country.
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And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address
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the issue of masking, also to require you have simple identification, to your point.
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I mean, if some guy jumped out of an unmarked car in a van with a mask on, tried to grab me,
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I mean, by definition, you're going to push back.
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And so these are not just authoritarian tendencies.
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These are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.
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Called the Democratic Party an extremist organization, basically a terrorist organization,
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You saw the tweet that Donald Trump sent out, True Social, basically telling Pam Bondi,
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That was eight hours, eight hours before the attack on ICE agents in Dallas.
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Gavin Newsom said people need to push back on ICE agents because they're the result of an
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And this morning, a sniper shot up an ICE facility, killing innocent, by the way, immigrants,
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But that's not the only time Gavin Newsom has been saying this.
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Last month, during a podcast episode, the California governor made the unprecedented claim
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that ICE agents may be used by President Donald Trump's in next year's midterm election
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Quote, Trump's already sending out mass people to intimidate folks.
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When we launched our campaign, did it down in little Tokyo in L.A.
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Do you think ICE is not going to show up around voting and polling booths to chill participation?
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Advocating for exactly what is happening today and having people get angry.
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Jasmine Crockett, the representative from Texas, made inflammatory suggestions that ICE agents
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are akin to slave patrols during an interview with MSNBC just last week.
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What they're doing right now, it almost feels like, you know, I've seen the memes about the
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But as somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols.
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Now, I never lived through the slave patrol period.
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But if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were
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And now with the Supreme Court saying this, it's almost like you can just go grab them
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But when you don't want to teach American history that includes black history, then you
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lose out on the benefit of understanding that we have been down this road before and it was
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And it is a shame that we are relitigating this and we are going to have to fix it again.
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Jasmine Crockett refers to ICE agents grabbing illegal immigrants, many of them that have
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And you wonder why we are now witnessing what we are witnessing right now with the violence
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The Boston mayor, Michelle Wu, she said this about ICE agents.
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I don't know of any police department that routinely wears masks.
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We know that there are other groups that routinely wear masks.
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Mayor, just to clarify, are you comparing ICE, you said, to NSC 131, the neo-Nazi group?
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What I said is that Boston police and no police department that I know of at the local level
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Boston mayor comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis.
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Tim Waltz saying this at a graduation ceremony about Department of Homeland Security and ICE.
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They're in unmarked vans wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.
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No chance to mount a defense, not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye, just grabbed up
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by masked agents, shoved into those vans and disappeared.
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To be clear, there's no way for us to know whether they were actually criminals or not
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That is the man who was the vice presidential candidate and a governor of a state saying that
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So you look at all of that and then you go back to what happened in Dallas.
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I want you to listen closely to what the acting director of the Dallas ICE field office
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had to say today about this being the second time it's happened in his jurisdiction.
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This is the second time I've had to stand in front of you and talk about a shooter
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And I think that the takeaway from all of this is that the rhetoric has to stop.
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There are people out there who are seeing what is being placed online and they're coming
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and they're doing acts of violence against ICE employees.
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Yes, MSNBC as people have been shot and there are people that are clinging for their lives.
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And after we are seeing this happen on MSNBC, one of their correspondents said today,
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quote, it's very early to know the motive of the ICE facility shooter,
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even though we knew it was written on the bullet casings.
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We have also seen the very dramatic videos of ICE nabbing individuals, they said,
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and tossing them into unmarked vehicles, justifying the violence.
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Senator Ted Cruz also coming out, talking about how this must stop.
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It was two weeks ago today that we saw a political assassination in Utah
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that tore the heart out of much of this country.
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This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP.
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To every politician who is using rhetoric, demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP, stop.
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To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxed and calling for people to go after their families, stop.
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We need to learn to work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other.
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I want to say thank you to the brave men and women of law enforcement.
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I want to say thank you to the brave men and women of ICE and CBP
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and everyone who puts their lives on the line to keep us safe.
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The divisive rhetoric tragically has real consequence.
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I hope that every one of us will, I hope that every one of us will pray.
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Number one, for the safety of law enforcement that are risking their lives to keep us safe.
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Number two, for the health of those who were shot and injured today, we still don't know the full details of who was injured,
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but for the families also of the victims of this shooting.
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If we want to have a debate about immigration policies, we can do so in the halls of Congress
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without demonizing each other, and especially without demonizing the men and women who every day put on a badge
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And we should not be putting language out there that inspires madmen to commit evil crimes.
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Our prayers are with the men and women of law enforcement,
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and we ought to come together and have some decency across the political aisle
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to say this violence is wrong and it needs to stop.
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Well, moments later on MSNBC, this is what they said.
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What about the politically motivated side of this?
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This is now the fourth shooting that we've seen in just a little bit over a year
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where the suspect has allegedly written on the casings of bullets some sort of politically motivated message.
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It's intended to influence an audience beyond its immediate victims.
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And terrorism falls into really three categories.
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It's either religiously motivated, ideologically motivated, or in this case, politically motivated.
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And the politically motivated ones, it doesn't happen in a vacuum.
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It happens because conditions have been set that people start acting out against.
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At least this is what, you know, people perceive.
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And then, you know, the militarization of ICE and other federal law enforcement, the wearing of the mask, aggressive tactics.
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So, the people who are starting to act out against this feel it's their only recourse.
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We see this happening throughout our history and in other places as well.
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So, you know, we can tone down the rhetoric in that that's the right message.
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But you also have to start looking at what policies you've implemented and what tactics you're using.
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Because if you tone down the rhetoric but you leave those other pieces in place, nothing's going to change.
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Go back to what was happening before and allow so many radicals to come into this country.
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Those that are selling fentanyl, killing Americans.
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Those that are sex trafficking children and abusing children.
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Those that are committing murders and violent crimes and rape.
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No, they're saying go back to the Biden policies.
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Or there will be more violence against ICE agents.
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J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States of America, summed it up perfectly.
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You don't have to agree with my immigration policies.
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You don't have to agree with Donald Trump's immigration policies.
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But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement,
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you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.
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When Democratic politicians incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmask ICE enforcement officers,
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Political violence has gotten out of control in this country.
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And that starts, unfortunately, at the very top of the Democratic Party.
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J.D. Vance, if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement,
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