Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 12, 2026


BONUS POD： Migrant Caravan Surges After Democrats Capture Congress

Inside the Senate Elections, plus Turning Texas Around & Defeating Hegseth Impeachment

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00:01:07 More than 2,000 people, they are walking in direction to the United States of America.
00:01:13 This is the ideology of open borders. This is what it'll do. It will completely destroy
00:01:18 the idea of secure borders. When you implement this seed, like the Biden administration has
00:01:24 done. And when you implement this seed that has been done for more than four years, this is what
00:01:31 happens. You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Thursday morning. Nice to
00:01:37 have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got a very big story for you. The Democrats
00:01:42 won the midterms and now we're seeing what happened because of that victory. We're seeing
00:01:48 shocking reports of massive migrant caravans heading towards the United States. It's raising
00:01:54 major questions about border security, enforcement, and whether America is about to face another
00:02:00 unprecedented illegal immigrant surge.
00:02:04 And most importantly, what is President Donald Trump's response and his administration?
00:02:09 What are they going to do?
00:02:10 I break it all down for you.
00:02:11 But before we get to that, I want to talk to you about IFCJ.
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00:03:23 Story number one
00:03:24 You hear me say it often, elections have consequences
00:03:28 It's something that President Donald Trump warned America about
00:03:32 That if you allowed Republicans to not have control of the House and the Senate
00:03:35 There would in fact be big consequences
00:03:39 Well, we're witnessing those consequences grow by the moment
00:03:43 As we speak with caravans
00:03:45 You remember those? Yeah, they're back
00:03:47 I'm not talking about cars 1.00
00:03:48 I'm talking about illegal immigrants heading towards America. 0.99
00:03:52 Why? 1.00
00:03:53 Well, after the Democrats won Congress, well, guess what?
00:03:57 Now you're seeing exactly what the rest of the world is expecting.
00:04:01 Just days after the Democrats won control of the United States, Senate, and the House,
00:04:06 we're now witnessing thousands of miles away from our border, the caravans are moving north again.
00:04:13 They started with less than 100.
00:04:15 Now they're swelling to well over 2,000. 1.00
00:04:18 Some of the migrants aren't hiding why they're coming.
00:04:21 They're telling reporters that they believe the Democratic victory in Washington could give them another opportunity to enter the United States of America. 0.50
00:04:29 Now, Democrats haven't even taken their seats in the new Congress, and President Donald Trump is still at the White House.
00:04:35 But what we now know is that the radical left is saying, come on back into America.
00:04:41 Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen had this to say about the caravan headed to the U.S. right now.
00:04:47 They all claimed asylum in Mexico, which means legally they don't have a right to claim asylum in the United States because we have a First Nation agreement, meaning that when you go into a safe nation, which is Mexico considered a safe nation, you consider and you claim asylum.
00:05:03 You also can't walk through there and then go into the United States.
00:05:06 Now, the Biden administration turned a blind eye to that.
00:05:08 Trump administration put a stop to that, which is why we have the most secure border because of President Trump's strong leadership that we've had in America's history.
00:05:17 So we don't believe they're getting here, but we have been very clear.
00:05:21 I have been very clear with my counterpart in Mexico. 0.99
00:05:24 If they allow them to continue to come north, when they get to their northern border, our southern border, we're not allowing them to enter. 0.91
00:05:30 So now they're just going to have a crisis around the southern border, around their northern border.
00:05:36 We believe this caravan will probably break up.
00:05:39 The reason, the intel that we're getting, the reason why they formed is because they were trying to pressure Mexico into accepting their asylum cases.
00:05:48 Evidently, that has happened.
00:05:49 So now, what takes place between now and the next few weeks will depend on Mexico. 0.97
00:05:55 But I will tell you right now, zero chance we allow them to enter the United States. 0.92
00:05:59 So that is what Mark Wayne Mullen had to say.
00:06:01 Now, what are the people in the caravan saying?
00:06:04 The migrant caravan that now has exploded to more than 2,000, advancing towards the first inspection point in Mexico in the direction of the U.S. borders.
00:06:14 Well, one local reporter on the ground put up a video earlier, and this is what he said.
00:06:20 The migrant caravan advances into the part of Viva Mexico, the inspection point.
00:06:26 And after that, they're going to rest in the municipal city that is called Alba, Obrador.
00:06:31 That is where they are going to stay today as they are going to rest.
00:06:36 More than 2,000 people, they are walking in direction to the United States of America.
00:06:43 This is the ideology of open borders.
00:06:45 This is what it will do.
00:06:46 It will completely destroy the idea of secure borders.
00:06:50 When you implement this seed like the Biden administration has done,
00:06:54 and when you implement this seed that has been done for more than four years,
00:07:01 This is what happens. This is the trickle effect. This is the domino effect.
00:07:05 People start believing that undeniably, if the Democrats, if the leftists win, the border will be open.
00:07:12 So let's see what happens in the next incoming days.
00:07:15 If NGOs will be arriving that we don't see them by any chance arriving, there's no OIM, there's no UNHCR, there's no UNICEF, there is no international organizations.
00:07:28 these ones they pander to help the migrants to help them in their transit and they take away
00:07:34 millions and millions of dollars out of the american taxpayer you don't see them right here 0.56
00:07:38 but if they arrive they will they will arrive in their late modern vehicles more than 2 000 migrants
00:07:44 leaving on the south border into the borders of the united states of america in direction
00:07:50 open that it will be open this coming from someone who's inside embedded with the migrants
00:07:56 as you can witness and watch them walking down the road.
00:07:59 So what actually is going to happen yet?
00:08:02 Well, this isn't speculation they're coming to the U.S.
00:08:05 They're saying it publicly.
00:08:07 The caravan is on the move.
00:08:09 And according to Reuters, more than 2,000 migrants,
00:08:11 including families with young children, are in Mexico.
00:08:15 And they all are saying the same thing.
00:08:17 They may be close to the Guatemalan border,
00:08:20 but they are headed towards the American border.
00:08:22 The group calls itself God With Us.
00:08:26 Now, other news organizations have reported estimates ranging from more than 2,000 to 3,000 migrants,
00:08:32 and many of them are coming from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
00:08:38 And their ultimate destination? They're all the same, the United States of America.
00:08:42 Now, here's what makes this story even more interesting. 0.71
00:08:45 This isn't simply another caravan of people fleeing poverty or violence or instability.
00:08:50 Some of the participants are explicitly connecting their decision
00:08:54 to head north with the results of the American midterm elections.
00:08:58 They know that Democrats are open borders.
00:09:02 One of those migrants is a 47-year-old Nicaraguan man named Caesar.
00:09:07 He told Reuters that he had already been deported from the United States just a few months ago.
00:09:12 But now, after Democrats won control of Congress,
00:09:15 he says he sees another opportunity, saying, quote,
00:09:19 We believe the Democrats will help us.
00:09:23 Now let that just sink in.
00:09:25 Here's a man who was deported from the United States of America
00:09:28 who now believes that the Democratic Party is so pro-open borders
00:09:32 that their victory in the House and Senate could improve his chances enough
00:09:37 that he believes he'll actually get back into America because the Democrats help him do it.
00:09:43 Now that doesn't mean Democrats have changed the law.
00:09:45 By the way, they haven't.
00:09:46 But it does tell you something more important about how American politics is being interpreted outside of our borders.
00:09:54 The political message that Americans send in the election doesn't stop at the Rio Grande.
00:09:58 It's heard in Mexico. It's heard in Honduras. It's heard in Guatemala.
00:10:03 And it's heard by the people trying to decide whether the dangerous journey north is worth it.
00:10:08 And this isn't just one group.
00:10:10 There are now reports that there are multiple groups that are starting to form,
00:10:13 exactly like we witnessed under the Biden administration.
00:10:17 AFP reported that Mexican authorities
00:10:19 attempted to block a separate caravan
00:10:21 of more than 200 migrants
00:10:23 who crossed from Guatemala into Mexico.
00:10:26 The Mexican National Guard troops,
00:10:28 immigration officials, and state police
00:10:30 positioned themselves along a roadway
00:10:32 to stop that group, they said, from advancing.
00:10:35 According to the reports, however,
00:10:37 40 migrants were detained.
00:10:39 Meanwhile, they say there's another group
00:10:41 that has grown to more than 1,000 migrants
00:10:43 that entered Mexico just days earlier.
00:10:47 CNN also reported that migrants traveling from Honduras and El Salvador
00:10:51 were expressing major optimism after the Democrats had their victories.
00:10:58 Some of them even told CNN that they believe the political change in Washington
00:11:02 is enough to make entering the United States of America much, much easier.
00:11:07 So elections, they absolutely have consequences.
00:11:10 And this is what should be getting Washington's attention.
00:11:13 The message being heard south of the border is Democrats won and for years they witnessed Democrats opening the southern border, literally lifting the barbed wire in Texas to allow illegal immigrants to overrun this country because immigration enforcement was, well, not even an option.
00:11:30 And now Republicans have advocated for stronger borders, increased deportations, and had tougher enforcement against illegal immigration.
00:11:39 Democrats have often emphasized asylum protections, immigration reforms, giving them handouts, hotel rooms, food, water, cell phones.
00:11:48 They're giving it all to them.
00:11:50 Why? Because they want to make sure they get into this country so they can then give out amnesty to millions and millions of illegal immigrants who they believe would then vote for them. 0.79
00:11:59 The Borders are Tom Homan has had this to say about the migrant caravans coming to America. 0.79
00:12:06 Are you getting indications that because of the outcome of the midterm elections that there will be more of this and that they are going to be stacking up in numbers heading to the border? 0.55
00:12:16 Yes. And the same thing happened during Trump and when Biden won the race in the last race when Biden won president.
00:12:26 And once all the polls showed him winning and when he actually won, we call it the Biden effect.
00:12:35 The caravan started.
00:12:36 They all started.
00:12:37 I knew if the Democrats could control the Congress, this would happen.
00:12:41 However, President Trump's in the Oval Office.
00:12:44 He will secure that border and continue to secure that border.
00:12:47 They're not going to be released.
00:12:48 The Democrats can't change the fact the executive branch will continue to enforce law. 0.78
00:12:53 Look, elections don't change laws.
00:12:55 The same laws we've been enforcing the last two years, we're going to enforce for the next two years, and they can't stop that.
00:13:01 All right, well, we'll see what happens in the next presidential election and how that might affect things.
00:13:06 It might affect it in a very big way. 0.88
00:13:08 And what Tom Homan is confirming is the migrant caravans are building, 0.62
00:13:12 and they're planning to head to the southern border after the Democrats' blue wave in the midterms.
00:13:17 But what you heard there from Homan is making it very clear.
00:13:20 They will be, quote, very disappointed when they arrive.
00:13:23 They're not going to be released.
00:13:25 That is something the Democrats are not telling them, and they absolutely should.
00:13:30 Fox News Channel also says they believe the caravans are growing at a very rapid pace.
00:13:36 Even Reuters are saying now, admitting that they are mainly from Central America
00:13:41 and they are traveling on foot through southern Mexico as the group heads towards the United States of America.
00:13:47 They believe the Democrats will protect them and will save them and will give them safe passage.
00:13:53 and that's why they're growing from hundreds to thousands
00:13:57 and they're on their way to the southern border.
00:13:59 We'll keep you updated on exactly what happens next
00:14:02 but one thing is for sure,
00:14:04 the Democrats are clearly telling illegal immigrants all over the world,
00:14:07 come on over again, try it, see what happens 0.91
00:14:11 and that is why this last election was so important.
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