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DOGE Data Reveals Millions of Illegals Received SSNs under Biden plus SCOTUS's Blockbuster Docket · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 3: numbers to millions of illegal immigrants what did that allow
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  Speaker 1: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: We're now learning more about one of the most extraordinary
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  Speaker 3: consequences of the Biden administration's immigration policies.
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  Speaker 4: And man, did it cost you, a taxpayer, an awful
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  Speaker 4: lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it wasn't simply that millions of migrants entered the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: That was bad enough.
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't simply that the federal government released enormous
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  Speaker 3: numbers of people into American communities. No, no, that's not
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  Speaker 3: the story here. What we now have learned is this.
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  Speaker 3: The Biden administration created. a system under which millions and
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  Speaker 3: millions of non-citizens were able to obtain Social Security numbers
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  Speaker 3: after receiving federal work authorization.
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  Speaker 4: And the numbers, well, they're staggering. And what did it do?
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  Speaker 4: It hurt American workers more than anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: Data that was publicized by Doge showed that approximately 270,000
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  Speaker 3: non-citizens reported received Social Security numbers through the Beyond Entry
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  Speaker 3: program in the fiscal year 2021. Then they almost doubled
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  Speaker 3: it the next year to 590,000 in 2022. And then
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  Speaker 3: they said that's not enough. 964,000 were put into the
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  Speaker 3: program in 2023. And then an astonishing 2.1 million. were
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  Speaker 3: put in in the fiscal year 2024 alone. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you add those numbers together, you're now talking about about
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  Speaker 3: 4 million Social Security numbers in four years through this
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  Speaker 3: program alone. Now, if you look at that trajectory, we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about 270,000 to more than 2 million annually.
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  Speaker 4: That's nearly an eightfold.
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  Speaker 3: Increase from 2021 to 2024. And then the dollars come
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  Speaker 3: in after those Social Security numbers were given out. This program,
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  Speaker 3: the Beyond Entry program, also known as EBE. And to
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  Speaker 3: be clear, Joe Biden did not create it. It dates
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  Speaker 3: back to the first Trump administration. Now, the purpose was
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  Speaker 3: actually straightforward. When USCIS approved an eligible non-citizen for employment
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  Speaker 3: authorization or permanent residency, something we do often, information could
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  Speaker 3: then be transmitted electronically to the Social Security Administration so
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  Speaker 3: that a Social Security number could be issued without requiring
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  Speaker 3: another trip to the Social Security office. Well, then Biden
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  Speaker 3: got a hold of the program, and that's where the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration's policies mattered the most. That administration dramatically expanded
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  Speaker 3: the population of migrants permitted to remain in America temporarily
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  Speaker 3: through mechanisms including humanitarian parole or temporary protected status and
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  Speaker 3: the asylum system. And then many became eligible for what
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  Speaker 3: they said was, you know, simple work authorization. Now, once
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  Speaker 3: the USCIS granted that authorization, well, that is when the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration said, bingo, now we can give all of
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  Speaker 3: these illegal immigrants by the million social security numbers. So
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  Speaker 3: when someone tells you, quote, they weren't illegal because the
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  Speaker 3: government gave them work permits, that misses the central policy
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  Speaker 3: argument altogether. This was a workaround, a loophole, or a
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  Speaker 3: reason for the Biden administration to simply just straight up
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  Speaker 3: look the other way. The controversy is precisely that the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration used executive immigration authorities to give millions of
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants temporary permission to remain and work after an
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  Speaker 3: unprecedented border surge.
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  Speaker 4: And they did it all on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Now, a person who may have originally crossed illegally could
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  Speaker 3: then file an asylum claim, then receive employment authorization, and
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  Speaker 3: then legally obtain a social security number while the case
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  Speaker 3: was pending. That distinction matters the most. But so does
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  Speaker 3: what actually happened next, which should make you furious. Because
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  Speaker 3: a social security number is not just a piece of paper.
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  Speaker 3: A social security number is fundamental. In this country to
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  Speaker 3: participating in the American economic system, it legally allows someone
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  Speaker 3: who has work authorization to legally work and have wages reported.
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  Speaker 3: It helps establish financial records and depending on a person
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  Speaker 3: specific immigration status and also, by the way, eligibility, that
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  Speaker 3: it can also facilitate administration of government programs. We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about food stamps, folks. We're talking about Medicare, Medicaid, and
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  Speaker 3: the list goes on and on and on. Virtually all
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  Speaker 3: the government aid programs out there. This is the gateway
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  Speaker 3: drug to those. In fact, Doge advisor Antonio Garcia said
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  Speaker 3: his team matched the EBE population against federal benefit databases
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  Speaker 3: and now claims that more than one million were receiving Medicaid.
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  Speaker 3: That's your taxpayers going to legal immigrants. Now, here's an
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  Speaker 3: also a really important thing that you need to know. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the question you should ask after hearing that you have
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  Speaker 3: millions that are receiving fraudulent Medicaid payments or coverage is this.
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  Speaker 3: What did Biden's immigration surge ultimately cost taxpayers? Well, we
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  Speaker 3: don't have to speculate. You ready for this? The Congressional
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  Speaker 3: Budget Office actually has the numbers. The CBO examined the
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  Speaker 3: surge in immigration that began in 2021. And it concluded
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  Speaker 3: on state and local governments, it was remarkable. In 2023 alone,
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  Speaker 3: the CBO now calculated that immigrants who were part of
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  Speaker 3: the surge generated about $ 10.
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  Speaker 1: 1 billion.
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  Speaker 4: So you'd say, well, that's great, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, government spent $ 19. 3 billion on goods and services associated
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  Speaker 3: with that exact population, meaning it cost you about $ 10 billion.
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  Speaker 3: So even after counting those additional tax revenues, which Democrats
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  Speaker 3: love to talk about, The CBO says, no, the direct
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  Speaker 3: net state and local costs to the taxpayers were about
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  Speaker 3: $ 10 billion in a single year. Now, also under the
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  Speaker 3: CBO's broader alternative calculation, they believe it could be well
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  Speaker 3: over $ 10 billion. And where was that money going? Public schools, shelter,
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  Speaker 3: border security, government services, health care. Like these aren't theoretical costs, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody has to pay them. and that somebody is you,
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  Speaker 3: the American taxpayer. Then there's Medicaid. Federal law generally prohibits
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  Speaker 3: unauthorized immigrants, illegal immigrants, from receiving federally funded Medicaid coverage.
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  Speaker 4: Not under Biden. No, no, no, no. They said, come
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  Speaker 4: on into the program.
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  Speaker 3: And the CBO examined spending on emergency Medicaid services for
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  Speaker 3: certain non-U.S. nationals, and the House Budget Committee calculated from
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  Speaker 3: the CBO analysis that the federal and state expenditures Just
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  Speaker 3: for Medicare total more than 16.2 billion during the first
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  Speaker 3: three physical years of.
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  Speaker 4: The Biden administration.
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  Speaker 3: The committee said that represented a 120 percent increase compared
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  Speaker 3: with the same period during the previous. Trump administration. And
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  Speaker 3: the costs, well, they don't suddenly disappear either. In the
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  Speaker 3: broader analysis of the immigration surge, the CBO now projected
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  Speaker 3: that the increase in immigration, illegal immigration, and the costs
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  Speaker 3: associated with them was $ 40 billion in federal Medicaid and
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  Speaker 3: CHIP spending. That would also include food stamps between 2024
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  Speaker 3: and 2025.
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  Speaker 4: So there you have it, folks.
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  Speaker 3: The Biden administration said, hey, we're going to hand out
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  Speaker 3: Social Security numbers.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to do it at a record rate.
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  Speaker 3: And then we're going to celebrate it by making you
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  Speaker 3: pay for all of the things that they need.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because they want to import an entire new class of voter.
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  Speaker 3: And not only did they do it, but they did
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  Speaker 3: it and it cost you countless dollars and raised your
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  Speaker 3: rent rates, raised the rates of homes, and it raised
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  Speaker 3: the cost of living and lowered many people's salaries who
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  Speaker 3: are American citizens. So welcome to Biden administration, folks. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't put you first. In fact, they made sure you
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  Speaker 3: were paying for the lives of illegal immigrants that were
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  Speaker 3: breaking into America.
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  Speaker 1: Next, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: There are some major cases that are now going to
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court's docket. The U.S. Supreme Court is now
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  Speaker 3: going to hear a series of the cases, really important
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  Speaker 3: cases during its new term that begins this week. It
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  Speaker 3: is involving issues such as President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
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  Speaker 4: It's also going to deal with assault-style rifle.
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  Speaker 3: Bans and Big Oil's financial liability, they claim, for climate change.
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  Speaker 3: They're also going to hear the Republican-backed voting restrictions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that you actually have to show an ID to vote.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's the LGBT rights cases as well. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let me just get you a quick guide through of
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  Speaker 3: what all is going to happen, because this is massive.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with Donald Trump's mandatory immigration detention. The court
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  Speaker 3: will decide the legality of Trump's policy that subjects millions
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  Speaker 3: of immigrants in the U.S. illegally to mandatory detention during
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  Speaker 3: their deportation proceedings. That's something that this country has not
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  Speaker 3: been doing under past administrations. Now, the policy is part
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  Speaker 3: of Trump's pursuit of mass deportation.
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  Speaker 4: The justices took.
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  Speaker 3: Up the Trump administration's appeal of a lower court's ruling
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  Speaker 3: against the policy in a case involving a Brazilian national.
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  Speaker 3: The administration abandoned the U.S. government's longstanding interpretation of federal
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  Speaker 3: law that immigrants already living in the U.S. could be
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  Speaker 3: released on bond while their cases play out in immigration court. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the date for the argument has yet to be set
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  Speaker 3: or announced. A ruling, by the way, is expected, however,
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  Speaker 3: by the end of June. Now, there's also another case,
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  Speaker 3: and that's Trump's third country deportations. The Justice Department will
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  Speaker 3: also hear arguments in December over the Trump administration's policy
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  Speaker 3: of deporting migrants to nations other than their own. In
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  Speaker 3: other words, so-called third countries, without offering them the chance
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  Speaker 3: to show the harms they may face. Now, the court
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  Speaker 3: on September the 29th let the administration continue the policy.
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  Speaker 3: For the time being, putting on hold the federal judge's
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  Speaker 3: ruling that removing migrants to third countries is unlawful. To date,
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  Speaker 3: more than 25,000 migrants have been deported to 29 countries
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  Speaker 3: under the policy.
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  Speaker 4: That according to the human rights groups involved.
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  Speaker 3: A ruling is also expected on this by the end
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  Speaker 3: of June 2027. Then there is the Second Amendment. There's
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  Speaker 3: a massive bill that deals with the ban on assault
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  Speaker 3: style rifles. And the justices will hear arguments on December
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  Speaker 3: the 2nd and a challenge to the legality. of state
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  Speaker 3: prohibitions on assault-style rifles, giving them another chance to expand
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  Speaker 3: gun rights in a case that involves a type of
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  Speaker 3: weapon often associated, the left says, with mass shootings. Now,
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  Speaker 3: lower courts upheld bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut
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  Speaker 3: on powerful semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15. The lower
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  Speaker 3: courts rejected arguments that the measures violated the U.S. Constitution's
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  Speaker 3: Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Gun rights
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  Speaker 3: groups and other challengers have said that the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: precedent concerning the Second Amendment protect these firearms, which they
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  Speaker 3: described as a, quote, in common use. A ruling is
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  Speaker 3: also expected by June of 2027, and it could have
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  Speaker 3: major implications for banning firearms in different states. I want
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  Speaker 3: to move to big oil and the climate suit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the court is going to hear the big green New
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  Speaker 3: Deal argument on Monday in a bid by ExxonMobil and
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  Speaker 3: Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit brought by officials in Boulder, Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: Those officials seek to hold the oil companies they say
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  Speaker 3: liable for helping drive climate change in general. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: the companies that were sued by Boulder, Colorado, they appealed
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  Speaker 3: after a lower court let the litigation move forward. The
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  Speaker 3: suit alleging state law violations by the company seeking unspecified
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  Speaker 4: Would be unsustainable.
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  Speaker 3: Yet again, this is a ruling we're expected to get
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  Speaker 3: by the end of June. We also have a major
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  Speaker 3: case that deals with voting rights. The justices are going
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  Speaker 3: to hear arguments on December the 8th, we're being told,
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  Speaker 3: in a Republican-led bid to revive voter restrictions that would
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  Speaker 3: stiffen proof of citizenship requirements for voters and registrants. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this would be amazing. It would also purge state voter
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  Speaker 3: rolls of alleged non-U.S. citizens, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 4: Illegal immigrants. It shouldn't be on the rolls at all.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans appealed after a lower court halted provisions of Arizona's
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  Speaker 3: law because they were found to violate a federal voting
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  Speaker 3: registration statute they claimed. President Trump's administration has backed key
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  Speaker 3: elements of this appeal as well. Critics on the left
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  Speaker 3: have said that the Arizona measure adds extra mandates for
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  Speaker 3: voting that unfairly target, they say, Latinos, Native Americans and
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  Speaker 3: student voters. And so therefore it should all be thrown out.
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  Speaker 3: And who cares if a bunch of illegal immigrants can vote? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those groups tend to favor Democratic candidates, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: And a ruling on this one is also expected by
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  Speaker 3: the end of June of 2027. So these are major
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  Speaker 3: cases that you might want to know about. Some of
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  Speaker 3: them are highly political. Some of them deal with business.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them deal with tech and even video games.
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  Speaker 3: But it is going to be a very interesting spring
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  Speaker 3: for the Supreme Court and a winter hearing these oral arguments.
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  Speaker 4: We'll keep you updated on all of these, that I
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  Speaker 4: can promise you.
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