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Inside Trump's High-Tech Border Crackdown After 2,220 Terror Arrests · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: We were arrested 2,220 known terrorists. I want to repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: Not terrorist watch list. Not individuals we suspected. These were
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  Speaker 1: known terrorists that came in and either we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: they were in the country or they came in and
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  Speaker 1: they claimed they gave a fake name, fake country where
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  Speaker 1: they're from. We have arrested 2,220 as I was, that
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  Speaker 1: was my number I got when I was walking on
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  Speaker 1: stage just a second ago. That was today's report.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two major stories
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  Speaker 3: for you. First up, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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  Speaker 3: now telling Americans that more than 2,200 known terrorists, actual terrorists,
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  Speaker 3: have been caught inside the United States of America. How
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  Speaker 3: did they get here and how long have they been here?
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  Speaker 3: We have that for you in just a moment. Also,
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  Speaker 3: in story number two, we now are learning more about
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  Speaker 3: how technology is being used at our southern border. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just as simple now as building a border wall.
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  Speaker 3: We now have a much bigger understanding of how technology, AI,
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  Speaker 3: and so much more, including things he can't even tell
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  Speaker 3: us about, are being used to protect Americans. It's the
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  Speaker 3: 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: There's a really important number, 2,220. That is a number
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  Speaker 3: that's coming out of Washington, and it should make you furious.
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  Speaker 3: That number represents how many people the Homeland Security Secretary
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  Speaker 3: Mullen says the Trump administration has arrested inside the.
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  Speaker 4: United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: 2,220 that were known terrorists. Not simply people who entered
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  Speaker 3: on some government watch list. Not merely people that the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security suspected might have terrorist connections. Mullen,
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  Speaker 3: emphatic about this distinction, making it clear that this is
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  Speaker 3: actual known terrorists.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Secretary Mullen in his own words.
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  Speaker 1: Underneath the Trump administration, people that they let into this country,
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  Speaker 1: we arrested 2,220 known terrorists. I want to repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: Not terrorist watch lists. Not individuals we suspected. These were
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  Speaker 1: known terrorists that came in and either we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: they were in the country or they came in and
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  Speaker 1: they gave a fake name, fake country where they're from,
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  Speaker 1: We have arrested 2,220. That was my number I got
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  Speaker 1: when I was walking on stage just a second ago.
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  Speaker 1: That was today's report.
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  Speaker 3: Now, that was the overall theme, the warning coming from
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Mullen. He went into even more detail in an
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  Speaker 3: interview that he did, and I'm going to have that
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  Speaker 3: for you in a moment. But before we get to that,
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  Speaker 3: All right, so let me get back to even more
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  Speaker 3: of what he had to say about this warning. And again,
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  Speaker 3: this goes back to the core issue here. that there
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  Speaker 3: are far too many people that were let into this
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  Speaker 3: country that never should have been here. This is, again,
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  Speaker 3: DHS Secretary Mullen sitting down on a podcast talking about
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  Speaker 3: just what a threat this was to the U.S. and
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  Speaker 3: how so many Democrats have tried to downplay this like
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  Speaker 3: it never happened.
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  Speaker 1: To put out there, too, is underneath President Trump, we've
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  Speaker 1: we've rested so far as my numbers walking into here.
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  Speaker 1: 2,210 terrorists that's in this country. That was in this country.
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  Speaker 1: That's significant. Most of them came over and claimed asylum,
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  Speaker 1: gave a fake name. Some of them came over. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't know they were here. Some of them we caught.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of them came in and didn't identify
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  Speaker 1: them because the Biden administration was just kind of loose. 97%
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  Speaker 1: of the individuals that they made contact with was released
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  Speaker 1: in 27 hours.
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  Speaker 4: That was the old on-your-honor system.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. We're not checking who you are. We're just assuming.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they lost 450,000 kids underneath the Biden administration, too,
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  Speaker 1: that we're now trying to locate. Unbelievable. But 2,210 terrorists. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these aren't individuals. You guys all know this. There's a
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  Speaker 1: difference between a suspected terrorist.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Or a terrorist watch list. These were terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. 2010 in the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: No, that was a number as of. I was coming
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  Speaker 1: up the steps today. They wanted me to say over 2,200,
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  Speaker 1: but it was 2,000. That's pretty specific, 2,210. And that
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  Speaker 1: may have been yesterday's number. That number could have changed
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  Speaker 1: by today. That's the vulnerability that we have.
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  Speaker 5: You think these are the types that came in during
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  Speaker 5: the Biden years across the border? They just happened to
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  Speaker 5: be from the Eastern Hemisphere, and they just walked across.
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  Speaker 1: So far, most of them, the ones that we have,
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  Speaker 1: the majority of them, not all of them, majority of them,
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  Speaker 1: came over during the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it was very clear that the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security Secretary Mullen wanted people to understand exactly what he
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  Speaker 3: was saying.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he took his time.
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  Speaker 3: And he said these weren't merely people on a terrorist
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  Speaker 3: watch list or individuals the government suspected of being a terrorist.
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  Speaker 3: He described them as known terrorists who had gotten into
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America. And in some cases, because
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  Speaker 3: authorities didn't know they were here. And in other cases,
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  Speaker 3: because according to Mullen, they entered using a fake name
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  Speaker 3: or lied about their country of origin. Now, if you
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  Speaker 3: think about the magnitude of that for a moment, you've
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  Speaker 3: got more than 2,200 people whom the sitting secretary of
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security described as known terrorists that were living inside
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America among all of us. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, if you think you weren't living close
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  Speaker 3: to one of these terrorists, you're probably not living in
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  Speaker 3: reality because when you have 2,200 of them spread out
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  Speaker 3: across the country, there's a very good chance that you've
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  Speaker 3: been very close to one of these actual terrorists. And
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  Speaker 3: this isn't some number that, by the way, has been
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  Speaker 3: sitting still. Just last month, DHS also announced that between
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  Speaker 3: January 20th of 2025 and September the 9th of this year,
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  Speaker 3: ICE has arrested again more than 2,150 known or suspected
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  Speaker 3: terrorists and deported more than 2,015 of them. Then you
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  Speaker 3: hear Mullins going on this podcast saying that number had
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  Speaker 3: gone up. And he said many had come across the border.
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  Speaker 3: They claimed asylum. They used false identities. They were arguing
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  Speaker 3: that the Biden administration's release policies allowed many of them
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  Speaker 3: into the country who should have never been released. We
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  Speaker 3: had them. They were terrorists. We released them. That is
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  Speaker 3: the reporting coming from Fox News. And the number is
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  Speaker 3: getting bigger by the day.
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  Speaker 2: Next, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: There's also another part of what Mullen revealed that is
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  Speaker 3: also fascinating, because while everybody is talking about the wall
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  Speaker 3: and that became a big issue in the last presidential election, 2016,
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  Speaker 3: that Trump won. But the Department of Homeland Security apparently
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  Speaker 3: has technology operating along the southern border that the secretary
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  Speaker 3: says he can't even publicly discuss. Now, that's the part
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  Speaker 3: of the story that I love the most about what
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to tell you.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, he's not exaggerating.
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  Speaker 3: Mullen described what amounts to a completely different philosophy of
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  Speaker 3: border security under President Trump, saying this isn't simply about
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  Speaker 3: putting steel in the ground. Mullen says construction of the
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  Speaker 3: border wall is now moving at a record pace after
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  Speaker 3: the administration had to rebuild the infrastructure and contracting apparatus
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  Speaker 3: necessary to restart construction. He described plans for both a
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  Speaker 3: primary and a secondary wall system. But here's where it
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  Speaker 3: gets even more interesting. Parts of the primary barrier are
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  Speaker 3: what Mullen called, quote, a smart wall. And according to
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  Speaker 3: the secretary, technology incorporated into the border system can detect
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  Speaker 3: someone crossing and gathering enough information to to distinguish characteristics
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  Speaker 3: such as whether the individual is male or female, based
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  Speaker 3: on factors including gait and weight. It can determine how
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  Speaker 3: many people are moving through an area, and drones can
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  Speaker 3: then help track border crossers as well, so.
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  Speaker 4: They're no longer gotaways.
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  Speaker 3: Now, in other words, we're moving from a passive border
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  Speaker 3: wall to an intelligent border security network. We're talking about sensors, surveillance, drones,
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  Speaker 3: detection systems, physical barriers, Border Patrol agents, and then there's
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  Speaker 3: apparently another layer on top of that. Now, Mullen said
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  Speaker 3: that in certain higher risk sectors, the Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security has deployed equipment he cannot even talk about publicly. Now,
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  Speaker 3: he did reveal one important thing about it. It is non-lethal.
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  Speaker 3: And Mullen made a point of distinguishing non-lethal from less lethal.
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  Speaker 3: He said the equipment is non-lethal, but it is still
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  Speaker 3: enough to, quote, get their attention, quote, unquote. Now, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't explain exactly what that means. And I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to speculate, by the way, about it because I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is classified or unclassified technology
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  Speaker 3: or undisclosed technology. But the fact that the Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security is publicly acknowledging now that we have capabilities
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  Speaker 3: of operating along the southern border and certain capabilities that
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  Speaker 3: we aren't willing or able to describe tells you just
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  Speaker 3: how dramatically border enforcement is evolving under Donald Trump's leadership. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the fiscal wall itself has evolved as well. Mullen said
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  Speaker 3: some portions of that wall had previously been 18 feet tall.
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  Speaker 4: They've now been extended to 30 feet.
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  Speaker 3: Why? Because cartels adapted, he said. And according to Mullen,
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  Speaker 3: cartels became very good at getting plasma cutters to the wall,
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  Speaker 3: cutting through it and quickly moving people across before Border
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  Speaker 3: Patrol could even respond.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Plasma cutters here. This is the cartels. This is how
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  Speaker 3: well financed they are, by the way. The administration, their
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  Speaker 3: answer is essentially defense in depth.
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  Speaker 4: You have the primary barrier. You have the technology monitoring
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  Speaker 4: that barrier.
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  Speaker 3: Then you have the drones and you have undisclosed nonlethal
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  Speaker 3: equipment in certain sectors. Then where geography and land restrictions
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  Speaker 3: allow it, you have a secondary wall behind the first one.
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  Speaker 3: And between those two barriers, the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 3: wants a road that allows Border Patrol agents to move
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  Speaker 3: rapidly to the location of any breach. Mullen explained that
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  Speaker 3: the second barrier is designed to buy agents something incredibly valuable, time.
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  Speaker 3: If smugglers cut through wall number one, they're not suddenly
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  Speaker 3: inside America and then gone. Now they've got another obstacle. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: they also say there's got sensors that they have to
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  Speaker 3: detect people as well, and then drones that would maybe
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  Speaker 3: be tracking them until they can catch up. And Border
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  Speaker 3: Patrol is using all this technology to do one thing.
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  Speaker 4: To grab them.
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  Speaker 3: And whatever this undisclosed non-lethal technology is may also be
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  Speaker 3: a part of the equation as well. And that is
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  Speaker 3: a fundamentally different approach to border security in Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 3: second term in office. And here's why the terrorist numbers
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  Speaker 3: matter so much. For years, the immigration debate was framed
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  Speaker 3: almost entirely as an economic or humanitarian argument by the left.
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  Speaker 3: How many asylum claims were filed? How many migrants could
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  Speaker 3: cities absorb? How much would it actually cost? And then
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  Speaker 3: there was always the other question. Who exactly, you know,
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  Speaker 3: came into the country? Because when millions of people are
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  Speaker 3: entering or being processed at extraordinary speed, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a huge percentage of dangerous people that you can actually identify.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when they slip through the cracks. And that's
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  Speaker 3: when they become a national security problem. Well, now we
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  Speaker 3: know just how bad the problem really is. Because if
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  Speaker 3: you listen to the words of the Secretary of Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration has now arrested more than 2,220 people
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  Speaker 3: that they have identified as not as possible terrorists, not
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  Speaker 3: those that just have ties to a terrorist. We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about people that they are known terrorists, like they are
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  Speaker 3: the terrorists that And that is the part of the
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  Speaker 3: story that Americans deserve answers to. Number one, who the
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  Speaker 3: hell are these people? Number two, where did they come from?
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  Speaker 3: Number three, how did they get here and who's behind
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  Speaker 3: that operation? Or maybe even better, who sent them here
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  Speaker 3: and what have they been doing since they got here?
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  Speaker 3: And then the other question is, well, where did they enter?
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  Speaker 3: Did they enter through the southern border? Did they enter
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  Speaker 3: through the northern border? Did they enter in what capacity underground,
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  Speaker 3: above ground, like on a ship, on a jet ski? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: there's people that are breaking into America on jet skis.
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  Speaker 3: This is not a joke. It happens in California all
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  Speaker 3: the time on the coast. And then there's the other question.
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  Speaker 3: How many terrorists have we been taking care of in
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  Speaker 3: this country because of the Biden agenda? Many times they
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  Speaker 3: were actually claiming asylum. And then when they claimed asylum,
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  Speaker 3: the question becomes, did we give them money? Are we
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  Speaker 3: actually funding the terrorists and giving them a roof over
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  Speaker 3: their head and feeding them while they're in the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America?
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  Speaker 4: How many of.
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  Speaker 3: Them also use false identities like fake IDs or fake
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  Speaker 3: names or fake photos? Countries of origin, because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times we know that many of these people drop
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  Speaker 3: all of their passports and documentation at the border before
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  Speaker 3: they come across. So then they can just say, I'm
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  Speaker 3: so and so from this country. And how do you
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  Speaker 3: prove them wrong in a database that clearly, well, we
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  Speaker 3: don't know what's going on. Welcome to the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 3: The other question is this. How many of them are
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  Speaker 3: still here right now? Because if you've got 2,220 and
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  Speaker 3: counting arrests that have already been made, how many are
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  Speaker 3: in this country we don't know about? If the Secretary's
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  Speaker 3: description is accurate, these people represent millions. potential national security
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  Speaker 3: threats that law enforcement has to locate that we don't
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  Speaker 3: even know about. Those that are located all around the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. And the Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Mullen says the philosophy inside of DHS has also changed.
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  Speaker 3: His description is pretty simple. He says DHS doesn't write
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  Speaker 3: America's immigration laws. Congress does. He said DHS's job is
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  Speaker 3: to enforce them. Mullen said the difference under President Trump
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  Speaker 3: is that the department is no longer picking and choosing
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  Speaker 3: which laws it wants to enforce and which laws it
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  Speaker 3: wants to look the other way. And that may ultimately
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  Speaker 3: be the biggest story, 321. And that, my friends, may
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  Speaker 3: be ultimately the biggest part of the story here. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: having a wall matters. Yes, having the drones matter. Having
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  Speaker 3: the sensors matter. The technology that Mullen says he can't
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  Speaker 3: discuss publicly certainly sounds extremely important and also interesting. But
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  Speaker 3: none of those things matter if the federal government doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have the political will to act and actually enforce the
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  Speaker 3: laws on the books already. And now we have a
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  Speaker 3: number that should put this entire debate into real perspective.
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  Speaker 3: Going into the midterms, Republicans should talk about the 2,220-plus
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  Speaker 3: known terrorists, the number keeps growing, that have actually been arrested,
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  Speaker 3: according to the Secretary of Homeland Security. And simultaneously, America
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  Speaker 3: is building a southern border that isn't merely taller or stronger.
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  Speaker 4: It's becoming smarter. It's layered. It's technology sophisticated.
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  Speaker 3: And apparently some of what we are now using to
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  Speaker 3: secure it is sensitive enough that the Secretary of Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security will acknowledge that it exists but won't tell us
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  Speaker 3: exactly what it does. That, my friends, is how dramatically
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  Speaker 3: the border security conversation has changed under President Donald Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all of these data points and all the information that
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  Speaker 3: I just gave you is obviously fresh and new to
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  Speaker 3: the public It's not fresh or new to the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly why the president has been so hell-bent
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  Speaker 3: on security at our border, because it's not just about
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  Speaker 3: keeping illegals out of the United States of America. It's
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  Speaker 3: about keeping actual terrorists out of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: That is the part that people should be paying attention to.
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  Speaker 3: The president understands this. He understands just how important it
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  Speaker 3: is to make sure that these individuals who are terrorists
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  Speaker 3: are not just allowed to come into this country and
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  Speaker 3: roam among us.
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