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--:-- Host (John Bickley): Texas Democrats flee the state amid a redistricting battle that could determine who controls Congress. I believe they have forfeited their seats in the state legislature because they're not doing the job they were elected to do.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, August 5th, and this is Morning Wire.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): The Trump administration is on its way to a massive milestone, net negative migration for the first time in half a century. And as you know, in last month, zero people came into our country, only zero.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): And Robert Kennedy Jr. bans the use of a mercury-based preservative in vaccines. It's therefore inexcusable that these agencies allowed neurotoxic mercury to be injected into Americans for so long.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.
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--:-- Host (John Bickley): The redistricting battle exploded in Texas this week as Republicans look to gain a few more seats in the U.S. House.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections.
--:-- Tim Pierce: So, Tim, where is this redistricting happening?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Yeah, there are a handful of states, but Texas is the big one. And this one has sparked a huge fight from Texas Democrats, dozens of whom fled the state over the weekend in a long-shot bid to kill or at least delay a new district map.
--:-- Tim Pierce: They had to flee because otherwise Texas authorities could have rounded them up and forced them to the state capitol to vote on this.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Governor Greg Abbott appeared on Fox News yesterday morning and threatened to have those Democrats charged with felonies.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The reports are these legislators have been both, They sought money and they offered money to skip the vote, to leave the legislature, to take a legislative act.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That would be bribery. Based upon comments made by legislators themselves, they face a possibility of facing bribery charges, which is a second-degree felony in the state of Texas.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Abbott gave them until the start of the legislative session yesterday to come back, a deadline the rogue Democrats ignored.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Republicans in the statehouse were ready. They immediately passed a motion directing law enforcement to bring the Democrats back to arrest them even if necessary.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Of course, that order can't be enforced out of state.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Democratic State Congressman Gene Wu, who chairs the Democratic caucus in the Texas State House, gave a press conference from Illinois alongside Governor Pritzker.
--:-- Tim Pierce: We not here to play political games We here to demand to demand an end to this corrupt process
--:-- Tim Pierce: They refuse because their loyalty and fealty to Donald Trump overrides all other interests.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Abbott has also said that he thinks these Democrats not only could face felony bribery charges, but he thinks that they could lose their House seats as well.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But expect all of this to be challenged in court if it makes it that far.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, how are Democrats responding outside of Texas?
--:-- Tim Pierce: Democratic governors have said that they will counter Texas's efforts by redrawing districts in their own states.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But it's more difficult in Democratic states. That's because districts have already been gerrymandered to maximize Democrat seats.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Take a look at Illinois' map, for example. It's full of strange S-curves, and the state's 13th district in particular is just a thin line that stretches across half the state.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But they're not giving up.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
--:-- Kathy Hochul: If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, then they're leaving us no choice.
--:-- Kathy Hochul: We must do the same.
--:-- Kathy Hochul: That's why I'm exploring with our leaders every option to redraw our state congressional lines as soon as possible.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The problem in New York, though, is that the last time Democrats tried to gerrymander the state, the map was shot down on the courts.
--:-- Tim Pierce: They were still able to pass a less radical version later in 2024, but that still took two swing districts and made them favor Democrats.
--:-- Tim Pierce: There's also another problem with many Democrat-led states. Their redistricting decisions are made by commissions independent of the state government.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That's a problem in California, and Governor Gavin Newsom and other state leaders are trying to figure out a way to work around the commission or get rid of it entirely.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But even then, California's map heavily favors Democrats. They hold 43 of the state's 52 seats already.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Now, where else are Republicans trying to redistrict to get more seats?
--:-- Tim Pierce: GOP-controlled Ohio must redraw its map ahead of midterms by law.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Missouri is also another state that Republicans are looking at to gain another seat or two.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is looking at redistricting as well.
--:-- Tim Pierce: But perhaps more importantly, DeSantis wants the 2020 census redone.
--:-- Tim Pierce: He believes that would have a huge impact on moving seats from blue states to red states.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Here's DeSantis last week.
--:-- Ron DeSantis: They should do it and count people that are legally allowed to be here.
--:-- Tim Pierce: How many seats would California lose if you only counted lawful people, citizens?
--:-- Tim Pierce: They would lose a lot of seats because they're a sanctuary state.
--:-- Tim Pierce: That is ultimately going to be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court, because I do think the Trump administration is going to put in for a census that is not going to count foreign nationals, that is just going to count a U.S. citizen.
--:-- Tim Pierce: And that's really the way that I think that's what the founding fathers intended.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The bottom line is that if the GOP is able to succeed with redistricting and a new census, it's hard to imagine that Republicans don't keep control of the House during the midterms.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Well, that would be a big win for President Trump.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Tim, thanks for reporting.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Good to be on.
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--:-- Host (John Bickley): Amid record deportations and a border crackdown the U is on pace to experience negative migration for the first time in half a century Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to break it all down for us
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So walk us through these numbers and we talk about the significance of them afterwards What are we looking at here?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, just a stunning turnaround taking place here regarding immigration.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: It's no secret we saw a historic influx of immigration, both legal and especially illegal, under President Biden.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: We'll never know the true number as an untold number of illegal immigrants came across the border undetected.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But based on the rough estimates, anywhere from 16 to 25 million people came into the U.S. from 2020 to 24.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That means at the very least, one in every 17 people living in America right now came here in the last four years.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Could be closer to one in every 15, though.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: For context, last year, 84% of the U.S. population growth came from immigration as opposed to new births here in the country.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: President Trump campaigned on a promise to reverse that trend, And since taking office, he has done just that, making border security his top priority.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And the numbers prove it.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, right. Some really head-turning statistics.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, what are we looking at? We're six months in. How does it look?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So net migration, both legal and illegal, has fallen at a rapid historic pace.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Border crossings are down nearly 95% since Trump took office.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And month after month, we've seen a record low for attempted border crossings.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So that's playing a major factor here.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Beyond that are the deportations.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The DHS says they've removed more than a quarter million illegal immigrants in the last six months.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That is well below their target goal of one million a year, but still a major increase compared to Biden.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The Trump administration is also offering flight stipends and other incentives for those looking to self-deport.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Again, it's unclear just how many people have taken those offers, but the estimates are anywhere from the tens of thousands to even the hundreds of thousands.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And then there is legal migration, which is also on the decline as Trump has slashed work permits, visas, and other avenues of legal entry.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Put all of that together and the United States is set to see more people emigrate out of the country than into it.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That would be the first year of negative net migration in at least five decades.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Could be the first year ever we don't have reliable records prior to the 60s.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So what are the implications of this? What are the impacts this could have on the country?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Well, really, it depends on who you ask.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Pro-immigration advocates on the left say that negative migration is going to stoke inflation.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: It's going to drive decreased tax revenue and lead to labor shortages.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Supporters of the crackdown, though, say the first step to fixing our immigration system is first cutting off the flow, dealing with those who are here illegally, and then deciding who we're going to allow in moving forward.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: They argue that less immigration will open up more jobs for Americans and force many employers to raise wages, given that they can no longer rely on off-the-books migrant labor.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: To that point, a White House spokesman noted that 1 in 10 young Americans are neither employed or in school, and that, quote, there is no shortage of American minds and hands to grow our labor force.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And it's worth noting, since March, the foreign-born workforce has declined by more than a million people in the U.S.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: And as we've discussed, all net job growth under Trump has taken place among Native-born Americans.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Right, you mentioned that stat yesterday, a very significant development there.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Now, shifting gears to the state level, there are some state-level immigration actions that are taking place.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: What's happening there?
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Yeah, under pressure from the Trump administration, Republicans in a number of states are working to roll back education benefits for illegal immigrant students.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: At the moment, 24 states offer in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: But now there's a GOP-led push to make them pay out of state or even international rates instead.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: That would double the cost.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: In June, for example, with the help of the DOJ, Texas removed their so-called DREAM Act, which for 24 years had given legal students in-state benefits.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Similar efforts are now underway in Kentucky and Minnesota.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: The Trump DOJ says in-state tuition is meant to benefit American citizens, not those living here illegally.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: So Texas coming up once again today.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Gavin, thanks so much for reporting.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: Absolutely.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): RFK Jr. has made a number of vaccine-related moves in the past few weeks, including removing a mercury-based ingredient from U.S. vaccines.
--:-- Host (John Bickley): Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: So Amanda what exactly did Kennedy order regarding vaccines and why
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Yeah so Kennedy ordered the removal of thimerosal from all flu vaccines distributed in the U
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, those were the last remaining U.S. vaccines with that mercury-based ingredient.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Thimerosal has been somewhat controversial. It's been phased out of most European vaccines, and Kennedy has repeatedly called it a neurotoxin.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, RFK made this decision based on a recommendation from ACIP.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: That's a CDC vaccine panel that Kennedy gutted back in June, and he filled with his own appointees.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The panel recommended that children, pregnant women, and adults should receive only a single-dose thimerosal-free flu shot.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: When he adopted that recommendation, Kennedy said that our most vulnerable populations shouldn't be exposed to mercury when it's avoidable.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Here's RFK just a few days ago on this issue.
--:-- Robert Kennedy Jr.: A 2017 study by CDC links miscarriage to flu vaccines and found that the odds of having a miscarriage within 28 days were 7.7 times greater than women who did not receive a flu shot during pregnancy.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Another study published that same year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found an elevated risk of autism spectrum disorders in children whose mothers had received a first trimester flu shot.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: We should also note that ASEP, that vaccine panel, it's again sparking some outrage from the mainstream media.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: And this time it's because Kennedy is not allowing personnel from some major medical groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and the American Medical Association to sit in and add their input during ASIP meetings.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Kennedy, though, he stands by that and he says that's actually a feature of some of these reforms.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: A statement from HHS put it this way, under the old ASIP, outside pressure to align with vaccine orthodoxy limited asking the hard questions.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The old ASIP members were plagued with conflicts of interest, influence, and bias.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The department said that experts will continue to be included, but that's going to be based on relevant experience and expertise, not because of what organization they belong to.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, there's also been some talk that Kennedy is eyeing reforms to better protect Americans who've been injured by vaccines.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: What's the latest there?
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Yeah, so Kennedy really wants to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: That's a federal program that's designed to compensate people who say they've been injured by vaccines, it's sometimes referred to as vaccine courts.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Kennedy thinks that this system is biased against Americans who are claiming these injuries.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: He says the cases are often slow-walked and the statute of limitations can really hurt people who develop or maybe piece together an injury years later.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Also, this is key, Kennedy wants to expand the program to include potential injuries from COVID vaccines.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Currently, those injuries are designated to a different program that critics say has too many conflicts of interest.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Here's RFK discussing these coming reforms.
--:-- Robert Kennedy Jr.: What we're going to try to do is to make sure that the parents who do get injured get compensation, that they get it very quickly and they get it without the kind of adversarial impediments that have now been erected over the past 40 years.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Kennedy has also said that schools are effectively forcing parents to have their children get every vaccine, even once they might be medically advised against getting or had past bad experiences with.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Now, to that point about vaccine mandates in schools, Kennedy wants religious and medical exemptions in every state.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Meanwhile, medical organizations that Kennedy has a lot of friction with, like the AMA and AAP and a lot of others, they've called for every state to ban religious exemptions.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: The AAP actually just recently renewed those calls.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Well, that's chilling.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: Thanks for reporting.
--:-- Amanda Prestigiacomo: You're welcome. Thanks for waking up with us.
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