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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I hope we can work together and get them funded so when I walk in, these guys are ready to go to work day one. The fate of the Department of Homeland Security is front and center on Capitol Hill, while the White House looks to break the funding stalemate. Well, there's a solution, and that is to fund the government and not defund law enforcement, which is what the Democrats want to do.
I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Thursday, March 19th, and this is Morning Wire. Iran lashes out after losing more key members of its leadership, while Trump leans on Europe to help bring Tehran to its knees. And after a string of deadly attacks by naturalized citizens, the national debate turns to denaturalization. Many records were done on paper.
Chapter 2: What is the current status of the Department of Homeland Security funding?
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is seeing several major developments, including a series of heated and high-stakes hearings that could determine the fate of the Department of Homeland Security and our response to national security threats. Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcand joins us now with more. Morning, Cameron. So a lot going on in the Capitol this week and a lot at stake in these hearings.
First, what is the latest with the Department of Homeland Security? Well, the biggest issues that we're tracking right now are who's going to run the agency and how the agency is going to get funded.
Right now, we saw the confirmation hearing of Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, and he shared some of his perspective as to what he would do when Kristi Noem leaves that position if he ends up getting confirmed in that role starting in April. Here's what he had to say. I hope DHS is just able to be laser focused on doing their job, and it isn't controversial about taking care of the homeland.
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Chapter 3: How is Iran responding to recent leadership losses?
I hope people have confidence in our agency again, and I'm going to work every day to restore that. There are also some other notable moments in there.
Specifically, Mullen noted that he would have immigration authorities use judicial warrants if they're going to enter a home or a place of business unless authorities were actively pursuing an individual, as administrative warrants are currently used for most of these immigration-related arrests.
Now, as we noted, DHS is still currently facing a shutdown, with the White House sending its counteroffer to the Senate on Tuesday, saying that they would back an increased oversight of detention facilities throughout the country, as well as more body camera usage for officers. All right, so some key concessions there from the White House. We'll see if the Democrats bite on any of those.
There was also a big Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday.
Chapter 4: What sparked the debate over denaturalization of citizens?
What went down there? Yes, Gabbard did testify before that committee, and she gave some very key insight into the situation in Iran. Here's what she had to say. Iran's strategic position has been significantly degraded.
The U.S.-led maximum pressure campaign and snapback of European sanctions added additional pressure to an already bleak Iranian economy, resulting in mass protests earlier this year that Tehran suppressed by killing thousands of protesters. She also talked about the threats in the Middle East and domestically, especially when it comes to terror groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Now, this all comes as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, left his role earlier this week over criticism over Operation Epic Fury in Iran. He said that this was not justified military action, and he claimed that Trump only went to war because of Israel. But there's a significant update on this claim that came out last night.
CIMA 4 reported, and The Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olihan has since confirmed, that law enforcement sources say Kent was under FBI investigation, for allegedly leaking classified information before he announced his resignation. So while Democrats have tried to paint Kent leaving as a big rebuke of the operation, this may be more about Kent trying to get ahead of this investigation from the FBI.
Now, speaking of the FBI, FBI Director Kash Patel also testified, affirming that the country is less safe amid the DHS shutdown. Is the refusal to fund the functions of the Department of Homeland Security, including Homeland Security investigations, making Americans less safe? Absolutely.
Now, in addition to these hearings, we've also had some movement this week on the Save America Act in the Senate. Where does that stand now? The Save America Act cleared a major procedural hurdle this week in a 51 of 48 vote to start debate in the Senate.
Now, the proposal is considered the president's highest legislative priority right now, as it would create documentary proof of citizenship, voter ID at the ballot box, and also some mail-in voting restrictions with a few key exceptions in federal elections.
Now, debate is expected to go on for the next few days on this, but it's unclear what it will actually take to get this across the finish line, because keep in mind, another major hurdle in the Senate is that 60-vote threshold. Now, in terms of what comes next here, Democrats have also vowed unified opposition on this.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer even saying as long as it takes for this. Meanwhile, you have moderates like John Fetterman, who's a Democrat from Pennsylvania, who said, you know, I don't want this other stuff in the Save America Act. I just want voter ID. And so he's pitching his own proposal on that.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the latest DHS hearings?
This is America and Israel that have done this to you. And so he is treading a very difficult diplomatic line with his voters on this as well. So Starmer, like some other European leaders, I suspect, wanting to keep the blame squarely on Trump. Yeah. Beth, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Can you deport a naturalized citizen?
More Americans are asking after a string of terror attacks by foreign-born suspects. Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Ter joins us now to discuss. So, Jenny, just in the past few weeks, we've had three terror attacks by naturalized citizens.
This has led to discussion about revoking citizenship for criminals, specifically in the case of terrorists who were born overseas but subsequently obtained U.S. citizenship. Can you tell us about that effort and what the legal barriers are? Right. So like you mentioned, three attacks by naturalized U.S. citizens in recent weeks. So we can go back to the Austin bar shooting.
That was by a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was naturalized in 2013 after coming here from Senegal. Then you had the Michigan synagogue attack recently, which was committed by a man from Lebanon who became naturalized. And then there was also a thwarted potential attack in Texas, actually.
So this would be maybe a fourth to add to the list in Texas, where a man from Iraq showed up to an elementary school armed and wearing tactical gear. And he has since been released from custody on bond after his arrest. And then you have the old Dominion University shooter who was a naturalized U.S.
citizen from Sierra Leone who was previously convicted of terrorism charges after he tried to join ISIS. So you may wonder why he wasn't denaturalized and, you know, based on those terrorism ties. But it's not so simple. We spoke with an immigration attorney on this, Matthew Kolkin. Listen to what he had to say.
If a naturalized US citizen commits a heinous act of terrorism, that's not a way to take away somebody's, they've done everything right from an immigration standpoint. The law does not allow you to just take away someone's citizenship. They can be convicted of a crime and go to jail for the rest of their life, but they'll die a United States citizen.
So are there situations in which a person can be denaturalized? You know, it's really difficult to denaturalize someone, but it can be done in some cases. Now, it would have to be where the federal government finds that someone lied during their immigration process to obtain that citizenship.
And then there's also a way to get them if they've joined, let's say, the Communist Party or something similar to that that really undermines the United States and our values. And that would have had to be within five years of getting citizenship. So could Congress theoretically expand on that to add more offenses that could result in denaturalization? Yeah, they can.
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