Texas Census Battle Begins & Net Migration Negative | 8.5.25

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Speaker 4 Texas Democrats flee the state amid a redistricting battle that could determine who controls Congress.

Speaker 5 I believe they have forfeited their seats in the state legislature because they're not doing the job they were elected to do.

Speaker 4 I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Tuesday, August 5th, and this is Morning Wire.

Speaker 7 The Trump administration is on its way to a massive milestone, net negative migration for the first time in half a century.

Speaker 8 And as you know, in last month, zero people came into our country, illegally zero.

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Speaker 7 The redistricting battle exploded in Texas this week as Republicans look to gain a few more seats in the U.S.

Speaker 12 House.

Speaker 4 Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about the redistricting efforts ahead of the midterm elections. So, Tim, where is this redistricting happening?

Speaker 14 Yeah, there are a handful of states, but Texas is the big one.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 They had to flee because otherwise otherwise, Texas authorities could have rounded them up and forced them to the state capitol to vote on this.

Speaker 14 Governor Greg Abbott appeared on Fox News yesterday morning and threatened to have those Democrats charged with felonies.

Speaker 5 The reports are these legislators have been both they sought money and they offered money to

Speaker 5 skip the vote, to leave the legislature, to take a legislative act. That would be bribery.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 14 Abbott gave them until the start of the legislative session yesterday to come back, a deadline the rogue Democrats ignored. Republicans in the state house were ready.

Speaker 14 They immediately passed a motion directing law enforcement to bring the Democrats back to arrest them, even if necessary. Of course, that order can't be enforced out of state.

Speaker 14 Democratic State Congressman Gene Wu, who chairs the Democratic caucus in the Texas State House, gave a press conference from Illinois alongside Governor Pritzker.

Speaker 15 We're not here to play political games.

Speaker 15 We're here to demand,

Speaker 15 to demand an end to this corrupt process. They refuse because their loyalty and fealty to Donald Trump overrides all other interests.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 But expect all of this to be challenged in court if it makes it that far.

Speaker 4 Now, how are Democrats responding outside of Texas?

Speaker 14 Democratic governors have said that they will counter Texas's efforts by redrawing districts in their own states. But it's more difficult in Democratic states.

Speaker 14 That's because districts have already been gerrymandered to maximize Democrat seats. Take a look at Illinois' map, for example.

Speaker 14 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. But they're not giving up.
Here's New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

Speaker 16 The Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, then they're leaving us no choice.

Speaker 16 We must do the same. That's why I'm exploring with our leaders every option to redraw our state congressional lines as soon as possible.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 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. There's also another problem with many Democrat-led states.

Speaker 14 Their redistricting decisions are made by commissions independent of the state government.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 14 But even then, California's map heavily favors Democrats. They hold 43 of the state's 52 seats already.

Speaker 4 Now, where else are Republicans trying to redistrict to get more seats?

Speaker 14 GOP-controlled Ohio must redraw its map ahead of midterms by law. Missouri is also another state that Republicans are looking at to gain another seat or two.

Speaker 14 And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is looking at redistricting as well. But perhaps more importantly, DeSantis wants the 2020 census redone.

Speaker 14 He believes that would have a huge impact on moving seats from blue states to red states. Here's DeSantis last week.

Speaker 6 They should do it and count people that are legally allowed to be here. How many seats would California lose if you only counted lawful people, us citizens?

Speaker 6 They would lose a lot of seats because they're a sanctuary state. That is ultimately going to be resolved by the U.S.

Speaker 6 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 U.S. citizens.

Speaker 6 And that's really the way that I think that's what the founding fathers intended.

Speaker 14 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.

Speaker 4 Well, that would be a big win for President Trump. Tim, thanks for reporting.

Speaker 14 Good to be on.

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Speaker 4 Amid record deportations and a border crackdown, the U.S. is on pace to experience negative migration for the first time in half a century.

Speaker 7 Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to break it all down for us. A Cabot, so walk us through these numbers and we'll talk about the significance of them afterwards.

Speaker 12 What are we looking at here?

Speaker 13 Yeah, just a stunning turnaround taking place here regarding immigration. It's no secret we saw a historic influx of immigration, both legal and especially illegal, under President Biden.

Speaker 13 We'll We'll never know the true number, as an untold number of illegal immigrants came across the border undetected.

Speaker 13 But based on the rough estimates, anywhere from 16 to 25 million people came into the U.S. from 2020 to 24.

Speaker 13 That means, at the very least, one in every 17 people living in America right now came here in the last four years. Could be closer to one in every 15, though.
For context, last year, 84% of the U.S.

Speaker 13 population growth came from immigration as opposed to new births here in the country. President Trump campaigned on a promise to reverse that trend.

Speaker 13 And since taking office, he has done just that, making border security his top priority. And the numbers prove it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, right.

Speaker 10 Some really head-turning statistics.

Speaker 17 Now, what are we looking at?

Speaker 13 We're six months in.

Speaker 12 How does it look?

Speaker 13 So net migration, both legal and illegal, has fallen at a rapid, historic pace. Border crossings are down nearly 95% since Trump took office.

Speaker 13 And month after month, we've seen a record low for attempted border crossings. So that's playing a major factor here.
Beyond that are the deportations.

Speaker 13 The DHS says they've removed more than a quarter million illegal immigrants in the last six months.

Speaker 13 That is well below their target goal of 1 million a year, but still a major increase compared to Biden.

Speaker 13 The Trump administration is also offering flight stipends and other incentives for those looking to self-deport.

Speaker 13 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. And then there is legal migration.

Speaker 13 which is also on the decline as Trump has slashed work permits, visas, and other avenues of legal entry.

Speaker 13 Put all of that together and the United States is set to see more people emigrate out of the country than into it. That would be the first year of negative net migration in at least five decades.

Speaker 13 Could be the first year ever. We don't have reliable records prior to the 60s.

Speaker 7 So what are the implications of this? What are the impacts this could have on the country?

Speaker 13 Well, really, it depends on who you ask. Pro-immigration advocates on the left say that negative migration is going to stoke inflation.

Speaker 13 It's going to drive decreased tax revenue and lead to labor shortages.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 13 To that point, a White House spokesman noted that one 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.

Speaker 13 And it's worth noting, since March, the foreign-born workforce has declined by more than a million people in the U.S.

Speaker 13 And as we've discussed, all net job growth under Trump has taken place among native-born Americans.

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Speaker 7 Right.

Speaker 17 You mentioned that stat yesterday, a very significant development there. Now, shifting gears to the state level, there are some state-level immigration actions that are taking place.

Speaker 17 What's happening there?

Speaker 13 Yeah, under pressure from the Trump administration, Republicans in a number of states are working to roll back education benefits for illegal immigrant students.

Speaker 13 At the moment, 24 states offer in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants, but now there's a GOP-led push to make them pay out-of-state or even international rates instead.

Speaker 13 That would double the cost. In June, for example, with the help of the DOJ, Texas removed their so-called DREAM Act, which for 24 years had given illegal students in-state benefits.

Speaker 13 Similar efforts are now underway in Kentucky and Minnesota. The Trump DOJ says in-state tuition is meant to benefit American citizens, not those living here illegally.

Speaker 7 So, Texas coming up once again today.

Speaker 17 Kevin, thanks so much for reporting.

Speaker 12 Absolutely.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 4 Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo. So, Amanda, what exactly did Kennedy order regarding vaccines and why?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Kennedy ordered the removal of thimerosol from all flu vaccines distributed in the U.S.

Speaker 1 Now, those were the last remaining U.S. vaccines with that mercury-based ingredient.
Thimerosol has been somewhat controversial.

Speaker 1 It's been phased out of most European vaccines, and Kennedy has repeatedly called it a neurotoxin. Now, RFK made this decision based on a recommendation from ACIP.

Speaker 1 That's a CDC vaccine panel that Kennedy gutted back in June, and he filled with his own appointees.

Speaker 1 The panel recommended that children, pregnant women, and adults should receive only a single-dose thimerosol-free flu shot.

Speaker 1 When he adopted that recommendation, Kennedy said that our most vulnerable populations shouldn't be exposed to mercury when it's avoidable. Here's RFK just a few days ago on this issue.

Speaker 9 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 in women who did not receive a flu shot during pregnancy.

Speaker 9 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 shock.

Speaker 1 We should also note that ACIP, that vaccine panel, it's again sparking some outrage from the mainstream media.

Speaker 1 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 ACIP meetings.

Speaker 1 Kennedy, though, he stands by that and he says that's actually a feature of some of these reforms. A statement from HHS put it this way.

Speaker 1 Under the old ASIP, outside pressure to align with vaccine orthodoxy limited asking the hard questions. The old ACIP members were plagued with conflicts of interest, influence, and bias.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 4 Now, there's also been some talk that Kennedy is eyeing reforms to better protect Americans who've been injured by vaccines. What's the latest there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Kennedy really wants to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. That's a federal program that's designed to compensate people who say they've been injured by vaccines.

Speaker 1 It's sometimes referred to as vaccine courts. Kennedy thinks that this system is biased against Americans who are claiming these injuries.

Speaker 1 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. Also, this is key.

Speaker 1 Kennedy wants to expand the program to include potential injuries from COVID vaccines.

Speaker 1 Currently, those injuries are designated to a different program that critics say has too many conflicts of interest. Here's RFK discussing these coming reforms.

Speaker 20 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.

Speaker 1 Kennedy has also said that schools are effectively forcing parents to have their children get every vaccine, even ones they might be medically advised against getting or had past bad experiences with.

Speaker 1 Now, to that point about vaccine mandates in schools, Kennedy wants religious and medical exemptions in every state.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 The AAP actually just recently renewed those calls.

Speaker 4 Well, that's chilling. Amanda, thanks for reporting.

Speaker 12 You're welcome.

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