April 30, 2021 • 38 mins
We tend to think of propaganda as something that exists under authoritarian regimes. But don't kid yourself: Propaganda exists right here in the United States. For this podcast, Anna discusses how our media is trying to brainwash and indoctrinate the American people with its coverage of immigration. Plus, she exposes the truth about real human suffering taking place on our southern border — all the tragedies the Democrats claim to oppose but allow to continue through flawed policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Up next, Luna talks with Anna Paulina. Luna part of
the gang, which we tend to think of propaganda as
something that exists in authoritarian states like China, Russia, Iran,
the usual suspects. But don't kid yourself. Propaganda exists right
here in the United States, and nowhere is it more
erroneous than our media's own coverage of immigration. This is
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Luna talks with Anna Paulina. So we've noticed that just
in the last couple of weeks especially, but really over
the last couple of years, that one of the top
issues affecting voters in this country, and I think one
of the top issues that the media uses to really
polarize our country is immigration. Right, Immigration does not just
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affect Hispanic Americans. It's one of those multi layered, almost
onion situations that you can't just take a week approach
and expect it to go away. It's only going to
stick a band aid on a very big problem. So
before I get into this, I wanted to tell you
my story as to really how I became political and
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when I realized political propaganda was being used in this country.
So a little bit about myself and I think I
explained this in the previous episode, is that I didn't
grow up in a necessarily political family, and in fact,
my goal for why I eventually went into the military
and what I wanted to do is I was on
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track to go to medical school, and when my husband
was shot in Afghanistan, I ended up working with various organizations,
veterans organizations to shed light on post traumatic stress disorder,
and had that not happened, I would have never uncovered
the topic of counter trafficking. And so one of the
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organizations that was a veteran nonprofit that I came across
was a counter trafficking organization that dealt was specifically rescuing
children and had a large focus along the US Mexico
border and to help setting up sting operations, working with
local law enforcement to get these children out of the
hands of their traffickers. Now I say this and very naively,
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I had no idea that this was a problem. I think,
like many Americans, just because we don't see it happening
right in front of us. It's never one of those
things that I even think that the news really talks about,
and they should be. They should be addressing this issue
because human trafficking is essentially modern day slavery, and it's
happening all around us and right underneath our noses. So
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after I came across this organization, I started doing my
own personal research, and it's one of those things that
you hear about what's happening and you want to make change.
I've never spoken to anyone today that has heard about
this and not wanted to actively get involved in combating it.
So once I realized it was a problem, actually remember
seeing a promo that Netflix was going to be putting on,
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and ironically enough, we'll get into that in a minute,
but Netflix actually ended up canceling this series because it
was prior to the election, and of course it was
called Contra Land. That was the series that they were
supposed to put up, and they were working with the
organization called Our Rescue, and Netflix canceled the whole thing.
I believe it was for political reasons, because if the
American people knew it was happening at the border, they
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would never ever ever be okay with these open border policies.
But nonetheless, I ended up ordering and writing the State Department,
And for those of you tuning in, you can actually
get a free copy of the Human Trafficking Report. It
comes out every single year and the State Department has
it loaded with facts, and so I ordered the eighteen
and twenty nineteen Human Trafficking Report. And as I'm self educating,
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as I'm reading through this, just imagine it's like late
at night. I'm going through this. I'm supposed to be
studying for the m CAT and here I am looking
over this massive document and book of just information, and
it was horrifying. And I remember seeing this number eighteen thousand,
and You're like, what is that eighteen thousand dollars? What
is eighteen thousand thou is a number of women annually
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that are trafficked on estimation? Okay, this is just a
slight estimate of how many women are traffic annially along
the US Mexico border. That's not including women and children.
So the more I'm going into this, I am googling
articles and one of the articles that really stuck with
me was an article by CNN. And so the article
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was published actually November, and I'm telling you that date
because it's important for this story for you to understand
what's happening in our national media with propaganda. So I
read this article about a woman named Carla Jassin though okay,
if you want to read it later, it's k A
R L A and then J A C I N
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T O and CNN wrote an article about her because
she was rescued from a trafficking situation and from the
time that she was traffic to the time that she
was rescued, she was raped thousand, two hundred times. Now
you see that number and you realize that that is
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not a made up number, and it's a lot to stomach.
And I apologize if some of you maybe might think
that this is too heavy, because I think that everyone
should know this story. And you see this young girl
and you realize that she was trafficked from the time
that she was probably thirteen fourteen years old to the
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time that she was twenty one maybe, and that during
that time that happened. And so I posted this to
social media, and going back to why social media is
so important, that's the best way that people learn is
by peer to peer interaction and sharing information. And I
wanted people to realize that trafficking is not just a
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clean word. There's a lot of bad things that go
along with it. And the reaction that I got was.
I realized people just didn't understand. They weren't educated. People
thought that this was made up up. They didn't realize
that it was a true story. And this was one
isolated incident. This happens on a regular basis at the
US Mexico border every single day. Seven doesn't take time off,
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and unfortunately, unlike drugs, humans can be used time and
time again, so it is a more profitable industry. As
I'm continuing this research, I then discover articles from UNA SEF,
which I would not consider UNA SEF, you know, conservative
or a Republican organization, and they're saying that the most
targeted demographics are migrant children and women of the Hispanic
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origin and demographic mainly from South American Mexico. So I
realized all of this stuff. I'm still on track to
go to medical school. I'm simply using my social media
to share information because I believe it's the right thing
to do. And that's when I had my AHA moment.
Whether you want to call it a red pill moment
or it was like a light bulb clicked behind me.
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I'm sitting in the hotel room for my friend's wedding,
and I was doing some work on my computer, and
I think, like most people, I sometimes I like to
have stuff on in the background, whether it's music or
the TV. And at this point, I had the news
on and I was actually listening to CNN, and as
I'm just focusing on what I'm writing, I keyed into
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some key things that the commentator was talking about, and
they were talking about what was happening at the US
Mexico Boarder. They're talking about this train that had been
stopped in Mexico City by the federal police, and that
the federal police had stopped this train and discovered that
there was a ton I'm talking about a ton of
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women and children, and that among these women and children
were MS thirteen and for those that might not know,
m S thrtinas m S thirteen as a cartel. And
so the federal police end up stopping this train and
they don't want to let it proceed forward. It was
inbound to the United States for obvious reasons. You're never
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ever going to see women and children with hardened criminals.
That's not even normal from what I know on trafficking.
That is literally the startup to how they run these
people into this country. And so I start paying attention,
and mind you, this is after my self education and
really discovering that we have a huge problem with that.
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And this is also to mind you, the tail in
the beginning of So this is prior to the November election.
What I also uncovered as I'm doing my research, and
this is just kind of interesting footnote, is that according
to p Hispanic dot org, the largest voting minority in
this country are Hispanic Americans, specifically of Mexican descent. Okay,
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so watching this segment, I know all this information, and
the reporter says, here at CNN, we believe everyone has
a chance and deserves a right to enter this country.
And so to my understanding, it was either the network
or people at the network, but they put together money
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to bring these people to the United States, had a
camera crew on it, and filmed border patrol essentially turning
these people away. And the segment ended with at the time,
it was candidate Trump. Candidate Trump, this Trump person has
these very anti immigration policies and is xenophobic and this
isn't right and we believe that American deserves better. Here CNN,
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and then they cut the segment and it I think
it went to a pillow commercial, and I remember just
like sitting there and it all hit me at once,
the people that were being trafficked, because there's no doubt
in my mind that that's what was happening. They were
talking about what happens with the human trafficking, they were
talking about the fact that these are young women and children.
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Are they related, are they mothers? Are they told what
is happening? And then they didn't want to talk about
the fact that there was a cartel. They simply wanted
to make it about politics. And I saw this, and
I remember feeling so disgusted, and I remember feeling so angry.
I'm not the type of person that's anti immigrant. I'm
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not the type of person that's xenophobic. Here I am
basically half Hispanic, having grandparents that are immigrants, having multiple
family members that are from Mexico, and yet I know
about the trafficking. And part of the reason why I
agree with legal immigration is because I don't want people
to get hurt, because it's a very bad world out there,
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and it's naive to think otherwise. And so I see
all those I film a moment, right, and and then
I realized it's propaganda and just give you the idea
of what propaganda is. According to the Merriam Webster definition,
it's the spreading of ideas or information or rumor for
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the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause,
or person, ideas, facts, or allegations to deliberately spread in
information to further once cause or damage an opposing cause.
And that is what the network was doing. And ironically enough,
having known that years ago and having that own intuition,
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and I think just being educated on the topics of
what was happening at the border, not only did I
assume that, but I apparently assumed right, because only a
few days ago, in April thirteen, the Project Veritas actually
just broke a story where they have undercover footage of
the head Hauncho at CNN admitting that propaganda is used
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at the network against conservatives and people that threatened the
d n C and their ideologies. Guys, this is a
huge problem in the United States, the fact that networks
would knowingly bury information or lie to the American people
in order to manipulate entire demographics based on their race,
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based on their cultural ethnicity, to get voting blocks so
that they can have total power and control after you
realize that you cannot go back to the way that
you once were. I knew that I could no longer
stay silent, and that is why I started using my
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social media to make that voice and information heard because
there was no one like me. There was no one
from the Hispanic American demographic that was targeting to wake
the American people up and wake up a demographic that
had been lied to. And that was only the tip
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of the iceberg. Once you see what's happening at the border,
you cannot unsee it. Human trafficking, drug running, the real
life version of Cicario, that movie. It's all happening and
it's infuriating. But I think the worst part about all
of this is knowing that establishment elected official and Democrats
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especially know these numbers. They know these facts. It's not
like they're not sitting in briefings from the State Department
and the Department of Homeland Security. But before we get
into all of that, before we get into those numbers,
we're going to take a quick break, So stay tuned
and we'll be right back. So to get into some
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of these numbers that I know for a fact, are
elected officials are briefed on stats on human trafficking. I'm
just gonna warn you, guys, this is not something that
I think a lot of people can stomach. And so
I'm telling you that because I remember when I first
started getting into these numbers, and when I first started
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researching about it, it actually made me depressed. And I
do remember reading some of these numbers and I'm not
gonna lie. I cried. It's it's horrifying. Ambassador Callistic ing
Rich actually wrote a paper on human trafficking at the
southern border. You can read that paper on Gingridge through sixty.
But they ended up formatting that human trafficking stats happening
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at the border only get worse when you have open
border policies. And so this is where I tell people
that this is not a political issue. Okay, they try
to make it one, but really what we're looking at
is are you for or are you against human slavery?
And the reason I put it in those terms is
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because the United States prides itself off of being a
country that quote unquote abolished slavery years ago, and the
whole slavery topic is used on a regular basis, I
think against black Americans, right, they don't want to let
America move forward from it, so they selectively cherry pick
this information, but they don't talk about what's happening in
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the Hispanic demographic with the slavery that's really impacting our
community and people like us coming and trying to come
here into the United States, or sometimes that are being trafficked,
whether it's for labor or sexual purposes. So to get
into some of these numbers of human trafficking, journeys are
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made through official border control points worldwide. That means that's
happening even at our entry control points. So if that's
happening there, imagine an open sector of the border without
any officials. And that information is from CT Data Collaborative
dot org. I've been down to the border multiple times,
and I can tell you that one of the most
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horrifying things to realize is that at some points on
the border, if there is even any wall or fencing
or anything, there's parts that you literally might have a
string of rusty barbed wire that maybe might be about
knee high, and then it breaks off and you can
see these open corridors that are used on a regular
basis by coyotes. You'll see children's shoes, you see. They
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what they'll do is they'll spray paint these black gallon
of water jugs. But the thing is is that it
gets so dangerous and so hot in that open sector
of the border that I know you the Arizona and
Border Patrol off officials have posted that the numbers of
bodies and bones that they find that litter the desert
into those open sectors number in the thousands. So it's
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not like these people are coming here easily, nor should
they write like, I don't agree with illegal immigration, but
you have to think about the impact that it's happening
with these people who are also probably lied to that
they are essentially dying in the process of coming here,
whether they're being forced, who are being lied to about
the American dream that they'll have access to. In a
story from the New York Post, according to US Immigrations
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and Customs, moving human beings as cargo pays into the
billions of dollars for transnational criminal smuggling organizations. So in
February alone, okay, guys, in February alone, smugglers received four
hundred and eleven point five million dollars. That's an average
of fourteen point seven million dollars per day for transporting
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migrants from Central America and Mexico into the United States.
I first heard these numbers and I remember hearing an
estimation from Tim Ballard, who's the founder of Our Rescue,
which is a counter trafficking organization and nonprofit that I
am connected to. I've worked and volunteered extensively with them
to shed light on this topic. But again, to put
it best, drugs are used once human beings can be
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used time and time again, and unfortunately, there's a lot
of sick people in this country that think that they
can purchase someone and that it's not a problem and
that it's totally okay, and it is not. I'm just
gonna plug Our Rescue real quick. If you guys want
to find more information about how to get involved, and
go to our Rescue dot org and find out information there,
and they're always looking for volunteers. In my own research,
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the State Department is sing that the United States is
the top three in the top three for the world
for consumption of this And when I realized that I
could use my voice and after I joined Turning Point,
I actually wanted to make a documentary a docuseries on
what was happening at the border. So I linked up
with a border patrol Union asn't it by the name
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of Art del Quet though, And I remember interviewing him
and hearing his story about what was really happening down there.
And this is the stuff that I don't even think
Fox News would put up there because it was such
It's one of the stories that you hear and it
sticks with you and then you realize that this is
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not just political, Like I do believe that people that
are fighting this or doing God's work because of the
horrors that of the that you hear that's happening to
these people. So he was telling me, and mind you,
Art's family is directly from the other side of the border,
so he's Hispanic. He's been doing this since he, I
think was twenty years old. And he's telling me that
him and another officer came up on a group of
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about I think it was twenty women and twenty men,
and they were all going together and they were actually
running what he said I believe was backpacks full of
marijuana and narcotics, so their drug mules and they're running
them across the border. And one of these open sectors,
and I remember he thought it was weird because it
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was just women and just men. And then when he
obviously arrested them and they all got into one of
the vehicles for border patrol, this woman would not stop crying,
and she's uncontrollably crying, and in Spanish, Art goes, what's like,
what's wrong? Why are you crying? Tell me like, are
you okay? Are you sick? What's happening? And she goes,
where's my son? Where my kids? And Art goes, what
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do you mean? Like, what do you mean where is
your son and your kids? There's no one else. It
was just you and just the men. She goes, well,
my husband's over there, but where is my son. They
said that I would get my son back and my
kids back, and Art goes, we haven't found anyone. So
what he found out had happened is that the traffickers
and the I assumed cartel, had separated the women from
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the men and them from their children, used the children
as tools to make sure that they ran the drug
across the border, and then once the families got arrested,
Art still doesn't know what happened to those kids to
this day. And you think about that, and it hits
a really deep spot. I think for me, I just
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I can't imagine what happened to those kids. But I
can tell you that those people that are doing what's
happening at the border, that's not they're not influenced by God.
And you want to pray for these people because it's
it's really horrifying what's happening these unaccompanied miners. You know,
those six hundred that are coming to the border every
single day. These are kids, guys right there. I know
that they're not American children, But at the end of
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the day, is it not our moral obligation to ensure
that any child is not being exploited, and that any
child is rightfully in the hands of their parents, and
that we should stop in every possible way the exploitation
of these innocent children. So recently there was footage of
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miners being dropped on the other side of a thirteen
foot wall and being left by traffickers. And currently our
own American adoption program is so bogged down that a
lot of our youth, if children are over the age
of twelve, they end up in these boys homes or
girls homes and in the foster care system, which you know,
I do applaud any foster parent, but ultimately, no child
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is better off in a government program or government housing.
They're going to be better off in the hands of
their parents. And that is one of the issues that
we're facing now, is what do we do with these kids?
And a lot of people say, okay, so I talked
to my friends and family, and this is one of
those issues, especially leading up to election cycle, that families
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I think couldn't even sit down at the dinner table
and discuss because there's such a polarization fed by the
propaganda in the mainstream media about what was actually happening
and what policies were in place for certain reasons. I mean,
I will still hold true to this today that I
would rather have a child separated temporarily from their parents
to confirm biological ties to that family, then put children
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in the hands of their traffickers. And that's something that
really the Biden administration went back on, was a policy
put in place by President Trump to separate children temporarily
from people posing as their family members. We know that
children are used on a regular basis to exploit this
asylum process, and I will never backtrack from that statement,
because I still believe that we should be doing it
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to today and we're not. There's ways that you can
talk with your friends and family about that. But what
I tell you is that this topic, especially when you're
realizing that our voices have been suppressed, that this is
not a conspiracy theory. Human trafficking has been going on
since the dawn of time. But here, you know, we
are one of the greatest superpowers in the world. We
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have all this technology right that can identify and find
people that show up to riots. But you're telling me
that we can't stop what's happening at the US Mexico border,
or find out information and track down some of these
people on online sites. It's a hip hopocricy to me
that I believe that everyone's kind of called to do something,
and I believe that people tuning into this show really
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have the opportunity to make a difference. You can shed
light on this, you can use your social media, you
can organize events to benefit nonprofits that are fighting for this,
and you know yourself, can actually get involved with local
law enforcement to help fight some of the worst things
that we're facing in modern times, which is human slavery,
So it's not just the only thing that right, Like
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we know that human trafficking is a large aspect, but
there's this aspect of also labor trafficking, which we'll get
into in a second, and then drug running and growing
up in southern California, growing up right near really Tijuana,
I saw what happened in the nineties. Especially A lot
of people don't realize that NAFTA, initially when it was past,
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actually tanked a lot of Mexico's economy. So it created
a surge in illegal immigration because there was such an
influx in the black market and a lot of the
farming communities in Mexico we're just completely destroyed by NAPTA.
So a lot of these people were coming to the
United States looking for work. And I remember growing up
in Santa Anna and seeing a lot of and mind you,
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my dad's family had come here legally, but seeing a
lot of people that weren't legal and you could tell,
I mean, I don't they weren't assimilated as how is
how you really know? But I remember growing up in
that environment. But to go along with that, you have
the lack of assimilation and the fact that a lot
of these people are living in essentially the black market
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of society, so they're operating under the table, and because
of that, you have that gang culture that develops. If
that's not bad enough, you realize that the drugs that
are coming in through our southern border, they impact every
aspect of society, right like, they're not discriminatory based on
race or wealth. I think everyone who's listened to this
know someone or might have a family friend or know
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someone that knows someone that's been impacted by an addiction
problem and as either passed away or really struggled with that.
And it just stories families. Okay, So it destroys these
people's lives, and it destroys American people's lives as well,
because it's literally breaking our families apart. And that's something
that I told you guys a little bit. Obviously, My
family's really struggled with obviously drugs to the point of
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I had multiple family members passed away from it, and
then also to my own father really struggled without and
that's something I highlighted in the first episode. But when
you realize the amount that's coming in, that's I think
what's alarming. So in March alone, this year because of
the amount of I think media that was shed in
the run up to and then after the fact when
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they were talking about and when I say that, I
mean the d n C and the Biden Harris administration
was talking about giving mass amnesty. You saw this massive
surge at the border, Like I'm talking not just with
the illegals, but then also to on drugs, on heroin
alone and meth emphetamine, meth one up. Heroin went up,
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but poundage seased in alone. This is what's alarming. Three
hundred and forty seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty five
pounds in total. And if you realize how much fetanel,
which only a tiny bit can kill you, how much
came in it was upwards of five thousand six So
clearly the U s has an issue with conception of
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illegal narcotics. But when you basically put out a sign
in front of the United States saying, hey, we're open
for business, come on over, that creates a problem. And
that's where the media plays into all of this. Drugs
are going directly into the inner cities. They feel gang culture,
and they feel the black market, They feel the exact
environment that these illegals are hiding in and because they
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don't come here the correct way, the fact is that
they will never have access to American dream. And I
do believe that the elected officials that promote this, the
elected officials that are knowingly sitting on this information because
they simply want power, talk about a sociopath, talk about
bad people. They are complicit in all of this. And
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you see the media talk about on a regular basis
about this viewpoint of the left and progressives, about this
suppression of minorities. But yet they don't talk about this, which,
in my opinion, feels these cycles of poverty that these
people make it very hard for them to break free from.
I mean, you want to talk about hypocrisy and all
of it. But then there's this national security aspect, right like,
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where did the war on terror? Did you just go away?
Because I'm under the understanding that recently you had people
from Yemen to individuals that were on our terrorist watch
list that were caught trying to enter the United States
from the southern border. What about COVID. We literally just
locked down the economy for one year because of COVID.
You have half of the states that are still locked
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down with these crazy mandates. We know that COVID has
a nine nine percent survival rate, and yet people are
coming into this country. They're not being tested, they're being
released into states like Texas and Arizona and California and
all these border states, and yet Dr Fauch and the
d n C is quiet on it. But yet the
American people are what's supposed to remain lockdown. I mean,
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is that not infuriating to you? Guys? The hypocrisy is
so blatant, and it's based on identity politics. They genuinely
want the American people to believe that if you want
border security, that you are racist. They don't want to
talk about the facts. They want every Hispanic American to
think that the GOP that Republican voters, that anyone who
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supported Trump was anti Hispanic, and that is the farthest
thing from the truth. To date, the previous administration had
the highest amount of focus on human trafficking than any
other administration. And if you're still not supporting him for
that reason, I don't know what could convince you otherwise,
because guys, at is modern day slavery. But I mean,
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really look at it. What change? Why did the d
n C prior to sen Why was the media prior
to focusing on all of this? Why were they now
quiet on this? I mean, was it because is of
the voting demographic? Was it because of who came into office?
So what changed? If you go out to hayting Tie,
I'll be back after the break and we'll talk about
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that then. So prior to we know, establishment democrats had
the same views as GPS and conservatives. You can see
this video actually of Obama that I ended up posting
on my social media and he goes, he's sitting down
an arm turn. He goes, look, do not come here.
It's dangerous. Do not come here legally. In fact, Obama
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was actually, ironically enough, known as the deporter and chief.
And at the time you can't say that Biden doesn't
know about the immigration problem because at the time he
was the vice president. But what changed, guys, and this
is what I discovered, is that the person that came
into office, Trump was an uncontrolled politician who took the
White House. Okay, we know that Trump was a threat.
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He was not controlled and paid for by the establishment
corporation that's currently trying to run this country. And you
now have blatantly obvious hypocrisy with the Biden administration not
just trying to remain quiet on this after they really
did pour gasoline on fire, but Biden is now actively
building sections of the southern border a k a oh
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wall because he knew Trump was right. Most Democrats knew
Trump was right that we needed a physical barrier in
order to stop some of the things that are happening,
and that taking a zero tolerance stance on a legal
immigration is the only way to stop some of these
atroth cities that are happening. And ironically enough, Kamala Harris,
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of all people who has knownly walked out of different
briefings that are rescue did for Senate on human trafficking.
I kid you not, guys. Tim Bowlard talked him about it.
He said he wanted to give the briefing. She got
up and she left. She's the vice president and she's
been assigned to handle the border crisis, and yet she
has yet to be down there. This is the one
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person in the country that was a woman of color,
was supposed to be representing minority women and the fight
that all minority women have, and yet she's yet to
say one thing about it. She's yet to go down
to the border to cover it. She's completely quiet in
the media, and she's busy taking photo ops going to
bakeries in Chicago instead of dealing with the one thing
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that she should be talking about, which is slavery in
this country. Shaan King, who is a very very liberal
progressive posted recently of which I posted to my I
G because I wanted people to realize that it's so
bad the hypocrisy is being noticed on all sides, so
bad that Sean King actually posted calling out the Biden administration,
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and yet people are still not talking about I mean,
where's Vice Magazine talking about this? Where's now this? Where's
vanity fair? Shaun King? Because Shaun King was one of
those people that genuinely believed that if you separate someone
from their family member, that you're the boogeyman not knowing.
And I do believe it's because Shaun King isn't necessarily
educated on the topic, but that he was one of
those people that I would considered quote unquote a true believer,
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and that he believes that we really should have open borders. Okay,
he's obviously wrong, but he knows that the Biden administration
ran on that, and now they're pivoting going back to
the ideology that works, which is basically what conservatives have
been saying, is that walls work. Aoc this woman made
her living and she is now a multimillion dollar socialist,
which is a hypocrisy in itself. But she is completely silent. Okay,
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we know she went down to the border in her
little white outfit and she's bent over crying for that
photo opportunity in an empty parking lot. She's saying on
our Instagram that surge, the term surge is referring to
insurgents instead of an actual surge of people, which means
would mean an influx at the border. She's completely silent
on the amount of migrant children that are coming here.
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She's silent on the human trafficking. In fact, I don't
even know if she realizes that that's an issue, because
she's constantly advocating for us to defund ICE. Yet part
of what ICE does is they actually go out and
arrest human traffickers. Five of the top ten most wanted
for human trafficking of ICE is from Tennant Single Mexico,
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and you can see that on their website. They run
trafficking routes right into the United States, and there was
actually a docuseriies online that you can see that ran
a trafficking ring right in from Mexico into Brooklyn, New York.
But do you see how the d n C shifted
their stance. I mean, we know that all of these
elected officials prior to and you had Obama talking about
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you had the entire bomba administration that knew was an issue.
There's recorded footage of multiple members of Congress talking about it,
and then all of a sudden it just goes away
and changes. I mean, do they really think that we're
that stupid that Hispanic Americans can't use cell phones? I mean,
maybe you heard I think Biden said that the reason
why Hispanic Americans don't want vaccines is because we don't
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know how to use the internet. So maybe they think
we're that stupid, But I don't. I think that we're
quite educated, which is why I have this podcast and
why I'm filling you guys in on this information. But
you have to fix it. We can't just let this
continue happening because you see in everything that I just
laid out, there's so many aspects of this that are
impacting our society that are impacting people on both sides
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of the border. And the fact is that massive legal
immigration bogged down our current immigration courts, So you can't
have as many legal people here because the process to
even come here is years and in thousands upon thousands
of dollars, So it's gonna bog that down altogether. But
it creates also to this depression and wages and takes
advantage of people that are trying to come here to work.
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We know that if people are operating under the table,
and you have labor trafficking, which is happening, especially in
the hotel industry, the farmer industry, and restaurants, all of that,
that these people are going to be paid cash, if
at all. Sometimes these people are snubbed, and that's actually
stories that I've heard from my own father of people
showing up to work at like home depot. Contractors will
pick them up, they work, they don't pay them because
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they know that they're legal, and then they drop them off,
which is basically slavery. But in order to stream on
the process of actually getting people to come here legally,
to actually educate them and have them attained American citizenship,
you have to start by stopping the bleed, and that's
not going to happen if you have elected officials coming here,
are going on to national platforms and national media outlets saying, hey,
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come on over, we want mass amnesty. I mean, all
of that is going to completely just one a d
out make the matters worse, and it's going to encourage
this mass illegal immigration. So you have to take a
zero tolerant stance on this. This is one of those
things that I tell people all the time. You really
truly have to realize that this is a tough love
argument that politicians, with their empty promises that created this
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crisis in the first place, they're willing to stay silent
on it. But the people that are getting hurt are
the innocent people. It's the people like you and me.
It's the people that are being why to telling that
they're going to come here and have access to this
American dream, when in actuality, they're never going to have that.
Their kids are probably gonna end up in gangs and
on drugs and if not killed, And it's not the
right thing to do. It's not a woke ideology. That's
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the truth. And sometimes the truth hurts, and I'm not
here to make people feel better about illegal immigration. I'm
here to tell you the fact that that you're hurting people.
This is irresponsible, and that if you are having a
platform and that you're encouraging it, you're part of the problem.
So you have Hispanic Americans now as the largest voting
minority in this country, and if you truly want to
help this community, it's going to start by informing and
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waking up your neighbor by waking up your family members,
to let them know that their voice matters, that their
vote counts, and that in the scheme of national politics,
when you have a large voting minority that has been
lied to and realizes that which I think is happening.
I mean, you look on social media and I don't.
I try not to stand the echo chambers of guys. Okay,
I'm branching out outside of that. But you have multiple
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very progressive organizations that have now called out the hypocrisy
of the Biden administration, which I'm glad for. I still
hold true to my tenants and my beliefs that I
think we need strong border security as your tolerance stance
on on illegal immigration, and that we need a wall.
But the fact is is that people are waking up,
and that's because we are willing to share that information.
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So again, I'm gonna just plug this. If you guys
want to get more involved and actually help fight what's
happening at the border, volunteer with organizations like our Rescue,
share information right the State Department in order that human
trafficking report that they put out every single year, use
your social media, organize events because this is the one
thing that we can all do that I believe that
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is a truly unifying, nonpartisan issue. And if you want
to reconnect with your family especially talk about these issues,
please because at the end of the day, I do
believe that everyone's put on this earth for a reason
and that it's our obligation, our moral obligation, to leave
the earth and our family in our nation in a
better condition than we initially found it in. And that's
something that we can all do that I think would
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better the world. So thank you so much for tuning
into this week's episode of Luna Talks. Don't forget to share, like,
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Up next, Luna talks with Anna Paulina. Luna part of
the gang, which we tend to think of propaganda as
something that exists in authoritarian states like China, Russia, Iran,
the usual suspects. But don't kid yourself. Propaganda exists right
here in the United States, and nowhere is it more
erroneous than our media's own coverage of immigration. This is
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Luna talks with Anna Paulina. So we've noticed that just
in the last couple of weeks especially, but really over
the last couple of years, that one of the top
issues affecting voters in this country, and I think one
of the top issues that the media uses to really
polarize our country is immigration. Right, Immigration does not just
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affect Hispanic Americans. It's one of those multi layered, almost
onion situations that you can't just take a week approach
and expect it to go away. It's only going to
stick a band aid on a very big problem. So
before I get into this, I wanted to tell you
my story as to really how I became political and
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when I realized political propaganda was being used in this country.
So a little bit about myself and I think I
explained this in the previous episode, is that I didn't
grow up in a necessarily political family, and in fact,
my goal for why I eventually went into the military
and what I wanted to do is I was on
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track to go to medical school, and when my husband
was shot in Afghanistan, I ended up working with various organizations,
veterans organizations to shed light on post traumatic stress disorder,
and had that not happened, I would have never uncovered
the topic of counter trafficking. And so one of the
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organizations that was a veteran nonprofit that I came across
was a counter trafficking organization that dealt was specifically rescuing
children and had a large focus along the US Mexico
border and to help setting up sting operations, working with
local law enforcement to get these children out of the
hands of their traffickers. Now I say this and very naively,
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I had no idea that this was a problem. I think,
like many Americans, just because we don't see it happening
right in front of us. It's never one of those
things that I even think that the news really talks about,
and they should be. They should be addressing this issue
because human trafficking is essentially modern day slavery, and it's
happening all around us and right underneath our noses. So
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after I came across this organization, I started doing my
own personal research, and it's one of those things that
you hear about what's happening and you want to make change.
I've never spoken to anyone today that has heard about
this and not wanted to actively get involved in combating it.
So once I realized it was a problem, actually remember
seeing a promo that Netflix was going to be putting on,
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and ironically enough, we'll get into that in a minute,
but Netflix actually ended up canceling this series because it
was prior to the election, and of course it was
called Contra Land. That was the series that they were
supposed to put up, and they were working with the
organization called Our Rescue, and Netflix canceled the whole thing.
I believe it was for political reasons, because if the
American people knew it was happening at the border, they
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would never ever ever be okay with these open border policies.
But nonetheless, I ended up ordering and writing the State Department,
And for those of you tuning in, you can actually
get a free copy of the Human Trafficking Report. It
comes out every single year and the State Department has
it loaded with facts, and so I ordered the eighteen
and twenty nineteen Human Trafficking Report. And as I'm self educating,
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as I'm reading through this, just imagine it's like late
at night. I'm going through this. I'm supposed to be
studying for the m CAT and here I am looking
over this massive document and book of just information, and
it was horrifying. And I remember seeing this number eighteen thousand,
and You're like, what is that eighteen thousand dollars? What
is eighteen thousand thou is a number of women annually
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that are trafficked on estimation? Okay, this is just a
slight estimate of how many women are traffic annially along
the US Mexico border. That's not including women and children.
So the more I'm going into this, I am googling
articles and one of the articles that really stuck with
me was an article by CNN. And so the article
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was published actually November, and I'm telling you that date
because it's important for this story for you to understand
what's happening in our national media with propaganda. So I
read this article about a woman named Carla Jassin though okay,
if you want to read it later, it's k A
R L A and then J A C I N
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T O and CNN wrote an article about her because
she was rescued from a trafficking situation and from the
time that she was traffic to the time that she
was rescued, she was raped thousand, two hundred times. Now
you see that number and you realize that that is
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not a made up number, and it's a lot to stomach.
And I apologize if some of you maybe might think
that this is too heavy, because I think that everyone
should know this story. And you see this young girl
and you realize that she was trafficked from the time
that she was probably thirteen fourteen years old to the
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time that she was twenty one maybe, and that during
that time that happened. And so I posted this to
social media, and going back to why social media is
so important, that's the best way that people learn is
by peer to peer interaction and sharing information. And I
wanted people to realize that trafficking is not just a
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clean word. There's a lot of bad things that go
along with it. And the reaction that I got was.
I realized people just didn't understand. They weren't educated. People
thought that this was made up up. They didn't realize
that it was a true story. And this was one
isolated incident. This happens on a regular basis at the
US Mexico border every single day. Seven doesn't take time off,
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and unfortunately, unlike drugs, humans can be used time and
time again, so it is a more profitable industry. As
I'm continuing this research, I then discover articles from UNA SEF,
which I would not consider UNA SEF, you know, conservative
or a Republican organization, and they're saying that the most
targeted demographics are migrant children and women of the Hispanic
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origin and demographic mainly from South American Mexico. So I
realized all of this stuff. I'm still on track to
go to medical school. I'm simply using my social media
to share information because I believe it's the right thing
to do. And that's when I had my AHA moment.
Whether you want to call it a red pill moment
or it was like a light bulb clicked behind me.
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I'm sitting in the hotel room for my friend's wedding,
and I was doing some work on my computer, and
I think, like most people, I sometimes I like to
have stuff on in the background, whether it's music or
the TV. And at this point, I had the news
on and I was actually listening to CNN, and as
I'm just focusing on what I'm writing, I keyed into
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some key things that the commentator was talking about, and
they were talking about what was happening at the US
Mexico Boarder. They're talking about this train that had been
stopped in Mexico City by the federal police, and that
the federal police had stopped this train and discovered that
there was a ton I'm talking about a ton of
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women and children, and that among these women and children
were MS thirteen and for those that might not know,
m S thrtinas m S thirteen as a cartel. And
so the federal police end up stopping this train and
they don't want to let it proceed forward. It was
inbound to the United States for obvious reasons. You're never
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ever going to see women and children with hardened criminals.
That's not even normal from what I know on trafficking.
That is literally the startup to how they run these
people into this country. And so I start paying attention,
and mind you, this is after my self education and
really discovering that we have a huge problem with that.
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And this is also to mind you, the tail in
the beginning of So this is prior to the November election.
What I also uncovered as I'm doing my research, and
this is just kind of interesting footnote, is that according
to p Hispanic dot org, the largest voting minority in
this country are Hispanic Americans, specifically of Mexican descent. Okay,
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so watching this segment, I know all this information, and
the reporter says, here at CNN, we believe everyone has
a chance and deserves a right to enter this country.
And so to my understanding, it was either the network
or people at the network, but they put together money
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to bring these people to the United States, had a
camera crew on it, and filmed border patrol essentially turning
these people away. And the segment ended with at the time,
it was candidate Trump. Candidate Trump, this Trump person has
these very anti immigration policies and is xenophobic and this
isn't right and we believe that American deserves better. Here CNN,
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and then they cut the segment and it I think
it went to a pillow commercial, and I remember just
like sitting there and it all hit me at once,
the people that were being trafficked, because there's no doubt
in my mind that that's what was happening. They were
talking about what happens with the human trafficking, they were
talking about the fact that these are young women and children.
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Are they related, are they mothers? Are they told what
is happening? And then they didn't want to talk about
the fact that there was a cartel. They simply wanted
to make it about politics. And I saw this, and
I remember feeling so disgusted, and I remember feeling so angry.
I'm not the type of person that's anti immigrant. I'm
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not the type of person that's xenophobic. Here I am
basically half Hispanic, having grandparents that are immigrants, having multiple
family members that are from Mexico, and yet I know
about the trafficking. And part of the reason why I
agree with legal immigration is because I don't want people
to get hurt, because it's a very bad world out there,
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and it's naive to think otherwise. And so I see
all those I film a moment, right, and and then
I realized it's propaganda and just give you the idea
of what propaganda is. According to the Merriam Webster definition,
it's the spreading of ideas or information or rumor for
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the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause,
or person, ideas, facts, or allegations to deliberately spread in
information to further once cause or damage an opposing cause.
And that is what the network was doing. And ironically enough,
having known that years ago and having that own intuition,
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and I think just being educated on the topics of
what was happening at the border, not only did I
assume that, but I apparently assumed right, because only a
few days ago, in April thirteen, the Project Veritas actually
just broke a story where they have undercover footage of
the head Hauncho at CNN admitting that propaganda is used
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at the network against conservatives and people that threatened the
d n C and their ideologies. Guys, this is a
huge problem in the United States, the fact that networks
would knowingly bury information or lie to the American people
in order to manipulate entire demographics based on their race,
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based on their cultural ethnicity, to get voting blocks so
that they can have total power and control after you
realize that you cannot go back to the way that
you once were. I knew that I could no longer
stay silent, and that is why I started using my
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social media to make that voice and information heard because
there was no one like me. There was no one
from the Hispanic American demographic that was targeting to wake
the American people up and wake up a demographic that
had been lied to. And that was only the tip
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of the iceberg. Once you see what's happening at the border,
you cannot unsee it. Human trafficking, drug running, the real
life version of Cicario, that movie. It's all happening and
it's infuriating. But I think the worst part about all
of this is knowing that establishment elected official and Democrats
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especially know these numbers. They know these facts. It's not
like they're not sitting in briefings from the State Department
and the Department of Homeland Security. But before we get
into all of that, before we get into those numbers,
we're going to take a quick break, So stay tuned
and we'll be right back. So to get into some
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of these numbers that I know for a fact, are
elected officials are briefed on stats on human trafficking. I'm
just gonna warn you, guys, this is not something that
I think a lot of people can stomach. And so
I'm telling you that because I remember when I first
started getting into these numbers, and when I first started
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researching about it, it actually made me depressed. And I
do remember reading some of these numbers and I'm not
gonna lie. I cried. It's it's horrifying. Ambassador Callistic ing
Rich actually wrote a paper on human trafficking at the
southern border. You can read that paper on Gingridge through sixty.
But they ended up formatting that human trafficking stats happening
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at the border only get worse when you have open
border policies. And so this is where I tell people
that this is not a political issue. Okay, they try
to make it one, but really what we're looking at
is are you for or are you against human slavery?
And the reason I put it in those terms is
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because the United States prides itself off of being a
country that quote unquote abolished slavery years ago, and the
whole slavery topic is used on a regular basis, I
think against black Americans, right, they don't want to let
America move forward from it, so they selectively cherry pick
this information, but they don't talk about what's happening in
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the Hispanic demographic with the slavery that's really impacting our
community and people like us coming and trying to come
here into the United States, or sometimes that are being trafficked,
whether it's for labor or sexual purposes. So to get
into some of these numbers of human trafficking, journeys are
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made through official border control points worldwide. That means that's
happening even at our entry control points. So if that's
happening there, imagine an open sector of the border without
any officials. And that information is from CT Data Collaborative
dot org. I've been down to the border multiple times,
and I can tell you that one of the most
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horrifying things to realize is that at some points on
the border, if there is even any wall or fencing
or anything, there's parts that you literally might have a
string of rusty barbed wire that maybe might be about
knee high, and then it breaks off and you can
see these open corridors that are used on a regular
basis by coyotes. You'll see children's shoes, you see. They
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what they'll do is they'll spray paint these black gallon
of water jugs. But the thing is is that it
gets so dangerous and so hot in that open sector
of the border that I know you the Arizona and
Border Patrol off officials have posted that the numbers of
bodies and bones that they find that litter the desert
into those open sectors number in the thousands. So it's
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not like these people are coming here easily, nor should
they write like, I don't agree with illegal immigration, but
you have to think about the impact that it's happening
with these people who are also probably lied to that
they are essentially dying in the process of coming here,
whether they're being forced, who are being lied to about
the American dream that they'll have access to. In a
story from the New York Post, according to US Immigrations
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and Customs, moving human beings as cargo pays into the
billions of dollars for transnational criminal smuggling organizations. So in
February alone, okay, guys, in February alone, smugglers received four
hundred and eleven point five million dollars. That's an average
of fourteen point seven million dollars per day for transporting
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migrants from Central America and Mexico into the United States.
I first heard these numbers and I remember hearing an
estimation from Tim Ballard, who's the founder of Our Rescue,
which is a counter trafficking organization and nonprofit that I
am connected to. I've worked and volunteered extensively with them
to shed light on this topic. But again, to put
it best, drugs are used once human beings can be
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used time and time again, and unfortunately, there's a lot
of sick people in this country that think that they
can purchase someone and that it's not a problem and
that it's totally okay, and it is not. I'm just
gonna plug Our Rescue real quick. If you guys want
to find more information about how to get involved, and
go to our Rescue dot org and find out information there,
and they're always looking for volunteers. In my own research,
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the State Department is sing that the United States is
the top three in the top three for the world
for consumption of this And when I realized that I
could use my voice and after I joined Turning Point,
I actually wanted to make a documentary a docuseries on
what was happening at the border. So I linked up
with a border patrol Union asn't it by the name
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of Art del Quet though, And I remember interviewing him
and hearing his story about what was really happening down there.
And this is the stuff that I don't even think
Fox News would put up there because it was such
It's one of the stories that you hear and it
sticks with you and then you realize that this is
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not just political, Like I do believe that people that
are fighting this or doing God's work because of the
horrors that of the that you hear that's happening to
these people. So he was telling me, and mind you,
Art's family is directly from the other side of the border,
so he's Hispanic. He's been doing this since he, I
think was twenty years old. And he's telling me that
him and another officer came up on a group of
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about I think it was twenty women and twenty men,
and they were all going together and they were actually
running what he said I believe was backpacks full of
marijuana and narcotics, so their drug mules and they're running
them across the border. And one of these open sectors,
and I remember he thought it was weird because it
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was just women and just men. And then when he
obviously arrested them and they all got into one of
the vehicles for border patrol, this woman would not stop crying,
and she's uncontrollably crying, and in Spanish, Art goes, what's like,
what's wrong? Why are you crying? Tell me like, are
you okay? Are you sick? What's happening? And she goes,
where's my son? Where my kids? And Art goes, what
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do you mean? Like, what do you mean where is
your son and your kids? There's no one else. It
was just you and just the men. She goes, well,
my husband's over there, but where is my son. They
said that I would get my son back and my
kids back, and Art goes, we haven't found anyone. So
what he found out had happened is that the traffickers
and the I assumed cartel, had separated the women from
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the men and them from their children, used the children
as tools to make sure that they ran the drug
across the border, and then once the families got arrested,
Art still doesn't know what happened to those kids to
this day. And you think about that, and it hits
a really deep spot. I think for me, I just
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I can't imagine what happened to those kids. But I
can tell you that those people that are doing what's
happening at the border, that's not they're not influenced by God.
And you want to pray for these people because it's
it's really horrifying what's happening these unaccompanied miners. You know,
those six hundred that are coming to the border every
single day. These are kids, guys right there. I know
that they're not American children, But at the end of
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the day, is it not our moral obligation to ensure
that any child is not being exploited, and that any
child is rightfully in the hands of their parents, and
that we should stop in every possible way the exploitation
of these innocent children. So recently there was footage of
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miners being dropped on the other side of a thirteen
foot wall and being left by traffickers. And currently our
own American adoption program is so bogged down that a
lot of our youth, if children are over the age
of twelve, they end up in these boys homes or
girls homes and in the foster care system, which you know,
I do applaud any foster parent, but ultimately, no child
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is better off in a government program or government housing.
They're going to be better off in the hands of
their parents. And that is one of the issues that
we're facing now, is what do we do with these kids?
And a lot of people say, okay, so I talked
to my friends and family, and this is one of
those issues, especially leading up to election cycle, that families
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I think couldn't even sit down at the dinner table
and discuss because there's such a polarization fed by the
propaganda in the mainstream media about what was actually happening
and what policies were in place for certain reasons. I mean,
I will still hold true to this today that I
would rather have a child separated temporarily from their parents
to confirm biological ties to that family, then put children
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in the hands of their traffickers. And that's something that
really the Biden administration went back on, was a policy
put in place by President Trump to separate children temporarily
from people posing as their family members. We know that
children are used on a regular basis to exploit this
asylum process, and I will never backtrack from that statement,
because I still believe that we should be doing it
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to today and we're not. There's ways that you can
talk with your friends and family about that. But what
I tell you is that this topic, especially when you're
realizing that our voices have been suppressed, that this is
not a conspiracy theory. Human trafficking has been going on
since the dawn of time. But here, you know, we
are one of the greatest superpowers in the world. We
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have all this technology right that can identify and find
people that show up to riots. But you're telling me
that we can't stop what's happening at the US Mexico border,
or find out information and track down some of these
people on online sites. It's a hip hopocricy to me
that I believe that everyone's kind of called to do something,
and I believe that people tuning into this show really
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have the opportunity to make a difference. You can shed
light on this, you can use your social media, you
can organize events to benefit nonprofits that are fighting for this,
and you know yourself, can actually get involved with local
law enforcement to help fight some of the worst things
that we're facing in modern times, which is human slavery,
So it's not just the only thing that right, Like
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we know that human trafficking is a large aspect, but
there's this aspect of also labor trafficking, which we'll get
into in a second, and then drug running and growing
up in southern California, growing up right near really Tijuana,
I saw what happened in the nineties. Especially A lot
of people don't realize that NAFTA, initially when it was past,
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actually tanked a lot of Mexico's economy. So it created
a surge in illegal immigration because there was such an
influx in the black market and a lot of the
farming communities in Mexico we're just completely destroyed by NAPTA.
So a lot of these people were coming to the
United States looking for work. And I remember growing up
in Santa Anna and seeing a lot of and mind you,
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my dad's family had come here legally, but seeing a
lot of people that weren't legal and you could tell,
I mean, I don't they weren't assimilated as how is
how you really know? But I remember growing up in
that environment. But to go along with that, you have
the lack of assimilation and the fact that a lot
of these people are living in essentially the black market
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of society, so they're operating under the table, and because
of that, you have that gang culture that develops. If
that's not bad enough, you realize that the drugs that
are coming in through our southern border, they impact every
aspect of society, right like, they're not discriminatory based on
race or wealth. I think everyone who's listened to this
know someone or might have a family friend or know
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someone that knows someone that's been impacted by an addiction
problem and as either passed away or really struggled with that.
And it just stories families. Okay, So it destroys these
people's lives, and it destroys American people's lives as well,
because it's literally breaking our families apart. And that's something
that I told you guys a little bit. Obviously, My
family's really struggled with obviously drugs to the point of
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I had multiple family members passed away from it, and
then also to my own father really struggled without and
that's something I highlighted in the first episode. But when
you realize the amount that's coming in, that's I think
what's alarming. So in March alone, this year because of
the amount of I think media that was shed in
the run up to and then after the fact when
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they were talking about and when I say that, I
mean the d n C and the Biden Harris administration
was talking about giving mass amnesty. You saw this massive
surge at the border, Like I'm talking not just with
the illegals, but then also to on drugs, on heroin
alone and meth emphetamine, meth one up. Heroin went up,
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but poundage seased in alone. This is what's alarming. Three
hundred and forty seven thousand, seven hundred and fifty five
pounds in total. And if you realize how much fetanel,
which only a tiny bit can kill you, how much
came in it was upwards of five thousand six So
clearly the U s has an issue with conception of
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illegal narcotics. But when you basically put out a sign
in front of the United States saying, hey, we're open
for business, come on over, that creates a problem. And
that's where the media plays into all of this. Drugs
are going directly into the inner cities. They feel gang culture,
and they feel the black market, They feel the exact
environment that these illegals are hiding in and because they
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don't come here the correct way, the fact is that
they will never have access to American dream. And I
do believe that the elected officials that promote this, the
elected officials that are knowingly sitting on this information because
they simply want power, talk about a sociopath, talk about
bad people. They are complicit in all of this. And
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you see the media talk about on a regular basis
about this viewpoint of the left and progressives, about this
suppression of minorities. But yet they don't talk about this, which,
in my opinion, feels these cycles of poverty that these
people make it very hard for them to break free from.
I mean, you want to talk about hypocrisy and all
of it. But then there's this national security aspect, right like,
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where did the war on terror? Did you just go away?
Because I'm under the understanding that recently you had people
from Yemen to individuals that were on our terrorist watch
list that were caught trying to enter the United States
from the southern border. What about COVID. We literally just
locked down the economy for one year because of COVID.
You have half of the states that are still locked
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down with these crazy mandates. We know that COVID has
a nine nine percent survival rate, and yet people are
coming into this country. They're not being tested, they're being
released into states like Texas and Arizona and California and
all these border states, and yet Dr Fauch and the
d n C is quiet on it. But yet the
American people are what's supposed to remain lockdown. I mean,
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is that not infuriating to you? Guys? The hypocrisy is
so blatant, and it's based on identity politics. They genuinely
want the American people to believe that if you want
border security, that you are racist. They don't want to
talk about the facts. They want every Hispanic American to
think that the GOP that Republican voters, that anyone who
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supported Trump was anti Hispanic, and that is the farthest
thing from the truth. To date, the previous administration had
the highest amount of focus on human trafficking than any
other administration. And if you're still not supporting him for
that reason, I don't know what could convince you otherwise,
because guys, at is modern day slavery. But I mean,
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really look at it. What change? Why did the d
n C prior to sen Why was the media prior
to focusing on all of this? Why were they now
quiet on this? I mean, was it because is of
the voting demographic? Was it because of who came into office?
So what changed? If you go out to hayting Tie,
I'll be back after the break and we'll talk about
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that then. So prior to we know, establishment democrats had
the same views as GPS and conservatives. You can see
this video actually of Obama that I ended up posting
on my social media and he goes, he's sitting down
an arm turn. He goes, look, do not come here.
It's dangerous. Do not come here legally. In fact, Obama
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was actually, ironically enough, known as the deporter and chief.
And at the time you can't say that Biden doesn't
know about the immigration problem because at the time he
was the vice president. But what changed, guys, and this
is what I discovered, is that the person that came
into office, Trump was an uncontrolled politician who took the
White House. Okay, we know that Trump was a threat.
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He was not controlled and paid for by the establishment
corporation that's currently trying to run this country. And you
now have blatantly obvious hypocrisy with the Biden administration not
just trying to remain quiet on this after they really
did pour gasoline on fire, but Biden is now actively
building sections of the southern border a k a oh
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wall because he knew Trump was right. Most Democrats knew
Trump was right that we needed a physical barrier in
order to stop some of the things that are happening,
and that taking a zero tolerance stance on a legal
immigration is the only way to stop some of these
atroth cities that are happening. And ironically enough, Kamala Harris,
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of all people who has knownly walked out of different
briefings that are rescue did for Senate on human trafficking.
I kid you not, guys. Tim Bowlard talked him about it.
He said he wanted to give the briefing. She got
up and she left. She's the vice president and she's
been assigned to handle the border crisis, and yet she
has yet to be down there. This is the one
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person in the country that was a woman of color,
was supposed to be representing minority women and the fight
that all minority women have, and yet she's yet to
say one thing about it. She's yet to go down
to the border to cover it. She's completely quiet in
the media, and she's busy taking photo ops going to
bakeries in Chicago instead of dealing with the one thing
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that she should be talking about, which is slavery in
this country. Shaan King, who is a very very liberal
progressive posted recently of which I posted to my I
G because I wanted people to realize that it's so
bad the hypocrisy is being noticed on all sides, so
bad that Sean King actually posted calling out the Biden administration,
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and yet people are still not talking about I mean,
where's Vice Magazine talking about this? Where's now this? Where's
vanity fair? Shaun King? Because Shaun King was one of
those people that genuinely believed that if you separate someone
from their family member, that you're the boogeyman not knowing.
And I do believe it's because Shaun King isn't necessarily
educated on the topic, but that he was one of
those people that I would considered quote unquote a true believer,
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and that he believes that we really should have open borders. Okay,
he's obviously wrong, but he knows that the Biden administration
ran on that, and now they're pivoting going back to
the ideology that works, which is basically what conservatives have
been saying, is that walls work. Aoc this woman made
her living and she is now a multimillion dollar socialist,
which is a hypocrisy in itself. But she is completely silent. Okay,
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we know she went down to the border in her
little white outfit and she's bent over crying for that
photo opportunity in an empty parking lot. She's saying on
our Instagram that surge, the term surge is referring to
insurgents instead of an actual surge of people, which means
would mean an influx at the border. She's completely silent
on the amount of migrant children that are coming here.
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She's silent on the human trafficking. In fact, I don't
even know if she realizes that that's an issue, because
she's constantly advocating for us to defund ICE. Yet part
of what ICE does is they actually go out and
arrest human traffickers. Five of the top ten most wanted
for human trafficking of ICE is from Tennant Single Mexico,
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and you can see that on their website. They run
trafficking routes right into the United States, and there was
actually a docuseriies online that you can see that ran
a trafficking ring right in from Mexico into Brooklyn, New York.
But do you see how the d n C shifted
their stance. I mean, we know that all of these
elected officials prior to and you had Obama talking about
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you had the entire bomba administration that knew was an issue.
There's recorded footage of multiple members of Congress talking about it,
and then all of a sudden it just goes away
and changes. I mean, do they really think that we're
that stupid that Hispanic Americans can't use cell phones? I mean,
maybe you heard I think Biden said that the reason
why Hispanic Americans don't want vaccines is because we don't
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know how to use the internet. So maybe they think
we're that stupid, But I don't. I think that we're
quite educated, which is why I have this podcast and
why I'm filling you guys in on this information. But
you have to fix it. We can't just let this
continue happening because you see in everything that I just
laid out, there's so many aspects of this that are
impacting our society that are impacting people on both sides
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of the border. And the fact is that massive legal
immigration bogged down our current immigration courts, So you can't
have as many legal people here because the process to
even come here is years and in thousands upon thousands
of dollars, So it's gonna bog that down altogether. But
it creates also to this depression and wages and takes
advantage of people that are trying to come here to work.
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We know that if people are operating under the table,
and you have labor trafficking, which is happening, especially in
the hotel industry, the farmer industry, and restaurants, all of that,
that these people are going to be paid cash, if
at all. Sometimes these people are snubbed, and that's actually
stories that I've heard from my own father of people
showing up to work at like home depot. Contractors will
pick them up, they work, they don't pay them because
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they know that they're legal, and then they drop them off,
which is basically slavery. But in order to stream on
the process of actually getting people to come here legally,
to actually educate them and have them attained American citizenship,
you have to start by stopping the bleed, and that's
not going to happen if you have elected officials coming here,
are going on to national platforms and national media outlets saying, hey,
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come on over, we want mass amnesty. I mean, all
of that is going to completely just one a d
out make the matters worse, and it's going to encourage
this mass illegal immigration. So you have to take a
zero tolerant stance on this. This is one of those
things that I tell people all the time. You really
truly have to realize that this is a tough love
argument that politicians, with their empty promises that created this
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crisis in the first place, they're willing to stay silent
on it. But the people that are getting hurt are
the innocent people. It's the people like you and me.
It's the people that are being why to telling that
they're going to come here and have access to this
American dream, when in actuality, they're never going to have that.
Their kids are probably gonna end up in gangs and
on drugs and if not killed, And it's not the
right thing to do. It's not a woke ideology. That's
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the truth. And sometimes the truth hurts, and I'm not
here to make people feel better about illegal immigration. I'm
here to tell you the fact that that you're hurting people.
This is irresponsible, and that if you are having a
platform and that you're encouraging it, you're part of the problem.
So you have Hispanic Americans now as the largest voting
minority in this country, and if you truly want to
help this community, it's going to start by informing and
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waking up your neighbor by waking up your family members,
to let them know that their voice matters, that their
vote counts, and that in the scheme of national politics,
when you have a large voting minority that has been
lied to and realizes that which I think is happening.
I mean, you look on social media and I don't.
I try not to stand the echo chambers of guys. Okay,
I'm branching out outside of that. But you have multiple
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very progressive organizations that have now called out the hypocrisy
of the Biden administration, which I'm glad for. I still
hold true to my tenants and my beliefs that I
think we need strong border security as your tolerance stance
on on illegal immigration, and that we need a wall.
But the fact is is that people are waking up,
and that's because we are willing to share that information.
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So again, I'm gonna just plug this. If you guys
want to get more involved and actually help fight what's
happening at the border, volunteer with organizations like our Rescue,
share information right the State Department in order that human
trafficking report that they put out every single year, use
your social media, organize events because this is the one
thing that we can all do that I believe that
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is a truly unifying, nonpartisan issue. And if you want
to reconnect with your family especially talk about these issues,
please because at the end of the day, I do
believe that everyone's put on this earth for a reason
and that it's our obligation, our moral obligation, to leave
the earth and our family in our nation in a
better condition than we initially found it in. And that's
something that we can all do that I think would
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better the world. So thank you so much for tuning
into this week's episode of Luna Talks. Don't forget to share, like,
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