October 2, 2022 • 49 mins
The media, big tech, and politicians in both parties are lying about the crisis at our border. They refuse to discuss what’s really happening, ignore their own numbers, and insist everything is under control.
Here’s the truth: A reported 22 million illegal immigrants are currently living in the United States, with an estimated 900,000 “gotaways” also crossing the U.S.-Mexico border just since the Biden administration began in 2021. It is becoming harder to track who these people are, where they came from, and whether they are involved in drug smuggling, human trafficking, or even terrorism. And the powerful Mexican drug cartels are taking advantage of our open borders to perpetrate all of these horrors and much more on American soil. Investigative Reporter Sara Carter (Fox News Contributor, The Sara Carter Show) takes a look at how the open southern border is tearing apart families, destroying communities, and leaving all of us less safe.
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Here’s the truth: A reported 22 million illegal immigrants are currently living in the United States, with an estimated 900,000 “gotaways” also crossing the U.S.-Mexico border just since the Biden administration began in 2021. It is becoming harder to track who these people are, where they came from, and whether they are involved in drug smuggling, human trafficking, or even terrorism. And the powerful Mexican drug cartels are taking advantage of our open borders to perpetrate all of these horrors and much more on American soil. Investigative Reporter Sara Carter (Fox News Contributor, The Sara Carter Show) takes a look at how the open southern border is tearing apart families, destroying communities, and leaving all of us less safe.
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I believe in the idea of amnestyfor those who have put down roots and
who have lived here, even thoughsometime back they may have entered illegally.
We're getting much more serious about crackingdown on gun running, drug running,
cash that's flowing down that that's helpingto finance these cartels, and so the
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bill that we've worked hard to craftis an important piece of legislation that addresses
the needs of a failed system,that says we're going to change for the
better. The overwhelming majority of peoplecoming to the border a crossing our beads
sent back our elected officials are lyingto us. We are living in a
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world of disinformation, one where majornews stories are suppressed in the narratives surrounding
mainstream media outlets are curated by biggovernment, big media, and big tech.
Welcome to Dark Wars the Border.I'm Sarah Carter. I've spent the
majority of my career covering immigration andborder issues for newspapers, television, and
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radio. But there's a crisis happeningat our southern border, and I know
many of the people this impacts most. I've never ever ever seen this in
my life. I'm stun the peopleI was traveling with were good people.
The problem was the Coyotes. Theyare people with money and want to buy
organs of kids. One hundred andseven thousand overdosed gas last year alone.
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Marion died two weeks after her twentiethbirthday. Shit, it's in this series.
We'll show you the border like you'venever seen it before. And spoiler
alert, the border sometimes is nowherenear the border because every state is a
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border state. Looking out there,she's just passed out with the needle right
there. Every town is a bordertown, just open air, and yes,
that includes yours right her nine.Derek Maltz is a former special Agent
in charge at the Drug Enforcement Administrationwho served more than thirty years. He
couldn't believe when he and another retiredlaw enforcement officer saw recently during a drive
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through Philadelphia, right here in Kensington. You see them just sitting around shooting
up needles right on the street,open air, passed out with needles in
their arms, passed out. Nobody'sdoing nothing about it. Where's the mayor
of Philadelphia? Kensington? This isthe heart of Kensington. But that little
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scene over there is almost every quarterin this mile radius east west, north
and South. Almost every quarter lookslike that, and he says been drug
used in major American cities is worsenow than it's ever been. I've never
ever, ever seen this in mylife. I'm stunned. My life has
been changed from this trip this weekinto Philadelphia. And the mayor should be
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a shame. Maya Kenny who celebrating, you know, with his assistant last
year or whenever it was when theypassed sanctuary city laws. But what about
these poor people were sending billions ofdollars to Ukraine and other parts of the
world, which which I understand,But what about these people that are desperately
needing help on the streets all overthe country. It isn't just Derek Maltz
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and his friend that are seeing what'shappening on our streets. It's every single
parent, every child that has towalk from point A to point B hoping
that they won't get killed, hopingthat somebody won't cross their path. And
every parent that loses a child tothe War on drugs, or every immigrant
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living in the shadows that is beingkept as a slave. This is what
we're up against. We're up againstthis because nobody else is helping us fight
that war from Washington. You mighthave heard that there's a war at the
border, but it's also a warwhere the weapon is deception and lies.
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It's information warfare, and the onlyway to fight back is to expose the
truth. Who can we trust togive us that truth? Not the majority
of people claiming to be looking afterour interests in Washington. No matter what
you've heard about the border from themedia or many of our elected officials,
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you are being deceived. Do youknow that the greatest propagator of disinformation in
the industry of the world is theUS government? Are you familiar with mcnamaron,
the Pentagon Papers? Are you familiarwith George W. Bush and the
Web of mass destruction? Are you'refamiliar with Iran contract? Kentucky Senator Rand
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Paul, I mean, think ofall the debates and disputes we've had over
the last fifty years in our country. We work them out by debating them.
We don't work them out by thegovernment being the arbitrar. I don't
want to government card rails. Iwant you to have nothing to do with
speech. You think we can't determineYou know, speech by traffickers is disinformation.
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You think the American people are sostupid they need you to tell them
what the truth is. You can'teven admit what the truth is with the
Steel dossier. I don't trust governmentto figure out what the truth is.
Government is largely disseminating disinformation. Thebattle against disinformation is happening on many fronts.
The border crisis is one of themost critical. We're told migrants are
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on a journey of hope and opportunity, but the reality that awaits many of
them is filled with pain, death, and harding. So just I am
very thankful to God because nothing happenedto me. But I do have a
friend who the federal police got herand wanted her to work forced labor,
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prostitution. This is just one ofhundreds, maybe thousands of stories that we
never hear, of children being taken, of women being raped, of people
disappearing on their journey into the UnitedStates and being traumatized even when they come
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here. The sufferings real, andthe truth is sometimes really hard to listen
to, and some of those whocould do the most to confront the problem
are only making it worse. Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp, and other popular
social media platforms are doing little toslow the spread of misinformation and disinformation.
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They're actually making these problems worse byallowing groups to make posts promising migrants high
wage jobs, an easy voyage,and a significantly better life once they reach
the United States. In many cases, these folks end up brutalized. We've
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spent these days in the rivers,in the jungles, in the mountains,
always looking behind us. Yes,of course, not only that, but
the women being raped, the littlegirls being raped. Open borders impact the
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health and safety of our communities anddamage our national security. According to the
Kaiser Family Foundation, twenty two millionillegal immigrants are currently in the United States.
The problem is getting harder to dealwith every year, and especially in
recent years, with people from allover the world pouring across the open southern
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border. They're overwhelming our national andlocal law enforcement agencies, healthcare system,
and even social services. And eventhose who strongly supported sanctuary cities, like
New York City Mayor Eric Adams,see the crisis this is causing. This
is a real burden on New Yorkersas we're trying to do the right thing
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of We already, as I stated, we already have an overburdened shelter system.
So now we're talking about, asyou stated, food clothed school This
is going to impact of our schoolsbecause we do not turn away individuals because
they're undocumented, translation services. Let'sjust a whole host of things that this
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is going to produce, and that'swhy we need help and getting this done,
and we need to write coordination tomake it happen and make it happen.
It can happen. But the problemis not just the tide of humanity
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coming across our border and overwhelming oursystem. It's about our enemies taking advantage
of this chaos to find ways toharm our country, our communities, and
our families. Brian Babin is acongressman from Texas and he's a member of
the House Border Caucus. One hundredand seven thousand overdose desks last year alone,
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the DAS already see twenty point somethingmillion fake prescription pills. These are
these are pills that have you know, who knows what's in them. Many
of them have the finial in them, and they're designed to looking exactly like
a legitimate prescription. The flow ofillegal drugs into the US from the southern
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border is it new. It startedas bootlegging during Prohibition. People were making
money running booze into America over thedesert. That developed into marijuana, and
then the War on drugs began harderdrugs started pouring in over the border,
from heroin and pills to crystal meth. Now drug traffickers are moving fetnyl laced
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counterfeit pills. They are murdering ourchildren in schools and in communities from Florida
to Washington State. Former DA SpecialAgent Derek Maltz, and what they're doing
now is something that we've ever seenin the history of the country. They're
taking poisonous drugs like spent at all, and they're putting them in pills.
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They have pill presses inside of Mexicoand in our country and they're making these
cow to fit oxycodon pills, Xanaxand now even Adderall. We had a
warning by the DBA last week upin New England. They had all these
pills that were labeled as Adderall thatcontained methamphetamy. Well, that's really disturbing
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because the kids that are taking Adderallare very very young. To me,
this is the cartel's conscious decision totarget the kids, so they have customers
for life with methamphetamy. But reallywhat's disturbing is that kids all over the
country and young Americans are taking thesekind of the pills and not waking up.
There's story after story that you seeon social media, and unfortunately you're
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not seeing that on mainstream media.Malta's right, I've seen it. I've
taught to parents who've lost their children. I can't even imagine the pain that
they go through every single day,the loss of a child, a child
that never expected to do or someonein their life that never expected to die
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from just taking a pill. Thecartels are battling each other for access to
transit routes at our border. Borderaccess is the biggest prize for drug and
human traffickers. Think about it.Why is it important? Because they feed
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the bloodline of America. They accessour highway system, and that means traffickers
can move their products over the bordermore easily and efficiently. Once they gain
access to these major transportation hubs likeHouston, TUSA, and Phoenix, San
Antonio or San Diego, they arehome free and they can deliver their poison,
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whether it's drugs, human slaves,or weapons straight into the heart of
America. It weakens our national securityand our communities across the nation. I
met with Sheriff Tom Schmerber of MaverickCounty, Texas, in the border community
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of Eagle Pass. It's a townjust like every other border town. People
are pouring across from all over theworld into their community. And this isn't
just people from Mexico. It's peoplefrom everywhere. Sometimes you look across the
border and there's more than five hundredcoming through into a pecan farm or someone's
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ranch land. The sheriff is frustratedwith the lack of support he's getting from
the federal government. We'll need theresources. Well, it's more of manpower.
I know that we have a wholebunch of work religers, But I
don't blame the order colabers for redimentsof right now, they catch a big
people they have to process if theyhave to do it out of work,
you know. So it means thatif they need to help the need the
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resources. I know how much moreof manpower, the man power and the
equipment. So if they can helpus with that resources, we can maybe
can kill the quarter better. Therecord amounts of drugs crossing that border,
go to cartel owned distribution centers throughoutour country and ultimately lead to the enormous
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numbers of overdose and drug poisoning deathsthat we're experiencing across the nation. Many
of the victims of our drug epidemicsstruggle with insecurities that many of us deal
with every day. I first metHeidi Riggs more than four years ago while
I was working on another documentary entitledNot in Vain. Heidi's only daughter,
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Marin, died two weeks after hertwentieth birthday. The first time she used
heroin, she smoked it. Shesaid it was like seeing the face of
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Maren had a very caring heart,but she also struggled within herself self esteem,
wanting to fit in. She neverthought she was beautiful enough, and
so she struggled with her weight.She was athletic and she was built like
an athlete, but she always wantedthat skinny girl body. She was bullied
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and she really struggled with that.The drugs are creating death and heartache throughout
our nation, and the pain andsuffering face by the vulnerable migrants making the
journey are just as horrifying. Whyare people coming economics. We hear from
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politicians that it's about access to healthcareor people in desperate need of asylum because
they are fleeing political violence. Butthe truth is evident when you talk to
the people from Latin America who reallyknow what is going on. Guatemala is
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an extraordinary country, from its lushtriple canopy jungles to its vast, infertile
farmland where they grow bananas, avocados, coffee, and cocoa beans. It's
also a country rich in history,its ancient Aztec artifacts, the Mayan ruins.
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On a recent visit to Guatemala,I met with President Alejandro Jamata at
its presidential palace. It's right inthe heart of Guatemala City. President Jamata
isn't one to remain silent about thecrisis at the US Mexico border and how
directly affects his nation's people. Hetold me on my recent visit that there
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are solutions to resolving this crisis.Guatemala is perfectly positioned to be the perfect
near shore transportation and shipping costs havegone up incredibly from here to the United
States. It is cheaper if thetrain is put into operation, we could
have a container in Chicago in threedays. It would be cheaper than having
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maritime transportation. If we have UScompanies here, for example, yarn or
parts assembly companies, we could generatethousands of jobs in Guatemala. These people
would not leave, but it wouldbe considerably cheaper for the United States itself,
which would cause their own products tobe cheaper because they would not have
any additional costs. One, wehave a free trade agreement with the United
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States. We have a free tradeagreement with Mexico, which means that either
through NAFTA or KAFTA, we couldbring those products into the United States and
it would be cheaper for Americans.Countries in Central America are concerned about the
massive green in human capital. Guatemalaand other Latin American nations want a good
relationship with the United States, butaccording to officials in Guatemala, our State
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Department plays political favorites, becoming intimatelyinvolved in their politics. Leaders like Jamata
are trying to keep up with theircountry's problems, but he says the deep
state within the State Department is contributingto their failure to advance economically. To
the vast migration to the US border, Lacey Stancia. Why do they insist
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not the Department of State, butthe deep state department. They want to
label us as a country that violateshuman rights when we are fighting to overcome
the causes that originate from social exclusion, marginalization, and poverty. There's no
other way to do it than througheconomic growth. Is the deep deep state
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of the State Department and those workingI'm assuming on the left side in your
opinion, want from Guatemala. Whatdo they want you to do in an
effort? It's easy to answer,they don't like me. They would like
to have something like Columbia or evenVenezuela here. Our State Department knows the
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problems in Latin America and exacerbates them. It is easy to blame corruption and
drug dealing on Central and South Americancountries, but we take advantage of their
systems to benefit us in the shortterm. It is a short sided policy
that hurts Americans and the people whodare to make the long and dangerous journey
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to our southern border. I metthis woman in Guatemala City who had made
her way to the United States beingtrafficked by coyotes. Those are the people
that move the people on the ground. The drug car tells she passed through
multiple nations and when she reached theUnited States, her situation even became worse,
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more dire, and eventually she repatriatedherself back to Guatemala. The people
I was traveling with were good people. The problem was the coyotes. What
happened was the coyotes threatened to abandonme. They told me I had to
pay more money, and then theycalled and sent messages and the people I
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was with had to come up withthe money that was just to get to
Rhinos. This woman left her twoyear old in Guatemala. Many parents that
make it to the US illegally thensent for their children. Years later,
those children are trafficked by strangers senton a dangerous journey to reach the US
Mexico border. Meanwhile, Americans wholeave their kids in their car for just
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a few minutes while popping into astore are treated differently. Chris Cabrera is
vice president of the National Border PatrolCouncil. If you left your kid in
the car for five minutes while youran into get some some uh milk at
Walmart, Um, you're you're gettinglocked up. Um, you're you're abandoning
that kid, or you're endangering thatkid. Um. But yet we see
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people, um, you know,grown women with a newborn literally days old,
on a four person raft with twentyseven people on there and they're crossing
the river, and that that's endangeringthat child. Or you see a seven
year old girl, which I seetime and time again, a seven year
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old girl that is traveling by herselfin a group full of older boys and
men and maybe one or two womenin there. And luckily somebody always grabbed,
you know, guards that child andkind of takes them under their wing.
But imagine that doesn't always happen.How bad is it here? We
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are in the twenty twenties and slaveryis a serious problem in the United States.
It runs bigger and runs much deeperthan a lot of us think.
Sex abuse and rape are common duringmigration of more than forty million slaves worldwide
in two sixteen, four hundred andthree thousand of those people who were modern
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day slaves in the United States,And with the border crisis we're seeing today,
I can promise you that number isn'tgetting smaller. For many kids,
the journey is not just a onetime border. Many unaccompanied children are used
by cartels and traffickers over and overagain to facilitate their criminal activities. Tennessee
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Senator Marsha Blackburn explains how this horrificprocess works and how you, as border
patrol officials expect the worst. Theyshow up, they get abandoned after the
person gets across the border. Thenthey get turned around and sent it back
to their family. Sometimes the personin charge of them is with the cartel.
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They get assigned to another family theycome back over. It is the
cartel's child recycling program. It isatrocious. Young girls as young as ten,
eleven, twelve who come into ourcustody have to be given pregnancy tests
because of the violation that has takenplace against women in worlds. It is
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as a national security crisis, ishumanitarian crisis, and environmental crisis. The
total number of people abused along theway and who remain in slavery after they
get to the US is horrific enough. But remember that each of these victims
is a person who deserves dignity andrespect and is violated an unspeakable way.
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There are people I meet along theborder, sometimes as young as fifteen thirteen,
sometimes in their twenties. Many ofthe women that I speak with,
many of them have been violated.That's how they say it. They say
violada, or they just sit thereand cry because they don't even know who
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to trust anymore. They spend theirtime protecting themselves or disengaging their mind from
the physical abuse that is happening totheir bodies. You can't even imagine,
they say for many of them,what we've been through. I was very
afraid. I thought my life wasnot in my hands anymore, it was
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in theirs. I was very scared. I'm very thankful to God because nothing
happened to me. But I dohave a friend who the federal police got
her and wanted her to work forcedlabor prostitution. I'm also scared about the
a children who are crossing alone.I don't recommend it to anyone, and
it's a really harsh journey, especiallyfor children. What did they want her
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to do? Okay kid and kayaSieta. The sad fact is thousands of
women and girls have similar stories.US lawmakers like Congressman Greg Murphy argue that
this is unconscionable abuse and should notand cannot continue. We've known now that
a third of the women who arecoming across the border have been sexually abused,
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correct, Okay, a third.And you think about the vulnerability of
those girls who are coming in thathave no parental guidance, they have no
parental protection and thrusting them into thecountry, Just think the number that will
be sold into literal sex slavery.We mean is we're living, as we
said before, in a bizarre world. Rape doesn't end at the border.
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Unfortunately, for many young women andgirls, that abuse is just the beginning.
Rossio Rosco is an activist from Mexicowho is fighting against human trafficking,
slavery, and even more terrible outcomes. You know, forty percent of these
ladies will die in a very violentways. That's their numbers, and it's
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terrible. So many of them arekilled in in the worst nightmare that you
can imagine. For the migrants luckyenough to escape being sold into sex slavery,
a different fate of ways, andalmost none of the options are good.
Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany has made ithis personal mission to expose what is
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happening at the border. He traveledto the Panamanian jungle into the most dangerous
area of the Darian Gap to bringthe truth to the American people, and
one that he says affects his communitypersonally. They continue to get pushed up
the pipeline until they get to theUnited States, and every step of the
way they pay, and they paythe smugglers and others, and in meantime
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some of them die. All ofthem are paying a ransom to get into
America. And we're hearing that manypeople end up as indentured servants when they
get here to America where they gotto send money back to the smugglers,
the cartels, the coyotes and allthe rep traffickers often lore migrants and people
from poor rural areas in Mexico andLatin America with offers of better paying jobs,
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only to reach the US and workfor little pay. Threats of deportation
or even violence against their families areheld over their heads, and if they
can't pay their debts, they'll oftenend up dead. I want you to
listen to this man. He's ahuman trafficker. We'll call him Mario.
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I met him in Guatemala City atan undisclosed location. I was terrified of
what might happen if we were discoveredthere with him. He was at first
quiet and reserved, and then heexplained why he wanted to talk to me.
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So I got They are people withmoney that want to buy the organs
of kids, and it's not onlyfor a country. They take it to
different countries, and normally they dothis with clinics that are not authorized.
That's why so many people who havetraveled a long way are discouraging others from
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bringing their children, or sending fortheir children, or making the same terrible
mistake in deciding to leave. Yeah, I could bring them another way,
God willing, I would, butfrom what I've been through, I wouldn't
recommend this for anyone. We've spentthese days in the rivers, in the
jungles, in the always looking behindus. Yes, of course, not
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only that, but the women beingraped, the little girls being raped.
But it is something I had todo for the benefit of my family.
Organized crime syndicates are trafficking human beingsand drugs into our country, and that
exposes our nation to a litany ofother threats. These organizations are only loyal
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to the bottom dollar, no loyaltyto their country or hours. Imagine what
can happen when you give them thisaccess. The border is so much different
now, even from when I wasyoung. I mean, I remember,
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you know, being eighteen nineteen twentyyears old in California, and it was
still dangers back then. The ArdrianoFelix Cartel was in control of Tiajuana.
But I would go across the borderwith my brother, with our family and
with our friends, maybe down toRosarita Beach. In those days, there
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was no immigration inthing like that.You can go to Mexico, stay where
there, come back. There wassess things, immigration papers and anything like
that. You know. Some somefamilies, like my wife grandmother, she
grew up in Carriso, but thenher mother decided to go back to Mexico
instead of saved here and they wentto Mexico, you know. And some
people by by versa because there wasno slice thing as the order, and
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in fact that you know, we'dspend time their shopping, enjoying the weather
and enjoying the beach, enjoying thecommunities. Don't all the sudden when I
came here and the pass pass someportulation, I saw of people that were
from the city, from the townswalking Wow, I mean, and they
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were starting to sound. Would youknow, the sound would not make it,
and so forth, and that asmuch as right now you don't mean.
But slowly it started shifting. Thecartels undercurrent wasn't hidden anymore. Police
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were beheaded, their heads put onstakes along the highway in Rosarita. Gang
violence took over the streets, shootings, robberies. People were afraid. They
didn't want to go anymore. Wedidn't want to take those trips into Mexico.
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And it was a very difficult timeand has been a very difficult time
for people in all the border communitiesfrom California all the way to Texas.
The situation of the US Mexico borderis making it more dangerous for all of
us. Different groups of drug andhuman traffickers are engaging in vicious power struggles
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over money. These massive nefarious organizationsare fueling bribery, blackmail, and corruption
on both sides of the border,and they are destroying the trust between the
United States and Mexico. This putsall of us in danger because the countries
need to work together to solve themany complex and evolving national security issues that
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are happening along the two thousand milelong border. From terrorism, to trafficking
to disease. If we cast threethousand people a day crossing the border,
we're barely able to vet them.That's just way too many, Arizona Congressman
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Andy Biggs as a member of theHouse Border Caucus. But we know that
we at least one to one,at least one, when some estimates as
high as three and four and fiveto one are getaways. And if that's
the case, you have anywhere fromthree to ten thousand people at day practically
coming across the border. We haveno idea who they are. The COVID
nineteen pandemic highlights some of the healthrisks posed by people crossing the border unchecked.
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But what about the next pandemic?Polio from unvaccinated migrants, Drug resistant
tuberculosis, and monkey pocks have allbeen documented, and unhealthy holding facilities make
these problems worse. Congressman Big says, they also put American lives at risk.
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They can have any kind of disease. I was at Antelope Wells what
a year and a half ago,and I was talking right during the surge.
I was talking to an official thereand I said, what diseases have
you seen? He starts going througheverything from leprosy to smallpox. And then
he says, and then there wasa disease where a guy's arm is literally
being eaten away by something, bacteriaor something, and nobody could ever identify
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what the disease was. And we'resitting here. They're not doing a rapid
test on COVID either, down there, Sarah, and the Biden plan is
to just cancing release these people backinto the United States. People are being
released without a full medical checkup.How much sense does that make. America's
policies are exacerbating national security issues.Meanwhile, politicians like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
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Majorchis are telling us everything is undercontrol. We have effectively managed an unprecedented
number of non citizens seeking to enterthe United States. Then there are the
people who come into the US whoevade our border patrol. There are roughly
nine hundred thousand goataways since President Bidentook office. And these are only the
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people that we know that god away. We have no idea exactly how many
there really are, or even whothey are. Some even have links to
terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hamas, And that has Congressman Tiffany worried that
we're opening ourselves up to another terroristattack. The thing that is the greatest
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concern to me is the national securityimplication, because when you see people coming
here from Somalia, you're coming fromIran, They're coming from places around the
world, people coming from China,and this is a real concern for us.
Where it's easy to melt into thetens of thousands of people that are
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steadily coming up day after day andbe able to come into our country as
a free path. And all peoplehave to do is look back to twenty
fifteen with the mass migration that happenedfrom the Middle East into Europe and all
the terrorist bombings and things like thatthat happened after that. We're setting ourselves
up to do the same thing.In America. The government can't even answer
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what happened to them, more thaneighty people from the terrorist watch list after
they were apprehended at our border.As we learned within nine to eleven and
other terrorist attacks, it doesn't takevery many people with evil intentions to change
our country forever. Senator Marsha Blackburneunderstands how vital it is to stop the
flow of people crossing our southern borderillegally and the damage it can do throughout
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the US. At the southern border, this year, our border patrol has
apprehended people that are on the terroristwatch list. They have apprehended known gang
members that are coming into this countryfor probably no good. They are our
adversaries. They are not here toget a job. They are here to
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sell drugs, to traffic people,to create chaos in local communities. And
this is why every towns a bordertown and every state is a border state.
In Blackburn's home state of Tennessee,the federal government was exposed for trying
to sneak in migrants, including unaccompaniedminers. These people were arriving in the
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middle of the night on planes andbuses to communities that had no idea they
were coming. Local officials had notime to come up with a plan on
how to care for or support themigrants. This cavalier approach to open borders
is hurting our nation and weakens theLatin American nations the migrants are coming from.
If we want better border security,we should be working together with our
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Central American allies, not against them. It's a message that Guatemalan President Alejandro
Jamate is begging the US government tohear, but that message is falling on
deaf ears. Did you ever expressall of these concerns to the Biden administration?
I know, I know you didn'tattend the summer types a few times.
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What was their response to you.I'm waiting. So you have not
received any significant response from the Bidenadministration with regard to the border policies.
Well, where the borders are?It's difficult to lie, and the answer
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I cannot lie, I cannot lay. For decades, the US government has
had a failed Latin American policy.We treat these nations and people like they
are the help, like third worldnations. We have failed badly with our
diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere, andas a result, we are endangering our
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own national security. Most Americans haveno idea what we're up against. Drugs,
America's overdose epidemic, human trafficking,slavery, and threats to national security.
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What brings all those things to Americaevery day? The cartels. In
the nineteen eighties, the cartels amassedenough money and power to take on the
US government. All right, Anne, thank you. Meanwhile, they search
for the killers of US Drug Enforcementagent Enrique Camarena. Salazars in high gear
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tonight started with the nineteen eighty fivekidnapping, torture, and execution of undercover
Dagent Enrique Kiki Camarena. After that, US agents on both sides of the
border, but especially in Mexico,knew that they were being watched, tracked,
and in some cases hunted. That'swhat happened to retired Immigration and Customs
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Enforcement Special Supervisory Agent Victor Avela ashe and his partner him Zapata were ambushed
by cartel gunman back on twenty specially. Asian Hymisabata and I were attacked on
Highway fifty seven, which is amain corridor between Mexico City that we would
travel this road to go up toTexas on the way back from an assignment.
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We were ambushed by Lozetta's cartel andshot over one hundred rounds and especially
Himasabata tragically lost his life in theline of duty. Next to me,
I was shot three times and oncein my chest, twice in my left
leg, and I am here,by the grace of God to be able
to share the story. Avila wascritically wounded during the attack and left before
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the ambulance could reach him, becausehe was terrified that rescue workers or even
nearby hospitals were infiltrated by the samecartel that tried to murder him and his
partner. The cartel bullets that targetedZabata and Avola were traced to guns trafficked
into Mexico by Operation Fast and Furious. The operation was a failed and controversial
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US Justice Department operation which allowed thousandsof weapons from our nation to fall into
the hands of Mexican drug cartels.But if you talk to anyone who has
worked in law enforcement on the border, there is one fact they all acknowledge.
Drugs and humans come north while moneyand weapons flow south. A retired
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DA agent who wishes to remain anonymousbecause of his continuing work in the region
is going by the name of Ralph. He's seen the war on drugs up
close and personal with the cartels thatoperate along the border. They control the
migrant flow. They control also thedrug flow what goes into the area.
As for money being sent down toMexico, they also control that part.
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Most of the money that is transportedinto Mexico, it's you know, it's
transported and ball cash and concealed compartments. Some of it is done also by
wiry metter service using different types ofwire service companies like Cega or Western Union.
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Some of these companies have been involved. I mean I have been fined
by them by the US government andhave paid health defiance. Our federal agencies
are limited by their own regulations andlaw. They are also limited financially by
budgets. Cartels have unlimited resources andthey are not bound by any legal constraints.
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Think about this. You're working inuniform on the border. You're being
watched, they're collecting your data,you're being wire tapped, and you can't
fight back. Cartels are operating onboth sides of the border, while US
Border Patrol agents are on just oneside. They're unsure if they can trust
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their Mexican counterparts. Chris Olivars fromthe Texas Department of Public Safety says,
there's no doubt the cartels are gettingmore brazen and more violent. These are
violent individuals. They have no regardfor human life. And we're talking about
when they are when they are publicizingtheir their acts of violence by beheading people,
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dismembering people, you know, settingpeople on fire, you know,
firing against you know, military andlaw enforcement on the Mexican side. These
are these are violent criminals. Theseare violent individuals. So just to put
that in perspective, think about thepeople that are coming across into Mexico.
They have to deal with these individualswho are going to allow them if they
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if they will allow them to crossinto the US. Because they got to
pay to get across. It's notfree. They're going to expect they're profiting
off this situation right now. Andthat's another that's another issue right there is
in itself is that you know,we're allowing this to take place, so
we are enriching these cartels even more. They are well armed. Some of
the weapons are flowing from America downto Mexico and then turned against our border
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agents and law enforcement. We cannotleast focus on the threats on the southern
border from the cartels because you know, we've shared plenty of photos and different
events that have taken place along theborder. When it comes to drugs and
weapons that are going south, we'retalking about military grade weapons, fully automatic
weapons, fifty caliber rifles that arecoming across, going into Mexico to supply
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the cartels, and it is athreat. It is a threat because they
were within miles from the southern border, and you see how they are,
the power that they have, andhow enriched they are because they're able to
corrupt not only in Mexico but aswell on the US side. So they
are very powerful, very brazen andwhat they do, and it is a
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serious threat that we shall all beconcerned about. The cartels have hundreds of
billions of dollars in illicit funding,and Victor Able says they are willing to
outspend even the American government over accessto the poorest US border. They don't
have a budget. Their budget islimitless, and they have a lot more
money that the United States has tocombat them. And plus they're headquartered in
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Mexico, but they're everywhere around theworld in over forty countries, number one
in the United States. Because theproduct that drugs, the methamphetamine, the
fetanyl, is where it's coming here. We just had the brand new stack
come out of over one hundred thousanddeaths due to this poison that the cartels
continue to come into our country.Now you've heard back in the eighties where
the big crack epidemic and the bigstink that that was done and all it
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was all over the news, andthat was ten thousand deaths. We're at
one hundred thousand. No one blinksan eye in Washington, DC. But
I always tell people when I domy speaking engagements to think of the cartels
as Amazon. When you think ofAmazon, what do you think you think
of a large corporation, billion dollarcorporation, organization distribution. They're everywhere that
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and organized. That's the cartel.They're highly sophisticated, well organized. They
are everywhere in our country, notjust in Mexico. Our government's failure to
have consistent border protections and regulations hasallowed the cartels to develop complex systems to
enter our country illegally and set upvast criminal enterprises that rival those of even
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some legal corporations. Has it gotteneasier under President Biden being at the moment,
Yes, because it is easier togain access to the places we travel
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to. Longtime d E agent DerekMalt says this leaves our federal law enforcement
overwhelmed, outspent, and outgunned ascartels and traffickers push as many people as
possible across the border, so thatborder officials are too overwhelmed to effectively introduce
the trafficking of drugs, guns andmoney. They're flooding the zone. What
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does that mean. They take therafts, they bring the people in,
they bring them right to the borderpatrol. Here you go a border patrol,
but then a mile down you knowthe you know the border, they'll
flood the country with these special interestaliens. They'll flood the country with drugs,
and then they'll open up the wayfor the weapons in the cash to
come south bound. So they're likethey're accomplishing all their goals in their business
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enterprise just by sending the migrantin.And let's not forget how much money they're
charging the migrants to get yet,and now we're seeing for the first time
the tags. They're tagging the migrantslike their cattle to make sure that they're
paying the pisos the taxes right,because if they don't pay the feed to
the cartels, then their family isvulnerable. In these countries, the Republicans
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and Democrats have an incentive to lookthe other way on this border crisis.
They ignore it, they want usto ignore it, and they refuse to
confront it. Some are hoping toturn these migrants into cheap votes. Others
love access to cheap labor. Butin the end, every American is the
victim of this dereliction of duty,and our enemies are taking advantage. It's
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not a Republican and a democratic issue. This is a red, white and
blue issue. All of Marafia willbe impacted. It has been impacted from
this catastrophic crisis that we have withthe cartel's working with China, and it
will continue because right now there's noaction. There's a lot of paul there's
a lot of misleading going on,but there's no action to deal with the
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cartels. In our next episode,we'll explore this connection between these ruthless cartels
and America's greatest adversary on the internationalstage, communist China. I'm Sarah Carter.
I hope you'll join me then mH
I believe in the idea of amnestyfor those who have put down roots and
who have lived here, even thoughsometime back they may have entered illegally.
We're getting much more serious about crackingdown on gun running, drug running,
cash that's flowing down that that's helpingto finance these cartels, and so the
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bill that we've worked hard to craftis an important piece of legislation that addresses
the needs of a failed system,that says we're going to change for the
better. The overwhelming majority of peoplecoming to the border a crossing our beads
sent back our elected officials are lyingto us. We are living in a
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world of disinformation, one where majornews stories are suppressed in the narratives surrounding
mainstream media outlets are curated by biggovernment, big media, and big tech.
Welcome to Dark Wars the Border.I'm Sarah Carter. I've spent the
majority of my career covering immigration andborder issues for newspapers, television, and
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radio. But there's a crisis happeningat our southern border, and I know
many of the people this impacts most. I've never ever ever seen this in
my life. I'm stun the peopleI was traveling with were good people.
The problem was the Coyotes. Theyare people with money and want to buy
organs of kids. One hundred andseven thousand overdosed gas last year alone.
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Marion died two weeks after her twentiethbirthday. Shit, it's in this series.
We'll show you the border like you'venever seen it before. And spoiler
alert, the border sometimes is nowherenear the border because every state is a
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border state. Looking out there,she's just passed out with the needle right
there. Every town is a bordertown, just open air, and yes,
that includes yours right her nine.Derek Maltz is a former special Agent
in charge at the Drug Enforcement Administrationwho served more than thirty years. He
couldn't believe when he and another retiredlaw enforcement officer saw recently during a drive
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through Philadelphia, right here in Kensington. You see them just sitting around shooting
up needles right on the street,open air, passed out with needles in
their arms, passed out. Nobody'sdoing nothing about it. Where's the mayor
of Philadelphia? Kensington? This isthe heart of Kensington. But that little
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scene over there is almost every quarterin this mile radius east west, north
and South. Almost every quarter lookslike that, and he says been drug
used in major American cities is worsenow than it's ever been. I've never
ever, ever seen this in mylife. I'm stunned. My life has
been changed from this trip this weekinto Philadelphia. And the mayor should be
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a shame. Maya Kenny who celebrating, you know, with his assistant last
year or whenever it was when theypassed sanctuary city laws. But what about
these poor people were sending billions ofdollars to Ukraine and other parts of the
world, which which I understand,But what about these people that are desperately
needing help on the streets all overthe country. It isn't just Derek Maltz
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and his friend that are seeing what'shappening on our streets. It's every single
parent, every child that has towalk from point A to point B hoping
that they won't get killed, hopingthat somebody won't cross their path. And
every parent that loses a child tothe War on drugs, or every immigrant
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living in the shadows that is beingkept as a slave. This is what
we're up against. We're up againstthis because nobody else is helping us fight
that war from Washington. You mighthave heard that there's a war at the
border, but it's also a warwhere the weapon is deception and lies.
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It's information warfare, and the onlyway to fight back is to expose the
truth. Who can we trust togive us that truth? Not the majority
of people claiming to be looking afterour interests in Washington. No matter what
you've heard about the border from themedia or many of our elected officials,
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you are being deceived. Do youknow that the greatest propagator of disinformation in
the industry of the world is theUS government? Are you familiar with mcnamaron,
the Pentagon Papers? Are you familiarwith George W. Bush and the
Web of mass destruction? Are you'refamiliar with Iran contract? Kentucky Senator Rand
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Paul, I mean, think ofall the debates and disputes we've had over
the last fifty years in our country. We work them out by debating them.
We don't work them out by thegovernment being the arbitrar. I don't
want to government card rails. Iwant you to have nothing to do with
speech. You think we can't determineYou know, speech by traffickers is disinformation.
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You think the American people are sostupid they need you to tell them
what the truth is. You can'teven admit what the truth is with the
Steel dossier. I don't trust governmentto figure out what the truth is.
Government is largely disseminating disinformation. Thebattle against disinformation is happening on many fronts.
The border crisis is one of themost critical. We're told migrants are
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on a journey of hope and opportunity, but the reality that awaits many of
them is filled with pain, death, and harding. So just I am
very thankful to God because nothing happenedto me. But I do have a
friend who the federal police got herand wanted her to work forced labor,
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prostitution. This is just one ofhundreds, maybe thousands of stories that we
never hear, of children being taken, of women being raped, of people
disappearing on their journey into the UnitedStates and being traumatized even when they come
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here. The sufferings real, andthe truth is sometimes really hard to listen
to, and some of those whocould do the most to confront the problem
are only making it worse. Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp, and other popular
social media platforms are doing little toslow the spread of misinformation and disinformation.
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They're actually making these problems worse byallowing groups to make posts promising migrants high
wage jobs, an easy voyage,and a significantly better life once they reach
the United States. In many cases, these folks end up brutalized. We've
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spent these days in the rivers,in the jungles, in the mountains,
always looking behind us. Yes,of course, not only that, but
the women being raped, the littlegirls being raped. Open borders impact the
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health and safety of our communities anddamage our national security. According to the
Kaiser Family Foundation, twenty two millionillegal immigrants are currently in the United States.
The problem is getting harder to dealwith every year, and especially in
recent years, with people from allover the world pouring across the open southern
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border. They're overwhelming our national andlocal law enforcement agencies, healthcare system,
and even social services. And eventhose who strongly supported sanctuary cities, like
New York City Mayor Eric Adams,see the crisis this is causing. This
is a real burden on New Yorkersas we're trying to do the right thing
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of We already, as I stated, we already have an overburdened shelter system.
So now we're talking about, asyou stated, food clothed school This
is going to impact of our schoolsbecause we do not turn away individuals because
they're undocumented, translation services. Let'sjust a whole host of things that this
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is going to produce, and that'swhy we need help and getting this done,
and we need to write coordination tomake it happen and make it happen.
It can happen. But the problemis not just the tide of humanity
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coming across our border and overwhelming oursystem. It's about our enemies taking advantage
of this chaos to find ways toharm our country, our communities, and
our families. Brian Babin is acongressman from Texas and he's a member of
the House Border Caucus. One hundredand seven thousand overdose desks last year alone,
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the DAS already see twenty point somethingmillion fake prescription pills. These are
these are pills that have you know, who knows what's in them. Many
of them have the finial in them, and they're designed to looking exactly like
a legitimate prescription. The flow ofillegal drugs into the US from the southern
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border is it new. It startedas bootlegging during Prohibition. People were making
money running booze into America over thedesert. That developed into marijuana, and
then the War on drugs began harderdrugs started pouring in over the border,
from heroin and pills to crystal meth. Now drug traffickers are moving fetnyl laced
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counterfeit pills. They are murdering ourchildren in schools and in communities from Florida
to Washington State. Former DA SpecialAgent Derek Maltz, and what they're doing
now is something that we've ever seenin the history of the country. They're
taking poisonous drugs like spent at all, and they're putting them in pills.
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They have pill presses inside of Mexicoand in our country and they're making these
cow to fit oxycodon pills, Xanaxand now even Adderall. We had a
warning by the DBA last week upin New England. They had all these
pills that were labeled as Adderall thatcontained methamphetamy. Well, that's really disturbing
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because the kids that are taking Adderallare very very young. To me,
this is the cartel's conscious decision totarget the kids, so they have customers
for life with methamphetamy. But reallywhat's disturbing is that kids all over the
country and young Americans are taking thesekind of the pills and not waking up.
There's story after story that you seeon social media, and unfortunately you're
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not seeing that on mainstream media.Malta's right, I've seen it. I've
taught to parents who've lost their children. I can't even imagine the pain that
they go through every single day,the loss of a child, a child
that never expected to do or someonein their life that never expected to die
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from just taking a pill. Thecartels are battling each other for access to
transit routes at our border. Borderaccess is the biggest prize for drug and
human traffickers. Think about it.Why is it important? Because they feed
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the bloodline of America. They accessour highway system, and that means traffickers
can move their products over the bordermore easily and efficiently. Once they gain
access to these major transportation hubs likeHouston, TUSA, and Phoenix, San
Antonio or San Diego, they arehome free and they can deliver their poison,
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whether it's drugs, human slaves,or weapons straight into the heart of
America. It weakens our national securityand our communities across the nation. I
met with Sheriff Tom Schmerber of MaverickCounty, Texas, in the border community
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of Eagle Pass. It's a townjust like every other border town. People
are pouring across from all over theworld into their community. And this isn't
just people from Mexico. It's peoplefrom everywhere. Sometimes you look across the
border and there's more than five hundredcoming through into a pecan farm or someone's
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ranch land. The sheriff is frustratedwith the lack of support he's getting from
the federal government. We'll need theresources. Well, it's more of manpower.
I know that we have a wholebunch of work religers, But I
don't blame the order colabers for redimentsof right now, they catch a big
people they have to process if theyhave to do it out of work,
you know. So it means thatif they need to help the need the
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resources. I know how much moreof manpower, the man power and the
equipment. So if they can helpus with that resources, we can maybe
can kill the quarter better. Therecord amounts of drugs crossing that border,
go to cartel owned distribution centers throughoutour country and ultimately lead to the enormous
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numbers of overdose and drug poisoning deathsthat we're experiencing across the nation. Many
of the victims of our drug epidemicsstruggle with insecurities that many of us deal
with every day. I first metHeidi Riggs more than four years ago while
I was working on another documentary entitledNot in Vain. Heidi's only daughter,
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Marin, died two weeks after hertwentieth birthday. The first time she used
heroin, she smoked it. Shesaid it was like seeing the face of
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Maren had a very caring heart,but she also struggled within herself self esteem,
wanting to fit in. She neverthought she was beautiful enough, and
so she struggled with her weight.She was athletic and she was built like
an athlete, but she always wantedthat skinny girl body. She was bullied
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and she really struggled with that.The drugs are creating death and heartache throughout
our nation, and the pain andsuffering face by the vulnerable migrants making the
journey are just as horrifying. Whyare people coming economics. We hear from
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politicians that it's about access to healthcareor people in desperate need of asylum because
they are fleeing political violence. Butthe truth is evident when you talk to
the people from Latin America who reallyknow what is going on. Guatemala is
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an extraordinary country, from its lushtriple canopy jungles to its vast, infertile
farmland where they grow bananas, avocados, coffee, and cocoa beans. It's
also a country rich in history,its ancient Aztec artifacts, the Mayan ruins.
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On a recent visit to Guatemala,I met with President Alejandro Jamata at
its presidential palace. It's right inthe heart of Guatemala City. President Jamata
isn't one to remain silent about thecrisis at the US Mexico border and how
directly affects his nation's people. Hetold me on my recent visit that there
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are solutions to resolving this crisis.Guatemala is perfectly positioned to be the perfect
near shore transportation and shipping costs havegone up incredibly from here to the United
States. It is cheaper if thetrain is put into operation, we could
have a container in Chicago in threedays. It would be cheaper than having
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maritime transportation. If we have UScompanies here, for example, yarn or
parts assembly companies, we could generatethousands of jobs in Guatemala. These people
would not leave, but it wouldbe considerably cheaper for the United States itself,
which would cause their own products tobe cheaper because they would not have
any additional costs. One, wehave a free trade agreement with the United
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States. We have a free tradeagreement with Mexico, which means that either
through NAFTA or KAFTA, we couldbring those products into the United States and
it would be cheaper for Americans.Countries in Central America are concerned about the
massive green in human capital. Guatemalaand other Latin American nations want a good
relationship with the United States, butaccording to officials in Guatemala, our State
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Department plays political favorites, becoming intimatelyinvolved in their politics. Leaders like Jamata
are trying to keep up with theircountry's problems, but he says the deep
state within the State Department is contributingto their failure to advance economically. To
the vast migration to the US border, Lacey Stancia. Why do they insist
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not the Department of State, butthe deep state department. They want to
label us as a country that violateshuman rights when we are fighting to overcome
the causes that originate from social exclusion, marginalization, and poverty. There's no
other way to do it than througheconomic growth. Is the deep deep state
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of the State Department and those workingI'm assuming on the left side in your
opinion, want from Guatemala. Whatdo they want you to do in an
effort? It's easy to answer,they don't like me. They would like
to have something like Columbia or evenVenezuela here. Our State Department knows the
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problems in Latin America and exacerbates them. It is easy to blame corruption and
drug dealing on Central and South Americancountries, but we take advantage of their
systems to benefit us in the shortterm. It is a short sided policy
that hurts Americans and the people whodare to make the long and dangerous journey
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to our southern border. I metthis woman in Guatemala City who had made
her way to the United States beingtrafficked by coyotes. Those are the people
that move the people on the ground. The drug car tells she passed through
multiple nations and when she reached theUnited States, her situation even became worse,
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more dire, and eventually she repatriatedherself back to Guatemala. The people
I was traveling with were good people. The problem was the coyotes. What
happened was the coyotes threatened to abandonme. They told me I had to
pay more money, and then theycalled and sent messages and the people I
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was with had to come up withthe money that was just to get to
Rhinos. This woman left her twoyear old in Guatemala. Many parents that
make it to the US illegally thensent for their children. Years later,
those children are trafficked by strangers senton a dangerous journey to reach the US
Mexico border. Meanwhile, Americans wholeave their kids in their car for just
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a few minutes while popping into astore are treated differently. Chris Cabrera is
vice president of the National Border PatrolCouncil. If you left your kid in
the car for five minutes while youran into get some some uh milk at
Walmart, Um, you're you're gettinglocked up. Um, you're you're abandoning
that kid, or you're endangering thatkid. Um. But yet we see
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people, um, you know,grown women with a newborn literally days old,
on a four person raft with twentyseven people on there and they're crossing
the river, and that that's endangeringthat child. Or you see a seven
year old girl, which I seetime and time again, a seven year
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old girl that is traveling by herselfin a group full of older boys and
men and maybe one or two womenin there. And luckily somebody always grabbed,
you know, guards that child andkind of takes them under their wing.
But imagine that doesn't always happen.How bad is it here? We
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are in the twenty twenties and slaveryis a serious problem in the United States.
It runs bigger and runs much deeperthan a lot of us think.
Sex abuse and rape are common duringmigration of more than forty million slaves worldwide
in two sixteen, four hundred andthree thousand of those people who were modern
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day slaves in the United States,And with the border crisis we're seeing today,
I can promise you that number isn'tgetting smaller. For many kids,
the journey is not just a onetime border. Many unaccompanied children are used
by cartels and traffickers over and overagain to facilitate their criminal activities. Tennessee
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Senator Marsha Blackburn explains how this horrificprocess works and how you, as border
patrol officials expect the worst. Theyshow up, they get abandoned after the
person gets across the border. Thenthey get turned around and sent it back
to their family. Sometimes the personin charge of them is with the cartel.
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They get assigned to another family theycome back over. It is the
cartel's child recycling program. It isatrocious. Young girls as young as ten,
eleven, twelve who come into ourcustody have to be given pregnancy tests
because of the violation that has takenplace against women in worlds. It is
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as a national security crisis, ishumanitarian crisis, and environmental crisis. The
total number of people abused along theway and who remain in slavery after they
get to the US is horrific enough. But remember that each of these victims
is a person who deserves dignity andrespect and is violated an unspeakable way.
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There are people I meet along theborder, sometimes as young as fifteen thirteen,
sometimes in their twenties. Many ofthe women that I speak with,
many of them have been violated.That's how they say it. They say
violada, or they just sit thereand cry because they don't even know who
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to trust anymore. They spend theirtime protecting themselves or disengaging their mind from
the physical abuse that is happening totheir bodies. You can't even imagine,
they say for many of them,what we've been through. I was very
afraid. I thought my life wasnot in my hands anymore, it was
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in theirs. I was very scared. I'm very thankful to God because nothing
happened to me. But I dohave a friend who the federal police got
her and wanted her to work forcedlabor prostitution. I'm also scared about the
a children who are crossing alone.I don't recommend it to anyone, and
it's a really harsh journey, especiallyfor children. What did they want her
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to do? Okay kid and kayaSieta. The sad fact is thousands of
women and girls have similar stories.US lawmakers like Congressman Greg Murphy argue that
this is unconscionable abuse and should notand cannot continue. We've known now that
a third of the women who arecoming across the border have been sexually abused,
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correct, Okay, a third.And you think about the vulnerability of
those girls who are coming in thathave no parental guidance, they have no
parental protection and thrusting them into thecountry, Just think the number that will
be sold into literal sex slavery.We mean is we're living, as we
said before, in a bizarre world. Rape doesn't end at the border.
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Unfortunately, for many young women andgirls, that abuse is just the beginning.
Rossio Rosco is an activist from Mexicowho is fighting against human trafficking,
slavery, and even more terrible outcomes. You know, forty percent of these
ladies will die in a very violentways. That's their numbers, and it's
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terrible. So many of them arekilled in in the worst nightmare that you
can imagine. For the migrants luckyenough to escape being sold into sex slavery,
a different fate of ways, andalmost none of the options are good.
Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany has made ithis personal mission to expose what is
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happening at the border. He traveledto the Panamanian jungle into the most dangerous
area of the Darian Gap to bringthe truth to the American people, and
one that he says affects his communitypersonally. They continue to get pushed up
the pipeline until they get to theUnited States, and every step of the
way they pay, and they paythe smugglers and others, and in meantime
(27:08):
some of them die. All ofthem are paying a ransom to get into
America. And we're hearing that manypeople end up as indentured servants when they
get here to America where they gotto send money back to the smugglers,
the cartels, the coyotes and allthe rep traffickers often lore migrants and people
from poor rural areas in Mexico andLatin America with offers of better paying jobs,
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only to reach the US and workfor little pay. Threats of deportation
or even violence against their families areheld over their heads, and if they
can't pay their debts, they'll oftenend up dead. I want you to
listen to this man. He's ahuman trafficker. We'll call him Mario.
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I met him in Guatemala City atan undisclosed location. I was terrified of
what might happen if we were discoveredthere with him. He was at first
quiet and reserved, and then heexplained why he wanted to talk to me.
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So I got They are people withmoney that want to buy the organs
of kids, and it's not onlyfor a country. They take it to
different countries, and normally they dothis with clinics that are not authorized.
That's why so many people who havetraveled a long way are discouraging others from
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bringing their children, or sending fortheir children, or making the same terrible
mistake in deciding to leave. Yeah, I could bring them another way,
God willing, I would, butfrom what I've been through, I wouldn't
recommend this for anyone. We've spentthese days in the rivers, in the
jungles, in the always looking behindus. Yes, of course, not
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only that, but the women beingraped, the little girls being raped.
But it is something I had todo for the benefit of my family.
Organized crime syndicates are trafficking human beingsand drugs into our country, and that
exposes our nation to a litany ofother threats. These organizations are only loyal
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to the bottom dollar, no loyaltyto their country or hours. Imagine what
can happen when you give them thisaccess. The border is so much different
now, even from when I wasyoung. I mean, I remember,
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you know, being eighteen nineteen twentyyears old in California, and it was
still dangers back then. The ArdrianoFelix Cartel was in control of Tiajuana.
But I would go across the borderwith my brother, with our family and
with our friends, maybe down toRosarita Beach. In those days, there
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was no immigration inthing like that.You can go to Mexico, stay where
there, come back. There wassess things, immigration papers and anything like
that. You know. Some somefamilies, like my wife grandmother, she
grew up in Carriso, but thenher mother decided to go back to Mexico
instead of saved here and they wentto Mexico, you know. And some
people by by versa because there wasno slice thing as the order, and
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in fact that you know, we'dspend time their shopping, enjoying the weather
and enjoying the beach, enjoying thecommunities. Don't all the sudden when I
came here and the pass pass someportulation, I saw of people that were
from the city, from the townswalking Wow, I mean, and they
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were starting to sound. Would youknow, the sound would not make it,
and so forth, and that asmuch as right now you don't mean.
But slowly it started shifting. Thecartels undercurrent wasn't hidden anymore. Police
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were beheaded, their heads put onstakes along the highway in Rosarita. Gang
violence took over the streets, shootings, robberies. People were afraid. They
didn't want to go anymore. Wedidn't want to take those trips into Mexico.
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And it was a very difficult timeand has been a very difficult time
for people in all the border communitiesfrom California all the way to Texas.
The situation of the US Mexico borderis making it more dangerous for all of
us. Different groups of drug andhuman traffickers are engaging in vicious power struggles
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over money. These massive nefarious organizationsare fueling bribery, blackmail, and corruption
on both sides of the border,and they are destroying the trust between the
United States and Mexico. This putsall of us in danger because the countries
need to work together to solve themany complex and evolving national security issues that
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are happening along the two thousand milelong border. From terrorism, to trafficking
to disease. If we cast threethousand people a day crossing the border,
we're barely able to vet them.That's just way too many, Arizona Congressman
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Andy Biggs as a member of theHouse Border Caucus. But we know that
we at least one to one,at least one, when some estimates as
high as three and four and fiveto one are getaways. And if that's
the case, you have anywhere fromthree to ten thousand people at day practically
coming across the border. We haveno idea who they are. The COVID
nineteen pandemic highlights some of the healthrisks posed by people crossing the border unchecked.
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But what about the next pandemic?Polio from unvaccinated migrants, Drug resistant
tuberculosis, and monkey pocks have allbeen documented, and unhealthy holding facilities make
these problems worse. Congressman Big says, they also put American lives at risk.
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They can have any kind of disease. I was at Antelope Wells what
a year and a half ago,and I was talking right during the surge.
I was talking to an official thereand I said, what diseases have
you seen? He starts going througheverything from leprosy to smallpox. And then
he says, and then there wasa disease where a guy's arm is literally
being eaten away by something, bacteriaor something, and nobody could ever identify
(34:09):
what the disease was. And we'resitting here. They're not doing a rapid
test on COVID either, down there, Sarah, and the Biden plan is
to just cancing release these people backinto the United States. People are being
released without a full medical checkup.How much sense does that make. America's
policies are exacerbating national security issues.Meanwhile, politicians like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
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Majorchis are telling us everything is undercontrol. We have effectively managed an unprecedented
number of non citizens seeking to enterthe United States. Then there are the
people who come into the US whoevade our border patrol. There are roughly
nine hundred thousand goataways since President Bidentook office. And these are only the
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people that we know that god away. We have no idea exactly how many
there really are, or even whothey are. Some even have links to
terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hamas, And that has Congressman Tiffany worried that
we're opening ourselves up to another terroristattack. The thing that is the greatest
(35:19):
concern to me is the national securityimplication, because when you see people coming
here from Somalia, you're coming fromIran, They're coming from places around the
world, people coming from China,and this is a real concern for us.
Where it's easy to melt into thetens of thousands of people that are
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steadily coming up day after day andbe able to come into our country as
a free path. And all peoplehave to do is look back to twenty
fifteen with the mass migration that happenedfrom the Middle East into Europe and all
the terrorist bombings and things like thatthat happened after that. We're setting ourselves
up to do the same thing.In America. The government can't even answer
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what happened to them, more thaneighty people from the terrorist watch list after
they were apprehended at our border.As we learned within nine to eleven and
other terrorist attacks, it doesn't takevery many people with evil intentions to change
our country forever. Senator Marsha Blackburneunderstands how vital it is to stop the
flow of people crossing our southern borderillegally and the damage it can do throughout
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the US. At the southern border, this year, our border patrol has
apprehended people that are on the terroristwatch list. They have apprehended known gang
members that are coming into this countryfor probably no good. They are our
adversaries. They are not here toget a job. They are here to
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sell drugs, to traffic people,to create chaos in local communities. And
this is why every towns a bordertown and every state is a border state.
In Blackburn's home state of Tennessee,the federal government was exposed for trying
to sneak in migrants, including unaccompaniedminers. These people were arriving in the
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middle of the night on planes andbuses to communities that had no idea they
were coming. Local officials had notime to come up with a plan on
how to care for or support themigrants. This cavalier approach to open borders
is hurting our nation and weakens theLatin American nations the migrants are coming from.
If we want better border security,we should be working together with our
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Central American allies, not against them. It's a message that Guatemalan President Alejandro
Jamate is begging the US government tohear, but that message is falling on
deaf ears. Did you ever expressall of these concerns to the Biden administration?
I know, I know you didn'tattend the summer types a few times.
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What was their response to you.I'm waiting. So you have not
received any significant response from the Bidenadministration with regard to the border policies.
Well, where the borders are?It's difficult to lie, and the answer
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I cannot lie, I cannot lay. For decades, the US government has
had a failed Latin American policy.We treat these nations and people like they
are the help, like third worldnations. We have failed badly with our
diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere, andas a result, we are endangering our
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own national security. Most Americans haveno idea what we're up against. Drugs,
America's overdose epidemic, human trafficking,slavery, and threats to national security.
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What brings all those things to Americaevery day? The cartels. In
the nineteen eighties, the cartels amassedenough money and power to take on the
US government. All right, Anne, thank you. Meanwhile, they search
for the killers of US Drug Enforcementagent Enrique Camarena. Salazars in high gear
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tonight started with the nineteen eighty fivekidnapping, torture, and execution of undercover
Dagent Enrique Kiki Camarena. After that, US agents on both sides of the
border, but especially in Mexico,knew that they were being watched, tracked,
and in some cases hunted. That'swhat happened to retired Immigration and Customs
(39:58):
Enforcement Special Supervisory Agent Victor Avela ashe and his partner him Zapata were ambushed
by cartel gunman back on twenty specially. Asian Hymisabata and I were attacked on
Highway fifty seven, which is amain corridor between Mexico City that we would
travel this road to go up toTexas on the way back from an assignment.
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We were ambushed by Lozetta's cartel andshot over one hundred rounds and especially
Himasabata tragically lost his life in theline of duty. Next to me,
I was shot three times and oncein my chest, twice in my left
leg, and I am here,by the grace of God to be able
to share the story. Avila wascritically wounded during the attack and left before
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the ambulance could reach him, becausehe was terrified that rescue workers or even
nearby hospitals were infiltrated by the samecartel that tried to murder him and his
partner. The cartel bullets that targetedZabata and Avola were traced to guns trafficked
into Mexico by Operation Fast and Furious. The operation was a failed and controversial
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US Justice Department operation which allowed thousandsof weapons from our nation to fall into
the hands of Mexican drug cartels.But if you talk to anyone who has
worked in law enforcement on the border, there is one fact they all acknowledge.
Drugs and humans come north while moneyand weapons flow south. A retired
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DA agent who wishes to remain anonymousbecause of his continuing work in the region
is going by the name of Ralph. He's seen the war on drugs up
close and personal with the cartels thatoperate along the border. They control the
migrant flow. They control also thedrug flow what goes into the area.
As for money being sent down toMexico, they also control that part.
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Most of the money that is transportedinto Mexico, it's you know, it's
transported and ball cash and concealed compartments. Some of it is done also by
wiry metter service using different types ofwire service companies like Cega or Western Union.
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Some of these companies have been involved. I mean I have been fined
by them by the US government andhave paid health defiance. Our federal agencies
are limited by their own regulations andlaw. They are also limited financially by
budgets. Cartels have unlimited resources andthey are not bound by any legal constraints.
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Think about this. You're working inuniform on the border. You're being
watched, they're collecting your data,you're being wire tapped, and you can't
fight back. Cartels are operating onboth sides of the border, while US
Border Patrol agents are on just oneside. They're unsure if they can trust
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their Mexican counterparts. Chris Olivars fromthe Texas Department of Public Safety says,
there's no doubt the cartels are gettingmore brazen and more violent. These are
violent individuals. They have no regardfor human life. And we're talking about
when they are when they are publicizingtheir their acts of violence by beheading people,
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dismembering people, you know, settingpeople on fire, you know,
firing against you know, military andlaw enforcement on the Mexican side. These
are these are violent criminals. Theseare violent individuals. So just to put
that in perspective, think about thepeople that are coming across into Mexico.
They have to deal with these individualswho are going to allow them if they
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if they will allow them to crossinto the US. Because they got to
pay to get across. It's notfree. They're going to expect they're profiting
off this situation right now. Andthat's another that's another issue right there is
in itself is that you know,we're allowing this to take place, so
we are enriching these cartels even more. They are well armed. Some of
the weapons are flowing from America downto Mexico and then turned against our border
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agents and law enforcement. We cannotleast focus on the threats on the southern
border from the cartels because you know, we've shared plenty of photos and different
events that have taken place along theborder. When it comes to drugs and
weapons that are going south, we'retalking about military grade weapons, fully automatic
weapons, fifty caliber rifles that arecoming across, going into Mexico to supply
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the cartels, and it is athreat. It is a threat because they
were within miles from the southern border, and you see how they are,
the power that they have, andhow enriched they are because they're able to
corrupt not only in Mexico but aswell on the US side. So they
are very powerful, very brazen andwhat they do, and it is a
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serious threat that we shall all beconcerned about. The cartels have hundreds of
billions of dollars in illicit funding,and Victor Able says they are willing to
outspend even the American government over accessto the poorest US border. They don't
have a budget. Their budget islimitless, and they have a lot more
money that the United States has tocombat them. And plus they're headquartered in
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Mexico, but they're everywhere around theworld in over forty countries, number one
in the United States. Because theproduct that drugs, the methamphetamine, the
fetanyl, is where it's coming here. We just had the brand new stack
come out of over one hundred thousanddeaths due to this poison that the cartels
continue to come into our country.Now you've heard back in the eighties where
the big crack epidemic and the bigstink that that was done and all it
(45:37):
was all over the news, andthat was ten thousand deaths. We're at
one hundred thousand. No one blinksan eye in Washington, DC. But
I always tell people when I domy speaking engagements to think of the cartels
as Amazon. When you think ofAmazon, what do you think you think
of a large corporation, billion dollarcorporation, organization distribution. They're everywhere that
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and organized. That's the cartel.They're highly sophisticated, well organized. They
are everywhere in our country, notjust in Mexico. Our government's failure to
have consistent border protections and regulations hasallowed the cartels to develop complex systems to
enter our country illegally and set upvast criminal enterprises that rival those of even
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some legal corporations. Has it gotteneasier under President Biden being at the moment,
Yes, because it is easier togain access to the places we travel
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to. Longtime d E agent DerekMalt says this leaves our federal law enforcement
overwhelmed, outspent, and outgunned ascartels and traffickers push as many people as
possible across the border, so thatborder officials are too overwhelmed to effectively introduce
the trafficking of drugs, guns andmoney. They're flooding the zone. What
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does that mean. They take therafts, they bring the people in,
they bring them right to the borderpatrol. Here you go a border patrol,
but then a mile down you knowthe you know the border, they'll
flood the country with these special interestaliens. They'll flood the country with drugs,
and then they'll open up the wayfor the weapons in the cash to
come south bound. So they're likethey're accomplishing all their goals in their business
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enterprise just by sending the migrantin.And let's not forget how much money they're
charging the migrants to get yet,and now we're seeing for the first time
the tags. They're tagging the migrantslike their cattle to make sure that they're
paying the pisos the taxes right,because if they don't pay the feed to
the cartels, then their family isvulnerable. In these countries, the Republicans
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and Democrats have an incentive to lookthe other way on this border crisis.
They ignore it, they want usto ignore it, and they refuse to
confront it. Some are hoping toturn these migrants into cheap votes. Others
love access to cheap labor. Butin the end, every American is the
victim of this dereliction of duty,and our enemies are taking advantage. It's
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not a Republican and a democratic issue. This is a red, white and
blue issue. All of Marafia willbe impacted. It has been impacted from
this catastrophic crisis that we have withthe cartel's working with China, and it
will continue because right now there's noaction. There's a lot of paul there's
a lot of misleading going on,but there's no action to deal with the
(48:38):
cartels. In our next episode,we'll explore this connection between these ruthless cartels
and America's greatest adversary on the internationalstage, communist China. I'm Sarah Carter.
I hope you'll join me then mH
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