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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's do something completely different.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
So careful listeners to the show may recall that several
months ago I had a gentleman on the show named
Morgan Lorette. And Morgan wrote a book called Guns Girls
in Greed. I was a blackwater mercenary in Iraq. A
very interesting book, a very irreverent book, full of all
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kinds of art X rated stories and really a lot
of fun to read. And Morgan has kind of a
normal job now, but I wouldn't I wouldn't say that
makes him a normal person, but he has kind of
a normal job right now. And and Morgan sent me
a link to a newspaper article at the New York
Post yesterday where he's quoted, and the headline of the
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article is thousands hold on a second. Thousands of kids
vanished during Biden's border chaos, condemned to conveyor belt of
rape and abuse. And this is a pretty intense story,
I have to say. And what Morgan believes is happening
is something I want to let him share on the show.
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And we'll talk about as well, his level of certainty
regarding what he's going to share with us.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Now, Morgan Lorent welcome back to Koa. It's good to
have you here.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, thanks for having me Ross, I appreciate it. I
know this sounds like a conspiracy theory and your listeners
can't see me, but I do not have a tenfoil.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hat on, So jump right in and tell us what
you believe is has been and maybe continues to happen.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So, essentially, the government incompetence has brought in so many
migrants under the Biden administration, and specifically migrant children, and
they've lost over four hundred thousand of these kids. And
you've seen this in the news and RFK Junior has
talked about it, Tim or Yeah, Tim Homan is also
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talking about it. Because right now what's happening is the
Trump administration is trying to find all of these children
that were brought in that were lost in the system.
And the problem is is that these kids, once they
were lost, have been shown to be sold into sex trafficking.
There was just a big bust in California where there
were eight unaccompanied miners that were working at a marijuana farm.
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And these kids are being exploited once they got into
the United States by the very smugglers and the cartels
that were bringing them in.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
So okay, I believe all that.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's disgusting and it's believable, and the cartels will do
anything to anybody for a few dollars, so that's all believable.
You continue, though, with how you think this is happening,
in that you believe that private military contractors, that Americans
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are being paid by the federal government government to perform
a function that at least indirectly and maybe even direct
lee helps the cartels and others who don't have the
best intentions, let's say for these unaccompanied illegal alien miners
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one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So you have to understand that the cartels are a
business and they look at these children as being a commodity.
So I'll walk you through the supply chain. So a
cartel member drops off an unaccompanied miner at the border,
border patrol cannot question them, they cannot fingerprint them, they
can't do biometrics data. This all goes back to like
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the kids in cages under the Obama administration. Also, you
have to have those kids out of custody for border
patrol within seventy two hours.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So Department of.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Homeland Security contracted private military contractors. The company is MVM
Mike Victor Mike, and they move these children from the
border to a location within the United States. Now this
is where it starts getting obscured because once they get
them to that location, they hand them off to a
nonprofit and that is contracted through Health and Human Services
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under the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And I know everybody's a little bit lost, but you could,
you could document all of this.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
What happens is those contractors, those nonprofits are supposed to
identify the sponsors of those children and then hand them off.
What's not happening is they are not going through and
vetting the sponsorship in order to make sure that hey,
you're dropping this kid off with their grandparents, with their
aunt with something. And there's been a number of news
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articles that talk about the application process where these locations
and these people are storage units or they're a strip club,
and those are you know, those are the outliers. But
at the end of the day, what happens is that
cartel member can tell the child once you get to
let's say, Kentucky, this is your sponsor, Tell DHS this,
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tell that nonprofit that this is your sponsor, and then
they're able to grab them on the other side, and
that's where you see them extorting the family saying, hey,
I know you pay this ten thousand dollars to get
your kid across. Your kid is across, but we're going
to make you pay another ten thousand or if they
can't pay, that's when they start selling them to individuals
that will use them for labor or sex trafficking or
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any other nefarious thing that you can think of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
All right, So let me just make sure I understand
what you're saying here. So, and this I think was
a much bigger problem during the Biden administration than now,
just because the border is so much more secure, right, correct, Okay,
So what I think you're saying, tell me if I've
got this right. So unaccompanied minor would show up at
the border. Border patrol has rules that they have to
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abide by. We've got to process these kids and have
them out from our custody within seventy two hours. The
government pays private military contractors Americans to truck them somewhere,
you know, from El Paso to Seattle or Chicago or
who knows, and then they hand them off to a
nonprofit that is also being paid by the government. That
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is supposed to make sure that the kids then get
delivered to actual sponsors and safe situations. But you're saying,
at least some of the time, and maybe a lot
of the time, the nonprofits either don't or can't actually
verify that and end up handing these kids back into
the tender mercies.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Of the cartels somehow. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
That is correct?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's like that Spider Man meme where everybody's pointing at
everybody else saying, oh, you're supposed to find their sponsor.
You're supposed to find their sponsor, and then nobody actually
does it. And this is what happens when you start
contracting out I would say morality, right, you're contracting out
the morality of moving these kids and making sure that
they have a sponsor. But the people that are assigned
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to do it through that third party do not feel
that same obligation as somebody that, say, works for border
patrol or works for health in human services, So they
just are getting them through the conveyor belt to make
sure that they're getting paid.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I wonder a little bit, and I'm sure you wonder
more than a little bit since you were a private
military contractor. I mean even in your book, as wild
as your book, Guns, Girls and Greed is there's this
thread that runs through it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That you have.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
A code that not only you live by, but that
you expect members of the military to live by, members
of our government.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
To live by, and so on.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And I'm very curious how you think about the private
military contractors who take these jobs to transport these kids
from the border to wherever they're going, because I can.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Imagine, on the one hand.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
These PMCs think, well, it's just a government contract and
I'm helping ice, I'm helping border patrol and performing a
service that they need. Or I could imagine a PMC
kind of knowing what the other end looks like and saying,
I wonder if I'm kind of sort of a low
level trafficker of children here.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, I mean it's it's if you look at it holistically,
there's a lot of scumbaggery. And I don't know if
that's a real word, But at the end of the day,
I would never take a job like this. They're they're
just the mores, And the morality of something like this
is something that is a bridge too far for me.
And when I reached out to people that were doing
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this job. Their excuse was, well, if I didn't do it,
somebody else would.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Do it right.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
And and that's kind of the folly of being a
private military contractor is is you can justify almost anything
to make sure that you're getting your paycheck, but you
don't have to answer to anybody like MVM. And those
guys aren't answering to Department of Homeland Security because it's
all legal. It's it's a difficult situation.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
And maybe I'm going to give somebody these guys a
benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Maybe they didn't understand what was happening on the back
end when they dropped these kids off. But at the
same time, it's your job to sit there and look
at it holistically and say, am I doing that good?
Or am I doing that bad? And why nobody has
blown the whistle on this that actually had that job
is beyond me. Somebody should be raising their hands saying
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this is bad.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
What's the scale of this problem as you see it,
either in percentage terms or in absolute number terms, as
far as unaccompanied illegal alien miners who end up being
dropped off with or into a situation that is not
what you would want or expect right, like not with grandparents,
not with an aunt, but into something that's either bad
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or unknown.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So based on the current numbers, there was approximately four
hundred and fifty thousand on a company miners that were lost.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You know, they couldn't find them.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
DHS went out and tried to contact the sponsor, go
to the location, couldn't find these kids.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
So four hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
As they have flexed the resources to go and find
these children, and I think it's approximately eighty five thousand
kids are still.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Unable to be found.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
So you're looking at one out of every five of
these kids came through and we still can't find them.
I mean, we found eight of them yesterday when we
did the drug bust at the marijuana facility in California.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But that's the.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Problem is you got eighty five thousand people and you're
finding onesies and twosies. It's not like they're just sitting
in one spot where you can go in and say, oh, hey,
we found fifty thousand of them.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
That's never going to happen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It's going to take years and years to be able
to get through and find these children.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
The article in the New York Post, which is linked
on my blog today is entitled thousands of kids vanished
during Biden's Border chaos Condemned to conveyor belt of rape
and abuse, And that alone is a horrific enough headline
and concept, and then you start thinking about, as Morgan
is exposing here, the involvement of the United States government
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and private military contractors and nonprofits and apparently delivering many
of these children into situations that no child should ever
be delivered into. Morgan Lorette's book, which is, by the way,
a really fun read, but you better be ready for
some art X rated stuff, is Guns Girls in Greed.
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I Was a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq. A fun summer read.
If you if you, if you know what you're in for,
It's a really fun book.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Morgan.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Last question for you, how much, if at all, do
you miss that life? You know?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It kind of tries to pull me into it a
little bit. They have the contractors in Gaza. Every time
there's a contract, somebody reaches out and says, hey, do
you want to do this?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And that was twenty years ago, So there's.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
A little tiny part of me that says I can
still do it. I'm still cool and then I wake
up in my back hurts because you know, I slept wrong,
and yeah, maybe I don't want to be part of that.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
What's the what was the last phone call you got
about an open contract where you spent more than two
minutes considering whether you might do it?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh, the Gaza contract.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Those guys are making fifteen hundred dollars a day right
now moving humanitarian aid from Israel into Gaza. Fifteen hundred
dollars a day.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's half a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, you got you gotta think that went through for
at least four minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Wow, and you decided know because of the risk or
your age or you just or what?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, well, it's the legal ambiguity. What we're seeing with
private military contractors is they're starting to work for foreign governments,
not just the US now, So UG Solutions has that contract.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, And if you're in Israel or you're.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
In Gaza and something happens, who has legal jurisdiction over you?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Is it the US? Is it Israel? Is it the past, Indians?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Is it? You know?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
The UN who knows?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And the concern is that if something bad does happen,
the US government has enough plausible diet deniability.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
The same way with these kids, where they can.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Say, oh, that was just app that's a bad contractor
do it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Do what you want with him?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So are you?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I wouldn't do it just based on that.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Plus I don't want to be on YouTube, you know
where the guy's behind me screaming all.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
The acbar with a K bar. Yeah, no, that's that's
for sure. I wouldn't want that either.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I don't and I don't recall if you're married, but
if you are, your wife wouldn't want that either.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know some days.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Morgan Laurett's book is Guns, Girls in Greed. I was
a blackwater mercenary in Iraq. Thanks for getting in touch,
Thanks for the great conversation.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Take care of us all right YouTube Morgan