What's the story, Raul? Right
now we're going to go look for one. We've got some things set
up, they're just not confirmed yet. So meanwhile, we'll go
look for a story. But the goal is to find a rancher, right? We
will find a rancher! We will find a rancher. We're going to
stumble across one in somebody's Ranch. Okay, Raul has
not let us down once this trip, so I'm confident we're going to
get into a rancher's life here and see what he has
to say. We're headed to a park over here in Penitas, where
they caught a few hundred illegal aliens earlier not too
long ago, maybe within the last 30 minutes or something, so I'm
going to try to stumble across that. Basically, they got a bunch of
illegal aliens are crossing a little while ago, maybe within
the last 30 minutes. What they do is they come to
this park here. It's a part of the little city of
Penitas. Usually you got families playing here in the
afternoons, walking and stuff like that. Okay, so here's what I was just
told. This is a group that just came over. River's not far away.
Most of these people have been at it for months from Central
America. As you can see, it's families, it's
mothers, it’s children's fathers. I'm sure the vast
majority are very good people coming from bad circumstances.
Now the problem that I've realised over the week here,
talking to different people, is when this is happening: you
have US Border patrol putting their resources here. Somewhere
else maybe, half a mile - a mile down there well, that's when
the dark stuff happens. And that's when, you know, the drugs
are moving across, the dark human trafficking - that sort of
stuff is happening at this time. I think the reason why
Border Patrol is not against me being right up on their space
is because there's a gag order. It's not written, but it's
the facto - nobody can talk about anything, and I think they want
the story shown, because it's currently.. well, not really out
there. Can you just ask him how many months they've been at it?
For how many months? 1 month 2 months. Honduras,
Guatemala? Honduras. But it is heartbreaking, it is! It's
brutal, and you're seeing that, you're seeing the actual thing
yourself. You're seeing these little kids.. Luckily, there are
no babies crying or anything. I said that's heartbreaking.
I found this thrown. That right there, if you look at it, it’s..
that's an undercover unit right there.. This is
a property bag. Basically they put their property into a
little bag, and then they they take off the seal
here and then they'll give this to the person, if they have money in it or
whatever. They'll put their name on it, so they'll take it,
they'll put their property and store it away, and they'll give
them this, because this is their little receipt. Basically the
receipt number, the receipt will say, you know, I need my
property back, here's the tag. They'll look for the
property, and they'll give them back their little bag with
other stuff in it. Transport van? Yes, it's an empty
transport van hitting that way to go pick up everybody else.
Yeah, the look in their eyes.. You know, just
tired and fearful and powerless, you know.. They never
know what's going to happen on their journey! You
never know what's going to happen, and that's the
screwed up part. You know what, at the end of the day,
something might happen to one of these females and their
family members right there, but they don't say nothing or they
can't do nothing because they're helpless also,
they're in a helpless situation. At the end of the day we all come
from somewhere in this world some time or another. United States
is a multi body, they all started off from somewhere else, and came to this
country and moved on since then. Other than the Native Americans,
we're all immigrants. I had a discussion last night, I
was watching a video from New Mexico, they were protesting about people
coming across, illegals and all that stuff. An Indian guy showed up and
and he said: “Wait a minute. What are you all talking about?
All of you are illegal! You all came into my country!”
It's all perspective, right? Yes. Well.. tell me one country that
doesn't have a sh*ty history with a bunch of darkness to it.
Doesn't discredit any of it, but look at any country in the
world, whether that be Turkey, Russia.. But anyways, this is the
only country in the world that will allow what's happening to
happen. Any other country.. No, like.. Italy we'll be doing this too. You're right, Italy.
You know, but didn’t they.. didn't they put a stop to
that also? I don't know where it's at right now in Italy. If
I'm not mistaken they, they put a stop to it, because they had
that problem where all of a sudden, everybody went to them
and then they got so much.. They don't know what to
do either. I saw last summer when I was there, I talked to a
guy that came from Afghanistan. He tried eleven times, his
buddy got shot at the Hungarian border, he finally got in.
Nicest guy ever! He was like.. That guy taught me something,
he said: never give up. Right? Yeah. I mean the guy was at it
for years. I agree with you, I agree that there needs to be a
legal process, because we are a country of laws and the second
we lose that, then we turn into a much sh*ttier country. What do we
have once we lose that? Then we turn into.. Laws are set,
so there's no chaos or to prevent chaos. Imagine if we
had no laws, everybody did whatever the hell they wanted
to. Yeah.. You wouldn't be holding that camera, someone was
taking it from you. Yeah, I've been in these places, it’s not
healthy. Yeah. It's almost unbelievable, but
Raul saying we're going to get on a boat. We're going to try
to get on it at least. We don't have our passports, but he's
saying we could probably get over with IDs, get on a boat.. And
they're pulling five-six cars? Yeah. It's a ferry. A ferry
by hand with a rope. Can you believe that? I can't believe
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So what do you think with these people living here? Some of
them are probably stash houses, right? They're taking the
migrants in, some of them? Well, I would think maybe the abandoned
buildings or abandoned houses. There’s people hiding in them and stuff, because you
got broken windows where people go in. What's up with this town? What happened? Look at that door is
wide open. So here's an example of what Raul was talking about:
a lot of abandoned houses and migrants can go and hide.
So you can see the grass is trampled down and stuff, so you
can tell people have walked through here or something's
gone through there enough to crash down the grass.
So with the amount of flow you can easily see how someone can
be cruising like this and pick up whomever, right? Yes.
Oh, look at this. That's great. Bro, I’m going to just
check this really quickly. Okay
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I don't know, I guess this must
have been an old border stop here, sort of a tourist zone.
Snow cones, ice cream, hats, caps, t-shirts, and then a bar
over here. One of the very beautiful things about America
is it’s.. or the United States is that it's so mixed up. It's
almost like, especially these days with the way different
states have taken the COVID and other issues, feels like almost
going to different countries within the same country. Duty free is closed. Yeah, it doesn't look
like a ferry, Raul. Yeah. I haven't been here in a while either, so.. There's a ferry with the
rope? Yeah. It's like I haven't been in years. That's why.
Yeah. What's this here? Pedestrians cost $2, bicycles $2, motorcycles $3, cars and
pickups $5, very good prices to get across. Thank you! Take
care. What a business! Nice to meet you! Nice to meet you! Where
you come from? California. Okay. My name is Tommy Garcia, the
captain and the business manager. Alright guys, I love
border crossings in the world because you get sometimes funky
situations like this, that you could never imagine. The only,
you're saying, the only hand pulled ferry in the world that
connects two countries? Yes. Yeah, who owns the ferry? Alright, guys, great border
crossings. Camera down, right? No, you can have it on, you got a
little longer. Okay. Every border is different,
couple summers ago I was in Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan and
the border guy let me just roll the camera the whole time,
and then other times like getting into China that camera
better be off or you're going to have problems. Okay, so
here’s.. No traffic. Wow! This is surreal, Raul. Ok, ramps down. With
no passports, right? You don't need a passport. God. You know, South Texas is another
world. I like it! They're getting here. Okay, they're
getting here and there we see it - they're pulling on
the rope. You can see the Rio Grande is not that wide
here, pretty strong current. When's the last time you did this,
Raul. I've never been on it, here we go. Turn your engine off. What are your thoughts on this place, Raul?
They said the other side is bad, but never been there. I
wouldn't know. Alright, coming up on Mexico
here. And.. Mexico! We're in! Let's go
that way and then we'll come back Alright, Mexican soil. No
passport, and with Raul anything is possible. I've I've
come to conclude that anything can happen with you. This city
of Mexico is supposedly another hotspot. Like I said, I've never
been to it, but.. Hotspot as in what? Drug, cartel, violence or
whatever. I want to put the camera down right now. Did
that just happen? Yes! There's another Canadian border, the
Canadian border is completely different. Okay, guys. We just
walked right through, no identification, no stop, just
away from the guards. How is that possible? Well you just
come in to the Mexico border. You only
get checked on the custom side in America. Basically,
he's making you a.. natural lemon or lemon juice.
Ahh, just ice, lemon or lime. Some spice? Okay.
Gracias! Every time I've been to Mexico, I've run into the
nicest people. I've only been twice, but I've met the coolest
people in this country. Whole different world. Cola. Yeah, it
just has stuff stored in there. We started looking for a rancher today. That
was the the start of the mission. You want a Mexican rancher or you want an
American rancher? You didn't say! We started looking for a
rancher, that was going to be the story and you saw the story
we saw on the road. We're going to stop right here. Now we're
in Mexico, didn't expect this. I'm not going to expect, I'm
not going to guess where we're going. Raul, where this is leading to?
Basically we're just going to go back, because there
ain't no going that way. I don't know how far the city is,
let's walk down. You want to take a ride and get some tacos
or something? How the hell do we get a ride? How are you going
to trust anyone to bring me? Yeah! No! That's why I
drive my vehicle to Mexico. They pull. That's the United
States over there. Peter's coming from Mexico He's on a
ferry, pulling us back to the United States. Bro, I think you
got a future in this, in YouTube videos! No, I'm out. Why are you huffing and
puffing? I was just pulling that thing across, man! Come
on, you got 6 other people helping you! That's
tiring work all day long back and forth. Imagine for the
money that they're making. What do you think they're making
Well, we just paid them $4 for both of us. So imagine.. you saw
the prices on the cars and stuff. Yeah. Different
experience. Nice guy, though, nice guy but much more
official, it's much different facility. Inside
there, there are a lot of posters for sex trafficking,
human slavery, did you see that? The women on the posters..
Gracias! Well, I told you that I'm like a politician, I'll
shake hands with everybody. I'll talk to everybody and..
People think I'm an a**le, people think I'm always
mad, because I look mad. I don't smile for pictures, but if they
really get to know me, I am a Great guy! You're a teddy bear, but
you know what, you know everyone. I try to! At the end
of the day you never know like this guy might see me throwing
on the side of the road and hey that's Cruz. But how do you, do
you judge anyone for what they're doing? No, I don't
judge anybody for anything. Yeah. I'm nobody to judge, only
he (God) can judge and at the end, he'll decide where you
go. Yeah. I'm just the type of person that.. I'll say
hello to everybody, I’ll shake everybody's hands at the end of
the day I'll help out everybody I can, and we just
take it from there. Yeah. I get that vibe in South Texas.
There's a lot of people out there like you guys are
connected here. Community. You have good community. We're all
trying to take care of each other. Oh, wow! You don't
even see it from the road. Okay, so this is the wall.
No actually.. Or yeah, you can call this a wall. What's
that, thirty-five feet? To the river curves, if you look at
the water over there, on the right side is Mexico on the
left side is the United States. But if you look over here in
front of us, the Mexico's actually over here in front of
us. On the other side of the that brush would be the
river on that side over there. There are a lot of crossings
into Mexico! Yes. That one is a little more modern than
what we just went across. Yeah. We're going to go into Rama
Village. What were you saying, Raul? You know some
people in here that were having.. There's some people that the other day
came out talking to us and stuff, that they have a
problem with illegal aliens coming into their property at
night, they go under the fence, they go over the fence. Nice
RVs. What are these? They're RVs with little houses? what
those are like storage rooms and stuff. So it's not necessarily a
ranch, but we ended up here. This is where, I guess, a lot of
migrants have been coming over because the river is very close,
and I guess there's a field behind these trees, and then
they've been coming into private residences land. It's
pretty.. it's been pretty prevalent here in this
neighborhood. You know, they run through the neighborhood
because the border is only a mile that way. Yeah. You know,
it's right over there. When we spoke to him today, he told us
and showed us a video tapes and stuff all the people coming
across coming under fence or the fence, and cars parking over
here, they run to the cars at night at 8 o'clock at night, at
3 in the morning and stuff like that. Can you can you show us? Is that alright? Yeah. What's your name?
Randy. Randy, Peter. Okay, so Randy, what's the
story? The border is a mile and a half this way. Okay. In fact,
you can see if you look real close, you can see where.. right
through the trees, Trump's wall was has just stopped but my understanding is
they're going to try and start that back up again and build it
again. They are? They start that back up, that's my
understanding. So what's been going on here? Well, you'll see
them come and they'll just come running across this field,
and they come up to this barbwire fence right there.
Okay, right on the other side of the trees here? They
try to get your attention and for whatever reason I don’t, I
don't know why, but I had a couple of them a few nights ago
trying to get my attention and they're speaking Spanish,
and I don't speak Spanish, so you know.. I sit and
enjoy the evening at night, because it's real quiet out
here and nice, and they're.. They're running up and down
here. Running up right down here? Right through this right here,
all the time. So how do you feel as someone that lives here? What's your feeling or take on this? I
mean.. I'm thrilled that the Border Patrol is out there and
they're doing their job, and they're trying to
take care of this problem. It's just a tragedy. It's so sad
that, you know, our country is going through this right now
and that we're allowing this, you know, to happen. Right. And
it's such a humanitarian crisis, that our government just is not recognising. People that don't
live here don't understand, they just don't understand. What
do you think they don't get? I don't think they
understand.. it’s not so much that.. it's the fact that these
people are.. I mean they're looking.. some of them are coming
here looking for a better life, but what makes people here, and this is an a retirement community, fifty-five
and older, and people are here are genuinely
concerned about their safety. And so you know we've got the
Border Patrol and the police on speed dial, and they're
genuinely concerned about, you know, their welfare and their
safety, property values. My understanding is that, you know,
the cartel owns property and homes on this side
of the border. So you've seen last few months, because
the policy changes a big influx? I mean, you can see by the
numbers obviously, it's very obvious. Oh yeah. It's
when you.. when you see them, they'll walk through there and
it's mostly at night, and they'll just be wandering down
the street. Down the street here? Yeah. And so are people
seeing traffickers on the other side, with cars parked
waiting to take them away? And you mentioned that, what another
big concern they have is that a lot of these people understand
this layout and to where they can get across that fence there,
and get over into this community, especially at night.
Can we walk over there? Sure. Thanks. Especially at
night, then they've got.. they'll have the whoever's
picking them up, the cartel or whoever, is just they'll drive
out here, and they'll come out, and jump in the car, and drive
off. Yeah, so.. It's a tough situation, yeah? Yeah. It is really tough
and, I mean, my heart just breaks for these people and the
children, that are still in that detention center down in Donna
Texas. Right. It's just so tragic.. Yeah. It's tragic, what
we're doing to these people. It's messy. The longer I'm
here the more difficult and confusing it gets to be honest.
Yeah. I mean not confusing as far as since we have a problem,
there's a big problem.. Yeah, it's huge! ..that needs to be
addressed. It doesn't seem like this is sustainable. I
don't feel like this is sustainable how it's currently
going now. No, no. And to be honest Texans people that
live here, God bless them, they're fed up. They're not putting up with it, people are
going to put their foot down. I think so much of the country, I
grew up in Vermont, they just have no understanding what the
border’s like. I had no understanding until a week ago,
I had no understanding what the borders like. Yeah. What do
you have to say to people in other parts of the country that,
you know.. it's a big hot topic, it's a tough topic, what would
you have to say to people that aren't living here? To people
that don't understand, you know, imagine having at any
given time day or night, having just some random person,
that doesn't know anything about our country or laws.
And just the only thing they know is that they come
here, that they get a bunch of free stuff and have them
at any given time randomly wander through your property,
and not even giving it a second thought. Yeah. And, you know, you
don't know who they are, why they're there. I mean if you
in Vermont, if somebody came and wandered through your yard,
you'd be: hey, what are you doing? What's up? You know, what
are you.. What are you doing here? You cannot understand
what's really truly going on, unless you come here and
experience it. My head every night when I go to bed it's
about to explode from the amount of information I've been taking in
every day being here, talking to people. 190,000 people
have come through already this month..
Those are the ones that have been caught? Have been caught,
yes, and, you know, and then you got the drugs on top
of that, and then there's a human trafficking, which in
itself is just tragic. You know, if you want to come
in this country, you are welcome! Come to the
front door. You know. Don't come here uninvited, come
here legally like.. God bless him - Roberto. This gentleman
who's been working for me. He built this pergola for me. He's
a legal citizen. He has his own construction company, his son
works for him, he makes money, he has a house and he's
done really really well. He's been doing that here for 14
years. Everybody loves Roberto here, he’s a great,
great guy. And I have all the respect in the world for, you
know, the people that want to come here and do it legally.
Yeah, just do it the right way. I think what's failing
us is policies that are making illegal acts somewhat legal.
Yeah. And that's what we're not about as a country. That's not
what we're about! Like I've lived in Ukraine, I’ve traveled
to many parts of the world. The beauty of coming back to the
states is like the laws work, for the most part, there's
all sorts of corruption here too, but.. look the system works,
and when you start chipping at that.. The
influx of people was down a fraction of what it
is now, and how it spiked so quickly! I mean it was just
overnight, it’s just as soon as Biden went in office. It just exploded!
It's like those Black Friday videos: the door is closed and
then it opens Black Friday, what do you expect? Yeah.
I don't blame anyone for doing it to be honest. Personally, I
don’t, because I would do the same thing. If you had to
feed your family.. I would do that, you know what I mean.
This is the people building the But they're not building right now? Right now they're actually on a hold. Southwest Valley contractor
instructors You see the wall it's the
company is not screwed. The The company is not screwed, the company has
already been paid to build that border wall. So if the the current government
or current administration decides not to build that wall,
they've already been paid. How are they paid first? I
have no idea how exactly that government
contract works, but, like I said, they've already been paid
so whether they wanted to build it, or they wanted to tear it
down, or they wanted to.. because of rumours, they might cut it in
half to five feet high, so no matter what they want, the
contractor to do.. the contractor could care less,
because it's already been paid for so they could care less,
what the government decides to do with the wall. Some efficient
use of government funds. It's always wasteful spending
somewhere. Oh my God.. so that's all those people there, all those
trucks there, people actually going to work right
now or what are they doing? They're actually just hanging out doing something somewhere,
but the thing is they're not building the wall,
they're thinking about restarting up again, according
to the Biden administration, but whether that was a smoke
signal or not, who knows! None of these politicians give a sh*t
at the end of the day, right? Nope. They're using it as
leverage? Yep. Okay guys, thank you. Raul! Without Raul we would
not be getting into any of this, so I want to thank Raul,
and I also want to plug the organisation he works for the -
United Cajun Navy. They go to all sorts of different
catastrophes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and you might be here,
but not yet, correct? Correct. Okay. Alright guys another day
on the border. If you haven't seen the other videos from the
series, I will leave a link below. I'm trying to hit it
from as many angles as possible and hopefully got something
out of that. Alright, thanks Raul, till the next one.
