US-Mexico Border Crisis 2021 with Ed Calderon

march of 2021 over 170 000 illegal immigrants crossed the border mexico has a tendency to eat and make people disappear and people fostering supporting and you know cheering some of these groups as they go make their way up need to realize that there is a machine that's feeding off these people that is not related to any humanitarian yeah crisis ratio it's a machine that basically is rejoicing with the way the border is currently in 2020 the most dangerous city in the world was los cabos mexico you can line up all of the marines on camp pendleton on that border that's not going to be enough you think something's coming sooner than later i think there's going to be an overt cartel action stateside within you know zoom bed welcome back dude it's been like what six months it's it's it's been six months of you know um midnight of the soul you know type situation going on in the world but yeah it's been six months you know being back well it's good to have you back dude thank you good thank you for the invitation back man you're welcome great time last time so me and katie were talking right before he got here and we were just dude you're just cool to be around and we were we're saying you know everybody should just be a little bit more like ed uh yeah it's uh you know i travel a lot and meet a lot of people and specifically i make connections with a lot of people out there sometimes and to me it's always funny because it's not about meeting new people for me it's about finding people uh you know like uh you i mean you went through your you know yeah like your life uh life choices just like i did yeah and and it's always interesting comparing notes and scars with people like you and not specifically uh uh not specifically comparing but i'll just kind of sharing some of the ways we kind of deal with some of that yeah just being around like-minded people who can relate yeah last last time you uh inadvertently gave me some guidance through our conversations and uh you know i've been uh changing some life some some of my lifestyle choices because of because of some of those conversations and uh you know doing pretty well that's awesome here dude so i'm happy thank you again for that you're welcome but um so you've been hanging down on the border yeah and i wanted to get you here to talk about what the hell is going on down there with the border crisis and um so i did a little research before he got here and then we'll dive in because i know you're gonna have an extremely unique perspective and firsthand knowledge of what's going on down there so just to kind of get everybody up to speed on what's going on you know border crisis u.s mexico border has been in the news nonstop uh especially since january yeah and the new york times reported on april 5th march of 2021 over a hundred and seventy thousand illegal immigrants crossed the border that's the largest single month in over a decade the biden administration opened its 10th border holding facility in his three months in office this is from the new york times they're allowed to hold people for roughly three days from what i understand at least that's what the new york times is putting out abc 7 in san francisco put out on april 8th 18 663 unaccompanied children across the border and march alone that's five times more than march 2020. they're as young as three years old also if you go to joebiden.com he says per his website he was going to immediately end prolonged detention and reinvest in case management whatever that means and this is a quote biden will codify protections to safeguard children to make sure their treatment is consistent within their best interest now nbc is reporting that in texas at the holding facilities there is uh child neglect child abuse and sexual abuse going on so that's not really working out is it um also the whitehouse.com says they provide temporary legal status to illegal immigrants that's 11 million illegal immigrants as of today and we have 10 million people unemployed in the united states according to ton homan the former ice director he put this out today on april 29th the border patrol is using the term broken arrow they cannot handle what's coming at them and at least 40 of the border patrol is now tied up in these holding facilities with the 10 new holding facilities which we weren't supposed to have anymore also during a during an epidemic yeah during a pandemic a pandemic and a pandemic with now like four or five different strains coming in uh from different parts of the world that uh seem to behave differently you know and again more more holding sites more cages as they would like to say back uh you know a few months back that all of a sudden they don't want to say the cage thing you know it's interesting it's funny how it changes so fast but i wanted to so also as for abc 7 san francisco the top three countries coming out uh coming across the borders number one mexico number two honduras and number three guatemala now in 2020 the most dangerous city in the world was los cabos mexico has the highest murder uh rate per capita yup the highest murder rate countries is of this year in 2021 number one is el salvador number two honduras and uh number three venezuela one two three all latin american countries uh according to ice 2020 374 000 conviction uh criminal charges have happened uh just in 2012 and 2020 that's 74 000 duis 67 000 drug arrests 1900 murders 1600 kidnappings 37 000 assaults and 10 000 sex crimes by the way ice only has jurisdiction within 100 miles of the u.s mexican border yeah so that's that's just that small region yeah so what the hell is going on down there ed what else is happening uh first off a little bit of perspective and where i'm coming from i not only worked down there for 12 years working against cartels and people smugglers and organized crime i also got to you know uh take down and uh you know take apart certain organizations that were doing people trafficking across the border uh during my time active so i bring that perspective with myself when i give my opinion on some of these things i also was an instructor for a while down there and i have a lot of people that i trained that are currently active in federal and state and municipal levels down there uh within the police forces and you witnessed uh some of those uh whatsapp images and messages that i get every day and i show you some of those so i'm you know like i keep i keep myself informed on some of these things not only that but i'm an immigrant myself a legal immigrant to this country i came here with nothing went through the process it was a nightmare of a process but somehow some way and just by doing things correctly i made it that and also tijuana one of the focal points of some of these magazine caravans uh uh is my hometown right so that's my perspective on some of these issues that's that's that's where i come from when i look at it uh i was in tijuana when the first migrant caravan showed up during the trump administration uh i was there when they rushed the border when they utilized some of the kids that were with them as a sort of shield by running towards the border with the with the kids in their arms i got to see hondurans taunt local law enforcement and locals in tijuana that they were going to be taking over the area they're going to turn tijuana into honduras and then a lot of them were abducted by the cartels and they were seen again because you know tijuana has an immune system um i got to see all that phenomenon back then and also got to see what the you know restrictive border policies did for immigration and specifically for trafficking illegal immigration it went down in a lot of places specifically uh unaccompanied kids that specific phenomenon was you know it wasn't really a thing you know trends went down uh all of a sudden you know elections went how they went and it was like a beacon that got sounded um things were that things that had traditionally been you know understood about putting a caravan through the country all the way to the border you know how it wasn't fruitful for a lot of the caravan members a lot of them basically just went back they gave up uh now there's a new administration and a lot of them are coming up with the idea that is being told to them by organizers that now is a time to get in yeah the doors are open now is the time to get in now is a moment where amnesty is going to be uh given to them and now is the time to to send their kids if they can't make the trip themselves now's the time to send themselves to cross themselves um so you see the migrant caravan members arriving in places like tijuana with biden flags yeah buying t-shirts um documentation and different and in their native languages that tells them what to say to local author what to say to the immigration authorities when they meet them [Music] wrist straps to the note kids women miners people that have paid in full for their you know the coyote to smuggler to toss them over and people that are so low no it's a whole system cropped up overnight as soon as the administration took power as soon as they basically said now i think the la the immigration policy is going to be more lacks so they had they had already they're ready they already had this planned out before the election even happened they were ready for business to reopen basically because i remember uh right after the election uh the news was covering um thousands of people uh gathering right across the border just waiting for the official announcement yeah and as soon as they got it you know it's not just that they were ready to make the trip but the business side of it is already set up on the border if you want to make it across that border you need to pay a tool to a coyote and those coyotes are usually run mostly speci exclusively run by some of the main some of the biggest cartel organizations in mexico well i mean with a hundred and seventy thousand people coming over and you know last month alone in march that's depending on how depending on who they are and how much you're charging i don't know it could be five thousand dollars per head if you can't pay now you can pay later and where's the money going cartels the cartels uh cartel's some of the biggest money makers as far as the border for cartels are trafficking in people and trafficking in in narcotics you know those are the two major things so when the announcement came the elections went like they went the dinner bell was ranked for them right like this is the time and people have to realize that a lot of those miners that are making their way up you know are unaccompanied and are being physically tossed over the border if people want to doubt doubt this they can see i've posted a video night vision video of them basically tossing some of these miners over the border not just that but some of these kids are actually being put on buses and or bust to the border from the southern border and some of them are making it out there you know there's it's hard to file a missing person's report when you're not a national uh mexican national and you're crossing your way through the country yeah you know a lot of people go missing in that area you know women get looked at specifically you know women get reutilized and other you know mean sex trafficking is common and right now it's a booming business why there's a lot of fresh bodies why everybody's under the impression that there's a permissive environment as far as crossing the border and getting amnesty right now where'd they get that impression um it's up for debate but what i'm seeing is everybody coming in is surprised by the fact that they're not just being let in we're really yeah they're like well i thought we're just going to just go inside it's going and the documentation that they some of them have is related to what they have to say what are the legal rights are you know you know how to how to how to ask for amnesty all these things and it seems like they're just coached basically like somebody is something somebody or a group is coaching them down there as they make their way up uh i mean i think uh you know it's very concerning but i think a lot of people are extremely concerned on yeah that you know 170 000 people crossed the border last month illegally and that's you know that's an issue in itself but you know just like anybody people don't let a good crisis go to waste oh correct no so what are the cartels doing and who are they smuggling so how many people made it across the border a hundred and over a hundred and seventy thousand people last march march of twenty twenty thirty thousand okay some of them some of them probably had backpacks on and what was in that backpack who knows yeah right so um it's not just fostering illegal immigration it's also fostering narcotics coming into the country and not just any narcotics probably some fentanyl lay stuff you know they're not it's not there's not weed bundles that have in those backpacks so that is paired with the crisis that's going on the border i mean it's a golden hour imagine your border protection agency on your southern border is tied up guarding detention centers if i'm a transnational cartel dedicated to moving drugs across the border this is this is golden this is a golden hour it's a golden hour for me uh i'm making money not just off the people crossing the border and i basically give paying them a toll and actually selling some of them in just labor in in in in a way if you can't pay for your crossing you'll pay for your crossing through work in the states or your family will pay a type of ransom for you when you cross and if you can't then you know or if you're pretty you know we'll use you for something else yeah uh people have to realize that it's not just the humanitarian crisis on that board with people coming through there's also a piece of people going missing down there as they try to make their way through their story doesn't start at the border the story starts all the way down there as they make their way up here and people vilifying border patrol people building flying uh homeland people vilifying law enforcement on this side at that border it's interesting how the conversation never gets such upon the criminal organization they're actually making a killing financially on putting people across that border bussing people moving people through mexico up to the up to the border wall and taxing them for protection selling them their you know a lot of these these uh these uh these irregular encampments are just right for drug use as well um there was a there was a migrant caravan encampment on the first cameraman that came in that set up next to a school in tijuana they had to close the school because of all the needles they were finding in the soccer fields no should and i'm not saying all all of these people have that issue but some of these places that are being set up regularly are a center for people to it's not it's not a healthy place for people to be in right i know they're fleeing i know they're moving from a place to looking for a better life but uh i know the the amount of risk that it that they put their kids through going through that whole process and how many of them go missing without anybody knowing about it it's not like it's not like there's a list of them from their point of destination that gets verified when they get through yeah mexico is a black hole people go missing do you have any idea of how many not just children but women you know i've i've heard i've heard this is again there's no official documentation people are literally swimming across the the river jumping the border and just making groups on the mexican side just making forcing their way up or getting bust up or utilizing some of the train networks or just walking right um do you hear rumors and stories about you know a group of 70 kids that turned into a group of 40 before they entered the border or a group of uh kids that had an intermix of women of females and males in the group of minors and all the females went missing right and these are all you know stories that they say things that show up on social media you know things that are shared by like rumors on facebook but then you go and see the camps directly and then you kind of hear the stories about some of the people that are there that are staying there and you hear some of this these hey where's this you know these people just i think they probably went across or i mean because they're not here and they left their stuff they probably saw an opportunity went across or they're just gone so there's there's they don't have any idea where the hell they are i don't know there's no accountability it's a group of people regularly moving through a country trying to get into another if you're a predator that's a prime hunting round for that you know that type of stuff is this word getting back to the people that are going to come that are going to come across next month or they're just willing to take the risk or i mean they they consider the places where they're that so dangerous that they're willing to make that risk for themselves and their kids because a lot of them come up with minors now that also creates a hell of a lot of opportunity you know it's um it's disheartening and weird to see americans coming down and supporting some of these some of these some of these encampments with the best of intentions you know again i'm an i'm an immigrant to this country i came here with nothing and through uh through hard work and just starting just just going forward i figured my way into into having a little bit of something right uh americans are going down there giving them clothing food uh all of the tents that they have set up are all donations by americans um there's uh they're they're donating uh you know drugs uh food like things for them that then could that then oh thank you and a lot of them get sold in some of the open air markets down there as well so they can make a little money you know that's how they support themselves but realistically a lot of it gets turned into things that are taxed for them right and also some of these some of these encampments are taxed just to be there by the people that own that property what i mean by own i mean there are parts of that border that are owned by interest if i'm a cartel member and i spend my time trying to figure out ways of pulling putting drugs across that border into california one of the biggest drug markets on the planet it's not in my best interest to see a caravan there right unless i'm using it as a distraction so i can pass something somewhere else [Music] opportunities everywhere earlier right before we came up here um we're you know where i was asking about you know some of the opportunities that have been created for the cartels and uh for other you know organizations and criminals and and right off the bat you had brought up that they are marking these people with i don't think they even know they're being marked with the bracelets and i want you to go into you know the opportunity that they saw with the with the people that are trying to get across the border and what they're doing to them how they're marking them yeah there's there's several crossing points across across the border and you know again you made a man as a country you made a major investment in that border wall and that's that's a great investment i guess for people but for some people that are very about the wall and build a wall it's a fence it's not a wall but i know the purpose of it was designed for for it to slow down immigration uh the problem is that you in one in one in one form you build up the wall but in another form you basically tied the hands of the people that man that wall through border protection right so again it's prime time for these people yeah you have you know the the you have the the the coop is unguarded it's the now or never it's an ever attitude and in some parts of that border when people show up to get across they have to go through a coyote or a people smuggler and that people smuggle will get let's see a group of them and they will charge them a percentage of what what they need to get across if they don't have it they'll get bans on their hands this guy paid in full this guy still owes this is a minor these this is going to be they're going to pay us for him when he gets across um she's interesting let's put another band on her like they mean something and it's interesting to see that a lot of the miners show up on the border are usually you know they're usually of a certain age in males you don't see a lot of teenage women across the border that get caught in some of these dragnets i i want americans to when they watch and use to see that and figure out why that is is it because women don't make the trip there's a lot of older women that do make a trip what's going on with some of the younger women why when you see a lot of them in in these groups um mexico has a tendency to eat and make people disappear and people fostering supporting and you know cheering some of these groups as they go make their way up need to realize that there is a machine that's feeding off these people that is not related to any humanitarian yeah crisis or issue it's a machine that basically is rejoicing with the way the border is at currently you know for those uh that are listening that aren't reading between the lines here they're being sold into the sex trade some of them are being sold into a sex trade uh some of them are being sold into local mexican sex markets that they're because that's there's a lot of them out there as well also one thing that people need to realize the cartels don't stop at the border they have networks stateside that are ready to receive labor force people that they can rent out they have set up set it up here so they can receive women that they can then utilize for whatever activity they need to um they're working on this side as well so the border board doesn't mean a lot to them you know as far as the business goes do you think that they're do you think they see a golden opportunity as well as we're going to beef up our presence in the united states uh they would during colburn they a very specific cartel did that um during the covert epidemic the new generation cartel is the one that grew up exponentially during the whole crisis down there and the reason it did is because it had control over the ports on the pacific side of the ocean basically uninterrupted supply chain to somewhere across the ocean yeah that specific cartel grew in power and influence during that time and there was a operation stateside that caught a bunch of them like 80 of them um 80 of them 80 80 members of that cartel operating state side uh but it's it's clear as day to anybody that works in some of the places where they operate that they're here and they have been here for for a while you know it's not a it's not fighting back the cartels down there it's they're they're transnational they're here already they're set up the the network that they're setting up are here meanwhile stateside there's a corrosion of confidence in the police there's cancelled the police there's a crisis uh there's a we're looming crisis an economic crisis that's going to turn into a really weird opiate that's going to even ramp up the obedient epidemic they're probably living through in this country and again it's golden hour yeah it's a golden hour of opportunity for a very specific type of people that are they're just poised and they're doing it right now you know the caravan is feeding that machine and people that think they're doing something humanitarian by supporting these groups coming up and really need to kind of visit down there if they can you know do a walk-through i've walked through those camps myself pictures of me in those camps yeah um can you just go down there and you can you can just you can't just uh just walk right be very sure that if you take a dollar out and give it to somebody you're going to be swarmed yeah also interesting and since because i walked into one of the camps one of the camps actually set up in a fought in a at a federal space a federal mexican federal property space right before you go into the pedestrian crosswalk into san ysidro and i was kicked out of there by them really yeah i was like hey you can't be here like i can't be here why you know you can't be here like it's it's for the safety of the children you can't be here like this is uh you're camped out in the middle of this middle of this uh this this open public space there was this you know you know this is like uh this is this is this is not acceptable for people to take over a public space like this and locals uh in tijuana are currently being affected not just by the the ravages of the economy that the the epidemic has caused now some of these caravans are pressuring local government and u.s government by doing blockades on the border crossing affecting the lives and economic well-being of thousands of residents on both sides of the border fence that have absolutely no you know they're not they have no fault in the in this in this situation right so people are getting agitated you know violence against and negative feelings towards some of these caravan members and immigrants is rising you know and you start to see you know just like last time you know last time this happened the locals started getting really aggressive and they activated the local immune system which is some of these cartel organizations that hate that that have control over the area and you start you're starting to see some some push and pull when it comes to that in that area um it's a crisis of i mean i don't think people understand a lot of americans believe that that crisis is the children suddenly appearing on that border wall and being unaccompanied they don't realize that that kid had to go through the whole country sometimes a few countries to get there and what they saw and what they survived to get to that point is unimaginable to most americans and also who didn't make it yeah there's no where are those numbers mexico can't keep track of its own debt much and owned it and owned missing much less people coming on without any documentation from the outside from ferguson from further south and going into some of these uh trafficking routes all the way up to the border which are notorious for people just go missing you know so again it's like people really need to kind of see what they're supporting when it comes to some of these things so all these all these uh unaccompanied children are being sent to the border and this is i mean this is being reported so i would assume that the parents know you know what's happening why i'm just curious and i'm sure there's a legitimate reason um but why aren't the parents accompanying their kids to the border and just going across with them because some i mean three years old a lot of them are sending their kids in front of them so when they grow up and if they get some sort of immigration status they can then do chain migration and pull their families over it's actually an ingenious tactic if you think about it and depending on the public sentiment and who's in office some of these kids will get protective status and when they come of age chain migration and who gave them the protective status so it's actually it's actually a selfish act i mean if if you if you think about it you know how these things usually work i send over uh my kid who's 12 or 13 he gets protected status he as a minor has a better chance at getting protective status than most adults that are fleeing violence in their native countries you get protective status and if he gets through eventually he can then solicit the us government to do some figure out migration for his parents so they're using their child as an investment to change my way for that investment it's called chain migration chain migration classic case of chain migration which is again they're latin america isn't the only one doing chain migration in this country but the way they're doing it is it's risky for the people that are doing it and it's feeding an industry that then pumps in a bunch of fentanyl lace heroin into this country as well which is to be alarming to to the u.s it's it's one head of a multi-headed hydra that's down there that's down there growing and it's up here growing as well you know so and [Music] damn so the reaction to this mass migration is they are feeding which nobody could i guess i mean well yeah you could have predicted this but uh they're feeding the sex trade they're feeding the drug trade they're they're feeding they're feeding the sex rate they're feeding the drug trade they're using them as drug mules golden hour again because of the border patrol is tied up with people they're not going to be noticing drones flying across that border fence they're not going to be noticing things going underneath it because i mean there's a tunnel still active down out there so again it's golden hour it's like right this is this is what's going on right now and there's like there's a there's a chance there's a chance right now there's a chance right and it's because of politics you know that's everybody down there is aware that the politics are in favor of things going the way they are right now yeah everybody up here is surprised by the fact that things are going the way they are from down there up here so again it's it's weird for me since i'm a son of a border son and i can see things from both sides it's strange to me how the americans per america's perception starts right when the kid shows up on the border but he doesn't realize that all the stuff that happens before he gets to that border and all the money that gets paid into who it gets paid and who's making money off those kids showing up and and why are those kids showing up you know and uh what's the end game with all this stuff i don't know um i just know it's it's putting in danger a lot of people on both sides of the border a lot of people that we will never even know about have gone already have gone missing right a lot of people are going to end up in that desert um a lot of people are going to get just get get end up eaten or consumed by the industry whatever industry that may be drug industry sex industry whatever industry that may be and again people need to look deep and hard about what they're supporting and and i get the whole being humanitarian i do a lot of cherry work on the border when i when i can uh when i was on one when i went through a walk doing one of these uh board these uh battery encampments i met a lady who was from michoacan she was fleeing cartel violence in michoacan she had two minors with her like babies and she was living in a tent and they were eating a roasted chicken that they were trying to make last and it's it was pretty past it's you know they were trying i uh i feel for them you know i gave them some money you know on the download so i wouldn't get swarmed um i heard their story and i i i feel for them you know but uh what they're fleeing from is terrorism right i think we can safely assume that cartel organizations in mexico are a terrorist organization even though the us doesn't want to recognize them as such for myriad of reasons a lot of them including not wanting to give amnesty to fleeing mexicans because they are legitimately fleeing from a terrorist organization which would make them you know viable candidates for things like uh you know asylum you know so you want to you see these uh you see these groups trying to you know these these groups causing a disruptive change and people being displaced by them moving out um you know what's this what's the solution there you know build a fence um put more people on the border you can line up all of the marines on camp pendleton on that border and you did it for a while during during the trump administration that's not going to be enough well you know when you're talking about you know they're running from terrorism they're running from terrorism because the cartels were able to somehow overrun the government overrun the police overrun the military and you know what's interesting here in the us is uh we're defunding the police yeah and so when you see 170 000 people come across i mean you said they were catching uh just a minute ago 80 people 80 cartel members at a time crossing now we have and last year that was 30 30 000 people you know in march now there's 170 000 people coming across one year later in one month they know that we're defunding police in all these cities so if i was a cartel a a head of one of the cartels i would be infiltrating those cities that have been defunded to overrun the entire city and run everything and we've already seen this happen with the mobs you know money money was moved around guns were moved around drugs won't move around during upheavals across this country related to police brutality that's that's a spoken secret in some of these places and i've been through some of these places like portland you know uh uh atlanta when some of these things were happening and of course like if you know when the when the cat's away right and that's the thing you're not only sending the cat away you're killing it up here uh things that the u.s needs to recognize right the [ __ ] now if if they can mexico is a failed state there's no argument about it the government doesn't have control over large portions of its border and even whole states there's places where they can't fly over because they'll get knocked down by you know cartel artillery right yeah uh see not the the cool diakonasa what happened in sinaloa where the army was defeated again if if if that is not a sign of a failed state you know i don't know what is and i was a part of that system and i can tell you if i was a betting man i would not bet on any single government institution down there to make things right right yeah so that would that leads me into asking the american people and you know politicians up here so if you can't bet on the government to make things stable down there what snacks the cartels been on one of the cartels um interesting theory somebody said once if the us really wants to protect its southern border it's not going to ask for help for the for the mexican government think about that right who would you ask for help if you were the u.s if you wanted to keep that border secure i would ask our military i mean that's that's who you would you would ask on the mexican side you'd probably have to ask the cartels because those are guys in control yeah so you just think about that specific thing as an american the denial and or inability to accept that there's a failed state right next to us my home i can say that it's a failed state because it can't guarantee basic human rights it's a failed state because it has political killings across its across the country and has uh journalists killed there was a recently a pretty well-known journalist that was killed down there covering cartel issues and that's like that's every month yeah um shootouts in the middle of street you know safe cities turning into the most dangerous cities on the planet from one year to another murder rates being the highest they've been ever in the history of ever in mexico mass body graves discovered constantly out there not being able to keep adequate numbers of how many people are dead because they can't find the bodies uh more than 90 percent of murders never being solved in mexico do you think these cartels are specifically beefing up numbers in cities like portland seattle they're they're they're they're they're here they're they're they're they're set up they're they're in legal industry and the legal industry they're transnational you know they're they're they're everywhere from northern africa to europe to like there's been cases some some student-long cartel members uh arrested in places as far off as australia and uh and the philippines so i guess one of them uh i guess what i'm getting at is are they are they specifically targeting those cities because they're weak and they've not that it's ownership it's ownership it's ownership so the way they operate in places like i don't know chicago seattle stuff like that they run they run they run their product in and locals distribute for them you know they utilize motorcycle gangs as well across the country so they just they just put the product and distribute now i think one that when the change is going to come that's going to be hard to kind of swallow here in the states is when a rival comes in and wants to move another cartel out of out of its place right yeah and we're seeing the birth of a giant militarized cartel in mexico called the new generation cartel that is about to take over most of mexico they're fighting for control in mexico with sinaloa the next fight for control what's your law is going to be stateside it's already happening in small pockets here in the states an overt cartel presence in the states is like i'm talking about unarmed convoy of people doing something in some capacity that's going to be spectacular i think that is really close in front of us i'm talking about something that will change the way law enforcement and just the general public thinks about cartel presence in the united states la shooting type change you know bankroll l.a bank robbery shooting do you think that's going to happen soon sooner than later i think that's going to happen sooner than later i think we we we're seeing two ginormous criminal enterprises growing up in mexico right now that are being fostered by current border issues by poorest borders created by the current border crisis by an inept government in mexico federal government in mexico and just an inept government like across the board in mexico right now it's a failed state the united states refusing to recognize that and still pumping in money another thing americans need to realize the u.s has been outsourcing not only its border protection policies to mexico but its drug fighting policies to mexico all of this the u.s through its tax dollars pays for guns equipment wages training to cops and military personnel in mexico which are owned by the cartels and also if you're not auditing that money i mean if you're investing in that outsourcing and the money's still going down there the poor crisis is worse so why are you outsourcing border protection to mexico when it's actually worse now and where you just passed the most lethal year to be a mexican in the history of ever and you're still sending money down there to pay for it they're not demanding any results you know audit again if people want to make a change you know people want to do something where's that money going who's getting paid why is there no accountability with that money going down south right like i was paid with some of that money i received training in coronado like i i remember uh being part of a program of cops that went to coronado and were trained in you know anti-terrorism uh executive protection medical like a lot of things like we were pretty it was an investment in us we felt amazing about it went down there did the work um some of some of the people that i worked with went crooked you know some of them didn't you know i got out um but it was always amazing to me that there was never any kind of follow-up follow-up or follow-through as far as accountability to to like so okay thank you trained you to go go out there and do whatever you do you know i think that is at the core of a lot of the issues that are going on currently down south that the us is not holding accountable people down there for some of the issues that are plaguing it yeah you know um you have a global enemy right now a rival with china china is visibly and clearly in mexico and yeah and that is again a big elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about as well well nobody wants to talk about china china just bought several thousand acres and and texas put a wind uh whatever a wind facility and for electricity and so this chinese green power plant that they put in is powering the biggest military base in texas uh you can't make this [ __ ] up can can can both of us agree that smuggling massive amounts of meth precursors and fentanyl out of china would be nearly impossible if we were a criminal enterprise based in china yeah could we agree upon that yeah we're talking about a country that is basically big brother come to life there's no way things are smuggled out of that country without chinese state knowing so once you we agree to that we then have to agree that fentanyl output didn't diminish it increased during the code epidemic into mexico and the reason why that is is because that's being pumped into low-grade heroin that's then being supplied to the u.s now is that a form of chemical warfare i don't know maybe that maybe i'm stretching it you know if i say that but is it killing americans stateside i mean i think they're definitely in it for the long play and there's one thing we've learned about china they're extremely patient and also the nba can't talk bad about them is this america like where am i you know you can't say anything bad about it you know but but on the other hand you know they're doing it and that again it's it's surreal disheartening and people like hey what are you talking about are you worried about talking some of these things like i'm like i came up here to seek out that american dream which i know is real like i've been i've been seeing elements of it you know and i'm worried about i'm worried about the future you know what future am i going to create for myself and my family up here you know um when we talk about things to worry about in the future those things have happened to me in my country so when i'm when i'm when i'm up here saying some of these things it's not me you know it's me warning it's it's me warning you about things that i've seen happen already yeah and i see elements of it happening up here there was a there wasn't a time long ago when people would laugh at police corruption they would laugh at police brutality they would laugh at mexico's inability to police a region or a zone american law enforcement will laugh at that they're not laughing anymore and how there's there was there's there were legit parts of this country that had no police force to respond to an emergency right and we had autonomous zones to set up and governments that permitted that um i think as a country you're not you shouldn't laugh at that anymore you kind of you know this this this is this is uh you know uh there's a quoted out i quote alan watts a lot and like listening to alan watts pretty interesting character you know a bit of a hippie in whatever backstory he has you know kind of weird uh but he um he in one of his lectures he talks about how the hindus would always kind of divide things into fours like every cycle was four parts the first part was always a beautiful part you know lasted a long time everything was great everything was good everything was bountiful i think that probably ended in the 80s here in the states if i'm kind of like like just being an outsider i think the 80s was the last of that then after that comes a a period of a weird it's good but it's unstable you know uh think of the uh snake in the uh in the garden of eden you know uncertainty then there's a time in our history where things are evenly matched between good and evil you know think of a chair with one without one leg it's unstable you can sit on it still but it's wobbly yeah i think that's where we are and what comes after is i'm not going to disagree with you um politics aside you know us versus them left versus right i'm an immigrant to this country i am a permanent resident i can't vote here yet i'm looking to i'm seeking out my full citizenship like i like i legit i'm working towards it when i say i'm working towards it um i work with charity i i have a charity myself working with people on the southern border and also i i've run charities working with people in the veteran community up here as well even though i wasn't part of the military up here i have a debt that i need to pay with some of the members of the community up here so i do that i try and figure out ways of making my community better by reaching out to people that are struggling with things like depression and [ __ ] like that you know it's an amazing place to be and the things that are leaving us or that are going away one of some of the main reasons why i came up here like personal freedoms like personal responsibilities not just freedom because every freedom comes with a responsibility and i i'm very invested in those responsibilities up here it's disheartening to to to me to see communities just giving some of that some of those freedoms away and some of those responsibilities you know but the governments are enough you know but uh you know you know why do you need guns the police will come yeah um you know this whole push current push-up for gun control and having conversations with people about gun control like in my perspective on it wait till somebody rolls up to your house and asks for your prettiest daughter so they can take it to a party and then tell me that you would want to be the one without a gun in that conversation yeah you know it's again my world has ended several times over so when i come here with warnings of the apocalypse you know i know what i'm talking about yeah well i think a lot of people know that you know what the hell you're talking about but what what is your charity doing down there uh there's a in tijuana you said yeah we started a charity on on the southern side of it uh i've been i've been i've been gathering funds for the uh for for for uh people stateside for a while veteran community people but now kind of going back uh i revisited some of the people that i used to work with that stayed in that stayed clean that stayed on the straight and the narrow people are still in the fight you know i had a moment recently uh where i i had a need you know and some of them came and helped me out with a project that i was working on and they kind of re put me back in touch with some of the people that were that are still in and some of the families that were left behind by some of the agents that were killed down there um insurance policies and protection for families fallen agents and military members down there is almost non-existent how long have you been uh is this a new venture that you're on we've been uh we've been working on it for the past three months uh it's a cause is called ninas perdidos the lost boys specifically related to under-equipped under-trained uh people that are still in it uh that have a background verification that we run that they run people through that so we know they're on the straight and narrow so we support them with training and equipment if we can and specifically donations in the form of financial donations and uh for some of the kids that some of these agents left behind uh after they you know passed away to work with situations including in these kids is a young girl that lost the use of one of her hands after both her father who was an agent that i that worked for the same office that i work with and her mom were killed outside of their house killed by two young men wielding fn57s that were part of the fast imperius fiasco um and they're forgotten you know yeah and so we're trying to shed some light on some of these kids and also shed some attention uh uh when it comes to supporting some of these uh some of these forgotten kids that are out there you know like uh it's hard to move forward forward when you when you have some of that stuff behind you so yeah i've been slowly kind of making my way back to them well that's [ __ ] solid are you ready to receive donations are you still uh we're setting it up so there's complete transparency so people can actually see where those donations go and we're setting up a website for it now uh we're already working with uh with uh with the association attached to that that that works down south uh but we're gonna have some uh some updates pretty soon when we go live with it and so that people can see where their money goes uh they can attach a face to who who they're who they're who they're going to help and stuff like that we're trying to have a have that out for you for people that want to help out that's awesome we'll be helping out that'll be amazing thank you [Music] i hope you guys are enjoying the show i think this is a pretty good one hit pause go over to vigilanceelite.com pick yourself up one of these sweet shirts and if you're lucky maybe these hats will be in stock too [Music] so talking with you earlier you had mentioned that your old boss or was he your commander he was one of one of my you know directors that they that i used to work under is now a fugitive he's a fugitive of the justice right now in mexico in mexico uh this is a man that was decorated with honors by the dea the fbi a man that has been consistently named as one of the actually the people that actually made a difference in mexico when it comes to fighting uh finding some of these cartels uh lieutenant colonel lazaola is his name if people want to find out more about him there's a documentary on on him i think out there lieutenant colonel izola was instrumental in basically bringing back tijuana from the brink and when i mean from the brink i mean tijuana was going to be a a vietnam type air space you know that's what it was going to turn into if somebody like him didn't come into the picture and actually change the way we would fight cartels down there the reason why lee zola was so successful is that he didn't treat the cartels as a criminal problem he didn't focus on it as a problem that was going to be solved with regular traditional policing tactics he treated as an insurgency and i think that's what most people again struggle with on that side of the board on this side of the border they want to fight it as a policing problem when it really is an insurgency on several fronts against the government that is not in control yeah um he was very instrumental in bringing tijuana from the most dangerous city uh on the planet you know from the number one spot to taking it out of the list all together he also worked in juarez as a police chief i know did the same the murder rates just dropped dramatically he's being accused of being a torturer of men he's being accused of being a human rights violator and a few other things i know this man you know not only known i worked with him and uh invited him into my home uh he is a man of honor like nobody else that i've met before he is a hard man and he is a hard enemy if that is what you choose him to be the last attempt at his life because he had several assassination attempts on his life including a fake military convoy doing a roadblock on him and some a cartel group trying to poison his uh favorite juice drink the last one took the use of his legs they shot him in the back and in the last attempt they they had on his life and when he lost his legs he said well i guess i'll go into politics and he's been running for the office of mayor for two or three times in the last few years and he's been consistently being blocked f2 ohana he wants to be a maritijuana and the powers that be in mexico again mexico is a failed state yeah current political uh climate in mexico is very to the left you know there's an open uh chavista supporter in the presidency in mexico right now in the form of nadres manuel lopez obrador it's a leftist federal government right now and people like lasaola who represent the other side of the political spectrum in mexico which is you know a political uh to the right conservative political spectrum um that will create or transform a place that they would govern just like tijuana then they're pulling out all the stops against people like that you know i'm just curious does does the government even matter anymore or down there or is it just an extension of the cartel it matters where it you know it matters where it has control and that is getting smaller and smaller every day also a lot of these criminal organizations down there not only own infrastructure in some places they are involved in legitimate businesses that intertwine with political politicians legitimate businesses so they have they're intertwined they're in control um you know the u.s just let go of a high-ranking general who was clearly recorded and and and and seeing associating with a major cartel in in mexico and favoring them through his tenure as the head of our equivalent of a secretary of defense and you arrested him in the united states in an unprecedented move that the u.s has never done you let him go to face justice in mexico and when he got down there what do you think the federal government did with him escorted home nothing he was nothing he was escorted home now that is the government that you as american taxpayers myself included because i also pay taxes up here now we're paying that government to solve [ __ ] down there for us we're paying them to fortify their border wall on the south side of the border wall we're paying for instruction for their for that we're paying for we're paying and training some of the military down there you know and again what results are we getting as a country yeah uh again if people want to know what to do like what can joe regular joe blow or whatever you want to call him out there do um accountability if you have a representative accountability for what your tax dollars are doing down there we have been paying for that drug war for how long and it's getting worse not better yeah so what's wrong with that relationship and we've been supporting the government down there and the government has consistently proven to be on the take and part of the problem so i'm i'm not i'm not telling you what the solution is but i think part of the solution is to for americans to start demanding accountability for what that money that they're sending down south is paying for and the zero results we're getting back from it yeah and i think it's just people have it so good here you know out of sight out of mind they don't want to think about it it's not actually happening you know i mean look at the average american what do they do they wake up they go to work they get paid they buy a bunch of [ __ ] you know hang out with family they don't see any dramatic anything and that's the way it's supposed to be that's good yeah we put a lot of work into that yeah you know protecting that and and it's it's it's so good that i travel to a different state every every weekend like i think i've seen more parts of this country than most americans i guess and i see things going away in some parts of it yeah i got to i got to visit the us when i was in the 80s and the 90s it's not the same uf that i visited in the 80s and the 90s no and that's my perspective the perspective from the outside now i'm inside and i can see things crumbling away in certain parts of you know just what i would perceive to be important you know um i don't think people know what it is uh to live in a place where you know you would rather call the cartel than the cops to sort something out right uh i think you know i think in some parts of this country you'll probably get to a point like that i think that's coming very soon and again people doubted that you know people had a cartel presence here there was a case of a teacher that decided to rip off a cartel house a money house in the states and they you know the cocktails went after him you know overtly went after a teacher and it made the news and you know they're overtly killing people in the states yeah uh i worked on a case years back where the cartels were dressed like ice agents abduct mexican nationals that were hiding in san diego and drag them back to mexico now if if an islamic state actor did the same thing you would have drones flying over that border and again it's a dirty word you can't call them terrorists yeah well this is also partially the you know the press's fault too because they're not covering that kind of [ __ ] but you know you think something's coming sooner than later i think there's going to be an overt cartel action stateside within you know soon that's going to show americans in a very shocking way how deeply ingrained they're already that they already are here and it's probably going to be directly related to a growing rivalry and push for control by a major cartel coming out of mexico called the new generation cartel and then fighting for interest here stateside with the scene along cartel do you have any idea what kind of where where that would happen uh you know you could see where drugs run up into the stateside so that could happen in l.a it could happen in dallas it could happen in chicago you know it could happen a lot of places on its way up it could happen in oklahoma which is a nodule for drug and other things that are trafficked both up and down into mexico so so the way this the weight usually happens and this is you know just people to kind of keep an eye out for some of these things the way corrosion worked in mexico is this cartels started getting involved in legal operations and legal money intermingling with members of industry and members of well-off families it started recruiting and it started recruiting and bringing in some of the sons and kids of these industries to kind of basically meld themselves into the legal side of the money in some environments then they started putting people in through police academies at a young age and paying for people that are already on on the force to basically start developing interests within police forces um then they started investing in the career paths of lawyers doctors people that would have an immigration process on stateside so now they had distribution people catching them on the other side of the border that had a vested interest in keeping because they paid for my immigration process so now i need to work with these people so they start building a a a they start spreading out an influence in in a region right and eventually you know they gain control over politics as well you'll start seeing some of their tenders go into politics as well and you'll see a corrosion and usually that corrosion leads into a distrust or disc or a distrust or a corrosion of confidence in police forces guess where we are here in the state i was just going to say that i was going to say i lived through that down there and i know where it leads i thought we were ending this but that's exactly where i was headed to is you know you're talking about i'm infiltrating the police force we are ripping the police lower standards lower standards the underfunding lower centers for training uh neuter your police force yep and that is exactly what happened in mexico and that is what's happening up here different reasons you know related to cameras being out and and and stupid people doing stupid things with a badge at some sometimes and also people doing legit justified things and stupid people giving their opinions on that justified action both of those things lead to corrosion and confidence and the only people winning are are not going to be you know the victims of these crimes or the police you know it's going to be the people that benefit from the fact that these people don't the police are not going to have any confidence with the political populace yeah or that they're going away or that they're not going to be called they're they're they have defunded them they're dismantling the police departments in in certain cities crime is up cartels see in opening they're eventually going to have to rebuild that force yeah because it's so out of control and that's when the cartels can slide in there and insert you know their members into that police force as it's being rebuilt because of the lower standards because they have to lower the standards to beef up the department to what it ask ask around right now to all the people you know young guys who wants to be a cop right now nobody they're they're leaving so and i asked a lot of the young people uh who who of them watched narcos mexico yeah three of them knows who who el chapo is or you know escort was you know if i did a show like that glorifying sexifying and making uh osama bin laden kind of sexy and kind of mysterious like that and glorifying some of this [ __ ] would i get into trouble if i was netflix probably right um there are things that are there there are things out there culturally that are being you know you see some of these things they're like wow you know that's acceptable but this isn't acceptable over here yeah um the corrosion in confidence confidence in the police force is something that i've already seen and i know where it leads underfund it lower standards uh make it undesirable to be a police officer and wait for that place to go to hell that's all i'm gonna say that's all that needs to be said it makes perfect sense but i think we'll we'll end it there but um and i'd thank you for the insight and um if you could please send us any footage that you have i would love to put that in this video yeah i'll i'll send you some of the material that i have and uh if people want to be aware of what's going on down there uh there's a news for uh there's a new source that i that we worked closely with called demo there on instagram if people want to follow that constantly getting censored constantly getting some of the stuff that we post up as far as news and just reporting on the water issues um i'd like to make a petition and a plea to people out there if i can if you will allow me to absolutely we'll link it we'll link it below in the description social media censoring [ __ ] our reaction as citizens shouldn't be leaving social media it should be [ __ ] forcing our ways on it and figuring out ways around some of the restrictions yeah that is what a true patriot would do don't go off it figure your way onto it and figuring around it that's what i've been trying to do with my my with my platforms and i want to ask people out there to to be of like-minded and support those actions there's a lot of people out there providing amazing information there's a lot of people out there trying to set up their own information independent information centers or spaces [Music] i'm of the mindset that you know some of these social media giants and spaces that's where people congregate that's what people see and moving off it is admitting defeat you know yeah and i'm not there and hopefully people out there will join me not being there just figuring out a way to make it work and figuring it out um don't back down that's what i want to say if i can uh people want to learn more uh about my work you know as manifesto.com and you know follow me on the on the social medias i'm around you just started tick tock how's that working out for you we'll see people are doubting it you know yeah yeah [Music] again i like i like i like the challenge yeah i like that i like the the challenge of making a format like work as an education tool as an information tool and you know i'm known for my humor as well you know because it can all be you know santa muertas and knives and has to every now and then it has to be a chihuahua dancing around or something you know you know never lose an opportunity to make somebody smile well we'll link all those uh we'll link all your social media we'll link everything uh in the description and uh man i just i just want to say your work is phenomenal thank you thank you i love what you're doing and uh and as always i hope to see you again and and uh you know best of luck in all your endeavors we'll see you all i'll see you out there right all right you

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Published: Thu May 06 2021