Ep 253 | Why Trump Must ANNIHILATE Mexico’s Cartels Like ISIS | The Glenn Beck Podcast          Â
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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn Beck sits down with Brandon Darby, co-founder and Director of Breitbart Border and Texas and the author of the book, "The Cartel Chronicles," to discuss what it means to be on the wrong side of the Mexican drug cartels.
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It's hard to believe, but 40 miles away from our border, over 500 people, men, women, children, brutally massacred by a cartel.
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Their bodies were then taken to a nearby state-run prison where the prisoners, using makeshift ovens, including a 55-gallon drum or two, incinerated some of the bodies.
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They are a failed narco state, and America needs to wake up to that.
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They also had the help of the Mexican governor of that state, who would later go on to become the leader of Mexico's largest political party.
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Of course not, because the cartel doesn't want you to hear this story.
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However, there is one man who is not afraid of being on the wrong side of the cartel.
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I want to welcome to the podcast, co-founder and director of Breitbart Border and Texas, and Breitbart Cartel Chronicles.
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Thank you, Breitbart, for what you have been doing all of these years.
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We don't have any, you know, I'd get people on the phone.
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You guys are the only ones that I know that have consistently, and in particular, you at Breitbart, you're consistently telling this story.
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Before we get into it, and people will understand, are you safe?
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Well, I did not feel safe when we started the project.
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I didn't know how cartels were going to react to what we were doing.
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But, you know, I, and I don't say this to preach.
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I've not, I've been the furthest from a perfect, sanctified person.
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And you can, maybe not the furthest, but I've been pretty far from it.
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And, but to me, it's really been an unto the least of these situation.
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They don't have a voice for, all of these communities don't have a voice for a bunch of reasons.
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There's complex reasons why left of center or legacy media didn't cover them.
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There's complex reasons why the right didn't at that time.
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Um, and I knew that I was supposed to do what I could to help bring a voice.
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And so I just was like, God, you're going to have to stick up for me and watch out for
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Um, but I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to up it a little bit and I'm going to go at
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Um, and so we started these cartel chronicles, which is a whole nother deal where we're very
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And let's not talk about any of that, but, um, so let me take you back.
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I think this is when the chronicles, um, first started this, uh, when was it?
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2011, this rounding up of 500 people and just killing them all because they had the same
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name and they, they knew two of them might be talking to DEA officials.
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So I, I, it's always so difficult to, to tell these stories cause you, you don't know how
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many listeners or viewers, uh, understand the geography of the border.
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So on the, the majority of the U S Mexico border is Texas, right?
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And Texas has the United States borders divided into nine sectors on the Southwest border.
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Um, immediately below Texas, below a town called Del Rio and, uh, Eagle pass.
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That's where that fence came up and then the government took it down and all those people.
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So South of there is a state called Coila and Coila.
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Uh, it's right on the Texas border, but it was under control of a cartel called Los
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We don't, we don't buy the rebranding that the U S government and U S media buys.
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Um, but they had complete control over that state.
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And what they did was someone had agreed to cooperate with the U S government, um, you know,
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Uh, and then the U S government shared a little bit of information with the Mexican government.
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Trying to treat them as though, uh, that was a safe thing to do and trying to be professional.
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And they shared the, a very common last name and said, well, the source's name, last name
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So what, what Los Setas did with the government's approval, with the state government's approval
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is they went into this region of Mexico called Allende and they rounded up everyone with that
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last name and everyone who had a relative with that last name.
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And they killed them 500 and something people killed them.
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Didn't they take, actually take them to like the prison and have the, well, some of them,
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yeah, that we can't figure out what happened to all of them.
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But what we did was we actually went to this prison and got access to a storage for a storage
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And we were able to find remnants and of people.
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Uh, and, but that happens, that's happened all across Mexico, specifically along the
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You know, people will tell me, well, I went to Tijuana and it was safe.
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I went to a show and I was like, well, because you're dealing with a different cartel there
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than, than what we deal with in Texas and South of Texas.
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When you're talking about South of Texas, if you were to go now, now people understand
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If you say Boca Chica beach, it's the very furthest point, uh, where Mexico and the United
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Um, that's where Elon Musk launches rockets from SpaceX, right?
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If you were to go all the way over there, that is called the Rio Grande Valley sector.
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And it's under the control of the Gulf cartel was you go further over and you get to the
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Laredo sector, which is next Rio Grande Valley, Laredo sector, the Rio sector, big bend sector,
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And so forth, as you come, come, uh, West, you're dealing with Los Settos, right?
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And you know, it goes on and down the line, but specifically the Gulf cartel and Los Settos,
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They've had their leadership decimated probably eight times over, right?
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And what happens when you do that is these groups start to factionalize.
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So now the Gulf cartel isn't the Gulf cartel anymore.
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It's, it's multiple cartels who all call themselves the Gulf cartel, but they're all fighting each
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And, and what happens is you end up with glorified gang bangers and they no longer care about
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They don't care about long-term profit sustainability.
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That's why we had the migrant crisis that we had starting in 2013, 14 is because this faction
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of the Gulf cartel decided they could make as much or more money from smuggling people to
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That's why most of that border crisis was contained to this very small geographic area along our
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border is because that particular faction of the Gulf cartel decided that's what they
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So there was a story a couple of weeks ago about crematoriums.
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When you asked me to come on the show, my mind, I had already been in a place where I
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was like, I need to bring attention to Jalisco.
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I need to bring attention to this cartel called CJ and G, right?
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The head of that cartel is a guy named El Mencho.
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I mean, we could get into, people can watch narcos if they want to know that story.
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But the bottom line is this particular cartel is so brutal and so powerful.
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They have ties to the current secretary of defense of Mexico.
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So when, when the U S government, you know, like him or, or hate him or whatever, when,
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when Trump first came in, um, his first term, what was that?
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But, but, um, when he first came in, he had promised.
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In fact, it was on a radio show with me at the time.
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I was guest hosting a show and Stephen Miller, that was his name.
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He came on and he promised that they were going to go to war on cartels, Mexican cartels,
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Um, and I'm sure there was, there were a lot of complicating factors, right?
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Like, like Trump 2.0 and Trump 1.0 are not the same at all.
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And, um, I personally am a fan of 2.0 a lot more.
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Um, but what they did was they kind of went after MS 13, right?
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And I guess they assumed that, well, people won't know the difference or we're keeping
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as much of our promise as we can, but Trump 2.0 is really going at it.
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But the problem is, is that they're really not going after cartel Jalisco, right?
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So they're going after the Sinaloa cartel, which 10 years ago, no one could have done.
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And they're going after the Gulf cartel and they're going after Los Etos.
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They're going after a lot of folks, but are they really going after cartel Jalisco?
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So you, you traditionally have had folks like the Gulf cartel and Los Etos who had their
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Remember, there were those younger guys who came in, so they didn't care as much about
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They only cared about today, which meant the typical things we relied on, like our entire
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counterterrorism strategy on the Southwest border.
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Again, analysts will say this is an oversimplification, but I think it's a fair, it's a fair oversimplification
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is we've said, well, these cartels won't allow a terrorist to come through because they know
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They know that that would shut down their money and their business, their corridors.
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Well, that you could say that about an old school cartel with an old leadership who doesn't
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want to kill police, doesn't want to kill U.S. citizens.
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They just want to make money and they know how to avoid trouble, right?
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But when it's a bunch of young guys all doing cocaine and methamphetamine and they know they're
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going to die tomorrow anyways, they don't care.
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But again, that's coming from these factionalized cartels that can't accumulate a lot of power
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or political power in Mexico because they're constantly changing leadership.
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The problem with cartel Jalisco is they are that large cartel with the majority of power,
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the most powerful cartel right now in the world, I believe.
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Most powerful, ruthless drug lord in existence is El Mencho right now.
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They have all that power and that money and that reach, but they are behaving like these
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young guys from the Gulf Cartel or from Los Santos.
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And, you know, regardless of how much, I mean, obviously, if you have my history and you write
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about these issues, you're constantly brushing shoulders with law enforcement.
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There's constantly analysts who reach out to you or others who reach out to you for information
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And you start to get a pretty clear picture of what their complaints and their gripes are.
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In the State Department, the U.S. State Department, there's State Department employees, but the
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majority of the people handling security and law enforcement in the U.S. Consulate in Monterey,
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They're former law enforcement who are retired, who are doing a contract.
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Well, those guys have a pretty good idea what's going on, like where the money's going, who
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they're being told to leave alone, who they're being told to go after and to prioritize.
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And when they feel like something wrong is happening, they talk, right?
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But they'll talk to you and they'll see, you know, this stuff.
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And you've been in journalism and they tell you what's going on.
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And what's going on is we are not properly going after El Mencho.
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I think pretty quickly the Trump administration will.
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But the way that's going to happen is by me texting people I know in the White House and
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telling them that, by me coming on your show and your platform being used to make sure there's
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zero percent chance that decision makers in this White House don't watch your show.
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I will tell you that I happen to know somebody on this team that is making the decisions.
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And I have no inside information or anything else.
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But I do know he's one of the more serious guys I've ever met.
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He's dealt with the worst of the worst of the Middle East.
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And Trump is looking at these guys just like he did ISIS and everything else.
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They might be worse because there is no code at all amongst them.
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But if you go in, because I've been waiting for every morning for 10 weeks, all these people
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wake up and they're like, what happened to him last night?
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You know, and just every day people are waking up dead.
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And but I am I'm wondering now if that's even a good idea for us to spend in send in special forces.
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If it's just breaking them up even more into these little teeny death squads.
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What we've done to the Gulf cartel and we've broken them into little itty bitty teeny tiny death squads, right?
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What we have done, though, is broken their power in Mexico, their ability to control that central government to have influence over it is very small.
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So let me stop and let's let's spend a minute on the government, because you can't do the things these organizations are doing without serious connections to the government.
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And and I mean, it's it's obvious when you have a local politician, he's like, I'm going to run against the cartels.
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Everybody who even were supporting him, they're all dead.
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And you clearly when you have the next candidate up, he's clearly at least tolerant of the cartels.
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Oh, so Mexico has, you know, five years ago, I would have said they had 31 states in the federal district.
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More than half of that territory is under the control of cartels.
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So in the United States, if someone is in trouble, we might send, you know, the FBI or the ATF to go get them.
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In Mexico, they have to send in their elite Marines.
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They have to send in like hundreds of soldiers and armored vehicles to go and get someone if they want them.
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There's usually the cartels are using drone attacks.
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You know, it starts to resemble a smaller version of Ukraine and Russia right now.
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We I think later on in this discussion, we'll probably get more in detail about maybe we will about, you know, the problems that the U.S. has in doing things in Mexico.
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But to make a long story short, years ago, as in a year ago, maybe even up to a year ago, the way that people in the intelligence community and in the law enforcement community in the United States described it to me, as they said, when when we have law enforcement or intelligence, you know, priorities,
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the State Department would always say, hey, wait a minute.
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You need to balance your law enforcement and intelligence priorities with the State Department's diplomatic concerns.
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And so you've got to think about what the U.S. government does.
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They go to Mexico for a two year assignment or so.
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They take a sheet of paper and they write out their priorities and they say, OK, here's what I'm going to accomplish while I'm here.
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And after I accomplish these things and I leave, I can go to Honolulu or wherever I want to go.
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Some, you know, Southeast Pacific Island or something because I took this dangerous assignment.
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They have to work with local partners, with Mexicans to get these priorities done.
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The U.S. government starts to go after a particular cartel boss.
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And then all of the people that the State Department's working with and depending on say, well, you need to back off that guy.
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So to to what you said a minute ago, what can the U.S. do if the U.S. goes after him?
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Does it break him up and turn him into, you know, is it like a hydra?
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Do you chop the head off and more heads come at you?
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The U.S. government doesn't really need to do that.
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I think the U.S. government needs to look at the reality of Mexico, Mexico.
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If you're dirty and you throw money around, you have political power and you can get things done.
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But if you're the U.S. government and you throw money around, you can get things done as well.
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I think that the U.S. government should fund groups in Mexico to to take out or help with these bad guys like they just did.
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And it turns out that El Mayo was kidnapped by another cartel and then flown here right to the U.S.
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Well, obviously, someone in the U.S. government was in was working with these other bad guys to do this.
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And I think that kind of thing is what's going to happen more.
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Because you have to I mean, this is one of those tricky things, right, where there are a lot of folks on the left who cover cartels.
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They don't cover them like we do, but they still cover stuff going on in Mexico.
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There's a few of them, a few of my respect, you know, in Grillo.
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And there's a few folks I really respect and I read their work, but they come from it from a very liberal.
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It kind of reminds me of talking about home invasions in Los Angeles.
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If you asked me how to deal with home invasions in Los Angeles, I'm going to have a very different perspective than Nancy Pelosi would have.
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It's like, well, this violence is going to happen if we do this.
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So maybe we just leave it alone and learn to cooperate with them and live with.
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And then we worry about the next step afterwards if the only thing we can do is right before our face.
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So you take the step, you break them up, you minimize their federal power, their national power, and you keep breaking them up.
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And then if they turn into five groups, you break them up.
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But every time they divide, they're smaller than they were before, you know, and you break their power.
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Nobody, I mean, even some of the Republicans, they just don't care.
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And I think it's because I've seen some of the pictures that networks didn't allow me to put on the air.
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I've seen the bowling alleys with the heads in the bowling alleys.
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I've seen the heads on the pikes on the side of the street.
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This cremation story that just came out a few weeks ago.
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I don't think people really understand, you know, because they're like, oh, yeah, spring break.
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Now, OK, Glenn, imagine and maybe I'm tugging on heartstrings on for all the viewers a little, but that's OK, because it's it's real.
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You live with when the local cartel comes to get you.
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It's the state police because the state police work for that cartel.
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That's their enforcement is their own mechanisms of government.
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But imagine you live under that and no one in the world tells your story.
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No one in the world knows that you live under that.
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And imagine that the only hope you have is that people in the United States.
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Tell your story and make what's happening to you matter.
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Well, what I was getting at, though, is that on the left, they're afraid to report on what's
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going on in these communities because they're afraid that in their minds, they think they're
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reinforcing a racist right of center narrative.
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And they're afraid to report on it because if they do report on it, they think it's going
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to benefit Republican Party or it's going to make brown communities look bad.
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And so in the name of of doing the best for these people, they just keep them silent and
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they refuse to tell what's going on, you know, and on the right, a lot of people have refused
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because, like, well, you're just bringing sympathy to those people.
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You're and I'm like, well, yeah, that's if I that's what I'm doing.
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If I were on the other side of the border, I completely understand I'm taking my family
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I don't understand our our unwillingness to move.
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I mean, for decades, this is this is not a new problem.
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This is getting worse and worse and worse and worse because we don't do anything about
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Um, and and you sit there and you look at it and you're like, I think the average person
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in Mexico, I'm living in one of those towns, completely run, completely run.
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The person that wanted to replace him was shot.
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Uh, you know, his wife and kids, they were shot.
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Somebody else was shot all against the cartels.
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But if we actually would step in because their government is corrupt, if we actually looked
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at them like we did ISIS, the people of Mexico would embrace us.
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It, it depends on where and what they're dealing with.
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Um, I think in the communities that are most affected by, by like cartel Alisco, I think that
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Do the Mexicans not know the story of these people?
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So depending on how you count media workers, right?
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Like, um, if you say media workers or journalists, right?
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Like the, the left tends to be like, I'm a journalist, but my Wikipedia page, someone put
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You know, it's like a, it's a mechanism of insulting me or diminishing my work.
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Like the, if you use the, the terminology or the, the, the definitions I would use for
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There's been about 150 or so Mexican journalists killed in the last few years, you know,
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Uh, I think it's been five, might've been six or something.
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Um, that's, that's, that's gotta be one of the worst in the world.
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So every year between like Mexico and Syria, Mexico is always a close number two or Mexico
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and wherever some years, Mexico's number one of the most journalists killed in the world.
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So this is where, what we do and what you're doing right now is so important because every
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And I think about this, a link is the person everyone knows is kind of like a, the communist
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So they go, they run things by and the link says, well, you better cover it this way or
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So you better not write that story about the mayor taking money from narcos, get it.
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And so the journalists fall in line because if they don't, they're dead, they're dead.
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So what we do is we go and we build relationships with journalists and we say, listen, we know that
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We know that you can't write these things, but if you want to write these things under
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a pseudonym and you want to give them to us, we'll publish them in English and Spanish
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Tell me in Mexico, is, is that, is that spread in Mexico?
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So, and then you can, you know, the stuff just from analytics.
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Um, people don't share our articles in Mexico on social media, but they do share it via
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Um, they don't share openly on social media generally.
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That should tell you everything you need to know.
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You know, this is, this is so enraging because you, you hear this and we've made such a big
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deal out of the Venezuela gangs, which are horrible, horrendous.
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Um, but we don't talk about, and everybody knows, everybody knows that these gangs in Mexico
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These, these people, we, in my opinion, and love to hear your thought.
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if we're not literally, uh, or, you know, um, if we're not doing business with them, we're
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at least turning a major blind eye over the last five years.
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I personally, it, to me, it's almost as if we're like, Hey, we're going to help your business.
00:32:23.840
I mean, it is the way we have reacted over the last four years under Biden has got to
00:32:31.060
have empowered these people and, um, enrich them like nobody's business.
00:32:38.200
And it was us, the government that did it disagree.
00:32:45.380
Um, this is where we get into, you know, there are some things, some solution, parts of solutions
00:32:53.580
that the, the few on the left who care about this and focus on it.
00:33:00.480
I agree with like what, um, I agree that ultimately what does away with this type of
00:33:12.480
Um, but you can't, but you can't have opportunity.
00:33:18.460
The problem is, is what, where we disagree is how to get there, how to get to that place.
00:33:26.800
I understand some of our best sources through the years have been young guys who at one point
00:33:33.940
They, uh, they weren't leadership, but they were, you know, they had a radio and they would
00:33:40.180
And they explained it to me and they're like, well, what else would I do?
00:33:43.500
You know, like, imagine you live outside of, of outside of Juarez, like in Anapa.
00:33:49.020
Rancho Anapa, just on the other side of the U S Mexico border.
00:33:52.980
You can actually see it from this, uh, this little place called Sunland village in New
00:33:59.440
And for years there was this chain link fence right there.
00:34:02.880
Uh, and that was the border and you could look across and you'd see these little shanties
00:34:09.140
and you'd see kids with no shoes and you'd, it was just, it was a bit horrifying.
00:34:12.840
And I would always stop and talk to these kids.
00:34:16.680
So you live there, you have, you really don't have access to a lot of formal education,
00:34:24.940
Um, your mother probably washes people's laundry by hand, right?
00:34:32.640
There's men who are disrespecting your sisters and you, you're pretty sure they're going to
00:34:40.620
And then someone comes to you and goes, Hey, um, all you have to do is like, have this radio
00:34:47.940
I'll pay you, you know, $500 a week, 500 U S dollars a week.
00:34:52.080
And, um, no one will, you know, try to sexually assault your sister.
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Your mother won't have to wash people's underwear anymore.
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So, yes, giving opportunity is, I think, the way out of this, but how do we get there?
00:36:46.640
Well, we're not going to get there without a lot of violence.
00:36:49.660
We're not going to get there without a lot of things that would make most people feel
00:36:56.880
And that's, you know, it's kind of like we talked about the Overton window, right?
00:37:01.460
Like, what we accept and what we have accepted, think about this.
00:37:08.480
We have accepted a 2,000-mile border that is largely immediately on the other side, is
00:37:16.120
under the control of transnational paramilitary criminal organizations.
00:37:23.640
We've allowed them to make untold amounts, millions, from bringing people to our border.
00:37:35.380
It's okay, because we know, you know, we know where your grandmother is.
00:37:45.220
We're going to dress you up in clothes that appeal to the American sensibility, right?
00:37:53.000
And then on the day that we want to, we're going to bring you and 200 other people to
00:37:58.640
the border and tell you where to cross and tell you what to do.
00:38:08.880
They're wearing the clothes that they were given, you know?
00:38:12.080
And for the next however many years, they're sending money back every two weeks to that
00:38:17.260
cartel, you know, through Orlandi Valuda or through, you know, WhatsApp or through Venmo
00:38:24.840
They're sending money back, small amounts to pay it off.
00:38:28.300
And that is what is fueling like the Gulf cartel, the Reynosa faction of the Gulf cartel.
00:38:37.100
We've allowed that because we feel bad and we feel bad for people.
00:38:45.460
And you're like, whether or not we think it's okay that they've come that way and whether
00:38:49.740
or not we think they should not be allowed to, right?
00:38:53.100
That we should not, we should stop it is kind of besides the point.
00:38:57.500
The fact is, is that when you're seeing that, you can relate to why that human did that.
00:39:01.940
But, but that kindness that we're showing, not only really is it fair to a whole host of
00:39:09.500
other people, but it's really not fair to the, the very communities these people come
00:39:17.720
I mean, look, there are times that compassion can be so wildly misplaced that it just makes
00:39:28.580
There's some things that it has to be in order, you know, it has to be, um, we're never going
00:39:35.560
to make any progress if we are just enabling the bad guys by saying, we're going to help
00:39:43.040
the others on the, yeah, I understand that, but we've got to cure that.
00:39:47.920
It got to cut that cancer out before you can help the body.
00:39:51.740
You know, it's like, Hey, let's do calisthenics while you're on chemo.
00:40:10.160
So I've thought about this, um, several Mexican presidents that has gone all the way to them
00:40:16.880
and they've, they've, um, that's, that's not a, uh, at this point people can get on Google
00:40:28.980
This particular president, what I think this is my gut feeling, right?
00:40:33.740
My gut feeling is that she is not dirty in that way, but that she is a realist who says,
00:40:41.200
okay, this is a country where half of the territory is under the control of these transnational
00:40:56.060
And so what I think she's done is like with her secretary of defense, I think she's brought
00:41:02.060
people onto her cabinet, some of whom she knows are dirty and connected because it helps
00:41:07.020
her govern what, what just happened with, um, you know, uh, what a month or two ago when
00:41:14.420
they handed over 20 some odd cartel bosses who were wanted, that was unprecedented that
00:41:20.720
this guy, uh, Rafael Carl Quintero, he killed this DE agent, which is kind of what kicked all
00:41:28.780
As part of a, he brutally tortured one of our people, right?
00:41:33.900
And American and a fellow American and he killed him and he had, he had like doctors
00:41:40.420
and, and on standby and there to keep this guy alive just so he could torture him more.
00:41:47.300
And that was in the eighties and Mexico and we, we just got him because of the threat of
00:41:58.640
Mexico protected him this entire time and we, they just handed him to us.
00:42:04.760
Um, I think they realized that the, and, and again, I, I, I'll just say it.
00:42:12.720
This administration under Trump on the world stage finally called them out and said, this
00:42:20.340
is basically, they said, this is a narco state.
00:42:25.580
No, but that's not something that the U S government has done.
00:42:29.620
So the threat of tariffs, the threat of military action of the U S taking unilateral action against
00:42:40.860
And this president very secretly without informing a lot of people got these guys out of there.
00:42:46.520
They got the heads of Losetas, the, the two brothers, um, the Z brothers who ran Losetas.
00:42:52.860
And even though there's different leaders, um, the reality is, is those two brothers still
00:43:00.600
If a cartel boss gets arrested and put in prison in Mexico, that doesn't change anything.
00:43:07.140
What changes it is when they die or when they get into U S custody, once you're in U S
00:43:15.320
So if, if, if a cartel boss wanted to kill me and had a hit on me and he gets arrested
00:43:24.220
He's still the boss, but if he gets killed or he gets put into U S custody, then no one
00:43:31.540
No one's going to do any favors for him anymore because he's, he's considered gone.
00:43:36.360
So when Mexico handed those people over, that shocked me that they handed us this guy,
00:43:43.860
Carl Quintero, I could not believe they did it.
00:43:46.040
That was a major gesture, but I promise you that that president would have had to have
00:43:52.160
done that without informing members of her cabinet that she was doing that.
00:43:56.240
You know, it would have had to been that kind of hush and secret.
00:43:58.840
What she said was, she would have, you're saying she would have, she wouldn't, she would
00:44:04.820
No, she couldn't have, because some of them are in fact, yeah, cartel.
00:44:09.240
And so she couldn't have, and what, how she defended it was, she said, I had, uh, intelligence
00:44:14.680
that, uh, corrupt governors were going to get paid and release them.
00:44:19.920
Like I, she had to have an excuse for why she did it that way.
00:44:22.780
But the fact that she gave us Carl Quintero is a really big deal.
00:44:26.680
The fact that she gave us the, the, the de facto heads of the, of Losetta CDN, that's
00:44:34.660
Um, it's a really big deal, but it still diverts from the fact that El Mencho is protected.
00:44:43.000
You know, who's the major driver of fentanyl in the United States?
00:44:46.780
El Mencho, you know, um, he's put him, put him in a category of other drug bosses or Al Capone
00:44:53.680
or something that people in America can relate to.
00:44:59.140
I, I don't think Al Capone ever had that much power, uh, that El Mencho has, or, or, um,
00:45:12.540
It would be, um, it's kind of difficult to do that.
00:45:16.940
Glenn, uh, but just imagine, um, a really bad guy who doesn't mind pumping fentanyl into
00:45:26.200
the United States, doesn't mind killing journalists, right?
00:45:30.540
Doesn't mind killing innocent people and burying them in mass graves if they get in his way.
00:45:36.280
Um, who now has billions upon billions of dollars per year to play with, you know, you understand?
00:45:42.340
Um, that's, you know, who has the current secretary of defense as a close friend, you know, our sources
00:45:51.800
Which means this isn't someone who he talks to on occasion or has a business meeting with.
00:45:58.520
This is someone they're talking once or twice a day about their days and what they're doing.
00:46:07.240
And do people in Mexico have a problem with that?
00:46:11.320
I think most people do, you know, like you think about most of the, the people from Mexico
00:46:17.960
you've met, if you've ever, I don't know what work you've done before radio and TV, but I
00:46:23.400
would imagine you've, you've probably like most people done some blue collar work and probably
00:46:30.400
So I was, I mean, look at these hands, they're babies.
00:46:33.860
There's, there's, um, you know, people, I think most places are decent people.
00:46:48.520
But, but on a human level, most people, they want to work.
00:46:54.360
They want to be left alone, left alone and raise their children.
00:46:58.880
They, um, most people, you know, they live their life and they're having fun and doing
00:47:05.180
And then at the age that their parents start to pass away, they get real serious about
00:47:09.760
life and they're just, it's a human experience, right?
00:47:12.560
All of us have these, these poor things, right?
00:47:24.600
I think that the vast majority of people are very decent, but when the people in power, when
00:47:38.080
And they're talking about Elon Musk or yeah, there's a couple of people with so much money
00:47:45.420
But for the most part, we have a thriving middle class, right?
00:47:48.920
We have, you know, especially compared to places like Mexico in real terms.
00:47:54.940
And, and I think, you know, when so few people have power and so few people have
00:48:03.440
You remember in Mexico, you can't have, they're not like us.
00:48:06.780
They don't, everyone doesn't get to have a firearm.
00:48:08.960
Like we could say if some guys came up the street to take our women or take everyone with
00:48:14.260
a certain last name and burn them and kill them, that we would, we wouldn't tolerate it.
00:48:18.800
But imagine that you don't have firearms and then imagine that you, you don't have 911
00:48:24.960
to call because if you call the police, like you're calling the guys coming up the
00:48:32.220
So when you say do most, I think most people that have a problem with this, but what are
00:48:41.900
And that's why, you know, there's things all over the world where there's injustice.
00:48:47.640
There's things all over the world, even in our own country, but, but I'm talking about
00:48:53.760
There's all types of horrible things happening, but for some reason, our neighbor, which affects
00:49:09.020
Like for some reason, like we, we don't mind intervening everywhere else in the world, but
00:49:18.340
Like why, um, I, I think I attribute a lot of it to, and make people mad at me, but get
00:49:28.340
I think a lot of it is because of the, the way that we, we handle it, right?
00:49:34.960
A lot of it is, is approaching it like California approaches crime, you know, approaching it a very
00:49:42.360
left of center, uh, liberal leaning, um, ideal approach that doesn't acknowledge or accept
00:49:53.020
So the U S government's big push in Mexico for last, um, I don't know, probably let's
00:50:03.640
The big push has been to reform their justice system, right?
00:50:06.920
So what they're trying to do is make Mexico have a justice system like ours, where there's
00:50:14.000
discovery and you know, your accusers and which sounds great.
00:50:17.520
But if you implement that, when the cartels still control everything and you have to name
00:50:26.380
the witnesses against a bad guy, what happens, you know, it's, but I'm saying that that is,
00:50:32.260
that is what we have, that's what our state department has focused on with all of this
00:50:41.900
Like, it's, it's almost like if someone you love is, or say that God forbid you're, you
00:50:51.800
Like, like in our lung and they come in and start going, Hey, like, let's, uh, let's do
00:50:59.880
a manicure and a pedicure and let's, um, right.
00:51:02.580
Let's, uh, let's make sure that let's work on the mobility in your ankles.
00:51:06.120
And you're like, well, that's great that you're working on the mobility in my ankles.
00:51:09.000
But right now I have a, I have a tumor in my lung.
00:51:12.380
Yeah, there's, that's the approach that we've taken.
00:51:15.680
There's this refusal to acknowledge reality, right?
00:51:22.100
And again, I know one of the people that he appointed, he is not shy either.
00:51:32.800
Why hadn't there been any shock and awe or should there, and what should we be doing?
00:51:37.540
So this is where things, and you know, this, I know that, you know, this, I I'm going to
00:51:43.880
make an assumption that, you know, you, you to brush, you have relationships with people
00:51:51.360
So you have a little bit of how things work or like a lot, like, and I don't want to
00:51:59.020
If CPAC is having a, um, a panel on the border, okay.
00:52:11.940
Like who gets called to that panel is which groups have the largest booths, right?
00:52:22.760
And whoever has the largest groups, they decide who's going to be the speakers.
00:52:27.040
And then four or five of the people on the panel call me and they're like, Hey, you
00:52:32.540
And I'm like, well, brother, like, like you're the one who allowed yourself to be elevated
00:52:38.000
to a position of leadership, you, you know, use Google.
00:52:43.280
Like I'll give you some talking points, but what am I, you know, like all of you are asking
00:52:51.780
I think it happens in bureaucracy in general, but it for sure happens in government, right?
00:52:56.920
Where the people who, I guess the people who oftentimes make the decisions or the people
00:53:04.700
who are, are the advisors, maybe are not the ones who should be right now.
00:53:11.640
Like if I look at the FBI, I love what he's done with the leadership and Dan Bongino.
00:53:23.280
And, um, you know, I, I, I look at with terrorism and I look at, um, the, the, just the folks
00:53:31.560
These are people I know, or I have either watched for years, some of them I known for
00:53:36.160
years and they're good people and they're serious people who, who they might not know
00:53:41.420
everything about cartels, but they, they know where to reach.
00:53:46.300
They know whose work to look at and who to ask questions upon.
00:53:50.320
But you got to remember, we're very soon into this, right?
00:53:52.940
Like we, these guys are still sorting this out.
00:53:58.260
I think the first administration, Trump 1.0, I think that he tried to bring as many of,
00:54:06.760
and I hate to use that term, but I, I'm going to like swamp creatures in to make peace kind
00:54:17.460
I mean, he's, he's said that many times he does now.
00:54:21.920
I think he has a pretty clear idea of how they, they tried to, how, how deep in our
00:54:31.280
Well, this is where it gets tricky too, is because now we get into border politicians,
00:54:36.340
We get into like, why does the state of Texas have a specific task force along the U S
00:54:41.620
Mexico border to deal with public corruption, right?
00:54:46.760
So if you have political leaders along the border and those political leaders along the
00:54:53.180
border have relationships in Mexico and have, you know, with Mexico's major political parties
00:55:00.120
Even if they don't realize it, if those political parties, like we talk about Allende, we talked
00:55:06.060
about Coila and the mass graves and the burning of 500 summit people in Allende, right?
00:55:11.560
So the governor who allowed that to happen, didn't go to the UN about it, right?
00:55:18.880
That governor left there and then became the head of a major political party in Mexico,
00:55:26.420
And so what do us politicians do is they try to engage in diplomacy and, and, and get along
00:55:38.260
So that's a mechanism by which those criminal organizations, those paramilitary, now there's
00:55:46.340
some of them, many of them are considered foreign terrorist organizations.
00:55:50.840
That's the mechanism by which they influence U S policies, right?
00:55:58.060
So I think most of the U S politicians who are doing the bidding of these cartels, I don't
00:56:05.600
They don't, they're not like getting a, an envelope full of cash under the table every,
00:56:10.200
you know, probably some along the border are, uh, some of them have, you know, recently been
00:56:15.420
indicted for envelopes full of cash, even though they, they defend themselves and say, well,
00:56:23.420
You know, I think, I think you might be like, cause we hear that stuff.
00:56:27.620
So, I mean, obviously, you know, this, how this works, you can't, you can't, it's why
00:56:33.580
that people like you and I can sometimes have a disadvantage over everyone on social media,
00:56:39.880
Because they can, they can hear a rumor and they can report it.
00:56:43.620
They can report the rumor on their Twitter account, right?
00:56:48.700
I'm going to, I say Twitter X or whatever, but they can report it on their Twitter account.
00:56:56.940
I have to develop other sources and I have to make sure it's true.
00:57:00.320
Cause if I, if I say that and it's not true, I'm getting sued, you know?
00:57:04.780
And, and then my insurance goes up and then it, and then it, the marketability of this,
00:57:10.080
which is already a difficult thing to market because, and you probably know this as well,
00:57:15.920
advertisers don't like their ad on a story that has pictures of dead bodies.
00:57:22.920
So, well, it's hard to think of, you know, but so what do you do?
00:57:26.340
Like, so what you do is you, you do what Breitbart does.
00:57:30.440
We go to a nonprofit model, like for this particular vein of stories, because we're publishing
00:57:35.640
these horrendous photos that everyone gets mad at us for publishing and we're not making
00:57:42.080
You know, it's just, we're trying to show the world.
00:57:45.880
In Syria, when the U S government, and I think the intelligence community was really pounding
00:57:52.300
the drum through our mainstream media outlets that we needed to be involved in Syria, right?
00:57:56.560
We needed to arm these Al Qaeda groups in Syria to be our friends.
00:57:59.820
Um, there was this image of this, I believe it was a little boy, a little child who was
00:58:08.820
And it was all over Twitter and it was all over CNN and it was all over the Washington
00:58:14.000
And it was all over all of the outlets who intelligence communities like to leak to.
00:58:17.860
Um, and so I had a picture of a little migrant child who, again, it was the back of the migrant
00:58:38.220
Because you see the image of this dead child in Syria, but not when you see the image of
00:58:44.360
this dead Mexican child or Honduran child on our border, right?
00:58:50.160
I got banned for a while because I published this image and, oh, this is, yeah.
00:58:58.540
And, um, they were like, you have to delete it or we're not going to let you get back on
00:59:07.840
You're, you allow, you have a different set of rules for that war than you have for the
00:59:16.340
You have a different set of rules and like, well, you can debate that, but there's, you're
00:59:20.840
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So you've put together a whole team of journalists.
01:00:59.660
Oh, I think we have maybe 17 who work on the Cartel Chronicles, like routinely.
01:01:07.860
The ones who have the, you know, the ones who are signed on with us and who routinely contribute.
01:01:23.000
Or sometimes people go, you have so much courage.
01:01:29.660
I have guns and skills, and I live in West Texas, right?
01:01:35.780
I live in rural West Texas where I feel pretty safe.
01:01:40.740
But these people, like we talked about earlier, listen to this.
01:01:45.600
They can't call 911 because the local police are, in fact, working with the cartels, right?
01:02:18.260
And some of them are actually work for mainstream news organizations whose names you would know.
01:02:25.880
But they're not allowed to write what they want to write because they get killed or their editors would get killed, right?
01:02:45.420
You know, what I do and my team does, obviously.
01:03:06.620
And when you talk to whomever you know in the administration or when you talk to, if someone listening goes to a town hall event with a local political leader, ask them to ask them about it.
01:03:17.360
You know, don't do gotcha because they might not know, but ask, tell them this matters to you.
01:03:34.580
So, in Mexico, there tends to be this interesting double standard, right?
01:03:41.320
When it comes to their drug war, they blame the United States supply for their demand for firearms, right?
01:03:49.060
And when it comes to drugs, they don't blame these ruthless drug dealers for the drug war.
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They blame the most, the weakest, most, you know, mentally health challenged people in our country, right?
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They blame them for their need, for the demand, right?
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And on the other hand, they turn around and when it benefits them, they blame the supply, right?
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So, I kind of take a middle ground on that and I say, well, sometimes the supply promotes demand, right?
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And yes, the demand has to be there for the supply to function as well, right?
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Do I think we can get to a place where we have fewer people dying of fentanyl?
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A lot fewer people dying of fentanyl in this country?
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Do I think we can get to a place where any time someone raises their head and starts trying to be a big shot in Mexico
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in supplying that fentanyl or drugs to our country that they die and they know not to do it?
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But I think it's going to take the Trump administration really ramping it up.
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And they are ramping it up, but ramping it up more quickly than they are, they're going to have to.
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We have, how long do we have until midterms, like right now?
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And so, they're going to need to really accomplish the bulk of things in this next year.
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Because we don't know what Americans, you know, are going to choose at that point and how difficult things might become.
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Should we say to Mexico, our State Department is going to say what we did in Cuba?
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Well, okay, so this is where things get really tricky, is in a way we can do that with Mexico.
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We can play hardball, but you have to remember that China is courting Mexico.
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So, when Mexico's, you know, nationwide telecommunications, right?
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China would love to have a proxy on our border, right?
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So, what I advocate is just to consistently use the intelligence community to get these people.
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Doesn't even have to really risk U.S. life because we can get, there are plenty of people in Mexico, even if the Secretary of Defense is unwilling to get Mencho, there are plenty of people in Mexico who are willing to, you understand that?
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I suggest we treat them like we're dealing with Al-Qaeda.
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But when it comes to these people, we have the intelligence.
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You know, one of the weirdest things about being in my position is that about half of the information I come across, I make public.
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But half of it is, there's really no public, I'm going to ruin someone's investigation, right?
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Like if someone says, oh, this cartel boss is going to be here, is supposed to be here on this date according to one of his bodyguards, right?
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What I'm going to do with that is I'm going to share it with people.
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I'm going to say, hey, you don't become me in this position and not have some, you know, friendly relations with people in different agencies, Border Patrol, like CBP, like, you know, all of the agencies are someone I know or can talk to.
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Like if about half the information, maybe a little less than half, there's no public value in sharing that the head of this particular cartel is going to be here in a week.
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But there is value in sharing that with law enforcement.
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Have they ever come to you, the United States ever come to you and said, hey, can we get briefed?
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So my history in all this started, and nowadays it's a bad thing to bring up.
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But at the time, I was very proud of what I had done many, many years ago, like in 2007 and 8 and 9, I had worked undercover as an operational source with the FBI in far left circles, right?
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I had come from that community of people, and I had worked undercover with them in that capacity.
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I worked on issues with Palestinian issues, right?
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Like people who were trying to hurt Israelis, people who were trying to hurt Americans.
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And what happened was when I, these people tried to firebomb the 2007, 2008 RNC, Republican National Convention.
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And I got to play a small role in stopping that.
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And when my name came out, the New York Times, you know, NPR, This American Life.
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I mean, these, like I had, I was so attacked for having helped the government against the peace community.
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Not, the story wasn't that the peace, these far left groups like spawned bomb plots.
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The story was that somebody betrayed their trust or something.
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And that's how I was found by Andrew Breitbart.
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That's how he found me is he got a hold of me through some circuitous way and said, hey, thanks for what you did.
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Can you come and work with me and tell your story?
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So, you don't, you know, you have relationships of people you can talk to.
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You know, my mother was very, God rest her soul, she was proud of what I was doing.
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It was just that, like, all the folks in media seemed to hate me.
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You're telling somebody that makes everybody else uncomfortable.
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But at the time, in that, you know, 2007, 2008, 2009, there, you know, social media was just growing.
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And, and if the media were attacking you and they weren't reporting your comments back, you, you had no voice.
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And then, you know, Andrew's doing his thing, you're doing your thing.
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Like, everybody's doing their thing and starting to build this movement, even though some of us are so different.
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And there's all types of, you know, human calamities that happen in that process.
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But that's what we've done is we've basically, all together, we've built this, and you take a leadership role in that, building this entire movement where the other side of America has a voice too.
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You know, we're, we're CNN and the New York Times and whoever can attack this law enforcement officer for using force.
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But, so is that what you're doing really on this, is taking these journalists and making sure they have a voice?
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I got, Glenn, I used to focus on the far left, right?
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Like kind of the Chardonnay sipping revolutionaries who would support their more radical counterparts and all that.
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And at some point, I said to myself, I said, you know, this is the right thing to do.
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But it's also, it also satiates that part of me that wants revenge because these people wronged me so badly.
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You know, like I don't want to feel, I don't want to live like that.
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So, I was running a shelter at the time for human trafficking victims.
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And I began to realize that a lot of the people who were coming to the shelter, there were people who were ultimately going to testify against groups.
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And I'm like, well, why are they testifying against these low-level guys when there are these guys in Mexico who are the bosses and nothing's happening to them, right?
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And so, when I started the border project, I was just trying to comprehend, like, how is this possible that there are these people in Mexico who are behind all these awful things and they get away with it, right?
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So, this bringing a voice, it turns out it's in Americans' best interest that people in Mexico have a voice, right?
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But it's also in their best interest that they have a voice.
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It's everyone's best interest that there's more voices.
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Some small degree of attention and notoriety on what I do.
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But the people there, like we just talked about, they can't.
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They need people like me and ultimately people, more important, people like you.
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Well, this is something I felt passionately about for a long time in what happened on the border in the last five years.
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For people not to understand how evil that was, and we just threw money and opportunity, not to the people of Mexico, money and opportunity to all of these cartels.
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And I don't know what the right thing to do is, but I hope we just wipe them from the face of the earth.
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There's absolutely no reason we live this way and they live that way if it had natural resources and everything else.
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And unfortunately, we were headed in that direction deeply, but, deeply, but, gosh, we have an opportunity to help and to help ourselves, too.
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And that's fine, but it's in, it's in Americans' best interest.
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And it's in the best interest of that guy you talked about that is sitting on the border.
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Mexico is full of beautiful people and it's full of resources.
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They could have a really good situation, right?
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They could have an economy that blessed everyone there, right?
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They could have a really good situation, but they need a little help.
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And the people in charge there are in a situation where they're preventing that help, right?
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It's not failed yet, but it's considered a fragile narco state.
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And if we continue to try to deal with them like we're dealing with France or the UK, we're not going to have success.
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We have to treat them like a fragile narco state.
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We have to deal with them accordingly as we treat other narco or terrorist run straights.
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Now it is technically considered a terrorist run.
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They have relationships with the current secretary of defense.
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His organization is a foreign terror organization.
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Which means we no longer have to tell the secretary of Mexico's defense.
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Did we inform all of them and go through all the appropriate channels to take Osama?
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Of course we didn't because they were protecting him.
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You need all the divine protection and everybody around you needed it well.
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But I think you're the only one that I have met in my entire career that takes this truly seriously and has dedicated their life to it.
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