00:26:38.500I'm not sure, but I think it's maybe the comfort situation.
00:26:43.300You know, I did see CNN pretend to find some people coming down an embankment.
00:26:51.780Did you guys see this with, in fact, there were so many people coming across the Rio Grande that people are accusing them now of staging the event.
00:27:02.440Like, I guess they gathered together a whole bunch of people from Mexico and said, hey, well, you will come down this embankment.
00:27:20.160Here's the CNN denying participating in a staged event.
00:27:23.460Tonight, the White House trying to produce the dramatic surge of unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border by terminating a Trump era policy that it says discouraged potential sponsors of these children from coming forward out of fear they'd be reported to immigration officials as maybe they were undocumented.
00:27:39.360The move comes as a record number of unaccompanied children.
00:27:42.940Now more than 3,700 are in Border Patrol custody.
00:27:46.540We have a special investigation tonight with Ed Lavendera out front.
00:27:52.300As the sun sets on the Rio Grande, our boat winds its way through the deep bends of the river that separates Texas from Mexico near the town of Hidalgo.
00:32:59.060I mean, who's losing weight during this pandemic?
00:33:01.720The American Psychological Association Stress in America Pandemic Survey polled 3,000 Americans in the U.S.
00:33:08.280found the majority, 61%, say they have experienced undesired weight gain.
00:33:13.780Now, in completely unrelated news yesterday, we found out if you want to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is now giving away free donuts to anyone with proof of vaccination all year long.
00:33:32.300Now, there's a lot of things that I thought, hmm, I don't know if I'm going to get the vaccination.
00:33:44.740Which is kind of, in an unrelated story, a DoorDash driver came to a woman's door with food, and the driver said, before he handed her the food,
00:34:07.060And she didn't answer, and then he said, you know, I'm really tired, and it's really late, and wet, and rainy, like, you know, maybe I could...
00:34:34.080It's, I could give you the food, or you could, you know, I could charge it to you, you know, or I could just give it to you, and you could, you know, get me out of the rain.
00:34:42.680So she was going to get the food either way, but she just would have to pay.
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00:39:16.160I mean, you know, I, I had that thought once, uh, you know, when I was young and, uh, and naive, uh, you know,
00:39:22.120what I thought of this morning with the shooting in Colorado was it's horrible.
00:39:28.080My first thought this morning was not about the shooting, about the victims and it should be, it always should be.
00:39:38.100My first thought was, Oh dear God, what does this mean now?
00:39:41.800And we're getting to be that way on everything.
00:39:45.700No story is unconnected from politics anymore.
00:39:50.320Every story is political and it shouldn't be that way.
00:39:55.000We said this before, you know, they got the 50 seats, uh, confirmed in Georgia that it, they'll all say they're not going to do the, the filibuster.
00:40:06.420You know, you'll get the Joe Manchin on your side for now until they can, until they get the 50 seats.
00:40:10.980And then whenever there will eventually be an event that says, you know what, I was against it.
00:40:16.300I said I was against it, but this event, this thing that happened is obviously showing the Republicans are just not even trying to work with us.
00:40:27.700You know, this is why you can't let them have the 50 seats, uh, which was a real, real issue, uh, with, uh, with, with what happened in Georgia.
00:40:35.860But still, I mean, you come, you come to this where here we are and now you're really looking at what they want to do.
00:40:41.460And we're looking at a group of people that will do anything.
00:40:44.640And it, you know, I mean, it's interesting because it wasn't even, they didn't even wait to see the Republicans reject a bill to say, okay, look, we tried.
00:40:52.560They're already saying they want to do the filibuster thing before the Republicans have even said no on anything.
00:40:57.460Well, you can't, you, they can't even debate it.
00:41:02.040I mean, this government is, is in complete control of Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
00:41:11.800I don't know, you know, which one is doing anything if they are, uh, and all of their, their puppet masters that are planning these things behind the scenes.
00:41:31.320Uh, hopefully I'm going to get to, uh, this, uh, story on the economy and what's coming our way, uh, this hour.
00:41:39.880We're going to talk about the border first, but you, uh, you need to save money and you need to pay the least amount of interest rate that you can possibly get into.
00:41:50.340Now, if you have a high interest credit cards, you've got to do a consolidation loan.
00:43:09.380So what the heck is really happening on our border?
00:43:12.840We have a guy who is a, a very trusted source, as you will see here in a second, uh, who can't get any information from this side of the border.
00:43:23.840So he's currently on the other side of the border where they are talking.
00:43:28.480What's happening on America's southern border?
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00:45:26.620Todd Benzman, he currently serves as the Texas-based senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C. Policy Institute.
00:45:41.120Uh, he led the counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety's intelligence and counterterrorism division in its multi-agency fusion center.
00:45:50.500Before his Homeland Security service, he was a journalist for 23 years, covering national security after 9-11 as a staff writer for major newspapers and reporting in 25 different countries.
00:46:02.460Uh, he is also the author of the book, America's Covert Border War, the untold story of the nation's battle to prevent jihadist infiltration.
00:46:16.480Uh, at the moment I'm on, uh, the Texas,
00:46:20.500side, and as soon as we're done with this call, I'm going to head over into Piedras Negras, uh, which is on, uh, a smaller city on the Mexican side across from Eagle Pass, Texas.
00:46:33.240And yesterday I spent, um, all day in Ciudad Acuna across from Del Rio.
00:46:40.980So tell me what is really happening on the border.
00:46:44.060Well, migrants are coming from all over Mexico, southern Mexico, and also from other parts of Mexico where ports of entry are walled or they're, they're better walling in those areas and harder to get across.
00:47:01.160So what they're doing is they're sector shopping for the easy routes in, and this happens to be one of the easy sectors they perceived easy to get through and into the United States and be released.
00:47:14.080And so just in the past week in this sector, about 5,700 migrants, uh, crossed over and were apprehended or got away about 1700 got away estimated, which, uh, compares to like kind of in the low hundreds on a normal week.
00:47:33.220Uh, so, so, so we're really seeing a major, major spike happening in this sector because it's perceived to be forgiving and easy to get through.
00:47:45.260So is this happening with the Texas, uh, border patrol as well?
00:47:50.840I mean, I, because we've had this problem before with, with Obama, not this bad.
00:47:55.980Um, but, uh, Texas DPS has been down on the border and they are different than the border patrol from CBP.
00:49:09.040And are we, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, are we, the United States government is paying for these trips all over America, right?
00:49:15.340I wouldn't say that they're, uh, paying for the bus fare, but they, there are NGOs that are facilitating, uh, communications and wire, you know, the migrants are getting money wired in from relatives and they're paying for their bus fare.
00:49:31.620But there are NGOs that are assisting and, uh, cooperating with all of, all of that.
00:49:37.740But you've got, uh, DPS is here and national guard.
00:49:41.360And what happens is they can catch migrants.
00:49:44.360They can't hold them for long and they call border patrol comes and picks them up.
00:49:48.760So it's really good to have them here.
00:49:55.020Um, we have, we have good relationships with the, uh, border patrol, uh, and we are, we're getting a total blackout.
00:50:04.100People won't talk to us and it is leading us to believe that there, that is, there's something happening here on the border and nobody wants to talk about it.
00:50:14.240Is that just me being me or are you experiencing, uh, kind of a blackout as well?
00:50:29.020It's the Biden administration caused all of this with their campaign rhetoric during the campaign.
00:50:35.960And then their very first moves were to just open the border wide, reinstitute, catch and release.
00:50:41.880The migrants that I talked to over there on Mexico side, all tell me with a, to a man and woman, that the reason that they came now was to take advantage of Biden's policies.
00:50:54.000And it's embarrassing to, you know, to the Biden administration.
00:51:00.800Uh, they'll tell you privately that that's what it's all about.
00:51:04.620And they don't want to, um, advertise what they've done and what they're going to be doing.
00:51:12.020And I think that, um, you know, you could get the story without their cooperation.
00:51:16.940I didn't even bother after the first couple of phone calls.
00:51:20.400I saw that this thing was going nowhere.
00:51:22.480There was going to be no embedding and no interviews with border patrol.
00:51:26.520But I'll tell you this, Glenn, I've got a lot of border patrol agents, all from California to the Gulf of Mexico, who do talk to me on a regular basis.
00:51:36.760And I know what's going on, at least through their eyes.
00:51:39.740But the most important thing is that you can see it through the eyes of the migrants.
00:51:44.440If American reporters would just bother to interview them.
00:54:29.100Well, I, I, you know, you can't keep that kind of a secret for very long.
00:54:33.600I mean, eventually the truth will come out.
00:54:35.420I mean, sometimes I, I will say that I have seen, uh, those kinds of claims, especially during the Trump administration
00:54:42.600made frequently and, um, not turn out to be supported because they use those claims to force releases.
00:54:53.960Oh, well, we've got to release them now because everybody thinks that they're, you know, so, so tell me skeptical.
00:55:00.400So tell me this, because I was there, uh, under the Obama administration and I saw what was happening with the cartels.
00:55:10.060The cartels are having, uh, the word is they're making more money on this than they even are on the drug trade right now.
00:55:19.320Can you tell me how dangerous it is and what this policy is, is, is forcing people into it and not forcing, but is, is leading them into these relationships with the drug cartels.
00:55:33.260Uh, there are sectors along the border that are entirely controlled by the cartels, uh, that's absolutely true.
00:55:43.400And nobody gets across in those sectors without paying the PISO to those guys, uh, the coyotes and the smugglers all have to pay the cartels for access to the Texas border.
00:55:57.720And there are so many migrants, the demand is so they are flooding in, in such huge numbers that even the cartels are having to re, uh, constitute themselves to expand their smuggling branch, so to speak.
00:56:15.160And they're giving these migrants, uh, it's, uh, human inventory control, uh, that's actually happening, uh, down, especially in the, um, Rio Grande Valley sector and Laredo sector.
00:56:28.560Now, uh, where you have to prove that you've paid by wearing one of these wristbands, they're numbered, which indicates a registration system on the Mexican side.
00:56:38.740In the area where I am right now, uh, they're less, uh, active, uh, the migrants that I talked to yesterday just crossed themselves over, uh, there, there are some sectors like this that are not, uh, you know, heavily involved in the smuggling trade.
00:56:56.300But as I said, migrants are shopping for the easy routes in, uh, so they're coming to this sector and increasing numbers.
00:57:05.280And it's just a matter of time before the, uh, cartels, uh, assert themselves over here in this one too.
00:57:13.520We're talking to Todd Benzman, uh, Todd, I'm going to take one minute and then I want to come back and I want to talk to you a little bit about the cartels and how much money it takes to cross.
00:57:22.780And where are these people getting the money and is there anything else these cartels are demanding?
00:57:28.680Uh, we'll get into that here in 60 seconds.
00:57:31.260Stand by something about trying a new, uh, brand of, uh, of earbuds.
00:57:37.100Uh, I don't know, but there is something, something exciting about trying something new on if like I'm an electronic freak.
00:57:44.800Um, you don't have to try on anything new after you experience Raycon.
01:00:20.120And where they get the money is, to the best of my knowledge, a few places.
01:00:26.000One is that they have U.S.-based relatives, especially like the Cubans and the Haitians,
01:00:33.480have U.S.-based relatives that will wire them money to get in.
01:00:36.760And then there's another thing that is happening with especially Central Americans who don't really have $2,500 to get over the border is they owe it to the cartels.
01:00:48.540So they have to give the names of their family members, cell phones that are called to prove that the family member answers, home addresses, and that sort of thing.
01:00:58.440And if they don't pay the price, then there are repercussions or the threat of repercussions against family members.
01:01:06.220And that's kind of an indentured servitude, a kind of a slavery.
01:01:10.740It's a terrible thing that's happening with that.
01:01:14.780And then also people in the home countries will raise money.
01:01:21.120Relatives in home countries like Bangladesh or Syria will raise money and get it here because if they can get somebody anchored in here,
01:01:31.540then their relatives will come in under chain migration.
01:01:35.060So it's a great investment for somebody in northeast Punjab in India or Pakistan.
01:01:45.080We have lots of Pakistanis that cross.
01:01:47.540Give me the – I'm about out of time.
01:02:04.000We had three Yemeni migrants on the terror watch list that crossed in New Mexico
01:02:11.040and a Serb who crossed in New Mexico who also was on the terror watch list.
01:02:16.940We have about 20 a year, by my reckoning, who are on terrorist watch list before they get to the border or at the border.
01:02:26.720And what typically happens in – this is way longer than a minute, but there will be – there's supposed to be security investigations that happen inside the detention facilities.
01:02:41.220FBI and ICE intelligence and DIA and intelligence community agencies are supposed to be on this.
01:02:48.700When the border systems break down under the crush of a mass migration surge, all bets are off on that.
01:02:55.840Where everybody gets waved in and nobody has time to mess with Iranians or Yemenis or Syrians coming over.
01:03:04.820And I'm very concerned about that, Glenn.
01:03:10.960Well, for one thing, people need to contact their representatives in Congress and the Senate and make sure that the eye remains on the ball in terms of special interest aliens.
01:03:28.500These are the guys coming in from those countries through Panama right now.
01:03:32.220They're all coming in right now, hoping to make the best of the Biden border and make sure that nobody forgets about that.
01:03:40.600And really, the best thing that ever happened in illegal immigration control was remain in Mexico.
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01:06:40.880I think the first thing, there's been massive instability in the supply chains, whether it's been COVID, whether it's been other issues.
01:06:47.100So we have at least gotten very good at managing that instability.
01:06:50.820And frankly, that's what we've been doing week to week, car by car, looking at our profit margins, looking at where we have shortfalls and managing that.
01:06:58.580I think things will get stable by the fall, but certainly it's going to be complicated and it's going to be challenging.
01:07:04.540But I think we'll navigate it, particularly here in the U.S. market, between our two main plants, Puebla in Mexico and Chattanooga in Tennessee.
01:08:41.700The pro-lockdown people want everybody to stay home at their office.
01:08:45.360They want everything to remain the same, but the things we rely on to operate, they require more computer chips.
01:08:53.820And the shortage is troubling, more troubling than any one cause really.
01:09:02.680Last week, there was a major fire at one of the biggest computer chip suppliers in the world.
01:09:08.260Last month, the power failure here in Texas caused two factories in Austin, Texas to suspend production, which typically runs 24-7 in Austin.
01:09:19.980Then there is talk of what's happening with the global economy.
01:09:25.760China is the world's largest importer and consumer of computer chips.
01:09:30.680Now they want to be the largest producer.
01:09:32.380They've spent the last decade working on strategies for a tech self-reliance, and they've been stockpiling computer chips.
01:09:40.280This is what the Biden administration really means by infrastructure, by we need to invest in our infrastructure.
01:09:48.180We are becoming more like China, public-private partnerships.
01:09:52.160And you will see more and more that we are going to get into the investment world.
01:09:57.660Last month, Bloomberg reported Chinese businesses bought $32 billion of equipment used to produce computer chips from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and elsewhere.