Victor Avila is a former supervisor and special agent with ICE. He talks about the recent crash of an American Airlines Boeing 737 with a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter, and what the government should have done to prevent it.
00:08:53.160As a matter of fact, we have a mobility agreement that we have to sign that at any moment, the government, based on their needs, could move you from one city to another.
00:09:15.160We've got to put all that together and fill these positions that are going to make the hard right decisions instead of the easy wrong one.
00:09:24.020So you're telling me it's not in the nation's best interest or the state's best interest for a Border Patrol agent to be working from home, Victor?
00:10:26.800Why do we still have on job applications on, and I often say this on the show, I invite all of you listeners out here to go look at a job application for Netflix.
00:10:36.240Go look at any position you want to get hired for there and look at the questions they ask you.
00:10:40.780But among them is your race, your ethnicity.
00:11:08.740And the way I think it's money, it's because of certain funding that they might get because they'll get a certain person that they need there.
00:11:16.760Whether it's an Asian, Indian, African-American, Hispanic, white, whatever, thin, fat, short, tall, that has nothing to do with the position.
00:11:56.140And obviously, the bigger picture is ideology, right?
00:11:59.920We have been brainwashed for a long time, especially from the left.
00:12:04.560I'm not excusing the conservatives either, but we have been acceptance on the right of this change because it didn't matter before.
00:12:13.600My third grade teacher was a black lady, Mrs. Phillips, that I love her because the reason I wrote a book and can write and I'm a good speller is because of her.
00:12:48.480Yes, my parents came from Mexico legally.
00:12:51.060But then I had to kind of prove to the Mexicans that I was Mexican and the Americans that I was American, even to my own family that lived in Mexico.
00:13:01.660And so that was also something that I saw that growing up, that shift of why does it matter instead of the people that I applied for jobs are looking at the merit of the person.
00:13:16.780Yeah, you know, I pray you said earlier that President Trump is constantly brought in to fix things.
00:13:25.820I just hope this is one of the things because it's really it's just been bugging me, the fact that we've got so far towards this.
00:13:33.860Now, if you look at it, you know, statistically, obviously, because of the way that society is, the white male is going to be in the majority because that's, you know, that's just the way the numbers fall.
00:13:48.600You know, it's not by any creation of its own.
00:14:33.320It seems like it's just we've gone so far down this rabbit hole that there's no coming back.
00:14:38.600And I think the people who are Hispanic, the people who are African-American, the people who are Asian, they probably find this more offensive than anybody because now they're always going to think in the back of their head.
00:14:50.900I think as a matter of fact, and even more so now, they're like, oh, so you even if I was qualified, then you feel inferior because, well, did you hire me because of the color of my skin or did you hire me because I'm a good, the best candidate for this position?
00:15:07.020And so that how are you going to perform then at that position?
00:15:10.800If you're going in with that mentality, just hire me because I can do the job.
00:15:14.800The same thing with teachers, the same thing with other professions.
00:15:18.680I mean, the Japanese, Chinese, they've gone through this problem with the universities.
00:15:22.940They've actually been discriminated against because they're too smart.
00:15:26.920I never had anybody be discriminated because they were too smart and get the highest scores on the test.
00:15:32.860And so there's a lot of issues there that I think, you know, affirmative action and other things that I think they tried to solve the problem of inequality in the sense of I remember the big case with FBI.
00:15:45.240I mean, FBI was almost, you know, 100 percent white males.
00:15:50.820And then one guy, one Hispanic guy that I had met one time applied to be a special agent with FBI and he was denied and there was a big case.
00:16:01.380And that then the cause or the action that he took was to say, listen, I'm qualified.
00:16:08.760You shouldn't be looking at me because of my color, my skin, what you and I are talking about.
00:16:12.520But then it shifted to say, well, then we're going to hire a bunch of black and Hispanic just because, just because.
00:16:20.580And because then all of a sudden it became a quota.
00:16:22.740All of a sudden it became, well, we need our token Hispanic or we need our token to fill the void.
00:16:29.980And that's not that's not what this was about.
00:16:32.040This was about, hey, just give us the opportunity to show you that we're also qualified.
00:16:35.920But by the way, Victor, I'm not for anyone listening.
00:16:37.800I'm not advocating that these departments should be all white males.
00:16:40.800I wouldn't care if they're all Hispanic, if they're all black.
00:16:43.300As a matter of fact, you go look at these people who've come after President Trump.
00:21:18.060But if you get in our way, then you're going to see consequences of finding yourself in handcuffs.
00:21:23.960And so I think that someone in Chicago, Denver, I don't know where, maybe Portland is going to, California is going to say, no, we're going to stand in front of ICE agents and maybe a protest or something and people are going to get hooked up.
00:21:37.120Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
00:21:52.740You know, it was so funny to see, Vic, do you have idiots like AOC, some of these other liberals coming out here?
00:21:58.260Oh, we get all of our coffee from Colombia.
00:22:00.960First of all, that's not true, number one.
00:22:03.160Go, I invite everyone to go look at where your coffee's made.
00:22:05.660I can guarantee you, probably 8 out of 10 of you guys listening, it's not in Colombia.
00:22:10.080You're going to be surprised to where it's from.
00:22:11.500So I want you guys to tweet me on Twitter when you check where your coffee's made and let me know because it's probably not going to be Colombia.
00:22:17.800So she comes out here about the Colombian coffee and then she comes out.
00:22:20.800By the way, Colombian coffee is amazing.
00:22:22.480But then the flowers, Victor, where are we going to get our flowers for our nurseries?
00:24:02.360Let's say all the coffee did come from Colombia.
00:24:05.020We still wouldn't care because we're putting America first.
00:24:08.680They don't get it through their thick heads that that's why they lost the election, that the American people are like, just take care of us, defend us, protect us, and that's what we want.
00:24:21.120And when they see President Trump stepping up and doing that for the American people, he does it for everybody, by the way.
00:26:31.680That's why I like the military on the border, the Marines, because I need, as an American, I need that backup from the military.
00:26:41.080Obviously, our border agents are not that.
00:26:43.420Our border agents are concerned with the process and deporting of illegal agents and illegal immigrants and interdicting these people, right?
00:26:52.640We need the military because, yes, the cartels are heavily armed.
00:26:57.080Yes, they do have military-grade weapons.
00:27:39.480So they can take their coffee, and you know what to do with it.
00:27:42.820Because, like you said, people don't care.
00:27:45.100They really just don't care anymore because the cost of the American lifestyle and the American freedoms is worth way more than a 50% attack on coffee from Colombia.
00:27:57.580So take your coffee and keep it, Colombia.
00:28:29.740Are we supposed to wait and sit back and wait for these people to come and start using incredible force and taking out masses of Border Patrol agents?
00:28:39.480I think President Trump knows just exactly where those drug cartel centers are, where these people are harbored.
00:28:45.440I think we've got to start using force on them.
00:28:47.340I really just don't think there's another way.
00:28:49.180As we spoke about in the first segment, Victor, we had to wait for a tragedy in the air to happen for us to open our eyes.
00:28:56.640Are we going to sit here and wait for, God forbid, and I pray this doesn't happen, one or two or 10 or 15 or 20 Border Patrol agents to be killed before we say, okay, it's time to use force?
00:29:07.680Because these guys, Victor, you know better than anybody, these drug cartel members, they do not give a damn if they go down swinging.
00:29:26.040Should we start using force before it's too late to send a message that we're not playing around?
00:29:31.300So we've actually already started with a designation of foreign terrorist organizations.
00:29:35.660And let me tell you, that is big because now it gives us the authority, the DOD resources.
00:29:41.040And as a matter of fact, I think that's why the military is down there.
00:29:43.840And I think the military that's staging down there, even though right now it might be in a supportive role, I think that role can be immediately switched into an offensive role and a full-blown military type of operation.
00:29:57.740But also, I think right now it's in the back burner, right?
00:30:01.880Right now I think we have it there at a moment's notice when we need it.
00:30:07.520I don't want any tragedies to happen either.
00:30:10.320But we're going to start picking up these people.
00:30:12.680And I'm talking about gang members and illegals that are dealing with now terrorist organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
00:30:58.900Then we have plenty of space over there.
00:31:00.780And so I think a lot of these gangs and a lot of these people that work throughout the United States, by the way, they work in over 40 countries abroad, that work with these cartels that are highly sophisticated are going to stop working with them.
00:31:13.720They're going to say, hey, my cousin, so-and-so got picked up because he was selling drugs for the single-law cartel.
00:31:24.920And that's how you start breaking them up and dismantling them.
00:31:28.180Now, I do agree with you that I think at one point we have to be on the offense and not wait to be reaction on the defense.
00:31:36.900And I think doing some very surgical strikes in Mexico to take these labs, take out some of these tunnels and all these other things that facilitate the movement for the cartels, that's going to send a tremendous message to them, not just to the cartels, but to the Mexican government, really, to say, are you in or are you out?
00:31:58.960Now, so publicly, Mexico is saying, oh, we're not going to allow the United States to, you know, violate our sovereignty, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:06.560But in the background, what I'm getting from my sources is they actually do want to help and they actually do want to work, but they don't want to say it publicly because they're very proud people.
00:33:55.060By the way, she just blamed yesterday or the day before yesterday, blamed the United States government.
00:34:00.580It's our fault that they have a war in Mexico and Sonora between the Sinaloa cartel because we arrested Miles Zambada, the main guy from the Sinaloa cartel.
00:34:11.640So because we arrested him, which is a good thing, it caused this reaction in Mexico for them to go into war.
00:34:37.240At a certain age, I was taught that I have to start taking accountabilities for my action and I can't blame my buddy or I can't blame the teacher.
00:34:44.580I can't blame my dog for eating my homework.
00:34:46.360That's something I learned, Victor, at a very young age that some of these people who are 40, 50, 60 years old still haven't learned.
00:34:57.100He's a former, he's retired supervisory special agent with ICE.
00:35:01.560Victor, when we return, I have an idea.
00:35:03.160I want to bounce off you and see what you think of it.
00:35:05.320I also want to go a little bit further into, you had mentioned, these sanctuary cities and these mayors protecting these illegals, helping them to evade ICE.
00:41:24.140You know, I ride the subway from time to time in New York City when I'm going to the Knicks games because it's just easier to go.
00:41:31.060And I think to myself time and time again, like, what would I do if I witnessed this happen?
00:41:35.300We saw what happened to Daniel Penny, a man who was a great American, a man who probably saved lives that day, and they put him through the ringer.
00:41:43.180And I think to myself, Victor, as I sit on that subway, what would I do if I watched someone committing a crime?
00:41:49.040Am I supposed to do something about it?
00:41:51.280I mean, my conscience would tell me I have to, and I probably would, Victor, at all costs.
00:42:16.040Because my parents taught me that way, that being a good Samaritan is a good thing to help someone else in need.
00:42:21.400It might be for five minutes, it might be something else, but the left vilifies that, vilifies that, but they reward the criminal.
00:42:32.080And there's another, I talked to the mother of Lizbeth Medina, the cheerleader in South Central Texas a little over a year ago, that was killed by an illegal alien that also, get this, was on probation.
00:42:44.820How can you be on probation if you're illegal?
00:42:46.800You mean you're reporting to a probation officer and nobody said anything, nobody came and picked you up?
00:42:51.720Listen, this is the overhaul that is happening as we speak here under the Trump administration.
00:43:31.240This is one thing I, it pisses me off that being victims of a crime are, they don't realize that the bad guy doesn't care what your ideology is when you become a victim of the crime.
00:43:48.300And so when the liberal gets, becomes, unfortunately becomes a victim of a crime, all of a sudden they're like, you know what, we do need the police.
00:43:57.100You know what, we better not defund the police.
00:43:59.180Well, my goodness, we've been saying that for all these years, and the change is finally going to come, and they are going to see the difference.
00:44:06.720You will see the difference in your neighborhood slowly, because this is a lot of people, and this is a lot.
00:44:11.880By the way, we have a lot of U.S. citizen crime.
00:44:15.660It would allow us, and what, you start getting rid of the illegals, now the police can actually focus on their communities and get the police down at the community level.
00:44:25.160Remember the police officer, community policing and walking?
00:44:31.040Hey, we want presidents of the police.
00:44:33.280And all of a sudden, you're going to say yes to your kid riding the bike down the street.
00:44:38.180Go ahead, because you're going to feel good about it.
00:44:42.280Yeah, I think this week, for the first time in, like, 40 years, New York, they went, like, five days or something without any violent crime.
00:44:52.260This is just – I don't know if it's the Trump effect, but it's an awfully good coincidence, Victor.
00:44:57.280Also happening in the last week is border apprehensions and border crossings are at, like, record lows over the last four years.
00:45:05.700So, I don't – like I said, I don't know if that's a coincidence or that's the Trump effect.
00:45:11.700But across the board, it seems things are starting to shift.
00:45:14.660We had mentioned last segment about some of these mayors and city councils and low-level politicians helping these illegal migrants with the ICE raids.
00:45:25.360Tom Holman getting a little bit upset about it, that, you know, they're educating them about their rights and their roundup.
00:45:31.980So, first of all, Victor, how do you even have – I'm all for rights, okay?
00:45:36.600How do you have rights if you're here illegally?
00:45:39.060What are your rights under the Constitution, Victor?
00:45:46.580And they have this due process, right?
00:45:49.000And this is where I've been talking about the last few days because not every – you can't be blanketed across when it comes to immigration.
00:45:59.200Every legal might have its own unique case.
00:46:03.040So, in my career, people ask me, hey, so-and-so got arrested, got picked up.
00:46:06.900Well, that's so-and-so, and that's not you.
00:46:28.080If you came from a visa waiver country like Spain, you don't require a visa, you fill out a form, you get on an airplane, and you get to the United States, and then they stay here, right?
00:46:38.480So, we could actually pick them up and put them on a plane and send them back immediately, and that actual air carrier will have to pay for it.
00:46:52.420Everybody else has to go through a process.
00:46:55.480You have to go through an extraordinary removal, a voluntary return, or a notice to appear in front of an immigration judge.
00:47:04.320So, what happens is that's why you need detention beds to hold the people because you're not going to be able – from the moment you get them in New York or Chicago or wherever, we are going to start busing them, by the way.
00:47:15.760You're going to see buses, and you're going to see airplanes down to the facilities along the border in El Paso.
00:47:21.280And, by the way, I've been a big advocate to use the facilities that the Biden administration built.
00:47:26.980They saw the facilities, and I've been inside of them.
00:47:29.880Well, now, instead of processing centers, they're detention facilities, and there's thousands of beds there.
00:47:35.660We have 30,000 more coming up in Cuba.
00:47:38.260We have – and there's a bunch of – believe me, I've been getting the calls.
00:47:43.500We're going to have beds, and we're going to start filling them up pretty quickly, and then your process starts.
00:47:49.440Most, in my experience, most illegals are going to choose to leave right then and there, fill out the paperwork, and get a different removal.
00:48:00.480I know we use that word a lot, but they're removed under very different circumstances.
00:48:05.100Some are going to say, no, I'm going to stay in custody for six weeks, eight weeks until I see a year or whenever because it's so backlogged until I see an immigration judge.
00:49:10.160And so, that gets a little bit more complicated to start the removal process.
00:49:13.940But you're going to see these numbers that you've already seen this week, they're going to only go up higher on a daily basis.
00:49:20.640Yeah, Tom Holman's not happy with those numbers, by the way.
00:49:23.160He says he wants – we're not doing a good job with these deportations.
00:49:26.140But I take your point, but I don't think we're going to experience that right now because from what I understand, and you correct me if I'm wrong, the people we're deporting right now, we're getting the hell out of here, are the worst of the worst, the real criminals.
00:49:36.720You're not going to get the guy who overstayed a visa right now.
00:50:19.960Well, if I'm – oh, and by the way, questioning U.S. citizens, and I think in New Jersey, there was an issue with a veteran that – listen, I want people to understand, as a police, as a federal agent, when I go look for Joe Blow, and Joe Blow is amongst 10 people, I need to interview everybody.
00:50:38.620I don't care if you're a U.S. citizen or not.
00:50:40.180I have the right to talk to whoever I want.
00:51:15.960Even though you might not be the target, you're going to go.
00:51:19.380Real two quick things I want to – before we wrap up here and get with you.
00:51:23.220We're not getting word that U.S. consulate has sent out a travel warning over cartel explosives in Mexico.
00:51:28.580I mean, this is what we had just spoken about, that it's going to start happening in Reynosa, which is up on the border of – what would that be like?
00:53:14.560We're talking about the people that came into this country without any permission, and then on top of that, committed a crime?
00:53:22.200By the way, one of the biggest ones for me is DUIs, man.
00:53:25.540You know how many across the country, you know how many cases I've worked or known about that the illegal alien killed, a drunk illegal alien killed, a 16-year-old boy learning how to drive, and case after case after case.
00:53:38.860In Denver, it was a guy that was arrested 15 times, illegal alien, 15 times for DUI.
00:53:47.960Eventually, Colorado changed the law to mimic someone out of Texas that, at least in Texas, after the third one, it's a felony.
00:53:55.380I think in Colorado, it's after the fifth one.
00:54:27.420Go live in another country and see what they did, but they won't do it.
00:54:31.000They want their cake, and they want to eat it too, and I think people are – that's why she dropped hat immediately from the social media of that video
00:54:39.380because eventually they told her, what are you doing?
00:54:41.940I think their own people said, listen, you can't do that, man.
00:54:44.500You're not identifying with the majority of the people.
00:57:41.180And so just know that the ultimate mission here of the federal government and ICE and others is for the betterment of all of us in our communities.
00:57:54.860I hope to God that someone from the Trump administration comes knocking on your door one day, not to interview you, to take you and bring you somewhere,
00:58:02.900but to bring you to Washington, D.C. to help fix this problem.
00:58:05.640There's very few people who can identify and fix a problem.