Victor Avila is a retired supervisory special agent with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. He is also the survivor of a 2011 ambush by a cartel hitman. He has been a relentless advocate for border security.
00:16:41.520In conjunction with declaring the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, therefore bringing in the DOD resources, bringing in the different jurisdictions that we don't have, even as a special agent myself, the investigations that I conducted in my career, those investigations and those techniques are so outdated now that we need to move forward and think beyond.
00:17:05.580And things like the death penalty, declaring them as terrorists, stripping them of all their assets and properties that they have here in the U.S.
00:17:14.320Because the cartels are here and they live here in our communities, and they have now full-time, more than ever before, we're talking about a Sinaloa cartel, a cartel that's a new generation.
00:17:26.100By the way, the cartels, as powerful and as organized as they are, they're actually the soldiers to China and to Venezuela, Cuba, and the others that are bringing in the poison that are killing our youth.
00:17:38.880And so I have also met with a lot of these family members that have lost their loved ones to a fentanyl counterfeit pill or have the angel moms and angel fathers that have lost their loved one to the hands of an illegal alien in a crime.
00:17:52.580So those are the ones that outrage me, right?
00:17:55.480Because for me, it's about protecting the public, and the Biden-Harris regime continues to allow this to happen, even though they see the crime happening in their own country.
00:18:08.860I mean, we have enough to deal with on our own, and this revolving door and the failure to prosecute people at the state and federal level and all that other craziness that's going on.
00:18:17.660Why in the world are we putting up with people from over 150 countries coming in and hurting us?
00:18:24.180This, to me, is easily done, but it is two things.
00:18:28.540We got the will, which I know President Trump does, and you need the right personalities in these type of agencies, Department of Homeland Security and others, to effectively put it forth.
00:18:38.600Yeah, you know, you bring up an excellent point that our criminal justice system is going harder on Americans for crimes that are far less as bad as what these illegals are doing in this country.
00:18:50.500If you look at some of these gangs, you know, you brought up a really good point about designating them foreign terrorist organizations, just as Governor Greg Abbott did to Trendelagua down in Texas.
00:19:03.400You had mentioned the military, right?
00:19:05.880So when you designate them a foreign terrorist organization, you're allowed now to bring in the military.
00:19:10.520And everyone gets nervous when you say military, you know, you can't do this.
00:19:15.980More people have died from drug overdoses and fentanyl in this country than U.S. soldiers have died over in the Middle East fighting pointless wars since 2001.
00:19:27.060So the idea of bringing in the military, scaring people is absolutely ridiculous.
00:19:45.140They're there for the power and the money.
00:19:47.220And let me tell you, right now, as you and I are speaking, there's a war broken out in Mexico between the Sinaloa cartel that's going to have an impact on us, on the fentanyl, on the methamphetamine.
00:19:57.260And by the way, cocaine and the other drugs making a huge comeback into this country because now those drugs are being laced with fentanyl.
00:20:03.580And the zombie drug that you mentioned, the xylazine, killing us and just taking over these communities.
00:20:09.860But the designation, and I think people do get scared when they think military, it doesn't mean that as soon as you designate them, we're sending in black, you know, helicopters into Mexico.
00:20:19.860No, it means that the resource is now there and it's right there on the table ready to be used when we want to use it.
00:20:26.940So we get to go through whatever steps we want to, but then the option is there to do it, kind of Colombia style that we did in the late 80s.
00:20:33.940But we have to start looking for our interests because, you know, who puts Mexico first?
00:20:38.440Mexico does. And Venezuela puts Venezuela first.
00:20:41.160So I'm OK with putting the United States first and protecting our citizens.
00:20:45.020Well, you didn't say one thing there, Victor.
00:20:46.800I think America puts Mexico first as well with what we're looking at.
00:20:50.660You know, back in the Trump administration, Mark Esper, who worked for President Trump, a total dunce, came out in his book and said,
00:20:57.860Oh, you know, President Trump spoke about sending missiles into blowing up the drug factories and like it was a bad thing.
00:21:05.720You know, now that we think about it, is it really a bad idea, as bad ideas as Mark Esper said it was, to blow these damn guys up?
00:21:13.340There's a hundred super labs in Mexico that are producing these pill mills that we call.
00:21:18.740And we have the precision and the military technology to absolutely go out there and take these.
00:21:24.960Most of these labs are out in the in the in the hills, in the forest and these outskirts of most of these towns.
00:21:33.380But but where you hurt the cartels is with the money.
00:21:36.660And there's the money laundering aspect of it that a lot of times is not spoken.
00:21:40.360By the way, China, China, this is they're making billions of dollars with the cartels.
00:21:45.760And the lack of talking about the money is the real reason, because China is not only infiltrating military age Chinese nationals,
00:21:54.080they're sending balloons where they have police stations in the country.
00:21:57.640So this is a huge national security issue.
00:22:00.940They grabbed two national national Chinese men in East Texas a few weeks ago with bars of gold,
00:22:10.120bars of gold driving back, you know, somewhere through Dallas.
00:22:13.480Are you sure that wasn't Senator Bob Menendez?
00:22:16.140It wasn't. But this is it's an indicator, right, that that's the reason why it's the money and the power.
00:22:23.560And the cartels are the ones that will chop your head off to do it.
00:22:27.200And so we have to deal with them adequately.
00:22:29.420We have to, like they say, in law enforcement, we have to go do one up, one up on them.
00:22:34.900And we've always been right now. We're behind so much on the development of these cartels because they're highly sophisticated.
00:22:41.340If you think these are gangs, you're highly you have to first recognize how sophisticated they are, where they have their personnel in the U.S.
00:22:49.900They're infiltrated in our court systems.
00:22:52.120They're infiltrated with attorneys, with everywhere that you would think in different communities.
00:22:56.460They have no idea that they're working with these cartels to sell these drugs.
00:23:00.160And by the way, the human trafficking and the human smuggling, when I when I worked the cartels, they didn't deal with the humans.
00:23:06.880But then they saw how much money that the humans are paying.
00:23:09.540So they took over that industry as well.
00:23:11.540And so now they're making billions on that end of the sex trade and the forced labor trade as well.
00:23:15.920Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the human trafficking aspect of it, I spoke to a gentleman from Mexico who came across the border illegally and he told me he paid, I think, $18,000 back a few months ago, whereas like 10 years ago was only five grand because these these cartels have now exploited, you know, just how vulnerable these people are.
00:23:36.520And, you know, they people don't realize the cartel owns the southern border.
00:23:39.680You ain't getting past that damn border without paying one of those people.
00:23:43.140And if you think you are, you're going to have no head once you get to the other side.
00:23:48.180You know, as for the for the drug cartels, I they're essentially little governments with inside Mexico.
00:23:53.540Like you said, they're they're very powerful.
00:23:56.620Why? I mean, is the Mexico government in on it?
00:23:59.320Is the Mexico government in on getting kickbacks from these people?
00:24:03.200Well, why, you know, haven't they done anything to shut them down?
00:24:06.660You go to places like Tulum, which is heavily run by the cartels, and it's apparently one of the safest places in Mexico.
00:24:13.980And it's probably because the cartels need the tourism, you know, to go in there and pay.
00:24:18.940And it's why people don't overdose on drugs there.
00:24:21.120And presumably everyone there is doing drugs if you're, you know, they're partying.
00:24:25.660But you don't hear of anybody overdosing in Tulum or very rarely dying in Tulum or someone died in Tulum maybe a year ago.
00:24:35.680And I think the cartels killed the guy who killed the American because they need that for tourism.
00:24:40.220But why is the Mexican government not doing anything to stop these people?
00:24:44.160Especially the current outgoing president, Amal, this guy is something else.
00:24:50.460You know, the old saying when he came in six years ago that he was going to give them hugs and not bullets.
00:24:57.620And the cartels are now running a parallel government, meaning that they have the power and influence no longer just at the border because they've had they've been at the border for many years.
00:25:08.160I've been there in my career for 20 years.
00:25:09.720But now they have infiltrated the interior of Mexico into Michoacan, Zacatecas, all these states that you never would have thought.
00:25:17.060Well, now they have so much heavy influence into the government, into the political system.
00:25:22.820The media, by the way, is a big factor that they use.
00:25:26.640And so they are running a parallel government.
00:25:29.520Now, it's going to be very interesting with the new the new president, the female president, Klaida Scheinbaum, that's basically a communist.
00:25:37.540I'm going to I'm really interested to see how how Mexico is going to take this direction, because the cartels are going to just possibly take this opportunity to really, really take over.
00:25:48.780And, you know, the AMLO, by the way, just fired all the federal judges and now they're going to be elected.
00:25:55.500Well, who do you think they're going to elect?
00:25:57.980And AMLO comes across as a socialist, want to care for the poor people.
00:26:03.500But really what he did is promote the cartels, made them stronger, made them more powerful and more richer that now we are where we're at.
00:26:12.000Yeah, I'm against any military intervention or any American intervention in any country that, you know, like I said, Iraq, Afghanistan, you can go down the list in the Middle East of all the damn countries that we've ruined over there.
00:26:25.340But with Mexico, it's actually hitting us here at home, you know, with these people coming across the border, infiltrating our communities, the gangs, infiltrating our communities across big cities.
00:26:36.260Aurora, Colorado, I want to take a quick break here.
00:26:38.340When we return, I want to take that up and and talk about why the Democrats, you know, there was a brief period in this election cycle where the Democrats were all for border security.
00:26:48.080And, you know, they wanted to protect the border because obviously President Trump is exploited to what's really going on.
00:26:53.740But now they're sort of pulling back a little bit.
00:26:56.040I want to take that up on the other side of this quick break.
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00:28:09.420Victor, I want to talk about this week a bill on the House floor from Congresswoman Nancy Mace.
00:28:15.320What the bill did was it made any illegal immigrant who was here illegally, who committed any sorts of sex crimes or any sort of domestic violence or sex-related charges,
00:28:28.460immediately deportable and inadmissible for any sort of green card or permanent immigration status here in America.
00:28:38.480158 Democrats voted against that bill.
00:28:41.880What does that tell us about just where the Democrats are in this, we'll call it a fight?
00:29:23.180And when the people from all over the world are seeing that they're being allowed with no consequences, they're going to continue to do it.
00:29:29.720But here's where this is where it just makes me very angry is that the American people, we don't want to put up with we don't we don't want to put up with this.
00:29:38.000We're sick and tired of the crime and the violence and everything else associated with illegal immigration.
00:29:44.700We're tired of the economic impact associated with illegal immigration in our schools, in our hospitals, in our criminal justice system for crying out loud.
00:29:57.280And they will still do it because they prefer those people over us.
00:30:02.900And when I say those people, I know not everybody that comes across the border is a bad person.
00:30:08.320But if you go low and I'm going very low on this percentage of five percent being bad people of all of them that have come in.
00:30:15.420Well, that's already in the millions of people that are here to cause us harm.
00:30:19.560And the big difference now from the ones that I used to investigate as an agent is that these people are coming with a very different mentality, a very different culture.
00:30:27.860They're not assimilating to the United States.
00:30:42.800It takes one damn person to do a terrorist attack.
00:30:46.220It takes one damn person to ruin somebody's family with a dirty fentanyl pill or tainted cocaine or tainted marijuana or whatever that person, drug that person is doing.
00:30:59.100If anyone, you had mentioned also the media, anyone watching the debate the other night saw it was.
00:31:03.520It was three against one, two moderators, and Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.
00:31:07.120And Donald Trump had brought up that situation you had mentioned in Aurora, Colorado, the trend de agua.
00:31:11.760And I think David Muir had stepped in and said, oh, you know, that's unconfirmed.
00:31:15.880Well, I have confirmed news for David Muir today.
00:31:18.500Colorado police have now named 10 Venezuelan gang members in connection with that apartment incident in Aurora, Colorado.
00:31:25.360So the media, I mean, is more than complicit, I think, than maybe even the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden administration.
00:31:34.340They're avoiding to go in there, and the media will not go in there and investigate and send their investigative journalists in there because guess what they're going to find out?
00:31:42.240You and I are talking about that our lying eyes are telling us something else.
00:31:46.640And so, therefore, the media is so corrupt and lying to us and really gaslighting us and making us think that we're crazy because of the crazy things that the Haitians are doing and the trend de agua people taking.
00:31:58.540I'm telling you, I saw them here in Dallas, Texas, doing it here a year and a half ago.
00:32:20.320I want him to say it over and over about the deaths and the fentanyl, but I also want him to focus on the education that we need to bring to our children in the United States.
00:33:18.260At a young age, this is where we start combating it, because if we don't get that word out and the awareness, we're going to be suffering more deaths.
00:34:25.080I mean, how many people is this happening to, Victor, that are just coming in here as freely as they want through the we'll call it the legal way, according to the Democrats?
00:34:35.540And let me tell you, I have seen it firsthand and I have never all the times that I've been to the border and interviewed.
00:34:40.780Hundreds, thousands and thousands of illegals never won.
00:34:44.900Not one time was the word asylum coming out of their mouth.
00:34:48.120It was always I'm here to work or I'm here because I'm leaving Guatemala and there's a lot of crime.
00:34:52.680And it's all these other excuses, but never a qualification under our own asylum criteria to come in.
00:34:58.200And now the manipulation of this administration to create the CBP one app that, by the way, has absolutely no vetting.
00:35:04.920They could put whatever information they want on there from their home country.
00:35:09.260And now they added the ones that are stuck in Mexico and down in Tapachula, by the way, they estimate about one hundred and twenty five thousand of them.
00:35:17.340Now they just cleared their way for them to come in under the CBP one.
00:35:20.400That means that they walk through a port of entry through the pedestrian lane, as you said, considered legal.
00:35:28.580This is they're going to I'll tell you this way.
00:35:30.160President Trump comes in and these people are going to find themselves immediately without absolutely no status, because everything that's been issued to them has been issued to them illegally.
00:35:39.340Just like when I did a search warrant when I was an agent illegally, everything that I got there was the food of the poisonous tree.
00:35:48.820They're going to find that themselves the hard way that this is going to be completely without any status to be in the U.S.
00:35:55.660And I think there's there will be the mass deportation.
00:35:59.060There will be that other way that we haven't even talked about enforcement.
00:36:02.480Right. We've got to go back to enforcement.
00:36:04.460We've got to go back to you don't know how many calls I've had with friends and saying we could have gone and done an op and taken out that apartment complex in Aurora and got it back on order.
00:36:14.100It's just that the will of the administration has the hands tied of our ICE agents and other law enforcement agencies.
00:36:21.120So that that all that we've just spoken about is obviously the southern border.
00:36:25.080But since the Biden administration has come in, I want to conclude with this, Victor.
00:36:28.980It seems we now have a problem at the northern border.
00:36:31.080There's a group of tick tockers who go on on tick tock every day and do these videos on how now they're smuggling people across the northern border with Canada.
00:36:40.920First of all, where are these people coming from in the first place from Canada?
00:36:46.640Yes, I actually be I'll be at the Canadian border next week speaking over there.
00:36:50.360And let me tell you, you'll be surprised who's coming to the southern border.
00:36:53.400As soon as I tell you, Mexican nationals, how because Mexico, if you're a Mexican national, you will get turned back at the southern border right now, because that's the deal that the Biden administration made with Mexico.
00:37:07.820So the Mexican said, oh, yeah, well, we're going to go through Canada.
00:37:11.580So you're going to see Mexican national cartel members and a lot of other people, by the way, a lot of SIAs as well.
00:37:17.920A lot of terrorist link people coming through the Canadian border up in the Buffalo area and all these areas, which is wide open.
00:37:25.320But yes, Mexican and Central Americans coming through that Canadian border.
00:37:30.100And I'm going to go and talk about that next week up there.
00:37:32.680So how are they getting there? Are Mexicans able to fly freely into Canada without any visas?
00:37:36.440Good question. They get easy Canadian visas, Canadian passports so that they don't have the same restrictions that they have to to try to come in here.
00:37:45.660And so they fly in there. It's very easily transitioned for them from Mexico to do it.
00:37:51.780And the other ones have learned that the southern border is going to be tied up for now, especially if President Trump come in.
00:37:58.000You're going to see that northern border need a lot of attention because they're going to try to divert themselves that way.
00:38:03.420I always thought Justin Trudeau was a total idiot. It apparently is now the case.
00:38:08.220I mean, something that's very simple to stop. I've been to Brazil before.
00:38:12.300I was in Brazil for the Olympics many years ago. No visa was needed to get there.
00:38:16.380Now I just saw something recently that if you want to go to Brazil now as an American, you have to show them X amount of money in your bank account.
00:38:22.660Something as simple as that will weave out the people going up to Canada.
00:38:27.600But Justin Trudeau, I mean, what a total idiot and why Joe Biden or Kamala Harris is not saying to him, listen, you know, let's stop this now before it gets out of control, because we know it's going to get out of control.
00:38:39.340Last question here, Victor. Has the cartel infiltrated that northern border yet?
00:38:42.860Oh, yeah. They're present there. They're present up in New York. They're present up in the Seattle area.
00:38:48.400They're present everywhere in the U.S. That's not their common route and smuggling route.
00:38:54.600Obviously, we're talking about Arizona, Texas and California where the drugs.
00:38:59.220But the distribution from the from Canada to Europe is another member, these cartels are present in 40 to 50 countries around the around the world, especially the Sinaloa cartel.
00:39:12.040It's not just in the U.S. They happen to be headquartered in Mexico.
00:39:15.280But these people have personnel everywhere, especially in Europe and Spain and all these they're trafficking in children and trafficking in humans and trafficking in drugs.
00:39:26.440And so the northern border is just another facilitator for them to another option for them to get the drugs through to to the other part of the world.
00:39:36.560Unbelievable. Victor Avila, thank you for everything you do.
00:39:39.520Where can the audience follow any of your work, social media or anything you're working on right now or in the future?
00:39:45.500Yeah. Follow me on X at Victor Avila TX and check out my my pack, BorderPatriotPact.com.
00:39:52.840We're still fighting to get good people into Congress and really make a difference.
00:39:58.120We're coming down to the wire. So check out BorderPatriotPact.com as well.
00:40:03.020Should President Trump and hopefully he wins it on November 5th or November 6th or 7th, whenever they finish counting the votes.
00:40:09.140I think Victor Avila, among a few other people like Mark Morgan and Tom Holman, should be one of the first people he calls to get this damn border shut down because our life depends on it.
00:40:18.640Victor Avila, thanks for everything you do, brother.
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