The Great America Show hosts Lou Dobbs and his guest, former DEA Special Agent in Charge Derek Maltz, discuss the fentanyl crisis in the United States and Mexico, and how the Biden administration is contributing to it.
00:05:35.560Absolutely. So let's address the first statement about the public is uninformed because I deal with the families that are finding their kids dead
00:10:30.700And then the highway chases that chasing the migrants to get head on collisions, the tractor trailer in San Antonio, which everyone knows about, where 53 migrants dead.
00:10:40.700They they cook to death in the in the vehicle.
00:10:43.420So there's a lot of disturbing things when the Biden administration talks about this is a more humane way to deal with the immigration issue.
00:11:05.080If you look at the numbers of people that came into America under Donald Trump compared to how many now are being apprehended under this administration, it's night and day.
00:11:18.020And to be honest with you, the public doesn't realize what's going on.
00:11:21.800And this stuff is coming to every city.
00:11:32.480Just look at I'm going to just give you one quick stat.
00:11:35.820You look at in fiscal year 2020 in the months of April, May and June under Donald Trump, seventy three thousand three ninety two migrants were apprehended.
00:11:46.500Under President Biden in the same period, April, May and June, six hundred and eighty four thousand.
00:11:54.760That's an eight hundred and thirty two percent increase under President Biden.
00:11:59.420And I know the numbers people don't always digest it.
00:12:02.820But President Biden also told everyone that this was a seasonal thing.
00:12:07.660That's why we're going to see the numbers go down.
00:12:09.840Anyway, another lie, just like my office is lie about he has operational control of the border.
00:12:14.360Can you believe that Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, had the guts to actually say that in front of Congress to the American people for it to be promulgated by the left wing national media?
00:12:30.340It's just stunning the level of deceit and dishonesty on the part of this administration when it comes to an issue.
00:12:38.780So fundamental, so basic as our sovereignty and that border security.
00:12:45.320And, Lou, can I just give you a very basic point that I've been making because I think it really simplifies it.
00:12:50.480In December, President Biden had an announcement about the drug cartels and the drug situation, and he basically said, and I'll quote him, he said, the drug crisis is an unusual and an extraordinary threat to the United States national security.
00:13:05.640So what I've been asking publicly, and I'll say it again, then why the hell is this border wide open?
00:13:10.640You understand it's an unusual and extraordinary threat, but yet you're letting the cartels operate with impunity to get their cartel operatives all over America.
00:13:22.960And the same can be said of the Marxist Dems at large, that is the Democrat Party.
00:13:29.220The House and the Senate Democrats are every bit as much in league and responsible for the control of that border by these transnational terrorist organizations that we call the Mexican drug cartels as is President Biden.
00:13:47.980It's outrageous, and the country doesn't even respond because, in large part, the corporate news organizations will not pick up the story.
00:14:00.500They will not faithfully investigate it.
00:14:03.460And I think, and I will say this just straight up and out loud, I believe the Democratic Party is scared to death of the cartels.
00:14:12.300I believe the national corporatist media is scared to death of the cartels.
00:14:17.260And I am telling you, I truly believe it is a gathering of cowards who are frightened for their own lives, for their own health and well-being.
00:14:32.660It's just there's no other explanation, in my opinion.
00:14:58.080And his brother, Tony Hernandez, congressman, he's in U.S. prison after being convicted on a very large-scale drug case involving Chapo, Guzman, Sinaloa cartel, 185 tons of cocaine.
00:15:11.220Also, the head of the anti-narcotics police in Honduras is in jail as well.
00:15:18.660Remember, Lou, about a year ago, I can't keep track of the time now, but the DEA arrested the former defense minister of Salvatore Sienfuegos,
00:15:30.880arrested him on a major drug conspiracy.
00:15:32.780He was subsequently sent back to Mexico, but we know that the Mexican government officials are getting huge paydays from the cartels.
00:15:44.040And that's why it drives me crazy when we hear talk that we want to throw billions of dollars more to these countries to help them support.
00:15:52.480I was in Philadelphia yesterday in Kensington, and I still can't believe what I saw.
00:15:57.920I took video footage, which hopefully we're going to get on on the media soon, where you had hundreds of people shooting up needles in their necks, in their arms, in their feet, in their legs.
00:16:08.580It was like the scene of a Night of the Living Dead, Lou.
00:16:12.400But we're sending all these billions over to these corrupt government officials that are not taking care of the poor people.
00:16:19.400Now, they're not taking care of anything, as far as I can see.
00:16:24.160And when you talk about corruption, I say on this broadcast so frequently, I'm sure that some in the audience are numbed to what I am saying.
00:16:34.960But I said, the corruption doesn't end at the southern border.
00:16:38.640The corruption of Central America, the corruption of Mexico, that corruption is, and it certainly doesn't end with the U.S. border states.
00:16:46.880It is nationwide, and the gangs that are part of this transnational terrorist organization, which is made up of these drug cartels in Mexico, it's pervasive, it's deadly, and people are scared to death.
00:17:06.640People who are in positions of responsibility, and the ones who aren't frightened are, as you say, they're bought off.
00:17:15.700And those who aren't bought off, and we know this president, by the way, is very easily bought off.
00:17:20.960He has his son's hand out, whether it's in China, Romania, or Ukraine, or Russia.
00:17:27.860We are a nation now that has to contend with a very stark reality, in my opinion, and that is that the Democratic Party is corrupt through and through.
00:17:42.080They are an organization that has no other purpose than that of the Marxist Dems who run them, and that is to destroy America,
00:17:51.040to destroy our institutions, destroy law enforcement, certainly in this country, and even our court system.
00:17:59.280Well, Lou, I want to go back to a very important point you made before with President Trump.
00:18:04.840And I know you're aware of this, but people may not be aware that he was going to designate the cartels as terrorists.
00:18:11.040He was considering sending missiles into these chemical weapon production labs in Mexico.
00:18:17.800And, of course, high-level guys like the former acting defense secretary and other bureaucrats in the swamp of Washington convinced him to stay away from that,
00:18:29.700because Mexico was such a good trading partner.
00:18:31.900And I would tell you that President Trump had that right, Lou, because I went to, like, for an example, Ohio, with Sarah Carter and others to testify in Ohio's Congress,
00:18:44.640and they voted unanimously that the cartel should be declared a terrorist organization.
00:18:50.340And the reason I bring that up is because now look at all the people who died because these corrupt people in Washington misled the president
00:18:59.940and didn't give the president the right advice.
00:19:04.600And, unfortunately, you know, he didn't act.
00:19:07.580But I'll tell you, that is really, really sad.
00:19:11.280It is sad, and it is sad that a man who did as much as President Trump in four years had to fight the entire, as you say, the entire D.C. swamp,
00:19:21.820had to fight his own administration, his own party, the liberals within it known as RINOs.
00:19:27.800He had to fight Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan.
00:19:32.540He then had to fight the deep state, the permanent bureaucracy, and a corrupt, absolutely corrupted Department of Justice and FBI.
00:19:44.880Now, those are strong words, I understand, but I mean, every doggone one of them.
00:19:51.740So, yeah, Lou, going back to also a couple of things I wanted to highlight for your listeners is that these mass poisons have me very concerned.
00:20:01.740Like, you probably have heard in Gadsden County, Florida, on July 4th weekend, nine dead.
00:20:58.580It's sickening, and it is the reality that we contend with, but it is also the reality that is denied by the—and you said this is a red, white, and blue.
00:21:13.340I truly believe right now the Democratic Party is so far lost to its ideological leaders, the Marxist Dems that I am talking about, whether it be Obama, whether it be Biden, or their puppet masters.
00:21:28.500This is a country right now being assailed from within not only the deep state, the permanent bureaucracy of this country, which it has been for decades, but now our top, our uppermost government officials are politically corrupt, and they are working against the interest of the nation.
00:21:49.660It is a national security threat, this organized attempt to fundamentally, to quote Barack Obama, transform America, because that process is well underway, whether it's the 100,000, more than 100,000 Americans being killed each year by these mass poisonings, as you are bringing to our attention,
00:22:12.700or whether it is, in fact, putting another battalion into Eastern Europe, preparing for war with Russia over Ukraine.
00:22:26.780The madness of what is happening in this White House is palpable.
00:22:31.380It is in our face, and the national left-wing media will not recognize it for what it is.
00:22:37.460Well, Lou, I would say to you that, you know, you're way more educated on these topics than I am when it comes to the deep state corruption, but I would say nothing else makes sense.
00:22:49.440How can you sit back and not talk about the death and destruction of our future generation?
00:23:58.440And by the way, like, I believe, even though they reported 107,622 dead last year, I believe it's way higher.
00:24:07.660And Georgetown University did a study and they said the study said that the statistics of the dead are way low.
00:24:16.080I mean, just look at the drug seizures.
00:24:18.600I mean, DEA alone seized over 20 million fake pills last year and 15,000 pounds of fentanyl.
00:24:26.000The administrator reported that's enough fentanyl to kill every American.
00:24:30.800They just seized a million out in L.A. this past week.
00:24:34.920They had a historic level of this stuff on the highway in Colorado, 114 pounds.
00:24:41.240Lou, it only takes two milligrams of this to kill.
00:24:44.380That's a couple of grains of salt equivalent.
00:24:47.380You know, and so it is a weapon attack on our country.
00:24:50.020And you know what people wonder, why would the cartels want to kill their customers?
00:24:55.440Because they want to maximize their profits.
00:24:58.100They don't care about their customers.
00:24:59.540And the real problem is the Communist Party and the Chinese transnational criminals that are dumping all the chemicals in Mexico to make this stuff.
00:25:09.500And they're the ones that started this synthetic drug poisoning many years ago on our country through the Internet and the dark web.
00:25:17.300And the Chinese, Lou, by the way, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, the Chinese are the ones that are doing all the money laundering services now for the cartels.
00:25:26.420They're bringing in Chinese national students into America.
00:25:32.340And then the kids are picking up suitcases of cash for the cartels.
00:25:36.380And they're doing these sophisticated trade-based money laundering schemes to get the cartels their money.
00:25:43.180And that money laundering, that manufactures, let's just take a little bit of a broad look here.
00:25:50.380The Chinese are manufacturing all of the precursor chemicals, the necessary ingredients to create fentanyl.
00:25:58.260They are also transporting money, moving money.
00:26:03.740And, by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese don't have bounties on Americans, that they would be, you know, if they're going to, if the transnational terrorist organizations are going to lose customers, I wouldn't be surprised if the CCP is giving them bounties for those lost customers, if you will.
00:26:23.060I'm only being partly facetious when I say that, but I'm not being facetious at all when I say to you, why has Joe Biden gone soft on China?
00:26:33.600Why in the world is he giving China everything that they want, including, by the way, that obviously that open border with Mexico?
00:26:42.680The question arises, why is it Joe Biden, who absolutely shut down the suspicious activity reports that were always available to senators and congressmen for their states, when they asked for them?
00:26:59.260These are the reports prepared by banks of all sizes, and they have to put these in to the Treasury Department because they're usually about money laundering.
00:27:10.160Money laundering primarily is the result of drug activity and transactions within the transnational drug operations and rogue governments.
00:27:23.980And don't you find it interesting, Derek, that suddenly these congressmen, and I'm talking about Senator Grassley, I'm talking about Senator Ron Johnson, I'm talking about Senator James Comer, who's going to be with us in the next day or so.
00:27:38.660Now, these are the guys trying to investigate, and they're being blocked by Janet Yellen.
00:27:44.740This deal is corrupt from top to bottom.
00:27:52.540Yeah, I mean, look, and the American public, when they're watching mainstream media, they're not going to hear any of this stuff.
00:27:58.420So they don't realize how advanced the corruption is around not just these other countries like we spoke about.
00:28:06.300Hey, Lou, I'll tell you one quick story.
00:28:07.780Like when I'm on the news and everything, sometimes I feel guilty when I call out corruption in other countries.
00:28:13.440It's like, you know, when you live in a glass house, you can't throw stones, right?
00:28:17.120Well, when I'm out there calling out these other countries, I scratch my head and wonder, well, what the hell is going on here?
00:28:22.640How do you make sense of what's going on here?
00:28:26.320Like Mike McCall said something recently.
00:28:28.960I was at a congressional conference with the GOP members, with the former Homeland Security officials like Tom Holman, Mark Morgan, and others.
00:28:39.160And he said, you know, selling fentanyl to Americans is a great foreign policy for China, right?
00:28:47.200I think that's pretty well said, right?
00:29:07.680And it's killing our souls to sit here and allow over 100,000, and as you say, probably at least, well, significantly larger numbers than what the CDC is acknowledging.
00:29:24.040But the truth is it's killing our souls because we're not stopping this.
00:29:28.060We're being passive and relegating these young people to the role of collateral damage.
00:29:44.580It's in the interest of a political party that's in power that insists on letting those cartels, those transnational terrorist organizations that they've become, kill Americans.
00:29:56.980It is just collateral damage in their view, and we're supposed to put up with it.
00:30:35.280I believe when he was chair of the Homeland Security Committee, he missed opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to come down on the cartels and to work harder for border security.
00:30:46.880So I'm not giving anybody a pass in Congress.
00:30:54.420You mentioned two great Americans in Tom Holman and Mark Morgan.
00:30:57.780Those men are fighters for what is right in America and for our border.
00:31:03.100Yes, Lou, and let me just go back to the Congress because I agree with you 100%.
00:31:08.120But what I would ask you to do is please pay close attention to this recent Lauren Boebert and Tim Ryan from Ohio Democrat.
00:31:17.900They're pushing forward the weapon of mass destruction for fentanyl designation.
00:31:23.740Just pay attention to that because you'll probably get a lot of good feedback on who's going to even entertain this thing because my opinion is it's not going anywhere.
00:31:33.380But at least they're talking about it.
00:31:38.540But I don't have any real faith that it's going to go anywhere.
00:31:41.620The families and I and others will be rallying at the White House on the lawn September 17th for this National Fentanyl Awareness Day because we know we got to get the public educated on this.
00:31:55.640But unfortunately, we'll see what media actually shows up to this with thousands of parents who lost their kids 13 years old, 15 years old, 19 years old.
00:32:05.780And many of these people who were not drug addicts, they were young kids with some anxiety, some, you know, issues here and there that we've all had.
00:32:15.160Remember, Lou, kids are supposed to learn from mistakes, not die from mistakes.
00:32:20.740And the government has an obligation to keep them safe.
00:32:25.900And we can take it to another level as well.
00:32:29.420These aren't mistakes, at least if you're the Communist Chinese Party.
00:32:33.380If you are, you know, the Sinaloa cartel, any one of the transnational terrorist organizations that now reside on the southern border but operate throughout the United States.
00:32:47.060We just have to recognize that this is a war on America and Americans.
00:33:22.940And we're just in a chaotic state now.
00:33:26.020And the government is, like you said, it's got to be deliberate because you can't be this naive.
00:33:30.640Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your perspective and your passion on this issue.
00:33:40.340I think the audience is deeply appreciative.
00:33:44.220I know I certainly am because straight talk we need.
00:33:48.440A straight talk amongst people who are patriots and interested in saving this country because the country is what is at risk here, along with every American.
00:34:46.820Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
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