Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to talk about the drug and human trafficking crisis on the southern border of the United States and Mexico, and how the federal government is doing little to help.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody and welcome to the Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs and we all hear a lot about our wide open border with Mexico, the strength of the Mexican drug cartels and their dominion over not only the smuggling of illegal immigrants and the deadliest of all drugs fentanyl, but also their sex trafficking, human smuggling of all kinds, tens of billions of dollars pouring into the drug cartels who now control both sides of that southern border.
00:00:28.400The federal government is doing absolutely nothing. Biden bows to the cartels and talks tough. He's a Marxist, but a coward and an impaired puppet. And Biden has created the most dangerous period in our country's history, in my opinion, because he means to destroy the United States.
00:00:48.500And he's aligned himself with the Chinese, with Mexico, the drug cartels and most corrupt forces in the world. And now imagine that you're a sheriff responsible for a county that is as large as the state of Connecticut. And you have fewer than a thousand deputies to maintain law and order.
00:01:08.260Joining us now is the man who lives that responsibility each and every day. Our guest is Sheriff Mark Lamb. Mark is the sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona. He's a great American working hard to serve and protect the citizens of Pinal County to advance justice, law and order and the American way in the great state of Arizona.
00:01:29.800Mark, it's great to have America. Mark, it's great to have you with us on the great America show. Thanks for being with us, Sheriff. I know you're more than just a little busy down there right now.
00:01:40.240You can say that again. Thank you, Lou. I appreciate you having me on the show. But yeah, we're we're busy here, but it's what we got to do.
00:01:48.080And what you're doing is the Lord's work. And you're not getting a lot of help, if any, from the federal government.
00:01:58.160Even the state government isn't much help. Give us a sense of what you're you're facing and how you're responding.
00:02:09.080Yeah, well, we're facing is probably the worst crisis as far as human trafficking and drug trafficking we've seen in the history of this country.
00:02:15.680Every day, I just see it seems to get worse and worse. And, you know, it's a stark comparison to what we had two years ago under the President Trump administration.
00:02:26.820Now, since January of 2021, I mean, this has been a complete opposite of the lines of communication have been severed.
00:02:36.280We still work very well with the line level guys and Border Patrol and CBP and ICE.
00:02:41.320But, you know, they're completely handcuffed and we're out there trying to help them do their job.
00:02:46.840And we're trying to protect our communities from the human trafficking, especially the drug trafficking.
00:02:51.740And like you said, we're getting no help, Lou. And it's it's it makes it tough because now the state carries the burden of what the federal government is supposed to do.
00:03:00.380And then you see your state not doing everything they could do.
00:03:03.880So, yeah, it's a frustrating situation for us. And it's probably as bad as it's ever been.
00:03:08.000And the cartels, they've got to be taking advantage of this moment.
00:03:14.160Oh, the cartels are making more money now than they've ever made.
00:03:18.080And it's because of the policies or lack of policies or omission of duties from this government.
00:03:24.640That's really what is is precipitating this.
00:03:27.260Now we've got we they don't even have to go out and market the clientele because of our policy, you know,
00:03:32.660because of what's going on in our government here in Washington, D.C., they're bringing the clients right to the doorstep of the cartels.
00:03:38.520And the cartels are all too willing to take advantage of those people, to charge those people, to traffic those people, to try to use them to traffic drugs into this country.
00:03:49.720And they're making more money than they've ever made before.
00:03:53.880I'm sure they're going to the White House to get a ton of Christmas cards from all the cartels for all the money they've made these last couple of years.
00:04:00.920You know, and I wonder what everybody's getting from the from the cartels, because this is a business proposition.
00:04:07.540And I think it's fair to say, I hope it is, because I say it quite often, the cartels have taken control of both sides of that southern border.
00:04:19.720And people I just I think most Americans don't realize the depth of the crisis we face.
00:04:27.060And part of the crisis, certainly, maybe the larger part of it is an administration, a president who is not responding to the number of illegal immigrants that are crossing that border.
00:04:39.840The sex trafficking of fentanyl, you know, Derek Maltz, a former DEA, you may know him, a great guy, a great American.
00:04:50.800And he talks about what they did in the years previous to fight against all of the drugs coming across.
00:04:58.620But fentanyl right now, I mean, they might as well have a, you know, a three or four foot conduit running under the under the ground to deliver that fentanyl.
00:05:08.860It's just it's a mass poisoning, as he puts it, of America.
00:05:14.220I love that you use that term because I've been using that term now for a year or more, that these are not overdoses, because when you think of an overdose, what the average American thinks of is a is a drug addict who finally took too many drugs.
00:05:44.220And, you know, we're left to pick up these pieces.
00:05:46.740The federal government allows this poison to come into our communities at unprecedented rates.
00:05:52.140And then we have to go and we have to pick these families up when they lose a loved one, when they find their 15 year old daughter laying in bed dead, when the dad finds his 21 year old daughter in the shower dead.
00:06:04.820These are the pieces that we have to pick up.
00:06:06.820And what answers do I give my citizens when I when they ask me, what are you going to do, sheriff?
00:06:12.420And and I have a government who's who's just allowing this to come in blue.
00:06:17.820Let me give you the numbers for my sheriff's office.
00:06:19.900In 2018, what the cartel is bringing is these little blue M30 fentanyl pills, because the cartel knows there's a stigma in America with putting the needle in your arm or between your toes.
00:06:31.040But what we do do as Americans is we take pills.
00:06:34.160And so the cartel started producing these little blue M30 fentanyl pills.
00:06:37.720And we in just my sheriff's office in 2018, we had zero M30 fentanyl pill seizures in 2019.
00:06:45.720We had six hundred and seventy seven pills in 2020.
00:06:49.500We had over two hundred thousand pills in 2021.
00:06:53.120We had over one point two million pills.
00:06:56.160And I can tell you that we will far exceed that.
00:06:59.700We had a bus the other day with four hundred thousand pills.
00:07:02.520We had one this year where there was three trays of food that added two hundred and twenty something thousand pills.
00:07:09.320And the DEA estimates that 40 percent of all of the doses that we are recovering are lethal doses.
00:07:18.080Forty percent of those numbers that we're finding are lethal doses.
00:07:21.280That means that when we pull off two hundred thousand pills, we potentially saved almost one hundred thousand lives that could have been lost.
00:07:29.140American lives to the poison that is this fentanyl and other drugs coming in.
00:07:33.980So, yeah, you can see I'm you could probably hear my voice.
00:07:36.700I'm passionate about this. And I think it's the greatest crisis.
00:07:41.360Like you said, Lou, it's the greatest crisis we're facing.
00:07:44.060And then you mix that in with the human trafficking, modern day slavery like we've never seen it before.
00:07:49.860It is it's unbelievable to me that the American people just haven't realized this to the point where they hold these people in Washington, D.C.
00:07:59.880completely accountable. Not a single one of them should get reelected.
00:08:02.860I couldn't agree with you more. And by the way, I mean, irrespective of a party, if they're if this is so frustrating for I know you and for nearly everyone, I would think of the state of Arizona.
00:08:17.460But across the country, the farther away from that border, people seem to be a little less sensitive to the dimension of the problem.
00:08:28.060There is a moment where we've got to to really figure out what's going on here.
00:08:33.940I mean, you say human smuggling and slavery.
00:08:38.160I as a young reporter, I did a couple of reports on slavery at that time.
00:08:45.640I actually it ended up being the FBI's first case against slavery, slavery case since the Civil War.
00:08:52.740But that had to do with labor camps and the way in which they were being operated.
00:08:58.780Talk about the slavery that you're describing.
00:09:02.580Yeah, this is this is a slavery on a scale that we've never seen.
00:09:07.080The other day I was down in Cochise County with Sheriff Daniels on Saturday and we had a car that they pulled over.
00:09:45.280When the cartel traffics drugs, a pill, cocaine, whatever, they get money for it one time.
00:09:52.440But if you traffic a woman or a child and you put them into the sex slave here in America, sex trade here in America as slaves, you will make money off of day after day after day after day.
00:10:04.480They continue to pay as long as you have them as sex slaves.
00:10:08.660And they will they'll keep them docile with fentanyl and with heroin and they'll keep them in that trade.
00:10:14.820The men are being forced to carry drugs across like slaves.
00:10:19.580The children are being forced into slavery, indentured servitude.
00:10:44.020The mainstream media on the left doesn't tell this story.
00:10:47.440And they continue to say it's a manufactured crisis by the conservatives or by the right or by the Republicans.
00:10:54.680And that could not be anything further from the truth.
00:10:57.060And every day we go without speaking about it, we become more and more complicit in this this modern day slavery and human trafficking.
00:11:06.740I don't believe I've ever heard President Biden, Sheriff, even use the term sex trafficking, human smuggling.
00:11:14.980And I and I know for a fact that he wants that border wide open and he has to understand, as impaired as he may be, he has to understand that he is aligned and complicit with the Mexican drug cartels, transnational terrorist organizations.
00:11:40.740And you have Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, running around, acting like he is a an angel on high for for leaving the United States invulnerable to every kind of harm imaginable with that border wide open.
00:12:01.600Yeah, he has some answering to do as well.
00:12:25.260And then his vice president makes one appearance in El Paso.
00:12:29.260Nonetheless, doesn't really even go to the border.
00:12:32.020That just shows you they don't want this.
00:12:34.040Now, what they did tell you in 2020 is they were going to reinvent America, build it back better.
00:12:40.340I don't know about the rest of the Americas or anybody listening to this program today, what you thought when they said that.
00:12:45.540But that set off alarms in my head when you said you wanted to reinvent America.
00:12:49.980It means you want to tear it down and do it again.
00:12:52.160And by doing that, you have to undermine the rule of law and their indifference, their omission of doing their job at the border has been the greatest example of undermining the rule of law.
00:13:10.360All of these things are deteriorating that rule of law so that they can rebuild America the way they want to build it.
00:13:17.680I think that they underestimate sheriffs across this country and the men and women who put on that badge every day that we love this country.
00:13:27.340We love freedom and we're going to do everything we can to protect it.
00:13:30.240And so I think that's one thing that they underestimate.
00:14:30.440No one in his or her right mind thinks that this impaired president is in any way setting the strategy, the policy for this administration.
00:14:40.520This is coming out of the Marxist Dems who are driving the Democratic Party.
00:14:46.160And I think principal among them certainly must most likely be Barack Obama.
00:14:51.840When you said, oh, Biden, I thought, you know, that's a great expression for what I think this has become.
00:15:04.640Biden is so compromised, both morally and well, morally and through his son.
00:15:11.660There's no question that Joe Biden is involved in his business transactions with his son, which are are troubling at the least and borderline traitor treasonous to this country, what they've done.
00:16:12.740Whether we look at the foreign policy, you have to wonder what in the world is Biden doing in Ukraine.
00:16:19.280He's driving more business for the southern border, certainly, as those all of these nationalities are now flowing across that border.
00:16:29.440But it looks like he's you know, it's hush money that he's pouring into Ukraine because it isn't it isn't a sensible policy.
00:16:37.180And it's a war that he could have avoided and he is secretary of state had they known what they were doing or had the motivation to stop that war.
00:16:48.820It's almost as if that's what they wanted.
00:16:51.080And now they're they're playing it out.
00:16:53.520Yeah, and he's either tone deaf, completely tone deaf to the American people or willfully just neglecting the American people.
00:17:03.100We have so many issues here on our own land where 60 billion dollars or 80 billion dollars you give to the IRS for crying out loud.
00:17:13.320Think about the impact you could have on homelessness in this country, the impact you could have on border security,
00:17:19.540the impact you could have on all of these things.
00:17:23.360I mean, they threw a fit when President Trump wanted five billion dollars to build a wall to protect our borders, which is their responsibility.
00:17:31.680But they didn't bat an eyelash when they put 80 billion dollars in there for the IRS or 60 billion dollars to send to a country halfway across the world that none of us,
00:17:44.240very few of us in America have a relationship with.
00:17:46.980And it's tragic what's happening over there, but it is even more tragic to see what's happening here in our own country and our government's absolute defiance of the American people and ignoring of us.
00:18:01.960And, you know, he's he clearly showed he doesn't care about us.
00:18:06.400And that's the difference. President Trump did.
00:18:08.880You know, you can say people can say whatever they want about his tweets.
00:18:11.700I've spent enough time around President Trump to know that that man loved America.
00:18:16.780He loves freedom. He loves the American people.
00:18:20.200And he put his family and his reputation on the line to do it, to take care of us.
00:18:25.700And, you know, I think all of us are missing him.
00:18:28.320But shame on on those who who who don't see that, because that guy did a lot for us.
00:18:34.680Right. I again, I I think you're exactly right.
00:18:38.840And I will tell you, we're praying for him to to get and for all of us to win this election in November, because it's that important.
00:18:49.420And it will set the tone and at least forestall total disaster for the nation.
00:18:55.140If we can at least put in check this, this crazed administration and the mad Pelosi Schumer Capitol Hill authoritarians who are having their way right now with almost everything.
00:19:11.500I mean, I love the law that they just the bill they just put into law when when Biden signed it, the the Inflation Reduction Act, which is all about climate change, taxes.
00:19:28.860It's it's just crazy what they're doing.
00:19:31.360It's Orwellian. It is American communism, if you will.
00:19:35.780It is. And, you know, they're already changing their tune.
00:19:38.640It was like a day later. They're asking, well, you know, it's not quite an inflation reduction bill.
00:19:43.960I mean, immediately they changed the the what their their terminology for it, their explanation for it.
00:19:52.040Once they got it through, they screwed us.
00:19:55.340You know, Alexis de Tocqueville from who wrote Democracy in America.
00:20:00.160For anybody who doesn't know him, he was sent by the French government to understand the American penal system and the greatness of America.
00:20:06.620And he wrote a series of books called Democracy in America.
00:20:09.820But one of the one of the quotes he has in there, he says, America will thrive until the day that Congress realizes they can bribe the people with the people's money.
00:20:22.580Right. And we've gotten to that point.
00:20:24.400The time we're gone. Congress bribes the people with the people's money.
00:20:28.880And and that's why we're in the problems we're in.
00:20:34.420It's often a quote credited to the Tocqueville, but it was really a summation of his 750 page work.
00:20:43.080And to Tocqueville, he said purportedly, but we know it now it was a, as I say, a summarization that America will remain great as long as its people are good.
00:21:03.320And the quote is, he says, I searched for the greatness and genius of America and her commodious harbors and in her ample rivers, and it was not there.
00:21:15.000I searched in her fertile fields and in her boundless prairies, and it was not there.
00:21:21.760I searched in her rich minds and in her vast world commerce, and it was not there.
00:21:27.360Not until I went into the churches of America and discovered her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand her genius and greatness.
00:21:38.400America was great because she was good.
00:21:40.580And if America ever ceased to be good, America would cease to be great.
00:21:45.000It's a wonderful, wonderful, well, first of all, it's a book that I would recommend to everyone to read.
00:21:52.940It is, and I will not sugarcoat this, it is a chore, and it's a chore, though, that has immense rewards.
00:22:00.780So anyone who wants to turn to the Tocqueville, it's a great marker in history with which to compare our nation today,
00:22:09.820and you will weep at that comparison, I assure you.
00:22:13.400You know, Sheriff, I thank you for that quote, and it is wonderful of you to do so,
00:22:21.260and I hope that the audience enjoyed it as much as I do.
00:22:25.980The Tocqueville quoting Sheriff of Pinal County.
00:23:02.200I've talked with the former Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan, and, you know, he has numbers who are slightly higher than that,
00:23:13.020and I put some considerable trust in those numbers that are somewhat higher, knowing government as I do.
00:23:19.860But this is an invasion by any definition.
00:23:25.640Why in the world is anyone having an argument about that reality, particularly the governor of Arizona?
00:24:36.660It is, the average American is sorely misled as to what the, what type of people are coming across.
00:24:46.140There are good people mixed in, but we have a process in place for them, and that's what we ask.
00:24:50.860Please just follow the process for coming into this country legally if you want to come in and have a piece of the American way.
00:24:58.640And we're hurting ourselves because now you have people who are giving up on the system, the legal system, when they can see that you can just put $7,000 in the pocket of the cartels.
00:25:14.140I mean, that's an act to me that is immorally, I would hope for anyone.
00:25:21.700I understand the motivations of the poorest people who are trying to get there, and to put that number, that amount of money in the hands of the cartel is, to me, just disgusting, appalling, and immoral.
00:25:37.740And yet, millions of Americans, and there are millions of Americans, are doing just that, whether it's through the sex trade, whether it is through illegal alien smuggling, whether it's drugs, whatever it may be.
00:25:52.780Doing business with the cartels is to support the enemy of America.
00:25:59.140Yeah, and Lou, I know you know the financial world much better than I do, but I remember back when President Trump was trying to get $5 billion for border security, I remember seeing the figures that at that time, we were losing an estimated $130 billion in lost tax revenue from the people that were making money here in America that weren't paying taxes.
00:26:25.700And they were balking on $5 billion when we were losing $130 billion.
00:26:30.680That number has to be, because of the amount of people that have come in, 5 million people that have come in, that number has to be so much higher than that.
00:26:38.700So you talk about the lost tax revenue that this country is having.
00:26:41.720Another big issue for the financial side of America, where we're already in an inflation, a recession, and now you want to take money that these people are making under the table that they don't pay taxes on, and they're sending it back to their respective homes, whatever country they came from, because that's why they're here.
00:26:59.620They're sending that money back, and they're leaving a giant hole in our economy where that money's not being put back in.
00:27:06.160That's not going to help us in a recession or during this inflation we're seeing.
00:27:12.900There is a huge economic impact above and beyond the moral issues that we deal with on the human trafficking and drug trafficking.
00:27:20.540There's a financial aspect that is crippling to America that I don't hear hardly anybody talk about.
00:27:27.760And that, to me, is another crisis that we're facing here in America that is precipitated by their inability to control the southern border.
00:27:37.300The idea of these remittance payments by illegal immigrants in this country back to their families, whether it be Mexico, Central America, wherever it may be, were estimated some years ago at about $30 billion a year.
00:27:56.540I've always believed, again, that number was modest compared to the reality.
00:28:01.860And you're exactly right, the impact on our economy.
00:28:05.560This is money that should have been invested, that should have been saved by those people to prepare for a better life here.
00:28:12.400And I also understand the motivation of taking care of their family back home, whom they had to leave, to come here to make more money.
00:28:24.580But on the other hand, it's straightforward.
00:28:26.840What we are doing is losing control of our border.
00:28:31.840We are losing control of what America is, because this is de facto the North American Union, as it was styled under George W. Bush,
00:28:44.240which was a brilliant idea to drop all of the borders between Canada and Mexico to make NAFTA.
00:28:53.740It would render NAFTA to be actually beneficial by comparison, as devastating as it's been to the U.S. economy.
00:29:02.680And what we're permitting is this administration to just simply remove that border, create a de facto North American Union that will affect our middle class and working men and women for, I think, decades to come.
00:29:21.700When you have these American communists like we're seeing now, what they want to do is create an elite class and the rest of us paupers.
00:29:29.060And that's really when you look at the things that they're doing, that's what the intent is.
00:29:34.620And I think that's what the intent is.
00:29:36.760And I think that's what the outcome is going to be, is hoard all the money into the elites and leave the rest of us paupers to serve them at their at their at their leisure.
00:29:47.560Isn't it? I think it's interesting that Donald Trump was the first one to say the elites aren't so elite in this country, not nearly as elite as they think they are.
00:29:59.440The people are elite and we need to get that straight for once and for all.
00:30:05.400Unfortunately, now, people are talking about five, six billion illegal immigrants in this country.
00:30:11.700But I don't hear anyone asking, well, where are they going?
00:30:15.060Where are they living? Who's supporting them?
00:30:17.460How much money is it costing the taxpayers, the local taxpayer, the state taxpayer, the federal taxpayer?
00:32:14.560Because we have a process in place and they should follow that process.
00:32:18.860If they don't follow that process, then guess what?
00:32:22.000I have to stop them all because I don't know which ones are good and bad.
00:32:25.700And I can't afford to have those bad people in my country, in my communities or going throughout the rest of America, because the reality is they don't stay in Texas or Arizona.
00:32:36.580This is this is not a red or blue problem.
00:32:38.680This is a red, white and blue problem.
00:32:40.400They're going to go through to every state across this union and your own government is taking them out there.
00:32:46.200You know, what I like about the ratios that you construct there is I'd like the Congresswoman to to think about the ratios that are serving in the U.S. Congress or the U.S. Senate or in the White House right now.
00:33:02.100What percentage would she say are good people and what percentage would she say might as well be felons because of what they're doing to our school systems, what they're trying to do to our children, what they're permitting to be done to American citizens?
00:33:19.800Because they ultimately become murderers, they become complicit in sex trafficking with the policies they pursue, and they are trying to destroy the American family as they do so.
00:33:35.160That's the other strength of of America, the rule of law and the family unity.
00:33:40.180Those are the two strengths, and that's why they're pushing these they want you to tolerate behavior like the trans movement or or now you're you're seeing them be and I said this 10 years ago you watch they're going to try to start justifying men or adults being attracted to minors.
00:33:59.820They will justify that behavior and we're seeing that more and more and it's all designed to undermine the family unity because that's been one of the strengths of America along with the rule of law.
00:34:09.140And we're seeing it happen right before our eyes, you know, I is I look around and, you know, our family and extended family and friends that all that people are contending with and and irrespective of your socioeconomic standing or whatever, it is it's happening to everyone in America, whether it's fentanyl.
00:34:36.620Whether it is sex trafficking, whether it is sex trafficking, whether it is in our schools, these mad CRT initiatives that have been started under really Barack Obama and push throughout government business now business.
00:34:52.140People forget that border, by the way, corporate America is endorsing it and make no mistake about it.
00:34:59.160They think that they think that they need economic growth to have economic wealth generated, which is not true.
00:35:06.620It's easy. It's much easier, but it's not true.
00:35:10.420And you can just look at Europe and see how they have done with a population that is growing far slower than our own,
00:35:17.840or at least it was until suddenly Angela Merkel decided to open up Germany to five million illegal immigrants.
00:35:25.980It's it's a stunning development when you look at what corporate America has become and what they are endorsing, whether it's primarily left wing policies.
00:35:37.980Capitalism is what has always kept America and government in check because you could push these crazy policies,
00:35:44.980but then the marketplace would regulate it and the marketplace would balance it out.
00:35:49.880But now you have complete control of of the of the government and they've somehow infiltrated into corporate America.
00:35:58.180And capitalism is no longer keeping government in check.
00:36:02.100Capitalism is actually beating the American public down with the government.
00:36:07.860And so that's we're broken in America.
00:36:10.940We've lost our moral compass for one thing.
00:36:13.400We're no longer the good country we used to be like Alexis de Tocqueville talked about.
00:36:18.120And then we're we've got our capitalism, which is no longer keeping government in check by market by the market regulating itself.
00:36:26.820They are they are regulating the market now.
00:36:35.540I don't espouse to have hardly any of the answers.
00:36:37.860I try to focus on what my bailiwick is and control what I can control and and hope that everybody else does their job.
00:36:46.500Well, you have a heck of a job, and I think we ought to put that in clear perspective for everybody listening to us.
00:36:52.440Sheriff Lamb is the sheriff of Pinal County in Arizona, has a pretty big area.
00:37:01.120Why don't you tell our audience just how big the county is?
00:37:06.420Yeah, our county is 5,400 square miles, which is about the exact size of the state of Connecticut.
00:37:11.820We have about a half a million people in the county, 600 plus employees, a budget of 50 million dollars.
00:37:19.140So it's we stay pretty busy and we're not on the border.
00:37:22.280We're about 50 to 60 miles off the border.
00:37:24.260But we have a desert area that is an Indian reservation on the south end of our county where the cartel pushes military-age men in camouflage clothes and carpet shoes and backpacks through that desert.
00:37:36.020We also have the I-8 interstate and the I-10 interstate, which are main arteries for the cartels bringing their poison into this country, poison that we try to stop from getting out throughout the rest of America.
00:37:49.860And it's also their main artery for trafficking humans into this country.
00:37:54.720So, yeah, we've got our work cut out for us.
00:37:57.080I just thought everybody should know that they're talking about we're talking about the state, the state of Connecticut.
00:38:04.180I wouldn't we're talking about your jurisdiction and it's it's a lot for 600 folks to take care of.
00:38:11.740It really is amazing to think that the challenge that you face, the threats that you face.
00:38:19.160And as a nation, we're talking about, again, illegal immigration.
00:38:23.820But that means that we're not focused on those people who want to come here based on merit, based on their skills and what they can bring to this country.
00:38:34.300We are now, you know, we're taking in people who the cartels decide we will take.
00:38:52.300You find somebody I talk to people all the time that are trying to come to this country legally.
00:38:57.760And they're frustrated because our government is doing nothing to help them.
00:39:01.700But we've completely opened the door to the people who we don't necessarily want and and people who are willfully breaking the law and are coming to this country illegally.
00:40:11.360But I'm telling you, most sheriff's departments are such an important counterweight against police departments that have so many political pressures applied to them.
00:40:21.560Not that the sheriffs don't have their fair share.
00:40:24.420But compared to the police departments where they're working for political appointed chiefs and so forth.
00:40:30.140I just want to say, Sheriff, to you and to all of the sheriffs, you're greatly appreciated.
00:41:31.600And what we're trying to do are our public service announcements so that you know what the laws are, and you can't put more than one ballot in the box.
00:41:39.060There's very narrow allowances for that.
00:43:48.720There's a book called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and if it's not on your daily or weekly or monthly reading list, please put it on there.
00:43:58.340The last quote is also the last quote in my book, American Sheriff, Traditional Values in a Modern World, which you can get on Amazon, or if you get it at a sheriffswife.com, I'll sign a copy of it.
00:44:58.500And God bless you for sharing that with all of us.
00:45:01.180And I like the thought, as a man thinketh, so he is.
00:45:09.540And it's just a truism that is, it's really inviolate.
00:45:16.140And by the way, within that, we'll be pushing every, I'll be hawking every one of those things because I think that's a wonderful, wonderful, valuable gift to our audience today.
00:45:30.520So we appreciate it, Sheriff, and I've really enjoyed talking with you.
00:45:34.000Well, I appreciate it, Lou, and I thank you for being a great American and for your voice.
00:45:39.200I know it's not easy where you're at and at your level, but you've continued to be a voice of truth, a voice of freedom, and an American voice.
00:45:48.560And I, along with so many other people, thank you for being that strong voice.
00:46:05.400Thanks, everybody, for being with us here today.
00:46:07.800Tomorrow, our guest will be Attorney Joe McBride, attorney for some of the January 6th defendants trying to win justice for his clients who straight out are political prisoners of the left.