Shawn Ryan Show - US-Mexico Border Crisis 2021 with Ed Calderon

Episode Date: May 6, 2021

On this episode of The Shawn Ryan Show I sit down with Ed Calderon and discuss what is going on down at the US-Mexico border crisis. Ed has first hand knowledge of who is coming across and what might be coming to a city near you. You can find/follow Ed on the links below: Website   - https://www.edsmanifesto.com​ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/edsmanifesto Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website - https://www.shawnryanshow.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/VigilanceElite TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnryanshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryan762 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And people fostering supporting and, you know, cheering some of these groups as they go make their way up. You need to realize that there is a machine that's feeding off these people that is not related to any humanitarian. The crisis ratio, it's a machine that basically is rejoicing with the way the border is currently. In 2020, the most dangerous city in the world was Los Cabos, Mexico. You can line up all of the Marines on Camp Pendleton on that border. That's not going to be enough. You think something's coming sooner than later? I think there's going to be an onovert car-tell action.

State side with them, you know, dude. It's been like what? Six months? It's been six months of, you know, midnight of the soul, you know, type of situation going on in the world, but yeah, it's been six months. Being back. It's good to have you back, dude. Thank you for, good. Thank you for the invitation back, man. You're welcome. It's great time last time, so. Being Katie, we're talking right before you got here,

and we were just, did you're just cool to be around and we were saying, you know, everybody should just be a little bit more like Ed. Yeah, it's, you know, I travel a lot and meet a lot of people. And specifically, I make connections with a lot of people out there sometimes. And to me, it's always fun, because it's not about meeting new people for me. It's about finding people. You know, like, you, I mean, you went through your, you know, through your life, life choices, just like I did.

And it's always interesting comparing notes and scars with people like you. And not specifically comparing, but just kind of sharing some of the ways we kind of deal with some of that. Just been around like-minded people who can relate. Yeah. Last time you inadvertently gave me some guidance through our conversations and, you know, I've been changing some life, some of my life-thoubts choices because of some of those conversations and, you know and doing pretty well.

That's awesome here, dude. So I'm happy here again for that. You're welcome. But so you've been hanging down on the border. Yeah. And I wanted to get you here to talk about what the hell's going on down there with the border crisis. And so I did a little research before you got here.

And then we'll dive in because I know you're gonna have an extremely unique perspective and first-hand knowledge of what's going on down there. So just to kind of get everybody up to speed on what's going on, you know, border crisis, US Mexico border has been in the news nonstop, especially since January. Yeah.

And the New York Times reported on April 5th, March of 2021, over 170,000 illegal immigrants cross the border. That's the largest single month and over a decade. The Biden administration opened its 10th border holding facility in his three months in office. This is from the New York Times. They're allowed to hold people for roughly three days from what I understand, or at least that's what the New York Times put in. Now, ABC 7 and San Francisco put out on April 8, 18,663 unaccompanied children across the border and March alone. That's five times more than March 2020. There's youngest three years old. Also, if you go to joebiden.com, he says, per his website,

he was going to immediately end prolonged detention and reinvest in case management. Whatever that means. And this is a quote, Biden will codify protections to safeguard children to make sure their treatment is consistent within their best interest. Now, NBC is reporting that in Texas at the holding facilities, there is child neglect, child abuse and sexual abuse going on. So that's not really working out, is it? Also the White House dot com says they provide temporary legal status to illegal immigrants.

That's 11 million illegal immigrants as of today. And we have 10 million people unemployed in the United States. According to Tom Homan, the former ICE director, he put this out today on April 29th. The border patrol is using the term broken arrow. They cannot handle what's coming at them. And at least 40% of the border patrol is now tied up in these holding facilities with the 10 new holding facilities, which we weren't supposed to have anymore.

Also during a pandemic. Yeah, during a pandemic. But a pandemic and a pandemic with now like four or five different strains coming in from different parts of the world that seem to behave differently, you know? And again, more, more holding sites, more cages as they would like to say back a few months back

that all of a sudden they don't want to say the cage I think you know it's interesting. It's funny how it changes so fast but I wanted to So also as per ABC7 San Francisco The top three countries coming out, coming across the borders, number one Mexico, number two, Honduras, and number three Guatemala. Now, in 2020, the most dangerous city in the world was Los Cabos, Mexico.

Has the highest murder. Great precapita. Yep. The highest murder rate countries is of this year in 2021. Number one is El Salvador. Number two, Honduras. And number three, Venezuela. One, two, three. All Latin American countries. According to ICE 2020, 374,000 conviction criminal charges have happened just in 2020 that 74,000 DUIs, 67,000 drug arrests, 1900 murders, 1600 kidnappings, 37,000 assaults and 10,000 sex crimes. By the way, ice only has jurisdiction within 100 miles of the US, the Mexican border. So that's just that small region. So what the hell is going on down there, Ed? What else is happening?

First off, a little bit of perspective and where I'm coming from. I not only work down there for 12 years, working against cartels and people's smugglers and organized crime. I also got to, you know, take down and, you know, take down and take up parts or an organization that we're doing people trafficking across the border during my time active.

So I bring that perspective with myself and I give my opinion on some of these things. I also was an instructor for a while down there and I have a lot of people that I trained that are currently active in federal and state and municipal level sound there within the police forces. And you witnessed some of those WhatsApp images and messages that I get every day and I showed you some of those. So I keep myself informed on some of these things. Not only that, but I'm an immigrant myself. Legal immigrant to this country,

it came here with nothing, went through the process. It was a nightmare of a process, but somehow, some way, and just by doing things correctly, I made it. That and also Tijuana, one of the focal points of some of these Magon caravans is my hometown. So that's my perspective on some of these issues. That's where I come from when I look at it.

I was in Tijuana when the first migrant caravan showed up during the Trump administration. I was there when they rushed the border, when they utilized some of the kids that were with them as sort of chilled by running towards the border with the with the kid in their arms. I got to see Honduran's Taunt local law enforcement and locals in Tijuana that they were going to be taking over the area. They're going to turn Tijuana into Honduras and then a lot of them were abducted by the cartels

and never seen again because Tijuana has an immune system. I got to see all that phenomenon back then and also got to see what the restrictive border policies did for immigration and specifically for trafficking, legal immigration. It went down in a lot of places. Specifically, any company that kids that specific phenomenon was, you know, it wasn't really a thing that trends went down.

All of a sudden elections went how they went and it was like a beacon. That's that sounded. Things that had traditionally been, you know, understood about putting a caravan through the country all the way to the border, you know, how it was in fruitful for a lot of the caravan members, a lot of them basically just went back, they gave up. Now there's a new administration and a lot of them are coming up with the idea that is being told to them by organizers that now is a time to get in. The doors are open, now is a time to get in, now is a moment where amnesty is going to be given to them and now is a time to send their kids if they can't make the trip themselves, now is a time to send them to cross

themself. So you see the migrant caravan members arriving in places like the Hwana with biden flags, biden t-shirts, documentation and different, and in their native languages that tells them what to say to local authorities, what to say to immigration authorities when they meet them. Risk traps to the note kids, women, minors, people that have paid in full for their, you know, the coyote, the smaller the tomm the tossum over, and people that sit low. No, it's a whole system cropped up overnight as soon as the administration took power. As soon as they basically said, now I think the immigration policy is going to be more lax. So they had already, they already had this planned out before the election even happened.

They were ready for business to reopen, basically. Because I remember right after the election, the news was covering thousands of people gathering right across the border, just waiting for the official announcement. And as soon as they got it, it's not just that they were ready to make the trip, but the business side of it is already set up on the border. If you want to make it, you know, it's not just that they were ready to make the trip, but the business

side of it is already set up on the border. If you want to make it across that border, you need to pay a toll to a coyote, and those coyotes are usually run mostly exclusively run by some of the biggest car teleorganizations in Mexico. Well, I mean, with 170,000 people coming over and last month alone in March, depending on who they are and how much they're charging, I don't know, could be $5,000 per head. If you can't pay now, you can pay later. And where's his money going?

Cartels, the cartels. Cartels, some of the biggest money makers as far as the border for cartels are trafficking in people and trafficking in narcotics. Those are the two major things. So when the announcement came, the elections went like they went, the dinner bell was rang for them, right? Like this is the time. And people have to realize that a lot of those miners that are making their way up, you know,

are unaccompanied and are being physically tossed over the border. If people want to doubt this, they can see a posted a video or a light vision video, then basically tossing some of these miners over the border. Not just that, but some of these kids are actually being put on buses and or busts to the border from the southern border. And some of them are making it out there. There's, it's hard to file a missing person's report when you're not a national, Mexican national when you're crossing your way through the country. Yeah.

You know, a lot of people go missing in that area. Women get looked at specifically. Women get realized in other, you know, mean sex, trafficking is common. And right now it's a booming business. Why? There's a lot of fresh bodies. Why?

Everybody's under the impression that there's a permissive environment as far as crossing the border and getting the atmosphere right now. Where they get that impression? It's up for debate, but what I'm seeing is everybody coming in is surprised by the fact that they're not just being let in. Really. They're like, I thought we were just going to just go in, it's not a good going. The documentation that they some of them have is related to what they have to say, whether the legal rights are, you know, how to ask for amnesty, all these things.

And it seems like they're just coached, basically. Like somebody is something, somebody or a group is coaching them down there as they make their way up. I mean, I think, you know know it's very concerning but I think a lot of people are extremely concerned on yeah that you know 170,000 people cross the border last month illegally and that's you know that's an issue in itself but you know just like anybody people don't let a good crisis go to waste. What no, no

What are the cartels doing and who are they smuggling? So how many people made it across the world? 100 and over 170,000 people last March March of 2020 30,000. Okay, some of them some of them probably had backpacks on and What was in that backpack? Who knows? Right? So, it's not just fostering illegal immigration, it's also fostering narcotics coming into the country. And not just any narcotics, probably some fentanyl-lase stuff.

You know, it's not, there's not weed bundles that have in those backfacts. So, that is paired with the crisis that's going on the border. I mean, it's a golden hour. Imagine your border protection agency on your southern border is tied up guarding detention centers. If I am on it, transnational cartel dedicated to moving drugs across the border, This is golden hour. It's a golden hour for me. I'm making money not just off the people crossing the border and I basically give it, paying them a toll

and actually selling some of them in just labor in a way. If you can't pay for your crossing, you'll pay for your crossing through work in the States. Or your family will pay a type of ransom for you when you cross. And if you can't, or if you're pretty, you use you for something else. Yeah.

People have to realize that it's not just that humanitarian crisis on that border where people coming through. There's also people going missing now there as they try to make their way through. Their story doesn't start at the border. Their story starts all the way down there as they make their way up here. People vilifying border patrol, people vilifying homeland, people vilifying law enforcement

on this side at that border. It's interesting how the conversation never gets such up on the criminal organization. They're actually making it killing financially on putting people across that border. Bussing people, moving people through Mexico up to the border wall and taxing them for protection. Selling them, you know, a lot of these regular encampments are just rife with drug use as well. There was a migrant caravan encampment on the first caravan that came in that set up next to a school in Dijuana. They had to close the school because of all the needles

that were finding in the soccer fields. No, shit. And I'm not saying all of these people have that issue, but some of these places that are being set up irregularly are a center for people. It's not a healthy place for people to be in, right? I know they're fleeing. I know they're moving from a place

to looking for a better life. But I know the amount of risk that they put their kids through going through that whole process and how many of them go missing without anybody knowing about it. It's not like there's a list of them from the point of destination that gets verified when they get through Mexico's a black hole, people go missing.

Do you have any idea of how many, not just children of the women, you know? I've heard, this is again, there's no official documentation. People are literally swimming across the river, jumping the border and just making groups on the Mexican side and just making forcing their way up, or getting bust up, or utilizing some of the train networks

or just walking. You hear rumors and stories about a group of 70 kids that turned into a group of 40 before they moved to the border. Kids that had an intermix of women, females and males and the group of kids that had an intermix of women of females and males in the group of minors, and all the females went missing. Right? And these are all stories that they say, things that show up on social media, you know, things that are shared like boomers on Facebook, but then you go and you'd see the camps directly and then you kind of hear the stories about some of the people there are there

They're staying there and you hear some of this these hey, where's this now? These people just I think they probably went across or I mean because they're not here and they left their stuff They probably want opportunity when across or they're just gone. So there's they don't have an idea where the hell they are There's no accountability It's a group of people who are regularly moving through a country trying to get into another. If you're a predator, that's a prime hunting round for that. You know, that type of stuff.

Is this word getting back to the people that are going to come across next month? Or are they're just willing to take the risk? I mean, they consider the places where they're at, so dangerous that they're willing to make that risk for themselves and their kids. A lot of them are coming with minors. Now, that also creates a whole lot of opportunity.

It's this heartening and weird to see Americans coming down and supporting some of these encampments with the best of intentions. You know, again, I'm an immigrant to this country. I came here with nothing. And through hard work and just starting, just going forward, I figured my way into having a little bit of something. Americans are going down there giving them clothing, food, all of the tents that they have set up or all donations by Americans. They're donating drugs, food, things for them.

That then gets, oh, thank you. And a lot of them get sold in some of the open air markets now there as well, so they can make it a little money. That's how they support themselves. But realistically, a lot of that gets turned into things that are taxed for them. And also, some of these encampments are taxed just to be there by the people that own that property. What I mean by own, I mean, there are parts of that border that are owned by interest. If I'm a cartel member and I spend my time trying to figure out ways of pulling, putting

drugs across that border into California, one of the biggest drug markets on the planet, it's not in my best interest to see a caravan there. Right? Unless I'm using as a distraction so I can pass something somewhere else. Opportunities everywhere. Earlier right before we came up here, I was asking about some of the opportunities that have been created for the cartels and for other organizations and criminals. And right off the bat, you had brought up that they are marking these people with, I don't think they even know they're being marked with the bracelets.

I want you to go into, you know, the opportunity that they saw with the people that are trying to get across the border and what they're doing to them, how they're marking them. There's several crossing points across the border. Again, as a country, you made a major investment in that border wall. That's a great investment, I guess, for some people that are very about the wall and build the wall. It's a fence. It's not a wall. But I know the purpose of it was designed for it

to slow down immigration. The problem is that in one form, you build up the wall, but in another form, you basically tied the hands of the people that man that wall through border protection, right? So again, it's prime time for these people. You have, you know, the the the the the the coop is unguarded. It's the now or never at it. It's the now or never attitude. And in some parts of that border, when people show up to get across, they have

to go through a kayak or a perp about people'suggler and that people smuggler will get as let's see a group of them and they will charge them a percentage of what What they need to get across if they don't have it They'll get bands on their hands this guy paid in full this guy still lows This is a minor These this is gonna be they're gonna pay us for him when he gets across. She's interesting. So let's put another band on her.

Like they mean something. And it's interesting to see that a lot of the minors of the show up on the border are usually you know, they're usually of a certain age in males. You don't see a lot of teenage women across the border that get caught in some of these dragnets. I want Americans to, when they watch and use to see that and figure out why that is. Is it because women don't make the trip? There's a lot of older women that do make the trip. What's going on with some of the younger women? When you see a lot of them in these groups, Mexico has a tendency to eat and make people disappear. And people fostering, supporting, and cheering some of these groups as they go make their

way up. You need to realize that there is a machine that's feeding off these people that is not related to any humanitarian crisis ratio. It's a machine that basically is rejoicing with the way the border is currently. For those that are listening that aren't reading between the lines here, they're being sold into the sex trade. Some of them are being sold into a sex trade. they're being sold into the sex trade. Some of them are being sold into a sex trade. Some of them are being sold into local Mexican sex markets

because there's a lot of them out there as well. Also, one thing that people need to realize, the cartels don't stop at the border. They have networks stateside that are ready to receive labor force people that they can rent out. They have set it up here so they can receive women that they can then utilize for whatever activity they need to. They're working on this side as well.

So the border doesn't mean a lot to them, you know, as far as the business code. Do you think that they're, do you think they see a golden opportunity as well as we're going to beef up our presence in the United States? They would cope during COVID, they have a very specific cartel that during the COVID epidemic, the new generation cartel is the one that grew up exponentially during the home of Christ was down there. And the reason it did is because they had control over the ports on the Pacific side of the ocean, basically uninterrupted supply chain to somewhere across the ocean.

That specific cartel grew in power and influence during that time. And there was a operation stateside that caught a bunch of them like 80 of them 80 of them 80 people 80 members of that cartel operating stateside But it's it's clear as day to anybody that works in some of the places where they operate that they're here and they have been here for Wow, you know, it's not it's not fighting back the cartels down there. It's their transnational, their hero already, their set up,

the network, their setting up are here. Meanwhile, stateside, there's a corrosion of confidence in the police, there's cancel the police, there's a crisis, we're looming crisis, an economic crisis is's going to turn into a really weirdopia that's going to even ramp up the opiate epidemic. It's probably living through in this country. And again, it's a golden hour.

It's a golden hour of opportunity for a very specific type of people that are just poised and not doing it right now. The caravan is feeding that machine and people that think they're doing something humanitarian by supporting these groups coming up. I really need to kind of visit down there if they can, you know, do a walk through. I've walked through those camps myself,

I've got pictures of me and those camps. Yeah. Can you just go down there and you can? You can just, can't just just just walk right in. Be very sure that if you take a dollar out and give it to somebody, you're going to be swarmed. Oh yeah. Also interesting and since I walked into one of the camps, one of the camps actually set up in a in a federal space, a federal Mexican federal property space right before you go into the pedestrian crosswalk

into San Isidro, and I was kicked out of there by them. Really? Yeah, that was like, hey, you can't be here. Like, I can't be here? Why? Yeah, you can't be here. Like, it's for the safety of the children. You can't be here. Like, this is your camped out in the middle of this open public space. It was, you know, this is not acceptable for people to take over a public space like this. And locals in Tijuana are currently being affected not just by the ravages of the economy

that the epidemic has caused. Now, some of these caravans are pressuring local government and US government by doing blockades on the border crossing, affecting the lives and economic well-being of thousands of residents on both sides of the border fence. They have absolutely no fault in this situation. absolutely no, you know, they're not, they have no fault in this, in this situation, right? So people are getting agitated, you know, violence against and negative feelings towards some of these care of and members and immigrants is rising, you know. And you start to see, you know,

just like last time, you know, last time this happened, the local started getting really aggressive and the activity did the local immune system, which is some of these cartel organizations that have control over the area. And you started, you're starting to see some, some, some pushing pull when it comes to that in that area. It's a crisis of, I mean, I don't think people understand, a lot of Americans believe that that crisis is the children suddenly appearing on that border wall and being on a company.

They don't realize that that kid had to go through a whole country, sometimes a few countries to get there and what they saw and What they survived to get to that point? Mm-hmm is unimaginable to most Americans and also Who didn't make? Yeah, there's no where are those numbers? Mexico can't keep track of its own dead, much in own dead and on missing, much less people coming on without any documentation from the outside.

From further south, from further south, and going into some of these traffic and routes all the way up to the border, which are notorious for people just go missing. So, again, people really need to see what they're supporting when it comes to some of these things. So all these, all these, on a company, children are being sent to the border. And this is, I mean, this is being reported. So I would assume that the parents know, you know, what's happening. Why?

I'm just curious. And I'm sure there's a legitimate reason, but why aren't the parents accompanying their kids to the border and just going across with them? Because I mean, three years old. A lot of them are sending their kids in front of them. So when they grow up and if they get some sort of immigration status, they can then do chain migration and pull their families over. It's actually an ingenious

act, if you think about it. And depending on the public sentiment and who's in office, some of these kids will get protective status. And when they come of age, chain migration. And who gave them the protective status. So it's actually it's actually a self-ashad. I mean if you think about it, you know, how these things usually work. I send over My kid, who's 12 or 13, he gets protective status. He, as a minor, has a better chance at getting protective status than most adults. They're fleeing violence in their native countries. He gets protective status. And if he gets through, he eventually, he can then solicit the US government to do some, figure out migration

for his parents. So, they're using their child as an investment. It's a chain migration. It's a chain migration. It's a chain migration. It's a chain migration. It's a chain migration. It's a chain migration.

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way they're doing it is it's risky for the people that are doing it and it's feeding an industry that then pumps in a bunch of fentanyl lace heroin into this country as well, which is to be alarming to the US. It's one head of a multi-headed hydra that's down there. That's down there, growing, and it's up here growing as well. So the reaction to this mass migration is there are feeding, which nobody could have, I guess. I mean, well, yeah, you could have predicted this. But if they're feeding the sex trade, they're feeding the drug trade.

They're feeding the sex trade, they're feeding the drug trade, they're using this drug meals golden hour again because of the border patrol that's tied up with people, they're not gonna be noticing drones flying across that border fence, they're not going to be noticing things going underneath it because, I mean, there's a bunch of different tunnels to act up down out there.

So again, it's golden hour. It's like, this is what's going on right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's a chance, there's a chance right now. There's a chance, right? And it's because of politics. That's, everybody down there is aware that the politics are in favor of things going the way they are right now. Yeah. Everybody up here is surprised by the fact that things are going the way they are

from down there up here. So, again, it's weird for me since I'm a son of a border son, and I can see things from both sides. It's strange to me how America's perception starts right when the kid shows up on the border. But he doesn't realize that all the stuff that happens before he gets to that border, and all the money that gets paid into who it gets paid, and who's making money off those kids showing up and And why are those kids showing up, you know and

What's the end game with all this stuff? I don't know. I just know it's It's putting in danger a lot of people On both sides of the border a lot of people that we will never even know about have gone, have gone missing. Right? A lot of people are gonna end up in that desert. A lot of people are gonna get, you just get, get, get, end up eaten

or consumed by the industry. Whatever industry that may be, drug industry, sex industry, whatever industry that may be. And again, people need to look deep and hard industry, sex industry, whatever industry that may be. And again, people need to look deep and hard about what they're supporting. And I get the whole being humanitarian. I do a lot of charity work on the border when I can. When I went through a walk through one of these migraine campments, I met a lady who was from

Michokgan. She was fleeing cartel violence in Michokgan. She had two miners with her, like babies. And she was living in a tent. And they were eating roasted chicken that they were trying to make last and it was pretty past, you know. They were trying. I feel for them, you know, I gave them some money, you know, on the down, so I wouldn't get swarmed. I heard their story and I feel for them. But what they're fleeing from is terrorism. I think we can safely assume that cartel organizations in Mexico are a terrorist organization even though the USFM want to recognize them as such for myriad of reasons. A lot of them including not wanting to give amnesty to fleeing Mexicans because they are legitimately fleeing from a terrorist organization which would make them

viable candidates for things like a silent these, you see these groups trying to, you know, these groups causing a disruptive change in people being displaced by them moving out. You know, what's this, what's the solution there, you know, build a fence, put more people on the border. you can line up all of the Marines on camp penalty on that border and you did it for a while during the Trump administration that's not gonna be enough. Well you know when you're talking about you know they're running from terrorism they're running from terrorism because the cartels were able to somehow overrun the government,

overrun the police, overrun the military. What's interesting here in the US is we're defunding police. So when you see 170,000 people come across, I mean you said they were catching Just a minute ago 80 people 80 cartel members at a time crossing Now we have and last year that was 30 30 thousand people, you know in March Now there's a hundred and seventy thousand people coming across one year later in one month They know that we're defunding police and all these cities. So if I was a cartel, a head of one of the cartels,

I would be infiltrating those cities that have been defunded to overrun the entire city and run everything. And we've already seen this happen with the mobs, you know. Money, money was moved around, guns were moved around, drugs won't move around during upheavals across this country related to police brutality. That's a spoken secret in some of these places. And I've been through some of these places like Portland, you know, Atlanta, when some of these things were happening. And of course, like, if, you know, when the, when the cat's away, right, and that's the thing, you're not only sending the cat away, you're killing it up here. Things that the US needs to recognize right the fuck now, if they can. Mexico is a failed state.

There's no argument about it. The government doesn't have control over large portions of its border and the whole states. There's places where they can't fly over because they'll get knocked down by, you know, a cartel artillery, right? The cool de Akarnasa would happen in Cinaloa where the army was defeated. Again, if that is not a sign of a failed state, you know, I don't know what is. And I was a part of that system and I can tell you, if I was a betting man, I would not bet on any single government institution down there to make things right. So that leads me into asking the American people and politicians up here.

So if you can't bet on the government to make things stable down there, what's that? The cartels? They bet on one of the cartels. Interesting theory, somebody says once, if the US really wants to protect its southern border, it's not going to ask for help for the Mexican government. Think about that, right? Who would you ask for help if you were the US even wanted to keep that border secure. I would ask our military, I mean, that's who you would ask. On the Mexican side,

you probably have to ask the cartels because those are guys that are in control. Yeah. So you just think about that specific thing as an American, the denial and or inability to accept that there's a failed state right next to us. My home, I can say that.

It's a failed state because it can't guarantee basic human rights. It's a failed state because it has political killings across the country. It has journalists killed. There was recently a pretty well-known journalist that was killed down there covering cartel issues. And that's like that's every month. Yeah. Shootouts in the middle of the street. You know, safe cities turning into the most dangerous cities on the planet from one year to another. Murder rates being the highest they've been ever in the history of ever in Mexico. Mass body graves discovered constantly out there, not being able to keep adequate numbers

of how many people are dead because they can't find the bodies. More than 90% of murders never being solved in Mexico. Do you think these cartels are specifically beefing up numbers in cities like Portland, Seattle? They're here. They're set up. They're in legal industry and in legal industry. They're transnational. They're everywhere from northern Africa to Europe to like, there's been cases some seem long-carred

tell members arrested in places as far off as Australia and the Philippines. So I guess what I'm getting at is are they specifically targeting those cities because they're weak and nice? It's ownership. It's ownership. It's ownership. So the way they operate in places like Chicago, Seattle,

stuff like that, they run the product in and locals distribute for them. They utilize more cycle gangs as well across the country. So they just put the product in the distribute. Now I think when the change is going to come, that's going to be hard to swallow here in the States, is when a rival comes in and wants to move another cartel out of its place.

Right? And we're seeing the birth of a giant militarized cartel in Mexico called the New Generation Cartel that is about to take over most of Mexico. They're fighting for control in Mexico with Xenoloa. The next fight for control with Xenolo is going to be statesite. It's already happening in small pockets here in the states. An overt cartel presence in the States is like talking about an armed convoy of people doing something in some capacity that's going to be spectacular. I think that is really close in front of us. Like talking about something that will change the way law enforcement and just the general public thinks about cartel presence in the United States. LA shooting type change.

You know, bank robbery, LA bank robbery shooting. I think that's going to happen soon. Is there another later? I think that's going to happen sooner than later. I think we're seeing two ginormous criminal enterprises growing up in Mexico right now that are being fostered by current border issues by poorest borders created by the current border crisis, by an inept government in Mexico, federal government in Mexico, and just in a inept government, like across the board in Mexico right now, it's a failed state.

The United States refusing to recognize that and still pumping in money. Another thing America needs to realize, the US has been outsourcing not only its border protection policies to Mexico, but its drug-fighting policies to Mexico. All of this, the US through its tax dollars pays for guns, equipment, wages, training, two cops, and

military personnel in Mexico. What you're on by the carcels. And also, if you're not auditing that money, I mean, if you're investing in that outsourcing and the money's still going down there. The board crisis is worse. So why are you outsourcing border protection to Mexico when it's actually worse now? And we just passed the most lethal year to be a Mexican in the history of error and you're still sending money down there to pay for it. And they're not demanding any results.

You know, audit. Again, if people want to make a change, if people want to do something, where's that money going? Who's getting paid? Why is there no accountability with that money going down south, right? Like I was paid with some of that money.

I received training in Coronado. Like, I remember being part of a program of hops that went to Coronado when we were trained in, you know, anti-terrorism, executive protection, medical, like a lot of things that were pretty, that was an investment in us. We felt amazing about it. Went down there, did the work, there was an investment in us, we felt amazing about it.

Went down there, did the work, some of the people that I worked with went crooked, some of them didn't, I got out, but it was always amazing to me that there was never any kind of follow up or follow up through as far as accountability to like, so okay, thank you, thank you, then go out there and do whatever you do. You know I think that is at the core of a lot of the issues

that are going on currently down south, that the US is not holding accountable people down there for some of the issues that are plaguing it, you know. You have a global enemy right now, arrival with China. China is visibly and clearly in Mexico. And that is again big elephant in the room that normally wants to talk about it. Well, nobody wants to talk about China. China just bought several thousand acres and Texas, put a wind facility for electricity. And so this Chinese green power plant that they put in is powering the biggest military base in Texas. us. You can't make this shit up. Can both of us agree that smuggling massive amounts

of methric users and fentanyl out of China would be nearly impossible if we were a criminal enterprise based in China. Could we agree upon that? We're talking about a country that is basically big brother come to life. There's no way things are smuggled out of that country without Chinese state knowing. So once you agree to that, we then have to agree that fentanyl output didn't diminish it increased during the COVID epidemic into Mexico. And the reason why that is is because that's being pumped into low-grade heroin that's then being supplied to the US. Now, is that a form of chemical warfare?

I don't know. Maybe I'm stretching it. You know, if I say that. But is it killing American stateside? I mean, I think they're definitely in it for the long flight and There's one thing we've learned about China. They're extremely patient and also the NBA can't talk bad about them Is this America like where am I, you know, you can't say anything bad about it, you know? But the other hand, you know, they're doing it. And that, again, it's, it's surreal, disheartening, and people are like, hey, what do you talk about it? Do you worry about talking some of these things? Like, I came up here

to seek out that American dream, which I know is real. I've been seeing all of them, you know, and I'm worried about I'm worried about the future, you know, what future am I going to create for myself and my family up here, you know When we talk about things to worry about in the future those things have happened to me in my country So when I'm when I'm up here saying some of these things, it's not me, you know, it's me warning, it's me warning you about things that I've seen happen already. Yeah. And I see elements of it happening up here.

There wasn't a time long ago when people would laugh at police corruption, they would laugh at police brutality, they would laugh at Mexico's inability to police at a region or a zone. American law enforcement would laugh at that. I laugh anymore. And how there's there were legit parts of this country that had no police force to respond to an emergency. Right? And we had autonomous zones to set up, and governments that permitted that. I think as a country, you shouldn't laugh at that anymore. You know, this is a, you know, a quoted, I quote Alan Watts a lot, like listening to Alan Watts.

It's a pretty interesting character, you know, bit of a hippie and whatever backstory he has, you know, kind of weird. But he, in one of his lectures, he talks about how the Hindus would always kind of divide things into fours. Like every cycle was four parts. The first part was always a beautiful part, you know, laughed a long time. Everything was great, everything was good, everything was bound to full. I think that probably ended in the 80s here in the States.

If I'm kind of like just being an outsider, I think the 80s was the last of that. Then after that comes a period of a weird, it's good, but it's unstable, you know. I think of the snake and the garden of Eden, you know, uncertainty. Then there's a time in our history where things are evenly matched between good and evil. Think of a chair without one leg. It's unstable. You can sit on it still, but it's wobbly. Yeah. I think that's where we are. And what comes after is, I'm not going to disagree with you. Politics aside. Us versus them. Left versus right. I'm an immigrant to this

country. I am a permanent resident. I can't vote here yet. I'm looking to, I'm seeking out my full citizenship. Like I, like I legit, I'm working towards it. When I say I'm working towards it, I work with charity. I have a charity myself working with people on the southern border and also I had run charities working with people in the veteran community up here as well, even though I wasn't part of the military up here. I have a debt that I need to pay with some of the members of the community up here. So I do that. I try and figure out ways of making my community better by reaching out to people that are struggling with things like the pressure and shit like that. You know, it's an amazing place to be and the things that are leaving us or they're going away,

one of the some of the main reasons why I came up here like personal freedoms, like personal responsibilities, not just freedom because every freedom comes with responsibility. I'm very invested in those responsibilities up here. It's hard to me to see community just giving some of those freedoms away and some of those responsibilities, but the government's already gone. Why do you need guns? Please come. Yeah. You know, this whole push, current push for gun control and having conversations with people about gun control, like in my perspective on it. Wait till somebody rolls up to your house and asks for your pretty starters so they can take to a party and then tell me that you would want to be the one without a gun in that conversation. Yeah You know, it's

Again, my world has ended several times over so when I come here with warnings of the apocalypse They know I know what I'm talking about. Yeah Well, I think a lot of people know that you know what the hell you're talking about but Well, I think a lot of people know that you know what the hell you're talking about. But what is your charity doing down there? There's a interior one. Yeah, we started a charity on the southern side of it. I've been gathering funds for people, stateside, for a wild veteran community people.

But now, kind of going back, I revisited some of the people that I used to work with that stayed in, that stayed clean, that stayed on the straight in the narrow. People are still in the fight, you know. I had a moment recently where I had the need, you know, and some of them came and helped me out with a project that I was working on. And they kind of re-put me back in touch with some of the people that were still in and some of the families that were left behind by some of the agents that were killed down there.

Insurance policies and protection for families, fallen agents and military members down there is almost not existing. How long have you been, this is a new venture that you're on? We've been working on it for the past three months. It's a cause it's called Nesbete of Edels, the Lost Boys, specifically related to under-equipped, under-trained people that are still in it, that have a background verification that they run people through, so we know they're on straight now.

So we support them with training and equipment, if we can. And specifically, donations in the form of financial donations and for some of the kids that some of these agents left behind after they, you know, passed away to work with a situation. Including in these kids is a young girl that lost the use of one of her hands after both her father who was an agent that I had worked for the same office that I had worked with and her mom were killed outside of their house, killed by two young men wielding FN57, so we're part of the fact of furious fiasco. And they're forgotten, you know?

Yeah. And so we're trying to shed some light on some of these kids and also shed some attention when it comes to supporting some of these, some of these forgotten kids that are out there, you know. Like it's hard to move forward when you when you have some of that stuff behind you. So yeah, I've been slowly kind of making my way back to them. Well that's fucking solid. Are you ready to receive donations? Are you still selling them? We're setting it up so there's complete transparency so people can actually see where those donations go and we're setting up a website for it now. We're already working with the association attached to that that works

down south but we're gonna have some some updates pretty soon when we go live with it and so people can see where their money goes they can attach a face to who they're who they're who they're kind of help and stuff like that we're trying to have that out for you for people that won't help out. That's awesome. We'll be helping out. I'm amazing. Thank you. Yeah. for people that won't help out. That's awesome. We'll be helping out. I'm being amazing. Thank you. Yeah.

I hope you guys are enjoying the show. I think this is a pretty good one. Hit pause. Go over to vigilancelead.com, pick yourself up one of these sweet shirts, and if you're lucky, maybe these hats will be in stock too. So, talking about the earlier, you had mentioned that your old boss or was he your commander? It was one of my directors that I used to work under. He's a fugitive. He's a fugitive of the justice right now.

In Mexico. In Mexico. In Mexico. This is a man that was decorated with honors by the DEA, the FBI, a man that has been consistently named as one of the people that actually made a difference in Mexico when it comes to fighting some of these cartels. Lieutenant Colonel Layzola says his name if people want to find out more about him.

There's a documentary on him, I think, out there. Lieutenant Colonel Leizola was instrumental in basically bringing back Dejwana from the brink. And when I mean from the brink, I mean, Dejwana was going to be a Vietnam typear space, you know. That's what it was going to turn into. If somebody like him then come into the picture and actually change the way we would fight cartels down there. The reason why Lee Zola was so successful is that he didn't treat the cartels as a criminal problem. He didn't focus on it as a problem that

was going to be solved with regular or traditional policing tactics. He treated it as an insurgency. And I think that's what most people again struggle with on that side of the board, on this side of the board. They want to fight it as a policing problem when it really is an insurgency on several fronts against the government that is not in control. He was very instrumental in bringing Tijuana from the most dangerous city on the planet, from the number one spot to taking it out

of the list altogether. He also worked in Juarez as a police chief and did the same. The murder rates just dropped dramatically. He's being accused of being a torture of men. He's being accused of being a human rights violator and a few other things. I know this man, you know, not only know my work with him and invited him into my home. He is a man of honor, like nobody else that I've met before. He is a hard man and he is a hard enemy if that is what you choose him to be.

The last attempt that is life because he had several assassination attempts on his life, including a fake military convoy doing a roadlock on him. And a cartel group trying to poison his favorite juice drink. The last one took the use of his legs. They shot him in the back in the last attempt they had on his life. And when he lost his legs, he said, well, I guess I'll go into politics. And he's been running for the office of mayor for two or three times in the last few years, and he's been consistently being blocked. If Tealana.

We want to be a mayor at Tealana, and the powers that be in Mexico again, Mexico is a failed state. Yeah. Current political climate in Mexico is very to the left. You know, there's an open chavista supporter in the presidency in Mexico right now in the form of non-dress monolopusol redor. It's a leftist federal government right now. And people, likely, is a hola who represent the other side of the political spectrum in Mexico, which is, you know, a political, a to the right conservative political spectrum

that will create or transform a place that they would govern just like the Hwena, then they're pulling out of the stops against people like that. I'm just curious, does the government even matter anymore or down there, or is it just an extension of the cartel? It matters where it has control and that is getting smaller and smaller every day. Also, a lot of these kernel organizations down there, not only own infrastructure in some places, they are involved in legitimate businesses that intertwine with political politicians, legitimate businesses. So they

have their intertwined, their control. You know, the US just let go of a high ranking general who was clearly recorded and seen associating with a major cartel in Mexico and favoring them through his tenure as the head of our equivalent of a Secretary of Defense. And you arrested him in the United States in an unprecedented move that he was have never done. You let him go to face justice in Mexico. And when he got down there, what do you think the federal government

did with him? Escorted home. Nothing. He was escorted home. Now, that is the government that you as American taxpayers, myself included, because I also pay taxes up here now. We're paying that government to solve shit down there for us. We're paying them

to fortify their border wall on the south side of the border wall. We're paying for instruction for there. For we're paying and training some of the military down there. Now, and again, what results are we getting as a country? The. Again, if people want to know what to do, like what can Joe, a regular Joe Blow or whatever you want to call them out there do, accountability. If you have a representative, accountability for where your tax are doing that. There.

We have been paying for that drug war for how long and it's getting worse, not better. So what's wrong with that relationship? And we've been supporting the government down there and the government has consistently proven to be there, and the government has consistently proven to be on the take and part of the problem. So I'm not telling you what the solution is, but I think part of the solution is for Americans to start demanding accountability for what that money that they're sending down south is paying for. And the zero results we're getting back from it. Yeah.

And I think it's just, people have it so good here, that you know, out of sight, out of mind, then I wanna think about it. It's not actually happening. You know, I mean, look at the average American, what do they do? They wake up, they go to work, they get paid,

they buy a bunch of shit, you go to work, they get paid, they buy a bunch of shit, you know, hang out with a family, they don't see any traumatic anything. And that's what it's supposed to be, that's good. Yeah, we put a lot of work into that, you know, protecting that. And it's so good that... It's so good that... I travel to a different state every weekend. Like I think I've seen more parts of this country than most Americans, I guess. And I see things going away in some parts of it. I got to visit the US when I was in the 80s and the 90s. It's not the same US that I visited in the 80s and the 90s.

It's not the same US that I visited in the 80s and the 90s. And that's my perspective from the outside, now I'm inside. And I can see things crumbling away in certain parts of just what I would perceive to be important, you know. I don't think people know what it is to live in a place where, you know, you'd rather call the cartel and the cops to sort something out. I think, well, yeah, I think in some parts of this country, you'll probably get to a point like that. I think that's coming very soon. And again, people doubted that. You know, people touted cartel presence here. There was a case of a teacher that decided to rip off a cartel house, a money house, and on the States and they, you know, the cartels went after them.

and the States and they, you know, the hotels went after them. You know, overtly went after a teacher and it made it the news and, you know, they were overtly killing people in the States. Yeah. I worked on a case years back where the cartels were dressed like ice agents, abducted Mexican nationals. They were hiding in San Diego and dragging back to Mexico. Now, if an Islamic state actor did the same thing, you would have drones flying over that border. Again, it's a dirty word, you can't call them terrorists.

Yeah, well, this is also partially the, you know, the presses fault too, because they're not covering that kind of shit. But, you know, you think something's coming sooner than later. I think there's going to be a overt cartel action, a state side within, you know, soon. That's going to show Americans in a very shocking way how deep-ling grain they're already, that they already are here. And it's probably gonna be directly related to a growing rivalry and push for control by a major cartel coming out of Mexico called the new generation cartel.

And then fighting for interest here, state side with the Cinalo cartel. Do you have any idea what kind of, where that would happen? Any idea what kind of where that would happen? You know, you could see where drugs run up into the stateside so they could happen in LA. It could happen in Dallas. It could happen in Chicago. You know, it could happen a lot of places on its way up. It could happen in Oklahoma, which is a nodule for drug and other things that are traffic both up and down into Mexico. So, the way it usually happens, and this is, you know, the people that kind of keep an eye out for

some of these things, the way corrosion worked in Mexico is this. cartels started getting involved in legal operations and legal money. Intermingling with members of industry and members of well off families. It started recruiting and bringing in some of the sons and kids of these industries to kind of basically mill themselves into the legal side of the money in some environments. Then they started putting people in through police academies at a young age and paying for people that are already on the force to basically start developing interest within police forces. Then they started investing in the career pass of lawyers, doctors, people that would have

an immigration process on state side. So now they had distribution people catching them on the other side of the border that had a vested interest in keeping because they paid for my immigration process, so now I need to work with these people. They start spreading out an influence in a region, right? And eventually, you know, they gain control over politics as well. You'll start seeing some of their tendrils go into politics as well. And you'll see a corrosion. And usually that corrosion leads into a distrust or a distrust or a corrosion of confidence in police forces.

Guess where we are here in the city. I was just gonna say that I was going to say. I lived through that down there, and I know where it leads. I thought we were ending this, but that's exactly where I was headed to is, you know, you're talking about infiltrating the police force. We are ripping the police force out. Lower standards, lower standards,

underfunding lower standards for training, neuter your police force. And that is exactly what happened in Mexico. And that is what's happening up here. Different reasons, you know, related to cameras being out and stupid people doing stupid things with a badge at some times.

And also people doing legit, justified things and stupid people giving their opinions on that justified action. Both of those things lead to corrosion and confidence. And the only people winning are not going to be, the victims of these crimes or the police. It's going to be the people that benefit from the fact that these people, the police, are not

going to have any confidence with the local populace. Or that they're going away. Or that they're not going to be called. They have defunded them. They're dismantling the police departments in certain cities. Crime is up, cartels see in opening. They are eventually going to have to rebuild that force

because it's so out of control. And that's when the cartels can slide in there and insert, you know, their members into that police force as it's being rebuilt because of the lower standards, because they have to lower the standards to beef up the department to what it... Ask around right now to all the people, you know, young guys. Who wants to be a cop right now? Nobody.

They're leaving. And ask a lot of the young people who of them watch Narcos Mexico. Yeah. Who of them knows who O'Choppo is or you know Escobar was you know. If I did a show like that glorifying, sexifying, and making Osama bin Laden kind of sexy and kind of mysterious like that and glorifying somebody's shit. When I get into trouble, if I was Netflix, probably, right? There are things that are, there are things out there culturally that are being, you know,

see some of these things and I'm like, wow, you know, that's acceptable, but this isn't acceptable over here. The corrosion and confidence in the police forces is something that I've already seen. I don't know what it leads. Underfunded, lower standards make it undesirable to be a police officer and wait for that place to go now. That's all I'm going to say. That's all the needs to be said. It makes perfect sense. But I think we'll will end it there. But man, thank you for the insight. And

if you could please send us any footage that you have, I would love to put that in this video. Yeah, I'll send you some of the material I have. And if people want to be aware of what's going on down there, there's a news source that I, that we worked closely with, called Demolair on Instagram. If people want to follow that, constantly getting censored, constantly getting some of the stuff that we post up as far as news and just reporting on the border issues. I'd like to make a petition and plead to people out there if I can, if you will allow me to.

Absolutely. We'll link it below in the description. Social media, censoring shit. Our reaction as citizens shouldn't be leaving social media. It should be fucking forcing our ways on it and figuring out ways around some of the restrictions. That is what a two-page read would do. Don't go off it, figure your way to it, and figure it around it. That's what I've been trying to do with my platforms, and I would ask people out there to be of like-minded and support those actions. There's a lot of people out there providing amazing information, there's a lot of people out there

trying to set up their own independent information, centers or spaces. I love the mindset that some of these social media giants and spaces, that's where people congregate, that's what people see, and moving off it is admitting defeat, you know? Yeah. And I'm not there.

I hope people out there will join me in not being there, just figuring out a way to make it work, figuring it out. Don't back down. That's what I want to say, if I can. I people want to learn more about my work, at SmiteFesto.com, and follow me on the social media as I'm around. You just started TikTok. How's that working out for you?

We'll see. People are doubting it, you know? Yeah. Again, I like the challenge. I like the challenge of making a form out of that work as an education tool, as an information tool. And, you know, I'm known for my humor as well, because it can all be, you know, something more, it doesn't knives, it has to, every now and then, it has to be at your wall, what dancing around or something, you know. Yeah, never losing an opportunity to make somebody smile. Well, we'll link all those, we'll link all your social media, we'll link all those we'll link all your social media we'll link everything in the description and man I just I just want to say your work is

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