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Tim Kennedy argues that the current migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border is significantly more severe than public perception suggests, citing a stark discrepancy between reported interception numbers and actual crossings. While approximately 300,000 individuals were stopped in December alone, Kennedy asserts this represents only a small fraction of those who successfully entered without detection due to the sheer porosity of the border region spanning thousands of miles along rivers like the Rio Grande. He illustrates that law enforcement resources are hopelessly outnumbered by organized criminal networks; for instance, if 1,000 immigrants cross at one point while authorities deploy only a handful of troops to manage chokepoints and funnel people into processing areas, cartels simultaneously exploit other locations upriver or downriver with boats carrying trafficked individuals from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Kennedy describes a coordinated cartel operation where agents deliberately endanger children by throwing them into rivers or tripping fathers holding their offspring on shoulders, rendering traditional counter-interdiction efforts ineffective against such calculated brutality. The nature of these crossings has evolved under cartel control, transforming migration routes into sophisticated revenue streams that require no production costs for the criminals involved. Kennedy explains how cartels have established physical and psychological barriers in Mexico, utilizing color-coded wristbands to designate specific departure points where paying migrants are allowed passage while others face execution if they attempt unauthorized entry without a "ticket." This system allows legitimate asylum seekers fleeing violence in Central America or cartel persecution to be funneled into the US only after paying fees, creating an endless cycle of profit for traffickers. Kennedy emphasizes that this is not merely a border issue but a national crisis exacerbated by federal policies perceived as encouraging open borders; he notes recent executive changes allowing migrants caught at the border to claim asylum and wait months in their home countries or origin nations before hearing dates are set, effectively removing penalties for illegal entry and incentivizing mass migration. Tensions between state and federal authorities have escalated into a direct conflict over jurisdictional control of the southern frontier. Kennedy highlights Operation Lone Star, where Texas utilizes National Guard soldiers to secure its border using fencing, razor wire, horseback patrols, drones, and sensors, only to face opposition from federal agencies that claim these barriers violate federal law by restricting access at ports of entry. This standoff creates a chaotic environment where federal agents dismantle barricades erected by state officials who argue they are protecting their land when the national government refuses to close the border. Kennedy points out that while states like California and Arizona bear the brunt of this humanitarian crisis, other regions remain passive until overwhelmed, leading him to conclude that without decisive action to finish walls in impassable areas with armed guards and advanced technology, the situation remains unfixable under current political will. The human cost of these failures is illustrated through disturbing incidents involving violence against law enforcement and dangerous behavior by individuals entering illegally. Kennedy recounts a horrific video from New York where immigrants attacked NYPD officers during an attempted arrest, escalating to soccer-kicking police who were grappling on the ground, which he views as foreshadowing future domestic instability if more trained actors do not enter the country. He also references recent news footage of terrorists with ties to Gitmo walking freely across the border and bragging about their identities being revealed later, alongside stories of deportees refusing to sit down on planes due to gangland involvement. Kennedy contends that these events are direct consequences of a lack of resources for the Department of State and White House policies that prioritize processing numbers over security, leaving ports of entry overwhelmed and unable to handle the surge in people flooding across without proper vetting or penalties.
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what's happening on the US Mexico border
at the moment you spent some time down
there give me the I think was it in
December
300,000 potential uh immigrants was
stopped that was the number that were
stopped yeah yeah yeah but the getaways
is the number that nobody talks about so
300,000 people were stopped and then let
in how many weren't stopped how many
just got in is it more than 300,000 what
do you think oh yeah 100% know it's more
than 300,000 so like the number of
people that we caught is going to be a
small fraction of the of the number of
people that made it across without being
stopped when you look at the vastness of
that border and where the wall is where
our ports of Entry are um where the
river is it it is porous beyond belief
you can I I've crossed that border like
25 times in a week both sides like you
know like Mexico you like my phone says
welcome to Mexico like it's going to
cost you $10 a day to be here welcome to
the international program via Verizon
and I come back I like hey welcome back
to the United States I'm like they can
do this all day long so the ones that
we're catching the the ones that we
catch compared to the ones that make it
through is a very very small fraction
the ones that really don't want to be
caught the way the cartel will push a
bunch of people that they know are going
to get caught because if you just think
of a
the okay I'm the commander I have X
number of resources I have 100 troops my
disposal of course I want to do counter
interdiction so I want to stop drugs I
want to stop human traffickers I want to
stop um sex enslavement I want to stop W
um weapon
smuggling as I'm at the river in Del Rio
and I have a thousand immigrants cross
at one time how many of myund soldiers
do I need to use to deal with those
thousand
people all right so I have one guy
receiving right I'm going put them into
lines I I I make some choke points I
funnel them into a spefic specific area
I use some constantina wire to make sure
like I have an orderly way 50 guys 75
guys right so now I have 50 to to 25
guys left for me to use and I have this
entire area that I have to be covering
but the moment those people start coming
across the river there's the same time
that Five Guys jump into the river with
bundles on their back and then another
five miles up the river two boats get
pushed across with a bunch of Middle
Eastern and Eastern ukra Eastern
European guys that are being smuggled
and trafficked across and then 5 miles
down the river there a bunch of young
girls they're 11 or 12 they're going
back into Mexico that they kidnapped in
El
Paso okay what the whole thing's
coordinated tell me how to distribute my
La remaining 25 guys also the Thousand
that start coming across the cartel
dudes are just going to grab a couple of
little girls and throw them in the river
they're going to grab a baby and drop it
in the drink they're going to take a dad
and just trip him with a kid on his
shoulders and they're all drowning do
you want my soldiers to jump in with
body armor to start swimming after them
this is the reality every single single
day across the whole entire River and it
is the largest border in the world in
the world is our border on our Southern
border Canadia Canada to the north
gigantic border Mexico border to the
South need to stop those Canadians
coming in that's the important thing
that no one's talking about those guys I
I got hopes for their next election
though okay yeah yeah yeah so can you
explain you know for the people who
haven't been down to the Mexico border
what is the is it all
uh demarked in some form or another is
there some type of or are the elements
or it's literally just this is a piece
of land and you can wander across a lot
Texas has mostly private land um so that
the border is on somebody's ranch right
fantastic yeah hey guys welcome in in
some cases but I mean those ranchers th
the the cartel charges is well we'll say
like a ticket so if you want yourself
and your family to come across your your
um Ecuador right now kind of spicy
cartel's took the whole entire thing
over I'm not sure if you saw two weeks
ago they were like they were killing
News hosts in the news station while
they were on the street killing a bunch
of people in the street and targeting
government officials and judges and it
was happening like in real time live on
the news so you have legitimate Asylum
Seekers that are on the run from cartels
they move through Central America and
they come up to the Mexico border they
pay the cartels
to allow them to Cross or they pay them
extra to facilitate them coming across
um this is an
endless cycle of revenue for the cartels
like it costs them nothing to produce
they don't have to smuggle in drugs they
don't have to kidnap anybody people are
just walking to them and they they on
the South Side have created barriers
where you can't cross without permission
and if you don't pay them they'll kill
you so there's there's in some cases
physical barriers and in some cases
psychological barriers where you know if
you point this part like this point of
departure you'll be executed without uh
a wristband like your ticket I could
show you what those wristbands look like
those wristbands color coordinated kind
of tell you I got a round trip I have
multi-rip I have single Direction I'm
allowed to go through this area it's
super sophisticated super sophisticated
all color coordinated and across the on
the southern side all uh agreed between
this cartel that's working with this
group with this cartel with these
traffickers
and it's it's Unstoppable the way that
we're currently try to fight it fighting
it it's just we're not going to win what
is a way that would make it
stoppable so when the Chinese built the
Great
Wall um they recognized that any
barricade without observation isn't a
barricade so I can build a wall but if
there's not something there observing
that thing it's not really a barricade
because I can do whatever I need to do
to get over that barricade and there's
nothing to stop me um so there's like
all problems there's not a single
solution
unfortunately the wall creates choke
points it forces people to go through
specific areas and in those specific
areas uh we can set up to interdict
those people now there's a misconception
that there is
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this barrier stopping people from
Crossing there's not and additionally
there are ports of Entry there are legal
places where anybody to include people
like Mexicans can just walk across the
border they can walk up and say hey I'm
going to be working here's my Visa or
I'm going to be working at this Ranch my
mom lives across the street and you know
some of those borders when they were set
some families lived on this side some
families lived on this side and they've
been going back and forth all the time
um but there's s there are so many
hundreds of thousands of people that
have flooded these areas that it creates
a human humanitarian crisis and it
creates this logistical problem of how
as we the United States government and
Department of State how do we process
this number of people we we we can't um
which is what exactly what the cartel
wants and the surges that happen from
the executive level so the white house
right now they changed some policies and
the ward gets out that it's open borders
everybody comes and everybody's coming
what was the words that got out that
made it seem like it was open borders
you get money money when you cross you
know we'll give you a couple thousand
doar we'll give you a bus ticket to the
Inland um we'll throw you on a plane and
bring you to the city that you want to
go to um
will instead of you if you're an asylum
Seeker when during the Trump era for
example if you came in and you were
caught uh an asylum Seeker that just
crosses um they'll then just on the
Inland be like hey I'm looking for
residency here um if they're stopped on
the border they'll claim that they're
Asylum Seekers well we would make that
person wait either at the country of
their Crossing or the country of their
origin for their case for their Asylum
case to be heard now they get a date
come back in like six months or 12
months to your court hearing for you to
learn about the process of your your
Asylum case uh so there's there's only
motivation for everyone to come here to
the border and then they get an
automatic pass in because there's no
penalty that's right it's like Universal
Asylum what's happening with these
detention centers that was a big news
story a couple of years ago they they've
always been there um like there there
are more detention centers and larger
detention C centers during Obama than
there were Trump um that's kind of a
play of numbers though because so few
people tried to cross during Trump
because they knew that they're going to
be kicked back to their country of
origin um you know just a couple of days
ago in New York did you see the video of
the immigrants that were attacking the
NYPD officers oh this is
horrific the police were trying to deal
with a small problem with involving a
bunch of immigrants and the immigrants
attacked the two police officers the two
police officers end up grappling on the
ground against a couple of them and then
the whole entire crowd came up and
started Soccer kicking the police
officers and it turns into like this I
mean it's It's A Hard video to watch I'm
actually about to post it today uh cuz I
wanted to get some more context as to
like what was the initial call why were
they there like they were there doing
the right thing they're they're actually
crimes being committed and they were
there to like try and keep the peace as
good police officers and then it was
escalated not on their end but on the
illegals end and then they ended up
getting like skull
stomped this is foreshadowing of what's
going to be coming like this this is
just a tiny little taste like th those
are just immigrants th those weren't
even Bad actors that were trained in our
hoping for an opportunity to do America
damage cuz tens of thousands of them
came into this country over the past
couple of years did you see that video
of a bunch of people on a plane refusing
to sit down because someone was being
deported yeah and it turned out that
that person had been involved in
Gangland shootouts and all manner of
yeah 10 days ago uh live news near Eagle
Pass another common Texas yeah another
common smuggling
Point uh this News host is talking about
all the immigrants coming across and
this guy in in pretty decent English
walks up behind he goes you don't know
who I am but you're going to know my
name and you're like what is going on
here facial recognition ties this guy to
82% that he is a multi-time terrorist
that was in gitmo and he just walked
across the border he's live on
television as this terrorist just walks
into America America and is bragging
that everybody's going to know his name
that was that was almost two and a half
two weeks ago a week and a half ago what
would you do what would you do to try
and fix this problem you've mentioned
that you need to have presumably more
Staffing more uh funding to be able to
train people up to be able to do this so
this isn't a
border state problem this is a ntion
this is a national problem right so the
governor of Texas is using State
resources he he approved operation Lone
Star which is using Texas National Guard
soldiers to protect the border so he is
using tons of tech of State funding to
to protect the Texas border it's not
just the Texas border this is America's
border but a whole bunch of you know
most of California Arizona New Mexico
Texas um are bearing the burden of this
immigration humanitarian crisis but the
other 30 6 states are kind of or the
other 46 states are just kind of like
hanging back being like H sucks to be
you guys but then we we bust a couple
bus loads up to them they're like oh my
God we're like being overwhelmed I'm
like we sent you 500 of them do you know
what it's like when you have 300,000
that just came across your border that
are in your country um what would I do I
would finish the wall um I would make
certain areas impassible that's
constantina wire um that is armed guards
that that is um men on
Horseback the Epic photo of those border
patrol guys that he was actually using
his leads and they thought it was a whip
because people are idiots and they
actually don't know how to ride a horse
um
sensors drones we have the solutions
this is a fixable thing we just don't
have yet again the appetite to do what
it takes to close that border once The
Border's closed we open the ports of
Entry Department of State funds and
Department of State is doing the best
they can with the very restricted
resources they have so imagine like the
White House is telling the Department of
State hey you have to be be to be doing
this department States like we don't
have the resources and we don't have the
means to facilitate this number of
people but then the White House is like
hey everybody come over here and
Department State's like we can't so
these ports of Entry have to be opened
and the systems have to be fixed for us
to be able to process more people in a
more um strategic way didn't someone
ripped down a turn of razor wire wasn't
that a big deal like last week two weeks
ago so the federal government is there's
there's a competing efforts at the at
the border right now so Texas is saying
The Border's closed and the federal
government's saying no the the borders
open so the federal government is coming
down to the barricades and the barriers
that Texas has put up and said we you
can't have those that goes against
federal law and Texas is saying no you
can't do that like this is Texas Land
and we are close in the borders so if
you're not going to close the American
borders we're going to close the Texas
border um yeah they literally like
federal law enforcement is coming in and
doing the opposite of what the Texas law
enforcement is doing wild in other news
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