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March of 2021, over 170,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border. 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 or issue. 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 overt cartel action stateside within soon. Ed,
Welcome back, 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, you know, being back. Yeah, cool. It's good to have you back, dude. Real good. Thank you for the invitation back, man. You're welcome. It was a great time last time. Me and Katie were talking right before you got here and we were just...
Dude, 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 funny because it's not about meeting new people. For me, it's finding people.
You know, like, I mean, you went through your, you know, your life choices just like I did. Yeah. 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 being around like-minded people who can relate. Yeah. Last time you...
inadvertently gave me some guidance through our conversations and uh you know i've been uh changing some life some some of my lifestyle choices because of because of some of those conversations and uh you know doing pretty well that's awesome here dude so i'm happy thank you again for that you're welcome but um 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 going to have an extremely
unique perspective and firsthand 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, U.S.-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 crossed the border.
That's the largest single month in 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 is putting out. ABC 7 in San Francisco put out on April 8th, 18,663 unaccompanied children crossed the border in March alone. That's five times more than March 2020. They're as young as 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 WhiteHouse.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 an epidemic.
Yeah, during a pandemic. 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 holding sites, more cages, as they would like to say back, you know, a few months back that all of a sudden they don't want to say the cage thing, you know, it's interesting. It's funny how it changes so fast, but I wanted to
So also as per ABC 7 San Francisco, the top three countries coming out, coming across the borders were 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 rate per capita. Yep. The highest murder rate countries as 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's 74,000 DUIs, 67,000 convictions.
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 Mexican border. So that's just that small region.
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 worked down there for 12 years working against cartels and people smugglers and organized crime. I also got to, you know, take down and
take apart certain organizations that were doing people trafficking across the border during my time active. So I bring that perspective with myself when 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 levels down 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. A legal immigrant to this country. I came here with nothing. Went through the process. It was a nightmare of a process. But somehow, someway, and just by doing things correctly, I made it.
That and also Tijuana, one of the focal points of some of these migrant 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 a sort of shield by running towards the border with the kids in their arms.
I got to see Hondurans 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, you know, 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, illegal immigration. It went down in a lot of places. Specifically, unaccompanied kids, that specific phenomenon was, you know, it wasn't really a thing. Trends went down. All of a sudden, you know, elections went how they went. And it was like a beacon that got sounded.
Things that had traditionally been understood about putting a caravan through the country all the way to the border, how it wasn't 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 the time to get in. The doors are open, now's the time to get in. Now is the moment where amnesty is going to be given to them and now is the time to send their kids if they can't make the trip themselves. Now's the time to cross themselves. So you see the migrant caravan members arriving to places like Tijuana with Biden flags, Biden t-shirts.
documentation in their native languages that tells them what to say to the immigration authorities when they meet them. Wrist wraps to denote kids, women, minors, people that have paid in full for the coyote, the smuggler to toss them over, and people that still owe
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 they had already they're ready 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, 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 some of the biggest cartel organizations in Mexico. Well, I mean, with one hundred and seventy thousand people coming over and last month alone in March.
That's depending on how depending on who they are and how much you're charging. I don't know it could be $5,000 per head You can't pay now you can pay later. And where's 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 You know, those are the two major things. So when the announcement came the elections went like they went and
the dinner bell was rang for them, right? Like this is the time. And people have to realize that a lot of those minors 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 I've posted a video, a night vision video of them basically tossing some of these minors over the border. Not just that, but some of these kids are actually being put on buses and or bused to the border from the southern border.
And some of them aren't making it out there. It's hard to file a missing persons report when you're not a Mexican national and you're crossing your way through the country. A lot of people go missing in that area. Women get looked at specifically. Women get reutilized in other means. Sex trafficking is common. And right now it's a booming business. Why? There's a lot of fresh bodies.
Everybody's under the impression that there's a permissive environment as far as crossing the border and getting the amnesty 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? Yeah, they're like, "I thought we were just going to go in."
the documentation that they some of them have is related to what they have to say whether the legal rights are you know you know how to how to how to ask for amnesty all these things and it seems like they're just coached basically like somebody is something is somebody or a group is coaching them down there as they make their way up um i mean i think uh you know
It's very concerning, but I think a lot of people are extremely concerned that 170,000 people crossed the border last month illegally, and that's an issue in itself. But, you know,
Just like anybody people don't let a good crisis go to waste. Oh, no, no What are the cartels doing and who are they smuggling? So how many people made it across the border a hundred 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? Yeah, 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-laced stuff. There's not weed bundles that have in those backpacks. 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'm a transnational cartel dedicated to moving drugs across the border, this is golden. This is a golden hour. It's a golden hour for me. I'm making money not just off the people crossing the border, and I'm basically paying them a toll and actually selling some of them into slavery 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, then you know, or if you're pretty, you know, they'll use you for something else. Yeah. People have to realize that it's not just the humanitarian crisis on that border with people coming through. There's also people going missing down 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. And
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 a killing financially on putting people across that border. Busing people, moving people through Mexico up to the border wall and taxing them for protection.
Selling them their, you know, a lot of these irregular 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 Tijuana. They had to close the school because of all the needles they 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 looking for a better life, but I don't 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 their 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, but 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 bussed up or utilizing some of the trade networks or just walking, right?
you hear rumors and stories about a group of 70 kids that turned into a group of 40 before they made it to the border. Or a group of kids that had an intermix of women, females, and males in the group of minors. And all the females went missing. And these are all stories that they say, things that show up on social media, things that are shared by rumors on Facebook.
But then you go and see the camps directly and then you kind of hear the stories about some of the people there are there are staying there and you hear some of this these hey, where's this? You know these people just I think they probably went across or I mean because they're not here and they left their stuff They probably saw an opportunity went across or they're just gone. So there's there's they don't have any idea where the hell they are There's no accountability. It's a group of people are regularly moving through a country trying to get into another and
If you're a predator, that's a prime hunting ground 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 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 hell of a lot of opportunity, you know? It's a...
It's disheartening 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 going forward, I figured my way into having a little bit of something, right?
Americans are going down there, giving them clothing, food, all of the tents that they have set up are 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 down there as well so they can make a little money. That's how they support themselves. But realistically, a lot of it gets turned into things that are taxed.
for them, right? 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 it 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. And 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. And, you know, again, as a country, you made a major investment in that border wall.
And that's a great investment, I guess, for some people that are very about the wall and build a 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 manned that wall through border protection, right? Yeah.
Again, it's prime time for these people. You have, you know, the coop is unguarded. It's the now or never attitude. 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 coyote or a people smuggler. And that people smuggler will get, let's see, a group of them and they will charge them a percentage of 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 owes. This is a minor. This is going to be... They're going to pay us for him when he gets across. She's interesting. Let's put another band on her. Like, they mean something. And...
It's interesting to see that a lot of the minors that show up on the border are 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 the news, 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? Why don't you see a lot of them in these groups?
um mexico has a tendency to eat and make people disappear 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 crisis ratio it's a machine that basically is rejoicing with the way the border is currently you know for those uh that are listening on the
aren't reading between the lines here they're being sold into the sex trade some of them are being sold into sex trade uh some of them are being sold into local mexican sex markets that they're because that's there's a lot of them out there as well um 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 goes. Do you think that there are
Do you think they see a golden opportunity as well as we're going to beef up our presence in the United States? During COVID, a very specific cartel did that. During the COVID epidemic, the New Generation cartel is the one that grew up exponentially during the Holma crisis down there. And the reason it did is because it 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 an operation stateside that caught a bunch of them, like 80 of them. 80 of them? 80 members of that cartel operating stateside.
But 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 a while. It's not fighting back the cartels down there. They're transnational. They're here already. They're set up. The networks they're setting up are here.
Meanwhile, stateside, there's a corrosion of confidence in the police. There's cancel the police. There's a crisis, a looming crisis, an economic crisis that's going to turn into a really weird opiate that's going to even ramp up the opiate epidemic that's probably living through in this country. And again, it's golden hour. It's a golden hour of opportunity for a very specific type of people that are just poised and they're 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. There's pictures of me in those camps. Yeah Can I just go down there and you can you can just you can just uh, just walk around and be very sure and
that if you take a dollar out and give it to somebody you're going to be swarmed. Also interesting and since I walked into one of the camps, one of the camps actually set up in a federal space, a federal Mexican federal property space, right before you go into the pedestrian crosswalk into San Ysidro. And I was kicked out of there by them. Really? Yeah, they were like, "Hey, you can't be here." Like, I can't be here? Why?
Yeah, you can't be here. It's for the safety of the children. You can't be here. You're camped out in the middle of this open public space. 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 U.S. 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 that have absolutely no, you know, they're not, they have no fault in the situation, right?
So people are getting agitated, you know, violence against and negative feelings towards some of these caravan members and immigrants is rising. You know, you start to see, you know, just like last time, you know, last time this happened, the locals started getting really aggressive and they activated the local immune system, which is some of these cartel organizations that have control over the area.
And you're starting to see some push and pull when it comes to that in that area. It's a crisis. 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 unaccompanied. They don't realize that that kid had to go through the whole country, sometimes a few countries to get there. And what they saw...
And what they survived to get to that point is unimaginable to most Americans. And also, who didn't make it? Yeah. Where are those numbers? Mexico can't keep track of its own dead and own missing, much less people coming without any documentation from the outside. From further south. From further south and going into some of these trafficking routes all the way up to the border, which are notorious for people just go missing. Yeah.
So, again, it's like people really need to kind of see what they're supporting when it comes to some of these things. So all these unaccompanied 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. I'm just curious, and I'm sure there's a legitimate reason, but why aren't the parents accompanying them?
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 tactic 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 a selfish act. I mean, if you think about it, 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 that are fleeing violence in their native countries.
he gets protective status and if he gets through, 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 called chain migration. Chain migration, classic case of chain migration, which is again, Latin America isn't the only one doing chain migration in this country.
But the way they're doing it is risky for the people that are doing it. And it's feeding an industry that then pumps in a bunch of fentanyl-laced heroin into this country as well, which should 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.
Damn. So the reaction to this mass migration is they are feeding, which nobody could have, I guess, I mean...
Well, yeah, you could have predicted this, but 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 them as drug mules. Golden hour, again, because if the Border Patrol is tied up with people, they're not going to 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 drug tunnels still active out there. So, again, it's golden hour. It's like...
Right, this is this is what's going on right now. No, there's like There's a chance there's a chance right now there's a chance right and it's because of politics, you know 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 it's weird for me since I'm a son of a
border son and I could 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 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 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 missing. A lot of people are going to end up in that desert. A lot of people are going to 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 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 during one of these migrant encampments, I met a lady who was from Michoacan. She was fleeing cartel violence in Michoacan. She had two minors with her.
just like babies and she was living in a tent they were eating a roasted chicken that they were trying to make last and it's it was pretty past it's you know they were trying I uh I feel for them you know I gave them some money you know on the download so I wouldn't get swarmed um I heard their story and I I feel for them but uh 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 U.S. doesn't want to recognize them as such for a 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 asylum.
So you see these groups causing a disruptive change and people being displaced by moving out. What's the solution there? Build a fence? Put more people on the border? You can line up all of the Marines on Camp Pendleton on that border, and you did for a while during the Trump administration. That's not going to 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 and you know what's interesting here in the u.s is uh we're defunding the police yeah and so when you see 170 000 people come across i mean you said they were catching uh just a minute ago 80 people 80 cartel members at a time crossing
Now we have, and last year that was 30,000 people in March. Now there's 170,000 people coming across one year later in one month. They know that we're defunding police in 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 was moved around. Guns were moved around. Drugs were moved 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 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 U.S. 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 whole states. There's places where they can't fly over because they'll get knocked down by, you know, cartel artillery, right? The Kul Diakonasa, what happened in Sinaloa, 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 stacks? The cartels? Bet on one of the cartels? Interesting theory somebody said once. If the U.S. really wants to protect its southern border,
It's not going to ask for help for the Mexican government. Think about that. Who would you ask for help if you were the U.S. if you wanted to keep that border secure? I would ask our military. I mean, that's who you would ask. On the Mexican side, you'd probably have to ask the cartels because those are guys that are in control. 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. That's every month. Shootouts in the middle of the street. 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 the legal industry and the legal industry. They're transnational. They're everywhere from northern Africa to Europe.
to like there's been cases of some scene along cartel members arrested in places as far off as Australia and the Philippines. So I guess what I'm I guess what I'm getting at is are they are they specifically targeting those cities because they're weak and they see opportunity. It's ownership. It's ownership. It's ownership. So the way they operate in places like Chicago, Seattle, stuff like that, they run
They run the product and locals distribute for them. They utilize motorcycle gangs as well across the country. So they just put the product and distribute. Now I think when the change is going to come, it's going to be hard to kind of 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 Sinaloa. The next fight for control with Sinaloa is going to be stateside. It's already happening in small pockets here in the States.
An overt cartel presence in the States is like I'm talking about an unarmed 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. LA bank robbery shooting type change. You think that's going to happen soon? Sooner than 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 porous borders created by the current border crisis, by an inept government in Mexico, federal government in Mexico, and just an inept government 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 Americans need to realize, the U.S. has been outsourcing not only its border protection policies to Mexico, but its drug fighting policies to Mexico. All of this, the U.S. through its tax dollars pays for guns, equipment, wages, training to cops and military personnel in Mexico. Which are owned by the cartels.
And also, if you're not auditing that money, I mean, if you were investing in that outsourcing and the money's still going down there, the border 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 ever. And you're still sending money down there to pay for it. They're not demanding any results.
you know audit again if people want to make a change you know 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 i remember uh being part of a program of uh of cops that went to coronado and we were trained in you know uh
anti-terrorism executive protection medical like a lot of things like we were pretty that was an investment in us we felt amazing about it went down there did the work um some of some of the people that i worked with went crooked you know some of them didn't you know i got out um but it was always amazing to me that there was never any kind of follow-up follow-up or follow-through as far as accountability to to like
So, okay, thank you, we trained you to go out there and do whatever you do. 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 have a global enemy right now, a rival with China. China is visibly and clearly in Mexico.
And that is again, big elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about as well. - 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.
You can't make this shit up. Can both of us agree that smuggling massive amounts of meth precursors and fentanyl out of China would be nearly impossible if we were a criminal enterprise based in China? Yeah. Can we agree upon that? Yeah. 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 the Chinese state knowing. So once we 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 Americans stateside? I mean, I think they're definitely in it for the long play. 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 on the other hand, you know, they're doing it. And again, it's...
It's surreal, disheartening, and people are like, "Hey, what do you talk about? Are you worried about talking about some of these things?" I came up here to seek out that American dream, which I know is real. I've been seeing elements of it. And I'm worried about it. I'm worried about the future. What future am I going to create for myself and my family up here? When we talk about things to worry about in the future, those things have happened to me and my country.
So when I'm up here saying some of these things, it's not me. It's me warning you about things that I've seen happen already. 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 a region or a zone.
American law enforcement will laugh at that. They're not laughing anymore. And now there were legit parts of this country that had no police force to respond to an emergency, right? And we had autonomous zones set up and governments that permitted that. I think as a country, you shouldn't laugh at that anymore. You should kind of, you know, this is...
I quote Alan Watts a lot. I like listening to Alan Watts. Pretty interesting character. A bit of a hippie in whatever backstory he has. Kind of weird. But 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. It lasted a long time. Everything was great. Everything was good. Everything was bountiful.
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? Think of the snake in 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. 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 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 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 depression and shit like that.
It's an amazing place to be. And the things that are leaving us or that are going away, some of the main reasons why I came up here, like personal freedoms, like personal responsibilities, not just freedoms, because every freedom comes with a responsibility. And I'm very invested in those responsibilities up here. It's disheartening to me to see communities just giving some of those freedoms away and some of those responsibilities, you know, but the government sorted it out.
Why do you need guns? Police will come. This whole current push for gun control and having conversations with people about gun control, my perspective on it. Wait till somebody rolls up to your house and asks for your purdue starter so they can take it 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, you 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 what is your charity doing down there? There's a... In Tijuana, you said? Yeah, we started a charity on the southern side of it.
I've been gathering funds for people stateside for a while, the 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 and the narrow. People are still in the fight. I had a moment recently where I had a need, 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 of fallen agents and military members down there is almost non-existent. How long have you been
Is this a new venture that you're on? We've been working on it for the past three months. The cause is called Niños Perdidos, 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 the straight and narrow. So we support them with training and equipment if we can.
and specifically donations in the form of financial donations for some of the kids that some of these agents left behind after they passed away due to work related situations. Included 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 worked for the same office that I worked with, and her mom were killed outside of their house. Killed by
two young men wielding FN-57s that were part of the Fast and 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 forgotten kids that are out there, you know? Like, it's hard to move forward when you have some of that stuff behind you. So I've been slowly kind of making my way back to them.
well that's solid are you ready to receive donations are you still uh 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 uh we're already working with uh with uh with the association attached to that that that works down south uh but we're gonna have some uh some updates pretty soon when we go live with it and so people can see where their money goes uh they can attach uh um
a face to who they're gonna help and stuff like that. We're trying to have that out for people that want to help out. - That's awesome. We'll be helping out. - That'd be 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 vigilanceelite.com, pick yourself up one of these sweet shirts. And if you're lucky, maybe these hats will be in stock too.
So talking with you earlier, you had mentioned that your old boss or was he your commander? He was one of my directors that I used to work under. He's now a fugitive. He's a fugitive of justice right now. 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
Actually, the people that actually made a difference in Mexico was when it comes to fighting some of these cartels. Lieutenant Colonel Lezaola is his name. If people want to find out more about him, there's a documentary on him, I think, out there. Lieutenant Colonel Lezaola was instrumental in basically bringing back Tijuana from the brink. And when I mean from the brink, I mean Tijuana was going to be a...
a Vietnam type era space, you know? That's what it was gonna turn into if somebody like him didn't 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 gonna 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 border, on this side of the border. They want to fight it as a policing problem when it really is an insurgency on several fronts against a 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 torturer 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 him, I worked 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. He is a hard enemy, if that is what you choose him to be. The last attempt at his life, because he had several assassination attempts on his life, including a fake military convoy doing a road lock 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. - Of Tijuana? - He wants to be a mayor of Tijuana.
The powers that be in Mexico, again, Mexico is a failed state. Current political climate in Mexico is very to the left. There's an open Chavista supporter in the presidency in Mexico right now in the form of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It's a leftist federal government right now. And people like Leyza Ola who represent Mexico
The other side of the political spectrum in Mexico, which is you know again political to the right conservative political spectrum that will create or transform a Place that they would govern just like the Juana then they're pulling out all the stops against people like that. You know I'm just curious does it does the government even matter anymore or down there or is it just an extension of the cartel I
It matters where it has control, and that is getting smaller and smaller every day. Also, a lot of these criminal organizations down there not only own infrastructure in some places, they are involved in legitimate businesses that intertwine with politicians' legitimate businesses. So they're intertwined, they're in control.
You know, the U.S. 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 or equivalent of a secretary of defense.
And you arrested him in the United States in an unprecedented move that the U.S. has 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 him 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 their, we're paying and training some of the military down there. And again, what results are we getting as a country? Again, if people want to know what to do, like what can Joe, regular Joe Blow, or whatever you want to call him out there, do? Accountability. If you have a representative,
Accountability for what your tax are doing down there. We have been paying for that drug war for how long and it's getting worse not better Yeah, so what's wrong with that relationship and we've been supporting the government down there and the government has consistently proven to be on the take and part of the problem so I'm not I'm not telling you what the solution is, but I think part of the solution is a to 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 i think it's just people have it so good here you know out of sight out of mind they don't want to 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 know, hang out with family. They don't see any traumatic anything. And that's the way it's supposed to be. That's good. We put a lot of work into that. You know, protecting that. And 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. I see things going away.
In some parts of it. Yeah, I got to 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 No, that's my perspective the perspective from the outside now I'm inside and I can see things crumbling away in certain parts of you know, just what I would perceive to be important, you know, I
I don't think people know what it is to live in a place where you would rather call the cartel than the cops to sort something out. 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 in the States. And they, you know, the cartels went after him, you know, overtly went after a teacher and it made 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 that were hiding in San Diego and dragging them 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 press's 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 an overt cartel action stateside within, you know, soon that's going to show Americans in a very shocking way how deeply ingrained they already are here. And it's probably going to 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 stateside with the Sinaloa cartel. Do you have any idea where that would happen? You know, you could see where drugs run up into stateside. So that could happen in LA. It could happen in Dallas. It could happen in Chicago. It could happen in a lot of places on its way up. It could happen in Oklahoma, which is a nodule for drug and...
other things that are trafficked both up and down into Mexico. So the way it usually happens, and this is, you know, just people to 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 meld 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 paths of lawyers, doctors, people that would have an immigration process on stateside. 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 building a, they start spreading out an influence in the 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 state? I was just going to 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 down. Lower standards, lower standards, underfunding, lower standards for training, neuter your police force. Yeah. 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, you know, the victims of these crimes or the police. You know, it's going to be the people that benefit from the fact that these people don't, the police are not going to have any confidence with the local populace. Yeah. 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're 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 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 I ask a lot of the young people, who of them watch Narcos Mexico? Who of them knows who El Chapo is or Escobar was? 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 some of this shit, would I get into trouble if I was Netflix? Probably, right?
There are things out there culturally that are being, you see some of these things and like, 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 and I know where it leads. Underfunded, lower standards, make it undesirable to be a police officer and wait for that place to go to hell. That's all I'm gonna say. - That's all that needs to be said.
that makes perfect sense but i think we'll we'll end it there but um man ed thank you for the insight and um if you could please send us any footage that you have i would love to put that in this video yeah i'll i'll send you some of the material i have and uh if people want to be aware of what's going on down there
There's a news source 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 a plea 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 patriot would do. Don't go off it. Figure your way onto 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'm of 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. I'm not there.
and hopefully people out there will join me not being there just figuring out a way to make it work and figuring it out um don't back down that's what i want to say if i can people want to learn more about my work you know edsmanifesto.com and follow me on the on the social medias i'm around you just started tiktok how's that working out for you we'll see people are doubting it you know yeah yeah
Again, I like the challenge. I like the challenge of making a form out of work as an education tool, as an information tool. And I'm known for my humor as well, because it can't all be Santa Muertes and knives. Every now and then there has to be a Chihuahua dancing around or something. I'll never lose an opportunity to make somebody smile.
Well, we'll link all those. We'll link all your social media. We'll link everything in the description. And, man, I just want to say your work is phenomenal. Thank you. Thank you. I love what you're doing. And as always, I hope to see you again. And, you know, best of luck in all your endeavors. We'll see you out there. See you out there, man. All right.
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