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The Southern Border ... How Bad Is It? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  And we now moved to the third hour of the morning show with Preston Scott.
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  I'm Preston. That is Grant Allen. Great to be working with you
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  today and thrilled to have with us on the program. He's our first guest
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  post lightning strike on the phone lines. Jesus Ride Reguez better than two decades
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  serving the United States as a United States Border Patrol Agent, now retired.
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  Jesus, thank you as always for serving our country. How are you,
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  brother? Good morning is very good? Yourself? Who first guest after the
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  lightning strike? Come on and look at you beating the birds up once again
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  in Arizona. Yep, it's a great morning. Out of here, great
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  data. I'm walking on the grass. That's a good that's a good thing.
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  I was gonna say, you sound like you're outside, man, Yeah,
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  I am. I'm outside whether it's probably sixty six and it's nice and
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  cool. Get get going the day already. Let me guess you're you're outside
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  patrolling the neighborhood for illegals entering your your space. No, actually not,
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  believe it or not. They're all headed out of here. They're all going
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  to those big cities. You know, they're going back east and wherever else
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  the need to go to. So no, they're just passing through here,
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  leaving and take getting their cell phones and moving on. I didn't get a
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  chance to ask you the last time we talked, how different are things in
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  Arizona now that Katie Hobbs is the governor. Well, you know what,
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  what I understand is that when she came into office, she directed, uh,
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  I'm not sure which office to start them in all of those those uh
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  contic boxes that Governor Douce he had put up right and so uh and so
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  they started to remove them in And so I mean, traffic is traffic right
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  before titled forty two was just wild and crazy. Aught of people from Mauritania,
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  Egypt, a lot of Sikhs, a lot of Indians from the country
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  of India. I mean, just a variety of everything. I mean it
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  was there. There were a couple of ages to saying Nigos. When did
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  you when did we ever apprehend people from you know, the continent, from
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  different continents, like I said, never and so that and tons of Chinese
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  nationals too. So I mean it just opened up the floodgates, it really
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  did. And so that's what they were dealing with on a daily basis,
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  and some stations were just I mean, it was ridiculous. And then they
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  were just basically they were basically just a shuttle service, if you will.
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  And that was because of the ending of Title forty two. Right before titled
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  forty two, there was just a humongous wave of people. I mean it
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  was I would, you know, I would look at some of the pictures
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  of guys that sent me like geez, Louise, it's just crazy. But
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  you know what, President, here's what what what um what I what I
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  saw is that people talk about people coming in illegally, but you should see
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  the environmental damage that's that they're leaving behind, not only on our side,
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  but on the Mexican side. I mean tons and tons of trash, clothes,
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  luggage, I mean, you name it, it's out there. I
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  mean, and we're talking like in the Apua area there by Lukeville Port of
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  Entry. There is a ton of garbage out there that I mean, it's
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  an environmental disaster. I mean, you know, it's they just left to
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  behind. It was just dump it there and walk away. Before I well,
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  let me follow up first, So what are what are residents of the
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  State of Arizona. Thinking about Governor Hobbs's decision to remove barriers and make it
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  easier for illegals to enter the State of Arizona. Well, as you can
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  imagine, most people are not happy with it. Of course, you have,
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  you know, you have the other the other side that doesn't say much
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  about it at all, and they're just kind of keeping quiet about the evil
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  planning under the radar. But you know, there's a large, you know,
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  group of people they're just not happy with it. But you know,
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  and that's that's one of the issues out here. So I mean, you
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  have to kind of pick your pick what what issue you want to see with,
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  but that's that's one of them out here as well. The Morning Show
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  with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven WUFLA thove minutes after the
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  hour, Jus Rodriguez, United States Border Patrol Agent, retired our guests here
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  this morning on the radio program. He's just I'm just curi As you mentioned
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  that your former colleagues are talking about the influx of people entering this country illegally
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  not going through the immigration process, which is you know, I understand tired
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  and laborers and filled with difficult challenges, but other countries that normally aren't seen
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  in numbers, What does what does that inform you about the relative awareness of
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  our national policies or lack thereof, and how people around the world are following
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  what's going on. I mean in talking in previous you know years when you
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  would get these large influx of people from these different countries, it's because they
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  would get you know, they would be apprehended by the word choyagens out in
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  the field. And then once they got to those detention camps and again we're
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  talking number of years ago, you know that they were cut loose. The
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  words read fast and I mean it went fast before you knew you were dealing
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  with multiple you know, groups of those of those people from those sending countries.
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  And you know I saw with people from Brazil, uh, you know,
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  from different different countries like that that you would just get you know a
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  number of them like that Polish nationals believe it or not, you know pastal
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  So I mean, once you you know, they got cut loose, it
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  just opened up the floodgates. But what what shut the floodgates down is once
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  they started to shipp them back to their sending country. That would end it.
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  In this case, they're not sending them back. They're coming in and
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  they're staying. I'm so words bread fast. Social media it plays a big,
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  big role that cartels. I mean what explained to me is that when
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  some of these groups would come up to the border and they would get taken
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  off the bus and they were giving different um like different color braces that you
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  will, and they would be directed for certain certain groups and that that group
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  would take or that car stuff member or that smuggler would take that group to
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  a certain spot along the border, and that's what they would cross. So
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  it's it's an assembly line. They know exactly what they're doing and how to
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  do it. I was just curious about that, Zeus even I mean maybe
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  naively. I'm thinking immigrants from Central South America certainly Mexico. No, the
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  cartels kind of hold sway here. But those immigrants from India and China and
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  these other countries they have. Are the cartels controlling all of the trafficking,
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  trafficking of illegal immigrants into this country? Oh yeah, I would say so
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  present, because you have to go I mean, how else are they gonna
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  traverse from let's they coming into Mexico and get up to the southern border.
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  I mean there's there's there's always someone you know, wanting to make a buck.
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  And and you know, like I said, ward spreads fast. I
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  mean we see it in the past where you know, you get a group
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  of illegal aliens out there and you know, or or they would leave somebody
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  behind and it was a group that that had, you know, made contact
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  with a smuggler, and that smuggler put him in contact with somebody else,
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  and so that's how it went. I mean, even it's it's everybody takes
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  a cut of the money along the way, because it's it's a very organized
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  um group. And so it starts from wherever the sending country is, all
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  the way to where wherever route they take, all the way up to the
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  southern border, all the way across the other border, and all the way
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  into wherever they're you know, into the United States, wherever they're headed to.
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  So even if even if we're dealing with people that are trying to come
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  into the country the right way or have justifiable reasons for trying to get into
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  America, the cartels have their finger their hands in all of it. I
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  would say, they would. I mean, you're dealing with the immigrant,
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  that illegal immigration issue, but Preston, don't forget that. There's also the
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  drug issue, right, the arcotic smuggling that takes place too. And like
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  I've you know, like I've mentioned the past. You know, people seem
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  to forget that. Yeah, you're dealing with wholes of people out there,
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  okay, but what's coming in on the flanks. You think it's people that
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  really you know, that you really want in this country. No, it's
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  people that have either been released from from a prison system in the country somewhere,
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  or the smuggling the narcotics in there. And we're not talking you're marijuana.
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  We're not talking your green leafy stuff stance. We're talking your hard stuff.
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  WFLA on your phone with the iHeart radio app and on hundreds of devices
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  Almost twenty two minutes after the hour. Asus Rodriguez joins us once a month
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  from Arizona, which means he's taken one for the team getting up this early,
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  because you know, darn good and well, if he's getting up at
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  five am Arizona, time to do this segment. He had to get up
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  earlier just to be coherent, and now in the break he's talking about things
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  we've talked about on the show. So my goodness, gracious what a soldier
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  formerly a United States Border Patrol agent and our guests here this morning. I'm
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  curious a zeus when Texas decides, Okay, the federal government's failing in its
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  job, we're gonna do this ourselves. We're gonna send our own tactical border
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  force to the border to assist. What is the reaction of your colleagues likely
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  to be when a state says they've got to do something to help those of
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  you serving the federal government. It's really helpful because in the past years we
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  get these National Guard flights that would come through. I've worked a lot of
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  midnights and evening shows out in the desert, so it was nice when you'd
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  have air support come in in the evening and it was National Guard guys and
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  they would you know, they would fly those missions to help us out,
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  and it was real helpful because, I mean, they they were additional eyes
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  for us and help us and addict a lot of groups out there and a
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  lot of narcotics, So it's you know, it's real helpful, like a
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  U you know, when you have extra people that are out there helping you,
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  it did. It makes a big difference because now you've got additionalized that
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  are helping you spot what you're missing or what you're trying to track down,
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  and it helps, and you know, it's a big help. How does
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  it work though? From a logistic standpoint, when you've got you know,
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  you have your federal job that you're doing on behalf of the United States,
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  you're under a certain set of orders, and then you've got the state.
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  And while there might be some overlap kind of like a ven diagram, their
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  bottom line is protecting the state. Do those things that no, No,
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  because mainly they were used for for intel gathering purposes or eyes on on on
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  on the border area. So they would call out the groups or you know,
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  and like I mentioned, with the air support, they would they would
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  um lead you into wherever the narcotics is at or where the group was at.
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  And so you know, rarely did anything ever, we'd ever have any
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  kind of issues with them, um you know. And then on top of
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  that, with the with the air support, we always had an agent that
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  was with that crew flight crew. So you know, the the agent was
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  well aware of of what you know, the area, very verse in the
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  area, so they're kind of guiding them and and so they're you know,
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  they'd directed the pilots and where to go and and uh and those kinds of
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  things. So it no, we never had any issues. Like I said,
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  it was real helpful. And even when they would come into assist us
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  with you know, even just a administrative things like you know, uh,
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  fixing the vehicles, that was a big help too. Because you know,
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  out in the denser, you can wear and tearing the vehicles is huge.
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  So when you when you have extra hands in there that are fixing the vehicles
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  and getting them out faster, that's a big that's a big plus. Two.
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  Did you hear any reaction when from from your former colleagues about the fifteen
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  hundred troops that Biden sent, he sent you know, National guardsmen down there.
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  Uh. You know, some retired Border Patrol agents are out saying look
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  what they were doing was acting as a welcome wagon. We saw a video
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  of one of them from Illinois. I think it was actually unlocking a gate
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  and allowing illegals to enter the country through a gate. Well, I mean,
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  look at the look at the distance from San Diego all the way across
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  to Texas. Now it's a long border, fifteen hundred. You know,
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  soldiers isn't going to do much of anything, and a lot of times are
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  probably going to be assigned to administrative duties, you know, maybe manning the
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  radio, things of that nature. So they're not really they're not really intimately
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  involved in what's happened on the on the border itself. And so no,
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  most of the most of the soldiers like that, I know that we're already
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  out here, and so they were helping out with working cameras and and calling
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  out the groups to the agents. But again, uh, you know a
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  lot of these groups were just they were coming across and they were they were
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  quitters. They were just walking up to the to the ages and just you
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  know, sitting down and waiting to be processed and shipped out. Last question
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  for you. We got about a little less than a minute left here,
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  jeseus um. Now that you know, title forty two is over. We
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  didn't see the crush immediately. Do we expect to see an increase over the
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  coming weeks and months? The crush already came through and went, uh,
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  you know what, present, I think it's going it's going to continue,
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  I honestly do. I don't think it's going to slow down any time soon.
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  It may not be in the numbers that were in the in the past,
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  but you're going to keep seeing that because again the words has spread spread
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  these countries. You know, come in and they'll process you and they'll kick
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  you out the door, and you know on your way you go and they're
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  not going to be seen again. More than likely, no, you'll never
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  see him again. Welcome to the United States. Zeus has always thanks so
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  much for making time for us on the program and appreciate your service to our
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  country. Brother be well, Thank you, sir. Take care all right.
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  J Zeus Rodriguez with us this morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott