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One Leg Up On News- Cartel Recruiting on Mexican Campuses and Ramping Up Fentanyl Production Is A Threat to the US 12-5-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Deren. All right, well here on
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  Speaker 1: one leg up on news. I know I've been posting
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  Speaker 1: a lot today, but there's a lot coming down the pike.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, you probably heard about the updates on the
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  Speaker 1: shooting of Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO. Well it
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  Speaker 1: looks like CEOs might be getting bodyguards. That's the first
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  Speaker 1: big deal coming out of all this. Secondly, if it
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  Speaker 1: truly is a claim that was denied by United Healthcare,
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  Speaker 1: this shooter should have just let one thing happen, the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department do its job and continue the probe against
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thompson and let what was maybe coming to the
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  Speaker 1: guy instead of killing them. That's how you let justice work,
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  Speaker 1: not take it into your own hands. And you know
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  Speaker 1: he's an idiot for showing his face and whatever else
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  Speaker 1: elsewhere when he logged into the hotel there in Amstream Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the latest on that. But I've got even
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  Speaker 1: more disturbing story tonight because the New York Times, the
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  Speaker 1: old Gray Lady is writing this from a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Mexican cartels lower chemistry students to make fentanyl. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: for a sort of liberal paper to mention even the
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  Speaker 1: cartels and the bad things about them. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: seem to want to not not highlight that as much.
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  Speaker 1: Is fascinating, So kudos to Natalie Kittroff and Paulina the
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  Speaker 1: liegis reporting from the Mexican state of Sonola, a stronghold
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  Speaker 1: of the Sonola cartel and a hubbofentanyl production. So cartels
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  Speaker 1: are slipping onto campuses in Mexico disguised as janitors and
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  Speaker 1: louring sophomore chemistry students and explaining that cartel was staffing
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  Speaker 1: up for a project and that he'd heard good things
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  Speaker 1: about the young man. In their quest to build ventanyl empires,
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  Speaker 1: Mexican criminal groups are turning to, as they write, not
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  Speaker 1: hit men or corrupt police officers, but chemistry students across
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  Speaker 1: Mexican universities. Now, maybe that's not as sexy as if
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  Speaker 1: they were actually luring into American universities, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: worth reporting that these cartels are actively recruiting, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe if they're recruiting in Mexican universities alone, maybe just
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're going to try and do it here in
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  Speaker 1: American university. So the border security is important that we
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  Speaker 1: don't let it happen on our campuses. If it can
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  Speaker 1: happen in Mexico, I am a thousand percent convinced it
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  Speaker 1: could happen in our universities. And luring through all these
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  Speaker 1: channels of WhatsApp and Instagram and Facebook. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 1: not dumb, these cartels. So I applaud the Times for
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  Speaker 1: making awareness of this that they're in the universities now
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  Speaker 1: luring kids to make fentanyl, and then and then this
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  Speaker 1: helps them, according to the story, synthesize the chemical compounds
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  Speaker 1: known as precursors essential to making the fentanyl, free them
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  Speaker 1: from having to import those raw materials from China. If
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  Speaker 1: they succeed, US officials say, it would represent a terrifying
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  Speaker 1: new phase in the fentanyl crisis, in which Mexican cartels
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  Speaker 1: have more control than ever over one of the deadliest
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  Speaker 1: drugs in recent history. So yes, it doesn't packed America
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  Speaker 1: that they're actually training kids and luring them to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's important we highlight it here on one leg
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  Speaker 1: up on News because as awful as that shooting was
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan yesterday, this fentanyl crisis is not going away.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not. And now they're having kids involved. One
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  Speaker 1: chemistry student that it would be that make us the
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  Speaker 1: kings of Mexico. The kid's been cooking fentanyl. The student
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  Speaker 1: has for six months. Amazing the Times even got this coverage.
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  Speaker 1: They've interviewed seven fentanyl cooks, three chemistry students and two
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  Speaker 1: hiring operatives, and a high level recruiter who worked for
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  Speaker 1: the Sonola cartel, which the US government says is largely
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the de fentanyl pouring over the border. If
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  Speaker 1: the US knows this is going on and they have intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: is it possible that President elect Trump will put an
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  Speaker 1: end to even this recruiting. It seems like this is
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  Speaker 1: a very foundational thing going on, building into something larger
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  Speaker 1: that will harm way more people. So I credit the
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  Speaker 1: Times for talking about talking about this disaster that I
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  Speaker 1: think and maybe friends will agree. The Biden administration has allowed, yes, allowed,
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  Speaker 1: Well it's in Mexico. Well, guess what. They're emboldened because
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  Speaker 1: they see how the immigration crisis is faring here, that
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  Speaker 1: we're not handling it well, and so they're just building
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  Speaker 1: up even more. They're emboldened, and with more fentanyl in Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: it's very easy to get that across the border, and
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  Speaker 1: that's something we cannot afford. And here's the craziest part
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  Speaker 1: of all those affilly with the cartel. They write have
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  Speaker 1: put themselves in danger by talking the Times, and their
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  Speaker 1: accounts of what's going on in these universities match American
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  Speaker 1: embassy officials tracking the cartelectivities. So embassy officials know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on and have not done anything about it. Then
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  Speaker 1: I hope President Trump fires those embassy officials and puts
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  Speaker 1: in new people in Mexico to not only track but stop.
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  Speaker 1: Why can't they just stop this production? And how is
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  Speaker 1: it We're not hearing about this anywhere else. I'm amazed
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  Speaker 1: that a mainstream media outlet is reporting on this because
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  Speaker 1: they don't like to talk about how bad things are
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  Speaker 1: with the border grat because it makes the Biden decision
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  Speaker 1: look bad. But here they are omitting. It's a widespread
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  Speaker 1: effort to continue to make ventanyl and now it's on
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  Speaker 1: college campuses in Mexico. I worry now that those recruiters
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  Speaker 1: could try and hit up American universities and we have
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  Speaker 1: to stop that. And if I find out an American
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  Speaker 1: university right now is in cahoots with the cartels, I
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  Speaker 1: will report on that here on the wollling Up network,
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  Speaker 1: because we have to know. American law enforcement officials have
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  Speaker 1: also noted young chemists have been swept away and arrests
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  Speaker 1: at Mexican ventyl labs in recent years, telling authorities they've
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  Speaker 1: been working on developing precursors and making the drugs stronger.
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  Speaker 1: So what we're dealing with as an emboldened Mexican cartels
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  Speaker 1: a group, it goes beyond just the smuggling of illegals
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  Speaker 1: across the border and the child unaccompanied miners, I mean
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  Speaker 1: two year olds are being reported at the border too.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty bad. Then you compound it with this and
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  Speaker 1: only tracking them instead of truly stopping this. Arrests have
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  Speaker 1: been made in recent years, but it seems like the
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  Speaker 1: cartel's ahead of its time and ahead of American authorities,
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  Speaker 1: and that can't be under President Trump. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: listening right now to President Trump, please follow up on
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  Speaker 1: this track. This Mexican cartels are luring students to do
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  Speaker 1: the dirty work, and apparently it's just commonplace. But we
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  Speaker 1: should keep an eye on that, and I know I will.
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  Speaker 1: On the one look up on news. Yes, a CEO
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  Speaker 1: is shot dead and there are questions to be answered
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  Speaker 1: with that, but let's not lose sight of the other
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  Speaker 1: long term evils going on, like what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: Mexico with still a wide open border could lead to disaster.
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  Speaker 1: If President Trump, who will step in, wasn't elected, I
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  Speaker 1: think it would even be worse. So maybe, just maybe
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  Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. By once again having a
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  Speaker 1: role in the twenty twenty four election, he might have
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  Speaker 1: just saved us from an even stronger Mexico and that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing for everybody. I'm Alex Garrett with the
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  Speaker 1: One Leg Up on News