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The Media Is Ignoring The Border Invasion, But We Aren't · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  And here we are to the third hour The Morning Show with Preston Scott boldly
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  moving forward. Wednesday, April twenty six I was known as the birthday of
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  my daughter Courtney. Happy Birthday Show number forty nine sixteen Day eight twenty six
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  of America held hostage on the final the fourth Wednesday, I should say,
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  because there is occasionally a fifth Wednesday, and that's when we do our Q
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  and A with the talent guys. But on the fourth Wednesday of each month.
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  A Zeus Rodriguez is kind enough to get up very early and join us
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  from his home in Arizona. He is a retired member of the United States
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  Border Patrol, where he served as an agent for better than two decades,
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  and he joined just again this morning. How are you, sir, Good
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  morning, sir. Find yourself well, I'm doing great. I'm probably a
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  lot more awake than you are at this point, but just a little early
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  off here. It's only five o'clock. Hey, you sent me a note
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  and you said that you had been informed that there had been on that given
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  day. The day before April thirteenth was the day before a thousand apprehensions alone
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  in one specific area. What's going on right now at the border, because
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  it doesn't seem like the media is covering it very much. No, they're
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  not going to cover anymore, I think, because I mean, it's they're
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  moving on, it's it's it's still active out there. And so that was
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  a thousand apprehensions in one in one entire group that they got on that particular
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  day out there in West Texas. So I mean, it's it's not going
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  to slow down, it's only gonna it's only gonna get worse because if you
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  you know, we're in May already, so the heats like in this part
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  of the country is already starting to kick up, and I'm sure along the
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  southwest border's gonna think it's going to start to rise. So not only are
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  going to deal with people that are coming across the legal league going to start
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  dealing with people that are needed medical attention because of dehydration. What is your
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  personal opinion and then what is the opinion of your former colleagues on why this
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  is no longer of interest to the media. My opinion is in testing is
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  if they moved on to other other news and they don't want to put a
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  light on what's happening out there and then I think I mentioned it to you
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  before. I mean, you know, and I tell people you can,
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  you can deal with the traffic that's coming in and the people that are as
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  you know, as we would call them quitters at the border, but I'd
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  be very very concerned of what you're not catching and what you're not able to
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  apprehend that are coming around the flanks. Who's coming in there, and what
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  are they bringing? And so that's my concern is and the media, you
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  know, doesn't look at that, and some of the some of the retirees
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  that I speak to us and even some of the president agents you know that
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  that are still out there, you know, the brunts that the guys are
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  still out there, are just doing the job there. I mean, they're
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  there's nothing the most more they can do. They're just doing the job as
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  they're supposed to get done. And and if they're grumbling, they're going you
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  know, to themselves. But at the end of the day, they you
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  know, they know, they have a task to take care of. That's
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  what they're focusing them. Do they feel like they can do that task though,
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  because it seems, you know, I was talking earlier today about the
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  fact that you know, the President of the United States, Joe Biden,
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  is out there saying regarding the economy that you know, we're what we're doing
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  is working. And I'm of the opinion that everything they're doing is very intentional.
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  And so there's this idea that at the border, this is a very
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  intentional set of decisions being made to not enforce border policy or law. They
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  don't. I think they're just they're they're focused on what they have to do
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  and they can't get caught up in the reason and what the what the policymakers
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  and in DC are are deciding and what they're doing. I mean, at
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  the end of the day, I mean, they have their marching orders.
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  Like it or not, you got to you gotta do it, and so
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  you know, you really they realize that they can apprehend all these all these
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  large groups of people from all over the world basically, I mean from what
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  I understand, it's all from all over the world. They're coming in and
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  so and in places that you know, you would never have ever seen people
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  from these countries come in there. Now they are. So they're just doing
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  their jobs as it's supposed to do and process them as such. I mean,
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  if they you know, if they get released, they get released,
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  and there's really not much more you can do. You can only control what
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  you can in front of you. You can't you know that policy that they
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  make and decisions they make are above your pay grade. Two decades of doing
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  more drive radio differently doing it his way like old Blue Eyes, except he
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  has a little more hair. The Morning Show with Preston Scott talking about our
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  southern border primarily, but you can also throw away in northern border issues with
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  former US Border Patrol agent retired and Zus Rodriguez, what about the northern border.
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  Do guys that work the south have any connection or hear anything about what's
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  going on in the north. I'm sure if they have classmates or people that
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  they work with in the past, I'm sure they hear here are the traffic
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  that's happening there. But it's the same thing, I mean, not in
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  the numbers that you see in the southern border, Preston, but you know
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  the numbers of apprehensions have an increased in those in those areas, and so
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  you don't have then when prior to my retirement, you didn't have the technology
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  that they do in the southern border. So now I'm sure there's a lot
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  more technology and they use to drones as well out there, so um,
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  you know there is more more out there. So they're starting to see,
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  you know, more more traffic out there as well. What is your opinion
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  of Alejandro Mayorka's head of Homeland Security. You might not need to say anything
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  more. I don't know, maybe a chuckle covers it. It's a it's
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  a family show, fust and so I'm going to keep my my that that
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  portion clean. But you know it, they're all they're all in lock and
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  step in what they're doing. And like you just mentioned earlier, it's an
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  intentional, intentional decisions than on what's doing out there. And so you still
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  have like I mentioned prior, they still have those gaps in in the in
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  the border wall. So guess what they're using. I mean, they can
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  easily have closed those gaps, you know when the administration came into came into
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  power, and they've left open and so you know, this is what's happening.
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  You're getting all these people, like I mentioned, and all these people
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  from all over the world, places that you've ever seen in before. Now
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  they're now they're coming in. And so because they know, you know where
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  it's passing to come on in and you know they're more likely to going to
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  cut you loose and you're on your way. I've always I always try to
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  give people context when I ask certain questions, and as best you can can
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  you put a pie chart on the numbers that you know, we talk about
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  gotaways. What percentage of the gotaways make up the total pie of illegal immigrants?
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  Well, even prior to retirement person they would say that we would probably
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  were only apprehending about I've always don't to say it was but half of that,
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  if that, if of all that. But I think the gotaways are
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  you know, it's one of thost unknown numbers of people that you don't know
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  really how many you're they are getting away from you because at the end of
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  the day, as you're following the footprints in the in the sand or in
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  the ground, and you get to where what we would call a loadout spot
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  where they would get into a vehicle, and you know they went north bomb
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  from there. He only kind of guestimated by the number of shoeprints that were
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  left in the in the in the soil. But keep in mind now it's
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  no longer that easy, because these guys are being outfited. Was believe it
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  or not. Carpet, so your standard everyday carpet that you have in your
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  house. They put them on their shoes to hide those footprints. So you
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  really, I mean, they're kind of guestimated. It's it's it's a crap
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  to you how many things are getting away from you. It's it's almost as
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  if they're raking behind themselves by wearing carpet under their shoes. Now, it's
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  extremely hard, and I mean you really have to be a good sign cutter
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  to pick up you know, uh, carpet sign on the on the ground.
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  And if and mind you, if they're walking across sand, if they
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  you get into what we would call a hardpan area or area where it was
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  the ground was hard, it's extremely hard to cut them. And so you
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  have to go up ahead and and you know, CB can reacquire the foot
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  sign. Again, it's it's very difficult to find them like that. And
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  you know, if you have air support, that helps out, If you
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  have drones or you have other agents ahead of you were helping out. Again
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  that helps out. But keep in mind that you know you're still having to
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  deal with all these large groups out there, so they're tying up ages in
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  the field, WFLA on your phone with the iHeart radio app and on hundreds
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  of devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sonos and Ihearts radio
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  station. Hey, sus Sean Riguez has spent better than two decades or did
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  spend better than two decades serving the United States on the southern border as a
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  US border troll agent and is kind of our guest expert now on the program
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  and has been for the last couple of years. ZEUS. We talk often
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  about gotaways. We talk about those that just come to the I guess the
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  border crossing areas and surrender themselves. Is it fair to assume that anybody that's
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  not going to the actual checkpoints are attempting to become a got away that want
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  to enter this country and not be processed, not be caught, not be
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  granted asylum, but just get into the country illegally. Oh yeah, because
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  you you might have criminal history here in the United States. The entire deports
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  my multiple reports under their belt, so they may you know, they're they're
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  trying to get away and avoid apprehensive because they get caught. Again, there's
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  that possibility that they have an active warrant that still they can you know,
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  they can go back to the jurisdiction that they came from or that they're going
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  to get. They'll get caught and then spend more time in the facility,
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  in a potential facility, and then get deported again. So yeah, there's
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  there, there's goals people are avoiding at all costs. Or if they get
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  caught, they'll be in a certain city perhaps and they'll be turned right loose
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  so and and no one's cooperating with uh you know, uh customs and border
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  enforcement, and so they just get to wander around and commit crimes. Um.
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  Well, yeah, it's like those ones that get caught right and they
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  don't and the jurisdiction doesn't work with ice. Yeah, I mean those that's
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  the possible, that's the strong possibilities as well. You've seen that happen before.
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  We were talking about the many things that that hamstring those who serve on
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  our border trying to help keep our nation secure. Um, I liken them
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  to have in your own security guard around your your home and your fence around
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  your home that if they're busy doing other things, they can't really do their
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  job and and how they are burdened by the sheer numbers. Here explain a
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  little bit about kind of the how that all works. So if you,
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  if you, if you are dealing with with the group, a large group
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  that just quits on the border, you have to go down there and then
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  you have to you know, do the search of all of them, their
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  bags themselves. You have to start feel processing them out there. Okay,
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  give me give me some context here. Let's let's say we've got three hundred
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  people, and how many of you guys are going are having to go down
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  there. It depends on the shift present. It can be anywhere from ten
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  agents to even five to six ejs. And so you're separating the groups by
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  by gender, by male, female, and the families of the children.
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  You separate those those individuals and you start off, um and with the heat
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  coming on, you're starting off with the with the families, the children and
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  they and the females. Okay, let me, let me let me throw
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  away hypothetical at you. Because Democrats just a few days ago in the House
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  and the Senate introduced a bill that would require you all on the border.
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  And I say you and the you know what, I mean that would require
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  border patrol to set aside another category and give them vulnerable person's status, and
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  that would be people that identify as LGBTQ. Plus how much harder is that
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  going to make this process? That would make it harder because if if there's
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  policy in there that requires you to transport them separately to you know, to
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  house them separately, so that adds more to it. Now for you know,
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  you would you could you know your natural's questions, you just process them
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  ass such and give them the detension stilty. And now unless someone in my
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  career trust and I only have maybe one two cases that I can remember when
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  someone said that they were, you know, homosexual or or anything else like
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  that, by and large, they were all brought in the same in the
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  same group. Now they come up with a policy like that that they may
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  require the agent to transport him separately and to put them in a cell separately
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  from everybody else. So that just adds to it. And so you're now
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  dealing three, four or five, maybe up to ten agents are having to
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  process hundreds of people. So while this is going on, who's minding the
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  shop, who's out catching the gutaways, Who's who's enforcing the other parts of
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  the border. If you're lucky, you have horspitral out there. If you're
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  lucky, you might have bipatroy TVs. But again, it depends on each
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  individual station and depends on how big the group is, how many agents is
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  they gonna need to take to get those bodies from let's say, from the
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  desert, out the detention or to a station or you know, a processing
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  facility where you can start the processing of them. And so it just varies
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  on what station you're at. And and again you know it's the heat's gonna
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  plays a huge role. You you know, you got to get him in
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  and get him modest quick as you can, because you go from from somebody
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  who may be okay, but with a heat coming on that you need to
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  get him out before something something serious happens. Now you've got another issue in
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  your hand. Now you've got medical issues to deal with it out there.
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  So you know, it's it's a big it's a huge headache. We got
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  a lot to talk about a month from now, consious stuff we didn't get
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  to. I want to talk about states sovereignty, what's to what states should
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  be could be? Do they do and what's happened in your state in Arizona
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  since Katie Hobbs took office as governor. Jeseus. The time goes by fast.
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  Thanks for it, and I appreciate you joining us. Okay, take
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  care, thank you, thank you, sir, and as always, thank
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  you for serving our country. Thanks to all who served to protect our borders.
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  We're being invaded, friends, twenty seven minutes after the hour