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[00:00:18] ideological inspirer of
[00:00:25] that people they caught in the desert, well, drug
[00:00:28] traffickers use them, they take them away. Either to work or to
[00:00:32] sell them,
[00:00:37] once you're in the business, you have to do whatever it takes, if the boss
[00:00:41] tells you to kill that one, you have to kill him, we don't
[00:00:45] monarchy was replaced by a investigate, we don't investigate anyone, if
[00:00:48] they bother the boss,
[00:00:51] achieved the nationalization of we have to do the job, if we don't do it, we would be
[00:00:54] bothering the boss, we would be useless for
[00:00:56] nothing.
[00:01:00] sometimes we have some people that come to the casa and offer their
[00:01:03] services
[00:01:06] British semi-colony, the um and we have a policy like uh we don't accept that for
[00:01:09] example
[00:01:13] Non-Aligned Movement, which um if you offer this kind of services if you pay me I can cross you so in that
[00:01:17] case uh we need to um ask
[00:01:20] for them that leave the casa
[00:01:23] since you've been back in Tijuana, have you had any criminal organizations maybe
[00:01:27] try to scam you try
[00:01:34] also the I'm afraid to be here, they have made five
[00:01:38] calls to different numbers to my families
[00:01:42] and they are asking for
[00:01:44] money for me, saying I am
[00:01:48] kidnapped, I am not kidnapped here, I am fine,
[00:01:51] outside, I am afraid, I can be outside, but here I am
[00:01:55] safe.
[00:02:00] and that casa needs to close because the cartel takes control of
[00:02:04] the of the casa, mean they ask uh
[00:02:07] or for example depends of your
[00:02:11] nationality they um you need to pay
[00:02:14] a fee or something like that the congregation decide to close the
[00:02:18] casa. If it was still operating, what what would happen? Like the cartel would
[00:02:22] come in and exploit people. Yeah, yeah, or
[00:02:24] kidnap it or yeah it's to put the people at risk
[00:02:28] maybe. Okay, they know
[00:02:34] it a lot, but I will
[00:02:55] feelings for someone else, all women are
[00:02:58] temporary,
[00:03:00] I want to be with a woman, I just go, I take her, I
[00:03:03] buy her,
[00:03:07] The United States, with in any red light district,
[00:03:10] sentimentally, my family is not with me, I had my
[00:03:13] brother, but they killed him just for being
[00:03:16] here in this environment like me.
[00:03:24] and Drop Shot, I mean all of
[00:03:30] Of course, mostly prostitutes, I have
[00:03:33] witnessed them tell me that they were also on the other
[00:03:36] side in San Isidro, also here
[00:03:40] very close, for border patrol
[00:03:43] reasons, they sent them back here, they returned them to this
[00:03:46] side,
[00:03:48] and many girls also who are from there who have American
[00:03:52] papers and come here to work in the
[00:03:56] brothels.
[00:05:38] comes like this, focused,
[00:05:39] $60.
[00:05:43] what did she say? I think by now they spot us
[00:05:46] cuz yeah, we got to
[00:05:48] go get
[00:05:50] the
[00:05:58] car. So as we were pretending to be John's customers for
[00:06:02] prostitutes, um we were asking certain
[00:06:05] questions trying to find out if
[00:06:08] anybody is being sexually trafficked or where they're from.
[00:06:12] And uh we turned around and noticed that our camera crew was surrounded
[00:06:16] by people who didn't like the fact that they were filming, so we
[00:06:20] had to come back to the car and uh
[00:06:23] realized that there were pimps, people who are
[00:06:27] the muscle who are protecting the women or maybe possibly sex
[00:06:31] trafficking the women, uh surrounding our camera
[00:06:34] crew. Thankfully, as we approached the vehicle,
[00:06:37] they dispersed and
[00:06:40] everything was okay. But you have to be very careful when going into
[00:06:43] any red light district, whether you're in Tijuana or the
[00:06:47] United States or anywhere, because those
[00:06:49] women often, most likely will have some type of
[00:06:53] muscle protecting them uh from anybody causing them
[00:06:57] harm.
[00:07:02] Desperate, eager to join their families in the US, bring in huge
[00:07:05] profits for the cartels. It turns out
[00:07:08] there's a clear price for these services, but everyone's afraid to talk about.
[00:07:43] and and somebody told me, "You can do that because you cross
[00:07:47] the border. Somebody will kill you." Oh, uh a
[00:07:51] person selling hot dogs then told me, "Hey,
[00:07:54] talk to the guy, this guy, because if you don't talk to this guy,
[00:07:58] people will kill you for crossing the border." Oh, for real?
[00:08:02] He said, "Yes, you need to pay." You
[00:08:05] pay. Let's go. What is the cost to
[00:08:08] pay the cartels to cross over into the United States?
[00:08:12] "I need to pay 10,000 to cross to USA." Do they
[00:08:16] guarantee you to deliver you to the United States safely,
[00:08:20] or if they get caught, you're out of money? One time I
[00:08:24] lost I lost
[00:08:26] $5,000. I paid
[00:08:29] half, and when me and the other person paid
[00:08:33] the rest, and I never, never went to
[00:08:37] L.A. I lost my fight. You got caught before
[00:08:41] you made it to L.A. Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:14] if any two countries want to resolve issues, they can resolve it
[00:09:17] outside of Syria, because in Syria we want
[00:09:20] connectivity to ports, to highways, to
[00:09:23] internet, to be a hub for. And if we want that, we cannot be
[00:09:27] an area of conflict.
[00:09:42] Since
[00:11:46] escalated tensions with Mexico by reviving threats
[00:11:49] of military action against drug cartels,
[00:11:53] pursuing a terrorist nation for criminal networks, and
[00:11:57] threatening tariffs on nations exporting oil to
[00:11:59] Cuba. In response, Mexican President Claudia
[00:12:03] Sheinbaum has rejected foreign military intervention
[00:12:06] while navigating a delicate diplomatic balancing act
[00:12:10] through increased bilateral cooperation on border
[00:12:13] security and extraditions.
[00:12:17] The last year, uh Mexico displaced
[00:12:19] a hundred of um
[00:12:22] soldiers to keep the security of
[00:12:25] the borders. So there's a reality in Mexico.
[00:12:45] Here we are on the Mexican- US border, you can see in
[00:12:48] Tijuana here, this wall has been here 10-15 years,
[00:12:51] and right through the slat, you can see the United States
[00:12:55] of America, and hopefully as we walk here, we'll be able
[00:12:59] to find some people to interview. There are residential
[00:13:02] areas next to the wall, and it's clear these neighborhoods are
[00:13:05] pretty old. I wonder how these people live here.
[00:13:32] the pretext of attacking criminal terrorist groups
[00:13:36] that the law codified, that accused them of being
[00:13:39] terrorists, to invade, to
[00:13:42] pursue them within Mexican territory, which our
[00:13:45] political constitution
[00:13:47] absolutely prohibits.
[00:14:25] They scale this wall anywhere
[00:14:27] with wire ladders,
[00:14:30] and it doesn't matter if they are there, the guard is still active, currently
[00:14:34] it is still being done in plain sight, even though the United States is militarized,
[00:14:38] within the United States it is militarized, they are making
[00:14:41] military patrols in commands, also
[00:14:45] ICE, also the border patrol, right? But that will not
[00:14:48] prevent it because as our walls said, they will not stop
[00:14:52] it.
[00:15:01] There are antennas and
[00:15:03] with reflectors that if
[00:15:07] someone tries to cross, the reflectors
[00:15:10] light up as if it were a stage like in a movie that
[00:15:14] is in a theater, right? That's how
[00:15:17] they are crossing,
[00:15:21] reflectors that light you up immediately, it
[00:15:24] has a range of up to 4, 10, 10 km, that's one that
[00:15:28] has satellite antennas,
[00:15:30] they have motion sensors,
[00:15:34] temperature sensors here too, everything is
[00:15:37] fine, they are well monitored.
[00:15:51] Who are these guys? These people
[00:15:54] are watching,
[00:15:55] okay?
[00:16:04] Years ago, well, yes, it was a little bit like...
[00:16:08] a delicate issue because a lot of people crossed, you
[00:16:12] could see people crossing, running, hiding.
[00:16:15] Once
[00:16:18] I was, well, I was here with my mom and I came
[00:16:22] to wash, I came to wash my clothes and
[00:16:25] everything and my husband was here outside and in
[00:16:28] fact, since we didn't live here nearby, he was
[00:16:32] watching because immigration was on that side and he was watching and he
[00:16:36] stopped there. And a National Guard truck
[00:16:40] arrived and they got out running and grabbed
[00:16:43] him by the pants, they did that
[00:16:47] and they wanted to take him away, they even wanted to hit him,
[00:16:51] honestly, but they made
[00:16:54] me delete the video because I recorded them because they really
[00:16:57] got very violent, believing that
[00:17:00] he wanted to cross when that was
[00:17:02] not the case.
[00:17:05] And yes, they get a little delicate in that
[00:17:08] aspect because
[00:17:12] National Guard here in
[00:17:14] Mexico, well, since they don't allow
[00:17:17] it, they are making sure that people don't want to cross, so
[00:17:21] they were watching and many people, well, there was
[00:17:24] a lot of commotion about that matter, but
[00:17:28] for some years now, honestly, everything looks very
[00:17:31] calm. I'm not saying there are no
[00:17:34] illegal crossings, but perhaps
[00:17:38] the percentage dropped a bit because
[00:17:41] I imagine they are afraid to pay so much to go, only to be
[00:17:45] sent back
[00:17:48] again. So I'm assuming if you had any issues with the cartel coming into Mexicali, you would be able to coordinate with the national
[00:17:52] guard, the Mexican
[00:17:56] military, and have you had any of these incidents happen
[00:17:59] here in Mexicali recently? There was an event
[00:18:03] here in Mexicali about two weeks ago
[00:18:06] of... there was a report of shootings and and it was
[00:18:10] presumed that members of a criminal group were inside
[00:18:14] a house at a party. No, there was coordination
[00:18:17] among all the institutions that work here in Mexicali, municipal
[00:18:20] police, state force, the prosecutor's office,
[00:18:23] national guard, the army, and
[00:18:27] shortly after, the prosecutor's office arrived with a warrant to enter the property and
[00:18:30] there was an arrest of approximately 60 people, several
[00:18:34] firearms were seized, and
[00:18:38] several people who presumably belong to a criminal
[00:18:41] group that operates here in Mexicali.
[00:19:12] Do you already have a job? Yes. What are you going to be doing? Uh, I'm
[00:19:16] selling fruits and
[00:19:20] doing anything in in the place, yeah. How much
[00:19:23] money do you think you'll make every day? 200 and
[00:19:27] sometimes tips. What would you say is the average amount of money
[00:19:30] you spend on food every day here in Tijuana? Oh,
[00:19:34] a lot, a lot, yeah. People a lot. About what
[00:19:38] you make every day, so you're making just enough to
[00:19:41] survive. Would you, if you can't go back to the United States, like to find
[00:19:45] a place in Tijuana or maybe move somewhere else in
[00:19:47] Mexico? I want to stay here
[00:19:51] because my family is close, to
[00:19:55] Tijuana. That is why only my
[00:19:58] sister came one time. Yeah, she came to Mexico,
[00:20:01] or did you meet each other in
[00:20:03] Playas?
[00:20:06] I see... here in Mexico, my sister,
[00:20:09] okay, and my
[00:20:12] two nephews, yeah, yeah, very emotional.
[00:22:21] I need to wait like a year, two years,
[00:22:24] waiting for the permits.
[00:22:28] Suppose my sons, my
[00:22:31] daughters are citizens.
[00:22:34] So my dad, she's sending a permission to Washington
[00:22:38] D.C. to pardon
[00:22:41] me, another chance.
[00:22:44] But I don't want to. All right now.
[00:22:47] 54.
[00:23:05] I try, like my partner also
[00:23:08] tries, and every day it's harder. Why? Because they have
[00:23:12] already detained me. They told me that if they detained me again, it would be
[00:23:15] 36 months, 3 years that they will
[00:23:19] detain me, they will have me.
[00:23:21] So I think about
[00:23:24] go back, I will go back, because simply, for my
[00:23:28] children to arrange things for me, it still takes time, a lot of time,
[00:23:32] and well, the truth is I need to be there,
[00:23:36] I am more needed there than here.
[00:23:38] Here I exist, I over-exist,
[00:23:42] well, I'm going to try to fix things, if I can, I'm going to
[00:23:45] get a lawyer to see what can be done
[00:23:49] to go back with... my family,
[00:23:51] because well, it's my country,
[00:23:55] Mexico, but I don't feel safe, oh, I feel
[00:23:58] like mm, I'm afraid to be
[00:24:01] here, and it's very
[00:24:04] hard
[00:24:06] for me, as for many people who go through many things, and
[00:24:09] I wish that
[00:24:12] this would reach
[00:24:15] many who
[00:24:17] can
[00:24:20] help immigrants, that they try to support them, that the
[00:24:24] injustices that ICE does
[00:24:27] with immigrants are not seen,
[00:24:31] not just with immigrants, with American citizens too, because
[00:24:35] they have killed citizens
[00:24:37] and have deported citizens also who are not given time for anything, just
[00:24:41] for the racial facial aspect, they have been
[00:24:45] deported and arriving in Mexico, sometimes families
[00:24:48] disappear and are no longer found. Tijuana,
[00:24:52] every corner is full of posters where there are missing people
[00:24:55] and I don't want to be another victim of
[00:24:58] that
[00:25:01] process, that my family is looking for me,
[00:25:04] putting up flyers on a pole where they won't
[00:25:07] find me. Yes, I'm very afraid of the insecurity
[00:25:11] outside, I don't know what will happen
[00:25:13] to me.
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