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[00:00:00] party right now and doing a phenomenal job, their their success, I think
[00:00:04] is evidenced by the fact that they're being called every name in the book,
[00:00:07] every terrible thing in the book, so I think there are certainly within the Republican
[00:00:11] party, but the devils in the details, if you agree on the broad
[00:00:15] strokes then you've got a lot to work with, and I think that populism is
[00:00:18] the name of the game at this point, we see populist and insurgent
[00:00:21] candidates and political movements all throughout the world,
[00:00:25] especially uh in the west, because we've seen the
[00:00:28] failure of politicians and of... politics as as has
[00:00:32] been done over the past decades, I think Tucker,
[00:00:35] as as our good uh friend George Galloway says, is a is
[00:00:38] very viable candidate, so I think absolutely he could be a unifying
[00:00:41] figure and I think that he could achieve sizeable results an
[00:00:44] election campaign. President, let's look at the top
[00:00:47] stories we're covering here on RRT international, but do say with us, I'll be back with much
[00:00:51] more in half an hour. I'll see you
[00:00:52] then.
[00:01:22] The deporty asked to hide his face and change his
[00:01:25] voice because he fears reprisals from the
[00:01:28] cartel he was forced to.
[00:01:36] someone came and offered me the crossing, that several
[00:01:39] people were going to cross, ah, he sang it very nicely to me, he told me that
[00:01:43] there would be a lot of money, that we already had a guaranteed job, we
[00:01:47] went through the desert for three
[00:01:51] days, two nights, and we arrived
[00:01:54] there. There they caught me in San
[00:01:57] Diego in the Home Depot. I was working as a bricklayer. One day
[00:02:00] I trusted, I was in the parking lot, well, the
[00:02:03] patrol caught me,
[00:02:07] they caught me and boom, to Tijuana. My life stayed
[00:02:10] there. I have my wife there,
[00:02:13] I left my car, it wasn't in my name, so I
[00:02:17] couldn't bring it. I left
[00:02:18] money,
[00:02:21] and well, after the deportation, here I am
[00:02:25] in Tijuana. What else is left for me but to cling to
[00:02:29] life? I had to practically get involved
[00:02:33] in illicit situations where they could pay me faster.
[00:02:35] rápido.
[00:02:40] I got into drugs,
[00:02:43] I started consuming marijuana, from there I
[00:02:47] went to crystal meth, I started becoming the owner of my
[00:02:50] little stores,
[00:02:52] scared? Are you a I started distributing to other people, if I can't
[00:02:55] leave this job because if I leave this
[00:02:58] job, the... people who are
[00:03:01] with me can look for me and kill
[00:03:04] me and the part of my family that I have
[00:03:07] here. If you are going to be in this,
[00:03:11] make sure that the only path that awaits
[00:03:14] you is either death or prison. I don't
[00:03:17] know an old person who has
[00:03:20] worked in or is working in drug trafficking, maybe the
[00:03:24] leaders, the people from the very top, but all
[00:03:28] of us who are workers.
[00:03:40] when they discover that they decide to have the border
[00:03:43] of not only Tijuana, other borders, not only
[00:03:47] for the cost or maybe
[00:03:50] um to cross, because if you cross you can cross drugs and
[00:03:53] other stuffs, you know, do you know some ways that the cartels involved
[00:03:57] in, maybe with the coyotes?
[00:04:03] Exactly,
[00:04:06] I crossed to the other side loaded with drugs, but
[00:04:09] there were people who didn't cross, who were caught at the line, not at the
[00:04:12] line, they were caught in the desert, those people who were caught in the
[00:04:16] desert, well, the drug traffickers use them, they take them,
[00:04:20] either to work or to
[00:04:22] sell them.
[00:04:27] Once you're in the business, you have to do whatever it takes. If the boss
[00:04:30] tells you to kill that person, you have to kill them. We don't
[00:04:34] investigate, we don't investigate who it is. If
[00:04:38] they bother the boss, we have to do the job. If we don't
[00:04:42] do it, we would be bothering the boss, we would be useless.
[00:04:45] yeah, we know that or
[00:04:49] sometimes we have some people that comes to ikas and offer the
[00:04:53] services um and we have a
[00:04:56] policy like uh we don't
[00:04:59] about it a lot, but I accept that for example. um, if you offer this kind
[00:05:02] of services, if you pay me, I can cross you, so in that
[00:05:06] case, we need to ask for
[00:05:09] them that leave the casa.
[00:06:13] yeah, yeah, or kidnapp it, or yeah,
[00:06:16] it's to put the people in risk, maybe, okay, they know that
[00:06:20] the the migrants have family in united states, so if you have been
[00:06:23] kidnapped, your family pay lot of doll, okay,
[00:06:26] okay,
[00:06:34] can you tell me how is this line of work affected your maybe
[00:06:38] relationships or your personal life,
[00:06:41] romantic relationships? No, they don't exist here.
[00:06:45] Feelings for anyone else, all women are
[00:06:47] transient.
[00:06:49] Ah, I feel like being with a woman, I just go, I take her, I
[00:06:53] buy her, ah, in any red
[00:06:57] light district. Ah,
[00:06:59] sentimentally, my family is not with me. Eh, I had my
[00:07:03] brother, but they killed him also for being
[00:07:05] here, in this environment
[00:07:08] like
[00:07:11] me.
[00:07:42] if they come here to work in the brothels.
[00:08:24] open filming is impossible because of the watchers and pimps protecting their businesses. to speak to prostitutes we had to pretend to be
[00:08:28] clients.
[00:08:32] I don't know, I'm scared, of what, you're not
[00:08:35] going to steal. Okay, over there it's a higher
[00:08:39] price, it would be this
[00:08:44] it was ah 60 and 60 is 60. Where are you from? Jalisco,
[00:08:48] Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Sonora and Jalisco.
[00:08:52] Oh yes, I was born in Sonora but lived in Sinaloa
[00:08:55] for 12 years and in Guadalajara for 4 years. Ah, the
[00:08:58] accented yes, yes, of course, of course. Ah,
[00:09:01] look, let me think about it,
[00:09:04] why is it so cheap right now? Well, we're trying it out, it's
[00:09:08] like when you want something and you don't go with the first thing, no,
[00:09:12] I don't know, I'm not the first thing, I'm the most
[00:09:15] beautiful,
[00:09:18] very beautiful, yes, thank you, thank you,
[00:09:20] thank you.
[00:09:25] How much, how much for him, it comes focused like this.
[00:09:48] so as we were pretending to be John's customers for
[00:09:51] prostitutes, um, we were asking certain
[00:09:54] questions trying to find out if
[00:09:58] anybody is being sexually trafficked or where they're
[00:10:01] from and uh we turned around and noticed that our camera crew
[00:10:05] was surrounded by people who didn't like the fact that they were
[00:10:08] filming so we had to come back to the
[00:10:11] car and and uh realized that there were
[00:10:15] pimps, people who are the muscle who are protecting the women,
[00:10:18] or maybe possibly sex trafficking the women uh
[00:10:22] surrounding our camera crew, thanks. as we approached
[00:10:26] the vehicle, they dispersed and
[00:10:29] everything was okay, but you have to be very careful when going into
[00:10:33] any red light district, whether you're in Tijuana or
[00:10:36] the United States or anywhere, because those women
[00:10:40] often most likely will have some type of muscle
[00:10:43] protecting them uh from anybody causing them
[00:10:46] harm.
[00:10:51] deportees eager to join their families in the US, bring in huge
[00:10:55] profits for the cartels, it turns out there's a clear price for
[00:10:59] these services, but everyone's afraid to talk about it
[00:11:02] openly,
[00:11:05] is dangerous for me, show my face or
[00:11:09] something,
[00:11:17] right
[00:11:17] now,
[00:11:23] I try to... the board again a
[00:11:27] couple weeks ago, couple
[00:11:31] days and and somebody told me you can do that
[00:11:35] because you cross the board. Somebody kill you.
[00:11:38] Oh, a person selling hot
[00:11:42] dogs then told me, "Hey, talk to the guy. This guy,
[00:11:45] because you don't talk to this guy, people kill you for crossing the
[00:11:49] board." Oh, for real? I say, "Yes, you need to
[00:11:53] pay. You pay letting go." What is
[00:11:57] the cost to pay the cartels to cross over
[00:12:00] into the United States? I need to pay $10,000 to
[00:12:04] cross to USA. Do they guarantee to deliver you to
[00:12:08] the United States safely, or if they get caught, you're
[00:12:11] out of money? One time, lose,
[00:12:15] lose $500. Pay
[00:12:19] half and when I get there, pay the
[00:12:23] rest and...
[00:12:52] Provide material comfort.
[00:14:09] US president Donald Trump has escalated tensions with Mexico
[00:14:13] by reviving threats of military action against
[00:14:16] drug cartels, pursuing a terrorist designation for
[00:14:20] criminal networks and threatening terrorist nations exporting
[00:14:24] oil to Cuba. In response, Mexican president
[00:14:27] Claudia Sheinbom has rejected foreign military intervention
[00:14:31] while navigating a delicate diplomatic balancing act
[00:14:35] through increased bilateral cooperation on border
[00:14:38] security and extraditions.
[00:14:41] The last year, uh Mexico displaced
[00:14:44] hundreds of um
[00:14:47] soldiers to keep the security of the borders,
[00:14:51] so there's a reality in Mexico.
[00:15:09] Here we are on the Mexican US border. You can see in
[00:15:13] Tijuana here, this wall has been here 10-15 years,
[00:15:16] and right through the slats, you can see the United States of America,
[00:15:20] and hopefully as we walk here we'll be able to
[00:15:23] find some people to... interview, there are residential areas next to
[00:15:27] the wall, and it's clear these neighborhoods are pretty old.
[00:15:31] I wonder how these people live
[00:15:33] here.
[00:15:45] "Hello, hello, hello, what's happening, what are we? Well, Reginaldo
[00:15:49] Márquezón,
[00:15:53] American, United States, with the
[00:15:57] pretext of attacking criminal terrorist groups that the
[00:16:00] law codified, that they accused of being
[00:16:03] terrorists to invade, that is, to persecute."
[00:16:07] within Mexican territory that our political constitution absolutely
[00:16:11] prohibits it. before all of this
[00:16:15] before Trump and the Mexican government sending troops
[00:16:18] here to the border, there was a lot of people
[00:16:22] coming over this fence with ladders and can you tell
[00:16:26] us a little bit about what you experienced during these
[00:16:28] times?
[00:16:32] 69 of the last century, so there were no
[00:16:35] lines here, there was a fence at a height of no more
[00:16:39] than less than a meter
[00:16:43] and they knocked down a small fence that was only made of sheets that measured 2
[00:16:46] m5. They put this wall, this wall,
[00:16:50] they climb it anywhere with
[00:16:53] rebar ladders and it doesn't matter if they are
[00:16:57] there, it continues to happen currently,
[00:17:01] in plain sight, even though the United States is militarized within the United States, it is
[00:17:04] militarized, military patrols are carried out. In commands
[00:17:08] like that, also ICE also the Border Patrol,
[00:17:11] right? But that will not prevent it because, as our
[00:17:14] said, walls will not
[00:17:16] stop it.
[00:17:25] there are antennas and
[00:17:26] with
[00:17:29] reflectors that if someone tries to
[00:17:33] cross, reflectors light up as if it were a stage
[00:17:36] like a movie that is in a theater,
[00:17:40] right? So where they are
[00:17:44] crossing, reflectors that light you up
[00:17:47] immediately, it can reach up to 4 or
[00:17:51] 10, 10 km. It is one that has
[00:17:54] satellite antennas, they have motion
[00:17:58] and temperature sensors. Here too, everything, everything is
[00:18:02] well, they are well
[00:18:04] monitored.
[00:18:33] A delicate issue because if many people crossed, it
[00:18:37] would be seen. People crossing, running, hiding.
[00:18:40] One time,
[00:18:43] I was, well, I was here with my mom and I came
[00:18:46] to wash, I came to wash my clothes and everything
[00:18:50] and my husband was here outside and
[00:18:53] in fact, since we didn't live near here, he was
[00:18:57] looking because immigration was on that side and he was looking and he stopped
[00:19:01] there and a National Guard
[00:19:04] truck arrived and they got out laughing and grabbed
[00:19:08] him by his pants, they did this and
[00:19:11] uh they wanted to take him away, they even wanted to hit him,
[00:19:15] honestly, but they made
[00:19:18] me, they made me delete the video because I recorded them because honestly they
[00:19:22] got very violent believing that
[00:19:25] he wanted to cross when it wasn't
[00:19:26] like that.
[00:19:29] And yes, they do get a little delicate in those
[00:19:33] aspects, because also the National
[00:19:36] Guard here in Mexico well, since they don't let
[00:19:40] people cross, they are watching so that people don't try to
[00:19:44] cross, so they were watching and many people, well,
[00:19:47] yes, there was a lot of commotion about that
[00:19:51] matter, but for some years
[00:19:54] now, honestly, everything looks very calm. I'm not saying there are no
[00:19:58] illegal crossings, but perhaps the
[00:20:01] percentage has dropped a bit because I imagine they are afraid to
[00:20:05] pay so much to leave, only to be returned again, or to be
[00:20:09] locked up or something like that.
[00:20:12] así.
[00:20:16] Mexicali, you would be able to coordinate with the national guard, the
[00:20:20] Mexican military, and have you had any of these
[00:20:23] incidents happen here recently?
[00:20:26] There was an event here in Mexicali about two
[00:20:30] weeks ago where there was a report of gunshots
[00:20:33] and it was presumed that members of a criminal
[00:20:37] group were inside a home at a party. There was
[00:20:41] coordination between all the institutions that work here in Mexicali: municipal
[00:20:44] police, state force, the prosecutor's office,
[00:20:48] national guard, the... army, and shortly
[00:20:51] after, the prosecutor's office arrived with a warrant to enter the property, and there was an
[00:20:55] arrest of approximately 60 people. Several
[00:20:59] firearms were seized,
[00:21:02] and several people who presumably belonged to a criminal
[00:21:05] group operating here in Mexicali.
[00:21:37] you already have a job? Yes. What are you going to be doing? Uh,
[00:21:40] selling fruits and
[00:21:44] doing anything in in the place. Yeah, how much
[00:21:48] money do you think you'll make every day? 200 and sometimes
[00:21:52] tips. What would you say is the average amount of money you spend on
[00:21:55] food every day here in Tijuana? Oh
[00:21:58] a lot, a lot. Yeah, people talk a lot about what
[00:22:02] you make every day. So you're making just enough to
[00:22:05] survive. Would you, if you can't go back to the United States like to find a
[00:22:09] place in Tijuana or maybe move somewhere else in
[00:22:12] Mexico? I want to stay here
[00:22:15] because my family close to close
[00:22:19] to that. Yeah, only my
[00:22:22] sister come one time, yeah, she came to Mexico
[00:22:26] or did you meet each other in
[00:22:28] plyos?
[00:22:31] I saw my sister here in Mexico. Okay, and
[00:22:35] my two nephews, yeah,
[00:22:38] yeah, it was very emotional,
[00:22:41] yeah.
[00:24:46] I need to wait like a year, two years waiting
[00:24:50] for the permits.
[00:24:52] I suppose my my sons, my
[00:24:56] daughters, are citizens.
[00:24:59] So my daddy, she sending a permit to Washington
[00:25:03] DC to pardon for
[00:25:05] me, another chance, but I
[00:25:09] don't want to all right now,
[00:25:12] 54, waiting 10 more years is
[00:25:16] too long.
[00:25:30] I try, just like my companion tries
[00:25:32] too, and every day it's harder because they
[00:25:36] have already detained me, they already told me that if they detained me again, it would be
[00:25:40] 36 months, 3
[00:25:42] years that they would detain me, they would have me
[00:25:46] then, so I think
[00:25:49] will go back, I will go back because simply, for
[00:25:53] my children to arrange things for me, there's still time, a lot of time,
[00:25:57] and well, honestly, I need to be there, I am
[00:26:00] more needed there than here.
[00:26:03] Here I exist and I over-exist, so I'm going
[00:26:07] to try to fix things if I can, I'm going to get a
[00:26:10] lawyer to see what can be done to return with my
[00:26:14] family,
[00:26:16] because well, Mexico
[00:26:19] is my country, but I don't feel safe, I feel
[00:26:23] like
[00:26:25] I'm afraid to be here and it's very
[00:26:28] hard
[00:26:31] for me as for many people who go through many things
[00:26:34] and I wish
[00:26:37] that this would reach
[00:26:40] many people
[00:26:42] who
[00:26:45] can help migrants to try to
[00:26:48] injustices that
[00:26:51] ICE commits with immigrants
[00:26:55] not only with immigrants but with American citizens too
[00:26:59] because they have killed citizens
[00:27:02] and deported citizens also that they are not given time for anything just for
[00:27:06] the facial racial they have been
[00:27:09] deported and arriving in Mexico, sometimes families
[00:27:13] disappear and are never found again.
[00:27:16] Tijuana, every corner is full of posters where there are missing
[00:27:19] people and I don't want to be another
[00:27:23] victim of this
[00:27:25] process that my family is looking for
[00:27:29] me, putting up flyers on a post and they don't find
[00:27:32] me. Yes, I am very afraid of the insecurity
[00:27:35] outside, I don't know what will happen to me.
[00:28:26] ban territories, let's go,
[00:28:30] Crimea here. In Iran, we've traveled
[00:28:33] to Lugansk, and it's
[00:30:26] Russia closes all of its beaches in the resort town of
[00:30:29] Gelendzhik as active air defense. operations counter drone
[00:30:33] threats to the area, earlier Ukrainian attack on the coastline
[00:30:37] killed eight civilians.
[00:30:41] Washington claims the Strait of Hormuz will reopen soon while Tehran
[00:30:45] warns foreign actors to stay out of its talks with Oman over the critical
[00:30:48] waterway, saying Iran will set the terms of its
[00:30:51] use.
[00:30:54] And Tucker Carlson launches his 10-point vision for America,
[00:30:58] promising to break the traditional two.