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00:00:18ideological inspirer of
00:00:25that people they caught in the desert, well, drug
00:00:28traffickers use them, they take them away. Either to work or to
00:00:32sell them,
00:00:37once you're in the business, you have to do whatever it takes, if the boss
00:00:41tells you to kill that one, you have to kill him, we don't
00:00:45monarchy was replaced by a investigate, we don't investigate anyone, if
00:00:48they bother the boss,
00:00:51achieved the nationalization of we have to do the job, if we don't do it, we would be
00:00:54bothering the boss, we would be useless for
00:00:56nothing.
00:01:00sometimes we have some people that come to the casa and offer their
00:01:03services
00:01:06British semi-colony, the um and we have a policy like uh we don't accept that for
00:01:09example
00:01:13Non-Aligned Movement, which um if you offer this kind of services if you pay me I can cross you so in that
00:01:17case uh we need to um ask
00:01:20for them that leave the casa
00:01:23since you've been back in Tijuana, have you had any criminal organizations maybe
00:01:27try to scam you try
00:01:34also the I'm afraid to be here, they have made five
00:01:38calls to different numbers to my families
00:01:42and they are asking for
00:01:44money for me, saying I am
00:01:48kidnapped, I am not kidnapped here, I am fine,
00:01:51outside, I am afraid, I can be outside, but here I am
00:01:55safe.
00:02:00and that casa needs to close because the cartel takes control of
00:02:04the of the casa, mean they ask uh
00:02:07or for example depends of your
00:02:11nationality they um you need to pay
00:02:14a fee or something like that the congregation decide to close the
00:02:18casa. If it was still operating, what what would happen? Like the cartel would
00:02:22come in and exploit people. Yeah, yeah, or
00:02:24kidnap it or yeah it's to put the people at risk
00:02:28maybe. Okay, they know
00:02:34it a lot, but I will
00:02:55feelings for someone else, all women are
00:02:58temporary,
00:03:00I want to be with a woman, I just go, I take her, I
00:03:03buy her,
00:03:07The United States, with in any red light district,
00:03:10sentimentally, my family is not with me, I had my
00:03:13brother, but they killed him just for being
00:03:16here in this environment like me.
00:03:24and Drop Shot, I mean all of
00:03:30Of course, mostly prostitutes, I have
00:03:33witnessed them tell me that they were also on the other
00:03:36side in San Isidro, also here
00:03:40very close, for border patrol
00:03:43reasons, they sent them back here, they returned them to this
00:03:46side,
00:03:48and many girls also who are from there who have American
00:03:52papers and come here to work in the
00:03:56brothels.
00:05:38comes like this, focused,
00:05:39$60.
00:05:43what did she say? I think by now they spot us
00:05:46cuz yeah, we got to
00:05:48go get
00:05:50the
00:05:58car. So as we were pretending to be John's customers for
00:06:02prostitutes, um we were asking certain
00:06:05questions trying to find out if
00:06:08anybody is being sexually trafficked or where they're from.
00:06:12And uh we turned around and noticed that our camera crew was surrounded
00:06:16by people who didn't like the fact that they were filming, so we
00:06:20had to come back to the car and uh
00:06:23realized that there were pimps, people who are
00:06:27the muscle who are protecting the women or maybe possibly sex
00:06:31trafficking the women, uh surrounding our camera
00:06:34crew. Thankfully, as we approached the vehicle,
00:06:37they dispersed and
00:06:40everything was okay. But you have to be very careful when going into
00:06:43any red light district, whether you're in Tijuana or the
00:06:47United States or anywhere, because those
00:06:49women often, most likely will have some type of
00:06:53muscle protecting them uh from anybody causing them
00:06:57harm.
00:07:02Desperate, eager to join their families in the US, bring in huge
00:07:05profits for the cartels. It turns out
00:07:08there's a clear price for these services, but everyone's afraid to talk about.
00:07:43and and somebody told me, "You can do that because you cross
00:07:47the border. Somebody will kill you." Oh, uh a
00:07:51person selling hot dogs then told me, "Hey,
00:07:54talk to the guy, this guy, because if you don't talk to this guy,
00:07:58people will kill you for crossing the border." Oh, for real?
00:08:02He said, "Yes, you need to pay." You
00:08:05pay. Let's go. What is the cost to
00:08:08pay the cartels to cross over into the United States?
00:08:12"I need to pay 10,000 to cross to USA." Do they
00:08:16guarantee you to deliver you to the United States safely,
00:08:20or if they get caught, you're out of money? One time I
00:08:24lost I lost
00:08:26$5,000. I paid
00:08:29half, and when me and the other person paid
00:08:33the rest, and I never, never went to
00:08:37L.A. I lost my fight. You got caught before
00:08:41you made it to L.A. Yeah, yeah.
00:09:14if any two countries want to resolve issues, they can resolve it
00:09:17outside of Syria, because in Syria we want
00:09:20connectivity to ports, to highways, to
00:09:23internet, to be a hub for. And if we want that, we cannot be
00:09:27an area of conflict.
00:09:42Since
00:11:46escalated tensions with Mexico by reviving threats
00:11:49of military action against drug cartels,
00:11:53pursuing a terrorist nation for criminal networks, and
00:11:57threatening tariffs on nations exporting oil to
00:11:59Cuba. In response, Mexican President Claudia
00:12:03Sheinbaum has rejected foreign military intervention
00:12:06while navigating a delicate diplomatic balancing act
00:12:10through increased bilateral cooperation on border
00:12:13security and extraditions.
00:12:17The last year, uh Mexico displaced
00:12:19a hundred of um
00:12:22soldiers to keep the security of
00:12:25the borders. So there's a reality in Mexico.
00:12:45Here we are on the Mexican- US border, you can see in
00:12:48Tijuana here, this wall has been here 10-15 years,
00:12:51and right through the slat, you can see the United States
00:12:55of America, and hopefully as we walk here, we'll be able
00:12:59to find some people to interview. There are residential
00:13:02areas next to the wall, and it's clear these neighborhoods are
00:13:05pretty old. I wonder how these people live here.
00:13:32the pretext of attacking criminal terrorist groups
00:13:36that the law codified, that accused them of being
00:13:39terrorists, to invade, to
00:13:42pursue them within Mexican territory, which our
00:13:45political constitution
00:13:47absolutely prohibits.
00:14:25They scale this wall anywhere
00:14:27with wire ladders,
00:14:30and it doesn't matter if they are there, the guard is still active, currently
00:14:34it is still being done in plain sight, even though the United States is militarized,
00:14:38within the United States it is militarized, they are making
00:14:41military patrols in commands, also
00:14:45ICE, also the border patrol, right? But that will not
00:14:48prevent it because as our walls said, they will not stop
00:14:52it.
00:15:01There are antennas and
00:15:03with reflectors that if
00:15:07someone tries to cross, the reflectors
00:15:10light up as if it were a stage like in a movie that
00:15:14is in a theater, right? That's how
00:15:17they are crossing,
00:15:21reflectors that light you up immediately, it
00:15:24has a range of up to 4, 10, 10 km, that's one that
00:15:28has satellite antennas,
00:15:30they have motion sensors,
00:15:34temperature sensors here too, everything is
00:15:37fine, they are well monitored.
00:15:51Who are these guys? These people
00:15:54are watching,
00:15:55okay?
00:16:04Years ago, well, yes, it was a little bit like...
00:16:08a delicate issue because a lot of people crossed, you
00:16:12could see people crossing, running, hiding.
00:16:15Once
00:16:18I was, well, I was here with my mom and I came
00:16:22to wash, I came to wash my clothes and
00:16:25everything and my husband was here outside and in
00:16:28fact, since we didn't live here nearby, he was
00:16:32watching because immigration was on that side and he was watching and he
00:16:36stopped there. And a National Guard truck
00:16:40arrived and they got out running and grabbed
00:16:43him by the pants, they did that
00:16:47and they wanted to take him away, they even wanted to hit him,
00:16:51honestly, but they made
00:16:54me delete the video because I recorded them because they really
00:16:57got very violent, believing that
00:17:00he wanted to cross when that was
00:17:02not the case.
00:17:05And yes, they get a little delicate in that
00:17:08aspect because
00:17:12National Guard here in
00:17:14Mexico, well, since they don't allow
00:17:17it, they are making sure that people don't want to cross, so
00:17:21they were watching and many people, well, there was
00:17:24a lot of commotion about that matter, but
00:17:28for some years now, honestly, everything looks very
00:17:31calm. I'm not saying there are no
00:17:34illegal crossings, but perhaps
00:17:38the percentage dropped a bit because
00:17:41I imagine they are afraid to pay so much to go, only to be
00:17:45sent back
00:17:48again. So I'm assuming if you had any issues with the cartel coming into Mexicali, you would be able to coordinate with the national
00:17:52guard, the Mexican
00:17:56military, and have you had any of these incidents happen
00:17:59here in Mexicali recently? There was an event
00:18:03here in Mexicali about two weeks ago
00:18:06of... there was a report of shootings and and it was
00:18:10presumed that members of a criminal group were inside
00:18:14a house at a party. No, there was coordination
00:18:17among all the institutions that work here in Mexicali, municipal
00:18:20police, state force, the prosecutor's office,
00:18:23national guard, the army, and
00:18:27shortly after, the prosecutor's office arrived with a warrant to enter the property and
00:18:30there was an arrest of approximately 60 people, several
00:18:34firearms were seized, and
00:18:38several people who presumably belong to a criminal
00:18:41group that operates here in Mexicali.
00:19:12Do you already have a job? Yes. What are you going to be doing? Uh, I'm
00:19:16selling fruits and
00:19:20doing anything in in the place, yeah. How much
00:19:23money do you think you'll make every day? 200 and
00:19:27sometimes tips. What would you say is the average amount of money
00:19:30you spend on food every day here in Tijuana? Oh,
00:19:34a lot, a lot, yeah. People a lot. About what
00:19:38you make every day, so you're making just enough to
00:19:41survive. Would you, if you can't go back to the United States, like to find
00:19:45a place in Tijuana or maybe move somewhere else in
00:19:47Mexico? I want to stay here
00:19:51because my family is close, to
00:19:55Tijuana. That is why only my
00:19:58sister came one time. Yeah, she came to Mexico,
00:20:01or did you meet each other in
00:20:03Playas?
00:20:06I see... here in Mexico, my sister,
00:20:09okay, and my
00:20:12two nephews, yeah, yeah, very emotional.
00:22:21I need to wait like a year, two years,
00:22:24waiting for the permits.
00:22:28Suppose my sons, my
00:22:31daughters are citizens.
00:22:34So my dad, she's sending a permission to Washington
00:22:38D.C. to pardon
00:22:41me, another chance.
00:22:44But I don't want to. All right now.
00:22:4754.
00:23:05I try, like my partner also
00:23:08tries, and every day it's harder. Why? Because they have
00:23:12already detained me. They told me that if they detained me again, it would be
00:23:1536 months, 3 years that they will
00:23:19detain me, they will have me.
00:23:21So I think about
00:23:24go back, I will go back, because simply, for my
00:23:28children to arrange things for me, it still takes time, a lot of time,
00:23:32and well, the truth is I need to be there,
00:23:36I am more needed there than here.
00:23:38Here I exist, I over-exist,
00:23:42well, I'm going to try to fix things, if I can, I'm going to
00:23:45get a lawyer to see what can be done
00:23:49to go back with... my family,
00:23:51because well, it's my country,
00:23:55Mexico, but I don't feel safe, oh, I feel
00:23:58like mm, I'm afraid to be
00:24:01here, and it's very
00:24:04hard
00:24:06for me, as for many people who go through many things, and
00:24:09I wish that
00:24:12this would reach
00:24:15many who
00:24:17can
00:24:20help immigrants, that they try to support them, that the
00:24:24injustices that ICE does
00:24:27with immigrants are not seen,
00:24:31not just with immigrants, with American citizens too, because
00:24:35they have killed citizens
00:24:37and have deported citizens also who are not given time for anything, just
00:24:41for the racial facial aspect, they have been
00:24:45deported and arriving in Mexico, sometimes families
00:24:48disappear and are no longer found. Tijuana,
00:24:52every corner is full of posters where there are missing people
00:24:55and I don't want to be another victim of
00:24:58that
00:25:01process, that my family is looking for me,
00:25:04putting up flyers on a pole where they won't
00:25:07find me. Yes, I'm very afraid of the insecurity
00:25:11outside, I don't know what will happen
00:25:13to me.
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00:30:32Washington claims the Strait of Hormuz will soon reopen, while Iran
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00:30:54shift is actually feasible.
00:30:57Are people willing to actually put in
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