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00:00:00party right now and doing a phenomenal job, their their success, I think
00:00:04is evidenced by the fact that they're being called every name in the book,
00:00:07every terrible thing in the book, so I think there are certainly within the Republican
00:00:11party, but the devils in the details, if you agree on the broad
00:00:15strokes then you've got a lot to work with, and I think that populism is
00:00:18the name of the game at this point, we see populist and insurgent
00:00:21candidates and political movements all throughout the world,
00:00:25especially uh in the west, because we've seen the
00:00:28failure of politicians and of... politics as as has
00:00:32been done over the past decades, I think Tucker,
00:00:35as as our good uh friend George Galloway says, is a is
00:00:38very viable candidate, so I think absolutely he could be a unifying
00:00:41figure and I think that he could achieve sizeable results an
00:00:44election campaign. President, let's look at the top
00:00:47stories we're covering here on RRT international, but do say with us, I'll be back with much
00:00:51more in half an hour. I'll see you
00:00:52then.
00:01:22The deporty asked to hide his face and change his
00:01:25voice because he fears reprisals from the
00:01:28cartel he was forced to.
00:01:36someone came and offered me the crossing, that several
00:01:39people were going to cross, ah, he sang it very nicely to me, he told me that
00:01:43there would be a lot of money, that we already had a guaranteed job, we
00:01:47went through the desert for three
00:01:51days, two nights, and we arrived
00:01:54there. There they caught me in San
00:01:57Diego in the Home Depot. I was working as a bricklayer. One day
00:02:00I trusted, I was in the parking lot, well, the
00:02:03patrol caught me,
00:02:07they caught me and boom, to Tijuana. My life stayed
00:02:10there. I have my wife there,
00:02:13I left my car, it wasn't in my name, so I
00:02:17couldn't bring it. I left
00:02:18money,
00:02:21and well, after the deportation, here I am
00:02:25in Tijuana. What else is left for me but to cling to
00:02:29life? I had to practically get involved
00:02:33in illicit situations where they could pay me faster.
00:02:35rápido.
00:02:40I got into drugs,
00:02:43I started consuming marijuana, from there I
00:02:47went to crystal meth, I started becoming the owner of my
00:02:50little stores,
00:02:52scared? Are you a I started distributing to other people, if I can't
00:02:55leave this job because if I leave this
00:02:58job, the... people who are
00:03:01with me can look for me and kill
00:03:04me and the part of my family that I have
00:03:07here. If you are going to be in this,
00:03:11make sure that the only path that awaits
00:03:14you is either death or prison. I don't
00:03:17know an old person who has
00:03:20worked in or is working in drug trafficking, maybe the
00:03:24leaders, the people from the very top, but all
00:03:28of us who are workers.
00:03:40when they discover that they decide to have the border
00:03:43of not only Tijuana, other borders, not only
00:03:47for the cost or maybe
00:03:50um to cross, because if you cross you can cross drugs and
00:03:53other stuffs, you know, do you know some ways that the cartels involved
00:03:57in, maybe with the coyotes?
00:04:03Exactly,
00:04:06I crossed to the other side loaded with drugs, but
00:04:09there were people who didn't cross, who were caught at the line, not at the
00:04:12line, they were caught in the desert, those people who were caught in the
00:04:16desert, well, the drug traffickers use them, they take them,
00:04:20either to work or to
00:04:22sell them.
00:04:27Once you're in the business, you have to do whatever it takes. If the boss
00:04:30tells you to kill that person, you have to kill them. We don't
00:04:34investigate, we don't investigate who it is. If
00:04:38they bother the boss, we have to do the job. If we don't
00:04:42do it, we would be bothering the boss, we would be useless.
00:04:45yeah, we know that or
00:04:49sometimes we have some people that comes to ikas and offer the
00:04:53services um and we have a
00:04:56policy like uh we don't
00:04:59about it a lot, but I accept that for example. um, if you offer this kind
00:05:02of services, if you pay me, I can cross you, so in that
00:05:06case, we need to ask for
00:05:09them that leave the casa.
00:06:13yeah, yeah, or kidnapp it, or yeah,
00:06:16it's to put the people in risk, maybe, okay, they know that
00:06:20the the migrants have family in united states, so if you have been
00:06:23kidnapped, your family pay lot of doll, okay,
00:06:26okay,
00:06:34can you tell me how is this line of work affected your maybe
00:06:38relationships or your personal life,
00:06:41romantic relationships? No, they don't exist here.
00:06:45Feelings for anyone else, all women are
00:06:47transient.
00:06:49Ah, I feel like being with a woman, I just go, I take her, I
00:06:53buy her, ah, in any red
00:06:57light district. Ah,
00:06:59sentimentally, my family is not with me. Eh, I had my
00:07:03brother, but they killed him also for being
00:07:05here, in this environment
00:07:08like
00:07:11me.
00:07:42if they come here to work in the brothels.
00:08:24open filming is impossible because of the watchers and pimps protecting their businesses. to speak to prostitutes we had to pretend to be
00:08:28clients.
00:08:32I don't know, I'm scared, of what, you're not
00:08:35going to steal. Okay, over there it's a higher
00:08:39price, it would be this
00:08:44it was ah 60 and 60 is 60. Where are you from? Jalisco,
00:08:48Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Sonora and Jalisco.
00:08:52Oh yes, I was born in Sonora but lived in Sinaloa
00:08:55for 12 years and in Guadalajara for 4 years. Ah, the
00:08:58accented yes, yes, of course, of course. Ah,
00:09:01look, let me think about it,
00:09:04why is it so cheap right now? Well, we're trying it out, it's
00:09:08like when you want something and you don't go with the first thing, no,
00:09:12I don't know, I'm not the first thing, I'm the most
00:09:15beautiful,
00:09:18very beautiful, yes, thank you, thank you,
00:09:20thank you.
00:09:25How much, how much for him, it comes focused like this.
00:09:48so as we were pretending to be John's customers for
00:09:51prostitutes, um, we were asking certain
00:09:54questions trying to find out if
00:09:58anybody is being sexually trafficked or where they're
00:10:01from and uh we turned around and noticed that our camera crew
00:10:05was surrounded by people who didn't like the fact that they were
00:10:08filming so we had to come back to the
00:10:11car and and uh realized that there were
00:10:15pimps, people who are the muscle who are protecting the women,
00:10:18or maybe possibly sex trafficking the women uh
00:10:22surrounding our camera crew, thanks. as we approached
00:10:26the vehicle, they dispersed and
00:10:29everything was okay, but you have to be very careful when going into
00:10:33any red light district, whether you're in Tijuana or
00:10:36the United States or anywhere, because those women
00:10:40often most likely will have some type of muscle
00:10:43protecting them uh from anybody causing them
00:10:46harm.
00:10:51deportees eager to join their families in the US, bring in huge
00:10:55profits for the cartels, it turns out there's a clear price for
00:10:59these services, but everyone's afraid to talk about it
00:11:02openly,
00:11:05is dangerous for me, show my face or
00:11:09something,
00:11:17right
00:11:17now,
00:11:23I try to... the board again a
00:11:27couple weeks ago, couple
00:11:31days and and somebody told me you can do that
00:11:35because you cross the board. Somebody kill you.
00:11:38Oh, a person selling hot
00:11:42dogs then told me, "Hey, talk to the guy. This guy,
00:11:45because you don't talk to this guy, people kill you for crossing the
00:11:49board." Oh, for real? I say, "Yes, you need to
00:11:53pay. You pay letting go." What is
00:11:57the cost to pay the cartels to cross over
00:12:00into the United States? I need to pay $10,000 to
00:12:04cross to USA. Do they guarantee to deliver you to
00:12:08the United States safely, or if they get caught, you're
00:12:11out of money? One time, lose,
00:12:15lose $500. Pay
00:12:19half and when I get there, pay the
00:12:23rest and...
00:12:52Provide material comfort.
00:14:09US president Donald Trump has escalated tensions with Mexico
00:14:13by reviving threats of military action against
00:14:16drug cartels, pursuing a terrorist designation for
00:14:20criminal networks and threatening terrorist nations exporting
00:14:24oil to Cuba. In response, Mexican president
00:14:27Claudia Sheinbom has rejected foreign military intervention
00:14:31while navigating a delicate diplomatic balancing act
00:14:35through increased bilateral cooperation on border
00:14:38security and extraditions.
00:14:41The last year, uh Mexico displaced
00:14:44hundreds of um
00:14:47soldiers to keep the security of the borders,
00:14:51so there's a reality in Mexico.
00:15:09Here we are on the Mexican US border. You can see in
00:15:13Tijuana here, this wall has been here 10-15 years,
00:15:16and right through the slats, you can see the United States of America,
00:15:20and hopefully as we walk here we'll be able to
00:15:23find some people to... interview, there are residential areas next to
00:15:27the wall, and it's clear these neighborhoods are pretty old.
00:15:31I wonder how these people live
00:15:33here.
00:15:45"Hello, hello, hello, what's happening, what are we? Well, Reginaldo
00:15:49Márquezón,
00:15:53American, United States, with the
00:15:57pretext of attacking criminal terrorist groups that the
00:16:00law codified, that they accused of being
00:16:03terrorists to invade, that is, to persecute."
00:16:07within Mexican territory that our political constitution absolutely
00:16:11prohibits it. before all of this
00:16:15before Trump and the Mexican government sending troops
00:16:18here to the border, there was a lot of people
00:16:22coming over this fence with ladders and can you tell
00:16:26us a little bit about what you experienced during these
00:16:28times?
00:16:3269 of the last century, so there were no
00:16:35lines here, there was a fence at a height of no more
00:16:39than less than a meter
00:16:43and they knocked down a small fence that was only made of sheets that measured 2
00:16:46m5. They put this wall, this wall,
00:16:50they climb it anywhere with
00:16:53rebar ladders and it doesn't matter if they are
00:16:57there, it continues to happen currently,
00:17:01in plain sight, even though the United States is militarized within the United States, it is
00:17:04militarized, military patrols are carried out. In commands
00:17:08like that, also ICE also the Border Patrol,
00:17:11right? But that will not prevent it because, as our
00:17:14said, walls will not
00:17:16stop it.
00:17:25there are antennas and
00:17:26with
00:17:29reflectors that if someone tries to
00:17:33cross, reflectors light up as if it were a stage
00:17:36like a movie that is in a theater,
00:17:40right? So where they are
00:17:44crossing, reflectors that light you up
00:17:47immediately, it can reach up to 4 or
00:17:5110, 10 km. It is one that has
00:17:54satellite antennas, they have motion
00:17:58and temperature sensors. Here too, everything, everything is
00:18:02well, they are well
00:18:04monitored.
00:18:33A delicate issue because if many people crossed, it
00:18:37would be seen. People crossing, running, hiding.
00:18:40One time,
00:18:43I was, well, I was here with my mom and I came
00:18:46to wash, I came to wash my clothes and everything
00:18:50and my husband was here outside and
00:18:53in fact, since we didn't live near here, he was
00:18:57looking because immigration was on that side and he was looking and he stopped
00:19:01there and a National Guard
00:19:04truck arrived and they got out laughing and grabbed
00:19:08him by his pants, they did this and
00:19:11uh they wanted to take him away, they even wanted to hit him,
00:19:15honestly, but they made
00:19:18me, they made me delete the video because I recorded them because honestly they
00:19:22got very violent believing that
00:19:25he wanted to cross when it wasn't
00:19:26like that.
00:19:29And yes, they do get a little delicate in those
00:19:33aspects, because also the National
00:19:36Guard here in Mexico well, since they don't let
00:19:40people cross, they are watching so that people don't try to
00:19:44cross, so they were watching and many people, well,
00:19:47yes, there was a lot of commotion about that
00:19:51matter, but for some years
00:19:54now, honestly, everything looks very calm. I'm not saying there are no
00:19:58illegal crossings, but perhaps the
00:20:01percentage has dropped a bit because I imagine they are afraid to
00:20:05pay so much to leave, only to be returned again, or to be
00:20:09locked up or something like that.
00:20:12así.
00:20:16Mexicali, you would be able to coordinate with the national guard, the
00:20:20Mexican military, and have you had any of these
00:20:23incidents happen here recently?
00:20:26There was an event here in Mexicali about two
00:20:30weeks ago where there was a report of gunshots
00:20:33and it was presumed that members of a criminal
00:20:37group were inside a home at a party. There was
00:20:41coordination between all the institutions that work here in Mexicali: municipal
00:20:44police, state force, the prosecutor's office,
00:20:48national guard, the... army, and shortly
00:20:51after, the prosecutor's office arrived with a warrant to enter the property, and there was an
00:20:55arrest of approximately 60 people. Several
00:20:59firearms were seized,
00:21:02and several people who presumably belonged to a criminal
00:21:05group operating here in Mexicali.
00:21:37you already have a job? Yes. What are you going to be doing? Uh,
00:21:40selling fruits and
00:21:44doing anything in in the place. Yeah, how much
00:21:48money do you think you'll make every day? 200 and sometimes
00:21:52tips. What would you say is the average amount of money you spend on
00:21:55food every day here in Tijuana? Oh
00:21:58a lot, a lot. Yeah, people talk a lot about what
00:22:02you make every day. So you're making just enough to
00:22:05survive. Would you, if you can't go back to the United States like to find a
00:22:09place in Tijuana or maybe move somewhere else in
00:22:12Mexico? I want to stay here
00:22:15because my family close to close
00:22:19to that. Yeah, only my
00:22:22sister come one time, yeah, she came to Mexico
00:22:26or did you meet each other in
00:22:28plyos?
00:22:31I saw my sister here in Mexico. Okay, and
00:22:35my two nephews, yeah,
00:22:38yeah, it was very emotional,
00:22:41yeah.
00:24:46I need to wait like a year, two years waiting
00:24:50for the permits.
00:24:52I suppose my my sons, my
00:24:56daughters, are citizens.
00:24:59So my daddy, she sending a permit to Washington
00:25:03DC to pardon for
00:25:05me, another chance, but I
00:25:09don't want to all right now,
00:25:1254, waiting 10 more years is
00:25:16too long.
00:25:30I try, just like my companion tries
00:25:32too, and every day it's harder because they
00:25:36have already detained me, they already told me that if they detained me again, it would be
00:25:4036 months, 3
00:25:42years that they would detain me, they would have me
00:25:46then, so I think
00:25:49will go back, I will go back because simply, for
00:25:53my children to arrange things for me, there's still time, a lot of time,
00:25:57and well, honestly, I need to be there, I am
00:26:00more needed there than here.
00:26:03Here I exist and I over-exist, so I'm going
00:26:07to try to fix things if I can, I'm going to get a
00:26:10lawyer to see what can be done to return with my
00:26:14family,
00:26:16because well, Mexico
00:26:19is my country, but I don't feel safe, I feel
00:26:23like
00:26:25I'm afraid to be here and it's very
00:26:28hard
00:26:31for me as for many people who go through many things
00:26:34and I wish
00:26:37that this would reach
00:26:40many people
00:26:42who
00:26:45can help migrants to try to
00:26:48injustices that
00:26:51ICE commits with immigrants
00:26:55not only with immigrants but with American citizens too
00:26:59because they have killed citizens
00:27:02and deported citizens also that they are not given time for anything just for
00:27:06the facial racial they have been
00:27:09deported and arriving in Mexico, sometimes families
00:27:13disappear and are never found again.
00:27:16Tijuana, every corner is full of posters where there are missing
00:27:19people and I don't want to be another
00:27:23victim of this
00:27:25process that my family is looking for
00:27:29me, putting up flyers on a post and they don't find
00:27:32me. Yes, I am very afraid of the insecurity
00:27:35outside, I don't know what will happen to me.
00:28:26ban territories, let's go,
00:28:30Crimea here. In Iran, we've traveled
00:28:33to Lugansk, and it's
00:30:26Russia closes all of its beaches in the resort town of
00:30:29Gelendzhik as active air defense. operations counter drone
00:30:33threats to the area, earlier Ukrainian attack on the coastline
00:30:37killed eight civilians.
00:30:41Washington claims the Strait of Hormuz will reopen soon while Tehran
00:30:45warns foreign actors to stay out of its talks with Oman over the critical
00:30:48waterway, saying Iran will set the terms of its
00:30:51use.
00:30:54And Tucker Carlson launches his 10-point vision for America,
00:30:58promising to break the traditional two.
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