tv Documentary RT August 6, 2017 5:29pm-6:01pm EDT
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me my daughter was working in tucson so we were driving. back to tucson and we got pulled over by a border patrol and he immediately asked me. to state my citizenship was a u.s. citizen a mexican citizen and i said i'm going on. among all of them you know my land. where you're from. so he merely clipped this this pistol on this side and he put it in my head he said you will say. i'm mexican
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citizen. and he did that in front of my daughter and my grandson was little and both of them started crying and. but he continued to say that he would deport me. on the pavement. in the park. and i said. are you going to deport me to. department to mexico that's my men to my community on that side too. and at that point another border patrol came and saw what was happening and it you know it stopped and.
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ninety nine to two thousand all of the over two thousand two hundred sixty nine people dying you know this. well that's why you don't try to cross the desert is in the hospital bowl you can't carry enough water we see more people in the summer too and that we rescue. is. crazy. so here's the drop. ok. listen it's just.
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kind of more typical. well it could have been hunters. we don't always know. we do have footage of border patrol over. water gallons of we got. a guess there's no way to prove it either way but they did that i just talked to said that he knew there was a drop here so that kind of leads me to believe that they know it's here and my becoming it because again that fits in with their strategy of just making it really difficult for people to cross the strategy of prevention through deterrence where basically they want to make crossing as difficult and hard as possible. to deter people from doing it but really this is just resulted in suffering and death on the border and just putting people in a really really vulnerable situation. when
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they catch people they now will put them through operation streamline and give them criminal charges and jail time as a consequence for crossing so they've created this other system to make it even worse to cross and make what this also does is it makes getting caught more of an issue before you might just get deported back but now if you're crossing and you get lost to turn yourself in might mean spending six months in a jail or six months in a prison and so the consequences are just higher and it's harder to do because there's more in force and it's just really set up to make people suffer.
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when they see. these humanitarians out on the trails try to educate them. because these are people that are coming from different parts of the country. believing the narrative that the organization is putting or you're going to be helping people you know survive governs where the desert. when you run in and talk to some of these people sometimes your head just one sticks load from the mentality and the thought process.
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there's a water drop up here probably another half mile which is a mazing because that's a long way for them to carry that much water it's probably in from the truck probably. almost a mile away and. he gets steeper than this to get to it and that's the farthest i've ever seen him carry water and you wouldn't mind going up there but. i'm sure there's water sitting there they usually have water their data read their food. so. that's another nice thing you know where i will hike in and enjoying the beautiful day will run into one of their water drops and sit down and they have individually wrapped meals. and you know. their old water is in there and yogurt or stuff like that can of beans and we'll sit down and i want.
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gracious really good are great when somebody calls it nobody knows what they believe that their range is their answer in they don't believe the federal government is taking. responsibility for their security what you would for anywhere else is to treat it with a long ways away a lot of times for everybody else so response time for the sheriff. for the border patrol or even the military is a problem. our experience for one of those killed two zero zero zero. he told razors that you're good enough to protect yourself to know the sheriff can get
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there of our and if you are in trouble it is going to take me an hour to get there or half an hour to get it or you're going to be able to take care of yourself. here is on is a typical as far as most of the states are concerned we have would be called open carry law where you can carry a firearm full time anywhere in the state of arizona if there are you doing. there are you get a test to get you do. you. know it's not much for you they may be here aka. most people won't do it in highly populated areas like phoenix or tucson but here in the rural areas like in tombstone basically the only people who carry guns live here are kids in high school. gun there was
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a lot of different gun manufacturers but this became one of the most popular firearms it's time the cold single action army and this is what i carry and. the only thing i shoot with it now is blanks. when i get into a gun fight occasionally and it's just fun it's fun. already live through it all right now lots of. good. that was weird as. we both read it but. but it. was. all right. for us you have to understand that the white men was an invader in
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their territorial issues to be nothing but the patches especially down here and of course mexicans in southern arizona where it was part of mexico. cowboys and indians the mexicans hailed us ran back and forth across the border pretty much all the time i mean there were organized military on the mexican sign but for the most part. the borders really didn't exist which which also was a large part of the problem with the cowboys gang is that they would go across the border steal cattle and sell it and vice versa. such an environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is serial is exceptionally sick.
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no wonder it's confidential. exists just three years old industrial giants reap the benefit. by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't people just experimental animals. the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this despicable. or worse there's criminal kind of financial survival job today with all the money laundering first visit this could just be different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your
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something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the doctor says we just have to give him a call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious mood ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again from that you know what money laundering is highly illegal. watch keyser of course. development is all about nobody really pleased or if this quarter we are modern six more. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think back that our c.e.o. might do. over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says. with all due respect i have to say
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i don't think that's right. just how a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are. just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society. the whatever the government tried to do it wasn't necessarily maybe. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not work this is. hopelessly disastrously wrong.
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the danger element is that. they're not the people running the drugs they're all carville and. they're not going to give up and that's where the danger for ranchers is is you know we have to be smart we're not. the majority the ranchers are going out catching drug runners. we don't want to get killed. so we're smart enough to either turn our i don't turn my head i call border roll. we've advocated. for the last ten years that border patrol should. hire. veterans because they're trained and. it wouldn't be that hard to convert a soldier to a border but. they won't do it. and you know border patrol is their federal agents
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but they're civilians that's right there and that's the problem. in order to control the border you have to have a military officer and border patrol doesn't. really. i'm scanning for radio traffic. trying to find. where they're talking. and in listening. i took an oath when i first joined the military. and that oath doesn't expire.
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so when my military service ended you know i did a lot of other public service jobs things like that. but this this is a huge huge problem and. being. our government having things the way they are these guys can't effectively do their job beyond a certain point and. i figured you know what i've got some decent knowledge of guys decent training why not come out here and give them a hand. the right way and. i think the issue of categorizing people into good and bad people can be really
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problematic because you know somebody who is carrying drugs across the border might be doing that just to pay to get across if they don't have any money that's an easy way that somebody can pay for their trip they can carry drugs across. i think also depending on where you were born if i were born in sonora. that might be the only job opportunity i have the only way that i can make money might be to work as a guide through the leading people through the desert or carrying. drugs through the desert that might be the only opportunity so i don't think it's that people wake up one day and decide they want to do this bad thing. we had already seen people crossing we didn't have as much surveillance back that people came across more freely and stopped in and asked for food. but i wasn't really aware of all the deaths of her going on around because it wasn't really publicized very much. and then i met valerie was that an artist had moved
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into the area and she had some big dogs and she would go out walking with her dogs and while she was out there she started finding all these artifacts we call them these backpacks filled with personal items everything you know prayer books rosary clothing a lot of family pictures and letters very personal stuff so we started picking them up. and it was actually her idea to do a large memorial to what was happening to the people that. were just falling by the wayside and nobody was really paying attention to them. we decided to focus on the mothers that are left behind to really emphasize the
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sadness of families being torn apart and so we came up with a list mothers project. we were going to do three. a lot of just that we were going to. going to do one figure for every ten people that . realized how many had died so we decided to. hundred. turns out to was way more than that so we did one figure for every thousand. three at that point it was over three thousand people. so we decided that if we we used the clothing to make the paper it would have the d.n.a. of the cross because they're running they're scared they're tired they're thirsty and all this being poured out into their clothing and so we set out this way the others will be made out of the same essence as the people that they're representing
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so he was the first one these two brian terry was in two thousand and ten in the fall is one of the was in two thousand and twelve so there's more of this being killed and these guys were killed by gunfire those are the ones who have been run over. all different other types of being still with the fence or about a mile. but these are the ones who are killed by gunfire there's dozens upon dozens of been killed down here the past. ten years. but the code doesn't. because they don't tell. and so. we have for them to we're left open for. going to hell but if.
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