Chuck Marino
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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So, I really do believe that if we were to go into Mexico, would have to be special operations both on the ground and in the air.
Yeah. I mean, look, if we look at the deaths of Americans at the hands of the cartels, I mean, it morphs. what we've seen from traditional terrorist organizations within our own borders. If you start to take into account the number of fentanyl deaths, the amount of criminals that are being trafficked into the country, we haven't even touched yet, Mike.
that 3,500% increase of predominantly single males that are Chinese nationals that were trafficked into the country. Direct flights from China to Mexico, of course, touching the cartels and being trafficked into the United States. You and I can guess all day long what those intentions may be.
Absolutely. I agree. No, I agree with you. And based on the amount of. migrants that we've seen from special interest locations, right? You know, we talk about it all the time. The vetting is only as good as the systems you're vetting against. And you mean to tell me these special interest locations have systems that we can vet against?
Look, if somebody didn't previously come to the attention of U.S. law enforcement or an intelligence agency or the military, they're going to be a ghost to us. And in many cases, the Biden administration knew that and they were still letting them in. You know, I called this when they brought in the first wave of refugees from Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal.
And they said that all 5,000 of them were thoroughly vetted. Then why was the FBI looking for 2,500 of them the following week within the United States? It just doesn't sell. And I think in their own towns, it just the American people aren't buying it anymore. And that's why the election went the way it did. Yeah.
Yeah, well, we've got to start collecting a lot more data. We've got to help some of these locations establish business programs where they're able to actually capture some of this information from their own countries of origin. And this is where Remain in Mexico comes into play and why it was so important. It becomes a forced mechanism to pause the process. Right. Yes, you can claim asylum.
You know, we've got to look at parole programs. You know, the HCMV parole program, the TPS, that was exploited. That was being fraudulently used by the cartels and others. It actually had to be shut down for a period of time by the Biden administration. They immediately started it back up. We have Trende Aragua to thank for that program. And so, you know, it's round and round we go.
But we've got to start collecting a lot more data points, both on our own end and have better capabilities to ping against. Because some of these people, you're just not going to be able to vet.
Yeah, I mean, look, when we look at the policies under the Biden administration, I mean, You and I have experienced this. You rely on the president who sets national security strategy to take his number one responsibility of protecting the country. and providing for the safety and security of the American public seriously.
We don't expect a president as Biden did to implement policies that actually undercut the entire homeland security apparatus that was created after September 11th, 2001. We don't expect to see policies that undercut the CIA, the FBI, and every other law enforcement agency that's tasked with protecting the homeland.
So the past four years were unprecedented in a lot of different ways, not only in the number of threats that they allowed to come right across our borders, but the way that they just undercut the entire mechanisms that were established to keep the country safer.
Yeah, you know, those were shut down under the Biden administration. They used to use the old spy blimps along the southwest border. And one of the first steps he took is he was standing down all these executive orders from the previous Trump administration. Those were one of the programs that he shut down. I think it's a valuable resource.
I think we're able, again, if we're collaboratively working with Mexico, which, you know, I'm keeping my fingers crossed is exactly what's happening. That's providing a wealth of information to both Mexican officials as well as to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies. I'm all for it. I like this stepped-up approach. This is where the military support is phenomenal.
It's allowed to assist and free up CBP resources to focus on securing that order and putting handcuffs on people.
uh and turning away those that need to be turned away so i like this whole government approach i'm a big fan of it uh and i think it's being done right right now and they're not going to leave any resource on the table so good for the trump administration yeah and you would you would think that again you know it will have to wait and see but you would think that the the mexican government you know he under claudia scheinbaum
Yeah. No, look, you're right. I mean, I try and break it down even plainer than that. And I say, look, if the cartels are willing to work with China to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans with fentanyl, what makes us so naive as to not think that they're working with terrorist organizations or other adversaries to infiltrate the United States. Again, it comes down to making a buck.
And so, they're going to work with whoever they need to work with. So, you know, I like the aggressive approach. I think if Mexico gets on board, we can make a big difference against the cartels down there in Mexico because they've expanded so much that they have just as much power with respect to all the trafficking across our northern border as well.
While we don't see the numbers that we saw at the southwest border, we saw the same diversity of threats, just at a slightly lower percentage. So, it wasn't that the threat was as large as down at the southwest border, but we were still facing the same range of threats.
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