David McWilliams
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Then, of course, cartels, human smuggling, massive operation, right?
Primarily from Mexico to the Americans.
They think it's worth $13 billion annually.
It's paid to the cartels
That is up from 500 million in 2018.
That's 26 times higher now.
So it shows you, if you're interested in this, on the issue of literature and books, Janine Cummings is coming to the Docky Book Festival.
Oh, right.
She wrote that amazing book, American Dirt.
I don't know if you've read it.
Really extraordinary about a Mexican family, a mother and daughter, and their...
journey to the United States for paying all the cartels and the violence and the extraordinary risk these people take.
Cruelty of it.
Oh God, yeah, absolutely.
So again, human smuggling, right?
And then just general extortion, John.
Basically going up
You're a commoner gardener.
You're a commoner gardener extorting money out of businesses.
Probably about $1.3 billion is extorted from like fellas with taco vans and things like that, you know?