James O'Keefe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I was with these immigrants who were coming from Venezuela to the United States, and they're just trying to survive.
And it really moved me.
I ceased becoming a journalist, and I was just a humanitarian.
And I was a participant.
And by the way, I think many of them are good people.
I mean, there might be some there that are bad, but they're mothers.
with their babies, six months old, and they're climbing aboard a moving freight train, and you could get your leg chopped off, many of the babies get mutilated, and these mothers, they have like a, they're just holding a water and a bolsa, and this is their entire life.
And they accepted me as part of their little group.
And I was just, I was genuinely moved by their desire to survive and become American.
It's called Line in the Sand.
I think I'm most proud of, I guess you could call that an undercover investigation.
And I was detained by the Mexican National Guard and they let me go.
Anthony Rubin was kidnapped by the cartel before I did it.
Jeez.
These are brave people that inspired, Anthony inspired me to do it.
And of all the things I've ever done.
And I was like, man, I could die.
Yeah.
Like this is like as close to death as I've ever come.
I mean, death is very close.