James O'Keefe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I watched it.
I jumped aboard the train of death, the train de la muerte in Aeropuerto, Mexico.
and I wrote it with the Venezuelans.
And that, of all the things I've ever done in my life, that, first of all, I thought that was incredible cinema, and I directed and produced that, but I was most proud of that journey.
And what I discovered doing that, and I had no idea what I would find, like, you know, the immigration issue,
was the humanity of it.
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.