Peter Schweitzer

ending the military war against the drug cartels in Latin America.

So we're seeing a leakage of drug cartel influence moving into North America and affecting our politics.

I think it's going to create a sense of urgency, John, because what they're hoping to do is avoid—

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involvement in the events of Latin America, the drug cartel activity, political influence, etc.

So it's probably going to add urgency to it in the short term out of a desire to prevent Trump from taking some of the actions he's taken in Venezuela and elsewhere.

They are.

And look, it could be.

I'm not a lawyer, but there are laws and statutes that apply to individuals that are involved with activities with either terrorist-designated organizations or drug cartels designated by the federal government.

So there is possible implication here legally.

I'm not an attorney, but it's an enormous problem.

And I think we make a big mistake when we look at immigration and assume that it's just a function of economics.

And if we think that the drug cartel problem is a problem south of the border, it's not just something that bubbles up occasionally here in terms of violence.

It's actually something that is walking around in our halls of Congress, which should concern us deeply, I think.

Yeah, so there's an EB-5 program.

It's a visa program that was started in 1991 by Congress, designed to spur investment in the United States.

If you invest a million dollars in the United States and create a certain number of jobs, you can get permanent resident status in the United States.

Turns out that law was passed by Congress.

One of the most important lobbyists, the person that really pushed that legislation over the finish line,

was a lady named Maria Tsai, who it turns out was, in fact, a Chinese spy, or at least a Senate committee declared that about eight years after the bill was passed.