Steve Robinson

But I know that in the majority of cases when there are electronics at these sites, they're generally not noticed by

the members of law enforcement who are executing the raids.

What they're doing is they're showing up, they observe the illegal marijuana, they cut the plants down, they destroy them, and they leave.

They view it as traditional old-school drug operations.

They're not...

They're not trained or equipped to combat transnational criminal organizations, and they don't really view this as a struggle between civilizations.

They don't see this as a national security threat.

They're not seeing the bigger picture.

No, and no one's told the bigger picture either is the thing.

And there's a total paralysis on the part of law enforcement to recognize that this is a phenomenon that is exclusive to Chinese guys from New York and Massachusetts who speak Cantonese.

Maybe they have green cards or citizenship, but they have historical ties to China.

But a lot of them are straight illegal aliens or they'll claim asylum after they're caught.

at an illegal marijuana site.

None of them want to be called, you know, racists or accused of profiling.

And I sympathize with that.

And they should not be racist, but they also shouldn't blind themselves to the fact that this is a transnational criminal conspiracy aided and abetted by the Chinese Communist Party.

It's a huge part of the equation.

If you ignore that, you're, you know, you're fighting this with both hands behind your back.

And we've had—the state has had no help whatsoever from state leadership or the state police in combating these cartels.

It's been almost exclusively county sheriffs and local police, and in a few instances, national DEA.