You're under the bridge, you're seeing hundreds of people getting
processed and this is every single day.
So it's just sort of like a
that's that's the bridge and there's like people getting processed
and then they come across on those those that trains
over there.
Yeah, exactly. It's like an initial intake spot and then
they'll they'll send them through,
but it's non-stop all day long.
People just want to understand exactly what's going on,
but assume that people do not know what's going on.
Well, you got to go back some time and whatever
the open border policies from the White House kind of
got thrown out there.
We've been overrun. How long was that?
How long was that? Cool.
What year was that? Two years ago,
Two years. We're on our third year.
We've been battling it for
two years and change. So
he's saying there's been an open border policy essentially since
for the past two years.
It was an invitation. An invitation.
That's how I read it.
That's how it was told from the from
the White House. So they
don't have a clue what's going on here,
I don't think because if they did,
maybe they would care, maybe they would,
I don't know. How does how does the train impact
you?
Because the trains have been a big story lately.
There's a train just over here.
This is kind of where it starts,
Elon. Where you see, you know all these thousands of
people on a train,
this is where they're coming through.
But it doesn't end here.
It just starts here. Medina County is where they're going
to make it to the big cities,
like 2. Two major rail lines come through through my
county,
and along those the illegals ride,
they actually control the trains because they know how to
crank down the brake on the car so it passes
a heat sensor.
The conductor has to stop the train,
The illegals get off, the people come to get them,
and all the stolen vehicles are stealing
from all over the country.
Barely everyone of them is in a stolen vehicle.
Yeah. The fact that we are seeing all time highs
in the legal process
that and that that that ramp is increasing.
Yes. So these are really important points because the public
isn't isn't I think it's not instructive public
is this is this normal or or or are we
you know are we seeing an accelerating crisis.
It's not getting better. It's getting worse.
Last Friday was the was last Friday,
a week ago was a historic
#11,000 people that came over
and then on Monday that number increased.
Today is Thursday and that number increased.
We're only going in the wrong direction.
This is a week what happens two weeks from now
it's the wrong way. OK.
So basically we're seeing unprecedented the all time highs
and increasing and spreading. It's not in just one area.
It's it's not just like it's just one city or
one town,
not even one state anymore.
You know, it's something we're talking about New York today,
but Chicago, you're hearing it there,
LA, Denver, there's all these other places where it's just
spreading,
just continues to get, probably not.
And and just to quantify it,
I think you said 2000 a day or something,
just just in this location here.
Yeah, just here. So that's like
over 700,000 a year just in this one location.
Yeah. OK. Just
700,000
sort of illegal ignorance a year
just in this one location,
just in this one location.
OK. El Paso right now in El Paso just,
yeah, like that's that's higher than the population of Wyoming,
FYI. Yes.
Yeah. OK. And that's just one location.
What is the, what is the total number from all
locations roughly
in millions. I mean it's,
it's literally millions, 1,000,000 millions.
And those are just the folks that we know have
engaged.
What about all the others the best as to who
was actually processed.
Yes, the got away. So
yeah, so meaning that like the,
the actual number is much higher,
much higher. OK That's very important for people to know.
Yeah, that the actual number is much higher.
Is it is, it is,
it is the official number something like 2 million or
something or what?
Where is it? It varies and it depends on who
you ask.
But I've seen it as high as
2.6 million and that number just every year for the
past three years has almost doubled.
You know, it's like 1.1,
it's doubling, doubling year after year.
It's compounding year after year because because it's it's not
just one part of the world either.
It's all parts of the world that are coming,
you know, past. I think that's actually an important point
to make because
you know, some people think,
well, people just come from Mexico.
But this is not the case,
not the case at all.
The, the, the, the reality is that if this is
an open water for all of earth
and just, you know, so there's roughly
350 million people in the US,
but there's 8 billion people on earth.
Yes, this is an open border to 8 billion people.
Yes. What type of nationalities are coming through your county?
We're seeing anywhere from Honduras,
El Salvador, I believe
Ecuador and stuff like that.
Even. It's pretty much every country,
right? Pretty much every country.
Yeah. It's very rare that we see anybody just from
actually, oh, it's actually rare to see anywhere from Mexico.
And then I'm 68 miles from the border.
I'm 80 miles South of here.
How big is your workforce?
How big is his Sheriff's Office?
My patrol staff's only 16 strong,
16 total. So how many do you have one on
call at one time,
maybe two at the most
22 law enforcement officers to tackle?
I mean, some of these counties that that I represent,
they're size of States and they've got two or three
people trying to tackle it all.
This is where the local community just feel completely overwhelmed
because Border Patrol agents used to be the the front
line and now they're here,
they're under the bridge. They're processing folks so they're completely
out of the game.
So these law enforce the local law enforcement officers are
carrying all the weight
so roughly 2 two and a half million
process illegals and then there's it's maybe as much as
twice double that or something I don't
know it's like 4-4 ish million maybe 5 million total
processed and unprocessed. How many of the four or five
million
legal immigrants are sent back to their countries every year?
I'll give you an example here in here in Del
Rio.
Del Rio sector is one of nine sectors,
OK. We're getting over 20,
about 2500 people coming over illegally a day
and we are we are repatriating or sending 0 back
duty of
28,000 people. We've had over
19,000 people in the last about 10 days come in.
So we don't have the resources.
Wait, the more people, more people are coming in by
far
than the. I mean, it's exceeding the population of the
town on a regular basis.
Absolutely. This is across the board.
I don't care if you're AD or an R If
you vote,
don't vote. Urban America, rural America,
everybody's impacted the same way when a when the crisis
hits your it's like a hurricane.
When a current hurricane hits you,
everybody gets washed out and it's no different.
So this is I think there's an opportunity here.
If we can, if we can message it in a
manner.
This is about solutions. Hey,
I get the finger pointing.
It's easy to say why we got here.
It's like, how do we just get out of here?
And I think there are some real,
tangible solutions.
None.