#BORDER: CLOSING. @MICHAEL_YON. #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY
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🗓️ 23 February 2025
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#FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. Quickly with Michael Jan. |
| 0:04.0 | That's Michael underline at Michael underline Jan for reporting. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm going to put this interview up as well. |
| 0:11.0 | Michael spent years at the Mexican-American border, not really years, weeks and weeks and weeks, |
| 0:17.6 | going back and forth, back and forth, especially in the Texas part. |
| 0:22.7 | The numbers have dropped off dramatically. Michael, do you hear from your colleagues on the border? |
| 0:28.8 | What is the explanation for the drop-off? Have we got that many extra personnel, or did they just |
| 0:35.4 | figure out they were no longer welcome what what explains this |
| 0:38.3 | dramatic drop i think it's an amalgam of things one is they know they're no longer welcome |
| 0:44.9 | i've been told that there are some people saying that you know they would rather leave right now |
| 0:50.3 | under their own terms then get arrested and ended up in an El Salvadorian prison, |
| 0:56.4 | you know, frog walking with all the, you know, whoever else gets put in there with them, |
| 1:00.6 | MS-13 or whoever. |
| 1:02.7 | You know, the train day at Agua and all that, you know, Buckele in El Salvador, you know, |
| 1:08.1 | offered to house these prisoners, and I would take them up on that. Not for U.S. citizens, but, you know, when it comes for |
| 1:14.2 | today and day at Agua, you know, the Venezuelan gang, who we saw huge amounts to those |
| 1:18.6 | coming through here. |
| 1:19.8 | And then I would talk with them. |
| 1:20.9 | I would ask them if they were three and day at Agua, and they would say, yes, they |
| 1:23.8 | would, like, straight up, like like they were proud of it and uh and and very serious guys like |
| 1:29.1 | like you know tattoos on their face the AK 47 on the eye and all that stuff and uh and so |
| 1:35.0 | i think for some of them it's that some of the the invaders in the United States let's just |
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