CBP Union Rep: Business as Usual at US/Mexico Border, Despite COVID-19
Sara Carter Show
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back America. We are going to have an explosive show for you today. You are going to be on the edge of your seat with this one because I got to tell you when I got this call earlier this week here for the Sarah Carter show. |
| 0:23.0 | When I said it's an old source of mine somebody who I have spoken with on a number of occasions works on the southern border US southern border with Mexico. |
| 0:33.0 | Is somebody that I trust implicitly and somebody that was part of the documentary we did for the foundation the dark wire investigation foundation that we did our documentary on not in vain that's V I N USA dot com. |
| 0:50.0 | You could see the documentary there it's Patricia Kramer by the way she is the president of the Arizona chapter of the national Treasury employee union which represents US customs and border protection officers and agricultural specialists at the Arizona ports of entries and why is this so important. |
| 1:09.0 | Why is she so important because at the ports of entry is different than the board of patrol agents who are serving on the front lines in between the ports of entry. |
| 1:19.0 | These are the the folks that are at the ports of entry that watch the people cross back and forth they're in charge of so much money and commerce that goes across as well as targeting drug cartels that are trying to bring narcotics into our country and the regular folks that just go back and forth across these ports of entry. |
| 1:38.0 | These P O E's right do you know what's happening there wait until she tells you guess what while we're on lockdown at home while we're trying to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 Corona Wuhan virus Wuhan let's just say it Wuhan Chinese Communist Party virus while we are all unlocked down while 26 million Americans have applied for an important part of the world. |
| 2:07.0 | So we're all applied for unemployment. |
| 2:10.0 | The ports of entry are allowing people to crisscross back and forth to that appointments to visit grandma and grandpa to buy food at restaurants to make that appointments and no one is stopping them. |
| 2:27.0 | I didn't know this I don't even think president Donald Trump understands what is happening there I don't know if people have told him this. |
| 2:36.0 | Well we are all on lockdown people in the United States this is not just traffic coming from Mexico people in the United States who have legal authority to be here who are citizens or green card holders are crisscrossing the border like it's nothing. |
| 2:56.0 | And guess what's happening on the other side of the border on the US side we know what's happening we are all on lockdown right we're being told you know stand your homes don't you know converge with with people at your homes don't have parties we're getting people are getting find there are drones flying over our skies by law enforcement this is true. |
| 3:21.0 | Look it up I'm not making anything up here they are flying over in areas where police officers can't frequent as much to ensure that you aren't having a party or a barbecue at your house with other people or you will be fine in some places as much as $1,000 there was a woman at a park in Idaho that was literally handcuffed because she took her kids to an outdoor park. |
| 3:47.0 | However people are crossing back and forth all along the 2000 roughly 2000 mile border with Mexico from all the way from California through Arizona new Mexico Texas. |
| 4:02.0 | I I covered this area this has been a large part of my life my career as a journalist I have in fact over the past year I've been to Central America a number of times to Guatemala down to the border I've covered many stories. |
| 4:16.0 | There because of the dangers at the border not only our customs and border protection officers dealing with possible exposure or which by the way there's quite a few people that have already been exposed to this virus now she's going to go into details about that because the numbers |
| 4:33.0 | are fluctuated and changed but we've got nine US customs and border protection officers in El Paso with COVID we have four in San Yacidro I heard those numbers might be higher in Laredo Texas six we've got one in Brownsville and another one in Hidalgo County I've been to all of these areas along the border spent a lot of time there. |
| 4:56.0 | And our officers are being exposed and guess what's happening in Mexico in some of these places in some of these cities along the US Southern border. |
| 5:07.0 | It's exploding COVID 19 infections are spreading some hospitals have actually had to close down in Mexico along the US Southern border because of doctors and does that have been infected in other areas like Juarez right now the numbers in Juarez and I'm going to try to get you roughly about the right. |
| 5:25.0 | But what they're saying is 33 people have died in Juarez of coronavirus and over 500 maybe infections there but those numbers are all fluctuating because even the Mexican government can't test doesn't have the right testing doesn't have the ability to even you know and they've said this is under president Manuel Lopez over Ador Amlo he has been saying. |
| 5:54.0 | That we've you know we're shutting down these businesses people have got to go home but they can't control this folks in Mexico they can't the federal government Los Federalists like they like to say I used to throw my little bit of Spanish there just because you know I don't practice it enough I my mom taught me from when I was a child just full disclosure I speak it fluently. |
| 6:16.0 | And I've traveled many times into this region and it is deadly and dangerous and right now the drug cartels are taking advantage of this COVID 19 spread and the Mexican government can't control it remember a lot of the businesses on the other side of the border they're going to stay open first of all people don't have money. |
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