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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

E335 US Border Patrol Agent

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Theo Von

Comedy

4.824.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Theo sits down with a recently retired Chief Patrol Agent of the US Border Patrol, Roy Villareal, a 32-year veteran of the force, to discuss the current state of America's border with Mexico, the daily dangers he faced with cartels and wild animals, and the difficulties of balancing his duties as a border patrol agent with the women and children he encountered everyday.

 

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0:22.9

You know it's a unique time where there's so much information and false information and rumor and biased material going around about the US border.

0:46.9

I'm sure we've all heard things and tried not to hear things about it.

0:53.9

I wanted to get someone here today who is boots on the ground been there, you know, the front line bad boy.

1:02.9

I'm so happy today to have fresh off of his 32 years of service working with the US border patrol where he finished as the chief border patrol agent of the two sons.

1:15.9

We are happy to have him today, Mr. Roy Villarreal.

1:45.9

Oh yeah, Bert Reisher. Oh man, I love that guy. Yeah, he's so funny.

1:52.9

Dude, he is an animal or the machine they call him. He's everything. Yeah.

1:58.9

He's like any laughs all the time. Every time he's he reminds him like when he the poo, like if we need to poo into college and was like an opportunity for a really long time.

2:09.9

Oh yeah, you know, like just like yeah, he's one of a kind man. So you live over in Tucson. Yeah, nice man. I went to Santa Rita high school for a really first semester.

2:22.9

Yeah, my mom used to live out on Pantana. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So I used to be out there and people would fight in the car washes and stuff like that after school.

2:30.9

So we didn't have any border control. We could use some border control. Yeah, we could use some border control out of Santa Rita high school. We go Eagles.

2:41.9

So Roy Villarreal, let's say you say your last name. Nailed it. Yeah. So your position with the border. What was it exactly?

2:48.9

So I recently retired from the border patrol. I served for 32 years. My position at the time was the chief patrol agent of the Tucson sector.

2:55.9

And that sector is about how big? 260 miles of border with Arizona border with Mexico. Okay. And so when you're in charge of that, are you in charge of both sides of it or just one side?

3:07.9

Just the one side. So we have control over the US side. Do they have do you know the person who's in charge of the other side? Like is there someone in charge of the other side?

3:15.9

Well, yes, to a degree, dealing with the Mexican government, you're dealing with different entities, their customs, their immigration, federal police, local police. There's a whole my rat of entities you have to deal with in Mexico. Okay.

3:28.9

So like on a day to day basis, kind of what were some of like your kind of responsibility? What are you guys' responsibilities over there?

3:35.9

So Tucson sectors is the largest sector in the border patrol. So I had about 4,000 employees under my purview. Wow. And that was about 3,400 sworn law enforcement officers and then the rest were administrative folks, mechanics, technicians, intel analyst, radio operators. You name it. There's a full gambit behind it.

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