Human Smuggling At The Border— How This City Became Ground Zero For Migrant Crisis | The Connect
The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell
Johnny Mitchell
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🗓️ 25 November 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:41.3 | This week, we went down to El Paso, Texas to visit our friend Luis Chaparro. |
| 0:45.3 | He brought us into Ciudad Juarez, took us through the most dangerous neighborhood in one of the most dangerous cities in the world |
| 0:53.3 | to show us what was |
| 0:55.1 | really going on at the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 0:57.8 | I think the Mexican institution of immigration is taking probably over 80% of all the |
| 1:03.6 | bribes and the money from migrants and leaving the rest to cartels, right? |
| 1:08.1 | Migrants worth only as much money as someone's going to pay for them. |
| 1:28.5 | That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think, I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. |
| 1:36.7 | He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. Luis, you're basically a third arm of the show at this point. We're here, I don't know, sometimes in podcasting, you get a wild hair up your |
| 1:42.7 | ass. And I, you know, the migrant crisis, the poorest border. |
| 1:49.0 | It was the biggest story of the year until the attack on Israel on October 7th. |
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