Operation Gatekeeper | Chapter 4

American Coyote

Imperative Entertainment and Pegalo Pictures

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As immigration and border enforcement move into the national spotlight, Elden discovers his old routes won't work anymore, so he has to find new, more dangerous paths to continue his people smuggling operation— eventually finding himself in an unpredictable situation that will begin the darkest chapters of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended for mature audiences.
0:03.5	Listen or discretion is advised. imperative entertainment. picture.
0:31.0	As things got more difficult, things got more dangerous. Pretty much all people who crossed had to keep moving east
0:35.0	into environments that were much harsher
0:38.0	and they had to really put their life at risk
0:41.0	because of the elements more than anything.
0:43.3	From 1991 to
0:48.0	from 1991 to 1993 the first 14 miles of the US-Mexico border, that is from the Pacific Ocean
0:58.8	inland, accounted for over half of the apprehensions of undocumented immigrants per year and
1:05.4	powerful people were beginning to take notice.
1:09.2	After a drop in the mid 80s the number of people entering the US illegally is again on the rise.
1:15.6	We see people crashing in the back door and the back windows, violating our laws,
1:21.7	flouting our sovereignty, and ignoring our process.
1:27.0	Because of this, the border and the politics around it were about to change dramatically.
1:37.0	An intensifying debate was underway about how to manage this seemingly endless migration of people, a debate that has only
1:46.5	grown more acrimonious today. What is a chain link fence enclosed into that car?
2:10.3	What is a chain link fence enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor represent to you. Is that a cage? It's a detention space, ma'am, that you know has existed for decades.
2:16.5	Does it differ from the cages you put your dogs in when you let them stay outside.
2:22.6	Is it different?
2:25.1	Yes.
2:26.5	In what sense?
2:27.7	It's larger.
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