meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The John Batchelor Show

#Texas: Preparing infrastructure for tens of thousands of migrants from El Paso to Brownsville. @Michael_Yon

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Arts, News, Society & Culture, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Photo:
1920 Panama Canal Zone
No known restrictions on publication.
@Batchelorshow

#Texas: Preparing infrastructure for tens of thousands of migrants from El Paso to Brownsville. @Michael_Yon

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelord with my colleague,

0:03.7

Michael Jan, traveling, traveling, traveling, filling in the blanks about the

0:09.1

large story, the global story of global south migrating to global north in

0:15.8

Mediterranean Basin in the North in the North Sea Basin in the English Channel Basin

0:22.2

between Turkey and Greece between Africa and North Africa and Spain and the

0:27.6

EU between Belarus and Lithuania and we've been focusing on the Darian gap

0:34.9

between Colombia and Panama. Geography doesn't change. You have to conquer geography

0:41.8

or somebody has to help you conquer it. When we first started reporting about the

0:46.8

Darian gap it was a crisis. There was a 10% at least death rate crossing

0:52.7

through. Now it looks transformed but it's continuing to change. So we head to the

0:58.5

Texas Arizona, New Mexico, California border. Michael we last spoke you were in

1:05.5

Austin I believe and we were observing what you had discovered in Brownsville

1:11.1

about underage that is under 18 children from migrant families or on their own

1:18.6

who were being housed in a former Walmarts in Brownsville. There was a

1:25.2

separate facility for male and female and then at various times being taken

1:30.2

escorted to other parts of the country. Have you have you since we talked

1:34.4

Michael is there any more clarity about what you were observing? Wow we know

1:40.2

for instance I was with Anne Vandersteel at the Super Center in Brownsville

1:45.0

recently Brownsville, Texas and the old Walmarts Super Center is now a warehouse

1:51.0

for children. That's a fact that's 100% fact it's filled with children filled with

1:56.9

boys in particular below 18 year old boys and you know the crazy people were

2:02.5

saying some years ago that these super centers would be used to as tax and I

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.