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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Border Chief Explains the Harsh Realities of Human Trafficking in America' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-25. Transcript available.

that third bullet is the one that should concern every one of us if we're
really going to make this
a humanitarian issue which it really is is the human traffickers because yeah
how real is that
it's so real so many people do not realize they are in this trafficking vortex
until it's too late
there are stories out there and we don't need to even go that way today but i
can just tell you
that it is real it's what i'm pretty much dedicated my life to now um looking
for solutions and we can
talk about some of that down the road here but let me just say this um so many
people well let's just
get this cut to the chase here so that these people are are looking are being
sold a bill of goods that
they're going to be able to come over here and live the american dream all
right it's so controlled by
cartels and trafficking organizations that you have you know um it's they were
charging anywhere
from five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars a person to come across people
don't have that kind
of money so they're going to have to pay that off indentured servitude whether
it's going to be put
them in forced labor or prostitution things like that uh narcotics smuggling
all that so people are
paying that they're they'll say you'll do it in trade yes wow or they don't
know that like hey oh yeah
give me give me your twenty thousand for the four of us to come across well i'll
have twenty thousand
okay well give me give me what you got and i know where you live and i'll get
you i'll put you to work
when you get there and you pay off your debt sounds like a great deal until
they realize what they have
to do if what was real this is real you'd have families show up at the border
in mexico they're still in
mexico through the cartel organization the smuggling or trafficking
organization say okay this husband
and this husband are going to swap wives this kid's going to go with this
single adult and that's going
to be a family you two are now a family you two are now a family you're going
to cross in california
you're going to cross in arizona and then when you get released you play the
script when you get
released y'all can be reunited now and that made it because if they were
families they faced a different
they would be released god we weren't detaining family units so they combined
people and by the way
they would just be released yeah the process there's no place to hold family
units so so if things were
full and you were a family and you came across and you guys caught them we'd
process them and we
release them and just release them into america into america to the non-profits
and the non-profits
would facilitate so here's what happened so now so if that was my wife with
some other guy being
pushed across someplace else 100 miles away i'm going to do whatever it takes
to ensure her safety
which means i'm going to play that script i'm going to pay that debt and pray
that i get to reunite
with her in the next few days right that's that's the the mental trauma and by
the way my kids are
involved in this so i'm hoping i at least got my kid with me or she's got a kid
but they'll
separate those families on the south side of the border to control and
manipulate so i won't say
a word because number one you know where i'm from you know where i'm going you've
got my family
so i'm just going to keep my mouth shut and i'm just going to play the game and
i'm going to just
try to get through this without being discovered by border patrol that this isn't
really my family
the cartels afraid they're going to be ratted out is that what you're saying
like what why would
they no the cartels really aren't worried about being ratted out well i'm just
i'm curious but they they've they've tell the the migrants if you rat me out if
you squeal
they're not going to get paid so we're going to take it out on you so it's it
is completely
mental and emotional human exploitation so i guess i'm still confused and i don't
know why
they could have just been i didn't sleep much but um so they'll mix and match
the family yes
and send them over control you're going to pay oh you know you're going to pay
me the money that i
that you owe me or if you want to be reunited with your family and you can't
pay i'm putting her to
work over here oh wow that's that's the the mind now my control game that's
happening so so much of this
was again and we were caught up in this as agents too right so you'd have oh
they're separating families
or the families are being separated and released there but we didn't know we
had you catch a
thousand people in in eight hours you don't have all the time and the resources
to to dedicate to ask
every question that you should be asking because you kind of pick up on things
right when why this the the
the the the the wife is not talking and the guy is giving all the instructions
i mean when you have
time you can pick up all that stuff but when you have got so many people coming
and you're overwhelmed
we miss those things and and that's what i used to get asked what would keep us
keep me up at night
chief and i'd be like well my agent's well-being but then the people that we we
missed or there were
you know back then it was a cash crop was marijuana that was when you know
everybody was backpacking
marijuana now you don't even catch marijuana anymore it's legalized in so many
places but it's it's
changed now it's changed because again for years we fought a conventional war
if you will against a
conventional smuggling now because of policies and the way things are so
interconnected like people
are making all the arrangements now on the cell phones using online you know
social media platforms
the smugglers oftentimes don't even cross the border anymore all the
arrangements are made prior to
people getting to the border as i mentioned earlier the large groups are being
you know pushed through
in one area the other ones are using their apps i'm not going to name the the
programs but they will
communicate with the smuggler via cell phone and via apps doing dms and and hey
i'm lost and they will
send me a picture of what you see and then they will text back okay you need to
go through this way and
they they'd put a they'd roadmap it for them oh so the coyotes or whatever who
are bringing them across
usually aren't even going anymore they're either in mexico or in phoenix wow
because they and then
then everything's done through cash apps and everything else so we have this
beautiful thing called
interconnectedness has made the unconventional it made the adversary unconventional
so how do we attack it's
one of the things that i'm doing right now and this is necessarily a a big
pitch but the reality is
is there is so much online smuggling and trafficking done on our numerous
social media platforms that
children are being recruited to be smugglers children are and and people are
being recruited to buy
uh uh you know uh uh illegitimate you know narcotics you know uh you know
underground stuff you know hey
you want to yeah i've done it we're using oh yeah you can do this on the apps
and this is where it
becomes so deadly yeah because this it may be pressed in a clandestine lab in
mexico as a vicodin but it's
they don't have the same sanitary so now you've got residual fentanyl you know
dea put out a stat
recently like like seven out of ten off-market things have uh enough fentanyl
in it now to kill
them that's ridiculous look there were over i think in the last seven days
close to 2 000 unique
individuals posting sex services in nashville alone yeah who do you think those
people are
you know theo you and i are close enough in age to really remember milk carton
missing kids in the milk
carton you don't see that anymore right it's this it's these people not only
are they internationally
being victimized in traffic domestically in nashville alone that many unique
individuals right
and about 25 of that stuff is narcotics crossovers so not only are they selling
people and services
there's also struggling so we have got to take this unconventional approach and
use the technology that
they're using that use and and we play by the rules obviously wow but we have
got to create that cyber
wall to protect our country protect our community could our companies because
there's all sorts of
corporate espionage and our children most importantly because if you think that
you know kids are upstairs
going to bed on a school night at nine o'clock and not on their social do you
think the person they're
engaging with is really their friend or somebody that they know this is where
this these predators and and
boy the sextortion all the stuff that's going on you look that's yeah i did
this for so long that this
was where i knew wow how could i continue to make a difference and not wear the
badge and gun anymore
is to go after the bad guy in an unconventional manner and you know i i think
it's going to save lives
it's going to protect lives it's going to you know there's so much we can do
with it let's use
the technology to our advantage it's not going away right let's think about
what's happening right now
online it really takes a person staring at a computer data mining just going
through websites and going
through all why not use technology what i can do in an hour would take somebody
a week or more um well
and so this is how we can get this into we're working with a couple states and
a couple uh agencies to
with this program to help them use this tool it's a great lead generator right
it's going to do that
and we're just we're going to continue to evolve it there's we love online we
love our social media
and it's a good thing it is a good thing but let's put the safeguards and let's
use it to well it goes
back again though to why doesn't our country have i've and maybe this is me
just expecting out of
government you know i've all often said if you expect anything out of
government you're out of
your mind but you would think the one thing that you would want out of your
government that you would
get is safety yeah right that is the number one thing that people always pay
for um is is safety um
and the fact that they just had zuckerberg in court the other day uh apologizing
with no emotion guy i
don't know if the guy's ever had a feeling and he's in court um because of
families that have lost
children or had children sex trafficked or um bought and there's there's just
there's no uh wall
i don't know why an adult um zuckerberg apologizes to families of online child
sex abuse
um in an unscripted scene during tense testimony wednesday meta platforms inc
ceo mark zuckerberg
stood before a pac senate hearing i am sorry for everything that you have all
gone through he said
um wednesday while facing a crowd of safety advocates and parents holding
photos of their
children it's terrible no one should have to go through the things that you
families have suffered
yeah i mean it's unbelievable he's sitting there surrounded by all of his
lawyers yeah
um and he it's felt it seemed like he didn't have an emotion like it's like it
just but that blows my
mind why there isn't if how could you are you even allowed to use a fucking i
can't even buy a deodorant
that doesn't have a little thing on it right that has a plastic thing on it now
yeah so that some
kid just doesn't put it on or put his mouth on it right but yet you can have an
app where some predator
can reach out to my fucking child yeah and not go to fucking jail for it i feel
like these guys should
be jailed you know it's the same with that family the sackler family that did
the opiates yeah with
oxycontin it's like they killed hundreds of thousands of people in this country
yeah they killed hundreds of
thousands of human fucking beings it's unbelievable and they didn't go to jail
yeah it's uh it's unbelievable
that uh you know which is again your passion is exactly my passion when it
comes to this you know
a way that we can feel safe as a parent myself i want my daughter to be able to
to to uh enjoy the the
technology that's there it's part of her generation but i want her to be safe
100 there's no way they can
tell what kind of you like to look at and advertise you but they can't tell
they can't
keep uh they can't have a little bit more efficiency with figuring out who is
able to
reach out to children or who children are able to reach out to now i guess
somebody could create and
look obviously i'm not arguing the other side of it that maybe there's like
somebody could create a
platform but if somebody hasn't been online long enough with a platform then
maybe they shouldn't
be able to reach out to children or there should just be much stricter things
in place it seems like
well i don't know i don't know enough about it it's a stark reminder that you
know that there's evil out
there and uh uh and and so uh it's fucking winning that's what it feels like
sometimes yeah and well
and that's why we're invested in this i can tell you that there are platforms
out there that will
recruit teenagers and this is very prevalent arizona in the phoenix area to get
an su get your mom and
dad's suv um drive down if you're interested to make a thousand bucks a person
you want to make
five thousand dollars you know get an suv dm me here and then that message
disappears right but
they're now they're they're they're messaging and they give them a pin drop and
go pick up these five
people well now these kids and most of them are minors 16 17 years old so they
haven't been driving
very long now they're in mom and dad's suv they end up picking up 10 people in
some remote area near
douglas arizona and they're told drive to phoenix and when you get to phoenix dm
me i'll give you a
pin drop and don't stop for border patrol or cops they're doing 100 miles an
hour with 10 people in
their car top heavy they don't know how to drive because they're young anyway
they're rolling over
people are dying they're t-boning innocent civilians caught in an intersection
killing people this is
happening every day and they're using social media to coordinate it so the smugglers
are not at risk
right because they're doing the job yeah yeah burn the account burn the phone
they they're not
there's no there's no overhead for them wow they just used mom's suv owned by
the way if you were
successful and you got to the drop-off location they're going to say yeah i got
your license plate
i know who you are i'm not going to pay you this time you're not going to squeal
because i know
who you are i know what school you go to i know your mom drives the hooks in
man yeah the hooks
and yeah there's stuff right there yep that happens

Border Chief Explains the Harsh Realities of Human Trafficking in America

that third bullet is the one that should concern every one of us if we're
really going to make this
a humanitarian issue which it really is is the human traffickers because yeah
how real is that
it's so real so many people do not realize they are in this trafficking vortex
until it's too late
there are stories out there and we don't need to even go that way today but i
can just tell you
that it is real it's what i'm pretty much dedicated my life to now um looking
for solutions and we can
talk about some of that down the road here but let me just say this um so many
people well let's just
get this cut to the chase here so that these people are are looking are being
sold a bill of goods that
they're going to be able to come over here and live the american dream all
right it's so controlled by
cartels and trafficking organizations that you have you know um it's they were
charging anywhere
from five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars a person to come across people
don't have that kind
of money so they're going to have to pay that off indentured servitude whether
it's going to be put
them in forced labor or prostitution things like that uh narcotics smuggling
all that so people are
paying that they're they'll say you'll do it in trade yes wow or they don't
know that like hey oh yeah
give me give me your twenty thousand for the four of us to come across well i'll
have twenty thousand
okay well give me give me what you got and i know where you live and i'll get
you i'll put you to work
when you get there and you pay off your debt sounds like a great deal until
they realize what they have
to do if what was real this is real you'd have families show up at the border
in mexico they're still in
mexico through the cartel organization the smuggling or trafficking
organization say okay this husband
and this husband are going to swap wives this kid's going to go with this
single adult and that's going
to be a family you two are now a family you two are now a family you're going
to cross in california
you're going to cross in arizona and then when you get released you play the
script when you get
released y'all can be reunited now and that made it because if they were
families they faced a different
they would be released god we weren't detaining family units so they combined
people and by the way
they would just be released yeah the process there's no place to hold family
units so so if things were
full and you were a family and you came across and you guys caught them we'd
process them and we
release them and just release them into america into america to the non-profits
and the non-profits
would facilitate so here's what happened so now so if that was my wife with
some other guy being
pushed across someplace else 100 miles away i'm going to do whatever it takes
to ensure her safety
which means i'm going to play that script i'm going to pay that debt and pray
that i get to reunite
with her in the next few days right that's that's the the mental trauma and by
the way my kids are
involved in this so i'm hoping i at least got my kid with me or she's got a kid
but they'll
separate those families on the south side of the border to control and
manipulate so i won't say
a word because number one you know where i'm from you know where i'm going you've
got my family
so i'm just going to keep my mouth shut and i'm just going to play the game and
i'm going to just
try to get through this without being discovered by border patrol that this isn't
really my family
the cartels afraid they're going to be ratted out is that what you're saying
like what why would
they no the cartels really aren't worried about being ratted out well i'm just
i'm curious but they they've they've tell the the migrants if you rat me out if
you squeal
they're not going to get paid so we're going to take it out on you so it's it
is completely
mental and emotional human exploitation so i guess i'm still confused and i don't
know why
they could have just been i didn't sleep much but um so they'll mix and match
the family yes
and send them over control you're going to pay oh you know you're going to pay
me the money that i
that you owe me or if you want to be reunited with your family and you can't
pay i'm putting her to
work over here oh wow that's that's the the mind now my control game that's
happening so so much of this
was again and we were caught up in this as agents too right so you'd have oh
they're separating families
or the families are being separated and released there but we didn't know we
had you catch a
thousand people in in eight hours you don't have all the time and the resources
to to dedicate to ask
every question that you should be asking because you kind of pick up on things
right when why this the the
the the the the wife is not talking and the guy is giving all the instructions
i mean when you have
time you can pick up all that stuff but when you have got so many people coming
and you're overwhelmed
we miss those things and and that's what i used to get asked what would keep us
keep me up at night
chief and i'd be like well my agent's well-being but then the people that we we
missed or there were
you know back then it was a cash crop was marijuana that was when you know
everybody was backpacking
marijuana now you don't even catch marijuana anymore it's legalized in so many
places but it's it's
changed now it's changed because again for years we fought a conventional war
if you will against a
conventional smuggling now because of policies and the way things are so
interconnected like people
are making all the arrangements now on the cell phones using online you know
social media platforms
the smugglers oftentimes don't even cross the border anymore all the
arrangements are made prior to
people getting to the border as i mentioned earlier the large groups are being
you know pushed through
in one area the other ones are using their apps i'm not going to name the the
programs but they will
communicate with the smuggler via cell phone and via apps doing dms and and hey
i'm lost and they will
send me a picture of what you see and then they will text back okay you need to
go through this way and
they they'd put a they'd roadmap it for them oh so the coyotes or whatever who
are bringing them across
usually aren't even going anymore they're either in mexico or in phoenix wow
because they and then
then everything's done through cash apps and everything else so we have this
beautiful thing called
interconnectedness has made the unconventional it made the adversary unconventional
so how do we attack it's
one of the things that i'm doing right now and this is necessarily a a big
pitch but the reality is
is there is so much online smuggling and trafficking done on our numerous
social media platforms that
children are being recruited to be smugglers children are and and people are
being recruited to buy
uh uh you know uh uh illegitimate you know narcotics you know uh you know
underground stuff you know hey
you want to yeah i've done it we're using oh yeah you can do this on the apps
and this is where it
becomes so deadly yeah because this it may be pressed in a clandestine lab in
mexico as a vicodin but it's
they don't have the same sanitary so now you've got residual fentanyl you know
dea put out a stat
recently like like seven out of ten off-market things have uh enough fentanyl
in it now to kill
them that's ridiculous look there were over i think in the last seven days
close to 2 000 unique
individuals posting sex services in nashville alone yeah who do you think those
people are
you know theo you and i are close enough in age to really remember milk carton
missing kids in the milk
carton you don't see that anymore right it's this it's these people not only
are they internationally
being victimized in traffic domestically in nashville alone that many unique
individuals right
and about 25 of that stuff is narcotics crossovers so not only are they selling
people and services
there's also struggling so we have got to take this unconventional approach and
use the technology that
they're using that use and and we play by the rules obviously wow but we have
got to create that cyber
wall to protect our country protect our community could our companies because
there's all sorts of
corporate espionage and our children most importantly because if you think that
you know kids are upstairs
going to bed on a school night at nine o'clock and not on their social do you
think the person they're
engaging with is really their friend or somebody that they know this is where
this these predators and and
boy the sextortion all the stuff that's going on you look that's yeah i did
this for so long that this
was where i knew wow how could i continue to make a difference and not wear the
badge and gun anymore
is to go after the bad guy in an unconventional manner and you know i i think
it's going to save lives
it's going to protect lives it's going to you know there's so much we can do
with it let's use
the technology to our advantage it's not going away right let's think about
what's happening right now
online it really takes a person staring at a computer data mining just going
through websites and going
through all why not use technology what i can do in an hour would take somebody
a week or more um well
and so this is how we can get this into we're working with a couple states and
a couple uh agencies to
with this program to help them use this tool it's a great lead generator right
it's going to do that
and we're just we're going to continue to evolve it there's we love online we
love our social media
and it's a good thing it is a good thing but let's put the safeguards and let's
use it to well it goes
back again though to why doesn't our country have i've and maybe this is me
just expecting out of
government you know i've all often said if you expect anything out of
government you're out of
your mind but you would think the one thing that you would want out of your
government that you would
get is safety yeah right that is the number one thing that people always pay
for um is is safety um
and the fact that they just had zuckerberg in court the other day uh apologizing
with no emotion guy i
don't know if the guy's ever had a feeling and he's in court um because of
families that have lost
children or had children sex trafficked or um bought and there's there's just
there's no uh wall
i don't know why an adult um zuckerberg apologizes to families of online child
sex abuse
um in an unscripted scene during tense testimony wednesday meta platforms inc
ceo mark zuckerberg
stood before a pac senate hearing i am sorry for everything that you have all
gone through he said
um wednesday while facing a crowd of safety advocates and parents holding
photos of their
children it's terrible no one should have to go through the things that you
families have suffered
yeah i mean it's unbelievable he's sitting there surrounded by all of his
lawyers yeah
um and he it's felt it seemed like he didn't have an emotion like it's like it
just but that blows my
mind why there isn't if how could you are you even allowed to use a fucking i
can't even buy a deodorant
that doesn't have a little thing on it right that has a plastic thing on it now
yeah so that some
kid just doesn't put it on or put his mouth on it right but yet you can have an
app where some predator
can reach out to my fucking child yeah and not go to fucking jail for it i feel
like these guys should
be jailed you know it's the same with that family the sackler family that did
the opiates yeah with
oxycontin it's like they killed hundreds of thousands of people in this country
yeah they killed hundreds of
thousands of human fucking beings it's unbelievable and they didn't go to jail
yeah it's uh it's unbelievable
that uh you know which is again your passion is exactly my passion when it
comes to this you know
a way that we can feel safe as a parent myself i want my daughter to be able to
to to uh en