Name: What Happens to Children Apprehended at the Border
Uploaded: 2023-05-09T18:01:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happens to Children Apprehended at the Border' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happens to Children Apprehended at the Border' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-09. Transcript available.

the border gets politicized a lot you hear a lot of like oh caravans are coming
or children are
being separated from their parents or their families take me into some of that
scenario so
like if you apprehend a family then what happens so everyone who's apprehended
and i'll walk you
through from the point of apprehension to to getting into the station and in
some cases
criminally prosecuted or released or returned there's a couple scenarios as
soon as that arrest
is made the agent um and what we have to recognize is that we're still dealing
with a criminal
element right so just like any law enforcement officer he or she goes to that
whole procedure
of pat down checking bags and whatever else when you have an organization a
criminal organization
that's pulling in billions of dollars you know dropping five thousand or ten
thousand dollars
in the pockets of a mexican official to look the other way is nothing yeah so
this multi-billion
dollar industry has a drive has a need to keep that that uh that money coming
in yeah so the agents are
contending with you've got unaccompanied children and and when we say this i
want to paint the picture
a lot of these unaccompanied children are young men between the ages of 15 and
17.
okay i'd say about probably half of them and then the rest are everything from
a 12 year old
one of the things i see frequently is you'll have uh eight or nine year old
with a younger sibling
who's about five or six and sometimes a two or three year old with them and
they're traveling
thousands of miles by themselves to our border and then coming across and it
blows my mind i've got
uh an eight year old and i couldn't imagine yeah saying here here's here's a
phone number when you
get to the u.s call this number and somebody's gonna come and find you i couldn't
imagine sending my
child out on this journey by himself oh we had a four-year-old when i was
growing up that that wandered
over to our house like from the neighbors they used to do a bunch of drugs next
door
and um he knocked on the door he said he was going to the dollar general he's
like four years old we're
like you're not going to the dollars like this kid's out of his mind it's like
two miles away right this
guy's you know so we sent him home man but so but yeah i can't even imagine
like a kid going a really
far distance out of it and it's hot over there i mean i lived in tucson for a
while dude it is
it's spicy oh yeah and take it back so if you're leaving from guatemala el salvador
honduras
you're traveling a couple thousand miles two to four weeks think about a six-year-old
or an eight-year-old
doing this by himself or maybe with a group of other kids what happens between
the the moment
they leave their house till they get to the border and when you get to the
border you're right there's
the dangers of just the environment by itself the rio grande the desert the
heat well the heat and the
cold it'll kill you either or that's a good point then you have people that
will take advantage of
these kids yeah and one of the things that just breaks my heart because i've
seen this countless
times you get kids that are rented because one of the things that happens uh is
if you present as a
family unit here's roy mom a couple kids i'm gonna get released and so what we
were seeing was kids
being rented you know and and so you've got a a parent back in guatemala who
rents their child for
fifteen hundred dollars and that's a tremendous amount of money in guatemala
yeah and so the kid
kid is brought to the border put in with a pseudo family sits in detention and
then is released and
then a handler a smuggler picks up this child applies them back to guatemala
wow that's that's the best
case scenario right right what happens with kids that just disappear and we saw
this happen as soon as
you identify that child because it would take one or two sometimes three times
before the the system
would pick them up uh because not all children are fingerprinted and once you've
identified them and
you you you know you you latch on to this group and you expose it if you can
control and get that
child back into the hands of the parent win if you can't if that child happens
to get released with
that family and then the smuggling organization realizes that the child is now
blown right i don't
know what happens to them yeah it's like is it worth them fly get them up
getting them a plane ticket or a
bus ticket back to guatemala is it worth or is it just cheaper for them
especially after they've
already been doing a lot of dirty business you know uh to just not care or get
them into something else
even worse it's a business that doesn't care about the person it's it's it's a
business that's driven
by money so whether it's trafficking whether it's returning to the family best
case scenario and or
becoming an indentured servant you know working in some sort of industry being
sexually trafficked
all of those are realities of what we see at the border hope you enjoyed that
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