Name: What Happens When Someone Crosses the Border Illegally
Uploaded: 2023-02-09T17:37:33.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happens When Someone Crosses the Border Illegally' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happens When Someone Crosses the Border Illegally' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-09. Transcript available.

if someone comes across and you guys apprehend them is it apprehend like what
do you guys do you
guys take them in you guys take them into a facility do you immediately like
take them back
across the border like what kind of happens so what's interesting about uh
border enforcement is
is um i think what happens with middle america is there's there's a perception
i don't know if
you've been down to the border or what you take on the border is but i think a
lot of america looks
at the border um through the eyes of what they've seen on the news you know you
look at san diego
you look at el paso and they show an urbanized border you got cities on both
sides and fencing
and demarcation a lot of what the border patrol deals with is everything in
between out in the
middle of nowhere rugged mountains desert it just there is i've worked in
places where there's next
to nothing out there in regards to infrastructure it's just you and your
closest backup is 10 or 20
miles away and you're in the middle of nowhere wow and so we employ and i have
to get away from the we
because now i'm retired but the border patrol employs a whole myriad of tools
infrared cameras
ground sensors we've got one of the largest air fleets in the u.s government in
the law enforcement
realm so you've got blackhawks an assortment of helicopters unmanned aerial
vehicles and so i mean
you're using all these different assets to track so many hopefully to prevent
but to track them once
they enter the country so if you see someone say say someone's out on patrol
right on an actual patrol and
then they see someone crossing into the country um do they like tag them or
like do they
what do you do like do you apprehend them is it i mean i would it almost has a
like a freeze tag type
of vibe i feel like at a certain point it is it's almost like a game of cat and
mouse you know um
so i'll give you two scenarios okay in an urbanized area where we've got uh you've
got fencing or
not like el paso you're saying like el paso um even places like douglas nogalas
arizona yeah um san
diego you've got fencing or a wall uh you know under the trump administration
to change from fencing to
wall right um in those locations we've got a lot of fixed cameras um these are
cameras that are up on
on large poles and so you've got agents that are monitoring and watching and uh
some of the technology
that plays into these cameras also detects does change detection so if it's
watching the fence and
all of a sudden there's a change in that picture it'll alert the operator who
then will call the
agents out in the field and then that agent he or she will respond to the area
or maybe they're
watching with binoculars and they see them crossing over the fence through a
hole so they'll respond and
then they'll make the arrest um it's apprehension arrest it's all the same
thing okay um and then
the second scenario is as i described out the middle of nowhere and that's more
of the norm
you're out there and what happens is you may have a ground sensor that goes off
somewhere near the
border and uh you learned psychologically as human beings you're looking for
the easiest path of
resistance so you learn the psychology of where people are going to try to
cross okay and then you're
also dealing with uh one of the things that we can talk about this shortly is
you're dealing with a
criminal element that's very effective and i'll use the term they're
professionals at what they do
smuggling people okay and so they'll begin trekking north into the u.s and what
agents will do is
they'll find a spot where they can make the arrest that's it's beneficial to
them uh and they'll track
them the sensors are lined up in such a manner that you can track the movement
of a person or a group of people
uh you may use infrared scopes you may call on uh someone up in the air to
track the the group of
people as they move along and then you're rolling to make that arrest uh so if
there's a so it sounds
like there's a lot of capabilities to know when and where people are coming so
it sounds great right
it sounds like all these tools all these assets um but until you're out there
and you get a true idea of
just how it really is a needle in a haystack because some of the areas that we
work in i'll speak to
arizona you have these arroyos and canyons and brush and so you may have i may
have a camera an
infrared camera that's going to pan this way and if the ground was flat and
there was nothing to
obstruct the view easy right but because someone can drop into a canyon these
canyons can go for miles
or climb up into a mountain and hide in a cave your window of opportunity for
arrest is very short
so the agents when i say they position themselves they're finding an area where
they have great
technology coverage and they know the ins and out of that area so when they
they go to arrest these
people if they scatter and run which happens quite often they know what to work
towards to bring them
into custody wow yeah it's got to get you out there yeah you would love it hope
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