Name: Where is Trump's Wall at Now?
Uploaded: 2021-04-15T02:22:31.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Where is Trump's Wall at Now?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Where is Trump's Wall at Now?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

Trump had a plan to build the wall right so that was like a thing that was
really big that he spoke a lot about did they start building the wall do you
feel like the wall was gonna be effective so looking at Trump's wall
again 32 years of doing this when I first came into the Border Patrol there
was very little infrastructure along the border it was a strands of barbed
wire if it was even up right I remember being in a high-speed pursuit and I'm
driving down off the freeway we get into into the the dirt we're driving
through
these ravines and stuff and had it not been for another agent yelling out to me
to stop I would have driven right into Mexico oh really there was nothing to
demarcate the US in Mexico Wow this is late 80s early 90s so it's a different
world then kind of oh absolutely absolutely we were arresting anywhere
from a million a million a half people a year and every night it was high-speed
pursuits foot chases we were catching a thousand people a night and that's just
in one little station right um I used to laugh because when I first joined the
Border Patrol I remember walking into a station and there was a somebody had a
shirt up shirt for sale on the back of it was an agent laying face down with
footprints on his back what does that have to do and it's like just get out in
the field you'll see and sure as heck you're just getting overrun every day
it was really crazy absolutely crazy so almost like playing a Red Rover or
something and they're just coming oh yeah yeah they would so if you Google it
or
look on YouTube and you go back to late 80s early 90s in San Diego that was
the epicenter of everything illegal migration hmm and what the the migrants
would do and the
smugglers would do is they'd line up on the Tijuana side of the border and they
would watch the agents and there weren't a lot when I came to the Border Patrol
about
2,500 of us when I retired in December there are about 20,000 of us so we've
grown tremendously but even that's you know it's just it's not enough to cover
the border so it's increased by almost ten by tenfold and that's along the
entire border yeah both the southern border and the northern border so we've
got
about 16,000 agents on the southern border and just under 2,000 on the northern
border and that that gets forgotten too there's a threat up there on the
northern
border it's different but there's still a threat up there right so the wall was
it
being built it was right so one of the things and this is often I think we
talked
about the media and you know you get a certain soundbite so the media doesn't
give you the full understanding or picture what we're talking about right when
we were talking about the border wall what it is it's a border enforcement
system it's the wall but more importantly it's access to the wall it's
infrastructure it's a road that leads to the wall it's a road that parallels
the
wall so you can patrol it's power it's technology it's it's this full package
right and so people often again they think about the border as being this urban
area they can just drive it up to and and patrol very easily when you go out in
the
mountains in the deserts you need access and what building the the wall did was
it
gave us access to certain locations so looking at Trump's border wall there was
some new wall that was built and then more importantly there was replacement
wall
and I often laugh because people like well you know it's it's not wall it's not
new wall well when you get a new pair of shoes you don't call it replacement
pair of
shoes it's right a new pair of shoes right so we we have new wall built it was
about uh I think it was 450 miles of wall that was built oh wow yeah that's a
decent amount it's a decent amount and the thing about this too is what the
wall does is and we looked at and we analyzed in the border patrols where can
we put
that wall that effectively shapes the environment for us so that we can make a
we deter people from coming into the US and then more importantly if they do
elect to come into the US where can we shape it so that it's advantageous to us
to
make an arrest right yeah because there's so much cost to that go into like
just
getting people out of like the middle of nowhere and getting them back to a
location um and I just can't even imagine all the costs that go into a lot of
that so the wall now are they finishing the wall are they stopping the wall do
they know no so so the uh when Biden came into into his presidency the new
administration put a stop to all wall building wow which is very short-sighted
and I say it because of this so in building the wall it's not like they start
at
point a and then to b and then to see what they did is it's a and b here and m
and n
over there so that you have areas that are open so you know they'll go and
they'll clear out existing fencing or they'll grade for new wall and then
they're building in certain segments and building to finish the wall so we've
got uh in just in Arizona itself there are probably about 300 gaps some of
which
were as small as 50 feet some as wide as a quarter mile right and other areas
where the wall was built up to a point where you put a gate in and you need
gates
to go back and forth because you have to do maintenance on the fencing on the
walls and sometimes rescues and i'll talk to you about that here shortly so
they
didn't finish these gates so now you've got 300 gaps in the wall which means
300
vulnerabilities wow 300 places that smugglers can push people across and one
of the tools that smugglers use and this really upset me so we had families and
unaccompanied kids coming across what these organizations would do is they
would
charter three to six buses they drive them out to the desert because on the
mexican side their freeway parallels the border on the u.s side other than the
cities there's nothing on our side of the border nothing you know anywhere from
geez i would say 30 to 80 miles before you hit any sort of infrastructure from
the u.s mexico border so these smugglers they'd hire chartered these buses they
drive up 100 to 300 families and kids and they drop them off in the desert and
push
them into the u.s knowing that our technology was going to pick up this this
event and then
it would take us 24 to 40 hours because it's again in places they're dropping
off in places
where we had very little access or infrastructure so it take us 24 to 48 hours
to get four by four
vehicles into these areas load up the kids load up the families drive them to a
place where we could
then get a van or a bus and then drive them to a station and so when this
happens and it's done
strategically again this is about making money right right it's done
strategically so you drop
this group off here and then i've got to close operations for in this
particular location i shut
down a whole station which is about 450 agents and i dedicated all of those
agents to getting these
kids and these families out of the desert because what's going to happen the
heat or the cold is going
to kill them and so when when your manpower is dedicated to this then you get
segments of the
border that are wide open and what happens they run drugs through there they
run criminals through
there so it's all about making money it's it's it's a cat and mouse game hope
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