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Joining us now is Jason Jones, Vice President of Border 911 and a cartel and border intel expert.
Jason, welcome.
It's great to be with you.
We were having a spirited conversation about what's happening on the border.
It is a crime against humanity.
How bad is it?
Just for the uninitiated listening in our audience, what's going on?
Been working that border since 1999, never seen anything like it.
If you look in the sheer volume and numbers of people crossing in the last three months, over 900,000 people according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Over what period of time?
Since three months.
Three months.
So that's $300,000 a month.
And that's $10,000 a day.
Ish.
Ish.
We were averaging $12,000.
How many of the...
Does that include Godaways, or is that just?
That doesn't include Godaways.
How many do we want to do?
$3.8 million under the Biden administration.
Gotaways since the beginning of his term.
That's correct.
And those are just the ones we know of.
And yeah, so the gotaways are people that are now the interior of the United States.
We have no idea who they are.
They run, and what does Border Patrol not pursue them, or they just can't get hands on them?
Are they distracted?
They do a distraction type deal.
Oh, yeah, it's all by design.
You know, and that's the story, though, Charlie, that's not told to the American people.
Because when you see most of the media, what do they show you?
They show you these big groups crossing.
But that's by design with the cartels, because they send those big groups.
And then from there, that's where they open up to move fentanyl, deadly drugs, and the high values have been crossed.
And one of the things that's really important for the folks to understand is that in the old days, our border was a U.S.-Mexico-Central American problem.
Today, the world is truly coming.
I mean, we had people from 171 different countries last year.
There's a bunch of West Africans coming to Arizona.
What's the story there?
I've been on your border for the last seven days straight down in Lukeville trying to understand that.
And according to Border Patrol, they started first seeing them about six months ago.
And that directly linked to the Sinaloa cartel, specifically an individual by the name of Palone who runs the Sonoya as the plaza boss down there and the long-haul smugglers moving them in.
But the problem you have here now in Arizona is that now they're moving that over towards Sassabi.
They started seeing them two months ago there as well.
I was just in Sassaby day before yesterday and I can tell you, you know, Arizona, if you live here in this great state, get ready because the fentanyl problem coming in is directly linked to that Sinaloa cartel and that's why you're feeling it the way you are here.
And so much to cover.
That does originate in China mostly, correct?
It used to.
The chemical precursors do now.
What's happened, though, is the Sinaloans hired chemists right out of universities all over Mexico.
Wolver White.
That's it, and they run their labs.
And so the worst part of this, too, is now they've not only regular fentanyl, they've created parafentanyl, serafentany, and now mixing in xylosine.
So when you hear the weaponization of fentanyl and wonder why so many Americans have died, you know, we lost 112,000 Americans to deadly drugs in one year.
We have never been here in this nation's history.
So I have to tell you, and I will say it again and again, that if this nation doesn't take on the cartels, if you think it's bad now, I know them very well.
This is just the beginning.
Yeah, so help me understand.
Let's say the comprehension of the cartel culture is limited to Netflix narcos for most people.
Myself included, honestly.
What?
Those drug guys, those gangs, they call them.
Correct.
Why is there such hesitancy to confront them?
Are they embedded in American politics?
Is there kind of a deal between them?
Are we afraid of them?
Should we be afraid of them?
We should definitely be afraid of them.
And that's coming from somebody that built programs with the Texas Department of Public Safety and worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to crush them.
I'm telling you that.
And the reason I came public after retiring to designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, I'm the guy that started that whole initiative.
Yeah, good for you.
Because I know them very well.
And here's the real story that America needs to know about them: is that they're not drug gangs, they're not drug cartels.
Drugs is something they do.
Today, what has happened is that we went through a major shift with them: that we went from organized crime into an insurgency in Mexico into terrorism, and now where we truly see them today as a parallel government.
And I was working that, screaming at the U.S. intelligence agencies the entire time, saying we've got problems down here along the border, as the Zetas, known as one of the most hyper-violent cartels in Mexico, really, Charlie, changed the game.
That is now why they're so violent across the entire nation.
So, help me understand, but what makes the cartels different than the Taliban or ISIS is I'm lacking to see an ideological component.
Is there?
There is.
So, what is that?
Well, in the last national election, a lot of people are not aware that CNN actually did one of the best workups on this.
132 politicians and staffers were killed in the last national election.
It is not to control drug routes, it's to control power and have that power.
And then they put their people who they want in charge, and that's why the country of Mexico is so corrupt.
Yes, they have to do that.
That's the story of women.
They have two women running for the presidency.
Are they captured by the cartels?
Are they afraid of the help me understand in Mexico?
Yes.
Yeah, you're not going to be the president of the country in Mexico unless you're sided with the cartels.
We learned that under Amlo and look in his relationship with the Sinaloans.
So, the cartels, are they at war still with each other?
Do they play nice currently?
Because, I mean, they're making out like bandits on this place.
They're just winning right now.
Are they reaping the harvest and they'll fight later?
And literally, those are the discussions at the boss level that they are having in Mexico.
Like, look, we're all making money.
We have some like a great example of that, there's a lot of fighting going on in Mexico right now.
But if you ever notice, it's the underlings fighting at the bottom.
The thing to watch for the folks at home right now is when you see the bosses and the families start getting hit, that's when the real wars start.
This stuff you're seeing right now down there along our border.
So, in some ways, it's almost the godfather crime families that are experiencing a detente where they're saying, why would we fight?
Let's continue our most profitable enterprise, which is the movement of drugs and people.
People right now along our southern border.
But one of the things you've got to think about with these cartels is that they're global.
It's not a U.S.-Mexico problem anymore.
Sinaloa cartel we know is in 54 nations.
Are they all Spanish people?
No, no, not at all.
As a matter of fact, a great example of this is CJ ⁇ G, the most violent cartel in Mexico, Cartel Jalisco, new generation.
They're in 48 countries, and how did they get to power so quickly, so fast?
They began moving their dope to Europe and Australia.
So, see, here's the problem.
This is the story that hasn't been told by the Homeland Security Enterprise to the American people.
How can we lose 112,000 Americans in a year, Charlie?
How did we get here?
There's not a terrorist organization in the world that has killed this many Americans.
And yet we have still not even declared them terrorist organizations.
And all of that really has to do with commerce and trade with Mexico.
Why do you think that?
That's why.
Trade, commerce with Mexico, our partnerships so cheap or so close.
Like Honda-made cars in Monterey or something.
I've been working this a long time.
That's the real issue.
So NAFTA in some ways subsidized the way to cartel hegemony.
I think what you just said is so true.
How can you have global trade and not think for a second you're not going to have a global crime problem that comes with that?
And that's exactly what we're doing.
That's so interesting to me.
So I'm infinitely curious about the cartel because I know so little about it.
Again, my understanding is Narcos Plus, Marty Bird, and Walter White.
Like just kind of like how it's portrayed.
And there is some sophisticated elements in at least how those motion pictures present the cartels, but I don't know next to anything more than that.
So how do we defeat them?
Is it possible?
It is.
I can tell you that if we continue down the road of a law enforcement mission and not designate them and get new authorities to go after them, just look at the capabilities.
You know, they're leveraging everything from 40 millimeter grenades, hand grenades, 50 caliber belt-fed machines.
That's exactly right.
First, second, third, and fourth generation.
I mean, we seized our first surface terror missile in Mexico from the Waddes cartel in 2016.
I mean, this thing has spun rapidly out of control.
And they get their training from terrorist organizations around the world like the FARC.
I mean, this has been going on for a decade.
So the thing that I have really had an issue with, Charlie, is why is the American people not been told by the Homeland Security Enterprise?
So I went public, decided we're doing it ourselves, and enough's enough.
We're going to get it fixed.
But we're told by Homeland Security that white supremacy is the greatest threat to the American homeland.
Can't make it up.
You can't make it up.
And yet we've got families in this country destroyed by fentanyl.
Destroyed.
Entire cities.
You see the federal law enforcement enterprise completely out of focus as to what's really impacting the American people.
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So, Jason Jones is here.
Can you riff on that?
I said, are the cartels popular in Mexico?
In certain areas, they kind of have a Robin Hood-type approval.
They really do.
Yeah, Sinaloa was a great example of that.
You know, they've been around down there a long time.
And look, you know, there's some hospitals that they've built down there to help the local populace.
And look at Christmas is a great example.
They'll go around handing out gifts, and then they film everything they're doing.
They put it out as part of their propaganda.
So the Robin Hood kind of effect is real.
And they really try to propagandize that to gain favor.
And so they currently look at America as a cash cow.
Can you explain how a human being is monetized by the cartel via the border?
What is that process?
You're absolutely right.
You know, this is something that Americans have not wrapped their mind around, that they can truly treat a person as a commodity.
You know, I remember talking to a lieutenant within Cartel de Gafo, known as CDG, one of the oldest cartels down in South Texas.
And I said, well, how do you know how much to charge for a young girl?
And he said, well, what does she look like?
To determine how much money he can make.
You know, I broke the story in February of 21 when CDG began putting wristbands on men, women, and children.
This is the real story about what the cartels have become because in the old days it was about smuggling people into the country.
They didn't care where you came from, Charlie.
Today, it's about debt bondage because that person is the gift that keeps giving.
So when they cross, you know, in the old days, it'd be $100.
Today, if you're a Mexican citizen in South Texas, it's $2,500 just across the river.
Never mind how far they moved you.
Central American, $3,000.
If you're from China, $5,000.
Russian or Middle Eastern, $9,000.
Well, most of them don't have that money.
So now they're indebted.
Yet they're here in our country.
Are you saying that slavery still exists?
I'm not just saying it.
I'm saying that America's new slave trade is here and it is real.
And they're not all sex slaves.
The women sometimes are, but they're remittance slaves.
That's right.
Via the Walmart currency counter, you're going to be sending 25% either back home or to the cartels, and it almost operates as an annuity to the cartels.
And how does it ever stop?
Because from their standpoint, you're just going to pay until they decide you're not.
This is the story that's not getting out.
So what the buried lead here is, but the cartels probably have a better idea of where these people are than their own government because they want their money.
So if all of a sudden, if Juan Hernandez stops paying, how do they find him?
They had the drug trade down in this country.
What they didn't have was this human smuggling into the trafficking trade.
And when the Biden administration opened up this border, they sent their operatives across into the country.
The interior.
That's right.
They sent their operatives into the interior and they rode buses that we shipped people all over the nation.
And those people's jobs, every two weeks to a month, depending upon the alien smuggling organization they work with, that's how they get the money back.
And here's the worst part: every federal law enforcement agency knows it.
Many of these people don't have critical skills, right?
So what are they going to do?
Well, they're going to get into the drug trade.
They're going to get into the sex trade.
And this is how, and this is why I've warned about public safety and the threats to this country based on what the Biden administration is.
Yeah, I mean, you have to repay a debt.
You're going to go steal a catalytic converter or you're going to go break into a home.
That's exactly right.
You would rather go break into a home and steal a necklace than have the cartel cut your head off.
That's right.
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Or they'll go after your family in Honduras.
There's the other part of it.
So when you cross at the border before they give you a wristband, where are you from?
And they pick up your cell phone and they call your mom and dad.
So now they've got you on the other end as well.
They've got you on both.
And the worst part of this is the Homeland Security Enterprise knows this, Charlie.
Why are they not telling the American people?
You answer that question.
I mean, we all know, but it's horrible.
It's horrible what's taking place.
The volume of people is millions.
So it's $10,000 a day.
They're monetizing it anywhere between $2,500 to $10,000 a head.
On average.
So we're talking about a $30,000 to $50 million cash flow a day.
Just on people.
Just on people, not to mention the drugs.
That's right.
So $30,000 to $50 million a day.
I mean, this is like a Fortune 100 company at this point.
And this is why you just saw what you saw in Ecuador.
The strength and scope of them and what these cartels are becoming from Mexico, Central America, and South America.
The American public should be brief.
There's a reason that we have been working as hard as we have to get these cartels designated because, look, they've taken over Mexico.
Mexico, they truly are a parallel government.
And Americans watched that happen.
Do you remember when they arrested a video Guzman?
And what was AMLO, the president of Mexico, forced to do to release him?
Yeah, of course.
Now, later we ended up catching him, but it was an example of truly the level and scope of how powerful they are.
So this is the new slave trade in the Western Hemisphere.
And we're told that it's a beautiful thing happening.
How many girls are raped, would you say, in slave trades?
The real truth is we have no idea.
But it's significant enough where Americans would not put up with it if they found out.
If Americans knew what was really taking place and has been in Mexico, they would be stunned.
And this is a real problem.
They're going to find out now.
It's too late.
You see, you're going to hear a lot from these experts about national security, national security.
Okay, that's a great term to say.
But we've opened the borders to the world.
Now it is all about public safety and trying to stay left of boom and protect the American people now.
Jason, thank you.
This was excellent.
We'll have you on again.
It's great to be here.
It's a very deep topic, and you approached it really well.
Thank you.
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Neil, welcome to the program.
We have discussed January 6th quite a lot, and one of the gaps in the story is why was the National Guard response so lackluster?
Who was the one that didn't listen to Donald Trump?
And why was there not greater protection?
This is a key component here.
We've speculated that it was Pelosi or Muriel Bowser, but you have a theory and a source for that theory.
Please walk us through it.
It's one of those mysteries, right, Charlie?
Like, what happened?
Because nothing made sense.
And people looked at it, and there were things we expected.
We saw how the D.C. Guard responded to the George Floyd riots, responded to protect the White House.
We've seen the National Guard respond to riots and civil disturbances and emergencies across the country.
And so why did the Guard not show up until it was dark?
And frankly, when I spoke to Colonel Earl Matthews, he told me when he arrived with General Walker, the commander of the DC Guard, the New Jersey state troopers had arrived at the Capitol before the D.C. Guard.
And the D.C. Guard Armory is two miles from the Capitol by design because you want that response.
The DC Guard does not have a governor because it's a direct report to the Pentagon.
And so, my source, Colonel Matthews, told me that it was Mark Milley, General Mark Milley, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stepped outside of his legal authority using his sort of the force of his personality and his relationship with the other general officers who, over the years, he had promoted and nurtured and sort of built this cadre around him.
So that even though he had no legal authority and no role in the chain of command, these generals were listening to him.
And he's the one who told the DC Guard to back off.
And in fact, at one point, they were ordered not to cross North Street, which, as you know, here in DC, that's where the FBI building is.
So, how far away was the National Guard on January 6th?
Are you saying that they were just a couple blocks away?
Well, they were given orders not to cross ninth.
But in fact, what Matthews told me is that anticipating that there would be trouble at the Capitol, the riot gear and instructions were given to the DC Guardsmen who were tasked with responding so that they had all their gear and everything at their homes so that when the call went out, they would report directly to the Capitol.
So there was testimony in the official Army narrative that they were concerned that people would have to go to the armory and then come back to the Capitol and there would be some kind of delay.
That never happened.
As soon as the call went out, the DC Guard would have been ready to go.
But there was a tremendous gap because, say, between one and two o'clock, the commanding general was calling the Pentagon for permission.
That permission didn't come until past five.
Yeah, this is really important.
I mean, and New Jersey troopers made it to the Capitol before the Guardsman.
Is that right?
Yeah, that's correct.
You know, and another thing, Charlie, is that in that insurrection, I don't want to really call it a trial, but whatever that proceeding was in Colorado, there was testimony saying that Trump was, in effect, an insurrectionist, but that testimony relied on the DOD Inspector General's report, and it relied on the official Army narrative, which Colonel Matthews says is flawed.
So it's one thing to have a disagreement about what happened that day, January 6th.
But now that false narrative is being extrapolated and metastasizing into having constitutional effects, where someone could be actually taken off the ballot based on a false narrative.
Yeah, I mean, this is incredibly important.
So what do we have to do to get to the bottom and the truth of this?
Or is it, unfortunately, do you think that they have sufficiently covered this up?
Well, it's like somebody once told me they said, yeah, I hope we find out what happened to JFK before the last person who knows what happened died.
You know, it's like I said that too many people are still alive, and that's why we don't know what happened to JFK.
I think what we have to do is let's propose that we have a Republican majority in the House and they could have a committee, maybe they could call it a J6 committee, and they could investigate what happened and they could haul people in and they could demand those documents that are sealed up at the National Archives and they could actually find out once and for all what happened because the left is dominating this discussion of J6 because they are literally keeping the rest of us in the dark,
Charlie.
Yeah, it's so important.
And there's aspects of this that I think will continue to come out.
And so your reporting at redstate.com has been focused on this particular aspect.
Are there other ones where you think that we have not received sufficient clarity regarding January 6th that we need to keep the pressure on, get certain answers from?
Or do you think we're close from getting the truth?
For example, the pipe bombs.
Oh, the pipe bomb.
Do we even know if the pipe bomb was real?
Now, the pipe bomb, having the pipe bomb there and having the vice president, the vice president elected there, that's all wrapped up in this predicate that the Capitol became a restricted area and that there was, and that the pipe bomb is shown as evidence that there was a terrorist threat.
And this is being used to take, send all the grannies to jail and people who are, you know, people who, if they were convicted, they'd spend three months in jail, but they're spending two years in pre-trial confinement.
It's, we have no idea what's going on.
And it's so insane that three years later, that this thing would be such a huge mystery, especially when the Republicans control the House of Representatives.
And you would think that the Republican leadership, or at least the staffers and the consultants and the people who are running that party, would know that it's being used against Republicans politically all over the country.
And candidates and campaigns need to be able to respond.
And we're completely in the dark.
Why has there been such slow drip from Speaker Johnson on the January 6th tapes?
What is the latest on that?
I don't have a read on what's going on inside Johnson.
My only, just speculating as someone who's covered Capitol Hill, I think that he's inherited a lot of McCarthy's staff and McCarthy's fundraisers.
And he basically allowed himself to be plugged into that infrastructure.
And he has the idea that if I can ride out this cycle, then I can, maybe I can reboot things later.
But this is the same old trick leadership plays, you know, and that's why he concedes on the budget.
You know, it's you talk to leadership staffers and they tell you, no, no, Neil, we just want to get this off the table and move on.
And it's like they're just conceding things because they don't want to fight.
And this is what we're seeing with the budget.
And Johnson, Johnson is worried about his majority.
But remember, Charlie, Nancy Pelosi had a five-seat majority last session.
And look at all the stuff she was able to do without a problem.
Why do you think that is?
Should we be more like Pelosi?
Well, Blaze, I mean, it's like, listen, I can disagree with Pelosi and still respect her as a phenomenal political operative.
She ran that majority in such a way that you would, frankly, if you're familiar with how Cicero whipped votes in the Roman Senate, she did it the same way Cicero did.
And he cut deals and he got to, you know, Pelosi gets to 218.
She gets to 220.
She gets to 230.
Once she's at 230, she then cuts loose all the votes she doesn't need.
And she says, hey, I'm giving you a free pass on this one, but I'm going to need you next time.
It's very simple.
It's how it's done.
We haven't had a Republican whip who's been able to figure that out since I don't know when, maybe since the 1920s.
So diving deeper into that, I love that point you made, which I have not heard anyone make, which is Democrats had a five-seat majority recently.
And we started with, what, three or four seats, right?
Three or four?
I don't know, because we decided to shrink our majority because we're a bunch of morons, right?
And so we get excuses.
Oh, we can't do anything.
Pelosi got stuff done.
She rules with an iron fist.
We kicked out Santos and all this nonsense.
It was actually, it was insane.
So is there something in the philosophy of conservatives that we struggle with the administration of power?
Or is it that Pelosi is willing to play Machiavellian hardball and blackmail her members and threaten them?
Is that the reason we can't govern?
I would suggest, Charlie, that conservatives don't have a problem governing, but there's been no tests because conservatives are not governing.
It's like Republicans and conservatives are not the same thing, right?
Conservatives have found a home in the Republican Party, but we're treated like the guests who stayed too long.
And so we're not actually the ones making Republicans, they love Washington.
They want Washington to be in control.
They want to get along with everybody.
They want their kids to go to Georgetown Prep.
They want their kids to go to Sidwell Friends.
And, you know, they want their wife to get some lobbying job for the airlines and everything.
They think they think Washington's great.
And then conservatives show up and just spoil the party.
And so, you know, if Johnson was a cons let's find out if Johnson was going to run the speakership as a conservative, I'd love to see it.
And I don't think it's ever been put to the test.
That is such a smart point.
The philosophy that some Republicans have is they might be passively center-right, but it is about lifestyle.
You cannot, this is not, you cannot underestimate this.
Some people say, oh, you know, they're traders.
Some of them are awful people, but it's about the comfort, the lifestyle.
They want to support a five to six hundred thousand dollar a year lifestyle.
And they want their wife, as you say, to be comfortable with Delta Airlines or with Pfizer or with AstraZeneca.
And they find a home as controlled opposition.
And then you have people like Matt Gates, you have people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, or God forbid, Donald Trump.
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So the Iowa caucus is on Monday.
How should we think about this primary?
Has it been largely a distraction?
Where do you stand on where things are proceeding in regards to this primary election?
I think it's very interesting that there's so much weight thrown into Iowa, and so few Iowa winners actually go on to be president, let alone be the nominee.
And I'm sure you've experienced this yourself, Charlie.
The minute the votes are counted in Iowa, that circus can't leave Iowa fast enough to go to New Hampshire and nobody thinks about Iowa again.
I think that it's going to be very interesting to see how big a victory Trump runs up.
Certainly, DeSantis put all his eggs in the Iowa basket.
He moved his family.
He moved what's left of his staff there.
And of course, Jeff Rowe, who was running the never back down pack, grew up very close to Iowa.
He always presented himself as an Iowa expert.
And so, you know, does DeSantis end his presidential run in Ohio, excuse me, in Iowa?
I think that's a very important question.
It'll be interesting in New Hampshire how many Democrats are going to vote for Nikki Haley.
And it's interesting.
I didn't think about it until, you know, just as I'm talking to you.
But when Biden and the Democrats moved their Democratic primary in New Hampshire to further on down the line, they basically meant that there's no Democratic contest at the same day as the Republican contest.
So you have all these Democrats who have nothing to do.
So, you know, they're going to be taking Democratic ballots.
And how many of those Democratic ballots, how many of those Democrats taking Republican ballots are going to vote for Nikki Haley?
So what you're saying is going into South Carolina.
This is important.
What you're saying is that the Democrats, because the Democrats are the party of the oligarchy, not democracy or whatever.
So they basically have this New Hampshire set.
Is Trump getting set up in New Hampshire?
I don't know.
I hadn't even thought of it.
I wish that it's, but just as I'm talking to you, Charlie, you're making me think about these dynamics.
And the fact that there's no Democratic contest at the same time as the Republican contest, you basically have all these free radical Democrats running around.
And also remember, a very strong part to why Democrats have had success in New Hampshire is that they bus in college students from Massachusetts.
So I'll be interested to see, and they do the same day registration there.
And so it'll be interesting to see, you know, how successful the Democrats are, what kind of effort they put in to bussing in college students from Massachusetts to put Nikki Haley in a competitive spot with Trump.
But certainly in South Carolina, which is the conservative firewall, Nikki Haley is going to lose her home state regardless of what happens in New Hampshire.
And the establishment and certainly the Democrats and the media, they have been begging for a primary.
And it's been awfully sleepy.
Yeah.
Iowa, do you think that there is any fear that Trump has been overplaying the polls and a win by 10 might be spun as a loss?
No, I think a win is a win, but frankly, there's not a lot of thought goes into Iowa.
You've covered Iowa, Charlie.
It's a lot of dark driving for hundreds of miles.
It's the media hates it.
The media loves New Hampshire because it's a quick drive from Boston, New York or D.C. You just fly into Logan, 45 minutes, you're in Manchester.
I would say that the first real, where the media is invested is New Hampshire, and Trump is going to win New Hampshire.
It may be close, especially with Christie pulling out, and certainly his taking the dive can't be ignored by the Trump team.
How can people find your content, Neil, and your writings?
Yeah, please look for me at redstate.com and they can find me on GetterX and Truth at reporter McCabe.
Thank you very much, Charlie.
Really appreciate being on with you.
Thanks, Neil.
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