The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE DARK SIDE OF THE BORDER CRISIS

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

Investigative Journalist, Lara Logan, joins Del live from the Take Back Our Borders Convoy in Dripping Springs, TX, traveling cross country to the border to shed light on the current border crisis. Hear also from former US Army Green Beret Field Surgeon, Dr. Pete Chambers, about the atrocities of human and drug trafficking this open door policy has led to and why the US government is allowing it to continue.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

There's a convoy right now right here just outside of of Austin. This is it. We the people taking our border back, take our border back convoy. There's a bunch of cars and trucks getting together. And our friends, Laura Logan, who you know is preparing to be a part of this convoy and Dr. Pete Chambers. And my understanding is they're standing by. Can just talk to us about what's happening with that right now. All right.

There's Lara now. There we go, Lara. There we're there. Dr. Pete Chambers. So, you guys, what is this convoy about? And why do you think this is important? Well, I believe it's important because it's going to shed light on the open border policy, which is resulting in second and third order effects of an invasion on this border.

We're talking about chemical warfare. That's fentany. We're talking about human trafficking. That's children, women that are being used as ponds and sometimes worse. And that's what I believe it is. But they're going to shed. light to that. Laura, I know that you have, we've spoken many times. This has been an issue you've been covering for years. It feels like it's coming to a climactic point. I've been reporting all

during this show. Now for the first time ever, it appears that in America, this is polling as the number one issue for most Americans passing economy during a presidential campaign. Why is that? Why is this suddenly now finally getting the attention that I think you've been trying to bring to it for many years. Because of the scale, Dell, because we've never seen anything like it in recorded history, not since this country was founded. And for a long time, they were able to keep the scale hidden. One of the first things they did was deny the media access to the border patrol, you know,

the processing centers and all the areas down at the border to keep them away. And then if you remember, there was a sort of a slip up with the Haitians because there were all those images that got out of the Haitians like over the border. 12,000 gathered under the bridge. And what did they do? The moment that got national attention, they dispersed everybody. So a big part of the open borders policy of this administration has been to make sure that nobody can see it. They want nobody to be able to see what they're doing. And the moment you get all those people gathered together, the jig is up, right? The deception is over. So that's why it's coming to attention now. But it really should have been,

you know, should have come to everybody's attention right from the very beginning. And then Michael, you know, he's seen the pipeline, right? So people are just dealing with what is right here on the doorstep, but also all across the U.S. now. And they're not even looking at the millions and millions and millions of people still on their way. So this is not going to get any slower. What I do know is the Biden administration has made a deal with the Mexican government, with Amlo, the leader of Mexico, to kind of slow things down, because this is embarrassing them, because this is an issue that unites the whole country. It doesn't matter if you're Democrat-Republican or you're black or

white or you're Hispanic. This is why, you know, down at the border, there was an historic flip in the last election, right, where you had a county down in Laredo that had been for, it had been blue forever, and it went for Donald Trump. It's because this is not a racial issue, and they can push the race component all they like. They can say over and over again, this is, you know, this wouldn't be happening if these people were white. And it's a lie. So that lie never ever sticks, right? But they've used it very successfully to suppress the conversation. And now it's of such a scale. It's erupting. And people don't understand. Pete can tell you, he's been down in all these small areas along the border. They've been overrun. Ranges have been overrun. People's private property

decimated. I live, you know, about 200 miles from the border. Even here, businesses are being told to close at three in the afternoon instead of five because the local sheriffs say, we can't protect you. And, you know, right near your business is a waypoint, right, where they sleep on their way to the I-10 corridor to go through Bayer County, where more than half the people who are trafficked in this country go through Bear County, leads you right to Houston. So, I mean, this is a crisis of unimaginable proportions because Border Patrol thought, well, you know, when we hit a certain point, they're going to push back like they always do. No, that didn't happen. You know, and then it just kept climbing and climbing and climbing and climbing and nobody does anything about it. And, you know,

Michael's points about Governor Abbott are pretty interesting because, you know, there's a lot that Abbott could have done that he hasn't and he does make a big show about it. This is a big show down now. But I, and to clarify one point, I'm not part of the convo. I'm here to cover the convoy for one very specific reason, which is that I'm afraid that they will try to manipulate this and represent it as another fake insurrection or as an act of domestic terrorism or something like that, which is not true. I mean, dark chambers here, you know, the media has thrown us ursians over his character, over his record, that he's not really a green beret when he was a flight surgeon, for goodness sake, for third group special forces. He was, you know, he was very well thought of during his time in the military and is still highly regarded and respected by everybody. So you have good people who have given up everything, who are, you know, who are doing this for nothing. They're not getting paid to do this,

but they see the crisis. They understand the ramifications and they're standing up to do something about it. Then they get vilified by the media so that they can make this all about race when it has nothing to do with race. Dr. Chambers, this is something we've talked. I know you've been going down as as Laura has said visiting these different places. I mean on both sides of the border we're allowing the drug cartels to run both sides of the border. This is dangerous not just for the towns on our side of the border but all of these individuals and towns that used to be safe and quiet they're being affected. I mean we are literally just deferring all of our like our immigration system to the cartel.

I mean, what are you seeing? How dangerous is that for the future of this nation? That's completely dangerous. There's a national security issue, and it's a semi-permissive environment all the way up. It used to be to Fowfurious, which was about 90 miles in. That was a year and a half ago when I was serving in uniform for Governor Abbott on Task Force Operation Lone Star. Now it's all the way across Texas. It's moved up into Arkansas.

It's up into Oklahoma. It's moving up the corridors very quickly because the numbers are pushing. this human osmotic pressure, as Michael Yon, you just had on, calls it, is exactly what's pushing that specific permissiveness. That's not good. Do you think, I mean, you know, Michael's saying that he believes America is funding this. Is that your sense, Dr. Chambers, when you're looking at it? Yes, sir. There are portions of it. Yes, sir. We have receipts on that. There are portions of that that are through Todd Bensman.

You can talk to him, Center for Immigration Studies. He has the receipts, and we work with these gentlemen. And we collectively, we the people are doing this. That's why this convoy is doing this. And I am working as a liaison to law enforcement who is understanding that the importance of the people. Because when the people start speaking and they're working peacefully and they're assembling, this brings light to it. This convoy is not 700,000 trucks as it was originally spoken. This is several hundred.

But what this has brought is light to this. And that will then speak constitutionally. I want to just speak to the money part of it. you know, a government report just came out where they admitted that they had spent 20 billion on resettlement in 2021 and 2022 alone. 20 billion dollars, $5 billion of that went to unaccompanied minors, and they haven't come up with the figures for 2023 yet. I just want to say, I can't say this strongly enough, right, because I'm a mama bear. So I'm a journalist, but I'm also a mother. And when you hear, as we have, as they've admitted, that some 85,000 children

have gone missing. You've got a company like MVM that's moving 9,000 kids, and they don't know, these guys who move the kids, they're not allowed to talk to them, they're not allowed to help them. These kids are begging them. Please don't take me there. I don't know these people. This is when they're supposed to be going to their sponsors. Remember the whole point of unaccompanied minors, right? The idea was you're coming here without your parents, because your parents, your are already here and you're coming to be reunited. But instead, these kids are going into the foster care system. What? Why?

I mean, the foster care system is in an absolute shambles. It's a disgrace. They've been complicit in trafficking kids for years, along with the family courts. And so now you're going to take illegal immigrant children who do not even speak English, many of them, and you're going to put them in the foster care system. Is that a better life?

Are these kids really really? going to get a better life than the one that they had when they were in their own country in their own culture everybody spoke the language and they knew people and they knew how to navigate that terrain here what are they they're absolutely nothing and and no one has addressed this issue if these are unaccompanied minors coming to be reunited with their families where are the families no they're going to sponsors these sponsors sometimes are getting 10 20 50 100 kids when you know there's a woman Tara road ass that's a woman you should have on your show. She's also connected to a whole bunch of other whistleblowers.

She works in the Inspector General's office. She amazingly still has her job, right? It's incredible. And Tara went down there as a volunteer because they put out an old coal across the government because they don't have enough people to process. She speaks Hispanic. She thought she was going to be playing jigsaw puzzles, you know, and helping kids color and just keeping them company until they got to their families. Instead, she found that the government was trafficking kids. Because think about this. The people who bring kids to America's door, right? That's one job. So you've got the traffickers that deliver them to the border. Then Border Patrol receives them. Their orders from the federal government are

that you have to receive them, and then you process them. And then what do you do? You hand them over to an NGO or to HHS who hands them over to an NGO. And then they bring in a contractor, right, like MVM, and they move them to wherever you want them to go. They say, they get someone to phone and say, I'm the sponsor. Can you imagine that a sponsor just has to make a phone call? You don't have to see any real documentation. They get fake papers all the time. And then we, the taxpayer, pay to fly them halfway across the country or wherever it is they're going to, and then we house them and so on. So we're getting them to the destinations where the traffickers want them. And I'm working with a group that's done counter-trafficking since the 90s. I mean, they got a list of

kids that were missing. The first two that they looked into, a boy and a girl, they found that they had been delivered to sex workers. Okay, so it's very, to me, I just think it's unbelievable. There's all these people out there that say, oh, shame, these poor people, you know, it's really cruel. We've got to let them in. You need to understand that you're letting that child in and sending it to a sex worker so that that child can be raped every single day until they die. And they get, they're violently abused, they're often tortured, they endure unimaginable things. And they usually lost average child lost around two years before they're murdered. So this is not a better life. And you've been lied to and deceived. It's really important that people understand. Sure,

there are some people that come here and have a chance at a better life. But they're minuscule because, as Michael Young has said, as Doc pointed out, the people running this and getting rich of this, getting the richest are the most violent transnational criminal organizations in the world. I find it very hard to be. I know they're not doing it without the, you know, sort of the permission of the Biden administration, at best, permission. Because before Biden even took office, he sent Jake Sullivan and other emissaries from his administration

all over Latin America to do public speaking to a, letting everybody know that the border was going to be open. They wanted the outcome they have. And that's why they don't call it a crisis. Amazing, Laura. Thank you for joining us today. I know you guys, you know, we're going to be tracking this convoy, and I want to hear all about it. Dr. Chambers, any last thoughts before we let you go? Yeah, you know, I'm going to continue to work here to make sure that the infiltrators are pointed out,

because we have the names of the infiltrators, and we know who they are. And they have to understand that there is law, and the Constitution of the state of Texas and the United States will uphold those laws, and we will continue to work with law enforcement to make that happen. I really appreciate both of you. Right? They're on the radar. Texas, yeah, there are several different Texas militia groups, but we're going to,

we have them on the radar and we're going to, and the eyes of Texas are upon you. We're watching now. And you know, Del, that's like one, that's one of the most important things, because nobody here wants this to turn into another fake insurrection, right? Everybody here that I have spoken to

is peaceful, low-abiding, they support the sheriffs, local law enforcement, they support, you know, the governor and the attorney general took this position on Article 4 of the Constitution on states' rights. People here want a secure border, but they're not going hunting down migrants and all the other BS that so much of the media is talking about. They're desperate to create some kind of false flag event here. And there's a lot of people are staying away because they say, well, you know, I don't want this to be another January 6th, right? I don't want to get caught up in this.

going to be unsafe. Well, I mean, that is the problem, right? That is part of what they've done, too, is to scare us away from our right to assemble, to make it a bad thing, to make it seem like a violent thing. And I really think what we have got to celebrate is, you know, the right to peaceful protest. I'm glad you're there. I know that, you know, you're part of making that stay peaceful. Good. All right. Well, I appreciate you two joining us. Thank you so much for taking the time and bringing us up to date on this convoy that's taking place right now, as we speak. Take care. God bless.