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Crisis in Cochise County: Part Two
May 24, 2025 · 14 min
This is the second part in a two part series produced in 2021 of the border crisis, filmed on a ride along with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. Blessed are the peacemakers....
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This is the second part in a two part series produced in 2021 of the border crisis, filmed on a ride along with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. Blessed are the peacemakers.... ...more Show the full description Show less This is the second part in a two part series produced in 2021 of the border crisis, filmed on a ride along with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. Blessed are the peacemakers....
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In this video 0:00 Border Security Challenges
Border Security Challenges 0:00 Within the sheriff's office what we've tried to do is we've tried to build upon the successes that border patrol has. We have built a camera network, a live feed camera system0:11 that gives us alerts every time movement is detected in front of them. By putting these cameras out, we're force multiplying. We have those those assets in the field 240:23 7. That all weather road in the Roosevelt easement, it's not there. Right now, the the road is on private property. This, in my mind,0:35 is not completed until this road's in place, until the technology's in place.0:49 In 2019, in the first 9 months of the year, we had a hundred and 41 countries breach our southwest border. We had 6100 fraud families, 3500 recycled children. Cartels were bringing the children in with adults. Children1:01 were sent back to Mexico and and repeated that process. We had 16000 violent criminals coming through our southwest border, 1100 gang members representing 20 different countries. That should be a concern for every1:12 community in this country. But the bottom line, at the end of the day, it's every community in the United States. That's what we should be standing up united on and saying we gotta protect our borders, which protects our1:22 country, which protects Americans.1:24 This trail right here, here's another 1 right here. And they just go right off through there, heading towards highway 921:36 or towards the neighborhood where they're gonna load out and strip their gear and leave it. I bet you there'll be 5 more trails in the next hundred yards. There's 1 there. And those trails aren't made by, hey, 1 person
1:48 crossed through there. That's a carpet booty right there. So they put those on their feet, and, it washes out their their tracks from their
2:00 their shoes. They just tie them on there. Actually, there's another 1 right there in the tree. And then they're all issued this camouflage. That's part of what they get when they pay the cartel. The cartel gives them
2:10 that camouflage. They give them a set of these carpet booties, and, and they give them sometimes they give them a little track foam, sometimes go ahead and and put your footprint right there.
2:24 If I go over and I step on that, it just washes everything out. And I mean, I'm 252 hundred and 60
2:36 pounds, not leaving a single track and wiping out your tracks in the process. And so the camouflage right here is what's given to them. It's kinda like a pajama.
2:49 These are the pants. There's a shirt right there. These are issued to them by the cartel. That's part of their 6000 dollars plus that they're paying the cartel and they're given a a
3:00 destination or a guide to get them to where they're going. If we look off here to the east, you can see the finished barrier. It's a 30 foot high wall with built of steel bollards. Now behind me here up to the west
3:12 is the San Rafael Valley. The only thing separating the United States and Mexico there is a a dirt road with a barbed wire fence and and what they call Normandy barrier. It's kinda reminiscent of
3:24 the barriers that were thrown up on Normandy Beach, and it's strictly there as a vehicle barrier. And then, of course, the barbed wire fence is to keep the Mexican cattle from straying into the US and the
3:36 US cattle from straying into Mexico. If a cow from the US crosses into Mexico and then gets returned or turned in by the ranchers in Mexico, they have to go through a quarantine
3:48 process. The quarantine is because of diseases and trying to prevent those diseases from coming into the United States. If you think about it, 1 of the diseases
4:00 that that Mexico still has in their cattle herds is is tuberculosis. Arizona does not. Tuberculosis is zoonotic
4:11 meaning that it can be transmitted from cow to human or human to cow. It's it's a disease that is transferable between species. If it's
4:23 in Mexico and they're cattle, it can be transmitted to our cattle or it can be transmitted to our population, our human population. To
4:41 my knowledge right now, the only ones that are tested for any kind of diseases, any kind of viruses, anything like that. The the number is
4:53 very small. I believe it's only the ones that are going to be quarantined. If they're released, if they're scheduled
5:04 for deportation, they are not tested. I bet you if you go out and look at that trail, there's probably even footprints on
5:16 it. We've had them crawling, thinking that they're out of view from the cameras, but the cameras are set at ground level. We had 1
5:27 guy that was told that the sensors on the border, that fiber optic technology
5:39 wouldn't pick him up if he wasn't walking because it it detects the vibration of the walk. So as soon as he got over the wall,
5:51 he rolled. Little did he know that he was rolling in front of 1 of our cameras. He actually rolled in a half a circle before he realized he was going the wrong way, and then
6:03 he rolled back the other way. So this is that where they did that controlled burn in the spring. First off, they went through here, and and you can see they did a lot of clear cutting because it the
6:15 they actually did this partially because of environmental reasons, but partially for border security. The forest service came in through here. They cut down a lot of the oak trees because they were getting pretty thick.
6:27 It piled up the slash piles. They had this road is a defensible road. That road over there is defensible road, and they burnt everything in between. And they had probably
6:39 20 or 30 men crew out here to try and contain it. So imagine crossing that border and looking up there and saying I have to go to those rocks. To me,
6:51 it at that point, it's not worth it. We've had the guys we've caught down there around Douglas And about 10, 12 miles north of Douglas,
7:03 there's a federal prison. And that federal prison is all lit up, and you can kinda see the glow. And we've
7:15 caught people crossing the border there. And when we interviewed them, they say, yeah. The the guides told us to go towards those lights, and that was Phoenix. And the cartel took their money,
7:27 aimed them at the prison 12 miles north of the border, and told them that was Phoenix. We've caught people 80 miles north of the border. It took them
7:39 between 21 and 28 days depending on what group they were in. Most of them that we've caught up there have been
7:51 packing drugs. Some of them are working off their their debt to the cartel, so they're walking 4 weeks with 50 pounds of marijuana on their back
8:05 to pay for their trip. Had a couple of them tell me that if they didn't know that it was that far, they'd never come. Generally, by the time we catch them,
8:16 they're down to their last couple of slices of baloney or nasty rotten hot dogs. You start out, there's 1 guy carrying
8:28 food and 4 or 5 4 or 5 guys carrying drugs. 1 guy cannot pack enough food for 4 weeks
8:40 for 5 guys. Their feet are blistered, their, you know, everything's just busted up, their shoes are gone. Generally speaking, they'll
8:52 try and get resupplied somewhere along the line. They'll have a cell phone or a radio that they're talking to the scouts with because the scouts will use our our mountains on the United States side.
9:04 They'll they'll damn sure use those mountains and and they can call in food drops or water drops, but they'll stop along the way at these ranches
9:16 and and different water sources, and they'll they'll fill up their water jugs. And sometimes if they're hungry enough, they'll burglarize a place to get some food
9:28 and and keep on going. Some of them that are career drug meals will make that trip and then turn around and and work their way
9:40 back south. About 8 years ago, there was 1 of them. He made it all the way up. He came back south, another national park that we have here in
9:52 the county. He, he stopped in there. 1 of the employees was cleaning the bathroom. He went in, bashed her head in with a
10:04 rock, and took her keys, and took her national park vehicle, and drove back to Douglas. She survived. She'll never be the same again. He was
10:16 apprehended by border patrol later on. I think it was he crossed in Texas. We were able to match him up through CODIS with the DNA match from some of the DNA that he'd left in the vehicle.
10:29 He was convict tried and convicted and and is now serving, I believe, a life sentence for attempted homicide. You know, these kind of things, I won't say they happen on a daily basis, but the
10:41 opportunity, the the the threat of them happening happening on a daily basis is there. And keep in mind, if somebody crosses in front of 1 of our cameras
10:53 here, we're an hour away from the senoida border patrol station that would be responsible for responding. The the NACO station is another
11:04 hour away. So regardless, either side that they're coming from, we're an hour away from a border patrol station. There in the national park, both on the east and the west side, you can see those roads
11:16 that were cut going up the mountain side. It took them a little over a year for the construction company to build those roads. Those roads have had landings and and different
11:28 things. On the on the east side, you can see that they'd started to build the the physical barrier, the 30 foot wall up the side of the mountain. This side over here, they they never did get anything,
11:40 accomplished because they were starting from the east side and coming over. The roads there are going to just wash out and be a environmental nightmare come
11:52 the first monsoons. There is no vehicle barrier up there. There is, the contractor was able to put up a barbed wire fence to delineate the border.
12:04 But now with those roads, rather than somebody crossing here in the San Rafael Valley and having to ascend these steep mountains, they can just get on those roadways and just walk right
12:15 up. It's better than a hiking trail. Walk up to the top and get on those ridge lines where they're able to observe border patrol's movements and and trying to determine
12:27 where they're gonna come down. But those those are super highways that that have been opened up by stopping the border wall construction. We've had a lot of
12:39 support from our community. Our our community is, is behind what we're trying to do. Even though it's an international border, it affects our community safety. It
12:51 it affects our community security as well as national security. If if Cochise County isn't secure from the Mexican border neither is Des Moines, Iowa and neither is
13:03 is, Lincoln, Nebraska. I mean, there everything that comes through here is gonna eventually end up in in 1 of those communities.
13:09 The president of the United States, the vice president, and this administration supported by a unified congress needs to prioritize all our borders, especially the southwest border right now, and change the message that
13:21 the border is not open for illicit activity. The only ones benefiting on that is the cartels, and we know that every day. If we change the messaging and follow our oath of office to protect Americans, we can stop this.
13:33 America is home. It's what every country in the world wishes they could be. But if we can't maintain our our individuality, if we can't maintain our security, if we can't
13:44 maintain some semblance of of law and order, then instead of being the poster child, we're going to be another statistic.
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