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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Part 2: Smuggler’s Highway: Got-Aways At The Southern Border

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: Dr. Phil goes to the Arizona and Texas borders looking for solutions. We are just a few days away from the 2024 election and there’s one topic that’s got everyone from Washington to Main Street talking…the border crisis. Both sides agree that work needs to be done to secure our southern border.

Dr. Phil first heads to Arizona to find out why there is a super-highway for illegal crossings down there. It’s been nicknamed the "Smuggler's Highway" …right on Interstate 10, which runs through California and Arizona. It’s become the most popular route for smugglers from Mexico. But Sheriff’s deputies in Pinal County, say it isn’t just cartels smuggling migrants…it’s American teenagers. Right in the thick of it all, Sheriff Mark Lamb says the drugs and people being trafficked through this "highway" are ending up in cities all across America. In fiscal year 2023 alone, Arizona had more than 775,000 illegal border crossers. That's a whole lot of people slipping through the cracks.

Sheriff Lamb tells Dr. Phil how he attempts to wrangle this situation. Plus Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels tells Dr. Phil that in the last 31 months, there have been 500 to 600 pursuits coming through his rural county. Dr. Phil talks to the Vice President of the Border Agent Council, Art Del Cueto, who says the media is not reporting much about Arizona’s border issues. Art says he has solutions if anyone would listen. And we head to Eagle Pass Texas where Dr. Phil spoke to several people working on the frontlines. He asked them THE hard questions that you won’t see anywhere else. And US Southern Border Expert, Jason Jones says human trafficking at the border is the largest US intelligence failure since 9-11. If you are looking for answers to your questions about the border, this episode has the answers. For more information: https://drphilpodcasts.com

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It's become the most popular route for smugglers from Mexico.

0:03.0

It's just littered with camouflage clothes and backpacks.

0:07.0

What it looks like to me is you're smuggling people up to Phoenix.

0:10.0

Somebody's getting paid to transport these individuals.

0:12.0

What do you think the Cineloa cartel is grossing? is getting paid to transport these individuals.

0:12.6

What do you think the Cinelloa cartel is grossing a year?

0:15.6

In the billions.

0:16.8

Just wanting a better life is not a reason for asylum.

0:19.6

They can say, well, the gang violence.

0:21.3

And my question would always be, why do you leave your family behind?

0:24.5

What needs to happen at the border? If you can believe it, we are just a week away from the 2024 election and there's one topic that's got everyone from Washington

0:46.1

to Main Street talking.

0:48.0

The border crisis.

0:49.5

Both sides agree that work needs to be done to secure our southern border.

0:53.0

I wanted to see for myself what's going on down there.

0:56.0

I've been to the Texas border in Eagle Pass.

0:59.0

Now let's zoom in on Penal County, Arizona.

1:03.2

This isn't just some little patch of desert.

1:06.0

We're talking about 5,374 square miles of land

1:10.8

right in the middle of the state. I bet you didn't know there's a super

1:14.8

highway for illegal crossings down there. It's been nicknamed the Smugglers

1:20.2

Highway right on Interstate 10 which runs through California and Arizona.

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