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People smuggling

People smuggling

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Oct 12, 2026

Eric BallietGUEST
12:34
But to give you...
Eric BallietGUEST
12:36
To put some context to it, the, the Financial Crime Enforcement Network of the Treasury, FinCEN, in August of this year released a report that between 2023 and 2025, they flagged $5 billion that was suspected of, uh, being involved with just human smuggling, that these cartels have, have, um, diversified into.
Eric BallietGUEST
12:59
So they control a lot of the human smuggling that's going on.
Eric BallietGUEST
13:01
So when you look at $5 billion over three years, if, if my public school math holds, that's around $180,000 every hour of every day for three years that these organizations, uh, made just in human smuggling.
Eric BallietGUEST
13:16
So when you talk about the corruption-
Jessica RosenthalHOST
13:18
Wow
Eric BallietGUEST
16:27
There's a saying, like, uh, "Live a year as a king than, you know, 10 as a, as a peasant." So they would rather die in a, in a hail of gunfire than be subjected to 23 hours a day in a, you know, six-by-10 cell.
Jessica RosenthalHOST
16:41
Wow.

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