underreported stories right now in america is the spike in child, not just human trafficking but especially child trafficking, sex trafficking of children across our border. our cartels are more powerful than ever. we re destablizing mexico. just as bad as you know, governor, there are some americans dying of fentanyl overdoses, that the numbers are astounding. january 2022 we had 153,000 border encounters but we re looking also at record numbers of fentanyl deaths in america. devastating american families. well, you mentioned human trafficking, the drug use is substantially up as you mentioned. it is more than double. it is just frightening but human trafficking is the exploitation of little little bitty childrenl abuse of children. how anyone would say we don t
that land is federal property. they step in going into 2022, fulfill their agreement to follow through with their remain in mexico policy. began construction on the border wall. helped the federal resources, federal partners this is not the responsibility of the states. it falls on the federal government to take action. lawrence: pete, they haven t just failed on the issue. the federal government underjoe biden s leadership, they re petty as hell. texas wanted to build the own wall, they are doing, they shouldn t have to do. we have equipment sitting on the border when it comes to building the wall as well as the technology there. it already has been paid for by the u.s. taxpayer. texas offered to buy the material and the federal government said no way. they won t secure the border. when texas tries to do it, they try to impede us every step of the way. lawrence: totally right, lawrence. that pettiness is product of official policy which is absolutely not, we will never
on. we re turning mexico into a marco state. we re absolutely destablizing mexico. lawrence: it is there. rachel: by empowering enriching cartels who are making massive amounts of money not just from drugs and human trafficking. there is a congresswoman from florida representative cammack, she is calling joe biden the trafficker in chief. i think that is something we should start calling him. our government is absolutely complicit in this drug business, in this human trafficking business. we re doing the last leg for the drug cartels after the people cross the border. this is unconscionable what is happening. we re making the border, the people who live along the border, it is unliveable. they can t get in to get services, whether it is hospital the, they re calling the police. there is not enough people there. the social service network for tax-paying americans living along the border is absolutely
and isolation that so many people feel. at the same time we re seeing massive amounts of fentanyl coming over the border. i was in the cab when i was in nashville, pete, lawrence with, a cab driver. he happened to be from mexico originally. he told me his son was a cop and that they arrested a worker, a young 16-year-old worker from walmart who in his backpack had fentanyl and drugs and scales. he was being paid, this is happening in nashville, he was being paid $2,000 a month from the drug cartels, mexican drug cartels to start getting kids hooked on fentanyl and other drugs. this was a young american white kid. you re seeing the cartels are getting stronger and stronger. they re entrading deeper, deeper into our community. at the same time something very dangerous is happening that our country is not really focusing