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[suspenseful music]
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[Austin] I'm a little nervous...
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thinking about
my parents' story.
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It'll be the first time I would-- I'd
been on that section of Rio Grande
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where my parents crossed...
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in my life.
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First time ever.
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And I think it's gonna connect
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everything really,
really well for me.
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[Austin] I've been uh,
river-guiding here on the Rio Grande
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for the past six years.
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I want people to know
what's out here.
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I want the love to be shared.
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This is wilderness
as wild as it gets.
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But people
don't like hearing that.
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People like
hearing about a wall.
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Rather than talking
about putting up a fence,
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why don't
we work out some recognition
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of our mutual problems--
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Make it possible
for them to come here legally
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with a work permit,
and open the border both ways.
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We are nation of immigrants,
but we are also a nation of law.
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[Bill Clinton] That's why our
administration has moved aggressively
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to secure our borders more.
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Ours' is a nation of immigrants,
we're also a nation of law.
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[George W. bush] We have a
responsibility to secure our borders.
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President Bush,
he signed a bill today
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authorizing the construction
of a fence
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along the border with Mexico.
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This fence
would be 700 miles long.
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[upbeat music]
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[Barack Obama] I think the
American people, they appreciate
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and believe in immigration. But they
can't have a situation where you just have
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half a million people
pouring over the border
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without any kind of
mechanism to control it.
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Complete the danged fence.
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It'll work this time.
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[Hilary Clinton] Look, I voted uh,
numerous times when I was a senator
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to spend money
to build a barrier
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to try to prevent
um, illegal immigrants
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from coming in.
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[Donald Trump] On day one,
we will begin working
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on an impenetrable,
physical, tall,
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powerful, beautiful
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southern-border wall.
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[applause and cheering]
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[upbeat music]
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[crowd chanting]
Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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[Donald trump] Build that wall!
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Build that wall!
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[Ben] This whole idea
got started a few months ago.
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I was working'
for some wildlife biologists
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out in West Texas.
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And they were describing
to me how a physical wall
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would have
some really serious impact
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to a lot of wildlife species
along the Rio Grande.
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And it was something that-- That
I never really thought about,
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the actual
physical entity of a wall.
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And I guess I just wanted
to-- to learn more about it.
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[Jay] Um, uh--
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[laughing]
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[Ben] On a journey like
this, you're only as good
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as the team that you have.
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And this group is amazing.
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[Austin]
Like that and mess this up.
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[Ben] So you-- with horses,
you don't have to replace pedals.
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Austin Alvarado
is a river guide.
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He knows the river in West Texas
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like the back of his hand.
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Heather is an ornithologist.
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She studies birds
and butterflies along the Rio,
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and her knowledge of
just the biodiversity at large
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is gonna be really important
for the trip.
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Uh, one second. Yeah.
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[Ben] Filipe DeAndrade,
an incredible film maker.
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I expected like-- Yeah, like the
mariachi band and great entourage.
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Wooh, what a start! And it is
just like, "Alright, pull up next
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-to the drum trucks, we're doing this thing."
-Is he alright?
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[Ben] Jay Kleberg, he works for
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation.
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Conservation is his thing.
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[Ben] The wall is gonna be
built through a lot of places
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that are very near and dear
to his heart.
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[Chrissy] She may be walking by
the time you get back.
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-[Jay] Oh, that's not a cool thing.
-[Chrissy] Yeah.
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[laughing]
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[Jay]
You sure I can't just strap her?
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I can put her in the Camelback.
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-No!
-No, I put a little helmet on her with a--
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[Chrissy] A little basket
in the front of your bike.
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-Yeah, with goggles.
-[daughter] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[Chrissy chuckling]
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[Ben] Like this thing
originated in Colorado
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and by the time it hits here,
it's tiny, minuscule,
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and then the United States
takes pretty much all of it.
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So we can't even float down
the uh, the river right now,
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that's why we're taking bikes
which I'm not that big a fan of,
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but you know, looking forward
to the horror stretch.
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-[photographer] Alright, get in there, nice and tight.
-[Austin] Delighted.
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-[Photographer] Alright, I think that probably got it.
-Alright.
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-Nailed it.
-Yeah.
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What's the last time
you rode a bike, Filipe?
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-[Filipe] Me?
-Yeah.
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-This morning.
-This morning.
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I just hopped off.
Now I'm hopping' back on again.
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Alright, let's go make
some bad decisions.
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-[Ben] Hell, yeah!
-[Filipe] Let's go with it.
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Arrr!
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[background music]
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[Ben] We are embarking
on a 1,200-mile journey
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from El Paso
to the Gulf of Mexico.
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[Ben] Riding bicycles
where there isn't enough water.
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[Ben] Taking' my mustangs
through the Big Bend.
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And canoeing down
the Rio Grande.
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[Ben] Tr yin' to understand
where exactly a wall would go
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and what effects it would have.
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I dream I'm in
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Wait, wait, wait, time out.
Serious question.
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There is going' to be doors
in this potential wall.
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Are there gonna be doors like
this to access the Rio Grande?
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Like you'll have to get a key
or something to acc-- No.
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No, and where there are access
points like this, we'll have agents.
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And they'll have
access to the gates.
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So you might not be
able to get access to the
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Rio Grande area
without Border Patrol.
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Okay.
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So after this, you're still
technically in the United States.
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Okay, okay.
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[Austin] Wow!
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[Filipe] Wait, so we are about
to enter Mexico right now?
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[Ben] No, we're just gonna ride
on the Mexico side of the wall,
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but on the US.
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[Heather] No-man zone.
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[Heather]
It's wild being along the wall
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to have
this massive 25-foot barrier.
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It just feels so separate.
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[Jay] While I was working in El
Paso, they constructed the wall,
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and they did it in
like 12 months.
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From my perspective,
it wasn't a real
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like uh, cry
against the construction
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of that fence at the time.
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But then since then |--
there have been people elected
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like congressman O'Rourke
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who was against
the construction of a-- a fence.
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[Beto] I-- I don't
think a lot of people
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in the interior
of the US understand
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that the wall
will not literally be built
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at the border, at the
international boundary line.
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It'll be built well within here,
it's 100 yards.
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Other places it's-- it's a mile,
2 miles uh, into the interior
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and everywhere it's gonna look
as ugly as this or uglier.
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[Beto] El Paso for the last 20
years has been either the safest,
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the second-safest or the
third-safest city in America,
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which is really remarkable, because
it is at complete odds with the rhetoric
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about the border.
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[Beto] Of the 2,000 miles
of the US-Mexico border,
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I believe
a little over 600 miles
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have fences, walls,
physical barriers.
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[background music]
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[Beto] And that began after
the 2006 Secure Fencing Act,
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which Republicans and Democrats,
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inducing senators Obama
and Clinton at the time,
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voted for, which essentially
allowed the Bush administration,
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and then
succeeding administrations,
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to put up
these physical barriers
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and to effectively
waive all environmental
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and local
stakeholders' safeguards.
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I Be to] I think people
who aren't from the border,
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this might make
a lot of sense to them like--
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So we hear there are problems
with Mexico or immigration
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or drugs, yeah, a--
a big giant fence
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with steel and concrete that--
that makes a lot of sense.
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When you live here, you,
you obviously--
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You see it differently
and you feel it--
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You feel it differently.
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I think being a politician
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and working um,
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across the aisle,
in most cases for candidates,
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is not rewarded at all.
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They are
rewarded for extreme stances.
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I'm Will Hurd.
I'm the representative
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from the 23rd
Congressional District of Texas,
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which goes from
the fringes of El Paso
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all the way to San Antonio.
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I have 820 miles of the border.
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And I spent
nine and a half years
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as an undercover officer
in the CIA.
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I sit on the
Homeland Security Committee.
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I've chased bad guys
all over the world,
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I've chased terrorists, I've chased
nuclear weapons, proliferators.
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I've tr-- I've chased
the narcotraficantes.
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And you learn that your
adversary has resources.
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They have um, the commitment
to do something
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and they're-- they're--
they're-- they're smart.
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That's why
any conversation um, on uh--
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On immigration or security has to begin
with operational control of our border.
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I went to John Marshall High
School, but in [indistinct]
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-Okay, um-- -I'm talking
about when-- when we were in--
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When were in hi-- yeah.
I took my ring off,
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-because obviously I was just supposed to.
-No, dude you got to--
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-What are you doing?
-No, but like |I didn't know--
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Nobody else is wearing jewelry.
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[Will] We can get operational
control of our border.
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We can enforce our laws
to give deterrence
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and a consequence
to that negative behavior.
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[background chatter]
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[Ben] We just got to the end
of the wall for the first time.
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We need our-- our men and women
in the Border Patrol
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to know exactly
what the threat is,
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so they're not showing up with no
information about what's going on.
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And-- and so that's why getting
the right tools is important.
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And-- and I think--
I think folks need to realize
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that you know, um,
that we wanna secure the border,
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we should have
secured our border by now.
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-Let's roll.
You all-- you all start going.
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Okay, we're gonna--
we're gonna head back.
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[Austin] There is wa--
there's like--
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-There is a canal right there.
-We just cross the canal?
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-[Filipe] I'll take my shirt off and move across.
-[Jay] I mean we could, but uh--
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-[Will] Yeah. For sure, -It's
supposed to be an adventure, right?
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[Heather] We could jump through
here, we could just sail right off.
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[Will] This shit is deep.
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[Heather]
You know, I can't get my bike--
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Oh yeah! Oh, that's nice.
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Ooh! Ooh!
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[Will] Y'all didn't
tell me it was cold.
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-[laughing]
-[Heather] Yee-haw, I know!
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[Filipe] Getting' the congressman
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in a bit of pickle here.
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Here we go.
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-[Filipe] Got it.
-You want the camera or you want the hand?
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-I'll take your hand.
-Yeah.
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[Heather] What?
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-Yeah.
-[Heather] Getting through.
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Oh yeah.
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Your government salutes you.
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-[laughing]
-I'm sure.
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I get to my next
appointment on time.
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[laughing]
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[song in the background]
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[Austin] Wooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!
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-[Jay laughing]
-Cheers, boys.
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Hey, well, to only having
five bike malfunctions.
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Yeah.
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[Ben] Pretty good oatmeal.
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Glad I get to eat this.
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Is Heather up?
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[Heather] Yeah, I'm up.
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Okay.
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[Austin] Why?
Then we need your expertise.
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There's all these birds
fl yin' around.
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[Heather] Such a amazing
way to start the day.
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Just you out there,
listening to the birdsong,
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taking everything in.
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And it's like
such a great time to see
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all kinds of wildlife.
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[Heather]
I grew up in Upstate, New York.
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Went to college at Cornell
where I studied ecology.
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I worked for about five years
as a field biologist.
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Then I pursued
my masters in The Big Bend
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and fell in love
with the border.
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On this trip,
I'm going to be doing
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as many bird surveys
along the route as I can fit in.
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My intention
is to survey these areas
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that nobody has
really surveyed birds before
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to see what the biodiversity is
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before a potential
border wall is built.
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When you think
a high bird diversity
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or just high biodiversity,
you don't think of a desert.
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But it's some of the highest vegetation
diversity, and therefore bird diversity,
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because you have
all these different elevations
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and you have the
Rio Grande going through
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that creates
a completely different habitat.
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If you're just cruising' on by,
you're gonna think
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there's not anything here.
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But if you just stop,
and like look around,
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and listen for a little bit,
you realize this place is alive.
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[suspenseful music]
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[Ben] The Rio Grande
is the fourth longest river
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in North America.
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It starts in Colorado,
flows through New Mexico,
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and becomes the US-Mexico border
for over 1,200 miles in Texas.
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There are so many
dams and diversions
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that the Rio Grande
runs dry below El Paso.
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And for nearly 300 miles,
there is little to no water.
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The Forgotten Reach.
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[playing the harmonica]
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-[Heather] Well.
-[Austin] Let me help you out with that.
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We're fucked.
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It's home.
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[Filipe]
We'd start riding our bikes,
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and the ride's
going" pretty well,
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and then out of nowhere snow
just starts dumping' on us.
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[wind blowing]
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[Ben] I'm doing a--
Bring the toes back alive again.
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[Jay] Wow, these
are some big flakes.
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The temperature is dropping.
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[Heather] The roads are
very quickly degrading.
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You can ride for a little while
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and then the--
the wheels just accumulate mud.
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It's still like
spring conditions everywhere.
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[Austin grunting]
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[Austin] I've never
been scared away from--
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From getting you know, down to
business and getting it done.
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[Austin grunting]
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[Austin] But dang,
that was some serious mud.
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That was class five mud
right there.
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[Austin grunting]
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At some point,
you're not riding the bike,
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the bike is riding you.
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And uh, you're starting
to question the process.
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[Filipe sniffles
and takes a deep breath]
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[Filipe]
This thing is freaking heavy.
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[taking deep breaths]
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[Filipe] We wake up the next
morning, decide just to dump the bikes.
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We left our support crew
and we continued on by foot.
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[Filipe grunting]
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[Filipe] Literally, on my knees.
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What about
in going to the valley
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or like going' even farther up
and going' up and over this?
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Is that an option?
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[Jay] I think our reference
point is [indistinct].
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[Jay] We'll just have
to go around and come back.
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[Filipe] Sorry, keep running.
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-[Filipe] Keep going.
-That's it, yeah.
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For the first time in this trip, I
mean we're only a week into the trip,
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but today is the first day
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that we got
a real first hand perspective
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of what somebody would
have to go through
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if they were to cross illegally.
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They wouldn't
be doing it on horseback,
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they wouldn't be
doing it on a canoe,
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they wouldn't
be doing it on bike.
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-[Filipe] They'd be walking--
-[Ben] For three months.
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We came over
to the US from Brazil
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when I was about six years old.
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I was born in the countryside.
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I remember traveling
in the Amazon
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and you know,
life being carefree in a way.
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And then
we were displaced from a flood.
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Growing up in Rio de Janeiro,
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we were living in the most
notorious ghetto in the world
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very much at the forefront of
drugs, and the cartel and violence.
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Anything was better in her eyes.
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We flew over here because
my mom had a worker visa.
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And we came over,
me and mom, my sister.
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|I think it was
my mom's intention
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to come over here
and create a new life
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for me and my sister,
without my dad,
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because he was just
a nightmare of a human being.
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He was really abusive and--
and addicted to drugs,
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and you know,
not the kind of person
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that she wanted
to raise her kids.
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What I don't think
she expected was that
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he was going to get rid of
all of our legal documents.
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She was faced with
a very difficult decision.
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Go back to Brazil,
and then try and come back um,
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another way through immigration
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or just stay here
and figure it out.
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[Filipe] Ultimately that meant for
about 14 years, we stayed illegally.
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There are four avenues or categories
through which one can immigrate legally
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in to the United States. The first
and the most common is one based
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on family reunification
where preference is given
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to the immediate family members.
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[Victoria] The second route is
through employer-based immigration.
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The third is through
the refugee or asylee process.
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And the last category is through
the diversity visa lottery.
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If you look
at the past 10 or 15 years,
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you see a leveling out
for about 1 million per year.
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There is a cap to that.
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Folks don't choose
to be undocumented.
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When somebody says:
"get in line",
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many times there aren't lines.
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[Beto]
The flow of migration to the US
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is really a function
of our economy.
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The function of economies uh, in
the Americas and it's hemisphere,
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a function of um, the kind
of violence and brutality,
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civil wars and death
that you find in Central America
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that-- that you have
found off and on in--in Mexico.
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There's also a
misconception about Mexico.
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We are at net zero um,
immigration with Mexico,
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which means it's not
a plus or minus, right.
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00:24:52,033 --> 00:24:54,369
Uh, most people will think that
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you know, most of the illegal
immigration is coming from Mexico.
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It's not. It's coming
from Central America.
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Mexico is actually
a partner of ours
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in trying
to stop illegal immigration,
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because they are dealing
with some of the similar issues
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on their southern border.
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[cicadas singing]
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-[Austin] Wow! Wow, look at this!
-[Filipe] it's right there, man.
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-[Austin] Wow!
-[Jay] It made me go so fast.
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-[Austin] I'm so glad it's pavement.
-[Ben] No mud. [kissing]
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[Austin] I'm just gonna do this,
'cause my knees can't bend.
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[laughing]
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00:25:31,823 --> 00:25:33,950
[soft guitar music]
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[Ben] When that trailer pulled
in, my heart just like filled with joy.
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It symbolized
the end of the bicycle,
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00:25:51,009 --> 00:25:53,469
which is like the greatest
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00:25:53,678 --> 00:25:55,596
thing that's
happened thus far on the trip.
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00:25:56,806 --> 00:25:58,850
-[donkey braying]
-[all laughing]
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00:26:00,935 --> 00:26:03,187
-[indistinct]
-Here's your horse.
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00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:06,190
-Alright, let's do it.
-[Ben] Your horse's name is "Donkey Dust".
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00:26:06,399 --> 00:26:08,651
[laughing]
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00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:10,778
I think I'm ready
for a new life together.
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00:26:10,987 --> 00:26:11,779
[laughing]
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00:26:11,988 --> 00:26:13,114
Alright, we'll see you.
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00:26:13,322 --> 00:26:14,949
[laughing]
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00:26:15,992 --> 00:26:18,536
[Ben] Now, I've been
fortunate to work on ranches
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and to do a lot of packed trips
all over the American West.
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00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:26,919
And then this is Dinosaur.
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00:26:27,128 --> 00:26:30,757
[Ben] My mustangs are so good,
they know how to ride.
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00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:32,800
-He's a beautiful mustang.
-Yeah.
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00:26:35,136 --> 00:26:36,971
[Ben] I knew they would
take good care of everybody,
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00:26:38,014 --> 00:26:41,142
which is very important,
because Filipe...
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00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:44,562
no idea how to ride a horse.
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00:26:44,771 --> 00:26:45,730
[Filipe]
You think she"ll let me on?
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00:26:46,689 --> 00:26:48,691
You have riding boots.
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00:26:52,111 --> 00:26:54,197
-[Austin] What do you need, huh?
-How do you get on?
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00:26:54,405 --> 00:26:55,281
[Ben] Just hop on!
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00:26:59,619 --> 00:27:00,828
[Austin] You know you got it.
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00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:03,081
[laughing]
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00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:09,337
Yeah, buddy!
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00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,090
Alright, let's go.
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00:27:12,298 --> 00:27:13,508
[Austin] Let's go.
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00:27:13,716 --> 00:27:14,842
-Help me, help me get off.
-Okay, come on.
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00:27:15,051 --> 00:27:16,636
Alright, hold on.
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00:27:16,844 --> 00:27:19,263
Alright.
Now, I'm gonna ride Ben around.
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00:27:19,472 --> 00:27:21,265
Come on, Ben!
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00:27:21,474 --> 00:27:24,894
[Heather] I've been on a horse
a handful of times
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like the touristy situation or like
a birthday party or something.
436
00:27:30,691 --> 00:27:32,610
I'm not particularly concerned.
437
00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:34,904
I trust Ben's judgment.
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00:27:35,113 --> 00:27:37,156
You know,
which maybe I shouldn't.
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00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:39,700
[Filipe] Let's ride!
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00:27:39,909 --> 00:27:41,202
[everybody cheering]
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00:27:45,790 --> 00:27:49,043
[Ben] The part that I was most
excited about was the Big Bend.
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Big Bend Ranch State Park
is 300,000 acres.
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00:27:54,841 --> 00:27:57,385
Big Bend Ranch National Park
is 800,000 acres.
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00:28:01,222 --> 00:28:05,059
Combined, it's this massive
relatively untouched habitat.
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00:28:09,272 --> 00:28:10,731
[Jay] An ancestor of mine,
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00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:13,151
who was
Parks and Wildlife Commissioner
447
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,237
back in the '30s and '40s,
visited this country
448
00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:20,074
when they were looking at
designating Big Bend National Park.
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00:28:21,701 --> 00:28:23,995
And he was
a relatively famous rancher.
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00:28:24,203 --> 00:28:25,997
So that's in his blood
like he sees the land
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00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:29,083
and he sees how am I gonna
produce off of that land.
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00:28:29,292 --> 00:28:31,002
And his comment
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00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:33,838
that the highest
and best use for that land
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is for public recreation.
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00:28:38,801 --> 00:28:41,721
We're sitting on
the results of that legacy.
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00:28:43,806 --> 00:28:46,267
It's important for me
to complete that circle,
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00:28:47,476 --> 00:28:51,272
and try and protect
an area that he saw promising.
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00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:55,276
That's threatened
right now by the law.
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00:28:56,861 --> 00:29:01,699
And so if I can do something
to sort of protect that legacy,
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00:29:01,908 --> 00:29:05,203
then I feel like that's
an important part of--
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00:29:05,411 --> 00:29:06,704
Of my life right now.
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00:29:18,007 --> 00:29:18,883
[whistling]
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00:29:21,761 --> 00:29:22,970
[Ben] Pay attention, boys.
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00:29:23,179 --> 00:29:24,347
[whistling]
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00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:28,017
[Ben] Rocks!
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00:29:28,226 --> 00:29:30,102
Easy, Tough, easy, easy.
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00:29:30,311 --> 00:29:32,063
[Heather] Alright, go ahead now.
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00:29:33,439 --> 00:29:35,483
[Ben] Yeah,
this is definitely a walker.
469
00:29:36,484 --> 00:29:38,152
-[Ben] Yeah.
-[Heather] Carrying a lot, yeah.
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30 minutes in adventure mode,
engaged.
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00:29:42,782 --> 00:29:44,283
[Ben] This area is
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00:29:44,492 --> 00:29:47,078
some of the gnarliest,
rockiest, nastiest
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terrain I've ever been in.
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00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:56,045
Every single piece of vegetation
out here has thorns
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00:29:56,254 --> 00:29:58,047
and stickers and cactus.
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00:30:05,888 --> 00:30:07,974
[Heather] Alright.
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00:30:08,182 --> 00:30:09,433
[Heather] Good, good.
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00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:11,102
[Filipe] Dude, these mustangs
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00:30:11,310 --> 00:30:13,187
are made for the back country.
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00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:19,110
Fortunately, all my mustangs,
they were all born in the wild
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00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:21,821
on public lands
in the American West.
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00:30:22,029 --> 00:30:24,198
[background music]
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[Ben] They grew up in desolate
harsh landscapes like this.
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00:30:29,578 --> 00:30:32,081
They know how to walk
through this country,
485
00:30:32,290 --> 00:30:33,958
they know how to meander
through the rocks,
486
00:30:34,166 --> 00:30:37,169
and stay away from the cactus,
and how to navigate
487
00:30:37,378 --> 00:30:39,213
through cliffs
and difficult terrain.
488
00:30:40,381 --> 00:30:41,841
It makes me proud to--
489
00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:45,261
To see my ponies take care
of everybody so well
490
00:30:45,469 --> 00:30:47,471
and take care
of themselves so well.
491
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,390
They are great--
they're great horses.
492
00:30:51,851 --> 00:30:53,436
Yeah, I like [indistinct]
493
00:30:53,644 --> 00:30:56,147
[Ben] Five years ago,
some friends and I went out
494
00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:57,440
and adopted these mustangs,
495
00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:03,154
trained them and rode 3,000
miles from Mexico to Canada
496
00:31:03,362 --> 00:31:05,239
through public lands
in the American West.
497
00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:12,371
That experience
completely changed my life
498
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:16,167
and gave me a huge appreciation
not only for these horses,
499
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:17,585
but for public lands.
500
00:31:20,254 --> 00:31:23,841
Less than 3% of Texas
is open to the public.
501
00:31:24,050 --> 00:31:24,842
That's it.
502
00:31:25,968 --> 00:31:29,138
And there is no way
that you could put a border wall
503
00:31:29,347 --> 00:31:32,058
even close to the river
in a lot of this country.
504
00:31:35,061 --> 00:31:37,021
It'd have to be built inland,
505
00:31:37,229 --> 00:31:41,525
bulldozed, and slicing apart the
only big chunk of public land
506
00:31:41,734 --> 00:31:43,277
that we have left in Texas,
507
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:47,573
essentially blocking us
from the Rio Grande.
508
00:31:55,331 --> 00:31:57,291
[Austin] You can feel
the crisp air right by the Rio.
509
00:31:59,293 --> 00:32:00,920
[Heather]
Look at all that water.
510
00:32:01,128 --> 00:32:02,213
It's the first time
we've been in the river.
511
00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:04,882
[background music]
512
00:32:08,344 --> 00:32:11,472
This is kind of
emotional right now.
513
00:32:13,682 --> 00:32:15,142
I'm giddy.
514
00:32:15,351 --> 00:32:16,352
[Austin] Oh yeah.
515
00:32:20,981 --> 00:32:22,191
[Austin] He couldn't resist.
516
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,359
[Jay] There he is.
517
00:32:26,278 --> 00:32:27,446
[cheering]
518
00:32:29,532 --> 00:32:32,034
It's amazing,
it's beautiful, and it's
519
00:32:32,243 --> 00:32:34,412
the lifeblood
of this entire area.
520
00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:36,080
And uh...
521
00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:39,083
You don't really think
about the politics behind it.
522
00:32:39,291 --> 00:32:40,918
-Watch out!
-[Filipe] If they could see this--
523
00:32:41,127 --> 00:32:44,046
I'm sorry I can't pay attention
with this going on.
524
00:32:44,255 --> 00:32:45,631
-[Austin] Are you coming?
-[shouting]
525
00:32:46,590 --> 00:32:49,260
-I'm not-- I'm not wearing a underwear!
-[Austin] Come on!
526
00:32:49,468 --> 00:32:52,263
-Perfect.
-Alright, my bike shorts need washing.
527
00:32:54,056 --> 00:32:56,100
[Ben]
Oh, this is a terrible idea.
528
00:32:57,309 --> 00:32:58,352
[Jay] Yeah, you better jump in.
529
00:32:58,561 --> 00:33:00,062
[Heather] Get your ass in here!
530
00:33:00,271 --> 00:33:01,147
[Ben] I'm coming'!
531
00:33:03,065 --> 00:33:05,192
[cheering and laughing]
532
00:33:24,086 --> 00:33:26,714
[calm music]
533
00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:37,057
Big Bend is-- it's one of
those vast landscapes
534
00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:39,977
that is unlike any other.
535
00:33:41,729 --> 00:33:44,148
There's just
a huge amount of diversity
536
00:33:44,356 --> 00:33:46,984
from large mammals all
the way down to the smallest.
537
00:33:48,486 --> 00:33:52,698
[Dr. Louis] And we rely on Mexico
for some of these populations.
538
00:33:54,783 --> 00:33:58,078
Black bear is probably
the best example of that.
539
00:33:58,287 --> 00:34:01,040
You know, we basically
extirpated black bears
540
00:34:01,248 --> 00:34:04,335
from the Big Bend region
of Texas uh, in the 1950s,
541
00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:06,420
uh, hunting, trapping,
things like that.
542
00:34:08,589 --> 00:34:13,344
Until about 1990, we had a--
a lone female come across
543
00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:16,430
and uh, she had cubs,
that population started to grow.
544
00:34:26,482 --> 00:34:30,653
And now we have 40, 50, maybe
even 100 bears in Texas today
545
00:34:30,861 --> 00:34:32,780
and that is solely
dependent on Mexico.
546
00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,244
Our large mammals,
they cross that river
547
00:34:38,452 --> 00:34:40,287
sometimes on a daily basis.
548
00:34:43,541 --> 00:34:45,584
If those porters are cut off
549
00:34:47,127 --> 00:34:49,505
you know, if there--
there is a wall there,
550
00:34:49,713 --> 00:34:51,549
it's gonna cut off
that water source.
551
00:34:51,757 --> 00:34:54,051
We would start seeing
issues genetically.
552
00:34:55,678 --> 00:34:58,097
They need to be able
to move freely
553
00:34:58,305 --> 00:34:59,557
to be able to survive.
554
00:35:02,851 --> 00:35:05,104
-[Ben whistling] -[Heather]
Donkey found some shade.
555
00:35:06,105 --> 00:35:08,023
[Filipe] Oh, she did.
Look at her over there.
556
00:35:08,232 --> 00:35:09,400
[Heather]
Oh, she's got a little patch.
557
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:11,652
I would think
that after a few hours
558
00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:15,072
-you would start to like get the motion down.
-Yes. Yeah.
559
00:35:15,281 --> 00:35:16,532
But it still hasn't happened.
560
00:35:18,325 --> 00:35:21,245
[Filipe] I mean I'm not
ruling kids out, but you know--
561
00:35:21,453 --> 00:35:22,621
[Ben laughing]
562
00:35:43,601 --> 00:35:47,605
[Jay] I think it's been
a total shock to Heather
563
00:35:47,813 --> 00:35:50,482
and Filipe and Austin's body,
564
00:35:50,691 --> 00:35:55,738
because those are parts
of your body and muscles
565
00:35:55,946 --> 00:35:58,365
that you don't normally use.
566
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:02,286
[Heather] Describe the pain.
567
00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:05,080
Describe the pain.
568
00:36:05,289 --> 00:36:07,625
Imagine Bob the Builder
jack hammering away
569
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:10,294
at your business region
for like 20 miles.
570
00:36:10,502 --> 00:36:13,172
[upbeat country music]
571
00:36:15,883 --> 00:36:18,469
I couldn't quite get the posture
572
00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:20,638
and the trot formation down.
573
00:36:20,846 --> 00:36:24,642
So instead of like posting
and you know, just kind of like
574
00:36:24,850 --> 00:36:27,144
doing that dance with the horse,
575
00:36:27,353 --> 00:36:28,395
I was just being'--
576
00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:42,409
But with that being said,
it was-- it was emotional.
577
00:36:42,618 --> 00:36:43,869
[veiling]
578
00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:48,332
You don't connect with a bicycle
579
00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,586
or a unicycle or a canoe the
same way you do with a horse.
580
00:36:54,588 --> 00:36:57,466
The only thing cooler
than being on top of the world
581
00:36:57,675 --> 00:36:59,343
is being on top
of the world on a horse.
582
00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:12,356
[background chatter]
583
00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:19,822
[Jay] Visually you think that
you can take off, ride somewhere,
584
00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:22,616
and then all of a sudden
there is a 100-footed rail.
585
00:37:24,326 --> 00:37:26,495
There's just no trails
in some of this country.
586
00:37:30,958 --> 00:37:31,959
I don't know.
587
00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:35,421
I don't know about this.
588
00:37:35,629 --> 00:37:38,298
[indistinct]
589
00:37:38,507 --> 00:37:39,758
[Heather]
Yeah, I don't-- I don't know
590
00:37:39,967 --> 00:37:42,261
if we're gonna
just be bold and keep going'.
591
00:37:53,772 --> 00:37:55,441
[Jay] It's like some of the
most rugged country that--
592
00:37:55,649 --> 00:37:57,234
That I've ever
been through in Texas,
593
00:37:57,443 --> 00:37:59,862
because you just have
these boxed canyons and this--
594
00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:03,323
These sheer rock faces on--
on either side of you.
595
00:38:15,919 --> 00:38:18,005
Yeah, hold off on that route.
596
00:38:27,723 --> 00:38:29,767
[Austin] Look to the right.
597
00:38:29,975 --> 00:38:30,934
We're boxed in.
598
00:38:31,143 --> 00:38:32,269
It's a boxed canyon.
599
00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:34,772
I was thinking w-- yeah.
600
00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:37,608
Could we not
get semi-high ground?
601
00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:40,944
The smartest thing
to do is turn around
602
00:38:41,153 --> 00:38:42,738
and go back the way we came.
603
00:38:43,822 --> 00:38:48,786
I feel about 95% confident
that the game trail
604
00:38:48,994 --> 00:38:53,582
that does go up, would be
perfectly fine for our horses,
605
00:38:53,791 --> 00:38:58,253
but that 5% risk is something
that I'm not willing to risk
606
00:38:58,462 --> 00:38:59,421
with these guys.
607
00:39:00,589 --> 00:39:01,882
So let's just head on out,
608
00:39:02,090 --> 00:39:04,051
then that way everybody
will be safe.
609
00:39:08,055 --> 00:39:12,643
This area is
as difficult as any landscape
610
00:39:12,851 --> 00:39:14,353
that I've been to in the West.
611
00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:19,942
I don't see how you could build
a physical border wall
612
00:39:20,150 --> 00:39:23,445
that's more difficult to cross
through than this landscape.
613
00:39:25,572 --> 00:39:27,282
[Will] One of the things
that I've been frustrated with
614
00:39:27,491 --> 00:39:29,576
when it comes
to border security is
615
00:39:29,785 --> 00:39:31,787
we try to have
a one-size-fits-all solution.
616
00:39:31,995 --> 00:39:36,500
Uh, you cannot, because every
mile is-- is different.
617
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:40,963
You have the Rio Grande,
you have the canyons,
618
00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:43,966
the Chihuahuan Desert,
and you already have
619
00:39:44,174 --> 00:39:46,051
a physical barrier
called mountains.
620
00:39:47,761 --> 00:39:50,889
In some areas where
Border Patrol response time
621
00:39:51,098 --> 00:39:55,018
is measured in hours to days,
622
00:39:55,227 --> 00:39:58,647
a wall is not
a physical barrier, right?
623
00:39:58,856 --> 00:40:02,359
In some places, where there
is urban to urban contact,
624
00:40:02,568 --> 00:40:06,697
a fence makes sense, because Border
Patrol can measure the response time
625
00:40:06,905 --> 00:40:08,532
in seconds to minutes.
626
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,285
But doing it in
the desert and in Big Bend,
627
00:40:11,493 --> 00:40:12,786
that's just crazy.
628
00:40:16,498 --> 00:40:19,710
Building a wall
from sea to shining sea
629
00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:22,713
is the most expensive
and least effective way
630
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:23,964
to do border security.
631
00:40:34,182 --> 00:40:36,560
[speaking Spanish]
632
00:40:38,478 --> 00:40:40,397
Another beautiful morning
in the Rio Grande.
633
00:40:53,201 --> 00:40:54,453
[Filipe] We're going to Mexico!
634
00:40:55,662 --> 00:40:56,496
[Heather] Doing' it, guys!
635
00:40:56,705 --> 00:40:57,748
[Mexican music]
636
00:40:59,708 --> 00:41:01,418
[immigration officer
speaking in Spanish]
637
00:41:01,627 --> 00:41:04,504
I'm officially in Mexico. Ahay!
638
00:41:04,713 --> 00:41:05,672
[Austin] Let's go get tacos.
639
00:41:05,881 --> 00:41:09,551
[speaking Spanish]
640
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,178
[speaking Spanish]
641
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:14,765
[speaking Spanish]
642
00:41:15,974 --> 00:41:17,601
[speaking Spanish]
643
00:41:17,809 --> 00:41:18,727
[speaking Spanish]
644
00:41:18,936 --> 00:41:22,439
-[Mexican song playing]
-Oh!
645
00:41:22,648 --> 00:41:24,775
-[Austin] Oh!
-[Jay] Oh my gosh!
646
00:41:24,983 --> 00:41:26,944
-Oh, man!
-[Jay laughing]
647
00:41:27,152 --> 00:41:28,779
-[Filipe] Oh, these enchiladas?
-[Heather] Um, so excited.
648
00:41:28,987 --> 00:41:30,447
Oh my gosh!
649
00:41:30,656 --> 00:41:32,032
-Mmm.
-[Ben] I have two spoons.
650
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,617
-[Austin] Oh my God!
-[Ben] I mean two forks.
651
00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:34,785
[Heather] Perfect.
652
00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:38,205
-Hi, welcome.
-Thanks so much.
653
00:41:38,413 --> 00:41:40,290
Would you like to sit down?
654
00:41:41,333 --> 00:41:43,001
-Welcome.
-Thank you!
655
00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:47,381
Thank you for eating
our food. I hope you like it.
656
00:41:47,589 --> 00:41:48,799
-It was delicious!
-The food is so good!
657
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,634
Tell her, to eat
one of these tacos
658
00:41:50,884 --> 00:41:52,594
is like being
kissed by an angel.
659
00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:56,348
So, how long has this
restaurant been in your family?
660
00:41:59,768 --> 00:42:01,561
[Ben] Oh my god, I'm full.
661
00:42:01,770 --> 00:42:03,939
[background chatter]
662
00:42:04,147 --> 00:42:06,066
Jay, you got the time?
663
00:42:06,274 --> 00:42:08,026
11 to.
664
00:42:09,152 --> 00:42:10,821
[speaking Spanish]
665
00:42:11,029 --> 00:42:12,531
-[laughing]
-[speaking Spanish]
666
00:42:12,739 --> 00:42:15,659
This is gonna be like my
Christmas present this year.
667
00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:18,745
[Filipe] Spread the wealth.
Spread the wealth. It stops.
668
00:42:19,538 --> 00:42:20,414
Chalo!
669
00:42:20,622 --> 00:42:22,207
-Pleasure to meet you.
-Very nice to meet you.
670
00:42:22,708 --> 00:42:25,002
Chalo here is telling us
about the uh, power plant
671
00:42:25,210 --> 00:42:27,629
that we should go check out. From there
it's a really good view to look through.
672
00:42:27,838 --> 00:42:29,673
But it's a--
it's a solar power plant.
673
00:42:29,881 --> 00:42:30,966
-This is all solar power.
-[Jay] No way.
674
00:42:31,174 --> 00:42:32,426
It's the one that
provides electricity
675
00:42:32,634 --> 00:42:34,094
-to the whole town here.
-You're kidding.
676
00:42:34,761 --> 00:42:37,055
What do you believe would
happen here in Boquillas
677
00:42:37,264 --> 00:42:39,766
if a wall were constructed?
678
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:43,353
What would be affected...
679
00:42:44,187 --> 00:42:45,647
is the wildlife.
680
00:42:45,856 --> 00:42:48,692
Because there, if we look
here is a mountain range here
681
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,652
and a mountain range over there.
682
00:42:50,861 --> 00:42:53,155
And these mountain
ranges share the wildlife.
683
00:42:54,406 --> 00:42:57,367
Here, we've seen bears,
684
00:42:57,576 --> 00:43:00,996
black bears, lions.
685
00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:04,166
The lions come down
specifically because there's a river,
686
00:43:04,374 --> 00:43:06,376
so they walk down
from the mountain.
687
00:43:06,585 --> 00:43:09,838
The wildlife is
something we value here
688
00:43:10,047 --> 00:43:14,384
apart from everything else,
it's also an attraction for tourism.
689
00:43:14,593 --> 00:43:15,761
What do you think
690
00:43:15,969 --> 00:43:19,639
It's been eighty years that
691
00:43:19,848 --> 00:43:26,438
we've been thinking and
talking about a bi-national park.
692
00:43:26,646 --> 00:43:29,649
What do you think is necessary
693
00:43:29,858 --> 00:43:34,821
to make it a reality?
694
00:43:35,030 --> 00:43:37,240
I would like it, and would
love to see it happen.
695
00:43:37,449 --> 00:43:40,452
I am willing to put my
part in what is necessary
696
00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:43,497
But people are
needed with the drive,
697
00:43:43,705 --> 00:43:47,501
that come with a positive
outlook, not with a negative one.
698
00:43:48,335 --> 00:43:51,546
[epic music]
699
00:43:51,755 --> 00:43:56,134
There's been talk about
a bi-national park for decades.
700
00:43:58,345 --> 00:44:01,640
There's millions of acres
that are already held
701
00:44:01,848 --> 00:44:03,934
in public trust
by both countries.
702
00:44:06,978 --> 00:44:09,106
It's time
to see somebody step forward
703
00:44:09,314 --> 00:44:12,859
and really shepherd that
and bring that into fruition.
704
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,864
[Heather] It would be
a really natural step.
705
00:44:18,073 --> 00:44:22,369
There's already huge
protected lands on both sides.
706
00:44:23,787 --> 00:44:26,206
The river itself
is wild and scenic.
707
00:44:29,417 --> 00:44:34,131
There's populations of bear
and mountain lion
708
00:44:34,339 --> 00:44:37,134
and birds and butterflies
moving back and forth
709
00:44:37,342 --> 00:44:39,636
between the two protected areas.
710
00:44:40,762 --> 00:44:46,143
It blows my mind. So many times I
found myself saying: "This is in Texas?
711
00:44:46,351 --> 00:44:51,815
Like we're not in Montana
or Yellowstone or Yosemite.”
712
00:44:52,023 --> 00:44:53,775
You know,
this place is legendary.
713
00:44:55,694 --> 00:45:00,157
It's Texas' last chance
to create something truly great
714
00:45:00,365 --> 00:45:03,577
as far as
a huge intact ecosystem.
715
00:45:03,785 --> 00:45:05,412
And we can't do it
without Mexico.
716
00:45:07,289 --> 00:45:09,791
[Ben] On the last big horseback
journey, we rode through
717
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,004
Water ton-Glacier International
Peace Park on the US-Canada border,
718
00:45:16,756 --> 00:45:19,009
created to symbolize
a friendship
719
00:45:19,217 --> 00:45:22,429
and a shared ecosystem
between the two countries.
720
00:45:24,306 --> 00:45:26,391
That same opportunity
exists here.
721
00:45:30,437 --> 00:45:32,898
And it's a completely
different way
722
00:45:33,106 --> 00:45:34,941
to look at the US-Mexico border.
723
00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:37,736
[epic music]
724
00:46:22,906 --> 00:46:24,115
[Filipe] Whoa, we got shadows!
725
00:46:24,324 --> 00:46:26,243
Yay, that's our goal!
726
00:46:27,827 --> 00:46:29,996
-[Filipe] Ben, get a photo!
-[Ben] I got it.
727
00:46:30,205 --> 00:46:32,749
-[Austin] Yeah, that's so neat.
-[Heather] Wow!
728
00:46:32,958 --> 00:46:33,959
[Austin] Isn't nature neat?
729
00:46:34,167 --> 00:46:35,835
[Heather] I-- Good job, nature.
730
00:46:37,045 --> 00:46:40,882
-[Filipe] Good job.
-[Ben] Well, after riding bicycles and riding horses,
731
00:46:41,091 --> 00:46:42,676
we've all come to
the agreement that they are
732
00:46:42,884 --> 00:46:45,095
a far superior form
of transportation.
733
00:46:45,303 --> 00:46:48,848
[all shouting]
734
00:46:49,057 --> 00:46:51,434
[gentle guitar music]
735
00:46:51,643 --> 00:46:53,019
Alright, Tough.
736
00:46:55,897 --> 00:46:57,774
[Jay] Come on, donkey.
737
00:46:57,983 --> 00:46:59,442
[Ben] I think we might have
to pick her up.
738
00:46:59,651 --> 00:47:00,777
Come on, girlfriend.
739
00:47:00,986 --> 00:47:02,237
-[Jay] Aw!
-[Heather] Aw!
740
00:47:02,445 --> 00:47:04,864
-[Jay] That's a good girl
-[Heather] Great donkey.
741
00:47:05,073 --> 00:47:06,950
-[Heather] Ben, you--
-Ben, you stay in there.
742
00:47:08,118 --> 00:47:10,078
Actually, I feel like
staying with my horses.
743
00:47:10,287 --> 00:47:11,413
Bye, ponies.
744
00:47:11,621 --> 00:47:12,831
I miss you already.
745
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:14,457
Oh! Be good, horses.
746
00:47:14,666 --> 00:47:15,875
-[Heather] Stay well, guys.
-See you, Star.
747
00:47:16,084 --> 00:47:18,086
Don't let anybody else ride you.
748
00:47:18,295 --> 00:47:19,921
That goes for
the rest of your life.
749
00:47:20,130 --> 00:47:21,131
Donkey, now, you too.
750
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:22,299
-Oh, see, donkey is calling you.
-Man.
751
00:47:23,383 --> 00:47:24,467
It's sad to see him go.
752
00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:27,053
Let's go get us some canoes.
753
00:47:28,513 --> 00:47:30,265
Aw!
754
00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:33,143
[gentle music]
755
00:47:36,229 --> 00:47:38,148
[Ben] Springs flow
in to the Rio Grande
756
00:47:38,356 --> 00:47:40,025
and Big Bend National Park,
757
00:47:40,233 --> 00:47:42,527
and there is now
enough water to paddle a canoe.
758
00:47:45,405 --> 00:47:47,198
For the next 150 miles,
759
00:47:47,407 --> 00:47:49,826
we are going to travel
through Boquillas Canyon
760
00:47:50,035 --> 00:47:53,163
and the Lower Canyons,
an area so special,
761
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:56,291
and so rugged
that it is federally protected
762
00:47:56,499 --> 00:47:58,001
as a wild and scenic river.
763
00:48:02,255 --> 00:48:03,840
[Austin] I think
we needed to take account
764
00:48:04,966 --> 00:48:06,509
of what exactly
we're doing right now.
765
00:48:06,718 --> 00:48:08,386
We're going
into the most wild places
766
00:48:08,595 --> 00:48:09,929
in the state of Texas.
767
00:48:10,138 --> 00:48:12,098
We are going
into true wilderness
768
00:48:13,475 --> 00:48:14,893
where there's no support.
769
00:48:15,101 --> 00:48:16,269
Like our vehicles
have us supported on.
770
00:48:16,478 --> 00:48:18,104
I think all of us,
771
00:48:18,313 --> 00:48:21,274
we should have a higher sense
of risk management.
772
00:48:22,567 --> 00:48:23,902
[Jay] We got high pressure,
773
00:48:24,110 --> 00:48:28,239
500 cfs
and 15 miles to go today.
774
00:48:28,448 --> 00:48:32,077
750 left in the journey.
775
00:48:32,285 --> 00:48:33,119
Feeling' pretty good.
776
00:48:34,621 --> 00:48:37,040
[Austin] The river does not
discriminate, it can be any of us.
777
00:48:38,541 --> 00:48:40,251
There is three kinds of boatmen.
778
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:43,922
One that has flipped,
one that is going to flip,
779
00:48:44,130 --> 00:48:45,256
and one that is flipping.
780
00:48:47,342 --> 00:48:48,218
That's a fact.
781
00:48:52,347 --> 00:48:53,390
[Austin] Oh!
782
00:48:54,432 --> 00:48:56,893
-[Filipe] Oh, Austin dissipated.
-[Heather] What does that mean?
783
00:48:58,103 --> 00:49:00,063
-[Heather] Oh shit.
-[Austin] Oh shit.
784
00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:01,272
-Oh shit.
-[Austin chuckling]
785
00:49:01,481 --> 00:49:02,565
-[Filipe] Stay there, Ben.
-No, no!
786
00:49:02,774 --> 00:49:05,819
[all]] No! No!, No! No! No!
787
00:49:06,027 --> 00:49:07,320
-[Filipe] Not the camera again, guys!
-[Heather] Oh my God!
788
00:49:07,529 --> 00:49:08,571
[Filipe]
There you go, there you go.
789
00:49:10,448 --> 00:49:13,076
[Austin] It was good to
acknowledge that things can go bad.
790
00:49:13,284 --> 00:49:16,121
[Austin] And they can go
bad really fast and really easy.
791
00:49:16,329 --> 00:49:17,163
Make it on the--
792
00:49:18,415 --> 00:49:20,291
I know we just like to s--
like we were talking about just
793
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:21,418
like going
and learning on the river,
794
00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:24,921
but like
if we can't handle this,
795
00:49:25,130 --> 00:49:26,965
we got no business
going up to Lower Canyons.
796
00:49:32,178 --> 00:49:35,932
[epic music]
797
00:49:54,409 --> 00:49:56,578
[Jay] Yeah, I think Ben might
have seen them first.
798
00:49:56,786 --> 00:50:01,583
We kind of rounded the Bend and they
had been drinking out of the river end.
799
00:50:01,791 --> 00:50:06,337
[Jay] We pulled off and they were
uh, probably a dozen desert sheep.
800
00:50:06,546 --> 00:50:08,381
[Heather] There's at least
one up there with a collar.
801
00:50:08,590 --> 00:50:10,133
[Jay] Could you give
an estimate with out--
802
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:11,968
[Jay] It was pretty spectacular
to have actually
803
00:50:12,177 --> 00:50:14,304
seen them utilizing the river.
804
00:50:14,512 --> 00:50:18,308
That-- that sort of hit home to
me that that's their water source.
805
00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:20,018
All you're you seeing
is a cool effort
806
00:50:20,226 --> 00:50:22,645
between US and Mexico,
'cause those sheep,
807
00:50:22,854 --> 00:50:24,981
they have no idea which
side of the river is which?
808
00:50:25,190 --> 00:50:26,524
And they're probably--
they're down here
809
00:50:26,733 --> 00:50:29,986
like drinking from the Rio
and probably cross over,
810
00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:32,238
-go into Mexico.
-You think they'll cross into Mexico and--
811
00:50:32,447 --> 00:50:33,198
-Oh, for sure.
-Yeah?
812
00:50:33,406 --> 00:50:34,407
They've got collar data,
813
00:50:34,616 --> 00:50:35,492
they just use--
814
00:50:35,700 --> 00:50:37,202
They go all across in here.
815
00:50:38,745 --> 00:50:42,457
Yeah, it's a cool history, because
they were completely eliminated
816
00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:44,209
out of this area.
817
00:50:44,417 --> 00:50:46,544
And then about 50 years ago,
818
00:50:46,753 --> 00:50:49,172
they started bringing' them back.
And they went from zero
819
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:51,341
to where they now have
over 2,000 of 'em.
820
00:50:51,549 --> 00:50:53,510
It's like this huge story
of conservation...
821
00:50:53,718 --> 00:50:55,011
-[Filipe] Ben's boat!
-success in this area.
822
00:50:55,220 --> 00:50:56,971
-[Heather] Oh shit!
-[Jay] Oh shit.
823
00:50:57,180 --> 00:50:58,556
-[chuckling]
-Guys, help!
824
00:50:58,765 --> 00:51:01,267
-Hold this.
- I got distracted by the sheep.
825
00:51:02,477 --> 00:51:04,354
-[chuckling]
-[Austin] You got a paddle?
826
00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:07,565
-He doesn't have a paddle!
-[Heather screaming]
827
00:51:07,774 --> 00:51:09,359
He's-- he's gonna rev, Jay!
828
00:51:09,567 --> 00:51:12,278
[laughing]
829
00:51:13,321 --> 00:51:15,448
[Filipe]
He doesn't know how to paddle.
830
00:51:15,657 --> 00:51:17,784
He's never steered before!
831
00:51:21,704 --> 00:51:24,207
[gentle music]
832
00:51:26,376 --> 00:51:28,127
[Jay]
This environment on the river,
833
00:51:28,336 --> 00:51:30,255
Austin's just
had a lot of experience
834
00:51:30,463 --> 00:51:34,384
and so he really knows
how to like pace the group,
835
00:51:34,592 --> 00:51:37,554
he knows how to run rapids,
he knows how to scale.
836
00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:40,807
That was a new part of Austin
that we hadn't seen previously.
837
00:51:42,517 --> 00:51:45,019
This is a first class 3
that we've seen
838
00:51:45,228 --> 00:51:46,396
this entire time out here.
839
00:51:48,356 --> 00:51:51,359
We've got our rescue line ready
840
00:51:51,568 --> 00:51:56,114
in case he flips
and has to bend his boat.
841
00:51:56,322 --> 00:51:57,156
Here we go.
842
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,203
Slight tip to the right.
Bow to the right.
843
00:52:02,412 --> 00:52:03,830
Wooh!
844
00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:06,749
[Heather] No thanks.
845
00:52:06,958 --> 00:52:08,126
Alright, I'm up.
846
00:52:09,544 --> 00:52:11,671
Paddle hard,
take chances, y'all!
847
00:52:11,879 --> 00:52:13,256
[Austin cheering]
848
00:52:13,464 --> 00:52:14,757
[upbeat music]
849
00:52:14,966 --> 00:52:16,384
Yeah. Yeah.
850
00:52:16,593 --> 00:52:18,511
[Filipe] You guys
are making' this look easy.
851
00:52:19,721 --> 00:52:22,181
-[Heather] Jay, come on!
-[cheering]
852
00:52:22,390 --> 00:52:24,183
[Austin] Stream it up, stream
it up, stream it up, stream it up!
853
00:52:24,392 --> 00:52:26,603
[cheering]
854
00:52:26,811 --> 00:52:28,730
Yeah, that was great.
I loved it.
855
00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:31,065
Alright,
everybody else nailed it.
856
00:52:31,274 --> 00:52:33,401
So uh, we gotta
have one spill, right?
857
00:52:33,610 --> 00:52:35,069
[Filipe] Oh my god.
858
00:52:35,278 --> 00:52:38,656
-[Filipe] Oh no!
-[all yelling]
859
00:52:39,866 --> 00:52:41,367
[cheering]
860
00:52:41,576 --> 00:52:43,411
[Heather]
That's it, that's it, that's it.
861
00:52:45,413 --> 00:52:47,290
[laughing]
862
00:52:47,498 --> 00:52:48,875
[Austin]
You lucky son of a bitch!
863
00:52:50,251 --> 00:52:52,420
Hey, I tried to
make it interesting for you!
864
00:53:02,555 --> 00:53:05,433
[Heather] People are
not thinking of this area
865
00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:08,478
when they're
picturing the border
866
00:53:08,686 --> 00:53:12,106
and building a border wall.
867
00:53:12,315 --> 00:53:14,609
I think they're
thinking of the cities.
868
00:53:18,488 --> 00:53:20,615
It's this wild place
that's super rugged
869
00:53:20,823 --> 00:53:22,700
and hard to get through anyway.
870
00:53:24,535 --> 00:53:27,789
Why would we
construct a barrier there?
871
00:53:27,997 --> 00:53:29,248
A man made barrier.
872
00:53:32,377 --> 00:53:36,214
This is like going
through the Grand Canyon,
873
00:53:36,422 --> 00:53:40,176
paddling the Colorado
without the crowds.
874
00:53:40,385 --> 00:53:46,349
It's just as-- as remote,
and grand, and wild.
875
00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:06,202
[birds chirping]
876
00:54:23,386 --> 00:54:27,181
[Austin] One of my biggest
joys is that I get to show people
877
00:54:27,390 --> 00:54:29,308
what I love,
and that's the Rio Grande.
878
00:54:31,728 --> 00:54:36,441
The first time it impacted me
was when I came here in college.
879
00:54:36,649 --> 00:54:40,737
Uh, I was actually coming here
to train to be a river guide
880
00:54:40,945 --> 00:54:44,657
and the first trip
I ever did was Dark Canyon,
881
00:54:44,866 --> 00:54:46,367
which is a short,
but tall canyon.
882
00:54:46,576 --> 00:54:48,411
Short in length,
tall in height canyon
883
00:54:48,619 --> 00:54:50,204
in the State Park.
884
00:54:50,413 --> 00:54:52,874
And I fell in love with
what's easy to fall in love with
885
00:54:53,082 --> 00:54:55,918
you know, beauty, the grandness,
the-- the just
886
00:54:56,127 --> 00:55:00,423
total uh, magnificence
of the Rio Grande.
887
00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,592
And then the more I explored,
the more I just,
888
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,803
for lack of
better words, was wowed!
889
00:55:06,012 --> 00:55:09,932
[epic music]
890
00:55:36,042 --> 00:55:37,877
And lately
I've been thinking about how...
891
00:55:39,545 --> 00:55:42,840
I got into this whole
outdoor recreation industry
892
00:55:44,425 --> 00:55:45,968
for a lot of reasons
and one of which--
893
00:55:46,177 --> 00:55:49,472
Which-- that I've never
really admitted to myself
894
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,725
is I've grown up as
the child of illegal immigrants.
895
00:55:52,934 --> 00:55:56,229
Status is a really big thing
896
00:55:56,437 --> 00:55:58,606
as much-- you know, |--
My parents are really proud.
897
00:55:58,815 --> 00:56:01,275
They-- they taught me
that you know, you--
898
00:56:01,484 --> 00:56:03,986
You work for
everything you have and you--
899
00:56:04,195 --> 00:56:07,615
You don't ask for things,
you earn things.
900
00:56:08,950 --> 00:56:11,786
But I'd be lying to tell you
that as a child of an--
901
00:56:11,994 --> 00:56:13,371
Of illegal immigrants,
902
00:56:14,455 --> 00:56:15,957
status was in--
in the back of my head.
903
00:56:16,165 --> 00:56:17,834
And it-- it sounds awful
and I hate to admit it,
904
00:56:18,042 --> 00:56:20,670
but it has been.
905
00:56:20,878 --> 00:56:22,463
Like why couldn't
my parents learn English?
906
00:56:24,674 --> 00:56:29,345
Why couldn't they know
how the school system worked?
907
00:56:30,471 --> 00:56:31,347
I just didn't understand.
908
00:56:31,556 --> 00:56:32,932
I was angry, I was mad.
909
00:56:35,059 --> 00:56:37,895
And the outdoors,
the Rio Grande,
910
00:56:38,104 --> 00:56:41,858
that's somewhere where status
doesn't matter, you know?
911
00:56:42,066 --> 00:56:44,777
It is a true
level playing field.
912
00:56:46,904 --> 00:56:48,030
And I find that...
913
00:56:50,950 --> 00:56:52,702
my connection to the Rio Grande,
914
00:56:52,910 --> 00:56:56,539
my connection to the Big Bend
is really founded on that.
915
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,629
It's such an equalizer.
916
00:57:12,930 --> 00:57:14,765
Alright, so this is
where we have to figure out
917
00:57:14,974 --> 00:57:17,059
where we wanna pull it
to the right
918
00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:19,061
around this penile crap
right here,
919
00:57:19,270 --> 00:57:20,396
which we wanna avoid,
920
00:57:20,605 --> 00:57:21,981
or run the shoot
on the left side
921
00:57:22,189 --> 00:57:23,649
down the actual Madison Falls.
922
00:57:26,652 --> 00:57:28,696
I don't know how the hell--
I mean I'm--
923
00:57:28,905 --> 00:57:31,407
Don't know what I'm doing regardless,
but I don't know how you would
924
00:57:31,616 --> 00:57:34,744
-do this in a canoe.
-[Heather indistinct]
925
00:57:34,952 --> 00:57:38,414
Yeah, like how is it like--
This is only a Kayak City, right?
926
00:57:38,623 --> 00:57:39,874
[indistinct]
927
00:57:43,878 --> 00:57:45,630
[Jay] Oh gosh! See, that's--
928
00:57:45,838 --> 00:57:47,590
-[Ben] Oh shit.
-[Heather] Oh shit.
929
00:57:47,798 --> 00:57:48,799
[Jay] Oh.
930
00:57:49,842 --> 00:57:52,094
Oh!
931
00:57:57,016 --> 00:57:59,018
[Filipe] See, that's
what I was worried about. Yeah.
932
00:58:02,146 --> 00:58:04,649
Ben, are you going?
Are you still going'?
933
00:58:04,857 --> 00:58:05,942
[Ben laughing]
934
00:58:06,150 --> 00:58:07,818
-[Filipe] Yeah!
-[Austin] Yeah!
935
00:58:08,027 --> 00:58:09,195
-[cheering]
-[Filipe] Yeah.
936
00:58:11,864 --> 00:58:14,575
Spin yourself before
you back yourself in.
937
00:58:14,784 --> 00:58:18,412
-[Filipe] Get it straight on! Go on! Stay left.
-[Jay] Stay left! Go high!
938
00:58:18,621 --> 00:58:20,623
-[Jay] He's hit it.
-[Filipe] No, he's got it, he's got it!
939
00:58:20,831 --> 00:58:22,792
-[Filipe] Oh!
-[Jay] Oh shit.
940
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:23,918
[Jay] He's stuck.
941
00:58:24,919 --> 00:58:26,879
[Filipe] Ben, don't
get caught underneath!
942
00:58:33,052 --> 00:58:34,220
[grunting]
943
00:58:38,099 --> 00:58:39,684
[grunting]
944
00:58:39,892 --> 00:58:41,018
I can't move it!
945
00:58:42,937 --> 00:58:44,981
[Austin] Can we get on that
corner? Hang up, hang up, hang up!
946
00:58:45,189 --> 00:58:46,232
Stop, stop.
947
00:58:51,612 --> 00:58:52,655
[Austin] On the count of three.
948
00:58:52,863 --> 00:58:55,741
One, two, three.
949
00:58:55,950 --> 00:58:57,451
[grunting]
950
00:58:57,660 --> 00:58:58,911
-[grunts]
-[Austin] Let it go, let it go.
951
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,080
[Jay] Okay, let it go,
let it go, let it go, let it go.
952
00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:02,999
-[Heather] Watch out, watch out.
-[Filipe] Watch out, JK!
953
00:59:03,207 --> 00:59:04,500
[Jay] You want me to get in it?
954
00:59:04,709 --> 00:59:05,751
[Austin] What, oh no, no!
955
00:59:16,095 --> 00:59:17,847
[Heather] Oh man.
956
00:59:18,055 --> 00:59:19,515
[Ben] Well.
957
00:59:19,724 --> 00:59:23,019
[Austin] Oh, no.
It's already taking in water.
958
00:59:23,227 --> 00:59:25,104
[grunting]
959
00:59:25,312 --> 00:59:27,648
[Austin] Oh, ho, ho, ho.
960
00:59:30,776 --> 00:59:32,778
[Heather]
Come on, Jay, come on, Jay.
961
00:59:32,987 --> 00:59:35,781
[indistinct yelling]
962
00:59:35,990 --> 00:59:37,033
[Austin yells]
963
00:59:41,620 --> 00:59:43,080
[high pitched tone]
964
00:59:43,289 --> 00:59:44,874
[Heather]
That looked kinda scary.
965
00:59:51,255 --> 00:59:52,631
[Heather] Fell.
966
01:00:12,943 --> 01:00:14,320
[Austin] Two, and three.
967
01:00:16,363 --> 01:00:18,032
[Filipe] There goes the bag.
There goes the bag.
968
01:00:21,368 --> 01:00:23,204
[ominous music]
969
01:00:34,799 --> 01:00:37,009
[campfire]
970
01:00:38,385 --> 01:00:41,222
[Jay] I don't know, I feel-- I
feel good. I feel like everybody's
971
01:00:41,430 --> 01:00:42,723
had a little bit
of a wake up call
972
01:00:42,932 --> 01:00:44,809
and uh,
we should have a good day
973
01:00:45,017 --> 01:00:47,186
today, hopefully stay dry.
974
01:00:47,394 --> 01:00:51,649
[Ben] The weather forecast is
calling for lows in the low 20s
975
01:00:51,857 --> 01:00:54,610
with 20 to 30 mile
per hour north winds
976
01:00:54,819 --> 01:00:56,529
with gusts up to 40.
977
01:00:56,737 --> 01:00:58,239
That is our tailwind.
978
01:00:58,447 --> 01:01:01,742
So, we're getting
to make lemonade
979
01:01:01,951 --> 01:01:04,078
out of these weather lemons.
980
01:01:04,286 --> 01:01:06,539
[bird chirping]
981
01:01:06,747 --> 01:01:07,748
-[Jay] Good one.
-[chuckling]
982
01:01:07,957 --> 01:01:10,292
You had time for the--
983
01:01:10,501 --> 01:01:12,670
-For the thing to make time for.
-[Ben] Yeah, make time for you.
984
01:01:12,878 --> 01:01:14,255
[Jay] Yeah.
985
01:01:14,463 --> 01:01:16,632
[Ben] It's not ideal,
but it's the way that it is.
986
01:01:16,841 --> 01:01:18,717
[smooth drum brushes]
987
01:01:22,930 --> 01:01:25,558
[banjo music]
988
01:01:25,766 --> 01:01:27,685
So we've been paddling
for 30-plus miles now
989
01:01:27,893 --> 01:01:30,980
and we're entering
the main body of Lake Am is tad.
990
01:01:31,188 --> 01:01:32,815
♪ I've lived
without bread ♪
991
01:01:33,023 --> 01:01:35,609
♪ And I've lived
without water ♪
992
01:01:35,818 --> 01:01:37,695
♪ Stuck outside the middle
Of the desert ♪
993
01:01:37,903 --> 01:01:39,738
♪ Wishing I was home ♪
994
01:01:39,947 --> 01:01:41,740
♪ Long way
from nowhere ♪
995
01:01:41,949 --> 01:01:43,701
♪ Wishing I was
somewhere ♪
996
01:01:43,909 --> 01:01:45,744
♪ Sangre de Cristo ♪
997
01:01:45,953 --> 01:01:47,705
♪ To the Devil's
Backbone ♪
998
01:01:47,913 --> 01:01:50,249
[upbeat music]
999
01:01:53,711 --> 01:01:55,337
We're doing just great!
1000
01:01:55,546 --> 01:01:57,173
Hey, Heather!
1001
01:01:57,381 --> 01:01:58,132
-Only--
-Howdy, Ben.
1002
01:01:58,340 --> 01:01:59,842
Only 12 more miles
1003
01:02:00,050 --> 01:02:03,179
-directly into the headwind.
-[Heather chuckling]
1004
01:02:03,387 --> 01:02:07,016
Twelve more miles to get some
white caps on the lake,
1005
01:02:07,224 --> 01:02:09,059
but the sun is out today.
1006
01:02:09,268 --> 01:02:11,020
♪ In the back of
a Ranchero ♪
1007
01:02:11,228 --> 01:02:13,147
♪ I rode down
to Laredo ♪
1008
01:02:13,355 --> 01:02:15,191
♪ Had a good time
at the La Posada ♪
1009
01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:17,276
♪ Yeah, you know
I was left alone ♪
1010
01:02:17,484 --> 01:02:19,737
♪ On a rig out of El Paso ♪
1011
01:02:19,945 --> 01:02:21,947
♪ Raining' down in Houston ♪
1012
01:02:22,156 --> 01:02:23,824
♪ Told the truck driver
Put the pedal to the metal ♪
1013
01:02:24,033 --> 01:02:25,367
♪ "Cause Houston
gets me down ♪
1014
01:02:25,576 --> 01:02:27,870
♪ On down to Louisiana ♪
1015
01:02:28,078 --> 01:02:30,206
♪ Whiskey River Landing ♪
1016
01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:32,166
♪ Craw-fish pie
And eat jambalaya ♪
1017
01:02:32,374 --> 01:02:34,043
♪ With a big old
coonass smile ♪
1018
01:02:34,251 --> 01:02:35,961
[upbeat music]
1019
01:02:36,170 --> 01:02:38,214
[cheering]
1020
01:02:38,422 --> 01:02:41,050
[cheering]
1021
01:02:45,387 --> 01:02:48,641
[cheering and laughing]
1022
01:02:48,849 --> 01:02:50,309
[Ben] We are now done
with the Canyon Country
1023
01:02:50,517 --> 01:02:52,144
and Lake Am is tad.
1024
01:02:52,353 --> 01:02:55,397
The terrain here flattens out,
there's more people,
1025
01:02:55,606 --> 01:03:00,069
and a border wall already exists
along most of the towns and cities.
1026
01:03:00,277 --> 01:03:02,363
But the open country
doesn't have a wall yet.
1027
01:03:02,571 --> 01:03:04,907
So we met up
with rancher Steve Lamantia
1028
01:03:05,115 --> 01:03:07,284
to see how it
will affect his operation.
1029
01:03:07,493 --> 01:03:11,205
Water in-- in this part
of the country is life.
1030
01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:13,123
So water
is very important to us.
1031
01:03:13,332 --> 01:03:15,417
Without the water,
we-- we can't operate.
1032
01:03:15,626 --> 01:03:17,795
My name is Steve Lamantia.
1033
01:03:18,003 --> 01:03:21,257
[Steve] I am in charge
of the ranch operation.
1034
01:03:21,465 --> 01:03:25,302
Basically been on the river
or on the border my whole life.
1035
01:03:25,511 --> 01:03:29,306
But for the longest time
we always considered Mexico
1036
01:03:29,515 --> 01:03:33,435
and the US as one. And no
division uh, because there was
1037
01:03:33,644 --> 01:03:36,855
such a fluid movement
of people back and forth.
1038
01:03:37,064 --> 01:03:40,109
My wife and I--
my children grew up with kids
1039
01:03:40,317 --> 01:03:42,403
from Mexico when going back
and forth to Mexico
1040
01:03:42,611 --> 01:03:44,405
was like
going' across the street.
1041
01:03:46,073 --> 01:03:48,284
People don't really understand
the border, I think,
1042
01:03:48,492 --> 01:03:50,744
that are-- that are-- that are
talking about it.
1043
01:03:50,953 --> 01:03:53,539
They don't take the time to
come down here and look at it.
1044
01:03:54,498 --> 01:03:57,209
So did you know that
Border Patrol was down here?
1045
01:03:57,418 --> 01:03:59,169
No, they have--
I give 'em open access.
1046
01:03:59,378 --> 01:04:01,297
They-- they--
they built the ramp
1047
01:04:01,505 --> 01:04:03,132
-and part of the deal was--
-Oh.
1048
01:04:03,340 --> 01:04:06,927
Them building the ramp was
they can use it whenever.
1049
01:04:07,136 --> 01:04:10,014
The landowners are in favor
of additional border security.
1050
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:17,021
A physical wall does not accomplish
border security in my opinion.
1051
01:04:17,229 --> 01:04:20,316
We don't want the federal
government taking our land, obviously.
1052
01:04:20,524 --> 01:04:23,861
I think most of the landowners
will fight it tooth and nail
1053
01:04:24,069 --> 01:04:27,114
besides of the fact
that you are taking
1054
01:04:27,323 --> 01:04:31,910
very independently mind--
minded landowners
1055
01:04:32,119 --> 01:04:33,245
and it's a land grab.
1056
01:04:33,454 --> 01:04:34,955
They are taking
their land away from 'em
1057
01:04:35,164 --> 01:04:38,000
and they don't
have the right to say no.
1058
01:04:38,208 --> 01:04:41,170
Uh, and that's gonna leave
a very poor taste in the mouths
1059
01:04:41,378 --> 01:04:42,838
of a lot of people
on this river.
1060
01:04:43,047 --> 01:04:48,969
So basically, from within
about 400 miles upriver
1061
01:04:49,178 --> 01:04:52,181
of the Gulf of Mexico,
the uh-- the communities
1062
01:04:52,389 --> 01:04:55,893
on both sides of the border rely
on the Rio Grande river
1063
01:04:56,101 --> 01:05:00,105
for agricultural
and residential use.
1064
01:05:00,314 --> 01:05:01,148
[Steve] No question.
1065
01:05:05,652 --> 01:05:08,280
So you're saying
it may not be a good idea
1066
01:05:08,489 --> 01:05:11,533
to wall ourselves away from the
only good water in the desert?
1067
01:05:11,742 --> 01:05:13,202
That would be
a pretty good assessment.
1068
01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:15,037
-Okay, good.
-[laughing]
1069
01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:22,544
[Steve] There is a-- a labor pool
here that is not being satisfied
1070
01:05:22,753 --> 01:05:25,047
and can be
satisfied by immigrants
1071
01:05:25,255 --> 01:05:26,882
coming to this country,
1072
01:05:27,091 --> 01:05:31,887
which has happened
for 250 years.
1073
01:05:32,096 --> 01:05:35,057
If that is happening, which
I think is happening right now,
1074
01:05:35,265 --> 01:05:38,018
then I see no reason
why it shouldn't continue
1075
01:05:38,227 --> 01:05:41,230
and I see no reason
why those people need
1076
01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:43,065
to be here under the radar.
1077
01:05:43,273 --> 01:05:45,442
And maybe I'm not smart enough
to understand the problem,
1078
01:05:45,651 --> 01:05:47,361
but if there
is a need for the labor,
1079
01:05:47,569 --> 01:05:49,988
and they come over here
and they are working
1080
01:05:51,031 --> 01:05:54,159
and holding down a job,
then why sh--
1081
01:05:54,368 --> 01:05:55,327
Why don't we want "em?
1082
01:05:58,705 --> 01:06:02,084
[Victoria] In the 1940s,
as a result of World War 2,
1083
01:06:02,292 --> 01:06:05,421
we had a system
called the Bracero Program
1084
01:06:05,629 --> 01:06:09,091
where Mexican farm laborers
were coming over,
1085
01:06:09,299 --> 01:06:11,093
and they were working
in American fields
1086
01:06:11,301 --> 01:06:14,930
while uh, our US men were
abroad fighting in Europe
1087
01:06:15,139 --> 01:06:17,933
and our American women were in--
in factories.
1088
01:06:18,684 --> 01:06:22,855
[narrator on the TV] The fact is we still
don't have enough seasonal domestic labor
1089
01:06:23,063 --> 01:06:24,523
willing to do this
kind of work.
1090
01:06:24,731 --> 01:06:29,445
In 1965, the
Bracero Program officially ends.
1091
01:06:29,653 --> 01:06:31,530
But that doesn't mean
that these patterns
1092
01:06:31,738 --> 01:06:33,949
that were established, end.
1093
01:06:34,158 --> 01:06:37,369
So the agricultural interest
kept asking for the labor
1094
01:06:37,578 --> 01:06:39,371
and the labor kept coming.
1095
01:06:41,081 --> 01:06:44,001
This bill
is the most comprehensive reform
1096
01:06:44,209 --> 01:06:46,712
of our
immigration law since 1952.
1097
01:06:51,550 --> 01:06:54,511
Including employer sanctions,
other measures
1098
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,222
to increase enforcement
of the immigration laws
1099
01:06:57,431 --> 01:06:58,474
and legalization.
1100
01:07:03,270 --> 01:07:06,273
What happened was
that the key component
1101
01:07:06,482 --> 01:07:09,151
of employer sanction was
never put into place.
1102
01:07:09,359 --> 01:07:13,155
It was illegal, but everybody
you know, wink, wink, nod, nod,
1103
01:07:13,363 --> 01:07:14,490
this is going on.
1104
01:07:16,116 --> 01:07:18,327
Fast-forward to the early 1990s,
1105
01:07:18,535 --> 01:07:20,329
immigration
becomes a flash point.
1106
01:07:20,537 --> 01:07:24,124
There is too much of it and we
must do much more to stop it.
1107
01:07:24,333 --> 01:07:26,251
[Victoria] And at
this point we see what we know
1108
01:07:26,460 --> 01:07:29,254
as the modern-day
border infrastructure,
1109
01:07:32,090 --> 01:07:35,052
not just physically,
but also in terms of personnel.
1110
01:07:36,428 --> 01:07:38,388
As a result
it was harder for immigrants
1111
01:07:38,597 --> 01:07:39,681
to go back and forth.
1112
01:07:40,807 --> 01:07:43,101
And once they were there,
they weren't going to leave,
1113
01:07:43,310 --> 01:07:44,686
because again, every year
1114
01:07:44,895 --> 01:07:46,772
the border got
harder and harder to cross.
1115
01:07:49,483 --> 01:07:51,527
So now, we have
this larger permanent
1116
01:07:51,735 --> 01:07:54,780
undocumented population
in the United States.
1117
01:08:08,168 --> 01:08:11,255
This is the first wall we've seen
since just outside of El Paso.
1118
01:08:12,839 --> 01:08:15,259
The wall that's right there,
1119
01:08:15,467 --> 01:08:17,970
that was built
under Secure Fence Act
1120
01:08:18,178 --> 01:08:20,138
during the Bush administration,
so it's probably--
1121
01:08:21,265 --> 01:08:23,308
Probably 10 years old now.
1122
01:08:23,517 --> 01:08:26,061
And the wall
that they are calling for,
1123
01:08:26,270 --> 01:08:27,729
that President Trump
wants to build
1124
01:08:27,938 --> 01:08:32,234
is gonna be probably
10 feet higher than that.
1125
01:08:32,442 --> 01:08:35,279
Solid concrete, so you wouldn't
be able to look through it.
1126
01:08:35,487 --> 01:08:38,115
And then also it'd have
these massive flood lights
1127
01:08:38,323 --> 01:08:43,120
that look into
the river and along.
1128
01:08:43,328 --> 01:08:45,247
And then they would
clear out all the brush,
1129
01:08:45,455 --> 01:08:47,708
and all the vegetation,
and trees.
1130
01:08:51,128 --> 01:08:52,588
[Filipe] One of the things
that's unfortunate,
1131
01:08:52,796 --> 01:08:55,215
that we've noticed,
this is Mexico on our right,
1132
01:08:55,424 --> 01:08:57,467
this is the US on our left,
1133
01:08:57,676 --> 01:09:00,721
and we have forfeited
all this land
1134
01:09:00,929 --> 01:09:02,598
to become no-man's land,
1135
01:09:02,806 --> 01:09:05,517
which means that
nobody from the US side
1136
01:09:05,726 --> 01:09:08,562
is enjoying this river
right now except for us.
1137
01:09:08,770 --> 01:09:12,190
And all the Mexican side
is fishing, throwing parties,
1138
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,109
you can hear people
playing soccer,
1139
01:09:14,318 --> 01:09:17,112
families are out walking around
enjoying the river,
1140
01:09:17,321 --> 01:09:19,698
and it's obviously
very much a part of life
1141
01:09:19,906 --> 01:09:22,492
in this section
of the Rio Grande.
1142
01:09:22,701 --> 01:09:26,580
And how sad is that?
Nobody from the US side
1143
01:09:26,788 --> 01:09:29,374
can enjoy this beautiful
pristine river right now.
1144
01:09:29,583 --> 01:09:33,545
A wall completely deters
any recreational activity
1145
01:09:33,754 --> 01:09:35,464
from the Rio in this stretch.
1146
01:09:42,429 --> 01:09:43,639
[Filipe]
Get a little bit closer.
1147
01:09:43,847 --> 01:09:45,223
[Austin] Okay.
1148
01:09:48,435 --> 01:09:50,646
[Filipe]
Growing up an illegal immigrant,
1149
01:09:50,854 --> 01:09:52,856
every single day
you live in fear.
1150
01:09:54,274 --> 01:09:57,110
You feel that
your options are limited,
1151
01:09:57,319 --> 01:09:59,446
that there are so many things
stacked against you
1152
01:09:59,655 --> 01:10:01,782
that you can
never outgrow your environment.
1153
01:10:01,990 --> 01:10:05,160
And therefore,
this situation that you're in
1154
01:10:05,369 --> 01:10:06,495
will always remain.
1155
01:10:08,789 --> 01:10:11,583
But because of
our financial status,
1156
01:10:11,792 --> 01:10:13,543
not having a lot of money,
1157
01:10:13,752 --> 01:10:15,337
when my mom would
tell us to go do something,
1158
01:10:15,545 --> 01:10:16,880
it was: "Get the hell outside”.
1159
01:10:22,928 --> 01:10:25,263
Doesn't cost anything
to go run around outside,
1160
01:10:25,472 --> 01:10:27,599
to go get lost in the woods,
to climb a tree,
1161
01:10:27,808 --> 01:10:29,267
to go look for animals.
1162
01:10:33,605 --> 01:10:35,315
The natural world saved me.
1163
01:10:39,695 --> 01:10:42,656
So becoming
a wildlife photographer
1164
01:10:42,864 --> 01:10:45,242
and working
with National Geographic
1165
01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:47,285
was my goal in life.
1166
01:10:49,579 --> 01:10:51,832
[host] So Nat Geo's Geoff
Daniels here. Nat Geo, come on up.
1167
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:55,335
-[Crowd cheering] -To
announce the Wild to Inspire--
1168
01:10:55,544 --> 01:10:58,380
-Wild to Inspire winner.
-There you go, guys, there you go.
1169
01:10:58,588 --> 01:11:02,843
But the winner for the 2nd
annual Wild to Inspire competition
1170
01:11:03,051 --> 01:11:06,221
-is Filipe DeAndrade!
-[cheering]
1171
01:11:06,430 --> 01:11:08,473
[host] Up! Filipe, come on up.
1172
01:11:08,682 --> 01:11:09,808
[cheering]
1173
01:11:10,016 --> 01:11:11,810
[host 2] come up,
Filipe, come on, man.
1174
01:11:12,018 --> 01:11:14,604
[Filipe] Whether it be
through photography, video,
1175
01:11:14,813 --> 01:11:16,481
everything that I do comes back
1176
01:11:16,690 --> 01:11:18,817
to making the world
a better place for animals.
1177
01:11:20,527 --> 01:11:22,696
[Filipe] I have to thank my mom,
because for everything--
1178
01:11:22,904 --> 01:11:25,782
-[Crowd cheering] -For
everything that we've been through
1179
01:11:25,991 --> 01:11:28,577
as immigrants, abuse,
coming over here,
1180
01:11:28,785 --> 01:11:30,787
struggle, every single thing.
1181
01:11:30,996 --> 01:11:33,790
You fought--- you fought
for what you loved.
1182
01:11:33,999 --> 01:11:35,709
[crowd cheering]
1183
01:11:40,380 --> 01:11:42,841
[Filipe] I'm so grateful
that she brought us here,
1184
01:11:44,801 --> 01:11:46,178
and that I get to
travel the world
1185
01:11:46,386 --> 01:11:47,888
and talk about what I love.
1186
01:11:49,681 --> 01:11:52,350
My mom is by far and large
my greatest--
1187
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,023
My greatest example in life.
1188
01:11:59,608 --> 01:12:01,526
[Filipe]
When she became a citizen,
1189
01:12:01,735 --> 01:12:03,361
I asked her:
"What do you wanna do?"
1190
01:12:03,570 --> 01:12:05,781
And she said:
"I wanna be a nurse at the VA.
1191
01:12:05,989 --> 01:12:10,911
I wanna take care of veterans
who took care of us,
1192
01:12:11,119 --> 01:12:15,332
and that is my contribution to the
country that I am now a citizen in."
1193
01:12:15,540 --> 01:12:17,626
And that makes me so damn proud.
1194
01:12:34,976 --> 01:12:36,436
-[Austin] There it is.
-[Jay] Wow!
1195
01:12:45,028 --> 01:12:46,071
Wow!
1196
01:12:47,906 --> 01:12:49,574
There are so many.
1197
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:53,370
-What's up, Stevie?
-How are you?
1198
01:12:53,578 --> 01:12:54,996
[Austin] Good, man!
1199
01:12:55,205 --> 01:12:56,456
-[Ben] Nice to meet you.
-Stevie Sauer.
1200
01:12:56,665 --> 01:12:57,916
Yeah, Ben Masters.
1201
01:13:00,627 --> 01:13:03,463
We hadn't like gotten to talk
to anybody on the camera.
1202
01:13:03,672 --> 01:13:05,340
-[Stevie] Alright.
-Alright, can you do that?
1203
01:13:05,549 --> 01:13:07,467
So the only reason
I can do that is 'cause I'm--
1204
01:13:07,676 --> 01:13:10,595
Uh, I told you uh,
I'm with the Union
1205
01:13:10,804 --> 01:13:14,015
of Del Rio Sector. So on behalf
of the Union, I'm talking to you.
1206
01:13:14,224 --> 01:13:16,393
[Stevie] I've been in Border
Patrol for nine and a half years.
1207
01:13:17,143 --> 01:13:20,689
I am a Executive Vice President
for Del Rio Sector Union.
1208
01:13:21,690 --> 01:13:23,942
If we put a wall up
from sea to shining sea,
1209
01:13:24,150 --> 01:13:25,694
people are still gonna cross it.
1210
01:13:25,902 --> 01:13:27,028
I've been detailed to Nogales,
1211
01:13:27,237 --> 01:13:29,698
and there's a wall
through downtown Nogales,
1212
01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,742
and people cross it,
go over it, go through it.
1213
01:13:32,951 --> 01:13:35,579
There's more damage that's done
to a wall you know,
1214
01:13:35,787 --> 01:13:37,873
with just the will power. People
just trying to get across.
1215
01:13:38,081 --> 01:13:42,294
Do you think it's something
that if it doesn't happen
1216
01:13:42,502 --> 01:13:45,630
in the next three years,
will continue
1217
01:13:45,839 --> 01:13:48,717
to be raised
as a potential solution?
1218
01:13:48,925 --> 01:13:51,011
The wall's always gonna be
a topic of discussion.
1219
01:13:51,219 --> 01:13:52,804
[Stevie] I think
it's always gonna be continued
1220
01:13:53,013 --> 01:13:55,807
to be raised as
a deterrent of guys crossing.
1221
01:13:56,016 --> 01:13:59,477
They're not a solution
to the immigration problems,
1222
01:14:00,437 --> 01:14:02,856
because there is-- there is more
than just a wall to fix it.
1223
01:14:03,064 --> 01:14:05,567
If-- if you've got ants
coming inside your house,
1224
01:14:05,775 --> 01:14:06,735
we've already got walls,
you know.
1225
01:14:06,943 --> 01:14:08,403
They're finding a way to get in.
1226
01:14:08,612 --> 01:14:10,363
So we've gotta--
we've gotta find out
1227
01:14:10,572 --> 01:14:11,948
the solution and what that is.
1228
01:14:12,157 --> 01:14:13,867
Do you fix it with technology?
Do you fix it with more--
1229
01:14:14,075 --> 01:14:14,826
More boots on the ground?
1230
01:14:15,035 --> 01:14:16,369
Do you--
1231
01:14:16,578 --> 01:14:18,038
In your opinion
w-- what-- what's--
1232
01:14:18,246 --> 01:14:20,832
What's the solution with--
with response time?
1233
01:14:21,041 --> 01:14:22,751
Uh, you can have
all the technology you need,
1234
01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:25,795
but if you don't have anybody
to put handcuffs on anybody
1235
01:14:26,004 --> 01:14:27,756
or to question them as
far as the alien, there isn't--
1236
01:14:29,215 --> 01:14:31,760
The technology is great,
because we detected 'em,
1237
01:14:31,968 --> 01:14:34,429
but we didn't have
anybody to arrest 'em.
1238
01:14:34,638 --> 01:14:38,600
Have you noticed a drop-off
or an increase in people
1239
01:14:38,808 --> 01:14:40,018
coming over to the US?
1240
01:14:40,226 --> 01:14:42,938
The numbers are down,
have decreased. Yeah.
1241
01:14:43,146 --> 01:14:44,397
[Filipe]
Significantly or you know like--
1242
01:14:44,606 --> 01:14:45,690
-Significantly.
-Really?
1243
01:15:33,822 --> 01:15:35,407
Just had a little spin out.
1244
01:15:35,615 --> 01:15:36,241
They're showing' off there.
1245
01:15:37,242 --> 01:15:38,118
[crew member] They definitely...
1246
01:15:39,661 --> 01:15:41,454
made themselves known.
1247
01:15:41,663 --> 01:15:45,000
Absolutely, you can hear
them from a mile away.
1248
01:15:45,208 --> 01:15:47,836
-[cheering]
-[speaking in Spanish]
1249
01:15:48,044 --> 01:15:49,504
-[cheering]
-[Austin] Oh my gosh,
1250
01:15:49,713 --> 01:15:50,922
is that a catfish?
1251
01:15:51,131 --> 01:15:52,173
That's probably like a 40--
1252
01:15:52,382 --> 01:15:54,175
oh my gosh, both of those!
1253
01:15:55,260 --> 01:15:56,886
Hello! How much
do they weigh?
1254
01:15:57,929 --> 01:15:59,097
Eight each!
1255
01:16:00,890 --> 01:16:02,392
Wow! The big one!
1256
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:03,685
How long have
you been here?
1257
01:16:04,936 --> 01:16:06,062
Just a day!
1258
01:16:06,271 --> 01:16:07,689
Just a day fishing
for those?
1259
01:16:09,024 --> 01:16:12,402
We are bad fishermen.
1260
01:16:13,611 --> 01:16:14,821
[laughing]
1261
01:16:16,156 --> 01:16:17,115
[Ben] Wow!
1262
01:16:17,323 --> 01:16:18,700
[Mexican music playing]
1263
01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:20,702
This is our work.
1264
01:16:21,786 --> 01:16:24,205
We bring them to the
Piedras Negras fish markets.
1265
01:16:24,998 --> 01:16:27,208
Do you want to eat...
1266
01:16:27,417 --> 01:16:29,127
"fish of the cat"?
1267
01:16:29,794 --> 01:16:30,962
[speaking Spanish]
1268
01:16:31,171 --> 01:16:32,213
[Ben] Is that catfish?
1269
01:16:32,422 --> 01:16:33,298
It's about right.
1270
01:16:33,715 --> 01:16:37,719
Is it a kind that you
only have here?
1271
01:16:38,511 --> 01:16:40,847
The whole river.
1272
01:16:41,056 --> 01:16:42,974
But we don't go
fishing over there.
1273
01:16:43,933 --> 01:16:48,229
If they see us over there they'll take
us because they think we're wetbacks.
1274
01:16:48,438 --> 01:16:52,942
And you as Mexicans, what do
you and your friends think of the wall?
1275
01:16:54,069 --> 01:16:55,945
They'll just fly over
it like Superman.
1276
01:16:59,365 --> 01:17:00,909
And have you seen a lot
of people crossing here?
1277
01:17:01,117 --> 01:17:02,702
Yes, tons.
1278
01:17:02,911 --> 01:17:04,162
With drugs.
1279
01:17:06,664 --> 01:17:09,125
But the demand for drugs
is over there in the US, eh?
1280
01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:11,169
They're not going to stop.
1281
01:17:12,545 --> 01:17:15,381
Be very careful when
you get down near Guerrero.
1282
01:17:15,590 --> 01:17:16,591
Yeah, they were telling us that.
1283
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:18,259
How is it around here? Calm?
1284
01:17:18,468 --> 01:17:21,096
It's calm here - but the
Zeta's (cartel) are down there.
1285
01:17:21,304 --> 01:17:22,806
Are they well armed?
1286
01:17:23,014 --> 01:17:23,890
Yes.
1287
01:17:27,644 --> 01:17:30,021
The narcotraficantes
in Northern Mexico
1288
01:17:30,230 --> 01:17:33,775
are making roughly-- and this is
a conservative number,
1289
01:17:33,983 --> 01:17:38,071
$50 billion.
That's almost the equivalent
1290
01:17:38,279 --> 01:17:41,866
of the entire budget
for the Intelligence Community
1291
01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:43,076
of the United States of America.
1292
01:17:45,829 --> 01:17:50,083
[Will] To make $50 billion,
you're not bringing it in
1293
01:17:50,291 --> 01:17:51,876
you know, in a backpack alone.
1294
01:17:52,085 --> 01:17:54,963
You're bringing it in
in significant weights
1295
01:17:55,171 --> 01:17:57,882
and that's happening through um,
our ports of entry.
1296
01:18:00,802 --> 01:18:03,972
[Beto] All of this is connected,
all of this is correlated.
1297
01:18:04,180 --> 01:18:06,808
If-- if you look at the billions
of dollars that we spend
1298
01:18:07,016 --> 01:18:10,061
on consuming illegal drugs
in this country,
1299
01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:14,649
we can see the connection
between our use of illegal drugs
1300
01:18:14,858 --> 01:18:18,236
uh, the c--
the cartels' bottom line,
1301
01:18:18,444 --> 01:18:20,655
the resources
that they can bring to bear
1302
01:18:20,864 --> 01:18:23,575
on hollowing out
the civil institutions,
1303
01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:26,661
whether that's the courts,
whether that's the-- the press,
1304
01:18:26,870 --> 01:18:28,872
whether that's the--
the police force,
1305
01:18:29,080 --> 01:18:31,166
whether that's their--
their politics.
1306
01:18:32,125 --> 01:18:34,335
Destabilizing that country
to such a degree
1307
01:18:34,544 --> 01:18:36,921
that it's hard
to argue with somebody
1308
01:18:37,130 --> 01:18:39,340
who would seek to leave it
to find a better life
1309
01:18:39,549 --> 01:18:42,719
somewhere else,
ironically here in America,
1310
01:18:42,927 --> 01:18:45,346
the country that is
in part producing um,
1311
01:18:45,555 --> 01:18:47,807
some of the problems with
the consumption of those drugs,
1312
01:18:48,016 --> 01:18:50,727
the flow of cash
and arms back into Mexico.
1313
01:18:59,903 --> 01:19:04,324
So against everybody's advice,
we are paddling into the night,
1314
01:19:06,910 --> 01:19:08,661
which I'm
not too comfortable about
1315
01:19:08,870 --> 01:19:14,667
just because this is a fairly
high drug traffic corridor
1316
01:19:14,876 --> 01:19:16,127
of US-Mexico border.
1317
01:19:18,338 --> 01:19:21,883
But we're trying
to get to a location
1318
01:19:22,091 --> 01:19:23,801
where we
have permission to stay at
1319
01:19:25,011 --> 01:19:26,221
and uh...
1320
01:19:28,848 --> 01:19:30,433
I don't know
where everybody else is.
1321
01:19:36,773 --> 01:19:38,024
Like I don't know if they--
1322
01:19:38,233 --> 01:19:40,902
I don't know
if they took a different
1323
01:19:41,110 --> 01:19:43,363
channel of the river,
1324
01:19:43,571 --> 01:19:45,073
if they're in front of me
1325
01:19:46,199 --> 01:19:47,492
or if they're behind me.
1326
01:19:48,493 --> 01:19:50,161
It's kind of a bad time to...
1327
01:19:50,370 --> 01:19:51,162
[sniffles]
1328
01:19:51,371 --> 01:19:52,747
...get separated.
1329
01:20:09,138 --> 01:20:13,726
-Hey, Heather.
-[Austin] So, that's, that's, so the reason why we called you
1330
01:20:13,935 --> 01:20:16,187
there are some concerns
about this. One, it's dark,
1331
01:20:16,396 --> 01:20:18,022
do we still cross
at the crossing?
1332
01:20:21,234 --> 01:20:22,902
[Heather] I think there's
people over on that bank.
1333
01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:25,989
[Austin] It looked like they
were carrying bags and stuff.
1334
01:20:26,197 --> 01:20:27,740
[Filipe] Yeah, when we--
when we looked down,
1335
01:20:27,949 --> 01:20:30,243
we saw--
we saw groups of people.
1336
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:32,120
-[Heather] They were even boats.
-[Filipe] 'Cause we thought it was--
1337
01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:34,122
[Austin] You thought it was
Ben. I was about to yell out
1338
01:20:34,330 --> 01:20:36,416
and Jay said: "Hold on, don't
say anything.” And he was right.
1339
01:20:36,624 --> 01:20:39,752
It was people
over there, definitely not Ben.
1340
01:20:39,961 --> 01:20:44,924
Um, but they were definitely
throwing bags of stuff back.
1341
01:20:45,133 --> 01:20:49,887
Border Patrol and everybody that lives on
the river said: "Don't do the river at night
1342
01:20:50,096 --> 01:20:51,264
uh, because
that's when most people
1343
01:20:51,472 --> 01:20:53,182
-are gonna be crossing.”
-Like I think
1344
01:20:53,391 --> 01:20:55,268
making' ourselves
known being here
1345
01:20:55,476 --> 01:20:56,728
-is probably a good thing.
-[Heather] Yeah.
1346
01:20:56,936 --> 01:20:57,812
I don't think approaching 'em
1347
01:20:58,021 --> 01:20:59,147
is a great idea either.
1348
01:20:59,355 --> 01:21:00,148
But uh, you don't wanna
1349
01:21:00,356 --> 01:21:01,441
like sneak up on them
1350
01:21:01,649 --> 01:21:03,151
-by any means.
-[Heather] I know.
1351
01:21:03,359 --> 01:21:05,028
That's when you
run into a bad situation.
1352
01:21:05,236 --> 01:21:07,822
Either drug smugglers
or people trying to cross,
1353
01:21:08,031 --> 01:21:08,906
either way you don't wanna...
1354
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:13,494
be in the middle of that and that's
exactly where we're at right now.
1355
01:21:15,163 --> 01:21:18,291
So you guys are
definitely ahead of us.
1356
01:21:18,499 --> 01:21:20,293
-[Filipe] Okay.
-Uh, and...
1357
01:21:21,544 --> 01:21:25,214
I'm uh-- we're gonna
start going forward towards you
1358
01:21:25,423 --> 01:21:26,799
with our lights on.
1359
01:21:27,008 --> 01:21:28,176
[Filipe]
Alright, we're gonna stay put
1360
01:21:28,384 --> 01:21:30,345
and then
we'll decide as a group.
1361
01:21:30,553 --> 01:21:32,388
We'll have
our lights on here as well.
1362
01:21:32,597 --> 01:21:34,349
Uh, you just be careful.
1363
01:21:34,557 --> 01:21:35,933
So there is their lights.
1364
01:21:36,142 --> 01:21:37,393
At least I hope
it's their lights.
1365
01:21:38,519 --> 01:21:39,979
Looks good.
1366
01:21:42,106 --> 01:21:43,232
[sighs]
1367
01:21:45,651 --> 01:21:48,237
-So we should get out of here.
-[Jay] Yeah, we should.
1368
01:21:48,446 --> 01:21:50,239
-Like as soon as possible.
-[Heather] Yeah.
1369
01:21:50,448 --> 01:21:51,532
And then
getting down and camping
1370
01:21:51,741 --> 01:21:53,534
as soon as we see a camp spot.
1371
01:21:53,743 --> 01:21:56,871
Okay. Do you--
We were just discussing briefly
1372
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:00,541
like should we like
tell Stevie or Border Patrol
1373
01:22:00,750 --> 01:22:02,877
or just-- just go?
1374
01:22:03,086 --> 01:22:05,088
Yeah, we should call Stevie
and let him know.
1375
01:22:05,296 --> 01:22:07,131
-Okay, yeah.
-Like if something happens to us then--
1376
01:22:07,340 --> 01:22:08,549
Yeah, yeah. No, I--
1377
01:22:08,758 --> 01:22:10,218
[Ben] Like--
1378
01:22:10,426 --> 01:22:11,386
Deal.
1379
01:22:12,970 --> 01:22:15,181
You got the number?
You want this?
1380
01:22:15,390 --> 01:22:17,475
-Here.
-It's like we stopped.
1381
01:22:17,683 --> 01:22:20,228
If we went around this right
here, we would have seen people.
1382
01:22:20,436 --> 01:22:22,397
I don't like this at all.
And they were right there?
1383
01:22:22,605 --> 01:22:24,524
-Yeah, they were right there.
-And you all just stopped right here?
1384
01:22:24,732 --> 01:22:26,984
-[Heather] No, I mean-- -Let's
get the fuck out of here, man.
1385
01:22:27,193 --> 01:22:28,277
Didn't know
if you guys were behind us.
1386
01:22:33,658 --> 01:22:36,077
-[Austin] This-- this is a--
-[Heather] Alright.
1387
01:22:36,285 --> 01:22:37,370
-[Heather] Good timing.
-[Austin] Yeah.
1388
01:22:41,249 --> 01:22:45,169
I have to admit I jumped
to immediate bad conclusion.
1389
01:22:45,378 --> 01:22:47,588
You guys said:
"backpacks and people crossing”,
1390
01:22:47,797 --> 01:22:51,384
the first thing that came
to my head was running drugs,
1391
01:22:51,592 --> 01:22:53,678
like the very first thing
that popped into my head.
1392
01:22:55,054 --> 01:22:56,931
[Austin] And they--
they might have been, but, uh...
1393
01:22:57,140 --> 01:22:58,099
[Ben] Yeah.
1394
01:22:58,307 --> 01:22:59,225
But we don't know that.
1395
01:23:00,351 --> 01:23:02,019
[Ben] Well,
it's such a conundrum, because
1396
01:23:03,312 --> 01:23:06,357
like the people
that are crossing, you know,
1397
01:23:08,151 --> 01:23:11,571
under different circumstances
that could have been you.
1398
01:23:11,779 --> 01:23:13,197
Or you.
1399
01:23:15,533 --> 01:23:18,119
Yeah. And that is the
predicament. Like I was sitting there
1400
01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:21,914
and I was like if those
are families or people
1401
01:23:22,123 --> 01:23:24,459
who are trying to make a better
life for themselves, I don't wanna call.
1402
01:23:24,667 --> 01:23:26,961
But if those are drug smugglers,
I do wanna call.
1403
01:23:31,090 --> 01:23:32,467
[Austin] I talked
to my parents about it
1404
01:23:33,593 --> 01:23:35,052
and told them
I came upon some people,
1405
01:23:35,261 --> 01:23:36,637
and well, they asked me
you know: "what--
1406
01:23:36,846 --> 01:23:38,431
What were they wearing,
what were they doing,
1407
01:23:38,639 --> 01:23:40,141
this or that” and--
1408
01:23:40,349 --> 01:23:42,393
And I kinda described
the situation and they--
1409
01:23:42,602 --> 01:23:44,312
And they asked us what we did,
and I was like:
1410
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,063
"Well, we--
we called Border Patrol.”
1411
01:23:47,023 --> 01:23:52,361
And they--
they understood, they got it,
1412
01:23:53,613 --> 01:23:56,073
and they said,:
"Oh man, poor people.”
1413
01:23:56,282 --> 01:23:57,492
Um.
1414
01:24:03,456 --> 01:24:06,250
They said that was them
30 years ago.
1415
01:24:07,418 --> 01:24:09,545
[gentle music]
1416
01:24:19,430 --> 01:24:22,141
[Austin] In Guatemala, they--
they were making three bucks a day.
1417
01:24:22,350 --> 01:24:23,476
They were living
in a little room,
1418
01:24:23,684 --> 01:24:26,479
them and my older brother,
my dad, he had
1419
01:24:26,687 --> 01:24:33,277
family members and friends who had either
been, you know, harassed, mugged or killed.
1420
01:24:36,489 --> 01:24:37,532
I mean it was genocide.
1421
01:24:41,285 --> 01:24:45,957
My mom, she was very willing
to do whatever she had to do
1422
01:24:46,165 --> 01:24:47,124
to get over here.
1423
01:24:48,334 --> 01:24:50,378
She tried to come over
a couple of times.
1424
01:24:53,214 --> 01:24:54,799
Someone had snitched on her.
1425
01:24:56,509 --> 01:25:00,555
Mom and my older brother
were locked up in Mexico
1426
01:25:00,763 --> 01:25:03,391
when they got caught
by immigration there in Mexico.
1427
01:25:06,519 --> 01:25:10,398
Mom would ask to work
in jail so she--
1428
01:25:10,606 --> 01:25:12,984
So she could get money
and food to feed my brother
1429
01:25:13,192 --> 01:25:14,068
while they're in jail.
1430
01:25:17,196 --> 01:25:20,157
I don't wanna discredit the-- the
crossing of the river, it is significant.
1431
01:25:20,866 --> 01:25:25,705
But my parents had-- My, my
family felt that fear the entire time.
1432
01:25:25,913 --> 01:25:27,415
And it was--
and they still thought they--
1433
01:25:27,623 --> 01:25:29,417
That fear years after crossing.
1434
01:25:29,625 --> 01:25:31,794
[gentle music]
1435
01:25:41,762 --> 01:25:45,349
[Austin] When I was first born,
it was probably uh, 15 of us
1436
01:25:45,558 --> 01:25:46,767
in one house.
1437
01:25:46,976 --> 01:25:47,852
It was tough.
1438
01:25:50,229 --> 01:25:52,523
My parents, they heard
this radio announcement
1439
01:25:52,732 --> 01:25:56,527
about, um people helping
illegal immigrants
1440
01:25:56,736 --> 01:25:57,695
get their residency,
1441
01:25:57,903 --> 01:25:59,697
but they
have to report themselves
1442
01:25:59,905 --> 01:26:02,241
and state
that they're there illegally.
1443
01:26:08,789 --> 01:26:11,459
My mom,
she began crying immediately
1444
01:26:11,667 --> 01:26:14,295
and they're like: "We're--
we need to deport you now."”
1445
01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:38,653
In my parents' eyes,
1446
01:26:38,861 --> 01:26:40,279
the American dream were
1447
01:26:40,488 --> 01:26:41,781
to send three kids to college
1448
01:26:43,783 --> 01:26:47,578
and have enough to make a living
and-- and be satisfied,
1449
01:26:49,288 --> 01:26:50,748
and they've exceeded that.
1450
01:26:54,919 --> 01:26:57,546
I am no longer embarrassed
of who I am, where I come from.
1451
01:26:59,298 --> 01:27:01,133
I'm very proud of my parents.
1452
01:27:01,342 --> 01:27:02,218
Very proud.
1453
01:27:03,761 --> 01:27:06,847
And hopefully uh, one day
I can pay 'em back.
1454
01:27:19,652 --> 01:27:21,112
[Ben] Today is a big day.
1455
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:25,116
We are switching
from canoes to bicycles,
1456
01:27:25,324 --> 01:27:28,577
because we're now in an area
where there is a wall,
1457
01:27:28,786 --> 01:27:31,622
but the wall is so far away
from the river
1458
01:27:31,831 --> 01:27:34,542
that you can't even see it
from the river in some spots.
1459
01:27:34,750 --> 01:27:35,876
[Filipe] Let's ride.
1460
01:27:36,085 --> 01:27:37,294
-[cheering]
-[Heather] Let's ride.
1461
01:27:39,505 --> 01:27:44,427
[Austin] Ben Masters is
a determined, dedicated,
1462
01:27:45,636 --> 01:27:47,847
uncoordinated son of a gun.
1463
01:27:48,055 --> 01:27:50,850
He is so great
for so many reasons,
1464
01:27:51,058 --> 01:27:52,518
but coordination
is not one of them.
1465
01:27:53,811 --> 01:27:55,563
And to see him on the bicycle,
1466
01:27:55,771 --> 01:27:57,773
after paddling
and being on a horseback,
1467
01:27:57,982 --> 01:28:02,361
is uh, one of my
greatest joys in life now.
1468
01:28:02,570 --> 01:28:04,405
He is...
1469
01:28:04,613 --> 01:28:06,615
so bad on a bicycle.
1470
01:28:07,575 --> 01:28:08,868
But dang it, he's doing' it.
1471
01:28:11,662 --> 01:28:14,915
[Ben] The Lower Rio Grande
Valley has the most illegal crossings
1472
01:28:15,124 --> 01:28:17,585
and drug traffic
along the US-Mexico border.
1473
01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:21,255
♪ Running astray ♪
1474
01:28:21,464 --> 01:28:23,549
[Ben] It already has
some existing border wall
1475
01:28:23,758 --> 01:28:26,302
and is priority
for future wall construction.
1476
01:28:26,510 --> 01:28:28,387
♪ I dream of you ♪
1477
01:28:28,596 --> 01:28:30,806
[Ben] The Rio Grande here
twists and turns,
1478
01:28:31,015 --> 01:28:33,893
but the border wall
will be built on straight lines,
1479
01:28:34,101 --> 01:28:36,437
on levees and irrigation canals,
1480
01:28:36,645 --> 01:28:38,314
sometimes miles from the border.
1481
01:28:39,774 --> 01:28:42,234
Effectively stranding
American land
1482
01:28:42,443 --> 01:28:43,903
between the river and the wall.
1483
01:28:45,696 --> 01:28:48,824
-Are you all doing dry land or uh, irrigation?
-All irrigated.
1484
01:28:49,033 --> 01:28:52,912
All-- all irrigated, all the water
coming out of the Rio Grande River.
1485
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:56,665
Our river pumps are on the banks
of the Rio Grande river.
1486
01:28:56,874 --> 01:28:59,335
We will have to go
through the wall,
1487
01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:00,836
to get to our pumps,
1488
01:29:01,045 --> 01:29:04,465
which is the lifeblood
of the irrigated farms.
1489
01:29:04,673 --> 01:29:08,761
The concern is we're giving up
a tremendous amount of-- of
1490
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:12,681
an area that--
that is some of the most
1491
01:29:12,890 --> 01:29:15,309
productive farmland
in the world.
1492
01:29:15,518 --> 01:29:17,812
Uh, alluvial soils
from the Rio Grande river
1493
01:29:18,020 --> 01:29:20,981
with a 365-day growing period.
1494
01:29:21,190 --> 01:29:24,777
So, there's
a lot of impact south
1495
01:29:24,985 --> 01:29:27,321
of where they're going
to place the wall.
1496
01:29:27,530 --> 01:29:33,494
Where is the border? Is the border
on the river, or is the border at the wall?
1497
01:29:34,620 --> 01:29:37,039
Because there's three quarters
of a mile difference.
1498
01:29:38,999 --> 01:29:42,253
I don't want it to be just
a one-time photo op,
1499
01:29:42,461 --> 01:29:45,506
and then my uh, kids,
and grandkids,
1500
01:29:45,714 --> 01:29:47,716
and future generations
have to live
1501
01:29:47,925 --> 01:29:50,261
with their farm
being cut in half.
1502
01:29:50,469 --> 01:29:53,681
Once the wall goes up,
that's it.
1503
01:29:53,889 --> 01:29:56,559
You can't redo it,
you can't undo it.
1504
01:29:56,767 --> 01:29:59,728
And I think it's easy
for people in Washington DC
1505
01:29:59,937 --> 01:30:03,691
to make decisions
without having some input
1506
01:30:03,899 --> 01:30:05,943
from the people
who actually live here.
1507
01:30:06,151 --> 01:30:07,862
There's just something
1508
01:30:08,070 --> 01:30:09,697
kind of
un-American about it to me,
1509
01:30:09,905 --> 01:30:12,116
and it's all part
of the United States.
1510
01:30:14,493 --> 01:30:16,495
When they talk
about Homeland Security,
1511
01:30:16,704 --> 01:30:17,872
we're part of the Homeland.
1512
01:30:19,039 --> 01:30:23,294
The wall will be
on this side of the river road--
1513
01:30:23,502 --> 01:30:25,045
Of the levee road.
1514
01:30:25,254 --> 01:30:27,548
Uh, and will be a vertical wall
1515
01:30:27,756 --> 01:30:32,428
where they will peel off
this side of the-- of the levee
1516
01:30:32,636 --> 01:30:35,556
and build
a vertical concrete wall.
1517
01:30:35,764 --> 01:30:37,892
For us, it's 350 acres,
1518
01:30:38,100 --> 01:30:42,730
for Steve's family,
it's 500 acres,
1519
01:30:42,938 --> 01:30:45,482
for Santana, it's 2,000 acres.
1520
01:30:45,691 --> 01:30:48,068
So just within the stretch
of a couple of miles,
1521
01:30:48,277 --> 01:30:51,572
you've got almost
3,000 acres of land
1522
01:30:51,780 --> 01:30:54,074
that is going to
be ceded to Mexico
1523
01:30:54,283 --> 01:30:57,786
um, because it's gonna be
south of the wall.
1524
01:30:57,995 --> 01:31:00,706
We're not gonna control the area
south of the wall anymore.
1525
01:31:00,915 --> 01:31:03,667
[dramatic music]
1526
01:31:30,819 --> 01:31:32,613
[birds chirping]
1527
01:31:36,867 --> 01:31:39,495
[Heather]
It's kind of crazy down here,
1528
01:31:39,703 --> 01:31:44,083
getting estimates
of the number of individuals,
1529
01:31:45,250 --> 01:31:48,629
'cause you have
these huge flocks flying over
1530
01:31:48,837 --> 01:31:51,966
and swarms of swallows.
1531
01:31:53,175 --> 01:31:57,763
Trying to estimate how many
individuals you're seeing
1532
01:31:57,972 --> 01:31:58,889
is crazy.
1533
01:32:01,934 --> 01:32:06,689
In my bird surveys
along the entire Rio Grande,
1534
01:32:08,107 --> 01:32:11,902
I detected over 150 species.
1535
01:32:13,779 --> 01:32:16,073
There's such a huge diversity.
1536
01:32:19,660 --> 01:32:21,996
The bird community
in the Rio Grande Valley
1537
01:32:22,204 --> 01:32:23,747
is like completely different.
1538
01:32:25,165 --> 01:32:26,792
Many of these are species
1539
01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:30,004
that you wouldn't see
anywhere else in the US.
1540
01:32:32,673 --> 01:32:35,175
It's the biggest
birding destination
1541
01:32:35,384 --> 01:32:36,260
in the country.
1542
01:32:38,137 --> 01:32:39,888
If you just woke up here,
1543
01:32:41,181 --> 01:32:42,599
just listen to it,
1544
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,520
you would think
you're in the tropics.
1545
01:32:46,729 --> 01:32:48,897
That's a golden-fronted calling.
1546
01:32:51,984 --> 01:32:53,819
The Rio Grande Valley is
1547
01:32:54,028 --> 01:32:56,989
one of the most
critical habitats
1548
01:32:57,197 --> 01:33:01,618
for birds, butterflies,
and bats in North America.
1549
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:07,583
This subtropical habitat
that is really nowhere else
1550
01:33:07,791 --> 01:33:09,251
in the United States.
1551
01:33:12,838 --> 01:33:16,925
The Rio Grande Valley is
along different migratory routes
1552
01:33:17,134 --> 01:33:19,678
for birds, butterflies and bats.
1553
01:33:21,055 --> 01:33:23,724
There's this huge collaboration
1554
01:33:23,932 --> 01:33:27,061
between public
and private organizations,
1555
01:33:27,269 --> 01:33:32,024
and they've linked
this string of pearls,
1556
01:33:32,232 --> 01:33:35,903
this native habitat
along the Rio Grande
1557
01:33:36,111 --> 01:33:39,865
to preserve this area
for native species.
1558
01:33:43,368 --> 01:33:47,498
The border wall
would be built along the levee
1559
01:33:47,706 --> 01:33:49,625
with an enforcement zone.
1560
01:33:51,376 --> 01:33:55,005
In this region,
where there's only 5%
1561
01:33:55,214 --> 01:33:57,966
of remaining native habitat,
1562
01:33:58,175 --> 01:34:01,637
this enforcement zone
would be bulldozing
1563
01:34:01,845 --> 01:34:05,307
a-- a sizable portion
of what's left.
1564
01:34:07,017 --> 01:34:09,770
In a flood situation
1565
01:34:09,978 --> 01:34:13,190
terrestrial animals could
get caught up in floodwaters.
1566
01:34:14,399 --> 01:34:18,529
Having the border wall,
species like the Texas tortoise
1567
01:34:18,737 --> 01:34:22,533
and ocelots could die
in these rising flood waters,
1568
01:34:22,741 --> 01:34:25,369
because there wouldn't be
any way for them to escape.
1569
01:34:29,832 --> 01:34:32,126
This could become a death trap.
1570
01:34:34,336 --> 01:34:36,755
It occurred to me
along the journey
1571
01:34:36,964 --> 01:34:40,092
that in--
in some of these areas,
1572
01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:43,929
there may have never been
a formal bird survey
1573
01:34:44,138 --> 01:34:48,976
and there may
never be another one done
1574
01:34:49,184 --> 01:34:51,812
before it's changed forever.
1575
01:34:53,438 --> 01:34:59,862
I felt honored and--
to see the area before that,
1576
01:35:00,946 --> 01:35:05,909
but also saddened by the fact
that it may soon change.
1577
01:35:12,833 --> 01:35:15,252
I think when people
use that term "build a wall",
1578
01:35:15,460 --> 01:35:20,132
there are some that do believe
it needs to be a structure.
1579
01:35:20,340 --> 01:35:24,595
Um, I do believe there's others
that wanna see what--
1580
01:35:24,803 --> 01:35:27,681
What I would term “"operational
control of our border".
1581
01:35:27,890 --> 01:35:29,850
[Will] We should be able to
know what's coming back and forth
1582
01:35:30,058 --> 01:35:30,893
across our border.
1583
01:35:31,101 --> 01:35:33,228
Nobody disagrees with that.
1584
01:35:33,437 --> 01:35:35,689
And since our
technology is so cheap now,
1585
01:35:35,898 --> 01:35:37,649
it's basically disposable.
1586
01:35:37,858 --> 01:35:39,359
And that technology
can tell the difference
1587
01:35:39,568 --> 01:35:43,113
between a jackrabbit and a
person coming across the border.
1588
01:35:43,322 --> 01:35:45,240
And if that sensor
gets triggered,
1589
01:35:45,449 --> 01:35:48,035
you can deploy men and women.
The Border Patrol will do the one thing
1590
01:35:48,243 --> 01:35:50,621
that only they can do,
interdiction, stopping this.
1591
01:35:50,829 --> 01:35:52,039
We can do that today
1592
01:35:52,247 --> 01:35:55,083
and that is
not the kind of technology
1593
01:35:55,292 --> 01:35:58,337
that we are giving our men
and women in Border Patrol
1594
01:35:58,545 --> 01:36:00,881
to do their job
about keeping us safe
1595
01:36:01,089 --> 01:36:02,382
and-- and securing our border.
1596
01:36:02,591 --> 01:36:04,676
And again,
it's a fraction of the cost
1597
01:36:04,885 --> 01:36:07,221
of uh, building a--
a concrete structure
1598
01:36:07,429 --> 01:36:10,265
that you can go over or--
or dig under.
1599
01:36:11,350 --> 01:36:13,852
[Beto] For me, the--
the answer is not gonna be walls
1600
01:36:14,061 --> 01:36:15,103
or fences or physical barriers,
1601
01:36:15,312 --> 01:36:17,397
it is gonna be ensuring
1602
01:36:17,606 --> 01:36:20,150
that our immigration laws
match our reality,
1603
01:36:20,359 --> 01:36:23,278
uh, what our true needs are
in this country,
1604
01:36:23,487 --> 01:36:24,905
what our values are,
1605
01:36:25,113 --> 01:36:28,784
and, um, do so in keeping
with the best traditions
1606
01:36:28,992 --> 01:36:30,118
of Texas and this country.
1607
01:36:30,327 --> 01:36:31,828
Bipartisanship has become
1608
01:36:32,037 --> 01:36:34,164
a rare sight in Washington,
but on Tuesday,
1609
01:36:34,373 --> 01:36:37,251
Mother Nature brought
two Texas lawmakers together.
1610
01:36:37,459 --> 01:36:40,754
Their flights back to DC were
cancel led, because of the show.
1611
01:36:40,963 --> 01:36:43,298
So representatives
Will Hurd and Beto O'Rourke
1612
01:36:43,507 --> 01:36:46,343
decided to take to the road
to get back to work
1613
01:36:46,551 --> 01:36:49,721
and talked policy and
personal matters along the way.
1614
01:36:49,930 --> 01:36:53,350
And what I have found
is that working with Republicans
1615
01:36:53,558 --> 01:36:56,770
um, being able
to not allow the perfect
1616
01:36:56,979 --> 01:36:58,272
to become the enemy of the good
1617
01:36:58,480 --> 01:37:03,193
um, and uh, just focus
on making things better
1618
01:37:03,402 --> 01:37:04,945
um, you can make some progress.
1619
01:37:05,153 --> 01:37:08,323
And we can also disagree
without being disagreeable.
1620
01:37:08,532 --> 01:37:11,952
The competition of ideas is what
has made this country greatest,
1621
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:14,788
what's made this experiment
called "America" work.
1622
01:37:14,997 --> 01:37:18,417
[Will] And way more unites us
than divides us.
1623
01:37:18,625 --> 01:37:20,752
Uh, then we can get a bigger--
a bigger car next time
1624
01:37:20,961 --> 01:37:21,878
and bring a few more people.
1625
01:37:22,087 --> 01:37:24,423
The rhetoric around all of this
1626
01:37:24,631 --> 01:37:29,469
that is uh, something that um,
we can't let continue to happen.
1627
01:37:29,678 --> 01:37:32,723
When people in Mexico
hear our president denigrate
1628
01:37:32,931 --> 01:37:35,434
that country, vilify Mexicans,
1629
01:37:35,642 --> 01:37:38,979
refer to Mexican immigrants
as rapists and criminals,
1630
01:37:39,187 --> 01:37:41,315
promise to build
a 2,000-mile wall
1631
01:37:41,523 --> 01:37:43,150
that will cost $30 billion
1632
01:37:43,358 --> 01:37:46,111
and say that Mexico
is gonna have to pay for it
1633
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:49,448
um, Mexicans remind themselves
that they have
1634
01:37:49,656 --> 01:37:52,075
other potential partners
around the globe.
1635
01:37:57,956 --> 01:38:00,250
[Beto] They are
deepening trade relationships
1636
01:38:00,459 --> 01:38:03,962
with others at our expense.
1637
01:38:04,171 --> 01:38:06,923
The rhetoric will come
at a cost to our country.
1638
01:38:07,132 --> 01:38:10,344
And we have to improve um,
our understanding
1639
01:38:10,552 --> 01:38:13,430
of an area
that so many people talk about,
1640
01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:16,475
but many people have never been
and don't understand.
1641
01:38:19,144 --> 01:38:21,938
-[laughing] -[Ben] But you
just sit there and you look at it,
1642
01:38:22,147 --> 01:38:24,816
-go, "Wow, oh my god" you know, like...
-These people
1643
01:38:25,025 --> 01:38:26,443
that are crossing,
how hard can it be?
1644
01:38:26,651 --> 01:38:28,362
-It looks scalable.
-[Ben] Oh yeah.
1645
01:38:28,570 --> 01:38:30,530
[Filipe]
I mean it's-- it's America.
1646
01:38:30,739 --> 01:38:32,407
[Filipe] Especially
with the wide-angle lens on,
1647
01:38:32,616 --> 01:38:34,868
it looks even
that much more intimidating.
1648
01:38:35,077 --> 01:38:36,495
You gotta do it with a fish eye.
1649
01:38:38,163 --> 01:38:39,998
-I'm just curious now.
-[Austin laughing]
1650
01:38:40,207 --> 01:38:41,875
[Filipe] I'm just curious,
I just wanna see if it's--
1651
01:38:43,126 --> 01:38:46,254
-If you jump on a 747.
-[Austin laughing]
1652
01:38:55,055 --> 01:38:57,974
Oh, there's a nice little
cup holder here for you, too.
1653
01:39:08,026 --> 01:39:08,985
[Austin] That was it?
1654
01:39:16,076 --> 01:39:17,244
[Filipe] Alright, so here is...
1655
01:39:17,452 --> 01:39:18,578
[taking deep breaths]
1656
01:39:18,787 --> 01:39:19,663
The wall.
1657
01:39:21,373 --> 01:39:24,459
[Filipe] There is Mexico,
there is the US,
1658
01:39:24,668 --> 01:39:25,919
there is me!
1659
01:39:26,128 --> 01:39:27,212
There is the wall,
1660
01:39:27,421 --> 01:39:28,672
there is
Border Patrol in the distance.
1661
01:39:30,173 --> 01:39:33,218
Not too uh-- not too difficult.
1662
01:39:41,685 --> 01:39:44,146
[gentle music]
1663
01:39:47,274 --> 01:39:49,192
Seeing people cross,
1664
01:39:51,445 --> 01:39:53,321
we were afraid
1665
01:39:54,364 --> 01:39:56,616
and alarmed
1666
01:39:56,825 --> 01:40:00,245
and unsure of the situation.
1667
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:06,460
And to realize that those people
were also alarmed
1668
01:40:06,668 --> 01:40:08,336
and afraid
1669
01:40:08,545 --> 01:40:10,005
and unsure of the situation.
1670
01:40:13,300 --> 01:40:16,303
And we felt that feeling
for such a small instant
1671
01:40:16,511 --> 01:40:18,346
when we saw those groups
of people crossing.
1672
01:40:20,015 --> 01:40:23,185
And it was-- it was--
it was stressful, it was tiring,
1673
01:40:23,393 --> 01:40:26,563
and to feel that for years,
and years, and years
1674
01:40:27,647 --> 01:40:29,357
made me realize...
1675
01:40:31,067 --> 01:40:35,071
that there is a bigger issue than
the actual crossing into the country.
1676
01:40:39,409 --> 01:40:43,079
[Austin] If you think that
someone who's desperate enough
1677
01:40:43,288 --> 01:40:45,165
to move from
Guatemala to Austin,
1678
01:40:45,373 --> 01:40:47,501
and you think they're just
gonna turn right around,
1679
01:40:47,709 --> 01:40:49,127
because they see a wall
in front of 'em...
1680
01:40:51,254 --> 01:40:52,422
That's absurd.
1681
01:40:54,466 --> 01:40:56,551
That wanting a better life,
1682
01:40:58,220 --> 01:41:00,305
that's the issue that
needs to be approached.
1683
01:41:00,514 --> 01:41:02,724
[gentle guitar music]
1684
01:41:15,278 --> 01:41:17,072
[cheering]
1685
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:18,698
[Jay] Preemptive Wooh,
we're not there yet.
1686
01:41:18,907 --> 01:41:21,576
Preemptive.
Don't let go the boat just yet.
1687
01:41:21,785 --> 01:41:23,537
-White pelicans!
-[Heather indistinct]
1688
01:41:24,788 --> 01:41:26,456
[Filipe]
Skimmers, black skimmers!
1689
01:41:27,791 --> 01:41:29,751
[Heather] Skimmers, skimmers!
1690
01:41:34,256 --> 01:41:35,799
Done with this guy.
1691
01:41:38,134 --> 01:41:39,386
[Jay] It's bittersweet.
1692
01:41:39,594 --> 01:41:42,347
We become pretty close.
1693
01:41:42,556 --> 01:41:45,183
It's-- I think
it's gonna be like surreal
1694
01:41:45,392 --> 01:41:47,269
to finally see the Gulf
and at the same time
1695
01:41:47,477 --> 01:41:50,480
like have a mix of emotions that
like, this is-- this is ending.
1696
01:41:50,689 --> 01:41:52,148
I'm gonna miss you guys.
1697
01:41:52,357 --> 01:41:54,401
-Yeah.
-[chuckling]
1698
01:41:54,609 --> 01:41:55,652
I'll miss you too, Ben.
1699
01:41:59,656 --> 01:42:02,200
[soft music]
1700
01:42:19,509 --> 01:42:21,344
[Filipe]
I thought that the border
1701
01:42:21,553 --> 01:42:24,306
was just this
desolate no-man's land.
1702
01:42:28,727 --> 01:42:30,437
But when I actually
came out here,
1703
01:42:30,645 --> 01:42:33,607
I despised the idea
of a physical wall
1704
01:42:33,815 --> 01:42:35,775
and the reason
that I started to hate it
1705
01:42:35,984 --> 01:42:39,696
is because this land,
this country is damn beautiful.
1706
01:42:45,493 --> 01:42:47,329
[Heather] So tragic thinking
about a border wall
1707
01:42:47,537 --> 01:42:50,749
cutting through some
of the last remaining habitat
1708
01:42:50,957 --> 01:42:51,875
of this type...
1709
01:42:54,919 --> 01:43:00,175
that may be completely
ineffective and unnecessary.
1710
01:43:02,344 --> 01:43:06,765
[Jay] I don't think any of us
are ignorant to the challenges
1711
01:43:06,973 --> 01:43:10,060
um, in terms of immigration
and drug passing.
1712
01:43:10,268 --> 01:43:13,521
I think it's just the fact that
like what we learned so far,
1713
01:43:13,730 --> 01:43:17,067
this structure
that could be so destructive
1714
01:43:17,275 --> 01:43:19,611
to the environment
and the private property rights
1715
01:43:19,819 --> 01:43:21,655
and access to water,
1716
01:43:22,614 --> 01:43:26,576
that that destructive potential
quote, unquote "solution
1717
01:43:26,785 --> 01:43:27,911
is not a solution.
1718
01:43:30,914 --> 01:43:33,667
[gentle guitar music]
1719
01:43:35,251 --> 01:43:36,294
[Ben] It's a distraction,
1720
01:43:37,337 --> 01:43:40,256
a distraction that ignores
the root problems.
1721
01:43:43,927 --> 01:43:48,181
I feel honored to have seen
and documented the Rio Grande
1722
01:43:48,390 --> 01:43:50,558
before it's
potentially changed forever.
1723
01:43:54,979 --> 01:43:57,190
But it makes me so sad
1724
01:43:57,399 --> 01:44:01,861
to think that a political symbol
and a king of pain promise
1725
01:44:02,070 --> 01:44:04,406
could destroy
this beautiful landscape
1726
01:44:04,614 --> 01:44:05,782
that I've grown to love.
1727
01:44:08,993 --> 01:44:10,954
But I'm hopeful
for a silver lining
1728
01:44:12,455 --> 01:44:14,290
that all the attention
on the border
1729
01:44:14,499 --> 01:44:18,294
could lead to realistic
immigration reform,
1730
01:44:18,503 --> 01:44:21,631
a more sensible way
to approach border security,
1731
01:44:23,258 --> 01:44:26,386
and that the landscapes
of the mighty Rio Grande
1732
01:44:26,594 --> 01:44:30,306
finally get the respect and the
protection that they deserve.
1733
01:44:30,515 --> 01:44:33,226
[gentle guitar music]
1734
01:44:45,697 --> 01:44:47,907
[Jay] I've been thinking about
this for almost a year
1735
01:44:48,116 --> 01:44:49,576
and I cannot believe
1736
01:44:49,784 --> 01:44:51,745
that we are almost
in the Gulf of Mexico right now.
1737
01:44:51,953 --> 01:44:53,830
[cheering]
1738
01:44:54,038 --> 01:44:56,541
[loud cheering]
1739
01:44:56,750 --> 01:45:00,003
[epic music]
1740
01:45:27,906 --> 01:45:29,949
[gentle guitar music]
1741
01:45:47,091 --> 01:45:49,302
[Ben] Every once in a while
it just hits me that
1742
01:45:49,511 --> 01:45:54,891
the photos' and the videos
that were taken here might be
1743
01:45:55,099 --> 01:45:58,394
some of the last
1744
01:45:58,603 --> 01:46:00,522
of the Rio Grande
1745
01:46:00,730 --> 01:46:02,440
before the wall is constructed.
1746
01:46:02,649 --> 01:46:06,319
♪ Can hear those coyotes cry ♪
1747
01:46:06,528 --> 01:46:07,987
It's just a crazy thing
to think about.
1748
01:46:08,196 --> 01:46:11,241
♪ Won't be long before
they're all gone ♪
1749
01:46:11,449 --> 01:46:14,369
♪ Just the highway is left ♪
1750
01:46:24,128 --> 01:46:27,590
♪ I had a big imagination ♪
1751
01:46:27,799 --> 01:46:30,051
♪ I lose it every day ♪
1752
01:46:32,136 --> 01:46:35,390
♪ I never use my education ♪
1753
01:46:35,598 --> 01:46:38,560
♪ Didn't learn anything ♪
1754
01:46:40,478 --> 01:46:42,605
♪ ♪
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