After being detained with a group of migrants, at a date and place near the border between Mexico and United States unspecified, a pollero said he defended the group after being intercepted by border guards.
“I’m responsible for them, that’s why I’m fighting with you, carnally”, the smuggler says in a video circulating on social networks to one of the immigration officers who wonders why he helped the group of migrants known to have women and small children to cross.
Faced with the pollero’s provocations, the border police officer wearing his well-known green uniform and who is accompanied by other members of the corporation, one of whom registers the human trafficker while in turn registers them, turns him over . the only thing that matters to you is money. “
“What money? If money was important to me, carnal, I wasn’t with the girl güey, al chili güey (SIC)” The smuggler sitting in the undergrowth responds and points the recording to the agents waiting to retrieve the group from the remote location where they were intercepted.
The dialogue between the pollero and the border guard lasts for almost two minutes, intermittently showing the faces of some of the detained migrants and the cry of a baby in the background.
-Agent: It’s like cattle, why do they call them goats (for migrants)? Because you treat them like animals, you treat them like goats
-Pollero: Oh! How do you want me to tell him? Let’s see, how do you tell me …
Agent: When did I tell you what?
-Smuggler: How do you tell me that? How do they tell me that?
Agent: Guide …
-Pollero: Ah! You’re crazy, they tell me coyote why?
-Agent: You are guides
-Pollero, sarcastic: Ah! Good afternoon Good afternoon
Later, the smuggler confronts the border agent and tells him “if you cared about them, you would let them pass.”
At one point in the video, the officer threateningly says to the human trafficker, who has already been detained and remains on the floor while recording the conversation: “… if you fall into our hands, I want you to speak as you properly talks now.”
-Pollero: Oh! Mijo, do you think I’m new to this or what?
-Agent: Well, it is neither the first nor the last that you will fall with us
-Pollero: I have to fall, you know I have to fall
-Agent: Remember well
-Pollero: You know I have to fall, right?
-Agent: I’m going to remember
-Pollero: I remember too, pa ‘
-Agent: Remember when I catch you …
-Pollero: In what we walk, we walk, carnally
-Agent: … because if I get you
The conversation continues for a few more seconds, during which the smuggler challenges the border guards agents and trivializes the fact that he is being held.
So far, the border Patrol Neither the Customs and Border Protection Bureau (CBP), to which it structurally belongs, commented on the case after the images were released.
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