Borderland: Narcosis with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas
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New Episodes Every Monday. An unfiltered look at real stories from America's Southern Border. Each week, special operations combat veteran, actor, writer, and veteran BORSTAR Agent Vincent “Rocco” Vargas sits down with guests to discuss the ruthless forces driving mass migration—organized crime.
This season, Borderland: Narcosis takes an unfiltered look at the criminal networks fueling the crisis, from human trafficking and the drug trade to extortion and corruption embedded at every level of society. An IRONCLAD Original
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The Cartel Drone Crisis: CJNG Operators Training Abroad and Targeting U.S. Vulnerabilities
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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CJNG Getting Stronger? The Brutal Reality Inside Mexico’s Worsening Security Crisis
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Mexico’s Cartels After El Mencho: Full-Scale Insurgency Ahead (Ed Calderon Returns)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Canada’s Great Lakes: CJNG Builds Massive Narcotics Corridor (Sam Cooper Returns)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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El Mencho Dead: What’s Next for CJNG and Mexico’s Cartel War?
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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The CJNG in Riverside, California: The Highway That Fuels Cartel Expansion into the U.S.
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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The Strategy to Target Mexico’s Most Powerful Cartel Leaders (Pierre Rausini Returns)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Mexican Military or CJNG? Armed Men Cross the San Diego Border
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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How a Cartel Gold Mine Was Taken Back — What It Reveals About Mexico’s Drug War
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Kentucky’s CJNG Money Laundering Network - The Money Trail Gets Deeper (Jon Griggs Returns)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Venezuelan Dissident Speaks Out: The Fragile Regime, Foreign Influence, & What Maduro’s Capture Means
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Maduro Captured: Inside the U.S. Direct Action Mission That Shook Venezuela (Ed Calderon Returns)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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After Venezuela Is Mexico Next? China’s Alliance with Cartels Could Spark Strikes (Jorge Ventura)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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A Whistleblower Details Extortion Inside Mexico’s Cattle Economy
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Inside the Hidden Arizona Operation of a Former MLB Player Linked to the Sinaloa Cartel
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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How Disinformation, Smuggling, and International Networks Are Quietly Shaping Threats to the U.S.
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela: The New Frontline Near the U.S. Border
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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BONUS: Former Kingpin Breaks Down the ONE Move That Could Cripple the Sinaloa and CJNG Cartels | Pierre Rausini
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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INSIDE the Ultra-Violent Secret World of Female Cartel Operatives: Deborah Bonello
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Kratom-to-7-OH Pipeline: Inside the CCP-Linked Network Fueling a Dangerous New Drug Market
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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CJNG Strikes: Mayor Murdered as Violence and Extortion Escalate in Mexico (Ioan Grillo Returns)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel’s Silent Invasion of Montana: A Hidden War on American Soil
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Drone War on the Border: Ed Calderon Explains Cartels, Venezuela, and Colombia
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Inside the Cartel: FBI Agent Martin Suarez’s 24 Years Undercover Smuggling Billions for the Colombian Drug Empire
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Bounties on Agents, PsyOps, and CIA Allegations | Q&A with Katarina Szulc
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Mexico’s Drug War Turns a Corner: Homicides Drop as South American Cartels Surge (Jaeson Jones Returns)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Venezuela Black Ops Collapse: U.S. Operative Who Tried to Topple Maduro Now Fighting for His Life
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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How Cartels Actually Operate in Venezuela: America’s War, Government-Collapse & Synthetic Drug War (Pierre Rausini Returns)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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El Mayo’s Deal Ignites Cartel Collapse—Venezuelan Strikes & Sheinbaum Cartel Ties
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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THE CONNECT: Ex-Trafficker Johnny Mitchell — Inside the Cartel Shift: Why They No Longer Fear U.S. Power
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Inside Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles and How It Threatens the U.S
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Mayo Zambada’s Plea Deal, Sinaloa Cartel Fragmentation, and Cartels Using AI & Drones
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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America's Deadliest Chinese Mafia Drug Network Operating in Maine
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Are We Witnessing the End of the Sinaloa Cartel?
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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When Supply Chains Meet Cartels: How U.S. Companies Are Affected by Mexico’s Truck Hijackings
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Canada's Most Violent Cartels: Sinaloa & CJNG's Massive Vancouver Operations (with Sam Cooper)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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The Dark Connection Between Hezbollah, Drug Cartels & Terrorism
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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America’s Open Threat: Inside the Cartel’s Coordinated Terror Smuggling Operation
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Massive Texas Church-Linked Smuggling Ring Caught at Eagle Pass Checkpoint— Federal Seizure
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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“I Resigned Over the Corruption” — Ex-CDCR Lieutenant on California Prison Gangs, Cartels & the Crisis
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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How a CIA Operative Got Inside Cartel Money Laundering Rings
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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CJNG: The Next ISIS? Ex-Special Forces, China Threat & More | Q&A with Vince and Katarina
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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BONUS - The LA Protests: What's Really Happening (with Jorge Ventura)
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Global Drug Web: Sinaloa Submarines, Triads, and the Expanding Fentanyl Crisis from New Zealand to the Pacific
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Jason Owens on Serving as Border Patrol Chief Under Biden and Today’s Security Threats
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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How U.S. Bank Policy, A.I., and Canada’s Emerging Role Are Fueling the Cartel Economy (Steven Dudley Returns)
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May 26, 2025 |
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Mexico Rejects U.S. Help and Cartels Exploit Canada’s Weakness (Katarina Szulc returns)
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May 19, 2025 |
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America’s Blindspots? Are Tariffs Fueling Organized Crime and What Did We Miss About Tren de Aragua?
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May 12, 2025 |
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Project Thor: It Was Working Against Cartels—So the Government Shut It Down (Pete Forcelli Returns)
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May 05, 2025 |
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Kentucky's MASSIVE CJNG Money Laundering Operation? Did a Cattle Farm Help Launder Cartel Billions?
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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How Chinese Organized Crime is Shaping America's Black Markets (Ray Donovan Returns)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Delta Force Veteran Breaks Down What It Means to Fight Cartels as Terrorists (with Brent Tucker)
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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CIA Whistleblower Exposes the Agency’s Role in the Drug Trade (with John Kiriakou)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Vanished by Cartels – The Extermination Camps and Collectives Fighting for Justice (with Ceci Flores and Adriana Jones)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Jay Flores Returns: Setting the Record Straight on Cartels and Their Operations
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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CIA's Controversial Relationships with Cartels
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The Cartel-American Military Connection and Trump’s Strategy with Mexico" (Pierre Rausini Returns)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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BONUS: How Big Pharma Fueled the Fentanyl Crisis and Empowered the Cartels
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel's American Operation: The Flores Twins- Part 1 (with Margarito "Jay" Flores)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Wisconsin's Cartel Gun Operation: How CJNG Got Their Hands on America's Most Lethal Weapons
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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How Cartels Actually Operate in America: Drug Trafficking, Sicario's, and High-Ranking Members
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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BONUS: Cartel De Noreste’s PR Stunt, Trump’s Pressure on Sheinbaum, and and Cartels on the Northern Border (Katarina Szulc Returns)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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New Era of Cartel War: 10,000 Troops Deployed, Drone Attacks & Sinaloa Cartel Collapse (Ed Calderon Returns)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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The Cartel War Just Changed: What the FTO Label Means for Mexico and America
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Borderland: Narcosis Trailer
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Former Drug Trafficker Details Life Working for the Cartels (with Luis "El Senador" Navia and Jesse Fink)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Q&A: What’s Next in the Drug War in Light of the New Administration
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura: What’s Next for the Border, Cartels, and Mass Deportations
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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"No One’s Coming To Save Us" - Brutal Cartel Attack Turned a Woman's Life Into War
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Miami's Cocaine Empire, and Its Affects on the Drug Trade
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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The Tren de Aragua Problem in the U.S. Is Growing—and It Isn’t Going Away
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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How Militarized Borders Fuel Violence Against Women in Mexico
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The Secret Deals Between Governments and Cartels: Kingpins, Migrants and Cocaine
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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America’s Cannabis Crisis: Cartels, Chinese Chemicals, and Corruption (John Nores Returns)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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How American Dollars Fuel Mexican Corruption
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Is China Using Fentanyl as a Weapon of Asymmetrical Warfare Against America?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Trump, Obama, & Clinton: Border Wall and Immigration Policy Similarities and Differences (with Chief Rodney Scott)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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A Perfect Storm of Border Threats: Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa, and Hamas (Jaeson Jones Returns)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Border Crisis: Vince Vargas Tackles Your Questions and Comments
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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National Security Challenges: Ukraine, Israel, and America's Open Border (with Mike Baker)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Peter Zeihan: Mexico’s President, Cartel Power Shifts, & the US Border Crisis
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Media's Role in Shaping the Border Crisis (with PSYOP Specialist Keith Newton)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Inside the Sinaloa Cartel Civil War: Mayos vs. Chapitos (with Ioan Grillo)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The Ultra-Violent Rise and Dramatic Fall of Ms-13 - Reasonable Fear Ep. 4
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Cartel that Infiltrated Americans' Living Rooms - Reasonable Fear Ep. 3
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Narco Cult? Inside the Real Santa Muerte Religious Movement - Reasonable Fear Ep. 2
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Ritual Killings: Mass Graves, Cartel Secrets & Cover-ups: The True Story of the Juarez Murders - Reasonable Fear Ep. 1
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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A Special Message from Vince
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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How Chinese Organized Crime Fuels Cartel Profits and Threatens U.S. Security (with Former DEA Chief of Operations, Ray Donovan)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The Rise of the Venezuelan "Tren de Aragua" Gang in the U.S.
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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How Foreign Spies Are Exploiting U.S. Vulnerabilities (with EverydaySpy's Andrew Bustamante)
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Violent Aftermath of the Arrest of Sinaloa Cartel Leader 'El Mayo' (with Ed Calderon)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Human Trafficking and the Mexican Underworld
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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A Retired Border Patrol Chief's Take on Immigration Policy, Patrol Misconceptions, and the Sinaloa Arrests
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Smuggling Hot Zone of Tombstone, Arizona
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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How the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) Uses Extreme Violence and Disinformation to Gain Power
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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High Tech Human Smuggling Ops: The CCP, Sinaloa Cartel, & Counterfeit Passports
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Fact-Checking Biden and Trump’s Immigration Debate
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Millions Made: Exposing Non-Profits In Border Crisis Scandal
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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How the Los Zetas Cartel Changed Organized Crime in Mexico
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Border Patrol Overload: A National Security Crisis (with Former ICE Director Thomas Homan)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Inside Cartel Operations at the US/Mexico Border (with Border Journalist Luis Chaparro)
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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The Rising Terrorist Threat at the Southern Border (with CIA Targeter Sarah Adams)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Exiled Patriots: The Untold Stories of Deported U.S. Veterans
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Why Is America Deporting Combat Veterans?
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May 27, 2024 |
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The Fentanyl Pipeline into America (with Derek Maltz)
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May 20, 2024 |
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How Cartels Operate in America's Forests (with John Nores)
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May 13, 2024 |
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How Traffickers and Cartels Take Advantage of 'Open Borders' with Sheriff Mark Lamb
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May 06, 2024 |
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Guns & Narcos: The Shocking Truth About the Fast & Furious Scandal
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Cartels Infiltrating Reservations and Operating as Organized Crime Institutions (with Matthew Thomas)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The Horrors of the Journey Across the Darien Gap
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Two Bordertown Sheriffs Weigh In On What's Going on at the Southern Border
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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So, What Country Has Better Immigration Policies Than the U.S. Then?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Undercover Cartel Stories from DEA Legend Mike Vigil
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Why the World Needs to Pay Attention to Venezuela
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The Rise of MS13 and Militarized Mexican Drug Cartels
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Mega Prisons, Violence & MS13: The Truth About El Salvador’s Controversial Gang Crackdown
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Cartels, Fentanyl, and Smuggling: An Emergency at the Border (with Jaeson Jones)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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An Immigration Attorney & Border Patrol Vet. Sound Off on the Border Crisis (with J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Barbed Wire, Buoys, and the Truth About Operation Lone Star
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Trailer: Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas
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Feb 12, 2024 |