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The progressives are just, there's a derangement spirit that we've got to pray against. I want to welcome my next guest. She's the founder of Texans Against Illegal Immigration, Sheena Rodriguez. Sheena, welcome. So good to have you. Thanks for being here.
Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. It is my pleasure.
It is my pleasure. Let me ask you, let's begin just kind of talking a little bit about what caused you to say, okay, somebody's got to step up to the plate. And you know, I mean, it's a pretty straightforward tag, Texans Against Illegal Immigration, and an important one. I'm a Texan and I'm against illegal immigration. Talk to me, Sheena, a little bit about how you began this group. Yes, sir.
Thank you. So actually, it started really earlier this year, I was a part of, I became a citizen advocate with True Texas Project, which is one of the original tea parties down here in Texas, and learned a lot about the legislative process in Austin and started getting active in that. And then God literally said go to the border. And prior to that, even though I've lived in Texas for over 20 years now, I'd never been further south than San Antonio. So I was extremely nervous.
I didn't know what to expect. And the moment that I stepped out of the car in Laredo, I saw about 60 military aged men crossing to one Border Patrol agent right in front of me. And it's been a whirlwind since then, since that moment that that agent turned around, didn't know me from anywhere and said, we're being invaded, I need help. And that was very eye opening.
So it's been a whirlwind since then. And what we ended up doing was taking the political activism that I learned through to True Texas Project and applying it to try to fill in the gaps because I saw this huge disconnect. I'd been everywhere from McAllen to Del Rio on the banks and talking to people, regular Texans, Border Patrol, DPS, like so much, I learned so much and started trying to fill in that gap. And then I was blessed with some of my sisters and fellow sisters in Christ, Louis and Rosalie and other people, other volunteers that have jumped on board with to help make Texans Against Illegal Immigration what it is today. My co founder Louis is also a legal immigrant from Argentina. And, and one of our other volunteers, Jackie, she's from Panama, another legal immigrant. And so it truly is a blessing to be able to do this and have the different approach as a mother as legal immigrants. And trying to combat this and trying to fill in those gaps where we can and that disconnect between the border. Yeah, I'm going to circle back around to the legal immigrant thing because that's an important point that we want to make this morning. But I wanted, there was something else that you were talking about relative to your involvement, the political side of this with the True Texas Project and what you learned there and then how you took those tools and applied them.
I have been encouraging for almost 10 years now here on Children Generation Radio. And really, you know, for me, this program began when I was already involved in being a political activist and organizing people and bringing groups together and trying to unify, because one of the problems that we have on the conservative side of all this is everybody's building a fiefdom. And there's a lot of egos involved and people don't come together. And if we don't start, you know, coming together and unifying, it doesn't matter what name you fly under.
Keep your name and promote your name. Esteem each other greater than themselves or greater than yourself. But we still have to come together and unify and figure out how each one of us can help the other to succeed in our missions. You've got a mission here.
But talk to me, what are my listeners going to be able to take away? What steps are there? Is it a three step, a four step, a five step? What steps can they start doing today that you would say to them?
Start here. Take this step. Take this step. Take this step. Take this step. What are two or three or four of those that they could do right now? I mean, my goodness.
Find a way to get active and engaged involved. Go beyond just waving a flag and holding a sign. You know, it's so important. Everybody right now is feels the pressure. We feel the urgency. Right. And, and, you know, when I started going into to our capital and started being first hand, the good old boy system, I don't know how to put that. I mean, my goodness, the rhinos swamp is bad.
Austin is, you know, there's a whole different. So, you know, I just, I just started going, you know, it's just like when God said, go to the border, you just go and you find God will feed you people that you will learn from. You will begin to very quickly learn how these things work. And, and, and it's just amazing. Honestly, when you see, I'm losing you, I'm losing you. Go ahead.
Say again. Oh, God will just rally people around you, you know, and just guide you along the way and you'll, you'll learn very quickly. I pick things up very quickly and I'm around seasoned people. You know, like I said that the original tea party over there with two Texas projects. You know, Bianca Garcia with Latinos for America first and Maria Miller. You know, I just, I've been blessed to be able to surround myself with people who know what they're doing and I learn quickly and everyone else can do the same thing. You know, I started taking the letters, for example, and started typing them up, you know, um, with some of the action items and the things that were needed down there at the border, even things that was getting straight from law enforcement, from district attorneys.
And because when I started seeing, you know, going to these border rally events, um, people would see the issue, you know, everybody was living it. And then, but then like you need information, right? Uh, how do you get active? How do you get involved? How do you actually take this information and turn it into action items?
It has to be about action. Um, and, and just started filling in those gaps. We started going around all over our great state of Texas, collecting these letters and then hand delivering them into the state representative state senators offices. Right now we're currently trying to put the pressure on governor Abbott and lieutenant governor project, uh, to call for that fourth special session with border security on the call because there are things, a large amount of things that can be done on the state level to secure our borders.
You know, we are where we are right now because of the failures of both parties for generations. Um, and, and, and it's past time and in the meantime it's the people, it's the illegals that are coming over that are being exploited and hurt. It's the Texans that are coming, you know, hold right there, hold right there because I, I focus on that a lot is trying to get people to understand that, that the people that are coming across illegally become exploited, become victims. Mark Morgan, the former chief of border patrol and I have talked about this quite a bit on the program. These people come across, they get through illegally, they get into a neighborhood and now they become victims of the gangs, victims of the criminals.
Their daughters get turned into prostitutes, their sons get turned into mules. They get threatened with either death or exposure and they'd have nowhere to turn. They're in a worse position in those neighborhoods than they were even when they have the country they came out of because of the fact that they literally cannot go to a law enforcement agent to try to stop what's happening to them and they don't know that that's going to happen.
They don't get it, they don't realize it until they're in the middle of that neighborhood and it's not just them, it's their neighbor, it's the person that's keeping them hidden, that can't say anything, that then also becomes a victim. It's an entire community that is then dramatically impacted, which is a lot of the reason why Latino legal immigrants, those that are here illegally are pushing back against the illegal immigration coming into their neighborhoods because they know that what comes with that is the cartels and the dealers and the prostitution and the child sex trafficking and all these horrific things and nobody wants to talk about that, Sheena. Yeah, and honestly that is the main reason why I'm so passionate about this is because sex trafficking is not, it's real, it's not a conspiracy theory and as a matter of fact the DSW area, which is where I am from and where I'm currently living is now number one for sex trafficking and it's already a horrific situation that now anyone who has ever been involved in trying to combat sex trafficking knows that the border has always been on the forefront of this battle and now with these wide open borders, there is nothing humanitarian about open borders, nothing at all.
You've got the sex trafficking, the drugs, the cartels, the guns and every town literally is a border town. There's no escaping this so we have to stand up and try to do what we can to stop this horrific modern day slavery. No doubt. All right, we're going to take a quick break.
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I know, I know, but I had to remind myself, so I might as well remind you. There you go. Sheena Rodriguez is with us. So Sheena, we talked about the steps you can take.
Get involved, find a group near you, connect with like-minded people, go when they ask you to go, right? And every little bit helps. Small efforts, small steps have big results. And it's important. Now I want to shift over because you talked also about Louie and about Jackie, about Rosalie, but Louie being from Argentina, Jackie being from Panama, both of them being legal immigrants, because that's the other pushback. Oh, well, you guys are just against immigration and you guys did, and all that nonsense that they say, and I'm sure you've heard it. Talk to me about why it's important that people come legally. Well, there's a few reasons of why that's so important, but number one, to stop exploitation. When they go through legally, you don't have to go through the cartel.
You don't have to go through the burying gap. It's safer that way for the immigrants themselves. This country was founded on immigrants, right? And we are where we are because of immigrants. We are not against immigration. We are against illegal immigration. And then, you know, some of the most angry and hurt people are legal immigrants.
Why? Because they go through this process. They go through this process. They pay their taxes. They are here, you know, being a productive part of the community. They understand most of them, like Lily, they come from socialist or communist countries. They love this country.
They know more about our country than most Americans do. They spend thousands upon thousands of their own money, you know, going through the legal way. And every single time, you know, my sister and my sister and my brother also own an immigration law firm.
And I see that, right? So, you know, they go through this process. And the same thing that happened to Obama is happening currently right now, where it is the legal immigrants who are going through the correct way, who get pushed back every single time. And the flood of illegal immigrants are coming in, you know, and receiving everything, everything. And it's done with the quickness.
You know, they get amnesty. And it's infuriating. And then, of course, it's the safety issue, right? You know, President Trump was mocked and ruled and critical and called a racist and a bigot, saying that, you know, that these people are rapists. He's not saying everyone is. But the reality is, if people knew what was flooding over our borders right now, they would be terrified.
And they should be. And it's because there is no vetting process. The vast majority, you know, of the people coming over aren't even border patrol by their own admission say that they only catch about 20 percent of what's currently coming over.
That's terrifying. And you have a lot of people, a lot of places where the illegals that are not wanting to get caught are coming through. So these are the ones that are actively going through the very rural communities with carpeted souls, you know, because they don't want to be trapped. These are your drug runners, your sex trafficking, you know, the really the terrorists.
I mean, it's true. And so that's another huge important part. It is national security, the national security issue. So there's a lot of different reasons as to why legal immigration and legal immigrants are some of the most upset by these kind of open, open border policies. Well, and and sadly, as you said, I mean, you know, people talk about, oh, well, there's, you know, long lines and I don't want to have to wait and I don't want to go through that process.
And it's so difficult and it's so challenging. But a lot of the difficulty, a lot of the challenges, a lot of the long lines have been the result of open border policies that really we have been battling since the 1960s. A lot of people don't realize Cesar Chavez was not working for immigrants.
He wasn't a help. He was actually working for the unions against a process that worked. There was a process in place that allowed people to be able to legally come over and work our crops, work our fields. My in-laws traveled all over the country working crops until my father-in-law got hired by the state of Texas and went to work in the Department of Transportation for about 25 years. But prior to that, they traveled all over the country and they worked. And there were people who came up during the season and traveled legally with documents, with papers until Cesar Chavez and the union shut that down.
Yeah. And, you know, my husband is a first generation Mexican American. You know, the Latino community is conservative by nature and they are hard. We are hard workers. My husband works two jobs, you know, and goes to school.
We are hard workers. Like, again, there's nothing, we're not, we are not against immigration. It's, you have to do it the legal way. You know, there are laws for a reason and it's to protect the immigrants and it's to protect Americans and to protect Texans.
It has to be the legal way. It has to be. I was, I was just going to look up top 10 immigration friendly countries. This ought to be interesting to see what they have to say about that. So yeah. Okay. Listen. Okay.
So this is interesting. This is by IMMI group, IMMI group, November, 2019, top 10, top 10 updated in 2019 immigration friendly countries. Guess who's number one? The United States.
Absolutely. The United States of America is listed by an impartial nonpartisan entity as the number one most friendly immigration country in the world. We take in more legal immigrants every year than any other country in the world. What's broke about our system right now is not our immigration system, the legal system.
What's broke is this open border nonsense that puts these people and legal immigrants at risk and puts the people trying to come in legally at the end of the line. Sheena, God bless you. Thank you so much for all that you're doing. Texans against illegal immigration.com is the website. Texans against illegal immigration.com. Get over there.
They'll tell you how you can get engaged and involved in this process and save lives. God bless you, Sheena. I got to run. We'll be back.
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