Cartels are transnational entities that have already infiltrated the United States and are poised to engage in overt violent actions stateside.

“it's clear as day to anybody that works in some of the places where they operate that they're here and they have been here for for a while you know it's not a it's not fighting back the cartels down there it's they're they're transnational they're here already”

Cartel activity is often portrayed as an organized hierarchy in media, but in reality, it is a diffuse and gray area where many people are involved in specific tasks without being officially initiated

“and in some other places would be like ah you're not really cartel like no but I am because like you know I work for this guy and he works for this guy so it's a very great area as well you know what I mean to be considered like oh no cartel that you know because this not really no initiation”

Cartels are the primary force behind the drug trade and human trafficking networks that transit through California due to the state's major freeway systems.

“So, as far as drug trafficking, human trafficking, the open border that we had, we we were the center of that because of the freeway systems.”