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Yeah. So, so just, just a history of. I'm a first generation American. My parents immigrated from, from Mexico, from my mom from Sinaloa, my dad from Sonora. But my dad used to cross illegally back in the, in the 40s and 50s, which was a much smaller, different time. Right. It was, there was really no terrorist threat against the United States. We hadn't, you know, it was, it was more, it was more of a, of a time where we're, yeah, it was kind of like people in America wanted those people to come over and, and work and, and, and kind of help them with businesses in the United States. So, so it was different. But with that being said, like, there was times where, this is way before I even thought about being a Border Patrol agent where they, they, my dad would be talking with his brothers and they would be talking about, you know, the time that they got beat up by, by Border Patrol. And you know, they would remember the, the bad stuff about it, of course, because that's, that's what sticks in your head. But along with that, they remember, you know, some, some, some good. It was equal, but it was, it was a different time. Right. Like I tell you, it was a time where Border patrol agents were wearing that trench coat, you see. Right. So the majority of, of, of Border patrol agents at that time, or federal agents were Anglo. Right. I'm not saying that, saying it, but it was, they couldn't understand the play of the, the immigrant coming up to try to make a better life for themselves. So, so yeah, I mean, like, I, I, I really wanted to do something because I grew up in the, in, in the border and I grew up in El Paso where, in Socorro actually, where at the time that I was growing up in high school and stuff like that, it was like the, the, the Juarez cartel was, was like the biggest cartel right across the border was Amado Carrillo Fuentes, which was the biggest drug lord like to this day. Even bigger than Pablo Escobar even. Really? Oh yeah. Bigger than Chapo. Yeah. By, by, by A lot. It's just there wasn't social media back then, so, you know, so. But yeah, he was the biggest. It was right across the border. Right. So a lot of, A lot of individuals that I knew that I grew up with, they either got involved in, in that, that, that or, or, or they got killed or they went to jail. But that little town, the majority now it's bigger, right? But at that time it was real small. Like there was a. Every other house almost was a stash house or was a lookout point or was something. Right. So first of all, I learned the lingo. I know, I know how they would operate because, I mean, I grew up in it. It's like, you know, that's what, you know, you knew that that's what was happening. And then I wanted to do something fun for, for the community. So I, I rehearsed it over and over. I wanted, you know, I thought my dad was going to be, I mean, he's macho Mexican was, you know, rest in peace, but I thought he was going to be like, are you stupid? Like, why would you wanna. But so when I, when I told him to myself, he looked back and he was like, you know what? I think that would be good for you to do it. Because any people border patronise people like you that are going to be able to humanize, you know, the experience is going to be able to kind of relate.
