1 00:00:01.502 --> 00:00:03.604 Ross: I expected about 50 locals to show up at the show, 2 00:00:03.604 --> 00:00:05.672 but it turns out, everyone in town 3 00:00:05.672 --> 00:00:07.374 position:15% align:start is affected by what's going on. 4 00:00:07.374 --> 00:00:10.978 position:15% align:start Both of my parents crossed here at the Brownsville Bridge 5 00:00:10.978 --> 00:00:13.080 around 40 years ago, give or take. 6 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:14.781 Man: I have friends that are from both. 7 00:00:14.781 --> 00:00:17.784 They're both nationalities, Mexican and the United States. 8 00:00:17.784 --> 00:00:19.586 They go to the university here in Brownsville. 9 00:00:19.586 --> 00:00:21.121 They're afraid to go home. 10 00:00:21.121 --> 00:00:23.690 They're afraid to come back over here to go to class 11 00:00:23.690 --> 00:00:27.861 because you never know when that random pick-up will happen, 12 00:00:27.861 --> 00:00:30.030 position:15% align:start or their random deportation. 13 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:32.266 Man: I came here with my mother. 14 00:00:32.266 --> 00:00:35.102 We actually crossed the river, you know, 15 00:00:35.102 --> 00:00:37.471 position:15% align:start just like millions of Mexicans 16 00:00:37.471 --> 00:00:39.239 position:15% align:start that come to the United States. 17 00:00:39.239 --> 00:00:43.076 When I came, I felt that this country was the best, 18 00:00:43.076 --> 00:00:44.878 and I wanted to be a contributor. 19 00:00:44.878 --> 00:00:46.547 I've been in the military. 20 00:00:46.547 --> 00:00:49.783 I graduated college. 21 00:00:49.783 --> 00:00:52.052 I'm contributing -- I'm a taxpayer. 22 00:00:52.052 --> 00:00:54.688 So, immigration is just welcoming people 23 00:00:54.688 --> 00:00:57.758 to the land of opportunity. 24 00:00:57.758 --> 00:01:00.093 Man: Well, we were driving by and we were wondering 25 00:01:00.093 --> 00:01:03.397 what was going on, and they told us Rick Ross... 26 00:01:03.397 --> 00:01:05.499 Oh, James? Jeff Ross? 27 00:01:05.499 --> 00:01:06.934 Yeah. 28 00:01:06.934 --> 00:01:08.569 Man: Brownsville, Texas, are you guys ready 29 00:01:08.569 --> 00:01:11.071 position:15% align:start for the Roastmaster General? 30 00:01:11.071 --> 00:01:15.075 Put your hands together for Mr. Jeff Ross! 31 00:01:15.075 --> 00:01:16.476 Yeah! 32 00:01:16.476 --> 00:01:19.246 [ Cheering and applause ] 33 00:01:19.246 --> 00:01:25.986 position:85% align:end line:10% ♪♪ 34 00:01:25.986 --> 00:01:28.155 Que paso,Brownsville? 35 00:01:28.155 --> 00:01:31.225 [ Cheering and applause ] 36 00:01:31.225 --> 00:01:33.160 You really came. You came. 37 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:36.096 Thank you, everybody. 38 00:01:36.096 --> 00:01:37.598 Where are my Americans at? 39 00:01:37.598 --> 00:01:40.734 [ Cheering ] 40 00:01:40.734 --> 00:01:42.336 We've got some hardcore, 41 00:01:42.336 --> 00:01:44.438 patriotic American people down here. 42 00:01:44.438 --> 00:01:46.640 And where are my undocumented at? 43 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.943 [ Cheering ] 44 00:01:49.943 --> 00:01:52.713 All in favor of letting everybody stay in America, 45 00:01:52.713 --> 00:01:54.615 say, "Aye-yi-yi-yi." 46 00:01:55.115 --> 00:01:56.917 Aye-yi-yi-yi! 47 00:01:56.917 --> 00:01:58.452 Stick around after the show, you guys, 48 00:01:58.452 --> 00:02:00.554 position:15% align:start because we're going to break a pinata full of green cards 49 00:02:00.554 --> 00:02:02.456 if anybody wants to play along. 50 00:02:05.826 --> 00:02:07.561 Brownsville, Texas. Look at this place. 51 00:02:07.561 --> 00:02:10.597 It's like you guys got to 1958 and said, "[Bleep] it." 52 00:02:10.597 --> 00:02:12.733 [ Laughter and applause ] 53 00:02:12.733 --> 00:02:15.269 "[Bleep] it. We're good." 54 00:02:20.841 --> 00:02:22.209 Yeah, man. I love it down here. 55 00:02:22.209 --> 00:02:23.777 You know, I actually have roots down here. 56 00:02:23.777 --> 00:02:27.314 position:15% align:start I got roots with the cartels. 57 00:02:27.314 --> 00:02:29.550 That's right, I'm el Chapo's Jewish cousin, 58 00:02:29.550 --> 00:02:32.319 el Cheapo. 59 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.488 Brownsville is a heck of a town, man. 60 00:02:34.488 --> 00:02:36.323 You guys really... 61 00:02:36.323 --> 00:02:38.091 it's a beautiful place, beautiful people, 62 00:02:38.091 --> 00:02:39.793 but it's hard here, man. 63 00:02:39.793 --> 00:02:41.428 position:15% align:start I can't imagine living in a town 64 00:02:41.428 --> 00:02:44.298 with a fence running right through my town. 65 00:02:44.298 --> 00:02:46.433 I got lonely last night. 66 00:02:46.433 --> 00:02:49.102 I went on Tinder, 67 00:02:49.102 --> 00:02:51.805 and I swipe with somebody on the other side of the wall. 68 00:02:54.708 --> 00:02:58.745 That's the biggest [Bleep] block in history. 69 00:02:58.745 --> 00:03:00.113 I didn't let that stop us, though. 70 00:03:00.113 --> 00:03:03.884 3:00 a.m., we met over there by the bushes. 71 00:03:03.884 --> 00:03:06.854 We both kind of pressed up against the wall, 72 00:03:06.854 --> 00:03:08.922 position:15% align:start and I entered her illegally. 73 00:03:08.922 --> 00:03:11.792 [ Laughter ] 74 00:03:11.792 --> 00:03:15.295 And we had a three-way with an armadillo. 75 00:03:15.295 --> 00:03:17.130 The armadillo is here tonight. What's up, buddy? 76 00:03:17.130 --> 00:03:18.765 How you doing, man? 77 00:03:18.765 --> 00:03:21.568 Look at the size of this guy. How you doing, brother? 78 00:03:21.568 --> 00:03:23.070 Wow. What are you celebrating? 79 00:03:23.070 --> 00:03:25.105 Cinco de mayonnaise? 80 00:03:27.608 --> 00:03:28.809 Damn. This guy. 81 00:03:28.809 --> 00:03:30.410 Thanks for coming off the wall, Humpty. 82 00:03:30.410 --> 00:03:32.946 I appreciate you, man. 83 00:03:34.948 --> 00:03:37.551 Where my Border Patrol at? 84 00:03:37.551 --> 00:03:39.253 [ Scattered cheers and whistles from rear ] 85 00:03:39.253 --> 00:03:42.089 [ Laughter ] 86 00:03:42.089 --> 00:03:43.824 Let me give the Border Patrol a little advice. 87 00:03:43.824 --> 00:03:45.192 If you want to catch people coming into 88 00:03:45.192 --> 00:03:46.593 the country illegally, 89 00:03:46.593 --> 00:03:50.430 don't write "Border Patrol" across your truck. 90 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:55.169 Write "Cold beer and free blow jobs" in Spanish. 91 00:03:55.169 --> 00:03:58.972 See if business doesn't pick up a little bit. 92 00:03:58.972 --> 00:04:02.042 Now I hear they want to add 5,000 more Border Patrol. 93 00:04:02.042 --> 00:04:04.411 5,000 more, can you imagine that? 94 00:04:04.411 --> 00:04:06.413 At that point, they won't need a wall. 95 00:04:06.413 --> 00:04:10.050 They can just stand arm-to-arm and form a human wall. 96 00:04:10.050 --> 00:04:14.454 Red rover, red rover, don't let Pedro come over. 97 00:04:17.324 --> 00:04:20.060 I came down to Brownsville because this is the front line 98 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:22.629 of the immigration war in America right now. 99 00:04:22.629 --> 00:04:24.064 I'm here out of solidarity. 100 00:04:24.064 --> 00:04:26.133 I don't want people around America to not know 101 00:04:26.133 --> 00:04:27.734 how hard this struggle is, 102 00:04:27.734 --> 00:04:30.604 so, you know, the situation is very [Bleeped] up right now. 103 00:04:30.604 --> 00:04:33.740 I heard yesterday, they deported an 8-year-old Guatemalan girl 104 00:04:33.740 --> 00:04:36.243 and her three kids. 105 00:04:36.243 --> 00:04:39.746 [ Laughter ] 106 00:04:45.252 --> 00:04:47.621 I'm all about bringing people together. 107 00:04:47.621 --> 00:04:49.423 Fences keep people apart. 108 00:04:49.423 --> 00:04:51.558 Personally, I don't think we need a wall. 109 00:04:51.558 --> 00:04:56.563 I don't think we need a wall for $21 billion. 110 00:04:56.563 --> 00:04:59.333 $21 billion dollars to build a wall right there. 111 00:04:59.333 --> 00:05:02.603 For that kind of money, we could send everybody in Mexico $1,000 112 00:05:02.603 --> 00:05:06.673 to stay there. 113 00:05:06.673 --> 00:05:10.711 "No come-o Estados Unidos, por favor?" 114 00:05:10.711 --> 00:05:13.247 "No problem, [Bleep]." 115 00:05:15.482 --> 00:05:16.783 But on the bright side, 116 00:05:16.783 --> 00:05:18.418 the Olympic Mexican pole-vaulting team 117 00:05:18.418 --> 00:05:22.556 is number one in the world right now. 118 00:05:22.556 --> 00:05:24.091 So you have this beautiful house. 119 00:05:24.091 --> 00:05:25.526 Adorable. 120 00:05:25.526 --> 00:05:26.827 And you guys live there, 121 00:05:26.827 --> 00:05:28.795 and then this is your backyard, right here? 122 00:05:28.795 --> 00:05:31.365 position:85% align:end line:10% The American-Mexican border fence. 123 00:05:31.365 --> 00:05:32.966 line:10% Yes. That's weird. 124 00:05:32.966 --> 00:05:35.569 Yes, it is. 125 00:05:35.569 --> 00:05:37.404 How often do you catch people coming over? 126 00:05:37.404 --> 00:05:38.672 Every other day. 127 00:05:38.672 --> 00:05:40.274 People and drugs. 128 00:05:40.274 --> 00:05:41.742 They just throw it over. 129 00:05:41.742 --> 00:05:44.278 They climb like little monkeys with two little ropes, 130 00:05:44.278 --> 00:05:47.181 and they get their feet, and they go like this. 131 00:05:47.181 --> 00:05:48.182 Then they toss it. 132 00:05:48.182 --> 00:05:49.449 Then they jump over. 133 00:05:49.449 --> 00:05:50.984 Is that a bushel of weed? 134 00:05:50.984 --> 00:05:52.452 Yes, it is. 135 00:05:52.452 --> 00:05:53.887 That's enough weed to kill somebody. 136 00:05:53.887 --> 00:05:57.090 Not buy smoking it, but by landing on your head. 137 00:05:57.090 --> 00:05:59.226 position:15% align:start What's all over the fence here? 138 00:05:59.226 --> 00:06:01.328 position:15% align:start They are handprints. 139 00:06:01.328 --> 00:06:03.697 Do you ever see women or children trying to come over? 140 00:06:03.697 --> 00:06:05.032 Yes. We do. 141 00:06:05.032 --> 00:06:06.767 How would a woman or a child even get over this? 142 00:06:06.767 --> 00:06:09.436 position:15% align:start They see the gate open, so they'll just run out. 143 00:06:09.436 --> 00:06:11.205 No one's watching that gate right now? 144 00:06:11.205 --> 00:06:12.272 No. No. 145 00:06:12.272 --> 00:06:13.507 position:85% align:end Why is it open? 146 00:06:13.507 --> 00:06:15.175 position:15% align:start Because the farmers, when they're farming, 147 00:06:15.175 --> 00:06:17.177 position:15% align:start they go ahead and they open it. 148 00:06:17.177 --> 00:06:19.613 So someone could run through that right now, any second? 149 00:06:19.613 --> 00:06:22.649 Yes. So what the [Bleep] is going on? 150 00:06:22.649 --> 00:06:24.818 If you're fast enough, you can be an American. 151 00:06:24.818 --> 00:06:27.721 If you're fat and slow, you're stuck in Mexico. 152 00:06:27.721 --> 00:06:30.190 Yep, pretty much. It's so strange. 153 00:06:30.190 --> 00:06:32.726 Yeah. 154 00:06:41.068 --> 00:06:43.537 I could do it if I had to. 155 00:06:43.537 --> 00:06:46.406 This would not hold me back if I was desperate. 156 00:06:46.406 --> 00:06:48.442 Phew! It gets hot down here, too. 157 00:06:48.442 --> 00:06:50.477 Holy shit, man. 158 00:06:50.477 --> 00:06:52.412 The heat is hard, man, 159 00:06:52.412 --> 00:06:54.214 but I guess you guys are used to it. 160 00:06:54.214 --> 00:06:55.816 I've been doing my research into this town. 161 00:06:55.816 --> 00:06:59.553 It's 91 percent Latino here -- 91 percent. 162 00:06:59.553 --> 00:07:02.789 position:15% align:start It's 8 percent gringo, like me. 163 00:07:02.789 --> 00:07:07.361 So I guess that one black guy is sick of getting arrested, huh? 164 00:07:07.361 --> 00:07:09.062 Oh, don't point to... Oh, there he is! 165 00:07:09.062 --> 00:07:11.398 What's up, dude? 166 00:07:11.398 --> 00:07:13.500 [ Cheering and applause ] 167 00:07:13.500 --> 00:07:16.203 It's multicultural here today, buddy. 168 00:07:19.673 --> 00:07:21.308 We got kids here? 169 00:07:21.308 --> 00:07:22.743 Yeah! 170 00:07:22.743 --> 00:07:24.278 position:15% align:start Is that a little kid over there? 171 00:07:24.278 --> 00:07:26.313 How old is that kid? 172 00:07:26.313 --> 00:07:28.348 Woman: He's seven months. Seven months? 173 00:07:28.348 --> 00:07:30.884 Happy anchor baby. 174 00:07:32.853 --> 00:07:34.621 Did you have the kid on the way over to my show? 175 00:07:34.621 --> 00:07:37.157 What happened? 176 00:07:40.861 --> 00:07:43.363 Where my DREAMers at? 177 00:07:43.363 --> 00:07:45.899 [ Scattered cheering ] 178 00:07:45.899 --> 00:07:48.669 line:10% So who's a DREAMer? 179 00:07:48.669 --> 00:07:50.470 line:10% Us two. You two. 180 00:07:55.175 --> 00:07:56.743 line:10% Because you're undocumented? Right. 181 00:07:56.743 --> 00:07:58.278 position:15% align:start How old were you when you came? 182 00:07:58.278 --> 00:07:59.746 Five. 183 00:07:59.746 --> 00:08:01.081 Did you tell your mom, "Hey, Mom, I want to go to the US 184 00:08:01.081 --> 00:08:02.516 and I'm going to go without you." No? 185 00:08:02.516 --> 00:08:04.017 We didn't have a choice. You didn't have a choice? 186 00:08:04.017 --> 00:08:05.085 position:85% align:end No. No? 187 00:08:05.085 --> 00:08:07.221 I didn't find out I was undocumented 188 00:08:07.221 --> 00:08:11.792 until I wanted to enlist in the military and I couldn't. 189 00:08:15.028 --> 00:08:19.333 And the option that the recruiter gave me was like, 190 00:08:19.333 --> 00:08:21.301 "Well, you can marry me," 191 00:08:21.301 --> 00:08:24.471 because some people want to take advantage of the situation. 192 00:08:24.471 --> 00:08:25.639 position:15% align:start But I don't want to do that. 193 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:27.374 I don't want to marry because of that. 194 00:08:27.374 --> 00:08:29.443 And it's like, is that my only option? 195 00:08:29.443 --> 00:08:33.347 And I know that it's reality to a lot of women like me 196 00:08:33.347 --> 00:08:35.449 because we, in a way, we don't have a voice 197 00:08:35.449 --> 00:08:37.451 because we don't have a security number. 198 00:08:37.451 --> 00:08:38.385 We can't vote. 199 00:08:38.385 --> 00:08:39.887 position:15% align:start We can't do a lot of things. 200 00:08:39.887 --> 00:08:41.221 She wants to go to college. 201 00:08:41.221 --> 00:08:43.624 She wants to help out the American economy, 202 00:08:43.624 --> 00:08:44.858 the American community. 203 00:08:44.858 --> 00:08:46.226 She's an American. 204 00:08:46.226 --> 00:08:47.628 She wasn't born on this side of the river, 205 00:08:47.628 --> 00:08:49.062 but she's an American. 206 00:08:49.062 --> 00:08:51.398 Ross: Our president has dropped any protections 207 00:08:51.398 --> 00:08:53.967 that keep these kids from being deported. 208 00:08:53.967 --> 00:08:55.335 But where would they go? 209 00:08:55.335 --> 00:08:57.437 They've never lived anywhere else. 210 00:08:57.437 --> 00:09:00.340 Even some of his supporters think that's [Bleep]. 211 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:01.775 position:15% align:start They've got a right to be here. 212 00:09:01.775 --> 00:09:03.076 position:85% align:end line:10% They do? 213 00:09:03.076 --> 00:09:04.678 line:10% It wasn't their choice to come to the U.S. 214 00:09:04.678 --> 00:09:06.213 line:10% Yeah. They didn't break the law. 215 00:09:06.213 --> 00:09:07.281 It was their parents' choice... Their parents broke the law. 216 00:09:07.281 --> 00:09:08.715 ...that brought them here. 217 00:09:08.715 --> 00:09:12.486 As far as I'm concerned, they're part of our society.