Please help me welcome
the mayor of the city of eagle pass,
the honorable mayor Chad foster.
The abrazo ceremony reinforces the way
we live every day of the week.
It's just an opportunity for us to let the world
know what our reality on our border is.
And our reality is we've been friends
for generations and we want to continue.
Eighteen.
Isn't it good to take a bath at night
so that your hair's untangled?
It hurts a little.
Ow!
I'm sorry.
Dad, stop doing that hard!
You reckon?
You want a rubber band?
Yes, I want a rubber band in.
Okay.
That pretty cool?
Okay, let me see.
Prettiest girl in Texas! Mmwah!
Brylyn, I want you paying attention out there.
I love ya!
Hey! How many are there?
Fourteen.
Right in here!
Brylyn!
What are you doing over there?
Hope you're paying attention.
This will be yours one day.
Or not, whatever you want.
There's my daughter.
Do you have any pictures
of what it used to look like?
I was over here one morning at a meeting
and this wasn't there.
When I came back that evening, this was up.
Welcome to paradise.
It don't get no better than this.
I promised her that I'd bring her over here.
You have to take care of her yourself?
Mm hm.
You do?
She loves being with her daddy.
She's a daddy's girl.
I know. I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye.
You're not gettin' a sword.
Please?
No! You're not gettin' a sword.
I'm not buyin' a sword,
I'm gonna tell you that much right now.
I'm not spending that kind of money.
Uh, that's the enemy.
If they had to do within the beltway
what they enforce everybody else to do
on the border we'd be a much better country.
I'm gonna go back around the other side,
they said maybe some tracks were there
but I couldn't see any tracks
as if something went through there.
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna check on the
river side of the bank here
in about five minutes and I'll call you
if there's some foot tracks there.
Okay, who of your crew has not voted?
My crew? What do you mean "my crew"?
Your aa guys.
I'm gonna get out of here.
Do you need me for anything?
I always need you, bill.
Where you gonna get out of here to?
I'm gonna go eat something.
How many times have you eaten today?
Uh, I only had a piece of peach pie.
That's my first breakfast so
I gotta get my second breakfast in to my-
peach pie...
Is that recommended by your doctor
for your diabetes?
It's sugar free peach pie.
Oh. Okay, I was just checking.
I love that stuff.
So I'll see you later.
If you need me, call me.
Thank you.
Mayor, good morning. This is Chad.
Good to hear your melodious voice, mayor.
It never gets so good it can't get better.
Oh, just trying to, just trying to stay in stride.
How are you doing? Martin wall.
I don't know. Call rocky.
I don't know what he got plucked today.
Okay?
Yeah, I'm in Mexico right now looking at cattle,
trying to get back so i can feed my daughter
before she goes to school.
Five here, and two here.
Five on one hand.
Josiah! Please, feet on the floor.
Let's count them.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
So we have how many Teddy bears?
Seven!
Seven Teddy bears.
I saw a guy fishing in the canal there.
He was either fishing or drug dealing,
one or the other.
So I went ahead and did some rat killing
for about ten minutes, then I pulled down
the canal on this side of the river.
I looked over there and he was-
he had a white line...
He was going up out of the water.
I couldn't see if he had a fish hook on it
or dope at the end of it but he looked up
and saw me and so he let it go and I went back
and did some more rat killing and I come back.
He was gone.
I didn't pull in there and see.
I'm sure after he knew I saw him
he didn't leave anything
on the end of a white line,
whether it was dope, money, or fish hooks.
Daddy, are we gonna eat this guy?
No.
'Cause it's gross?
Yup.
That's too much for us, right, daddy?
Yup.
We'll get a tummy ache.
You think we'll get a tummy ache?
I think that's a weird point.
Oh!
Ugh!
Diarrhea!
That needed to go potty.
Yeah.
Now we gotta hang this up.
Ugh. It stinks.
That milk in there?
No, that's pee.
Pee.
Exploded, right?
The poop.
It's stinky- isn't it stinky in here?
Don't throw up on me.
Why'd he go diarrhea?!
Brylyn, hush!
Okay.
Y'all gotta put it in that bag.
It ain't gotta go into no bag.
Throw up in this bucket. Try to.
Look at those two lovebirds here.
Oh, my god.
They cut it, and when they got it out,
the guts, it stinked
and it stinked really bad and I did this
and then I throwed up over there.
Really?
Look at him, look at him.
Love knows no boundaries.
Oh, shit.
Security. The violence in Mexico,
the deaths.
That deal was in acuna,
they won't have any issue towards the cattle.
They're going to bring them over here.
Well, that's a decision made in Washington, so..
Oh, shit.
A day of fuckin' drama, that's all it is.
Hey!
Maybe they might.
I talked to the fuckin' head guy,
one of the head guys, and he said maybe.
It's all over, the rumor that Gulf cartel's
coming down here to battle los zetas.
That's why they shut it.
And if that doesn't happen the next couple
of days then maybe they'll open it back up.
Maybe.
But right now I'm fuckin'...
Yeah, it's fuckin'...
Fuckin' scared to death.
Ooh, there's some tracks.
He told the girl...
"What do you want, please?"
"A kid like you - arrr!
I'm going to eat you!"
He ate that girl.
He got the bow and arrow and shot her.
Yeah.
Okay, now they're fighting for more.
And there was full,
his belly was full and he was-
thirsty!
He was thirsty.
He said "i want blood".
Like a vampire?
Kind of like that.
This is a bunch of bullshit.
It's weird being a Thursday
and not doing anything.
It's not dangerous in Mexico, goddammit.
But it's more dangerous in acuna.
That guy said "hey, is the whorehouse open
in piedras today?" I said "yeah",
he goes "they closed the whorehouse in acuna.
That takes a pretty dangerous situation
when the whores are scared to come out".
I said "yeah".
Last of the mohicans right there, baby.
That's when the fun was all over.
It's the downfall of another good man.
What'd they say on "lonesome dove"
when Gus and captain call left?
"Fun's all over for good around here".
You gotta understand Mexico's been like that
forever but the cartel's-
yeah, but now it's a lot worse.
Because the cartels are fucking with people.
They'd never fucked with people.
When we were kids we used to walk down to the Plaza
across the street from the fuckin' ...
They had no fuckin' problem.
I know, that was 20 years ago.
Yeah.
Now these fuckin' zetas they just kill anybody.
I was talking to a friend and he said
if it keeps going like it's going
he thinks by December they're going to have
a revolution over in Mexico.
Fuckin' wars are already going on with the
Mexican cartels and the fuckin', the people,
and it's gonna spill over the river.
And he said "Christmas I bet we have
fuckin' military sitting right here.
They threw a grenade into the zocalo
last Wednesday or Thursday.
What's the zocalo?
That's the newspaper there.
The big daily newspaper that
Linda gets every morning.
The only reason the piedras negras police get
corrupted is because they're not paid enough.
They make, what, $12,000 a year.
I bet they don't make that, so when somebody
comes up to you and says "I'll give you
a thousand dollars, or two thousand
or whatever the hell it is, for doing just this.
And then when they threaten you, you know,
"if you don't do it we'll kill you
or we'll kill your wife or your mother
or whatever it is, what are you gonna do?
Daddy?
What, baby?
I want you to make mild stew.
What are they having at school?
Let's go to school 'cause we're late.
You go make my lunch and
I'll see what they have today.
So no matter what i gotta make you lunch.
What are the names of your friends at school?
Do you know any of their names?
I forgot.
Can you pronounce any of their names?
Some are in Spanish.
Well, that's good.
They speak Spanish or speak English?
Speak English and some have their names
like Spanish.
Some what?
Some have a name like Spanish.
Daddy's name is Spanish.
But you know everybody now,
you can go by yourself.
You're gonna be a big girl, I'll tell you what.
It's gonna be too long.
Huh?
It's too long.
Well, that's a big girl school,
you better get used to it.
You got another twelve years of it.
And then another class.
Then you got college.
And I'll never come back again?
Yeah, you are.
You ain't leavin' me.
And so these are basically- this is
taxpayer, this is the citizens, the taxpayers
of Mexico paying for this and by the local state?
Yes.
So this is what they're getting
for their investment?
Sure, and this is for the people of piedras negras
and also for the visitors and for all the people.
And for all the region.
What a concept, what an idea.
How about that.
Although someone could see that money and,
you know, "isn't it a little risky investment
given what's happening on the border?
Nothing's happening on this border.
Relatively speaking, relatively speaking.
But you know how people have that idea
and some people would say, you know,
this is really. You're stepping out on faith.
I know the situation is not getting any better
and we don't want to put anybody in danger,
even though I know that the veterinarians
say they're willing to go
and willing to do what they need to do
but we don't want to put anybody in any jeopardy.
We're stuck up in DC
and congress is a different world.
I know the congressman has offered his help.
This whole situation with the border violence
and claim the unsafe conditions ruling to
Mexico has been a real issue with you guys.
I know it's been a real problem but nonetheless,
when the state department determines that it's a
high risk area and they strongly advise that we
not go there to work, i have to listen to that.
We just have no choice.
Because they have intel, they have knowledge
on the ground that I don't have
and so I have to listen to their directions.
Their intel tells them that
this is a very dangerous place.
I hope that the situation improves
and they'll classify it as a minimum risk area
and you can go back over there the next day.
If they come up tomorrow and say
"hey, they can go back over there if you want.
We'll just go back over.
You know the situation well up there, so...
And we're all hoping that it'll get better
and we all hope to deal.
But most likely it might get worse
before it gets better.
Oh, well.
Then we'll get down to work.
What will tomorrow bring?
That's pretty good if I do say so myself.
I figured you'd say so.
Well, I'll tell you a story.
It's from usa defender.
"To ep mayor of the city of eagle pass.Com.
Chad, the open border traitor.
How'd you like the shoot-out lunch
with your Mexican rats?
You advocated for open border invasion,
mayhem and murder for years.
Sink in the stink"
- the minutemen of Texas;
Texas patriots defending the U.S.
And I responded "just want to take this
opportunity to wish you all a happy new year,
love Chad".
"Get your lying, cheating,
open border invasion aider, abettor,
traitor rat ass down to Mexico permanent-like
and it will be a happy, treason-free new year.
And we do not love traitor rats;
we deport them".
He took offense to my wishing him a
happy new year and sending love and kisses.
There's not much we can do, our hands are tied.
I've written a letter...
We're probably the only ones
doing that kind of shit.
Well, if they keep it like this, yeah,
that's just how it fucking is.
This is my fuckin' livelihood.
What's this number?
Twelve?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
You missed one on the right.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine. Nine!
Okay, that's good. Done.
Finish your next one.
Are we ready?
Are you ready to see some bull riding?
But, uh, there's so many issues
going on now i don't have any idea.
Take a deep breath and enjoy the ride.
You know, but that's even better
if he will support us.
That's just another one
we could fuckin' put in there.
Yeah. But if they could-
I need a stand letter, though.
Okay.
Okay, thank you. Bye.
Daddy?
What, baby?
You should pray for the cows to come back.
I will do anything you want me to do,
little pretty girl!
We're gonna - oh!
We're gonna wash your hair.
Noo!
We'll wash your hair.
You turned into a little animal there, didn't you?
Brylyn, kick his ass!
Kick his ass!
I mean, you kick, bite, fight -
whatever you can do.
Don't let him punk you around.
Shhh.
I'm gonna go call my dad.
I know it's going to work out, but-
it's just the mystery of it.
Life's better when-
when you know what tomorrow's gonna bring.
When you kind of see what's going to happen
next week, you know?
Yeah.
That's what I like, that's what I want back.
Yeah, I do too, son.
It's just the mystery of not really knowing
where it's going to take you.
You're going to wind up alright, son.
I know, I'm just, you know, I'm just worried
about the whole industry in itself.
They can damage the fuck out of it, you know,
by doing this and bring the numbers down and,
you know, fuck the whole goddamn industry up
because of their fuckin' ignorance of what they,
you know, the fuckers in Washington
or in Austin don't even fuckin' know
what it is to be down here.
They think they're doing so great,
well, they're not doing nothing great.
They're hurting something.
Exactly, but there's other avenues...
I know there's other avenues.
That's exactly right, but I just, you know-
you like this one.
I like this one and I'm fuckin',
I like my customers, i like everything.
I just fuckin', i don't wanna fuckin'
I don't want 'em to fuck up something that's been
going for, you know, 120 years and then fuck it up
to where you can't even-
everything will wind up alright, I think.
Well, there's a track here.
It's right there.
Have to check a little further...
They come in here wanting us to
support 'em and everything.
Ted, instead of fighting with them,
you're not gonna win.
These people up there, these dummies have
decided that's where they're going to put it.
And they're going to put it,
so the only thing to do is half way cooperate
and then get the best deal you can.
"Oh, no, no. We're going to stop it."
You're not going to stop anything.
You know, when the government entity
decides to do anything, you're gonna lose.
My pet dragon... Watch it glide.
Stay up there! Stay up, stay up!
Oh, yeah!
Go get it!
Oh, yeah!
Ah, dammit!
You piece of shit!
Crashing brylyn's kite...
Goddammit!
Son of a bitch!
Fly better if you have a lot of string out.
No fuckin' shit.
You know how to fly a kite?
Good afternoon.
It is a pleasure to be here with you.
I will not promise to fulfill everything that
Peggy said because we might be here til Sunday.
We have a presentation that hopefully
I can get through relatively quickly.
So I thought today i would address
the violence in the borderlands
and I was asked if you feel that more security
is going to benefit your community and
if you've got good ideas about how to go about it.
Sometimes when i go to Washington,
people basically laughed in my face and said "oh,
there's not a violence problem in Mexico.
You're just making it up
to get more funding for your state".
And there's this huge sense of denial.
In most of the regions
the press has been silenced.
Six journalists were killed in the first
quarter of this year and i don't know how many
have been killed in the second quarter.
So this is what's happening.
Three weeks ago a large group, maybe ten to 15
members of the acapulco police department
were kidnapped and their heads were
delivered one place, scattered around,
their bodies were some place else.
Mayor hidalgo of course was assassinated.
There have been approximately 12 mayors
killed now in Mexico since February
- January or February -
and these are the ones just in the border states.
What I am concerned about is that this will
start happening in Texas cities.
The purpose of the flight was to overview the
waters coming in that flooded the rio grande.
They were trying to find out
what damage had been done.
Uh, no.
I've understood that CNN is reporting that it was
narco related but there's been no mention of that.
And I spoke with a long time very close
family friend who this tragedy took place within
three quarters of a mile of his ranch headquarters
and nobody's made mention of any narco relations.
The plane did explode on impact
but there's been no mention thus far
of any narco related activity.
It didn't say there was an explosion
before it hit the ground?
No, it does. "Explosion occurred
aboard plane before crash".
Government-run news agencies of course.
That's all I've been reading.
Explosion before it-
well, if it hits a fuckin' dam it's gonna
explode before it hits the fuckin' ground!
It says there was an explosion on the airplane
while flying over the escondido river.
And then it plunged into the dam.
That's what they're reporting.
How would they know there was an explosion
if everybody's dead that was in it?
All they're trying to say, they're trying to
make it look like it's fuckin'..
Without saying it
they're trying to make it look like a bad deal.
The narcos didn't fight him getting into office,
they didn't do nothing.
They were behind him I believe.
So they probably wouldn't kill him.
Good to see you this morning.
I told Louis, i said "you tell Chad
that he needs to come to church".
He needs to come to church more!
I said "you know, since I've been going to the
methodist church I've only seen Chad one time".
Well, yeah. Hey, kid. You have little threads
you were in absence there.
But I was thinking, i was thinking about them.
Yes, she was. How about you?
Come on.
Oh, I never think about it.
Life is like a tidal wave.
A Tsunami where it sweeps in
and it sweeps everything out.
And we don't think that we can cope with it.
We don't think that we can handle things.
We don't know where to turn.
You look around today and there are
wars and rumors of wars
and hurricanes and tornadoes and-
what I've done, I've mentioned we have here
homes breaking up, teenage pregnancy,
people not coming to church,
people forsaking the lord.
People not reading their Bible.
How frightening it is when we consider...
Where is it all heading.
Hey, ray. They're having a conference
in San Antonio on Thursday or Friday.
The state department, the usda, everybody's gonna
be there and I'm trying to get a deal together
to put a list so we can get in.
Okay.
Would you want to go?
Umm, yeah, if I go could I bring someone?
Yeah, I just need bodies.
You need bodies from Mexico, or?
I need mainly Americans.
Okay. How about if i bring two people?
That'd be great. I'm gonna try to go
and then Jim Peters is gonna go.
I just want to have-
I just don't want to have two or three people there
and they go "oh, it's not a big concern".
Twenty people there would be better.
Okay. If I came out there Thursday and Friday...
The cartel, they don't miss.
When they have a target
they're generally very successful.
It's a tremendous adrenaline rush
but at the end of the day nothing happened.
But it was an adrenaline rush I do assure you.
I chose not to run.
I wanted to share.
I didn't want to be a hog at the trough,
let everybody have some fun.
No, sir. You're very welcome.
Bye bye.
I'll tell you what.
Let me get things rolling around here and, uh,
we will take off at, uh, how about 9:00?
We'll take our first load.
Yeah, 9:00 will work great for me.
Oh, yeah!
Daddy, bye.
I'm gonna miss my little baby!
I'm gonna miss her, she's my little baby!
Yeah, remember when i used to hold you
like this and you would just be so happy.
Don't hurt me, I'm trying to be nice to you.
Gimme a kiss.
Gimme a kiss!!
Gimme a kiss - mwah!
I want to take this opportunity
to formally thank my colleagues
on the council for their support.
We didn't always agree but we always debated
the issues, we never debated personalities.
It has been a tremendous experience,
I'm humbled by having had the opportunity
to serve you, the citizens of eagle pass,
and with that I'm going to shut up
so we can get on with it.
Thank you so very, very much.
Well, out with the old, in with the new.
I'm thankful that i lived to tell the tale.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Hup!
Ho!
Hup!
Ho!
You did good, daddy.
Uh uh.
It's gonna be fun.
That's what daddy's trying to make happen, baby.
I thought you were going to say
it's nice to have your son back.
Oh, well, it is.
It's wonderful to have my son always. Yes.
He soon will be through with his obligations to
the city and so he won't be gone on Sunday, okay?
Hear that, Chad?
Indeed.
At least 40 witnesses in here.
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