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US Border Protection Officer Discovers He Was Undocumented Himself

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0:00 apparently North Korea's passport is more powerful than ours right because they can go to all these different countries that we can't I mean I don't know if you'd want to go to those guys this will get you anywhere but you're not going anywhere [Music] there's a dude named Raul Rodriguez he says he'll never forget a moment that he realized his life was built on a lie whoa I know catchy isn't it this is a dude this guy's dramatic man fake adopted parents oh that's a that's a pretty big lie you know what would be good adopted very close but keep guessing or did he ████ buy something from Best Buy and he got the wrong thing inside yeah no warranty you got significantly farther away in a short manner wrong things but life is alive

0:51 basically this is a dude I thought I had a he is a former he is a former General Electric he's a former U.S Customs and Border Protection Officer he's been fighting uh or not before he was funny he actually was working to deport thousands of people basically back into Mexico right and uh back in April 2018 though Federal investigators showed him a document where uh he had a Mexican birth certificate with his name on it whoa but that name is very Mexican though it's probably the most Being John Smith but like Mexico version kind of but basically this is this is an actual truth uh a conversation with his father afterwards confirmed that Rodriguez was born in Mexico the U.S birth certificate he'd used for decades was fraudulent

1:42 Rodriguez was never a U.S citizen and he was an undocumented immigrant he's an illegal immigrant kicking out he's working for U.S customs dude that's a tough job to want to have though you know but he was to tr he was really a believer that he was a U.S citizen yeah but that's still a tough job like why would you want that job did he ████ turn back on his morals is he a spineless ████ no he's like those which part of him the one where he was working at Customs border or after the fact no like after he found out they stick to his morals and keep deporting people yeah oh all of a sudden I relate to these guys flip-flopping ass ████ I feel like this dude is those kind of guys that are like why couldn't they

2:33 just be legal like our family we did we did it the right way yeah you know they're like you guys go back take the test like how we did it it and then now he's like ah ████ we didn't do it yeah yeah yeah well it wasn't just like oh ████ we didn't know it's also like oh because it was fraudulent of course he's gonna give me that girl from US Customs a border and then he was fighting to stay in America bro isn't that crazy how that works isn't that crazy how that works is that not Karma dude in a lot of weird ways like why I don't know man I think that's just a tough job to wanna that's it that is a tough job to like like what if they were like all right Joe you're now in charge of keeping them dirty Japs out of the country like it's like you're American but like God damn that'd be like my pleasure get out of here dude I'd rather work any other job you know what's so dope about

3:23 Mexicans though what's so dope about Mexicans is all the Mexicans he kicked out on the Mexican side when he gets kicked out they're like [Music] [Laughter] the only reason why I would take the job like let's say it was for my people's or whatever right is I feel like I would treat them better than if they're not the same oh so like let's say the agents are not Japanese they probably won't understand the culture they'll probably be like you just you it's easier to look at different people and like dehumanize them yeah so I think like I would take the job because I feel like the Japanese American Border yeah because you feel

4:13 like you'd be safe and then so just saying rather than push them out of the country I would just walk and escort them gently out of the country because I'd be like hey dude so this is actually how you could do it legally and kind of tell them but like next time you can't come in versus like get the ████ out of here you ████ yeah it's like I'm a Japanese Beach Shack without the Chinese Joe would use the correct racial Epitaph you know I'd be like sir sir they're Japs okay they're nits they're chaps all of that please you're offending me come on Takahashi when I hear nip I don't around because that's not me that's not me you know yeah I like to stick to yeah someone goes ████ I don't turn around that's not me I'm not I'm not Chinese man it's good it's cool

5:04 Rodriguez actually was also uh apparently he served in the Navy as well from 92 to 90. oh man he's a veteran too yeah so what uh what an interesting thing there's a loophole with that though so like a legal loophole like if you served in the American Military they Grant you citizenship so he has a case even with fraudulent undocumented like yeah yeah you can uh who's that to get your citizenship because you've served the country like you're you're a ████ Patriot and then he could probably get his old job back so you keep the party yeah you're the first his first day back oh thank God I could just import my own people again the world is right again that's kind of crazy but it got in when I was out right he can experience the whole he can

5:54 experience the whole system that other people have to experience yeah because then when you're on this side it's such a different like you were born yeah like it's you take that ████ for granted no but what are parents or you know ancestors had to do to come through it's a complete it's a different race how much money it takes yeah how much time it takes how many lawyers you gotta hire that don't do it right yeah man I have a feeling though like if he like got a citizenship through the like the military thing and then if he were to go back to his job I don't think he's going to be more understanding I think he's going to be extra mean to make up for lost time really I because if he goes back to the job he's got to catch up on his numbers yeah he's got to catch up but like if he goes to another job then I think he'll be more understanding like okay guys hey I was there on the other side and it's not like that but if he goes back to the same job then I feel

6:44 like he's gonna be extra mean and just be like yeah that's nothing I did it like you just go go back it's fine like that's what I think is going to happen I feel like the most Americans in America like the most American Pride or the newest immigrants that just got this 100 oh yeah they'll just bust out with their Flags like when my parents got the flags they just they save that plastic piece of ████ flag that you get when you uh get your citizenship yeah they did it's a piece of ████ it looks like a flag that you put on a birthday cake it's symbolic I mean make it a better quality piece of ████ elastic is like no raise taxes so don't get better but the way that they cherish that ████ I was like yo you know that's like something they just gave you as like a gag thing right look at this wavy little piece of ████ birthday cake but like I swear I swear

7:34 to God I thought they were gonna come out in American jumpsuits in a hat like top to bottom like Borat I thought they were gonna walk out that way and they couldn't stop stop the whole ████ week I think it's because our parents earned it yeah so it was really hard for them so that for them it's like we actually earned it and then our generation and the one before we're just born into it so here we just kind of taking for class all the white kids are all Communists now with blue hair because they they're like they don't remember yeah they don't know what real comment is crazy that in one generation that could happen yeah one gen you have like proud to be here fought so hard to get here next gen I ████ hate this place yeah I think and also our parents they walked with pride because they knew as soon as they passed they knew more about America than the white people yeah yeah yeah because they were forced

8:24 to did you know that test is hard 76. did you know have you guys ever been to one of those uh like I don't know what you call it like a commencement ceremony where you get your citizenship yeah have you guys ever been to one nah I went with my mother-in-law and like that ████ is makes you feel ████ proud to be oh yeah it's like a Chick-fil-A Sandwich actually no oh that's like if they can improve it that's what they should do but what do they do though but like you you all sit in the this giant auditorium at the LA Convention Center and everyone's like it's like a whole thing you get your papers blah blah and then Donald at the time Donald Trump was president and he had his giant message and it was like a video of him talking about like we're welcoming you to be an American Baba you know like some hurray ████ and then people were kind of mixed like oh yeah but he didn't say like Boo except for

9:16 the rapists and predators we don't want you here yeah yeah but then some people were like uh like just like kind of rumbling a little bit but afterwards they do like a yeah I think they just it was like everyone starts applausing and it's it's you just feel ████ my patriotic yeah dude because you see what it means to everybody there it's a milestone they're excited to be there and it's really cool especially they all came from s███████ situations that's what I'm saying like why wouldn't you want to be in the U.S dude especially where the countries that they're coming from like of course they're spoiled out here we forget a lot of ████ yeah take that ████ you come from a better country like Sweden or something they don't yeah they just stay there and they don't even come here ████ it I mean like or like Malta people like they're not coming here I remember my boy uh got married to his Canadian wife and then when they

10:06 were like changing her last name and giving her documents of citizenship the person at the office in America was like you're getting your American like Visa citizenship and green card like but they were questions this is backwards most people want to go to Canada that's so sure you can't reverse this afterwards they're like are you sure you want to do this that's like downgrading yeah I I don't like what is they say our passport is one of the weaker ones really because yeah there's like so many countries you can't go to yeah you can't get automatic visas yeah like apparently North Korea's passport is more powerful than ours because they can go to all these different countries that we can't I mean I don't know if we'd want to go to those guys they just don't let them leave yeah this will get you anywhere but you're not going anywhere [Music] foreign

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