• Deported Veterans shipped off through Tijuana. They enlisted to fight in America’s dirty ugly wars. In return they were promised citizenship. Proud to serve their new home and country, they fight, things go badly. Trauma of bad things happening in war leaves them leaning on anything to alleviate the pain and nightmares. They may turn to drugs and alcohol like so many American veterans do. Big difference is: when the American veterans get into trouble they have some safety nets in place like VA programs to help with the fallout of addiction and the likes. However instead these veterans from foreign countries who fought alongside ours and suffered similar traumas, they have no safety net. Drugs and alcohol lead to bad things happening and instead of citizenship they are jailed and then deported. Others are unaware that their status is not secure and they leave to go visit family or their home country only to be denied re-entry into USA. They are banished.
    • Add to this situation the dangers at the border especially for former military. The cartel knows exactly who they are and they target them or their families to force recruitment. Why? Because the veteran possesses one skill sets that the cartel needs. “Stay behind the gun” or your mother or father, daughter or grandma will be executed or trafficked whatever it takes to “incentivize” the veteran to shoot to kill on the behalf of the cartel.
  • Shanghaied fishing vessels that fish way offshore for 10 years at a time. The crew members are sold into this modern day slavery and they are literally fished to death then their bodies dumped overboard. China. The Outlaw Ocean Project tackles the humanitarian crisis to the crew members and Sea Sheppard Initiative tackles the environmental fallout of bycatch x 24 hours x 7 days a week x 10 years. The draggers going full speed full time. The destruction of reefs and coral, the bycatch, the waste and the overfishing is catastrophic. Satellite images reveal the deadly game of cat / mouse with these vessels fishing right up to the international fishing boundaries.