Mar 4, 2024 · 246K views · 📍 Jacumba, CA · San Diego, CA
Nick Shirley investigates the migrant situation at the California-Mexico border near Jacumba and in San Diego, filming migrants crossing, being detained by Border Patrol, and being dropped off in San Diego streets and the airport. He interviews migrants from Brazil, Ecuador, China, Cuba, and Chad, California residents, and San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond about the costs and impacts of the crisis.
Programs involved: CBP One app
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Cost to San Diego County for funding migrant care over about four and a half months.
“we were funding that effort... for about four and a half months it cost $6 million”
Stated by Jim Desmond · verifier note: Amount ($6 million over ~4.5 months) and speaker (Jim Desmond) are correct, but the scope is county-level (Desmond explicitly says 'we at the county we were funding that effort'), not 'city_total'.
Amount a migrant from Chad paid the cartel to cross the border.
“I paid more than 7,000... you paid the cartel $7,000”
Stated by Migrant from Chad
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.
All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: Both monetary claims are accurately grounded in the transcript, with the only issue being the $6M figure being labeled 'city_total' when Desmond clearly attributes it to the county. Entities are all supported, and the ASR reconstruction of 'Adolf masas' to Adolfo Macias is reasonable. Locations and transcription issues are well documented.