When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Sunday, July 1, 2018
NARCOMEX IN MELTDOWN ON U.S. OPEN BORDERS - 136 POLITICIANS MURDERED, 581 ATTACKS
136 Politicians Killed, 581 Attacks in 10-Month Lead-Up to Mexican Election
Mexico’s national elections are underway — ending a bloody 10-month electoral cycle which has highlighted the government’s inability to provide basic security for politicians and their families.
Voters will be choosing a new president, electing in a Congress, governorships, 1600 mayors, state and local lawmakers during a time when cartel violence has reached shocking numbers. Attacks include hitting the once peaceful tourist beach destinations as reported extensively by Breitbart Texas. In one incident, cartel gunmen rode up on jet skisand opened fire on their target. The attacks forced Mexican authorities to increase security in the region.
According to statistics compiled by Mexico City-based Etellekt, from September 8, 2017, to the current date, there have been 581 attacks on politicians and at least 162 during the last week of political campaigning. There have been 136 politicians murdered, 197 threatened, 70 have suffered physical attacks, 52 have been assaulted with a firearm, and 51 attacks have been reported against relatives of politicians.
Additionally, there have been 20 kidnappings or attempt kidnappings during the election cycle with attacks on males accounting for 400, women 147, and 34 targeting relatives of politicians.
In a most recent attack on June 29, a PRI congressional candidate in San Luis Potosí, Frinné Azuara, was unharmed during an attack after four armed men tried to enter a building where the candidate was. Following an exchange of gunfire, the gunmen fled. In Chiapas, five people were injured after a group of armed men ambushed a van with five Morena party members who were leaving a political rally.
In another incident registered in the border city of Tijuana, federal congressional candidate Hector Cruz Aparicio for the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition had a weapon pointed at him as he was traveling in a vehicle in colonia Sánchez Taboada during a campaign event that was captured on video. The video shows Cruz Aparicio, who was standing in a convertible that was traveling through streets of Tijuana as part of a caravan. A rear passenger seated behind the driver’s seat of a vehicle that was slowly approaching in the opposite lane points a handgun at the candidate as it passes. No shots were fired and the vehicle fled the area without being stopped.
The states most affected by the political violence have been Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacán, Puebla, Veracruz, Guanajuato, and Chiapas, according to the director of Etellekt, Rubén Salazar.
Not all of the violence can be attributed to the drug cartel violence which has spread throughout Mexico. Much of the violence involves bitter political party rivalries and disputes over political control between the old guard multi-generational political elites and upstart political parties and candidates who threaten the old order.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com
Mexican Cartels Fill the Void in a Post-FARC Colombia
There is increasing evidence that Mexican organized crime, in particular its drug cartels, has moved into the void left behind in the post-FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) underworld in Colombia. This development has critical implications for American foreign policy and that of its allies, as well as the global war on drugs.
When the ceasefire between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels went into effect in July 2015, it ended over fifty years of FARC's violent hold on the country. With control of over 60% of the Colombian drug trade, their demobilization left a vacuum initially filled by the Gulf Clan, whose roots lie in Pablo Escobar's empire. But as the Colombian government has shifted its attention to cracking down on this group, numerous regional paramilitary and guerrilla groups, including dissident factions of ex-FARC, have enhanced their presence. These groups are engaged in ongoing conflicts between and among themselves, which has impacted the quality and quantity of cocaine and disrupted the supply chain.
With their ability to traffic cocaine into the United States significantly impaired, Mexican cartels – principally the Sinaloa cartel – have begun to exert some control over the market.
Over the last few years, the influence of Mexican organized crime can be increasingly seen and felt in Colombia. Earlier this year, a Colombian official issued an alert about the influence of the Sinaloa cartel in the town of Tierralta in the northern province of Cordoba; the cartel was suspected of providing financial support to a local dissident ex-FARC paramilitary group. Mexican organized crime groups, including the Sinaloa cartel, Jalisco Cartel New Generation, and the Zetas, have a presence in the Colombian provinces of Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Norte de Santander, Valle del Cauca, Narino, Cauca, Meta, Guaviare, Vichada, and Cordoba.
In addition to developing new trafficking partnerships to replace those they lost when FARC was dismantled, it would appear that the Mexican cartels are also dealing directly with those in control of territorial production facilities and internal supply networks to ensure that further instability does not affect the supply the cartels rely on for trafficking into the United States, Canada, and Europe.
Much of the disruption in the Colombian drug trade since the 1990s was the result of pressure by, and support from, the United States government. As part of its war on drugs, the U.S. demanded action from the Colombian government to eradicate production directly by destroying crops and production facilities and, perhaps more importantly, by dismantling the criminal groups engaged in the trade. The Colombian government has been successful at eliminating first the Medellín cartel and then the Cali cartel that moved in to replace the Medellíns. In recent years, the government has also successfully dismantled FARC, who had controlled much of the cocaine production since the fall of the Cali cartel, and has largely gutted the Gulf Clan.
The Colombian government continues to engage in counter-narcotics activities to further fracture the remaining guerrilla and paramilitary groups who now control the production and distribution facilities in the wake of FARC's demobilization. However, cocaine cultivation and export continues to rise due to the high demand and high prices offered by the 1.5 million current users of the drug in the U.S. The inability of the government to effectively transition farmers away from coca to substitute crops means that the incentives to grow coca for the cartels continue to drive increasing production.
This leaves the following critical foreign policy questions that must be grappled with: what does the dismantling of large-scale and well organized drug organizations leave in its wake, and what policies can best deal with any resulting threats?
If the Colombian government is not able to effectively eliminate the smaller and more numerous groups that now control the drug trade, a fractured underworld may make the problem more difficult to address in the future. Alternatively, it may enable the Mexican cartels to exert dominance through superior organization, engineering, and effective supply chain management over the vertical integration of production, distribution, and trafficking in Colombian cocaine. In effect, the Mexican cartels could become the Alibabas of the drug world.
This may have been part of the cartels' plan all along – namely, manipulating U.S. policies on fighting the drug war in Colombia to the cartels' ultimate advantage by (1) utilizing American-financed projects and intermediaries to remove their competition; (2) subsequently sabotaging development of a stable law enforcement apparatus in the aftermath; (3) then weakening American and Canadian public – and thereby, political – support for ongoing operations in affected regions; and (4) finally stepping in to fill the gap and constructing a new part of their regional organization.
Consider this a constructed result by the cartels, rather than the cartels simply being the opportunistic beneficiaries of a power vacuum they played no role in creating. This is an extension of what many experts see as the situation in Mexico, where the authorities view the cartels as a lesser evil than the even greater levels of chaotic violence that would emerge from a more fractured underworld. Here we have the failed state versus authoritarian state analogy: an unmanageable failed state, such as Somalia (e.g., fractured underworld) and recent periods in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the War on Terror, is a greater evil than a less entropic dictatorial regime (e.g., Saddam Hussein's era in Iraq), which can be managed.
The U.S. has spent about ten billion dollars in the last decade and a half on the drug war in Colombia, including financial and intelligence aid to the Colombian government for anti-narcotics operations. But political infighting, security obstacles, failed agricultural transition programs, and an absence of sufficient funding have hindered the success of these operations. Nevertheless, the U.S. continues to pressure the Colombian government to curb coca production through eradication efforts and dismantling of criminal organizations. For each apparent success, a new problem seems to emerge, and we may be seeing two steps back for every step forward.
The recent presidential election has complicated Colombian politics. The winner (Ivan Duque) wants to revise or annul the peace agreements signed with FARC, while his opponent (Gustavo Petro, who received 46% of the vote) supports the agreements. A chief negotiator from FARC was also found trafficking in cocaine, and Petro may be "courted" by Iran as it seeks to strengthen its foothold in South America.
In September of last year, President Trump threatened to label Colombia "not compliant on anti-drug efforts" and recommended the re-establishment of coca crop fumigation. The commander of U.S. Southern Command has recentlyraised concerns that the continuing march of the cartels is undermining the sovereignty and security of Latin American nations, but his resources are too limited to address the problem. Thus, further efforts to combat the growing threat from a well organized and vertically integrated underworld dominated by the Mexican cartels will need to include all possible options.
Demand must continue to be reduced through education and stepped-up law enforcement activities at home, greater attention must be paid to securing the domestic borders, and production and distribution groups must be demobilized at the source. With regard to the latter, traditionally "soft" approaches such as supporting farmers to transition to a legal alternative can continue to be used, but these need to be complemented by a proactive "hard" strategy backed up by much greater use of U.S. and Canadian military assets – including "boots on the ground." To properly fund these proposals will take substantial additional resources, and to avoid an increase in net government expenditures, the money should come from a long overdue shift in unnecessary domestic social expenditures toward national security initiatives.
Mexico Arrests Top Gulf Cartel Leader near Texas Border
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities arrested one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel in the region. The kingpin has been singled out as one of the men responsible for the escalation of violence that has taken place in this border city.
Law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that the man known as Flako Sierra assumed command of the Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel after the previous regional leader Luis Alberto “Pelochas” Blanco Flores had been kicked out by his own group. The man known as Flako Sierra had allied himself with Miguel Angel “Miguelito” Alvarez and at one time with “Pelochas” to maintain control of Reynosa.
For more than a year, the faction known as Los Metros has been at war with another Gulf Cartel commander called Petronilo “Panilo” Moreno and the Gulf Cartel faction from Matamoros who has been sending squads from their groups called Escorpios and Ciclones to help Moreno in an attempt to take control of Reynosa. The fighting led to more than 500 casualties since the two factions went to war in early 2017, Breitbart Texas reported.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “A.C. Del Angel” from Tamaulipas.
One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM
Graphic: Cartel Gunmen Dump Bodies of Six Women into Ravine in
Mexican Border State
CIUDAD
VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — The ongoing fight for territorial control between
rival cells of the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN or Northeast Cartel) and Zetas Vieja
Escuela escalated over the weekend in the capital of this border state.
Officials found six women — executed at the hands of the cartel and
subsequently thrown into a deep ravine. Two of the victims were
pregnant.
The
women had been kidnapped by a team of gunmen from the restaurant where they
worked. The restaurant is located on a road called Rumbo Nuevo in the
southeastern part of the Tamaulipas capital of Ciudad Victoria.
Ciudad
Victoria is disputed by two main drug cartels — the alliance
of Old School or Vieja Escuela Zetas along with the Gulf
Cartel versus the CDN. Both used to be part of the cartel once known as Los
Zetas.
Due
to the depth of the canyon where the bodies were thrown, the removal by
authorities took more than a day. Only one of the victims has been identified —
44-year-old Elsa Concepción Turrubiates. Two of the unidentified women
were pregnant.
WItnesses
sounded the alarm when they saw a team of cartel gunmen pull in to a small
roadside restaurant that mainly caters to travelers and took the women by
force.
Tamaulipas
state police officers and investigators, as well as the Mexican Army, carried
out a search operation in an attempt to rescue the women. The search ended when
they found the bodies of the women at the bottom of a 300-feet ravine.
Authorities
had to wait a day for rescue teams to arrive with the needed equipment to climb
down the ravine and remove the corpses one by one.
All
six of the victims had been shot in the head in a manner similar to execution
style. It is believed by authorities that after they were shot, their bodies
were dumped into the ravine where they rolled down to the
bottom. Forensic investigators working the scene were able to find
six 9mm casings in the area.
The
last cartel murder in the region that is similar in nature took place in
November of 2017 when a team of cartel hitmen pulled up to another roadside
restaurant a shot three employees there. Roadside restaurants appear to be a
target for cartels because authorities suspect many are used as drug sale
points for truck drivers.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to
risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The
writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that
operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were
not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Francisco Morales from Tamaulipas.
Dozens charged with conspiring to launder drug cartel money
SAN
DIEGO (AP) — Dozens of people across the U.S. have been charged in connection
with an international conspiracy to launder tens of millions of dollars in drug
money for Mexican cartels, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
The
U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego unsealed 40 indictments against defendants
accused in the scheme dating to 2015. Investigators seized more than $6 million
in cash as well as weapons and large quantities of drugs, including
methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana, officials said.
Mexican-based
brokers oversaw a network of "money movers" who transported drug
proceeds throughout the U.S. in boxes and duffel bags and deposited the cash
into so-called funnel bank accounts, according to prosecutors. From there the
funds were wired to accounts for false companies in Mexico controlled by drug
suppliers, including members of the Sinaloa cartel, they said.
"By
following the money, we have discovered large quantities of fentanyl, heroin
and methamphetamine that are no longer destined for the streets of
America," U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman said. "That's a one-two punch
that takes these organizations completely out of the ring and makes our
communities safer."
Undercover
agents witnessed cash deliveries that took place in parking lots of retail
stores, hotels and restaurants in California, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A
total of 75 people are charged in the U.S., with some accused of drug
distribution, officials said.
33 pounds of fentanyl is seized in Boston - enough to wipe out all
of Massachusetts - as drugs ring with direct links to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
is disrupted
·Federal agents and Boston police
have seized more than 33 pounds of fentanyl
·It's enough of the deadly synthetic
opioid to theoretically kill every man, woman and child in Massachusetts
·
·The drugs were funneled into the
state by Mexico's vicious Sinaloa cartel
·
·37 suspects including alleged
kingpin Robert Contreras, 42, were captured
·
·77 pounds of drugs were seized,
including heroin, cocaine and opiate tablets too
·Authorities said they confiscated
$300,000 in drug money
Authorities in Boston have
seized more than 33 pounds of fentanyl - enough to kill millions of people - in
connection with one of Massachusetts' biggest drug busts ever.
Prosecutors said the
synthetic opioid was being sold on the street by a drug gang with links to Mexico's notorious Sinaloa Cartel,
the drug organization once led by Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.
The seize came at the climax
of a six-month wiretap probe called 'Operation High Hopes,'
+4
·
A lengthy wiretap operation
by a joint task force including Drug Enforcement Administration agents and
Boston police resulted in an early-morning sweep of the drugs and 37 suspects
+4
·
Edward Soto-Perez, 43, of
Boston was the first to be arrested late last year and he allowed wiretaps to
be set up for others tot be caught in the drug operation
'I want to be clear about
the size and scope here,' District Attorney Daniel Conley said. 'Massachusetts'
fentanyl trafficking statute covers quantities greater than 10 grams. That
threshold represents less than 1/1000 of the quantity we've taken off the
street.'
'Individuals who buy and
sell at this level aren't users,' Conley said. 'They're not small-time dealers,
either. They're certainly not selling to support a habit. They're trafficking
in addictive substances that claim more lives in Massachusetts than all
homicides, all suicides, and all car crashes, statewide, combined.'
He said that the number of
overdoses the seized fentanyl could have caused 'is truly staggering.'
A traffic
stop led Mexican authorities to seize enough fentanyl to kill millions of
people as well as almost 1,000 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and other
drugs that were headed to the California border.
This week, Mexico’s National Security Commission announced the seizure of
45.5 kilograms of fentanyl that were found as part of a synthetic drug shipment
in the Mexican beach resort town of Ensenada, Baja California. The seizure also
included more than 914 pounds of crystal meth, 87 pounds of cocaine and 18
pounds of heroin.
Unlike the other synthetic drugs, fentanyl is a medically used
opioid that is considered to be 100 times more powerful than morphine and prone
to lethal overdoses.
According to the Oxford Treatment Center, the lethal dose for an
individual taking fentanyl is 2 milligrams.
The 45.5 kilograms of fentanyl seized is enough to fuel millions
of possible lethal doses.
The seizure was made by federal police forces who spotted an SUV
without license plates that had been traveling along the highway that connects
Ensenada with the town of Lazaro Cardenas. The beach resort of Ensenada is
directly south of the border city of Tijuana and its various ports of entry
into California.
After pulling over the vehicle, authorities searched the SUV
and discovered 10 bundles, three suitcases, 18 bricks and 18 plastic containers
with the various drugs inside. As part of the investigation, Mexican
authorities were able to confirm that the SUV is registered in
California.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart
Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and
Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of
Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso
Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
ILLEGALS CLIMBING CALIFORNIA’S BORDERS FOR JOBS AND WELFARE: SAN
DIEGO … Mexicans (registered democrat anchor baby breeders
(1,877).
In just the month of October 2017 CBP Border Patrol San Diego
border sector reportedapprehension of individuals from
Bangladesh (12), Brazil (1), Camaroon (3), Chad (1), China (16), El Salvador
(76), Eritrea (7), Gambia (4), Guatemala (178), Honduras (54), India (101),
Iran (1), Mexico
(1,877), Nepal (31),
Nicaragua (1), Pakistan (13), Peru (1), Somalia (1), and “Unknown”
(1) — a total of 2,379 individuals. These numbers are similar
to volumes seen in this sector for October
since 2012. MICHELLE MOONS
GRAPHIC — Mexican Cartel Cuts Out
Living Victim’s Heart near Acapulco
A group of
cartel gunmen fighting for control of a Mexican coastal state cut out the heart
of one of their living victims while another was beheaded. The violence took
place not far from the beach resort cities of Acapulco and Ixtapa Zihuatanejo,
Guerrero.
The execution was recorded by cartel gunmen who then disseminated
the footage through social media. Mexican intelligence sources revealed to
Breitbart Texas that the murders took place at a ranch near the boundary
between Michoacan and Guerrero states. The location of the murders is not far
from the famed resort city of Acapulco. Law enforcement sources also revealed
that the ranch once belonged to former Los Zetas ally and founder of La Familia
Michoacana, Carlos Rosales Mendoza.
During the execution, a leading figure within Los Viagras Cartel
threatened and tortured two villagers whose hands were tied behind their backs.
The victims were killed for allegedly relaying information to
their rivals. One of the gunmen used a large stick to beat one of the
villagers.
Another gunman then comes up from behind and uses a sharp knife to
slash the man’s throat and then sever his head.
While the second victim screams for mercy, the gunmen use knives
to slice open his chest to the point where they can see the man’s beating
heart. One of the gunmen reached inside the victim’s chest cavity and manually
removed the vital organ.
Soon after the executions, the gunmen issued a series of threats
toward rivals claiming they would meet a similar fate.
The Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan are theaters for a
fierce territorial war between the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and
their rivals with Los Viagras, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and some factions
of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists
willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their
communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense
Movement in Michoacán.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel Chronicles Project contributed to this
report.
WATCH: Mexican
Cartel Gunmen Engage Marines, Police near Tourist Hotspot
At least five suspected cartel gunmen were captured in Baja California
Sur on January 29 after firing upon and attempting to flee Mexican Marines
and local police.
The
violent confrontation occurred at approximately 4:30 pm in the popular tourist
spot of La Paz after officers attempted to stop a vehicle full of gunmen. The
governor of Baja California Sur, Carlos Mendoza Davis, confirmed the
circumstances during a press conference with local media outlets.
The
governor reported that five suspects were captured after they retreated into a
residence and exchanged gunfire with security personnel for approximately 30
minutes before they surrendered. Numerous high-powered rifles, handguns, and
ammo were recovered by investigators of the state attorney general’s office
with support from the Marines.
The
armed confrontation was broadcast live on local television, which captured the
arrival of supporting military elements to provide assistance while fully
automatic gunfire could be heard in the background. Civilian footage also
surfaced on YouTube.
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NARCOMEX HAS A REAL TIME IN KEEPING THE HEROIN CARTELS IN PRISON. SEEMS LIKE
THEY ALL HAVE KEYS TO THE BACK DOOR AND LIMOS WAITING FOR THEIR
"ESCAPE"
La
Paz State Attorney General Daniel de la Rosa Anaya confirmed that
among the detainees is Henry Froylán Rojas Ramirez, aka, “El Zopilote”, who
escaped from San Jose del Cabo state prison in September 2017. Rojas
Ramirez was serving a sentence for since 2014 and was considered one of the
regional leaders of the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templars Cartel) prior
to prison. According to law enforcement sources, Rojas Ramirez is a former
member of the Mexican armed forces and is originally from Michoacán.
In
recent months, the once quiet area around Baja California has seen an escalation of cartel violence, triggering the deployment
of military forces to take over public security
duties, Breitbart Texas reported. The violence is linked to a fight for control
by the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
“Los
Guzmanes” is a cell working for the Sinaloa Cartel that is controlled by the
relatives of jailed leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. “Los Tegoripeños” appears
to be an allied regional unit. The Tegoripeños surfaced in early November when
narco-messages appeared in La Paz and Los Cabos, warning the governor and law
enforcement agencies to align with them, Mexico’s SDP reported.
Breitbart
Texas reported in December that gunmen
hung the bodies of six men from three overpasses and left narco-messages in the
tourist hotspots of La Paz and Cabo in Baja California Sur.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive
experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in
the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in
Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States
Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where
he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas,
Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
Over the last few years,
I've had conversations with Mexican friends who agree that the proposed border
fence could actually be very helpful to stop guns and cash going south
everyday. It could also have an impact on the human traffic and drugs
going north every day. We get drugs and they get billions of dollars in
cash. They get guns and we get people coming in anyway imaginable.
Nearly 200 people from
Mexico and Central America were stuffed inside large trucks and caught trying
to enter the United States illegally during three huge January smuggling busts
that occurred in just nine days.
Officials in southern
California said 77 people, including five children, were found near the
Mexico border Monday packed inside a sweltering truck that had been painted to
resemble a UPS truck.
It raises a couple of
questions:
1) Who checks what comes
out of Mexico? Are there any controls in place on the Mexico side of the
U.S.-Mexico border? The answer is complicated. They tell me that
there are controls in some populated areas but it's wide open in others.
2) Why isn't Mexico
doing a better job controlling the human flow from Central
America? Complicated again. The cartels are now moving people through
the country. They can buy their way from town to town. They travel on
protected routes, or so they tell me.
We feel sorry for the poor
people found in these trucks. Nevertheless, it's time to publicly call out
Mexico and demand more effort on their side of the border. At least,
we should point out the benefits of a border fence to stop this terrible stuff
going north and south.
First,
a wall exists independent of the waxing and waning of the available cadre of
border enforcement agents, something that has always been subject to the
vagaries of the legislative and executive branches. Congress may or may not
appropriate the money to staff officers and agents up to the required levels;
and if they do, a recalcitrant or anti-enforcement president such as Barack
Obama may choose to not take advantage of the money and simply let the funds
sit idle until year's end when they revert back to the Treasury.
Second, and it is a corollary to the above, it
is a mistake to think that "smart" technologies somehow supplant the
need for a robust officer corps. To the contrary, they absolutely demand it.
Every kind of technological advancement, whether it is drones, military-grade
sensors, forward-looking infrared radar (FLIR), tower-mounted high powered
cameras, or something else, requires a sufficient number of human beings — of
trained agents — to respond to intrusion alerts. Law enforcement always has
been a human-resource-intensive occupation, and technological wonders won't
change that equation, at least, not until we see walking, talking androids
capable of apprehending aliens, putting the cuffs on them, advising them of
their rights, and transporting and processing them.
Third, and this is critical, all of the smart
technologies that have been mentioned in the context of border technology are
reactive in nature. They alert agents to respond after an alien has crossed into the United
States, and thus has been imbued
with constitutional rights to hearings, to make claims, seek various forms of
relief, and to stall in each and every way possible his or her removal, no
matter how immediate in time or place he was arrested relative to his illegal
entry.
The harsh reality is that due process in the
immigration context is breaking down. The immigration courts are thoroughly
backlogged into the several hundreds of thousands. This, in turn, forces
inappropriate or premature release of aliens from detention as the available
space is filled. And that, in turn, leads to the kind of situation we have now,
wherein there are more than 900,000 (yes, you read that right, nearly a
million) aliens loose in the United States who have either absconded from their
hearings or failed to report for removal as required.
Heather
Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional
committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los
Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail
inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest
street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but
if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s
much worse today.
THE
ILLEGALS’ CRIME TIDAL WAVE…. Where are Americans (Legals) safe from the foreign
predators and their violence? NOT IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS!
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