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, October 21, 2018
THE MEX INVADED STATE OF TEXAS FILES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST BETO O'ROURKE. WILL HE BE DEPORTED TO NARCOMEX?
Texan Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Beto Campaign For
Unsolicited Text Messages
A class action lawsuit was filed against the Beto O'Rourke
campaign on Friday. According to the lawsuit, Beto's campaign sent text
messages to Texas voters without their permission, which would be a direct
violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Star-Telegram reported.
The lawsuit was started
by Collin County resident Sameer Syeed, who said he received nine text messages
from the campaign. But here's the problem: he never opted into receiving text
message communications from the campaign.
Syeed tried calling the
numbers he was receiving text messages from but he received an error or
disconnected dial tones. which means the Beto campaign was using an automated
system. He also tried responding to the text messages to opt out but he never
received a response.
The Telephone
Consumer Protection Act makes it illegal for any one to utilize
an automated system to send text messages to someone without their
permission.
The class action
lawsuit calls for the Beto campaign to pay $500 per text message to each person
in the suit.
Of course, Beto's campaign denied any wrongdoing.
“Our grassroots
volunteer program with thousands of Texans canvassing, phone banking, texting,
and organizing is the largest this state has seen. It is fully compliant with
the law,” Chris Evans, communications director of Beto for Texas, told the Star-Telegram.
Beto O’Rourke: U.S. Needs to Send Financial Aid to Stabilize Central America
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said America needed to send financial aid to stabilize Central America to decrease asylum-seeking immigrants.
O’Rourke said, “If things are so desperate in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, that someone would risk their lives to come here than what can we do to improve situations there? We have invested trillions of dollars for wars in the Middle East. Could we invest some fraction of that to provide the stability in Northern triangle counties of Central America make sure people have a reason to stay and raise their families where they were born?”
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing throng of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico.
Their numbers swelled to about 5,000 overnight and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, 10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile.
Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing caravan of Central American migrants on Sunday resumed their advance towards the US border in southern Mexico.
Their numbers swelled to about 5,000 overnight and at first light they set out walking.
It was not immediately clear where the additional travelers had materialized from since about 2,000 gathered on the Mexican side Saturday night. They seemed likely to be people who had been waiting on the bridge over the Suchiate River or in the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman and who decided to cross during the night.
At dawn there were still an estimated 1,500 migrants on the Guatemalan side hoping to enter legally.
They marched on through Mexico like a rag tag army of the poor, shouting triumphantly slogans like “Si se pudo!” or “Yes, we could!”
As they passed through Mexican villages on the outskirts of Ciudad Hidalgo, they drew applause, cheers and donations of food and clothing from Mexicans.
Maria Teresa Orellana, a resident of the neighborhood of Lorenzo handed out free sandals to the migrants as they passed. “It’s solidarity,” she said. “They’re our brothers.”
Olivin Castellanos, 58, a truck driver and mason from Villanueva, Honduras, said he took a raft across the river after Mexico blocked the bridge. “No one will stop us, only God,” he said. “We knocked down the door and we continue walking.” He wants to reach the U.S. to work. “I can do this,” he said, pointing to the asphalt under his feet. “I’ve made highways.”
The migrants, who said they gave up trying to enter Mexico legally because the asylum application process was too slow, gathered Saturday at a park in the border city of Ciudad Hidalgo. They voted by a show of hands to continue north en masse, then marched to the bridge crossing the Suchiate River and urged those still on it to come join them.
The decision to re-form the migrant caravan capped a day in which Mexican authorities again refused mass entry to migrants on the bridge, instead accepting small groups for asylum processing and giving out 45-day visitor permits to some. Authorities handed out numbers for people to be processed in a strategy seen before at U.S. border posts when dealing with large numbers of migrants.
But many became impatient and circumventing the border gate, crossing the river on rafts, by swimming or by wading in full view of the hundreds of Mexican police manning the blockade on the bridge. Some paid locals the equivalent of $1.25 to ferry them across the muddy waters. They were not detained on reaching the Mexican bank.
Sairy Bueso, a 24-year old Honduran mother of two, was another migrant who abandoned the bridge and crossed into Mexico via the river. She clutched her 2-year-old daughter Dayani, who had recently had a heart operation, as she got off a raft.
“The girl suffered greatly because of all the people crowded” on the bridge, Bueso said. “There are risks that we must take for the good of our children.”
In addition to those who crossed the river, immigration agents processed migrants in small groups and then bused them to an open-air, metal-roof fairground in Tapachula, where the Red Cross set up small blue tents on the concrete floor.
Mexico’s Interior Department said it had received 640 refugee requests by Hondurans at the border crossing. It released photos of migrants getting off buses at a shelter and receiving food and medical attention.
At least half a dozen migrants fainted in the crush.
Some tore open a fence on the Guatemala side of the bridge and threw two young children, perhaps age 6 or 7, and their mother into the muddy waters about 40 feet below. They were rafted to safety in on the Mexican bank.
Mexican workers handed food and bottled water to the migrants on the bridge. Through the bars, a doctor gave medical attention to a woman who feared her young son was running a fever.
Sustenance also came from Guatemalan locals — for Carlos Martinez, a 24-year-old from Santa Barbara, Honduras, the plate of chicken with rice was the first bite to eat he’d had all day.
“It is a blessing that they have given us food,” Martinez said. “It gives me courage to keep waiting, as long as I can.”
Migrants cited widespread poverty and gang violence in Honduras, one of the world’s deadliest nations by homicide rate, as their reasons for joining the caravan.
Juan Carlos Mercado, 20, from Santa Barbara, Honduras, says corruption and a lack of jobs in Honduras has stymied him. “We just want to move ahead with our lives,” he said Sunday. He said he’d do any kind of work.
The caravan elicited a series of angry tweets and warnings from Trump early in the week, but Mexico’s initial handling of the migrants at its southern border seemed to have satisfied him more recently.
“So as of this moment, I thank Mexico,” Trump said Friday at an event in Scottsdale, Arizona. “I hope they continue. But as of this moment, I thank Mexico. If that doesn’t work out, we’re calling up the military — not the Guard.”
“They’re not coming into this country,” Trump added.
“The Mexican Government is fully engaged in finding a solution that encourages safe, secure, and orderly migration,” State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday, “and both the United States and Mexico continue to work with Central American governments to address the economic, security, and governance drivers of illegal immigration.”
After an emergency meeting in Guatemala, presidents Hernandez of Honduras and Jimmy Morales of Guatemala said an estimated 5,400 migrants had entered Guatemala since the caravan was announced a week ago, and about 2,000 Hondurans have returned voluntarily.
Morales said a Honduran migrant died in the town of Villa Nueva, 20 miles from Guatemala City, when he fell from a truck.
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Mark Stevenson reported from Ciudad Hidalgo, and Sonia Perez D. reported from Tecun Uman, Guatemala. Associated Press writers Sonny Figueroa in Guatemala City and Peter Orsi in Mexico City contributed to this report.
I was buying a gallon of kombucha tea at Whole Foods for a block party by my neighbors who fancy themselves upscale members of the "resistance." I had hoped that this disgusting concoction would clear their heads and digestive tracts so they'd stop pestering me to vote for the Democrats. Stuck at the bottom of the grocery cart was a memo a prior shopper had accidentally left behind.
The name of the author was lost under a splotch of what appeared to be gluten-free, fat-free, sugarless soy yogurt, but I could make out most of it. Forewarned is forearmed, so I'm sharing it.
A. Our Agenda
1. Impeach Trump, Pence, and Kavanaugh, and any other official whose name we can spell.
5. Global warming is the moral equivalent of World War II, and all our people and resources must be mobilized to keep the planet's climate from changing.
6. Diversity is our strength, and it's okay for people to self-identify as Indians, blacks, or Hispanics if they want to add to the diverse pool, even if the diversity is make-believe.
8. More welfare for everyone, including free health care. It will cost trillions, but we all know we can keep raising taxes as high as we need to (except on the countless billions in tax-exempt NGOs who fund what we want them to fund). And anyway, math is so hard that only conservatives can figure out this is unworkable, and when they do, we just attack them as "heartless."
We'll just keep adding to the free pile: universal housing, free college tuition, universal basic income. (And with open borders, the "universal" part is really "universal.") We can continue to count on at least one third of the voters thinking "free" means someone else will pay for it.
B. How do we get there to carry out our agenda?
1. Encourage mob attacks on conservatives. (We can count on the media to downplay them as they have the attempt to murder the entire Republican House leadership, beat up Republican leaders, and keep every conservative from ever dining out.) Heck, the press is still claiming that a right-winger shot Gabby Giffords. It worked when a communist shot JFK, and it still works for us. The best part is this: it keeps people from sticking out their necks to oppose us or defend dissenters.
2. Make sure mandatory college event fees are paid out only to left-wing speakers, and if, by chance, any group funds a conservative on campus with its own funds, demand that the college rescind the invitation. If it fails to, we start a riot and beat up anyone who dares attend. Free speech is overrated unless it's ours. We own academia, and let's keep it that way.
C. Midterm Action Plan
1. We began strong by a highly publicized hearing on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court in which we showed America that no charge is too insubstantial to keep us from using it. (It's true that "Believe All Women" doesn't apply to Bill Clinton or Keith Ellison and certainly not to the late Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd, to name just a few. But it should be good enough to keep those soccer moms in our camp.) Pictures of people mobbing the Senate and screaming, pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court, and linking up again with sharia-supporter Linda Sarsour, bemoaning the sad new fate which will befall women now that Kavanaugh has been confirmed, should really nail our female support, especially since the press so rarely lets women know what she stands for. It shows how distraught we really are and why they should be, too, at the confirmation of a man who somebody thinks did something to her thirty-some years ago, which none of her claimed witnesses substantiate
2. Then there's our plan to tag Trump with the failure to deal firmly enough with the Saudis. He should geld the Saudi effort to check Iran, cause a spike in oil to $300 a barrel, and throw out a $150-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia because a fake journalist who was really a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist was killed on Saudi territory in Turkey. (Ignore the mistreatment by Turkey's ErdoÄŸan, who has placed 300 journalists in prison, or Iran's or China's treatment of any dissenters). I know that our press pals will stay mum on this, just as they ignored Obama's silence when journalists were slaughtered in Charlie Hedbo's offices in France or American journalist James Foley was beheaded. Right now they are hoping that reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will be toppled along with Trump, ignoring the fact that the king has fired almost the whole leadership of its foreign intelligence service and put the crown prince in charge of restructuring the intelligence agency. (Let's keep that development from public notice.)
Make sure Jewish voters know nothing about Khashoggi, especially not his celebrating Hamas and its genocidal war to wipe them out:
Everything in this war is new, including the weapons that entered Gaza; how did they enter despite the siege? Thousands of rockets entered a small country that is besieged from the land, sea and air. This fact alone is a miracle[.] ...
The distinguished combat performance of its men and the huge network of tunnels that extends for miles under Gaza and the borders with Israel and Egypt were used brilliantly to inflict unprecedented losses on the enemy; they will be used and reused whenever the enemy invades. All of this proves that the movement wasted no time while ruling in Gaza.
This background is important for Arab intellectuals and writers who, incomprehensibly, have been attacking the notion of resistance in the ongoing Israeli war against the Palestinians in Gaza. This strange phenomenon warrants analysis. Regrettably, the number of such intellectuals here in Saudi Arabia is higher than average. If such a trend continues it will destroy the kingdom's honourable claim to support and defend the Palestinian cause since the time of its founder, King Abd Al-Aziz Al-Saud[.]
Make certain as well that they and New Yorkers are unaware of how he celebrated 9/11, blaming it on U.S. support for Israel.
D. Latinos
We are embarrassed to learn that we cannot count on the Latino vote as we thought we could. (There was even a slight snag this week when Pelosi, along with Castro-lover Democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee, went to campaign for Donna Shalala in Miami's Little Havana, where they received a rude reception.)
Unfortunately, Trump's message to Guatemala and Mexico that they'd better not let this happen seems to be paying off, but if they get through, think of how appealing that will be for still uncommitted voters to hop on the no-borders-no-ICE train with us.
I was about to toss this in the Whole Foods recycling bin but decided instead to make it an attachment to my letter to Hillary Clinton. She says she's considering running again, and I'm encouraging her to just do it. Keep this agenda alive, girl. We're counting on you, our own political version of Miss Havisham.
Democrats Advised Not to Speak About Unpopular Open Borders Policies: ‘It Is Very Difficult to Win on Immigration’
Democrats running for re-election in the 2018 midterms are being advised to not speak about the issue of immigration as consultants admit the zero-enforcement, open borders positions of the Democrat Party are unpopular with swing voters.
In a memo obtained by the New York Times, left-wing consultants with the Center for American Progress and the think tank, Third Way, advised Democrats running for election to spend “as little time as possible” talking about the immigration issue facing the nation, where more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the country every year.
“Sanctuary attacks pack a punch,” says a four-page memorandum, prepared by the liberal Center for American Progress and the centrist think tank Third Way, that has been shared at about a dozen briefings for Democrats in recent weeks. The New York Times obtained a copy of the memo, whose findings are based on interviews and surveys conducted over the summer. [Emphasis added]
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Democrats, the strategists who prepared the memo advised, could neutralize the attacks if they responded head-on. But they should spend “as little time as possible” talking about immigration itself, and instead pivot to more fruitful issues for Democrats like health care and taxation. [Emphasis added]
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“It is very difficult to win on immigration with vulnerable voters in the states Trump carried in 2016,” the strategy memo said, arguing that “even the most draconian of Republican policies,” such as family separation and threats to deport the Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — failed to sway most of them. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News exclusively reported, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has given the GOP ammunition to run on the issue of immigration for the midterm elections, introducing legislation that fully funds President Trump’s proposed border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Meanwhile, Democrats have geared up for the 2018 midterm elections by running on a platform that would abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which would end all immigration enforcement across the United States. Three in four swing voters oppose the Democrats’ “abolish ICE” initiative.
Despite Republican efforts to run on the issue of uninfluential tax reform, Trump’s immigration reduction plan has sweeping support among not only Republican voters, but swing voters and black Americans.
In an April Harvard/Harris Poll, nearly 2-out-3 supported reducing legal immigration levels to the U.S. In May, 52 percent of swing voters opposed allowing big businesses to import more foreign workers to compete against their fellow citizens for coveted blue-collar and white-collar jobs.
Most specifically, 61 percent of swing voters in battleground districts who saidimmigration has changed their community claimed those changes are making life “worse” in America.
A similar CBS/YouGov poll in June found that 55 percent of swing voters in battleground districts believed the border wall is a “good idea that can probably be completed” or a “good idea that should be tried, even if it can’t be completed,” as Trump wants.
WATCH: Beto O'Rouke Has The Support of College
Students...Who Can't Name a Single Accomplishment of His
Midterms are right around the corner and the stakes are high in a number of elections, including in Texas. Sen. Ted Cruz (R) is facing off against Beto O'Rouke (D).
Campus Reform went to Texas A&M to talk with O'Rouke supporters. Of course, none of the college students could name a single accomplishment of O'Rouke's.
“Umm, I’m not aware of any specific accomplishments,” one student said.
“I honestly couldn’t point to anything. I’m not as educated as I would like to be," another student replied.
The craziest response, however, was to the question: why is Beto popular with younger people?
“I think he resonates with young people because we are more aware," one student replied.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox came out in support of Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, in a Thursday evening tweet.
.@BetoORourke, what a candidate you are! You not only understand America, you know about humanity. This is what the U.S. needs: someone compassionate yet firm. I stand with you because I believe you’re what America needs. pic.twitter.com/xccqvXFfk9
Fox served as the Mexican president from 2000 to 2006 and has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. The former Mexican president’s comments follow O’Rourke’s appearance at a CNN town hall Thursday evening and a debate with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
O’Rourke is current trailing Cruz by several points in the Senate race.
Fox has often unleashed profanity laced pronouncements aimed at Trump, particularly on Trump’s declaration that the U.S. will make Mexico pay for his proposed wall along the southern border.
“I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,” Fox declared in a Fusion TV interview. In another profane tweet Fox urged Trump to “get his shit together.”
.@realDonaldTrump, you’ve got to get your shit together: migrants are people who have left everything behind – not by choice, to pursue a better life. You must show compassion and humanity. your golden head and a #FuckingWall won’t stop these people’s dreams and hopes. https://t.co/JC1NETBKqP
— Vicente Fox Quesada (@VicenteFoxQue) May 17, 2018
The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren't citizens, received the mailing.
"This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle," said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that's made its mark policing states' voter registration practices.
The Texas secretary of state's office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from immigrants [sic] and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings asking them to register.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.
"If true there will be serious consequences," he said.
This is an open invitation for voter fraud on a large scale, and the way the Democrats went about it defies belief:
The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state.
But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party's headquarters.
The letter is emblazoned with "Urgent! Your voter registration deadline is October 9." It continues: "Your voter registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it today!"
On the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen are already checked with an "X" in the Yes field.
The mailing also urges those who are unsure if they're registered to "Mail it in."
Dead people were also being asked to vote.
Sam Taylor, spokesman for Texas's secretary of state, said they heard from people whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or longer. One woman said her child, who'd been dead 19 years, got a mailing asking to register.
"It looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these mailers," Mr. Taylor said.
Mr. Taylor is being very charitable. I doubt very much whether it's "bad information" being used by Democrats.
How many other state Democratic Parties send out similar requests to non-citizens and haven't been caught? Are we to believe that one party in one state came up with this idea all on its own? Perhaps, but not likely.
Many liberals believe that anyone in the United States – citizen or non-citizen – should be able to vote. If they want to make that argument and change the law to make it happen, they are more than welcome to try. Of course, if they run on that issue, they will get slaughtered at the polls. So instead of going to the American people and working to change the law, they try an underhanded dirty trick to achieve the same goal.
Let’s Open America’s Borders to Everyone in the World By Frosty Wooldridge
NewsWithViews.com, October 18 2018
Why not give up our country to mass immigration? We could save all the miserable, starving and helpless humans around the planet from their horrible conditions. Maybe it’s our destiny.
At least 100,000,000 (million) Africans would move here in a week. Let’s save all of them. Another 300,000,000 (million) Indians would flee Calcutta and Mumbai tomorrow to move to America. Heck, at least 300,000,000 (million) Chinese would jump at the chance to move to America. Heck, look at Vancouver, BC Canada, now called Hongcouver.
Since 15,000,000 (million) Mexicans already jumped our borders, let’s invite another 15, 20 or 30 million of them to live here. What could it hurt? “Donda esta el banyo?”
We already feature 14 million people signed up for the giveaway ‘Diversity Visas’ annually, known as the “Golden Ticket” for their free ride and free life in America. Let’s give them all a free pass into “Land of Milk and Honey.”
Bangladesh, a country less landmass than the size of Iowa, houses 161 million people. Did you get that? They burst at their seams with 161 million miserable, crowded and starving people living in squalor. Let’s take 100 million of their poorest so we can feel better about ourselves. . . . https://newswithviews.com/lets-open-americas-borders-to-everyone-in-the-world/ "Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking." HEATHER MAC DONALD Top Gulf Cartel Boss Arrested in Mexico near Texas Border
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – The Mexican Army arrested one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel who is responsible for most of the violence along this part of the Texas border for the past year.
A team of special forces troops with the Mexican Army, working with Tamaulipas authorities, raided a home in the ritzy Residencial neighborhood where they captured Petronilo “Panilo or M-100” Moreno Flores, the leader of one of the Gulf Cartel factions fighting for control of Reynosa.
After capturing Panilo in a smooth operation without any shootouts at 124 Paseo de Los Fresnos, Mexican authorities flew Panilo to Ciudad Victoria to face extortion charges.
Panilo is the leader of one of the Gulf Cartel factions fighting for control of Reynosa following the death of Juan Manuel “Toro” Loza Salinas. Panilo and his forces were trying to take control of the region, however, the groups loyal to Luis Alberto “Pelochas” Blanco Flores known as “Los Metros” are countering the efforts. The struggle is causing regular shootouts, mass executions, mass graves, and the incineration of victims in clandestine crematoriums. Since the fighting began in May 2017, approximately 600 have been killed including cartel gunmen, police officers, troops, and innocent bystanders. To win the turf war, Panilo joined forces with the Gulf Cartel boss in Matamoros, Jose Alfredo “El Contador” Cardenas, who provided gunmen known as “Los Escorpiones” and “Los Ciclones.”
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 “J.A. Espinoza” and “A.C. Del Angel” from Tamaulipas.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the State Department doubled the reward for the capture of Mexican drug kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes aka “El Mencho” to $10 million. “El Mencho,” is the alleged leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) – one of the largest, most dangerous organizations currently operating in Mexico with a heavy presence in the United States.
The U.S. government, through the Departments of Justice, Treasury, and State, announced a series of measures to target and dismantle the CJNG this week. Those include the doubling of the reward and the unsealing of 15 indictments.
CJNG is one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico and the Department of Justice considers it to be one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world — responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl-laced heroin into the United States.
The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion was founded in 2011 and is growing in size and strength rapidly. Today, the DEA estimates the CJNG exerts influence in 23 of 31 Mexican states, including key drug production and transportation corridors. The organization’s disciplined command and control, sophisticated money laundering techniques, efficient drug transportation routes, and extreme violence make it a force to be reckoned with. The cartel expanded globally into Europe, Asia, and Australia as well.
“We will continue to hammer transnational criminal organizations like the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG,” said Attorney General Sessions. “The DEA has said for three years in a row that Mexican drug cartels are the single gravest drug threat that this country faces. President Trump recognizes this, and the day I was sworn in as Attorney General, he ordered me to dismantle transnational criminal organizations, including the cartels.”
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
Sessions: ‘Whole of Government Effort’ to Take Down Drug Cartel, ‘They Are in Our Crosshairs’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a press conference on Tuesday with officials from the Department of Justice, U.S. Treasury, and State Department to announce a “whole of government effort” to take down the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Sessions said the drug cartel is “one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations on the face of the earth and it is doing unimaginable damage to the people of this nation.”
Sessions said although it was formed only nine years ago, it has established its network around the world, including in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
“CJNG has a presence in cities across the United States from San Diego to Omaha to Roanoke to New York City to Orlando,” said Sessions, adding that the cartel is believed to traffic ten tons of cocaine and methamphetamines into the United States every month.
“They are in our crosshairs,” Sessions said. “This cartel is our top priority.”
“Every single day these cartels cross our borders, disrespect our sovereignty, deal poison and death to Americans all across this country,” Sessions said.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), F.B.I. Deputy Director David L. Bowdich, Director Andrea Gacki of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Kirsten D. Madison of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Executive Associate Director Derek Benner, and Chief Don Fort of IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) joined Sessions for the announcement, which included 15 indictments against people and entities in the cartels.
“Today, the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the Southern District of Mississippi, and the Eastern District of Virginia are announcing 15 indictments, some recently unsealed, against the following CJNG leaders, financiers, transporters, and sources of drug supply,” the press release about the announcement stated.
Since April 2015, OFAC has announced nine designation actions totaling 63 separate individuals and entities in Mexico tied to the CJNG and the Cuinis organization.
“Treasury has strategically targeted leaders of CJNG and the Cuinis organizations, as well as complicit family members, criminal operatives, and businesses under their control,” OFAC Director Gacki said. “Our goal is to disrupt the cartels’ finances, which are overwhelmingly generated from drug sales that occur in the United States, and deny them access to the U.S. financial system.”
The State Department also announced the largest reward ever approved for the Narcotics Rewards Program — $10 million for information leading to the arrest of “El Mencho.”
“Additionally, the Department of State is announcing a Narcotics Rewards Program reward for information leading to the arrest of high ranking CJNG member Erick Valencia Salazar, aka, ‘El 85,’ in the amount of $5 million,” the press release stated.
DOJ also cited “the daily coordination between the Government of Mexico with the U.S. Department of Justice, Treasury, and State to target this violent drug cartel that has a direct impact on the lives and livelihood of millions of citizens in the United States and Mexico.”
“DEA has a strong partnership with the government of Mexico that is demonstrated in the relentless pursuit of the violent leadership of the CJNG cartel,” Dhillon said. “We will continue to work closely with our international partners to bring [cartel leader] Nemiso Cervantes aka El Mencho to justice and dismantle drug cartels like CJNG.”
“We will continue to carry out President Donald Trump’s order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations to protect the people of this country,” Sessions said.
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who authorities said was born in San Diego, was wanted on suspicion of killing rivals — allegedly beheading some — as part of his work for a violent drug-trafficking cartel.
Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for felonious reentry, it is he who will be treated as a criminal, for violating the LAPD’s rule against enforcing immigration law.
The LAPD’s ban on immigration enforcement mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities around the country, from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These “sanctuary policies” generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities.
SANTA PAULA (CBS) — Eight alleged gang members will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon for several sex crimes after police say they used social media websites to kidnap and rape young girls.
Seven adults and one juvenile will be arraigned at 1:30p.m. in Ventura County court on charges ranging from rape, conspiracy, child abuse, sexual battery by restraint and parole violations. The suspects, arrested Friday, were identified as Carlos Ek, 22; Esteban Oseguera, 18; Isaac Ek, 19; Joseph Sandoval, 18; Jonathan Gaona, 19; Dion Mendoza, 19; Adrian Garcia, 19, and a juvenile, all of Santa Paula.
MCALLEN, Texas -- The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from the violence in Mexico.
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million in duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
US Announces 15 Indictments Against Mexican Drug Cartel
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced 15 indictments against members of one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels on Oct. 16.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions unveiled the charges against members of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG, which is accused of trafficking tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl-laced heroin into the U.S.
The announcement comes a day after Sessions named the cartel one of the top five transnational criminal organizations.
Investigators believe the cartel brings about five tons of cocaine and five tons of methamphetamine into the U.S. from Mexico each month, Sessions said. The 15 indictments charge a total of 45 of the cartel’s leaders, financers, transporters and suppliers.
“Every day, these cartels are taking advantage of our porous Southern border to move and push their illegal drugs for large profits – expanding suffering and death along the way,” Sessions said at a news conference.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who authorities say is the cartel’s kingpin and is also known as “El Mencho,” is charged in three of the indictments but remains a fugitive. The U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
His son, Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, who prosecutors say served as the cartel’s second-in-command until he was arrested by Mexican authorities in 2015, is also charged in two of the indictments.
Officials believe the cartel has influence in 75 percent of Mexican states. The cartel also operates across the U.S., and in Europe, Asia, and Australia, according to prosecutors.
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