U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Rio Grande Valley seized nearly 175 pounds of methamphetamine and cocaine at a Texas port of entry. The seizures came in two failed drug-trafficking events at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.
CBP officers assigned to the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge on October 30 observed a Toyota Sequoia approaching for entry into the United States, according to information recently released by CBP officials in South Texas. The officers referred the driver to a secondary inspection area for further investigation.
A secondary inspection led to the discovery of 24 packages of drugs, officials reported. Officers test the drugs and identified them as 1167.77 pounds of methamphetamine. The drug shipment has an estimated street value of $3,355,500, officials reported.
Officers arrested the driver, a 23-year-old male Legal Permanent Resident living in Edinburg, Texas. They seized the drugs and the vehicle.
A second incident occurred on the same bridge the following day, officials reported. Officer observed a Hyundai Elantra approaching from Mexico for entry into the U.S. Officers referred the driver, a 62-year-old female U.S. citizen from Rio Grande City, Texas, to the secondary inspection area.
A search of her vehicle led to the discovery of three packages containing cocaine. Officials weighed the drugs at 7.14 pounds and reported the estimated street value to be about $55,000.
CBP officers utilized non-intrusive imaging systems and K-9s trained to detect drugs to screen the vehicles prior to physical inspections.
“These are great interceptions of hard narcotics that our officers accomplished due to outstanding teamwork, resiliency and commitment towards our mission of keeping dangerous drugs from crossing our border and entering into our communities,” said Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry.
CBP officers turned both subjects and the drugs over to ICE Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation into drug trafficking charges.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team . He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX , Parler @BobPrice , and Facebook.
Cartel-Linked Mexican Governor Calls on Immigrants in U.S. to
Vote for Biden A Mexican governor took to social media to ask people
originating from his state who live in the U.S. to vote for Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden in what he called an opportunity to end “a
long night of racism and hate.” The governor was previously accused by a top
cartel boss for exchanging money for votes in his own election.
Through a video
posted on Twitter, Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles asked “paisanas and
paisanos” in the U.S. to vote in support of Biden, claiming that President
Donald Trump hates migrants.
Mensaje a nuestras paisanas y paisanos con
motivo de las próximas elecciones presidenciales en EUA. pic.twitter.com/VcxEebViM8
— Silvano Aureoles (@Silvano_A) October 29, 2020
“This November 3,
the U.S. is having elections that are determining for you who live and work and
have family on the other side,” Aureoles said. “You have an opportunity to
choose a humanitarian government with a different approach that knows and
understands the needs of migrants.”
According to
Aureoles, there are more than 4 million with roots from Michoacán living in the
U.S. and he called on those with voting rights to give voice to those “living
in the shadows.”
“While Donald Trump
builds walls to stop migrants and separates families, and promotes hate and
racism against those who need to go to the other side [of the border],”
Aureoles said. “At the same time, he only benefits the rich.”
In the video,
Aureoles praised comments made by Biden about providing a pathway to citizenship
for illegal immigrants.
“On the contrary,
the candidate to replace him is pushing an agenda that carries a lot to the
historic hopes and dreams of the migrant community through a naturalization
program,” Aureoles said. “[Biden] has a vision for all Americans–even for those
who don’t yet have papers.”
Aureoles has been a controversial figure since taking office due
to the raging violence in his state where large swaths remain under the control
of cartels. The escalating turf wars have led to mass kidnappings without any
real response by authorities. In early 2018, Nicolas “El Gordo” Sierra, the leader of Los Viagras
Cartel, claimed Aureoles paid large sums of money to cartels to generate votes .
Bienvenidos a Mexico: California's ballot-harvesting, sure enough,
is borrowed from Mexico https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/bienvenidos_a_mexico_californias_ballotharvesting_sure_enough_is_borrowed_from_mexico.html
By Monica Showalter
In
an extraordinary investigative piece on how ballot-harvesting works by Steve
Miller, published on Real Clear Investigations, we learn an amazing amount of
information about how ballot-harvesting works and why it's so closely connected
to election fraud, skewing elections in directions they normally wouldn't go.
The must-read
piece is focused on how
Texas is dealing with the seedy issue, enforcing the law, prosecuting more
than twice as many cases of
electoral fraud as California, even hampered as Texas is by weak penalties for
violators. But a little detail stands out much deeper into the piece:
Ballot-harvesting, which is at the root of considerable fraud of all kinds, is
a practice specifically borrowed from Latin America, with a very
impressive Latino analyst, K.B. Forbes ,
who has electoral experience in both countries, citing Mexico. Here's the
passage:
The practice has its roots in Latin America, said K.B. Forbes, a
political consultant and Hispanic activist who has served as an elections
observer in Sonora, Mexico. “In the Latin culture, they have colonias, which is
‘little colony,’ literally,” he said. “In these, they sometimes have the
equivalent of a precinct boss, and that’s how people move up. The
[politiqueras] deliver the vote and when the candidate moves in, the theory is
that they get a good post inside the government.”
That
brings up California, where ballot-harvesting is perfectly legal, and normal
voters have to wonder how the heck that happened. Ballot-harvesting has been a
disaster for Republicans in California, with all conservatives now shut out
from any representation in once-red Orange County. Most congressional elections
there showed Republican candidates in the lead on election night in the last
midterm, but all of them flipped to Democrats as the Democrat-led
ballot-harvesting brought in votes and votes and votes from supposed precincts,
harvested by their political operatives, until the result went the other way.
(This by the way, didn't happen in districts where Democrats held a small lead,
nothing flipped in their cases and ballots did not keep rolling in).
If
ballot harvesting is a practice imported from Mexican politics, what does that
say about California politics, whose legislators would embrace Mexican
electoral practices over the U.S. standard? As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has
been called " a
perfect dicatorship " by none other
than Nobel Prize-winning literary lion Mario Vargas Llosa, owing to the
continuous power of the Mexican Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (or
P.R.I.), which up under a decade or two ago, had a hammerlock monopoly on
Mexican politics, winning every single election in what was then a one-party
state. That's a system so bad people emigrated illegally from that country to
get away from it. Now, the cultural practice is right there waiting for them in
California, albeit, virtually nowhere else.
And
like the P.R.I.'s Mexican electoral practice of ballot-harvesting, it's
noteworthy that the ruling Democrats of California also are famous for doling
out the goodies to the loyal voters. They've promised amazing things to
California's illegal immigrant population, with the latest thing free heath
care. California's insurance commissioner, the respected non-partisan Steve
Poizner, was, conveniently, ballot-harvested out of office after an
election-night lead several days after midterm by utterly leftist Democrat
Ricardo Lara who openly declared his support and big plans for free health care
for illegals. He's tried it before in the legislator and now he's going to do
it this time through the executive. California's incoming governor, of course,
is all in for the goody-slinging. In Mexico, they used to pass out bags of
beans for votes. In California, the prizes are considerably higher, and they go
well beyond free health care. I've already noted the weird similarities
to how California is run, and P.R.I-style politics here .
Any
wonder California is going way out of its way to welcome illegal immigrants?
"You're all welcome here," as Gov. Jerry Brown famously said.
California already hosts a quarter of the nation's illegals, and with middle
class families now moving out due to high living costs and punitive taxation,
the California P.R.I. likes new bodies coming in who have a lot of needs, which
keeps the congressional seats numerous and the federal funds flowing.
It
all makes a normal person wonder about the weird closeness of California
officials and their Mexican counterparts, too. Newsom has already paid a visit
to Mexico to discuss the caravan with the Mexican government in Mexico City
(not Tijuana, where he would have gotten a earful from the generally
conservative and more dissident-oriented Tijuana locals), and he has declared
he plans to withdraw National Guard troops from the U.S. border. With his party
now embracing the P.R.I's style of governance and having some unnaturally close
ties to Mexican officials (I've seen it myself at Los Angeles functions as a
guest of the Mexican government), it looks like a growing merger of Mexican and
California politics.
Mexico
knows how bad the system is, and its citizens did rebel against it with a
Trump-like leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador, who won on a vow to
end corruption. One can safely take that as a sign that Mexicans are trying to
move away from that kind of politics, which of course would include ballot
harvesting. California, on the other hand, is moving toward it, embracing what
Mexico is trying to reject. That speaks pretty poorly for the sorry state of
affairs in California. It's only great for the rulers and those they patronize,
until the money runs out.
Until
then, clarification about California's Mexico borrowings need to stand as an
incentive to other states about what not to do.
Exclusive – Eric Eggers: ‘Fair to Assume’ Illegal Aliens Will Get
Mail-in Ballots in California BILL WECHTER/AFP via Getty Images
JOHN BINDER 12 May 2020 1,306
5:14
Government Accountability Institute
Research Director Eric Eggers, author of Fraud:
How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election , says it is “fair to assume” that many illegal aliens will
receive mail-in ballots in California for the 2020 election thanks to a plan by
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight
That fraud, Eggers expects, will be exacerbated by Newsom’s
statewide mail-in voting plan for
the 2020 election.
LISTEN:
“This is really where the left shows a level of hypocrisy, which
they’re not regularly held to account,” Eggers said. “What if the ballots go to
illegal immigrants that willingly or unwillingly ended up on the voter rolls
and maybe they just don’t even know they’re not supposed to be casting ballots?
Because remember, elsewhere in California and elsewhere nationally, it is legal
for noncitizens to vote in certain local elections.”
“Basically, what you’ve got is this hodgepodge of a lack of
oversight, lacks regulation, and confusion by the general public,” Eggers said.
“And oh, by the way, there’s a global pandemic, so many people are focused on
other things at the moment. And so … here come all the ballots, and yes, many
of the people that will get the ballots will be legal voters, but many of those
ballots will end up somewhere other than in the hands of legal [voters], and
that’s exactly where the recipe for fraud can occur.”
“The only person standing in between a noncitizen or an illegal
alien just getting their driver’s license and the voter rolls is a DMV
employee,” Eggers said. “You’ve got these people … often times are confused or
coerced by political operatives and told to register to vote. … The DMV officials
are prohibited by law from giving real guidance on should you check the box and
register to vote or not.”
“You’ve got this system where you know you’ve got over a million
illegal immigrants in California that have driver’s licenses,” Eggers
continued. “I think it’s fair to assume that a good number of those
inadvertently or intentionally ended up on the voter rolls, and those people
are about to be receiving a mail-in ballot.”
Eggers noted that Los Angeles County, California, was found to
have about 1.5 million more registered voters on its voter rolls than eligible
voting-age citizens. About 348 counties in the U.S. have more registered voters
on their voter rolls than even possible.
Likewise, California has previously had a voter registration
rate of over 100 percent, indicating more registered voters on voter rolls than
those eligible to vote in the state.
Statistics cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, Eggers said, reveal
that about 1-in-8 voter registrations, or 24 million, are significantly flawed.
Under a mail-in voting system, every one of those flawed voter registrations
would receive ballots.
As Newsom suspends in-person voting for the 2020 election,
Eggers said the state will still allow ballot harvesting — the process
where political operatives can collect voters’ ballots and deliver them to
polling stations.
Eggers said California’s ballot harvesting helped flip seven
congressional seats in 2018 from Republican to Democrat in and around the Los
Angeles area.
“We haven’t suspended [ballot harvesting] in the name of
safety,” Eggers said.
“We’re being told to stay home. … We can’t go out and do many of
the most basic functions of American life but we can sure send these
asymptomatic carriers to the elderly and anybody else’s house they want to
collect a ballot and drop it off,” Eggers said.
Eggers said Republican lawmakers must be on the side of security
and election integrity if they are going to take on mail-in voting and the
widespread potential for voter fraud.
“Republicans absolutely do not want to be on the side of ‘you
have to risk your health to vote.’ … They shouldn’t be anti-access. They should
be pro-security and pro-election integrity,” Eggers said. “The Democrats don’t
appear to be overly worried about it.”
In the last four election cycles, 28.4 million mail-in
ballots have gone missing. In the 2016 and 2018 elections, about 16.4 million mail-in
ballots went missing.
Recent data has not shown a compelling public health
justification for vote-by-mail. Wisconsin is one of the only U.S.
states that held its
primary election with in-person voting after the nation’s coronavirus lockdowns
began. Only a few dozen people at maximum were confirmed to have contracted the
virus after participating either as voters or poll workers, and none of those
cases were fatal. Out of the 413,000 participants, that equals an infection
rate below two-hundredths of one percent. Just days later, South Korea held national
elections, which did not result in any new coronavirus cases.
John Binder is a reporter for
Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
No comments:
Post a Comment