Biden Nominee Vanita Gupta Holds Stock in Enterprise Accused of Enabling Mexican Cartels’ Heroin Manufacturing
President Joe Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General, Vanita Gupta, owns between $11 million and $55 million of stock in her father’s company that sold acetic anhydride to Mexican cartels, which is used to make “high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine,” according to reports.
However, when Biden campaigned for president, his platform stated he would “hold accountable big Pharma companies, executives, and others responsible for their role in triggering the opioid crisis.” Noting that he intends to “[d]irect the U.S. Justice Department to make actions that spurred this crisis a top investigative and, where appropriate, civil and criminal enforcement priority.”
“Biden’s campaign vowed to hold companies accountable for their roles in the opioid crises, but now one of his Justice Department nominees is linked to a firm whose product was reportedly sold to Mexican drug cartels.”https://t.co/XA1IZYzG06
— Tommy Pigott (@TCPigott) March 10, 2021
Raj Gupta, father of Vanita Gupta and chairman of a company named Avantor, has stopped selling “acetic anhydride in Mexico, as the country’s authorities announced a criminal investigation,” according to Fox Business.
Vanita Gupta has agreed not to engage with her father’s business.
Gupta’s nomination hearing was on March 9, when Sen. Ted Cruz posed questions to her on gun rights, abortion, and religious liberty – subjects on which she had previously voiced her views. “On every issue, Gupta evaded the question about her own views, saying that she would only apply the law of the land,” Joel B Pollak reported for Breitbart News.
Border Patrol Council President: Criminal Cartels Generated $400 Million in Profit in February Alone
(CNSNews.com) - Illegal immigrants pay criminal cartels $4,000 to help them illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, which at over 100,000 apprehensions in February, amounts to a $400 million profit last month alone, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said Tuesday.
In an interview with C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,”Judd pointed to comments made by Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who accompanied GOP congressmen during a visit to the border last week.
“And just to give you an idea of the type of profit, on average, and this was from Congressman Cuellar. This was on Friday. Congressman Cuellar said that on average, the illegal border crossings, the normal illegal border crosser pays about $4000 to the criminal cartels to cross into the U.S.,” Judd said.
“That doesn’t matter whether they get apprehended or not. They pay $4000. Over 100,000 apprehensions. That means criminal cartels generated over $400 million in profit in the month of February alone. That is an astronomical number,” he said.
Judd said that this is the “quickest surge” he’s seen in his 24-year career, and that the problem isn’t necessarily the amount of people crossing the border, it’s the pace at which people are crossing the border in such a short period of time.
“We’ve dealt with numbers like this in the past. The numbers are not necessarily what is concerning. It is how fast the numbers continue to rise. In less than a month and a half, we’ve seen numbers rise from less than 100,000 apprehensions in a month to over 100,000 apprehensions in a month, and so that’s extremely concerning,” he said.
“What that does is that puts extreme pressure on our resources. When we apprehend a group, we have to take that group back to our processing facilities, which pulls agents out of the field,” the National Border Patrol Council president said.
“When we have such a huge influx, we are pulling too many of our agents out of the field, and what that does is that creates gaps in our coverage on the border, and that allows criminal cartels to exploit that coverage, and they are able to cross their higher value products, such as opioids, cocaine, criminal aliens, aliens from special interest countries,” Judd said.
“So this creates a serious security issue, and it’s strictly driven by the cartels crossing women and children, unaccompanied minors, all of these different things that tie our hands up and allows them to generate profit,” he said.
Vanita Gupta Supports $15 Minimum Wage While Family Business Pays Mexicans $1.30 an Hour
Vanita Gupta, President Joe Biden’s nominee
for associate attorney general, has long praised
proposals to increase the federal minimum
wage to $15 an hour while also owning stock in
her family’s company which pays its Mexican
labor force $1.30 an hour.
Aptiv PLC, the family company, is “an international auto parts manufacturer chaired by [Gupta’s] father” in which Gupta “owns at least $500,000,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. The company maintains a job listing on Indeed.com for its Zacatecas, Mexico plant that pays employees the equivalent of “$260 a month for a 50-hour per week job.”
While serving as President and CEO of The Education Fund in 2018, Gupta made a moral case to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
“Raising wages is a moral question: do we value the people who are the engine of our economy or not? The answer must be yes,” she said.
“The majority of people who would benefit from the policy changes we recommend are women, especially women of color, who are overrepresented in the low-wage workforce,” Gupta continued. “The first-hand stories in this report capture the day-to-day struggles of minimum wage life while underscoring the importance of providing better opportunities for low-income communities.”
Aptiv’s business priorities seem to fail the nominee’s own example of paying “women of color” an honest wage. According to the report, “Other positions currently advertised by the company include a full-time general operator job that pays $290 a month and a production line operator position that pays $274 a month.”
In addition to compensating its Mexican labor force below what Gupta believes is a “livable wage,” the corporation also advertises “a major manufacturing base and strong customer relationships” in China, according to SEC filings. The SEC filings also reveal Gupta’s family company paid a “3 percent effective tax rate last year.”
Former President Trump signed legislation that marked the current corporate tax rate at 21 percent by comparison.
As the Senate is scheduled to vote on Gupta’s nomination Thursday morning, reactions to the news rocked Twitter. Arthur Schwartz, the composer and film producer, said, “Whether it’s Believe All Women!™ or Fight for Fifteen!, you’ll always find a hypocrite hiding behind the slogan.”
Whether it’s Believe All Women!™ or Fight for Fifteen!, you’ll always find a hypocrite hiding behind the slogan.
Multimillionaire Biden Nominee Vanita Gupta Says She Backs $15 ‘Livable Wage.’ Her Family Business Pays Mexicans $1.30 an Hour. https://t.co/zKRERXKcyN
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) March 17, 2021
Vanita Gupta Says She Backs $15 'Livable Wage.' Her Family Business Pays Mexicans $1.30 an Hour. – Washington Free Beacon
“ We feed them “ https://t.co/NEYr1Uqe2l
— Neanderthal Shawn (שושנה)Dreyfus, JD, LLM (@DreyfusShawn) March 17, 2021
Breitbart News reported March 11 that Vanita Gupta also owns between $11 million and $55 million of stock in her father’s company which sold acetic anhydride to Mexican cartels, a chemical used to make “high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine.” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has submitted questions for the record to Gupta regarding her stake in the enterprise.
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