From Just the News, April 19:
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that illegal immigration is an "attack" on American sovereignty and a "conscious decision to rewrite the rules of civilization.
The War America Should be Fighting
From Breitbart News, April 19:
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Four times as much fentanyl is flowing across the United States-Mexico border under President Joe Biden compared to two years prior when former President Trump was in office.
The U.S.-Mexican border exists in name only. Joe Biden erased it. His is a wanton act of disregard for the welfare, safety, and security of Americans. Impeachment is a must, should Republicans take charge of the U.S. House next January. Biden’s actions amount to willful dereliction of duty that constitutes “high crimes.” Ranking Biden administration officials running national security or law enforcement departments and agencies are culpable, too. They should be subject to removal proceedings.
The Biden administration is dropping Title 42 this May. That merely opens wider the floodgates to illegals and worse aggressions by Mexico’s cartels, which are pumping phenomenal amounts of killer drugs into the country. The mainland Chinese are accessories in this for-profit assault. Fentanyl and meth ingredients are produced by them. Those products are shipped to Mexican cartels, which finish the manufacture, then distribute and sell these poisons in the U.S. An estimate 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, a record. Human trafficking is a lucrative side venture for the cartels, too.
Lax border enforcement has occurred under Democrat and Republican administrations, but never has the southern border been deliberately undone.
President Trump aggressively addressed the border crisis, only to be fought by open border Democrats and stonewalled by pro-cheap labor Republicans.
Make no mistake, the southern border debacle is the result of intentional policy. Biden and Democrats are brazenly advancing the Democrat Party’s narrow political aims over America’s vital interests. Democrats seek new constituents and voters; illegals furnish both. The damage being done by this massive influx to communities across the nation has just begun. The longer-term harm caused by this invasion is incalculable.
From Just the News, April 19:
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that illegal immigration is an "attack" on American sovereignty and a "conscious decision to rewrite the rules of civilization.
That’s not Gaetz grandstanding. An attack on U.S. sovereignty -- on the very fabric of American society -- is underway. Biden and Democrats are permitting the cartels and China to wage war against their own country.
From Yahoo!News, October 6, 2021:
MISSION, Texas -- Mexican cartel members dressed in military-like outfits and toting AK-47 rifles have been taunting U.S. soldiers assigned to the southern border, an unprecedented act of aggression, Texas authorities say.
We have to wrap our minds around this: the cartels aren’t mere criminal enterprises; they’re paramilitary outfits. They’ve got firepower like light infantry and employ terrorist tactics. Many of their members are corrupt ex-police and former Mexican military skilled and experienced in combat and killing. Mostly unreported in the U.S., a war is raging in Mexico among cartels vying for turf and power. Biden’s open borders practically ensures that that war migrates north.
Now, though, cartels are waging irregular warfare against the U.S. in cahoots with the PRC. Both are motived by profit, not territorial conquest, but the Chinese see advantages in vexing the U.S. by stoking the country’s violent drug trade and degrading society. Chinese criminal gangs are blamed for the trouble, but that’s naïve. Xi and the Communist Party have an iron grip on the mainland. So lucrative a trade isn’t happening without their knowledge and, dare say, the approval of Xi and his cronies. Xi’s goal is to replace the U.S. as the global superpower.
Law enforcement and cross-border policing in cooperation with the Mexican government -- such as it is -- aren’t defeating the cartels. The U.S. is fighting a version of the Vietnam War: there are drug interdiction and seizure metrics and body counts, in that some cartel members are captured or killed, but there’s no actual progress in winning the fight. Where’s the light at the end of the tunnel?
Enemies are defeated by destroying them. Destroying the cartels means U.S. military forces on ground in Mexico. This, then, requires Mexico’s cooperation. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador must permit U.S. military intervention in alliance with his military. Obrador surely worries about the ongoing threat posed by the cartels to the Mexican government’s authority and stability. He should have every incentive to end the terror cartels inflict on the Mexican people.
Yet, the U.S. may have to persuade Obrador with carrots and sticks. China increasingly has its hooks in the Mexican economy.
From Forbes, February 23:
Over the last few years China’s presence in Mexico has expanded in both legal and illegal activities. According to preliminary data, trade between China and Mexico topped $100 billion in 2021, a new record. Imports from China account for over 90% of total trade between China and Mexico. Chinese foreign direct investments in Mexico tallied $189 billion in 2020.
Moreover, the U.S. must call out and sanction the PRC for its role -- directly or indirectly -- as the cartels’ chief fentanyl supplier. No slaps on the wrist. Sanctions must be punitive, focusing on curtailment of trade and imposition of painful tariffs. The U.S., coordinating with the Mexican government, must interdict fentanyl and other illicit drug shipments from China or those routed through third parties.
A Republican Congress needs to put legislation on Biden’s (or Harris’) desk that finishes the wall and hikes budgets for the border patrol, DEA, and ICE. Calls must be made for military action cross border. Anticipating vetoes, Republicans should repeatedly present measures that underscore these aims. Voters in 2024 deserve to see how starkly different Republicans are from Democrats. America First Republicans must lead.
A southern border wall – perhaps, with Mexico’s consent, a security zone south of the wall – and greater policing are necessary defensive measures. As President Trump’s policies proved, a wall (where completed) and beefed-up border security curtailed the flow of illegals into the country. Among illegals are drug mules and gangsters, so keeping illegals out is critical. Yet border measures alone are inadequate.
The next president must enact a comprehensive “roundup and return” policy of illegals who will have entered the country during Biden’s term. Laws must be pursued that end “anchor babies” as illegals’ means of remaining in the U.S. Extensive sweeps of communities are required to remove the worst criminal elements that are now entering the country. States and localities have no constitutional right to establish “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens.
The cartels are run by ruthlessly ambitious, scheming men. The U.S. is their prime market. Cartel bosses are thoroughly incentivized to work overtime conniving ways to skirt obstacles. Hence, taking the fight to the cartels and destroying their networks and operations is imperative.
It’s important to note that while staunching the flow of drugs into the U.S. is critical, it isn’t the sole determiner in ending the drug scourge. Consumer demand drives cartels and others in the pursuit of profit. Hedonism and despair seem the principal motivators for Americans’ appetite for drugs. Modern culture is broken. The repair is a return to faith, traditional values, and intact families. Life must be valued as greater than a thrill or an escape from woes.
Yet, unscrupulous men will seek to exploit weaknesses for money and power. Their evil and the harm it’s inflicting on Americans cannot be permitted to stand. With courageous leaders, the U.S. can be made freer from the poison, violence, and societal rot that the drug trade brings.
The war Americans need to fight isn’t against the Russians in Ukraine. It’s right across the Rio Grande. It’s a war the U.S. must fight and win.
J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith. He also blogs at Flyover.
Biden is wrecking a key bilateral relationship
With all eyes on Ukraine, few are noticing how Joe Biden is ruining relations with a critical nation next door to us, which is Mexico.
Title 42, which permits the U.S. to reject phony asylum-seekers on COVID concerns, was halted by a federal judge yesterday, but it's a temporary halt, so it may return soon. Whether the Biden administration obeys that order is anyone's guess. There are other judicial orders it's simply ignored as it carried on its open borders policy.
It doesn't matter to Joe Biden that his fellow Democrats — at least eight of them — are warning against this change of policy. It also doesn't matter to Biden that, as polls indicate, the public is against it. Bad as all of that is, he'll get the consequences he deserves come November.
But there's also Mexico, which is pretty unhappy about it, and the consequences, which don't have the steam valve of elections, might just be worse.
Here's Reuters from a few days ago:
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican officials are concerned the repeal of a measure adopted under the Trump administration to tighten the U.S. border will encourage a spike in migration and more profits for criminal gangs unless Washington does more to help mitigate the impact.
The United States has said it will on May 23 end the so-called Title 42 order issued during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 that has effectively shut down the U.S. asylum system at its shared 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
Title 42 has allowed U.S. authorities to quickly expel migrants to Mexico, and its removal risks pushing the record number of migrants attempting to enter the United States higher still, officials and politicians said.
"The flow of migrants we have now is already out of control," said Rosa Maria Gonzalez, a lawmaker from Mexico's center-right opposition National Action Party who represents the northern border state of Tamaulipas and heads the lower house of Congress migration committee.
Now, we know that Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a socialist known as "AMLO," is not beyond "schooling" Joe Biden about the significance of his country as a conduit for mass illegal immigration. Last September, AMLO released 15,000 illegal-alien Haitians from a holding pen in southern Mexico to Del Rio, Texas, where they massed under a bridge in a classic third-world hell-hole scenario. I wrote about that here:
The Center for Immigration Studies, sent a senior researcher named Todd Bensman to ask those questions on the ground, going to the immigrants themselves, and he came up with a doozy of an answer:
The surprising answer, which the migrants provided independently in different places and at different times, was universal: on Sunday, September 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border. This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico's independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week.
Mexico was the one who did it. Turns out Joe Biden promised them some things and based on the available information, apparently never delivered.
Biden responded not by placating Mexico, but by starting night flights to spirit illegal migrants across the country, to prevent more damning camera shots of massed humanity from Fox News. To him, it was a public relations problem, not a warning from Mexico. He didn't do a thing to help Mexico.
But it's pretty clear that Biden's dinner triangle to migrants of all countries to come on in through the Mexican border isn't a welcome thing in Mexico.
The dynamics are pretty simple: mass migration means huge smuggling earnings for Mexico's notorious cartels. Because the U.S. won't guard its own border, cartels have stepped in from the Mexican side and declared that they now control the border. Anyone who wants to cross into the States will have to pay the $1,000 or more for the "fee" to enter.
Needless to say, a wall would stop that entire dynamic right there. But Biden has stopped construction of the wall. So the migrants come in; the fees get paid; and the cartels get very, very rich.
Like all large drug-dealing organizations, the cartels seek political power. That's why they kill politicians and journalists, and not just their fellow drug-dealers, and send out threatening messages to the public, such as bodies hanging on highway overpasses, in areas where they hold control.
Mexico is at war with these monsters. These monsters get cash from migrants, who willingly go along and pay the cartels.
That leaves Mexico holding the bag, having to fight rich cartels with money for huge armored vehicles and other trappings of conquest, all because they have the money to pay for these things. Not only do human-wave surges of mass migration mean big money from "fees," but they mean tied up Border Patrol forces, which gives them space to smuggle even more lucrative drug cargoes into the U.S. Tie the Border Patrol up changing diapers for every unwed mother rolling in from the world's third-world shantytowns, and it pretty well amounts to knocking an enemy out of action.
Money, money, money. The cartels are getting it, as surely as Putin is getting his gas money from Europe, while Mexico itself is getting poorer and poorer.
A recent report from Mexico is that the Mexican equivalent of the Border Patrol, the unarmed agents of the National Migration Institute, are quitting in droves now, over the issue of low pay and the emergence of "more violent" migrants. According to the New York Post:
Border agents in Mexico are fed up to the point of leaving their jobs — and say that, if the US lifts Title 42, things will only get worse.
"Work has doubled and even tripled for us. Some weeks we have no days off. We pull in double shifts for the same pay and are sent from one end of the country to the other with less money for our expenses that we must pay up front," said an officer, Jorge, who spoke with The Post on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal.
No statistics are available on how many officers have quit Mexican immigration forces. But Jorge said that, on one team alone, at least half of the 30 officers have quit over the last two years.
"It's a nationwide phenomenon," he said.
Gee, low pay and unappreciated government agents. Sound like a formula for payoffs? Well, it always has been.
Cash, in short, is flowing away from Mexico's government and toward Mexico's drug cartels as a result of this migrant surge, and the cartels are getting more powerful. Not only are the cartels getting more powerful, but Mexico's government is getting weaker and more unpopular as a result. We already know that border surges are unpopular with the public in Mexico, bringing in crime, disorder, chaos, and fattened cartels flashing their gold to all the communities they pass through.
That's left Mexico in a bind, courtesy of Joe Biden and his foolish acts to incentivize illegal immigration for all comers. Biden has already broken his treaties with Mexico, and Biden's vice president, Kamala Harris, has already left the Mexicans unimpressed.
Now Biden's trying to invite more migrants in with his battle to end Title 42, which sends a clear message to would-be illegal migrants everywhere that the gate's open and there's no need to pay no attention to U.S. border law.
Only a moron of Joe Biden's caliber could fail to discern that this isn't going to go over well with Mexico. Relations will be damaged, and it may take years to repair them. Recall that President Trump had warm and constructive relations with the president of Mexico, despite the differences in the two men's politics. Biden, though, has put the U.S. on a collision course with Mexico, mismanaging this relationship as badly as he has so many others. Mexico, as the late Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz used to say, is the country for Mexico, for which there is "no possibility of divorce." That underlines that relations with Mexico — one of the U.S.'s biggest trade partners, by the way — have always got to be good relations, and that's not just for them, but for us. Mexico can do horrible things to us if relations are not managed properly — and as the warning shot at Del Rio demonstrated, it will. Feckless Joe Biden doesn't seem sentient enough to know this, let alone able to predict human nature. As Bob Gates has posited, he's "wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue."
The War America Should be Fighting
From Breitbart News, April 19:
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Four times as much fentanyl is flowing across the United States-Mexico border under President Joe Biden compared to two years prior when former President Trump was in office.
The U.S.-Mexican border exists in name only. Joe Biden erased it. His is a wanton act of disregard for the welfare, safety, and security of Americans. Impeachment is a must, should Republicans take charge of the U.S. House next January. Biden’s actions amount to willful dereliction of duty that constitutes “high crimes.” Ranking Biden administration officials running national security or law enforcement departments and agencies are culpable, too. They should be subject to removal proceedings.
The Biden administration is dropping Title 42 this May. That merely opens wider the floodgates to illegals and worse aggressions by Mexico’s cartels, which are pumping phenomenal amounts of killer drugs into the country. The mainland Chinese are accessories in this for-profit assault. Fentanyl and meth ingredients are produced by them. Those products are shipped to Mexican cartels, which finish the manufacture, then distribute and sell these poisons in the U.S. An estimate 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, a record. Human trafficking is a lucrative side venture for the cartels, too.
Lax border enforcement has occurred under Democrat and Republican administrations, but never has the southern border been deliberately undone.
President Trump aggressively addressed the border crisis, only to be fought by open border Democrats and stonewalled by pro-cheap labor Republicans.
Make no mistake, the southern border debacle is the result of intentional policy. Biden and Democrats are brazenly advancing the Democrat Party’s narrow political aims over America’s vital interests. Democrats seek new constituents and voters; illegals furnish both. The damage being done by this massive influx to communities across the nation has just begun. The longer-term harm caused by this invasion is incalculable.
From Just the News, April 19:
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Tuesday told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that illegal immigration is an "attack" on American sovereignty and a "conscious decision to rewrite the rules of civilization.
That’s not Gaetz grandstanding. An attack on U.S. sovereignty -- on the very fabric of American society -- is underway. Biden and Democrats are permitting the cartels and China to wage war against their own country.
From Yahoo!News, October 6, 2021:
MISSION, Texas -- Mexican cartel members dressed in military-like outfits and toting AK-47 rifles have been taunting U.S. soldiers assigned to the southern border, an unprecedented act of aggression, Texas authorities say.
We have to wrap our minds around this: the cartels aren’t mere criminal enterprises; they’re paramilitary outfits. They’ve got firepower like light infantry and employ terrorist tactics. Many of their members are corrupt ex-police and former Mexican military skilled and experienced in combat and killing. Mostly unreported in the U.S., a war is raging in Mexico among cartels vying for turf and power. Biden’s open borders practically ensures that that war migrates north.
Now, though, cartels are waging irregular warfare against the U.S. in cahoots with the PRC. Both are motived by profit, not territorial conquest, but the Chinese see advantages in vexing the U.S. by stoking the country’s violent drug trade and degrading society. Chinese criminal gangs are blamed for the trouble, but that’s naïve. Xi and the Communist Party have an iron grip on the mainland. So lucrative a trade isn’t happening without their knowledge and, dare say, the approval of Xi and his cronies. Xi’s goal is to replace the U.S. as the global superpower.
Law enforcement and cross-border policing in cooperation with the Mexican government -- such as it is -- aren’t defeating the cartels. The U.S. is fighting a version of the Vietnam War: there are drug interdiction and seizure metrics and body counts, in that some cartel members are captured or killed, but there’s no actual progress in winning the fight. Where’s the light at the end of the tunnel?
Enemies are defeated by destroying them. Destroying the cartels means U.S. military forces on ground in Mexico. This, then, requires Mexico’s cooperation. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador must permit U.S. military intervention in alliance with his military. Obrador surely worries about the ongoing threat posed by the cartels to the Mexican government’s authority and stability. He should have every incentive to end the terror cartels inflict on the Mexican people.
Yet, the U.S. may have to persuade Obrador with carrots and sticks. China increasingly has its hooks in the Mexican economy.
From Forbes, February 23:
Over the last few years China’s presence in Mexico has expanded in both legal and illegal activities. According to preliminary data, trade between China and Mexico topped $100 billion in 2021, a new record. Imports from China account for over 90% of total trade between China and Mexico. Chinese foreign direct investments in Mexico tallied $189 billion in 2020.
Moreover, the U.S. must call out and sanction the PRC for its role -- directly or indirectly -- as the cartels’ chief fentanyl supplier. No slaps on the wrist. Sanctions must be punitive, focusing on curtailment of trade and imposition of painful tariffs. The U.S., coordinating with the Mexican government, must interdict fentanyl and other illicit drug shipments from China or those routed through third parties.
A Republican Congress needs to put legislation on Biden’s (or Harris’) desk that finishes the wall and hikes budgets for the border patrol, DEA, and ICE. Calls must be made for military action cross border. Anticipating vetoes, Republicans should repeatedly present measures that underscore these aims. Voters in 2024 deserve to see how starkly different Republicans are from Democrats. America First Republicans must lead.
A southern border wall – perhaps, with Mexico’s consent, a security zone south of the wall – and greater policing are necessary defensive measures. As President Trump’s policies proved, a wall (where completed) and beefed-up border security curtailed the flow of illegals into the country. Among illegals are drug mules and gangsters, so keeping illegals out is critical. Yet border measures alone are inadequate.
The next president must enact a comprehensive “roundup and return” policy of illegals who will have entered the country during Biden’s term. Laws must be pursued that end “anchor babies” as illegals’ means of remaining in the U.S. Extensive sweeps of communities are required to remove the worst criminal elements that are now entering the country. States and localities have no constitutional right to establish “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens.
The cartels are run by ruthlessly ambitious, scheming men. The U.S. is their prime market. Cartel bosses are thoroughly incentivized to work overtime conniving ways to skirt obstacles. Hence, taking the fight to the cartels and destroying their networks and operations is imperative.
It’s important to note that while staunching the flow of drugs into the U.S. is critical, it isn’t the sole determiner in ending the drug scourge. Consumer demand drives cartels and others in the pursuit of profit. Hedonism and despair seem the principal motivators for Americans’ appetite for drugs. Modern culture is broken. The repair is a return to faith, traditional values, and intact families. Life must be valued as greater than a thrill or an escape from woes.
Yet, unscrupulous men will seek to exploit weaknesses for money and power. Their evil and the harm it’s inflicting on Americans cannot be permitted to stand. With courageous leaders, the U.S. can be made freer from the poison, violence, and societal rot that the drug trade brings.
The war Americans need to fight isn’t against the Russians in Ukraine. It’s right across the Rio Grande. It’s a war the U.S. must fight and win.
J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith. He also blogs at Flyover.
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