This by the way, isn't the only industrial scale operation that is being detected -- Fox News's Melugin also found a case where a huge stash of fentanyl from a border operation was found in California around the same time -- and a leftist D.A. actually let the smugglers of that cartel operation out on their own recognizance. The border is indeed open.
The wages of Biden's open border: 46 found dead in a San Antonio truck
So how's Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open border going, where Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas has said he has "operational control"?
According to Fox News:
At least 46 undocumented migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas and more than a dozen were hospitalized, authorities said.
Crews were at the 9600 block of Quintana Road where an 18-wheeler containing up to 100 migrants inside was found abandoned, Fox San Antonio reported. The discovery is part of what is believed to be a human smuggling operation.
"This is nothing short of a horrific human tragedy," San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said Monday night near the location where the tractor-trailer was found.
The temperature outside was reportedly 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The space had to have been constrained. There was no water. There was no air conditioner or cooling and it was a supposedly refrigerated truck. Some of the very few survivors were reportedly kids.
Some beast left the truck on a San Antonio street and didn't even unlock the back doors so that at least the migrants being smuggled could get out. The only reason the box of horror was discovered at all was because a passerby heard cries from the inside for help.
It doesn't matter if they were illegal border crossers at this point, they were human beings and nobody deserves to die a cruel suffocating death like that -- as some kind of misplaced or forgotten cargo, with some human smuggler stepping away to save himself from arrest perhaps. The size of the death count is comparable to that of a cartel massacre of migrants who didn't pay the crossing fees that happened in the north of Mexico years ago, after a mass grave was discovered.
Well, now the mass graves are happening here in the states, big ones, consistent with huge human smuggling syndicates and the cartel organized cash it takes to organize them. Freelance border coyotes taking a family at a time across the Rio Grande can't pull off these kinds of operations such as what was found in the truck, which had to have been an experienced operation. That means that someone out there enabled these illegal migrant organizations to get very, very big, both from extended "business," and from the cartel expectation that the truck would never be intercepted nor break down, or whatever it was that happened that led to the truck becoming an abandoned death chamber on a street in San Antonio. Cartels have reportedly been heard in TikTok videos bragging about all the money they were making from human smuggling.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans put the blame squarely where it belonged.
According to Fox News:
In a tweet, Abbott said Monday evening's discovery rests squarely on Biden. "At Least 42 People Found Dead Inside Truck Carrying Migrants In Texas. These deaths are on Biden," Abbott said, before officials raised the death count to at least 46.
The Republican governor also criticized Biden for not doing enough to secure the southern border.
"They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law," Abbott added.
Several other officials blamed the incident on Biden’s immigration policies, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who called the discovery "horrific" and "wrong.""How many more people have to die before Dems give a da--?" he asked, before making a reference to Biden’s border crisis.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican who represents Texas, also tweeted about the incident.
"Today in San Antonio it was 102 degrees. Imagine being abandoned inside an 18-wheeler left to die - 42 people died today - will @AliMayorkas even mention their names?" the lawmaker said, referencing Alejandro Mayorkas, who was nominated by Biden to lead the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
"Death count rises to 46 with another 16 in the hospital, to include 4 kids. Lord when will the nightmare end," the Republican added in another tweet.
To date, neither Biden, nor Mayorkas, nor border czar Kamala Harris have said a thing about this mass death of migrants at the hands of human smuggling syndicates.
Guilty consciences? Hopes the news cycle will move on to something more palatable? They claim operational control -- and it's pretty obvious they don't have anything like operational control.
There will undoubtedly be talk of getting to the bottom of it, but what's needed is action to ensure it can't happen. The border wall needs to go up. Cartel members and their allies should not be allowed to operate in this country. Human smuggling networks should be cracked down on. Illegal migrants, most of whom will take dangerous risks in the hands of cartels, must know that if they are caught in the states, they will be sent back, making the proposition of working with a cartel to get into America a far less attractive prospect.
Most of all, the border needs checks and controls from the U.S. and Mexican authorities, because abandoning it, as Mayorkas has done, has left it in the hands of cartels. This enhanced security will have to include, unfortunately, stricter inspections of international and cross-border transport trucks, which apparently have been pretty active on the human smuggling front, given this recent mass death incident.
A few weeks ago, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a deal with Mexico's border governors to enhance their border security in exchange for relaxed inspections of trucks. I saw a tweet yesterday by Bill Melugin which does not seem to be up there now, that the governor of Tampaulipas state has not been keeping his end of the bargain and has actually helped actively escort migrants into the south Texas corridors. If the tweet was deleted, it may have been incorrect information, or inadvertantly classified information, or perhaps I am wrong about the source, but if it's true, then the deal should be off and the gloves should be off about what gets inspected at the border. It's an issue that requires further investigation as a potential reason for this surge in dangerous cartel human smuggling traffic into the states.
This by the way, isn't the only industrial scale operation that is being detected -- Fox News's Melugin also found a case where a huge stash of fentanyl from a border operation was found in California around the same time -- and a leftist D.A. actually let the smugglers of that cartel operation out on their own recognizance. The border is indeed open.
In the meantime, where's Joe? Where's Mayorkas? Where's Kamala? This kind of mass death incident has happened once and you can bet it will happen again.
Somebody out there is making a lot of money smuggling illegal migrants into the states and now that they are trafficking in industrial scale volume, human life is getting very, very cheap.
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“The figures indicate that fentanyl seizures under [President Joe] Biden, last year alone, have quadrupled since Fiscal Year 2019 when [former President Donald] Trump was in office, ” per Breitbart News.
In April, California authorities in Alameda County seized up to 90 pounds of fentanyl, which was worth a total of $4.2 million.
Biden sends US troops back into Somalia
The Biden administration has ordered the redeployment of 450 US soldiers to Somalia at the request of the Pentagon. Government officials state the decision is aimed at countering the advances of the Islamist group al-Shabab, which controls much of the countryside in southern and central Somalia.
Biden’s decision is a reversal of a Trump administration order to remove 700 US soldiers from the country and deploy them to neighboring countries in January 2021. Trump portrayed the action as part of his campaign promise to roll back US involvement in “forever wars,” though US troops continued to conduct military activities inside of Somalia from their new bases in neighboring Kenya and Djibouti.
The stated goal of the redeployment is to target a dozen leaders of al-Shabab, which is considered a terrorist organization by the US government, and to “maximize the safety and effectiveness of our forces and enable them to provide more efficient support to our partners,” according to Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council in an interview with the New York Times.
Al-Shabab has been engaged in military confrontations with the central Somali government for over 15 years and has been the target of repeated US military operations and airstrikes. Having consolidated control over large parts of the country, the organization is believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 armed fighters and close ties to Al Qaeda.
Several deadly bombings have been linked to the group, including a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu in 2017 that killed at least 587 people.
Capitalizing on the violent tactics and Islamist ideology of al-Shabab and other groups, the United States has used the threat of terrorism to justify military involvement in the impoverished East African country for 30 years. According to CNN, a senior Biden administration official argued that al-Shabab had the “intent and capability to target Americans.”
However, it should be noted such concern for the safety of American citizens was not shown to the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a dual US and Palestinian citizen assassinated by Israeli forces last week.
The Bush and Clinton administrations understood the strategic importance of Somalia for controlling trade through the Suez Canal and Red Sea. Up to $700 billion in maritime shipping passes by Somalia every year, encompassing nearly all trade between Europe and Asia. Seeking to establish US control over the region amid the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US imperialism sought to impose its domination through military force.
The campaign resulted in disaster, however, when the Battle of Mogadishu ended in the deaths of 19 US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis, including civilians, in October 1993. Better known as the “Black Hawk Down” incident, the failure of the US to control local warlords resulted in a drawback of direct US involvement.
For the next 15 years US imperialism took on a reserve role in Somali politics. However, the rise of al-Shabab in the mid-2000s prompted the US to steadily increase its military involvement throughout the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations. Obama authorized multiple airstrikes against top al-Shabab leaders and the Trump administration increased troop deployments up to 700 soldiers before announcing his plan to withdraw them.
Significantly, reporting of Biden’s decision corresponds with the election of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president of Somalia. He was sworn in this Monday.
Returning for a second term after his previous term from 2012 to 2017, Mohamud’s election ends a 15-month period of crisis after outgoing President Mohamed Abdulahi Farmaajo attempted to extend his term by two years, throwing the country into further violent clashes between rival clans and political groups.
Farmaajo was defeated by Mohamud by a vote of 110 to 214 in the legislature. Somalia’s elections do not include the 15 million people who live in the country. Instead, clan elders select delegates to represent them in parliamentary elections. The parliament then elects the president itself without any direct input from the general populace. Effectively, only a few hundred people have the right to vote in federal elections.
Mohamud is a member of the Hawiye, one of the five largest and most politically influential clans in Somalia. He also leads the Union for Peace and Development Party, which currently controls a majority in both legislative chambers, securing his victory.
In an insult to the very concept of democracy, the US State Department issued a statement congratulating “the people of Somalia on the conclusion of their national electoral process.” It continued by congratulating Mohamud on his election and encouraged him to “prioritize strengthening democratic governance and institutions.” How Mohamud is supposed to strengthen something that does not exist is unclear.
Despite claiming to be defending democracy in Ukraine, the United States is not concerned with democracy in Somalia as long as its leaders are beholden to its imperialist aims. Mohamud was voted out of office in 2017 due to the intense levels of corruption and political infighting. Despite this, his return to office was facilitated by the United States, which took action to sanction Somali officials by restricting visas on the grounds that they were “undermining the democratic process in the country.”
International donors also threatened to withdraw $400 million in loans from the International Monetary Fund unless Farmaajo ceased his efforts to stall new elections.
The US now has its favored puppet, but it will not solve the intense social crisis in Somalia. Severe drought and decades of war have displaced hundreds of thousands and left 6 million people in acute food insecurity, including 1.4 million children. The US/NATO war against Russia in Ukraine has worsened the situation in Somalia, which relies on imports from both countries for 90 percent of its wheat supply.
Such conditions are what allows al-Shabab to persist, even thrive, despite regular attacks by the US, Somali government and African Union forces.
Al-Shabab has consolidated its power to operate effectively as its own state. It collects taxes, runs its own courts, organized a COVID-19 medical care site and has even issued a ban on single-use plastic bags in areas it occupies. According to Omar Mahmood, a senior Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group, al-Shabab is now often capable of “providing services that are more competitive than the federal government.”
The fact that US imperialism is not concerned with even attempting to alleviate these conditions is shown by the fact that three successive administrations have conducted military operations within Somalia without any clearly stated plan or end goal. Now US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is calling for a “persistent US military presence in Somalia” indicating that the US does not intend to leave anytime soon.
The ultimate goal of the US is to strengthen its hold on the strategic region in its pursuit of a confrontation with China. Should war with China break out, the US could use Somalia as a chokepoint for shutting down Chinese trade through the Suez Canal to Europe. The claims of countering al-Shabab are merely conducive to this end.
“The figures indicate that fentanyl seizures under [President Joe] Biden, last year alone, have quadrupled since Fiscal Year 2019 when [former President Donald] Trump was in office, ” per Breitbart News.
El Paso Cop Gets Federal Prison Time for Helping Family Drug Business
A police officer from El Paso will spend two years in prison for her role in helping her stepfather run a cocaine distribution operation out of his house.
This week, 24-year-old Monica Lisette Garcia, an El Paso police officer at the time of the criminal offense, went before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Guadarrama and received a 24-month prison sentence on a drug conspiracy charge. Garcia previously pleaded guilty to one of four drug trafficking charges on August 9, 2021, as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Garcia used her position with the El Paso Police Department to help her stepfather Fred Saenz avoid detection by law enforcement while he ran a cocaine distribution operation. Saenz would sell drugs out of his house and would have a separate location to stash drug shipments. Garcia would carry out counter-surveillance and run license plates of vehicles in an attempt to find undercover officers that would get near the operation.
The matter began in August 2020, when El Paso police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents got information about a street-level drug distribution operation that sold high-quality cocaine called “scama.” Authorities carried out multiple undercover buys and set up a surveillance operation on Saenz’s house. In November 2020, authorities arrested Saenz and one month later they arrested Garcia. Saenz pleaded guilty to one count of drug conspiracy out of a total of four drug charges that had been filed against him. He received a sentence of three and a half years in prison.
Court documents do not mention the source of Saenz’s cocaine or if the case is tied to a Mexican drug cartel.
Luisana Moreno is a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas.
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