Tuesday, April 26, 2022

VIDEO - BIDENOMICS HITS LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles, once a magnet for middle class aspirations, has one of the highest poverty rates among major U.S. cities.

 .................... AS JOE IMPORTS MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.

How does such a failed state survive? Well, the rich live in well-protected gated communities and attend a climate change seminar often to feel relevant. The poor, and whatever is left of the middle class, have to survive the crime, high cost of living and a collapse of law and order.

THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HANDS ILLEGALS MORE THAN $1.3 BILLION, NOT MILLION, IN WELFARE.


Outrageous Homeless Crisis Los Angeles CA



LOS ANGELES = MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY

Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant

Welfare


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/04/study-more-than-7-in-10-california-immigrant-households-are-on-welfare/

 

More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.



Our third world country on the West Coast

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

A few years ago, a friend from Brazil visited Los Angeles and was appalled with what he saw.   He called it a third world country, a rather amazing comment since my friend lives in Sao Paulo.  He said that LA is not what he remembered 25 years ago.  It was sad, or so he said.

Well, California is in decline no matter how wonderful the climate is.  Just ask the people who live there like Joel Kotkin:   

Despite the state’s myriad advantages, research shows it plagued by economic immobility and inequality, crushing housing and energy costs, and a failing education system. 

Worse than just a case of progressive policies creating regressive outcomes, it appears California is descending into something resembling modern-day feudalism, with the poor and weak trapped by policies subsidized by taxes paid by the rich and powerful.

California may conjure images of Rodeo Drive and Malibu mansions in the public imagination, but today the state suffers the highest cost-adjusted poverty rate in the U.S. 

The poor and near-poor constitute over one third -- well over 10 million -- of the state’s residents according to the Public Policy Institute of California. 

Los Angeles, by far the state’s largest metropolitan area, and once a magnet for middle class aspirations, has one of the highest poverty rates among major U.S. cities. 

A United Way of California analysis shows that over 30 percent of residents lack sufficient income to cover basic living costs even after accounting for public-assistance programs; this includes half of Latino and 40 percent of black residents. 

Some two-thirds of noncitizen Latinos live at or below the poverty line.

How does such a failed state survive? Well, the rich live in well-protected gated communities and attend a climate change seminar often to feel relevant. The poor, and whatever is left of the middle class, have to survive the crime, high cost of living and a collapse of law and order.

Normally, such a political class would be thrown out of office by angry voters.  Incredibly, the Democrats have achieved the winning formula: they win elections while refusing to take care of their constituents. I don't know how they do it but they do it.

So don't expect anyone to record a tune about California dreaming.   

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How does such a failed state survive? Well, the rich live in well-protected gated communities and attend a climate change seminar often to feel relevant. The poor, and whatever is left of the middle class, have to survive the crime, high cost of living and a collapse of law and order.

Business owners considering arming themselves amid crime surge





LA Residents got What They Wanted: Criminals Who Aren’t Afraid

By Michael A. Letts

This is what the people of Los Angeles wanted. They put their police force on a short leash, blaming the overworked officers for the least amount of violence against criminals while at the same time absolving the criminals of responsibility. It has led to increasing numbers of officers leaving the force or retiring early. With fewer officers on the street and those that are being hesitant to act, the criminals are taking advantage of the situation.

The Los Angeles Police Department recently started warning people not to wear expensive jewelry in public, or they might become the target of thieves. Thieves have become so brazen that they smashed in the front window of Luxury Jewels, a Beverly Hills jewelry store, in broad daylight and fled with merchandise estimated to be worth $3 to $5 million dollars.

“We’re in the heart of Beverly Hills. Who thought this would happen in broad daylight?” Owner Peter Sedghi said.

“Over the last year, there has been a marked increase of armed robberies involving victims wearing expensive jewelry while in public. If it is visible, it can be a target,” an LAPD statement said.

The Associated Press also reported about other high-end robberies. “In one case, the armed thieves allegedly stole more than $3,600 worth of jewelry from a man at a mall parking garage. In the other incident, one victim was pistol-whipped and the other had their Rolex and phone stolen at gunpoint during a follow-home robbery,” according to the AP.

In the city of Los Angeles alone, robberies are up 18 percent this year compared to the same time in 2021. Robberies with a firearm are up 44 percent in the same time period across the city.

This means that not only is there a greater chance that a victim may be shot, but police responding to the incident are also endangered. Because of the growing exodus of police officers, police departments are working to put new officers on the street faster. This could be a mistake for a couple of reasons. One, officers need to be trained on how to respond properly to a situation. Lack of training is one of the reasons often cited as why police reputations have taken a hit. Two, those new officers need to have it drilled into them to always wear personal protective gear when dealing with the public. Nowadays, they often aren’t because they are being taught to understand the criminal and not trigger them to violence.

In November 2021, detectives from the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division formed a Follow-Home Task Force to investigate crimes where people are targeted by criminals and tailed home or to an isolated area. It focused on areas of the city that were wealthier and had high-end businesses.

“The victims were being targeted based on the high-end jewelry they were wearing or the high-end car they were driving,” police said in a statement when the task force was announced.

Don’t expect it to be enough -- and not because the police aren’t doing their jobs. They are risking their lives to capture criminals, only to have liberal district attorneys and judges release them or give them a soft sentence.

When there’s no fear of punishment, you can’t expect the bad behavior to stop.

“You can’t blame the cops. Between the defunding movements, the race hoaxes, and the revolving doors in prosecutors’ offices, what are the police supposed to do? They’re under-staffed, under-funded, under fire, and at constant risk of becoming the corporate media’s hate object of the week. A police department can’t function at 100 percent under those circumstances,” states a Breitbart article by John Nolte.

You also have a problem when people ignore simple rules that will help keep them safe, such as heeding the advice of the police and not wearing expensive jewelry. While some people have paid attention, there are others like Brenda Nolan, a 70-year-old woman who believed she could defend herself against armed robbers because she knows karate. It sounds like she may believe too many of the movies they make in Los Angeles.

Sadly, she and other residents may wind up becoming victims of the criminals believed to be misunderstood and who don’t deserve to be punished.

It is reminiscent of something parents sometimes say about destructive children. It applies to the Democrats in Los Angeles and their soft stance on crime. “They’re the reason we can’t have nice things.”

Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. 


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On March 29, 2022, Breitbart News pointed out robberies with a gun were up 44 percent in gun-controlled Los Angeles.


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25 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANm7FAKuCw0

The rest of the world sees America as the wealthiest nation on the entire planet. But when we take a closer look at the hardships our population is facing, we can rapidly realize that there's a tremendous amount of financial suffering in the United States, and that's getting dramatically worse with each passing year. Today, more money goes towards the pockets of the rich than ever before. Over the past few decades, we've been witnessing the greatest event of wealth transfer in the history of our nation without even realizing it. While billionaire CEOs like Mark Zuckenberg make over a million times more than the average American worker every year, many families out there, whose parents work themselves to the bone every single day, will still struggle to find what to eat and where to sleep with their children tonight. Extreme poverty continues to grow all across the country. According to an analysis released by the University of Chicago, at least 336,000 households with children live on less than two dollars a day. That’s a group known as the ultra-poor. Amid skyrocketing housing and rent prices, at least 600,000 Americans remain in a group known as the “unhoused”. “Right now, we are still trending in the wrong direction,” explained Anthony Love, interim executive director at the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. “When the public is told that one particular policy is going to end homelessness, what they’re expecting is that they’re going to see fewer homeless people around,” added Stephen Eide, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. What they haven’t considered yet is that housing has to come first, Eide stressed. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the rest of the population is worsening. On average, the top 1% of earners make 20 times more than the bottom 90% every year. The wealth disparity grows the higher up the ladder we climb. Even the mid-level one-percenters can’t reach the gigantic amounts earned by the ultra-rich. These disparities, make us question whether the US is indeed a rich nation or a nation for the rich. The answer is up to interpretation, but you can have a clearer picture about this issue at the end of this video. Today, we gathered some staggering stats that expose that poverty in the United States is wildly out of control. Here are 25 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind.  For more info, find us on: https://www.epiceconomist.com/


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A FEW MORE REASONS WHY JOE BIDEN FACES DEPORTATION TO GITMO - Missouri AG: 'It's a Completely Open Border. It's Up to the States to Push Back.'

 

Missouri AG: 'It's a Completely Open Border. It's Up to the States to Push Back.'

By Susan Jones | April 26, 2022 | 7:02am EDT

  
An aerial view of illegal aliens attemptingn to cross the Rio Grande river between Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila state, Mexico and Del Rio, Texas. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)
An aerial view of illegal aliens attemptingn to cross the Rio Grande river between Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila state, Mexico and Del Rio, Texas. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - A federal judge in Louisiana issued a temporary restraining order late Monday preventing the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 on May 23, as planned.

Under Title 42, imposed by the federal Centers for Disease Control when Donald Trump was president, many would-be illegal immigrants are turned away at the southwest border in the interests of public health -- COVID, in this case.

President Biden has come under pressure from immigration advocates to lift the order, which his CDC was planning to do, despite warnings that lifting it will produce a massive surge in immigration, on top of the records already being set.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt represents one of the 21 Republican-led states that sued to restrain the Biden administration:

"Yeah, so Missouri, Louisiana, Arizona originally filed this action to prevent Joe Biden from ending Title 42, which was a very successful measure under President Trump to help control the flow of illegal immigration at the border," Schmitt told Fox News's Laura Ingraham on Monday night:

"Put that in context, Laura -- about 50 percent of the expulsions are related to Title 42. So, if you get rid of Title 42 right now, you're going to see about 18,000 people a day, that's an estimate. That is a massive number, it's certainly an increase. There is no good time to do that, but certainly right now you're going to see a seasonal surge anyway. So our states brought this action."

Schmitt criticized the Biden administration's "level of lawlessness" at the "completely open border." "So it's up to the states to push back," he said. "That's what we did. So we got a victory today, which is good, but we'll be back in court on May 13th."

At the White House on Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki repeated something she's said before: "The president's view is that we have a broken immigration system that's been long overdue to be fixed. He agrees with that, and is certainly happy to discuss that during this meeting or any other meeting he has with members of Congress."

Psaki also noted that Title 42 "is not an immigration policy. This -- Title 42 is a health authority that's determined by the CDC. And we -- we need to have a conversation about immigration reform. That's vital. Maybe this is a reminder of that," she said.

Attorney General Schmitt said the Biden administration wants "tens of millions of folks" to enter the country illegally: "By some estimates, over Biden's four years, that could be 30 million people. That's the State of Texas. That's five Missouri’s, okay, of people coming here illegally, sent on midnight flights around the country.

"The Democrats right now are playing for keeps. They want to pack the court, they want to add states to the union, They want to federalize the elections, and now they want to add a whole Texas of illegal immigrants to this country.

"So it's up to the states to push back. That's what we're doing. But, this is shocking. And this is the playbook, which is to open the border and provide amnesty. They are saying the quiet part out loud now, Laura, and it's really disgusting."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is among the liberals who want to get rid of Title 42: "Look, Title 42 is not consistent with our values and it doesn't keep us safer," Warren told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.

"The Biden administration is putting plans in place to deal with people who are asking for amnesty and humanitarian relief at the border. But, keep in mind, we need comprehensive immigration reform. And that's something all the Democrats are on board for.

"We have to work out the details. We still need to be in that fight, though. That's where we need to make significant change."

'Catastrophic'

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that if the Biden administration lifts Title 42 -- something that's now temporarily delayed -- "it will be catastrophic for the United States of America."

Abbott noted that Biden's own Department of Homeland Security has estimated that about 18,000 people a day will flood across the border without fear of being turned around for public health reasons: "Do the math on that," he said, "and you will find it means that more than six million people will be coming across the border a year.

"And about half of those would be in the state of Texas, that we would have coming across the border in one year more people than are the residents of our largest city in Texas, which is Houston. We would be adding more than one Houston a year.

"There's no way the state of Texas can assimilate those people. And there's no way the United States can assimilate that number of people. And so what Joe Biden is doing is far more than reckless. It's the most disastrous thing to the United States of America anybody's ever witnessed in our lifetime."

Abbott noted that he's had to take border matters into his own hands:

"And I have negotiated landmark historic deals with the governors of Mexican states that are adjacent to Texas, where these Mexican states are going to step up, and they are going to start securing the border.

"And that's on top of things that Texas has done that's never been done before in the history of America, such as Texas building its own border wall, Texas laying down miles or razor wire to prevent people from coming across a border, creating boat blockades.

"And I will tell you this, something else has never happened before, and that is, the Texas National Guard -- they have turned back more than 15,000 people who attempted to come across the border illegally. So, Texas is doing everything we possibly can to contain a completely out-of-control border situation. This the worst that I have ever seen it."

Abbott also is sending busloads of illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., something he said he will continue to do -- to "make the Biden administration deal with it in person."

The governor noted that the State of Texas also is awaiting a Supreme Court hearing on the Biden administration's refusal to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy, as ordered by a federal court. "And the Biden administration has completely ignored it," he said.

"And surely, the Supreme Court will rule in our favor, hopefully. But no one is holding Biden accountable for his reckless decision to ignore all of these policies that previously had led to the lowest number of illegal crossings in decades.

"It's time for the Biden administration to start following the laws passed by Congress," Abbott added.


Last month alone, Biden released more than 80,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior — a population larger than his hometown of Scranton, Pennyslvania. 

                                                                              JOHN BINDER

Exclusive: Biden’s DHS Acts as ‘Full Service Travel Agency’ for Illegal Aliens Arriving at Southern Border

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SAN DIEGO, California — Sources within President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say they are acting as a “full service travel agency” for illegal aliens arriving at the United States-Mexico border thanks to the president’s expansive Catch and Release network.

“We’re like a full service travel agency,” a DHS source told Breitbart News of the agency’s role in shuttling, transporting, and flying border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities after their arrival at the border.

Another source described DHS’s role in Biden’s Catch and Release network as operating like the ride-sharing app Uber.

“We’re aiding and abetting illegal entry to the United States,” the source said. “We’re using government cars to transport people to American towns. It’s working like an Uber service.”

The Catch and Release network typically involves border crossers and illegal aliens arriving between or at ports of entry before being briefly apprehended by federal immigration officials and then turned over to various taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for release into American communities.

One source told Breitbart News that DHS is dropping off border crossers and illegal aliens at bus stops and airports, sometimes with ankle monitors — one of Biden’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs. In many cases, the source said officials witness border crossers and illegal aliens ripping the monitors off and dumping them in the trash can before heading to a number of U.S. cities and towns.

An ankle monitor is seen on a migrant woman from El Salvador, recently released from federal detention with fellow Central American asylum seekers, at a bus depot on June 12, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP via Getty Images)

“We see the ankle monitors being cut off and thrown away at the airport when they were boarding flights into the U.S.,” the source said.

High-ranking agency officials who briefed four House Republicans last week admitted that the agency is only specifically focused on detaining and prosecuting illegal aliens who have committed crimes. Most others are released into the U.S. interior.

Should Biden end Title 42, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) public health authority used to stem illegal immigration, a source said, “Everyone [arriving at the border] is going to be transported” to American communities by DHS.

Biden’s Catch and Release network has released foreign populations into the U.S. interior in numbers greater than the population of many major American cities. For instance, from January 2021 to February 2022, Biden released more than 765,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities, not including illegal aliens who successfully crossed the border undetected or Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who were resettled by the federal government.

Last month alone, Biden released more than 80,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior — a population larger than his hometown of Scranton, Pennyslvania.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 


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Texas Border Democrat: 'We Need to Listen to The Border Communities'

By Susan Jones | April 25, 2022 | 6:42am EDT

  

Would-be asylum seekers protest against Title 42 on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro Crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 21, 2022. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)
Would-be asylum seekers protest against Title 42 on the Mexican side of the San Ysidro Crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 21, 2022. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, keeps urging the Biden administration to stop the record pace of illegal immigration, to no avail.

He anticipates that the illegal flow will only get worse on May 23, when the Biden administration lifts Title 42, the COVID public health measure that allows authorities to bar entry to some illegal aliens.

"You know, we told them, but they said they're going to continue with Title -- you know, lifting the Title 42,” Cuellar told “Fox News Sunday.”

"But the thing is, yes, they're listening to the immigration activists, but my question is, who's listening to the men and women in green and in blue? And more importantly, who's listening to the border communities, the sheriffs, the landowners, the -- you know, the rest of the people who live on the border.

"Yesterday, I was in Starr County. You mentioned Roma -- I was in Roma where they found that 2-year-old young kid. And I was in Roma. And I was with a lot of people there, not only public officials, but other folks. And none of them said, yes, go ahead and lift Title 42. None of them said open up the border.

"They're very concerned because they're on the frontline, and they're the ones that I think we need to listen to. We need to listen to the border communities."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it encountered 221,303 people illegally crossing the southwest border in March alone -- a monthly record, which works out to 7,138 people a day.

The chart below shows how the pace of illegal immigration has accelerated under President Joe Biden's lenient border policies.

(Chart from CBP website)
(Chart from CBP website)

There are so many foreigners pouring into this country that "about 60 percent of the men and women in green are not on the field, they're not at the border, but they're actually at the border processing centers," Cuellar told "Fox News Sunday."

"So, think about this," Cuellar said. "It's like having a school and we're only teaching with 40 percent of the teachers and the other 60 percent are not teaching. That's what we're seeing, except it's a law enforcement.

"So what we're seeing is large numbers coming in. The messages are going out to the smugglers and to the migrants that says on May 23rd, you can go ahead and come in, and Border Patrol is only working with 40 percent of its men and women. And that provides us a very difficult situation down here at the border."

Cuellar said the lifting of Title 42 is a bonus to the transnational criminal organizations, which charge about $8,000 per person for their human smuggling services.

"And remember, the last six months, there were over a million encounters and doesn't even include the getaways. You multiply that by an average of $8,000, that's over 8 million -- $8 billion that they made, and that doesn't even include drugs.

“So it's a message that's going out there. And what makes it difficult is you got people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the problem is those countries are not being very cooperative when we try to return those folks.

"We got to extend the perimeter -- the U.S.-Mexico border should not be the one-yard line. We need to make sure that if somebody passes through our country where they can ask for humanitarian relief or they can ask for asylum, then they need stay in those countries, instead of passing countries all the way up here to the border and past countries that can provide them asylum and relief, but they only think the only place they can get asylum is in the United States."

Cuellar said communities throughout the United States are "starting to feel the impact that we see here at the border," as the illegal aliens are transported to places in the interior, including Washington, D.C.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus reportedly plans to meet today with White House officials to urge the lifting of Title 42.

Cuellar noted that he and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) are the only two members of that caucus who want Title 42 to stay in place.

"And the rest of them are going to say go ahead and lift it.

"But again, my question is this: how can you ask for international travelers to make sure they have -- they're vaccinated or even show their COVID-19 negative tests if they fly in? How can we have the emergency -- federal public emergency extended to July 15th and say there's a pandemic going on in the United States, but at the border, everything's fine and just let people in into the United States?

"That just -- those are mixed messages."


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“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, you’d give him an A-plus, but theAmerican people would give him an F. The crisis at our border was not only entirely predictable, it was predicted. I predicted that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s what’s happened since the election.”

                                                                               SEN. TOM COTTON


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

By J. Robert Smith

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.


NAFTA JOE BIDEN = DRUG DEALER

Jesse Watters: Why is Biden betraying us?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkARlNJeyI


How California Law Created A Massive Marijuana Black Market | John Nores Jr.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0gX0vKWjM

Border Town USA: Migrants Busted in Michigan with Mexican Cartel’s 20K Fentanyl Pills

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/04/joe-bidens-sabotage-of-homeland_19.html


JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico. PATRICK BUCHANAN

California Detectives Seize 90 Pounds of Fentanyl: Enough to Kill Millions of Americans

Alameda County Sheriff's Office detectives and their partners at the Narcotics Task Force recovered 92.5 pounds of illicit fentanyl at locations in Oakland and Hayward. Photo courtesy ACSO Facebook page.
Alameda County Sheriff's Office Facebook
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The Alameda County Narcotics Task Force conducted the biggest drug bust in the county’s history, seizing 90 pounds of fentanyl Friday that authorities said have a street value of $4.2 million, according to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

Lt. Ray Kelly, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said detectives found a fentanyl manufacturing lab last week after serving two search warrants in Oakland and Hayward in the California Bay Area.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the operation, which involved enough fentanyl to kill millions of Americans:

Detectives at the manufacturing lab found 92.58 pounds of fentanyl and two illegal firearms. One suspect involved in the manufacturing of fentanyl was taken into custody, and authorities are searching for a second suspect “on the run,” Kelly said. Neither suspects’ identities nor the exact location of the fentanyl lab were disclosed.

Bay Area public health officials say fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more potent than heroin, has been the driver of the region’s opioid epidemic in recent years. About seven in 10 drug-related deaths in San Francisco involve fentanyl, according to figures from the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the illicit drug can be lethal even in small amounts.

The sheriff’s office noted on their Facebook account that “per the dea.gov one kilogram of fentanyl can kill 500,000 people.”

“This shows you just how prolific our fentanyl problem is,” Kelly said in the article. “Every day, people in the Bay Area continue to overdose, young people suffering from addiction, and they’re dying at unacceptable rates. So this is just one dent that we feel we took.”

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Border Town USA: Migrants Busted in Michigan with Mexican Cartel’s 20K Fentanyl Pills

Sterling Heights Police Department

BOB PRICE

19 Apr 20220

2:47

Police in Sterling Heights, Michigan, arrested two illegal immigrants following a vehicle pursuit. The officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills allegedly transported for a Mexican cartel.

Sterling Heights police attempted to stop a BMW on April 8. The driver refused to yield, Fox2 Michigan reported this week.

The chase ended when the driver pulled into a dead-end road and fled on foot. Officers arrested him not far from the vehicle.

During a search of the BMW, the officers found more than 20,000 fentanyl pills disguised as OxyContin. In addition, the officers found more than 500 grams of powdered fentanyl.

In addition to the driver, the officers also arrested a female passenger. Both allegedly told the officers they were Mexican nationals in the U.S. illegally and were working for an unidentified drug cartel, WDIV Detroit reported.
Officials estimated the street value of the drugs to be in excess of $350,000. They said there was enough fentanyl to kill “thousands of Michiganders.”

The CDC reports that fentanyl is now the leading cause of death between the ages of 18 and 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl.

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott initiated Operation Lone Star to counter the influx of the deadly substance amid border policy shifts by the Biden Administration.

“When you look at the fact that we’ve apprehended enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in Texas, and the fact that fentanyl is the leading cause of death in the United States for people between the age of 18 and 45,” Abbott said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart in March. “In Texas, more than 1,300 people lost their lives last year because of fentanyl,” the governor added.

“The Texas Military Department said that from March 2021 through earlier this month, its troops near the border confiscated more than 1,200 pounds (540 kilograms) of fentanyl,” the governor said in an AP interview reported by Breitbart. “By comparison, federal authorities reported confiscating about 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilograms) in 2021 — still a fraction of what entered the country.”

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 and Facebook.

 

Pelosi on Legalizing Marijuana: 'I'm All for It'

By Susan Jones | March 31, 2022 | 11:45am EDT


(CNSNews.com) - At many of her news conferences, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) talks about her concern for children -- "my reason to be here" (in the Congress), she said again on Thursday.

Also at Thursday's news conference, Pelosi expressed her support for the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, which decriminalizes marijuana and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. "I'm all for it," she said.

The bill also makes other changes (see below) --  including a name change -- "cannabis" instead of "marijuana" in federal legislation:

"The MORE Act that is on the floor today," Pelosi said in her opening remarks. "It's a major criminal reform bill that helps end the racial and economic injustice of marijuana decriminalization. It, ah, it's -- we're very proud of the work that has gone into it, and we would hope that it has support in the Senate."

Pelosi said the bill "is about justice."

Later, a reporter asked Pelosi what concerns Americans may have about the bill.

She noted that many states already have decriminalized marijuana, "and so this is consistent with what is happening in many states across the country. And it also addresses the injustices of it, because of what penalties had been (imposed) before the decriminalization took place. So I'm all for it," she said.

Pelosi then mentioned the "fact" that marijuana exists, is being used, and "we've got to address how it is treated legally and not in a way that mistreats people on the lower income scale -- not says, if you're wealthy, you can be engaged in all of this, but if you’re not, there are barriers to your even getting banking services in order to do it. So it's a fact of life that needed appropriate public policy to address it."

The MORE Act also:

--replaces statutory references to marijuana and marihuana with cannabis,

--requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to regularly publish demographic data on cannabis business owners and employees,

--establishes a trust fund to support various programs and services for individuals and businesses in communities impacted by the war on drugs,

--imposes an excise tax on cannabis products produced in or imported into the United States and an occupational tax on cannabis production facilities and export warehouses,

--makes Small Business Administration loans and services available to entities that are cannabis-related legitimate businesses or service providers,

--prohibits the denial of federal public benefits to a person on the basis of certain cannabis-related conduct or convictions,

--prohibits the denial of benefits and protections under immigration laws on the basis of a cannabis-related event (e.g., conduct or a conviction),

--establishes a process to expunge convictions and conduct sentencing review hearings related to federal cannabis offenses, and

--directs the Government Accountability Office to study the societal impact of cannabis legalization.

 

Meth disguised as onions in California drug bust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKoLpXYdk_E&list=WL&index=14

 

NAFTA JOE BIDEN = DRUG DEALER

Jesse Watters: Why is Biden betraying us?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efkARlNJeyI

 

 

How California Law Created A Massive Marijuana Black Market | John Nores Jr.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0gX0vKWjM

 

 

2,000 members of Mexican National Guard sent to Tijuana to deal with cartel caused violence

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WpqRS7A5Q

 

Ordinary people are taking the law into their own hands to counter cartel threat

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqjAZhJobE

 

Tom Cotton: Joe Biden Will Keep Foreign Drug Dealers in U.S.

NEIL MUNRO

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden’s administration amid evidence that his deputies want to minimize the deportation of illegal migrants who are caught dealing deadly drugs.

“It’s the Biden administration policy to allow illegal aliens to stay in America even after they: -Deal fentanyl and heroin -Commit fraud -Commit assault -Drive drunk -Launder money,” Cotton tweeted February 8.

“More than 80,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year. And the Biden administration just announced that deporting illegal alien cartel members who deal with fentanyl and heroin is no longer a priority for his administration,” he added.

For more than 20 years, many Americans have been killed by drunk-driving illegals, including many killed after federal and state officials decide not to deport illegals.

It's the Biden administration policy to allow illegal aliens to stay in America even after they:

-Deal fentanyl and heroin
-Commit fraud
-Commit assault
-Drive drunk
-Launder moneyhttps://t.co/Vr0RhYAJQV

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) February 8, 2021

The Washington Post reported February 7 how Biden’s deputies are changing deportation priorities for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency:

While ICE’s new operational plans are not yet final, interim instructions sent to senior officials point to a major shift in enforcement. Agents will no longer seek to deport immigrants for crimes such as driving under the influence and assault, and will focus instead on national security threats, recent border crossers and people completing prison and jail terms for aggravated felony convictions.

“Generally, these convictions would not include drug based crimes (less serious offenses), simple assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, or charges without convictions,” acting director Tae Johnson told senior officials in a Thursday email advising them on how to operate while new guidelines are finalized.

“The priority for the enforcement of immigration laws will be on those who are imposing a national security threat, of course, a public safety threat, and on recent arrivals,” Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the February 8 White House press briefing:

Nobody is saying that DUIs or assaults are acceptable behavior, and those arrested for such activities should be tried and sentenced as appropriate by local law enforcement. But we’re talking about the prioritization of who is going to be deported from the country.

The priority list for deportations also excludes migrants who take American’ jobs and wages. This policy will largely abandon the task of protecting Americans’ right to a national labor market.

Biden has repeatedly declared he wants to make the nation’s immigration system more “fair” to migrants. Since January 20, he has minimized deportations, stopped construction of the border wall, offered an amnesty to migrants, broken anti-migration deals with three counties, and has lowered legal barriers to migration.

However, he has said little or nothing about how he will protect Americans’ rights, wages, safe streets, and reasonable housing from foreign criminals or job seekers. A February 2 statement said:

President Biden’s strategy is centered on the basic premise that our country is safer, stronger, and more prosperous with a fair, safe and orderly immigration system that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and allows people—both newly arrived immigrants and people who have lived here for generations—to more fully contribute to our country.

Amid Biden’s inrush of migrants and shutdown of deportations, more than 20 million Americans are unemployed or are stuck in part-time jobs.

Biden is also rolling back protections for American graduates, who have lost at least one million jobs because Fortune 500 CEOs and their subcontractors have hired more than 1 million foreign graduates for jobs sought by Americans.

In a separate tweet, Cotton lambasted Biden’s team for dropping a rule that would protect American graduate from losing jobs to H-1B graduate visa-workers who are willing to work for low wages in the hope of getting green cards:

Big Tech abuses the H-1B visa program to hire cheap foreign labor instead of Americans. That isn’t good for American workers, but the Biden administration is letting companies get away with it.https://t.co/YIolIoyqJl

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 5, 2021

For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration — or the hiring of temporary contract workers into the jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

The multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, priority-driven, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and immigration in theory.

Joe Biden's deputies attack Americans' right to their own national labor market, by quietly barring the deportation of illegal migrants who take Americans' wages and jobs.
That labor policy helps corporate donors.
But hurts blue collars & college grads. https://t.co/RNCMFv4aJh

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) February 8, 2021

 

FBI Raids Arrest Gang Members In Anaheim, Pico Rivera

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxBqmy7RNs

 

Alleged F13 gang members charged in slaying of off-duty LAPD officer, authorities said l ABC7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmyRC0RIYXE

 

Alleged F-13 gang members arrested in death of LAPD officer facing federal charges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MWM1nDyojw


IMAGES OF MEX-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES - MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY 

Gang Lands # 9 The Last Crips of Boyle Heights

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSvU7tt12Y8

 


Gang Lands # 10 Gangs of Downtown Los Angeles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBs7M28EwF0

 

Central America Town in Los Angeles California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLZy9bSLXQ

 

A HISTORY OF MEX GANGS

VERDUGO MEXICAN GANGS

https://unitedgangs.com/verdugo-gangsters/

 

When La Raza “The Race” Supremacist Kamala Harris was Attorney General of California, she announced that nearly half the murders in Mex-occupied California were perpetrated by Mexican gangs. That didn’t stop her hispandering!

If you go to the Los Angeles Police 200 most wanted criminals, 186 are Mexicans.

When Mexican M.E.Ch.A. separatist and La Raza member Xavier Becerra became Attorney General of California, the first thing he did as AG was delete from the State of California AG website the list of California's ten most wanted criminals: they were all Mexicans


Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. 


Congressman: Illegal Antelope Valley Pot Grows Being Run By International Drug Cartels

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XCBPMgDUc

  

FBI Arrests Dozens of Drug Ring Members Around Inland Empire | NBCLA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMt5JUwDhMo

 “Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, you’d give him an A-plus, but theAmerican people would give him an F. The crisis at our border was not only entirely predictable, it was predicted. I predicted that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s what’s happened since the election.”

                                                                               SEN. TOM COTTON

 

 MEXICO = DRUGS AND UNREGISTERED DEM VOTERS!

Desert towns in California have seen a dramatic increase of illegal marijuana plantations, operating through means of water theft, human trafficking, and violence.

How Foreign Drug Operations Are Taking Over California’s Desert Towns: Jorge Ventura

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL86snd4dP8

 

“All our street gangs are a problem,” Lawhead said. “They create an environment of fear. Gangs in general are responsible for a majority of our homicides and a lot of the other illegal activity in the city.”

The release said the Verdugo gang and its affiliates are linked to the Mexican Mafia prison gang. The indictment outlines how some of the proceeds generated by narcotic sales were funneled to the Mexican Mafia.

“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, you’d give him an A-plus, but theAmerican people would give him an F. The crisis at our border was not only entirely predictable, it was predicted. I predicted that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s what’s happened since the election.”                                                  SEN. TOM COTTON

JUDICIAL WATCH

THE GRUESOME MS-13 GANGS FROM LOS ANGELES: THEIR MURDER, RAPE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/judicial-watch-deported-gangster.html

The illegal stabbed her to death with a screwdriver and then ran her over with her car.

JUDICIAL WATCH:

 

“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html 

 

 

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH

“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”

“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

A HISTORY OF MEX GANGS

VERDUGO MEXICAN GANGS

https://unitedgangs.com/verdugo-gangsters/

 

Attorney General Bonta Announces 180 Felony Arrests During Investigation Targeting Westside Verdugo Criminal Street Gang in San Bernardino

 

Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov

SAN BERNARDINO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, San Bernardino Police Chief David Green, and San Bernardino District Attorney Jason Anderson today announced the results of a joint investigation into the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang. In June, the police department requested assistance with its investigation of the gang’s violent criminal activity from the California Department of Justice’s Special Operations Unit. Together with the district attorney’s office and other local law enforcement partners, the team made 180 felony arrests, shut down 30 illegal gambling establishments, and seized 92 handguns, 19 assault weapons, $295,870 in U.S. currency, as well as hundreds of pounds of illicit drugs over the course of the investigation. Yesterday, the investigation culminated in a largescale operation with agents executing 34 search warrants, arresting 31 suspects, and seizing 11 firearms at multiple sites in San Bernardino County.

“Members and associates of this gang have committed violent crimes in San Bernardino with no regard for the people in the community who are directly or indirectly harmed,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta. “This investigation and yesterday’s arrests and seizures have removed dangerous individuals from our streets and firearms from the hands of those who would choose to commit violent crimes. The results of this investigation could also assist law enforcement in solving other cases in the area. The partnership between our agents and local law enforcement made this possible, and I’m thankful to every person involved in this successful investigation.” 

“As decriminalization initiatives continue to undermine the safety of our community, we have never been more reliant on our law enforcement partners,” said San Bernardino Police Chief David Green. 

“The scale of this multiagency operation speaks to the commitment we have to eradicate criminal street gangs across San Bernardino County, particularly one with such a violent history as the Westside Verdugo gang,” said San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson. “Violent crime is on the rise, and several of the defendants we have filed against are facing their 3rd strike, indicating a propensity for criminal behavior. The success of this takedown was due to the tremendous efforts of the San Bernardino Police Department and the Department of Justice in conducting the investigation, and the tenacity of our specialized gang unit prosecutors. We will use everything in our toolkit including weapon enhancements, gang enhancements, prior convictions, and prior strike convictions to ensure maximum accountability from these defendants, keeping career criminals off the streets of San Bernardino and out of our communities.”

Westside Verdugo has an extensive criminal history in the San Bernardino area. The gang is suspected of multiple violent crimes including assault, attempted murder, and murder. 

Over the course of the investigation, numerous violent crimes were prevented, including shootings and armed robberies. Evidence collected during the investigation also assisted in solving two homicides in the area. Agents also shut down 30 illegal gambling establishments and seized over 100 illegal gambling machines and devices. These establishments were operated by members and associates of Westside Verdugo and brought in tens of thousands of dollars a week for the gang. In 2021, five homicides, four attempted murders, and multiple other crimes were linked to these sites.

DOJ’s Special Operations Unit is a collaborative investigative effort between DOJ and the California Highway Patrol. The unit provides statewide enforcement for combating violent career criminals, gangs, and organized crime groups, along with intrastate drug traffickers. These unique and essential teams use the latest technology and advanced investigative techniques and work alongside local law enforcement to enhance investigations into violent criminals and organized crime throughout the state.

 

 

SAN BERNARDINO: 52 gang members indicted in drug sales, smuggling case

 

 

By BRIAN ROKOS | brokos@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise

 

Fifty-two members and associates of San Bernardino’s largest criminal gang were indicted Thursday on narcotics trafficking charges, the FBI said.

Of those 52, 21 people were arrested Thursday, and 22 already were in custody on unrelated charges, according to an FBI news release. The other  nine are being sought.

All were charged with conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin. Seven also are charged with distributing the narcotics, the FBI said. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, was the result of a yearslong investigation by federal, state, county and city authorities that targeted the West Side Verdugo gang.

The defendants face 10 years to life in prison if convicted, the FBI said.

San Bernardino police Lt. Rich Lawhead, who was part of the team that made the arrests, said that in addition to drug pushing, West Side Verdugo members are responsible for several homicides and assaults in the city.

“All our street gangs are a problem,” Lawhead said. “They create an environment of fear. Gangs in general are responsible for a majority of our homicides and a lot of the other illegal activity in the city.”

Most of the 90-page indictment is devoted to summaries of 502 separate phone calls or text messages intercepted by authorities in which the sales of heroin and meth were discussed in coded language. Other messages discussed smuggling drugs to inmates, including those in the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, and Corcoran and Ironwood state prisons.

There were also conversations about money owed, the collection of “drug taxes” from dealers allowed to set up in gang territory, and the enforcement of gang rules.

The conversations occurred from Aug. 26, 2010, to Jan. 16, 2012.

“A lot of these people were shocked when we showed up,” Lawhead said, noting the amount of time that had passed since the investigation began. “But the wheels of justice do move.”

Lawhead said he hoped the arrests would dissuade youngsters from joining gangs.

The release said the Verdugo gang and its affiliates are linked to the Mexican Mafia prison gang. The indictment outlines how some of the proceeds generated by narcotic sales were funneled to the Mexican Mafia.

Some of the drugs were dealt at what was described as the “7th Street Park.” FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said that was a reference to La Plaza Park on Mt. Vernon Avenue, at Seventh Street on San Bernardino’s west side.

Lawhead said heroin has been sold at that park for years, and that the city’s officers patrol La Plaza and other parks in an effort to deter drug dealers.

Gang members went to great lengths to smuggle drugs to inmates, according to the indictment. One person, identified as “Martinez,” was told to sneak drugs into West Valley Detention Center by getting himself arrested and booked into the facility. His plan was foiled, however, when a police officer merely wrote a citation for an unspecified offense.

“There wasn’t anyone who wanted to go to jail today – I guarantee you that,” Lawhead said.

Other agencies participating in the investigation and arrests, according to the FBI, were the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, San Bernardino County Probation Department, Los Angeles Police Department, LA County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol, Drug Enforcement Administration and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Joint investigation into San Bernardino street gang nets 180 arrests, firearms, drugs

Tentacles of operation allegedly reached into Los Angeles and Orange counties

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By JOE NELSON | San Bernardino Sun

A yearlong investigation into a San Bernardino street gang’s criminal activity has netted 180 arrests, shuttered 30 illegal gambling operations and resulted in the seizure of more than 100 assault weapons and handguns, authorities announced Thursday.

San Bernardino police last year began investigating illegal firearms sales involving Westside Verdugo, a Latino street gang rooted in the city for roughly 70 years.

But early on in the investigation, police realized they were dealing with something much bigger than just illicit gun sales, Police Chief David Green said during a news conference Thursday at the San Bernardino Police Department, where dozens of assault weapons and handguns seized by police during the investigation were spread across a table. Also on display was a large electronic gambling machine.San Bernardino Police Chief David Green announces 180 arrests made and 111 firearms seized during a multiagency operation targeting the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang during a press conference at the San Bernardino Police Station in San Bernardino on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) 

“As they started doing more analysis on these cases, they were recognizing it was a little more coordinated and a little more significant than what they initially realized, and that’s when they started pursuing it as more of a conspiracy type of investigation,” Green said. The investigation and subsequent arrests extended into Orange and Los Angeles counties, he said.

Several agencies enlisted

In June, the investigation ramped up when the San Bernardino Police Department asked the state attorney general’s Special Operations Unit to join in. The Santa Ana Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol also assisted in the investigation, which culminated Wednesday when officers fanned out across San Bernardino County, serving 34 search warrants, arresting 31 people and seizing 111 firearms at multiple locations.

During the course of the investigation, coined “Operation Westside Jenga,” police seized 92 handguns, 19 assault weapons, more than $295,000 in cash and hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin and fentanyl. Several potential shootings and armed robberies were thwarted, and evidence collected by investigators during the investigation assisted in the closure of two homicide cases, police said.

Additionally, investigators infiltrated and shut down 30 illegal gambling operations and seized more than 100 high-end gambling machines. The facilities were linked to five homicides, four attempted murders and other crimes in 2021, authorities said.

Gambling operations

The gambling operations — which housed high-end gambling machines, most of them acquired on the black market and imported from China — were bringing in tens of thousands of dollars a week and were operated out of private residences, warehouses and closed businesses, Green said.

He said the gambling facilities were a joint-enterprise between Westside Verdugo and the Mexican Mafia, the patriarchal prison gang that receives a share of profits from drug sales and other illicit business carried out by Westside Verdugo and other Latino street gangs in the form of “taxes.” Some of that revenue was reinvested into the gambling operations.

“It has a hierarchy. It has its own business model. It’s an illicit business model, but it’s one that’s very lucrative nonetheless,” Green said.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the people of San Bernardino “can go to bed tonight knowing their community is safer.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announces the results of a multiagency operation targeting the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang that resulted in 180 arrests and shutdown of 30 illegal gambling operations during a press conference at the San Bernardino Police Station in San Bernardino on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) 

“We’re putting serious criminals behind bars,” Bonta said, adding that he was proud of the results of the investigation not only as attorney general, but also as a father. “Every child in California deserves to grow up in a safe neighborhood — a neighborhood that is free from violence, a neighborhood without gun violence.”

Feds not involved

Green said authorities opted to handle the prosecution locally without the help of the federal government, which often takes down such large criminal enterprises using the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, referred to as the RICO Act.

“We’re not pursuing a federal prosecution in this case because we have the local District Attorney’s Office that we feel is going to be able to give us a successful prosecutorial outcome,” Green said. “But these types of cases are often handled by federal prosecutors under that RICO statute.”

San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said his office has so far charged 45 defendants with various felony offenses, which include a total of 57 firearm enhancements and 41 gang enhancements. Six of the defendants are facing third strikes, Anderson said.

“Our role is twofold in this particular instance. Number one is we are going to punish these individuals as severely as we possibly can, and number two, we’re going to separate them from an otherwise law-abiding community for as long as we can,” Anderson said.

San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson speaks during a press conference at the San Bernardino Police Station in San Bernardino on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Authorities announced the results of a multiagency operation targeting the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang that resulted in 180 arrests and shutdown of 30 illegal gambling operations. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) 

More criminal charges are expected, authorities said.

“Many of these cases are still under review, and we are expecting many more charges to be filed,” Green said. “Some of them will be tried jointly, and some of them will be parsed out separately.”

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"This is how they will destroy America from within.  The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants.  They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers.  These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY

Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. 

Texas DPS: Mexican Cartels Committing Murders in the U.S.

 

ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

Drug cartel gunmen are crossing the border to commit murders in Texas, authorities claim. The statements by officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety directly clash with longstanding claims by local police chiefs who routinely say that border cities are safe.

“These criminal organizations come across from Mexico to the U.S. side and they kill individuals. they murder individuals,” Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez told Sara Carter with Fox News. “We have had several incidents that have taken place along the border using professional-type weapons the way they carry out these killings, very professional, very methodical.”

The statements by Olivarez come at a time when both DPS and the Texas National Guard increased their law enforcement presence along the border in response to record-breaking human and drug smuggling activity by criminal organizations like the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

The statements made by Olivarez clash with the longstanding narrative by several politicians, local police chiefs, and sheriffs who claim that border cities are safe. Those claims are usually backed up by statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. However as Breitbart Texas has reported, the UCR only looks at seven specific crimes and does not account for criminal activity that is specific to border cities such as kidnappings, extortion, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and human trafficking.

Additionally, the terminology used by police departments for the UCR report allows them to hide the severity of certain crimes. One example particular to border cities deals with home invasions, where teams of gunmen storm into a house looking for drugs or cash. As Breitbart Texas has reported, home invasions are reported in the UCR report only as robberies.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com. 

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     

 

Surge in Fentanyl Seizures Show Cartels Taking Advantage of Lax Border Policies, DHS Officials Say

A DEA agent checks pills containing fentanyl / Getty ImagesJoseph Simonson • November 17, 2021 5:00 am

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Customs and Border Protection's fentanyl seizures skyrocketed by over 40 percent in the month of October, as drug traffickers and cartels take advantage of the border crisis.

Agency data show that CBP agents last month captured nearly 1,050 pounds of the lethal opioid, the fifth-highest amount in three years. For comparison, the amount of fentanyl seized in October is more than 2.5 times the amount the agency seized in the first three months of 2019 and roughly 40 percent of the amount seized in all of 2019.

The high amount of fentanyl busts coincides with skyrocketing opiate overdoses across the country—the Centers for Disease Control recorded a record-high 12-month overdose death toll between March 2020 and March 2021 with no signs of deceleration through the end of this year. The seizures also come as President Joe Biden reverses a number of border policies, a decision that critics say grants more opportunities for criminal elements to smuggle drugs into the country.

One senior Department of Homeland Security official told the Washington Free Beacon that drug smugglers are accelerating their operations as agents on the border face resource and manpower constraints with processing asylum claims instead of trying to stop drug smugglers.

"Cartels are exploiting the migrant crisis to expand drug and human smuggling," one senior DHS official said. "The administration knew full well that using agents to process mass groups of economic migrants would mean reducing the effort to combat crime. They alone own these failures."

The Biden administration has touted high seizure numbers as a success. Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates on Nov. 2 tweeted out an excerpt from an MSNBC piece that said, "The [fentanyl] seizures disprove one of the [GOP's] favorite talking points: If the president had implemented an ‘open-border' policy, as the right routinely claims, U.S. Customs and Border Protection wouldn't have stopped these shipments."

Officials within Border Patrol and DHS disputed that characterization by the White House, with the senior DHS official calling Bates's comment "galaxy brain" thinking.

Many states have pinned much of the blame for the opioid crisis on the Biden administration's immigration policies, calling them reckless and a public health threat.

West Virginia, which has been among the states hardest hit by the opioid crisis, in August filed a lawsuit against DHS and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the department's decision to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, which force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico before their court dates in the United States. The state alleged in court that the decision contributed to the "devastating deadly flood of fentanyl across the Southwest border."

"By its consequences burdening and distracting the Border Patrol, the termination of the [Migrant Protection Protocols] decreases the security of the border against fentanyl trafficking between ports of entry, leading directly to both increased numbers of smuggling attempts and increased rates of success in evading Border Patrol," the lawsuit stated. Missouri in April filed a similar suit against DHS.

Research has found that just two milligrams of fentanyl can cause a lethal overdose in people with no prior use of the drug, meaning the amount of the drug seized in October alone could kill over 200 million people.

The influx of fentanyl from across the border has led to bipartisan efforts in Congress to ramp up law-enforcement efforts to arrest and prosecute dealers and traffickers. A group of Republican and Democratic senators in September introduced the Providing Officers with Electronic Resources Act, which provides grants to local law-enforcement agencies for portable fentanyl screening devices.

 

 


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