MILLIONS OF LEGALS HOMELESS AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY EXPANDS THE MASSIVE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE BORDER TO OPEN BORDER
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
PIG LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, AKA, THE BANKSTERS' RENT BOY, IS AN ADVOCATE FOR JOE'S INVASION. NEW YORK CITY PUTS OUT $5 MILLION ! DAILY ! TO HOUSE JOE'S ILLEGALS! WANT MORE???
Each Migrant Costs NYC $10,000 a Month
The cost for the “asylum seeker crisis” could double to $2.8 billion
Want to know why Mayor Eric Adams is panicking? The numbers are ugly. New York City has no shortage of social problems, but Biden’s open borders crisis is really taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
Each illegal migrant costs NYC, over $10,000 a month.
New York City on average spends about $363 a day on each asylum seeker household receiving services in city shelters and emergency relief centers and is on track to spend a total of $1.4 billion by the end of the fiscal year in June, Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol said during a recent City Council hearing.
The cost for the “asylum seeker crisis” could double to $2.8 billion in the next fiscal year, Iscol told the panel during a hearing last week. He said the city cannot maintain that support.
That could be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2% of the city’s budget, but it piles on top of innumerable social problems that are already draining a city whose tax base is fleeing.
More than 30,000 newly arrived migrants are staying in city-run facilities. If those numbers continue to worsen, they’ll eat up even more of the budget.
City Councilmember Julie Won said, School principals complained to her of disease outbreaks after migrant school children didn’t receive necessary vaccinations.
American children suffer so Biden’s open borders can boost Democrat numbers. That’s what this is about.
Schumer: Tucker Carlson Is 'Siding With the Enemies of Democracy'; Carlson: 'In Free Countries, Governments Do Not Lie About Protests'
(CNSNews.com) - Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans spent more than two years trying to convince the American public that what happened on January 6, 2021 came close to toppling the U.S. government and undermining our very democracy.
But the video and testimony presented by the January 6th committee was selectively edited, omitting segments that would give a fuller picture of what happened on that day.
Some of the neglected video, from surveillance cameras in the Capitol, aired Monday on Fox News, prompting outrage among the political class, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
"I condemn Mr. Carlson for siding with the enemies of Democracy," said a furious Schumer in a lengthy denunciation of Tucker Carlson, Fox News, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a speech on the Senate floor.
That prompted the following defense from Tucker Carlson hours later, on Tuesday night:
"So we felt it was a public service to bring what we could to you," Carlson said.
"There was no justification for keeping the secret any longer -- and a powerful argument to be made that sunlight is always and everywhere the best disinfectant. And, in fact, because it was video evidence, it is, to some extent, self-explanatory. Anyone could look at the tape and decide what he or she thinks of it."
Here's what Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer thought of it:
"Last night, millions of Americans tuned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television. With contempt for the facts, disregard of the risks, and knowing full well he was lying -- lying to his audience, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran a lengthy segment last night arguing the January 6th Capitol attack was not a violent insurrection."
Schumer accused Carlson of "cherry-picking" the video segments he aired.
And that's exactly what Carlson says Democrats did with their video presentation:
"So the tape we showed last night indicated very clearly that Capitol Hill police, in some cases, escorted protesters through the Capitol as if they were giving a tour. They did that with Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon shaman. At one point, they even tried to open locked doors on Chansley's behalf.
“Chansley was sentenced to four years in prison for his crimes in the Capitol on January 6th. And the video we showed you last night raises the obvious question -- why? On what grounds?
"The video we showed you last night also showed that Officer Brian Sicknick wasn't beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by protesters on January 6th, as the media and Liz Chaney so often claimed. The video showed Sicknick walking around the building apparently in good health after he was supposedly killed. We showed you that video. You can make of it what you will.
"We also showed you video that proves Ray Epps, the mysterious protester who encouraged others to breach the Capitol, lied to the January 6th committee about where he was on that day. But for some reason, the committee protected him anyway. He was not considered an insurrectionist; he was their ally.
"So, once again, you can draw whatever conclusions you like from that video. We have ours, and we shared them with you. But it's really beyond debate that it is good for this country, for Americans to be able to see it.
“The media and politicians -- the people in charge -- have talked about January 6th every day since it happened for 26 months. And so at some point, the evidence should be presented to the public.
"In free countries, governments do not lie about protests as a pretext to gain more power for themselves. They don't selectively edit videos for propaganda services and then lie about them in fake hearings and show trials, but that's exactly what happened. And every member of Congress should ask why that happened.
"But Democrats in the Senate -- the Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer -- is not asking why."
Schumer accused Carlson of trying to portray the January 6 violence at the Capitol as “nothing more than a peaceful sightseeing tour."
"I, so many others who were here in the Capitol, and millions and millions of other Americans are just furious with Tucker Carlson and Kevin McCarthy today," Schumer fumed.
"To say January 6 was not violent is a lie -- a lie, plain and simple. I don't think I've ever seen a prime time cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night. I don't think I've ever seen an anchor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain."
Schumer noted that Carlson was planning to show more video on Tuesday night. "Fox News should tell him not to. Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, tell Carlson not to run a second segment of lies. You know it's a lie, you've admitted it's a lie. And Speaker McCarthy is every bit as culpable as Mr. Carlson.”
(Schumer said McCarthy has "enabled the big lie" and catered to the “hard right” by giving Carlson the video he aired.)
"We all, Americans of all types and stripes and corners of this country; Democrats, Republicans, independents, need to take a stand and call out Mr. Carlson's conduct for what it is -- a dangerous unforgivable attempt to destabilize our democracy and rewrite the history of the worst attack on our Constitution since the Civil War," Schumer said.
"I hope every member of this chamber will call out Fox and Mr. Carlson for defending the insurrectionists," Schumer said.
Carlson noted that he showed the public "video that it paid for and has a right to see." And he said Schumer is demanding censorship of that video because it “damages the story line his party constructed and used.”
“Because that video contradicted lies told by the Democratic party, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, Chuck Schumer demanded that our bosses pull this show off the air."
Carlson noted that you don't often see the Senate Majority Leader openly call for censorship on the floor of the Senate: "But what's really happening here?" Carlson asked.
"What you're seeing is hysteria, the overstatement, the crazed hyperbole, the red-in-the-face anger. What is that? It's not outrage. Of course, it's fear, it’s panic.
“Those videos, which we did not retouch -- which we brought to you after running every one by the Capitol Police to make certain we didn't imperil anybody...those videos touch a nerve because they're a threat to the lies Chuck Schumer has been telling for the last 26 months, and not just Chuck Schumer.
"We should also tell that you Chuck Schumer, Senate majority leader, was joined in this outrage by the Senate minority leader, and that would be a Republican, Mitch McConnell. And they were joined by a cascade of other Republicans, Tom Tillis from North Carolina. Mitt Romney from Utah, all sharing the same outrage.
"And from this, we learn two things: One, you're getting close to what they really care about...What are they trying to protect?"
Carlson said the second thing we learned is that those Democrats and those Republicans are all "on the same side."
"So it's actually not about left and right. It's not about Republican and Democrat. Here you have people with shared interests. ...they're all in agreement with each other," Carlson said.
“They kind of outed themselves. They sort of showed their membership cards in whatever club this is to the public. So keep a list. If you want to know who is actually lying despite the illusion of partisanship, we found out today.
WH Press Secretary on Whether Biden Would Use Military Against Mexican Cartels: ‘I’m Just Not Going to Get into the Military and How It’s Being Used’
(CNSNews.com) - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether President Biden would consider using the U.S. military to disrupt cartel operations in Mexico.
This comes as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to unveil legislation on Wednesday to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and to authorize the use of military force against them.
During an appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Waters Primetime” on Monday, the senator said that if he were president, he would tell the Mexican government, “if you don't clean up your act, we're going to clean it up for you.”
When asked Wednesday whether President Biden would ever consider using the U.S. military to disrupt cartel operations, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “I’m just not going to get into the military and how it’s being used.”
Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked, “So cartels kill Americans on this side of the border with drugs, and now they’re killing Americans on the other side of the border with guns. Why is President Biden so comfortable with cartels operating so close to the U.S.?”
JEAN-PIERRE: Well, let’s be very clear. Let me take on the drug part here because — since you brought this up. Because of the work that this president has done, because of what we’ve done specifically on fentanyl at the border, it’s at historic lows — historic levels that we have been able to record a number of personnel working to secure the border because of what we’ve been able to do, seizing that fentanyl.
We’ve done it in a historic way. That’s because of what this president has done. I just talked about 23,000 federal agents that have been able to be — that we’ve been able to hire and put at the border to secure the border.
On top of that, historic sanctions going after traffickers and other financiers are helping disrupt fentanyl supply chains throughout their flow to the U.S., and we’ll — we — we’re really expanded access to treatments like — that are saving lives, if you think about it, which prevent overdoses, expanding as — as are fentanyl test strips, and through the removal of the X-Waiver, anyone registered to prescribe controlled medications can now prescribe life-saving medication to treat addiction.
So, again, we are seizing fentanyl at record historic levels because of what the — because of the — of what the president has done to secure our border, and, look, we’ve also coordinated — made sure that we’re coordinated our — our relationship with Mexico to deal with what we’re seeing as it relates to violence, as relates to cartel.
That is something — a relationship that we’ve continued to build with Mexico, an incredibly important partner. You saw that when he went down for the summit in Mexico City. So, the president is dedicated to this and is doing the work that we’re actually seeing at the border, again, when you — we think about fentanyl.
DOOCY: But to the violence aspect of it: Now Americans are being slaughtered. Would President Biden be taking the same approach if it was al Qaeda or ISIS operating just across the border from an American city?
JEAN-PIERRE: The president takes this very seriously. He takes this very seriously. The FBI and other agencies have been on top of this from day one, and so that’s what he’s going to continue to do. When it comes to Americans’ lives and when it comes to their — the safety of Americans, the president is always going to make sure that that is a top priority.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
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PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER:
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Murders of Americans in Mexico Fuel Calls for US to Treat Cartels as Terrorist Targets
(CNSNews.com) – The murders of two kidnapped American citizens in Mexico are fueling calls in Congress for the U.S. government to designate cartels as terrorist organizations, paving the way for potential U.S. military action against them.
The two victims were among four Americans seized on Friday in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The other two survived the ordeal and were handed over to U.S. authorities at a border crossing bridge on Tuesday morning.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who has introduced two pieces of legislation since November targeting the Mexican cartels, tweeted that despite the murders, “we still haven’t declared the cartels a military target.”
“It’s time we authorize military force against them,” he said. “Are you listening, [Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador]? We would love for you to be a partner. Help us help you.”
In January, Crenshaw and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution to create an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target Mexican cartels facilitating the fentanyl crisis.
Waltz told “Fox & Friends First” on Tuesday that the cartels “have declared war on the United States.”
“They control our border. They are killing tens of thousands of American citizens. And we need to deploy every asset that we have – not just law-enforcement, but also military and intelligence – to dismantle them, to disrupt them, and to take them out.”
Waltz said he wasn’t arguing for U.S. military boots on the ground in Mexico.
“I’m talking about cyber, intelligence, drones, targeting. We begin disrupting their money, their supply chains, and targeting their leadership.”
“We cannot accept a narcostate that is completely ungoverned on our border that’s preying on American citizens,” he said. “These groups are more like ISIS than they are the mafia.”
“We need to be thinking about it differently. Just as al-Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans with their planes these cartels are killing 80,000 Americans a year with poison.”
Waltz was referring to annual deaths attributed to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid manufactured by the cartels using precursor chemicals from China.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News on Monday that he planned to introduce legislation “to make certain Mexican drug cartels ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ under U.S. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary, to protect America from being poisoned by things coming out of Mexico.”
“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” he said.
‘Interventionism’
When Crenshaw and Waltz introduced their AUMF legislation in January, Crenshaw said it was time to start treating the cartels “like ISIS – because that is who they are.”
Waltz said an AUMF would give the president “sophisticated military cyber, intelligence, and surveillance resources to disrupt cartel operations that are endangering Americans.”
The legislation specifically named nine Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels which reportedly account for most of the fentanyl being pushed across the border.
Another of those named, the Gulf cartel, is the dominant group in Tamaulipas state, where the Americans were kidnapped and killed. (Tamaulipas is one of six Mexican states classified by the State Department as a “do not travel” area, due to crime and kidnapping.)
López Obrador has objected to the AUMF legislation and accused the two lawmakers, both combat veterans, of wanting to invade his country. (Crenshaw is a former U.S. Navy SEAL, Waltz a former U.S. Army Green Beret.)
He said Crenshaw and Waltz “want to use military force to intervene in the public life of our country, to invade it under the pretext of fighting terrorist drug traffickers. We must reject these claims of interventionism.”
Reacting to the Mexican president’s criticism, Crenshaw said in a series of tweets earlier this week he was glad López Obrador was “finally taking notice,” and asked him, “how would you feel if an American gang was poisoning 70,000 Mexicans every year with fentanyl?”
“All we want is to finally take on the powerful criminal elements that terrorize the Mexican people, pay off and threaten Mexican politicians, and poison Americans,” he said. “You’re against that, Mr. President? Who do you represent? The cartels or the people?”
Asked on Tuesday about calls for terror designation for the cartels, State Department spokesman Ned Price said designations have already been made “consistent with the authorities that we as a government have” – alluding to sanctions under a 2021 executive order targeting the global illicit drug trade
“But we are always going to look at every tool that is, by law or any other authority available to us, to attempt to work with our Mexican partners to crack down on what is a threat to Mexicans and to Americans alike,” he said.
Asked if the administration was then open to terrorist designations, Price replied, “We have designated these groups as appropriate. We are always going to continue to do what is most effective and what is available to us to hold these groups accountable.”
At a press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged that Mexican cartels “are responsible for the deaths of Americans.”
“The DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] and the FBI are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on,” he said.
Last November, Crenshaw introduced the Declaring War on the Cartels Act, featuring increased criminal penalties for criminal cartels’ activities and the targeting of their finances, with provision for seized assets to be directed to Customs and Border Protection, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the DEA.
The measure also provides for sanctions against foreign governments found to have provided resources to cartels, or that “permit, or fail to take adequate measures to prevent, transnational criminal cartel activity within their territory.”
In Matamoros, was it mistaken I.D., or were Americans specially targeted?
In Matamoros, the four kidnapped Americans taken by cartel henchmen were rescued, but horrifically enough, two were murdered, victims in Mexico's vicious cartel war brought on by Joe Biden's open border.
News reports, citing an anonymous U.S. official, say that the four, who were black U.S. citizens from South Carolina, were mistaken by the killers aligned with the Gulf Cartel, for rival Haitian drug dealers.
Now this is possible, but it doesn't seem complete as a theory. It implicitly suggests that the killings never would have happened otherwise.
Reading between the lines, this seems to say:
Don't be in Mexico at the wrong place and the wrong time. Watch the neighborhood you are driving in. Don't get lost.
Don't drive while black in Mexico. They might think you're Haitian.
It was all an unfortunate and unlucky accident, entirely preventable, entirely controllable. Otherwise, all's hunky dory; just take the usual precautions, as Americans are advised. And don't go to any donkey shows.
Maybe. But there are a few details that suggest otherwise. Based on the cartel behavior in this dreadful incident, it remains possible that they were targeted explicitly for being Americans.
Start with three details:
First, the Americans were driving around lost in their white van when they were blocked and then their car smashed from behind by cartel henchmen, a classic capture-them technique. By one report, officials knew that their vehicle with its North Carolina license plates was followed from the moment they entered Mexico. A hail of gunfire followed, and two of the Americans were killed, then all four were taken away by cartel kidnappers.
One Mexican columnist, writing in El Universal, argued that kidnappers don't kill their targets first and seek ransoms later, so it probably was happenstance, perhaps with a political motive.
Carlos Seoane argued this, via Google Translate:
From the moment of his capture, you can see (in the video circulating on social networks) an armed command dragging three African-American men down the street, leaving a trail of blood behind them. These three people are thrown like lumps into the back of a pickup truck where their partner, also a black woman, was already waiting for them.Question: What kidnapper would gun down three of his four hostages to later try to negotiate his release for ransom?
Perhaps he doesn't remember another well-known kidnapping of Americans, that of Colombia's FARC Marxist narcoterrorists in 2003, who began their extended kidnapping of three Americans after their Cessna aircraft was shot down over the Colombian jungle while on a drug-eradicating mission. In that horror, one American was killed first, execution-style (the Times account, as early reporting, was uncertain about that but yes, it was execution-style), as was one Colombian military national who was with them. The other three were taken away by the narcoguerrillas, for a four-year ordeal in the jungle until their spectacular 2008 rescue with 12 other Colombian hostages by the Colombian army and American Special Forces, described well in their memoir, "Out of Captivity."
Cartels and narcoguerrillas are known allies, learn from one another. They know that killing a couple of hostages first in a kidnapping works wonders at keeping the remainders taken away docile. That's their technique.
Second, it's significant that the cartel henchmen hauled off all four Americans after the assault, instead of left them splattered in the street, as is the practice for rival drug gangs. Why would they haul off the bodies of the dead Americans? Quite likely because they wanted a ransom for their return. The families grieving might very well pay it. South Carolina is not that far from Mexico (and not that they would care), but they could have insisted that the family come to Matamoros and leave them a ransom. They wouldn't have much use for the bodies otherwise. Note that they left the body of a third victim, a 22-year-old Mexican mother, who was a bystander, in a pool of blood behind. She probably wouldn't be much good for a ransom like the rich gringos coming into the country for cosmetic surgery would. This is their inhuman logic.
Third, the four Americans, two alive, two dead (imagine the impact of that on the living Americans) were all bounced from stash house to stash house, in a move to elude capture. That's a classic "express kidnapping" technique, described well in Jonathan Jakubovicz's award-winning film "Secuestro Express" about a horrific express kidnapping ordeal of two young people in Venezuela. The dirtbags who dragged the Americans from stash house to stash house knew exactly how this was done, and had their network of stash houses all ready to go for the heist.
Maybe the Mexican cartel thugs did this spontaneously as they discovered after the attack that their kidnappees weren't Haitian drug dealers (it's unlikely they would have kidnapped often-destitute Haitians anyway for ransom so they likely knew that they were dealing with Americans when they dragged their victims off) but it would have taken some impressive improvising, a shift of organizational mission, done on the fly, to get that done. Perhaps they have that kind of mojo, but the odds for error on this are huge.
It seems at least as likely that the cartel targeted the victims because they were American, because the cartels want to challenge the Mexican government, which is dealing with fallout from multiple directions, from Sen. Lindsey Graham irresponsibly calling for the assembly of an invasion of Mexico force as if the U.S. were somehow "good" at winning wars like this one, to angry Mexican nationals who point out that the Mexican cops rescue kidnapping victims when they want to -- and they ignore the thousands of Mexican kidnapping victims who remain missing.
According to a report that ran in El Universal, through Google Translate:
Matamoros, Tamps.— Geovanni Barrios Moreno, from the Tamaulipas Justice Collective, and Delia Quiroa, from Madres Buscadoras 10 de Marzo, applaud the effectiveness of the operation to locate four Americans who were deprived of their liberty in Matamoros, but express their annoyance that the authorities do not do the same job to find the 110,000 disappeared in Mexico, 12,000 of them in this entity.Both activists say they are surprised because in less than 24 hours authorities from the three levels of government mounted a search operation, security personnel were deployed and the missing Americans were located, something that has never been done by Roberto, Delia's brother. , or by Geovanni, son of Barrios Moreno.Geovanni Barrios said that on behalf of his son, he will file a criminal complaint against Irving Barrios Mojica, Attorney General of Tamaulipas; Jorge Macías, state commissioner for the search for persons; the prosecutor Elizabeth Almanza, and Lorena Perales, legal advisor for attention to victims, for non-compliance in the investigations.The lawyer and father of the Reynosa family has been looking for his son for 14 years, who was taken away and to date there are no indications of his whereabouts.
Third, the Matamoros kidnapping got a lot of attention in the states -- from the kind of people who don't read State Department warnings to stay out Mexico. At least some are paying attention to this one -- and staying out according to reports in the Mexican press (reports here suggest otherwise but this is the perception in Mexico), which will be a body blow to the northern Mexican economy. People who lose their livelihoods aren't going to be happy with the government.
That's a lot of trouble for Mexico's government, which is already being challenged by the cartels for dominance and wanted to get this Americans-kidnapped issue over with as soon as possible. Reports state that the Mexicans did it all by themselves without the aid of the FBI, which offered help.
If the cartels targeted the victims because they are Americans, the implication is that they will target them again, trying harder the second time. Black-Americans, who stand out in a crowd in many parts of Mexico, may be particularly vulnerable.
Facts are obviously still emerging from this and some of them may shift the story, but it's indisputable that this incident created a lot of trouble for the Mexican government, and opened the path to lucrative new opportunities for ransom cash, which the cartels will learn from and perfect. What it means is that Mexico is more dangerous than ever, both for Americans and Mexicans, because the cartels are getting very bold now, kidnapping Americans in broad daylight and trying to gaslight that it's all about being in the wrong place and the wrong time, to keep that potential victim stream coming. They're feeling mighty powerful these days, what with all their "success" at collecting migrant fees from the open border as Joe Biden happily admits all migrant comers, and using it to do the violent things they do.
That's Joe Biden's open border in action, a horrific new risk to Americans who dare enter Mexico.
Image: Screen shot from CBS 8 San Diego video, via YouTube
Kidnappings demonstrate yet another consequence of Joe Biden's open borders
The vicious kidnapping of four American tourists by Mexican cartel henchmen during a shootout in the border city of Matamoros demonstrates that yes, the State Department knew what it was talking about when it warned Americans to stay the hell out of Mexico.
According to the Washington Post:
Four U.S. citizens were kidnapped by armed men in Mexico on Friday, officials in both countries said.
The Americans crossed into Matamoros, a city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, from Brownsville, Tex., in a white minivan with North Carolina plates, the FBI said.
The passengers came under fire soon after entering the city. They were then placed into another vehicle and taken away. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the four had “crossed the border to buy medicine in Mexico” when they were caught in a crossfire “between groups.”
The Post has a hard-to-watch video of the Americans being dragged out of their car and shoved into the cartel vehicle.
Somehow that State Department warning didn't make it to the Americans, or they didn't let it sink in. I know several Americans, including family members, who are still going there. As spring break approaches, this incident may drive the point home that maybe the border has become a warzone. Who wants to become the next example of what the State Department was warning about? It's natural for Americans to view the warnings with a grain of salt. Thousands of Americans make regular trips to Mexico -- for medical care, dental care, plastic surgery, bar hops, fishing trips, vacations. They "know" the place, they come and go all the time. They know what to watch out for. They can "handle" it. And what the hey, so many people do manage to come and go without incident, what are the odds of getting unlucky?
It's sad, because the State Departments warning was a warning without a hook, which stood out to me as to its seriousness. State Department warnings can easily be affected by politics or an agenda, or a desire to keep things nice or not nice with a particular country, which normally creates a discount factor for those reading them. There were no such hooks on this warning -- relations weren't in any sort of freefall with Mexico and State knew that there would have been flak from the Mexicans for this warning as spring break approached, but it didn't stop the warning, which was quite stark and undiplomatic. Normally, you see these types of warnings only for the world's hellholes -- Somalia, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and the like. This warning demonstrated that Mexico's borderlands are now as dangerous for Americans as the world's most dangerous disintegrated states.
That didn't come out of nowhere. That's Joe Biden's open border in action. When the U.S. doesn't want to enforce its own border, Mexico's criminal cartels will enforce its border for it, deciding who comes and who doesn't come. With transnational human smuggling organizations working hand in hand with the cartels to create the current border surge, aided by NGOs and Democrats looking for votes, a lot of money is now rolling through in the Mexican north as five million people make their way across with more on the way -- and cartels are fighting viciously for it.
And with any boomtown dynamic, there's an urge to expand the operation. Kidnappings for ransom are gruesome affairs in Mexico -- I know a Mexican family it happened to -- where a huge bankrupting ransom was paid, the victim was tortured and killed anyway, and the cops stole the ransom money that was found. This has been happening for years in the Mexican north, Mexicans know all about it, and with Biden's open border, it's getting worse. The criminal gangs are getting more vicious. Their activities are now expanding to random Americans in Mexico, non-Mexican-Americans entirely unconnected to cartel activity even through relatives, just as the State Department warned. The current victims are likely in for the nightmare of their lives, particularly with Joe Biden in the White House, anxious to sweep any open border news under the rug. After that, the cartel activity may branch out into U.S. border states hitting random Americans the same way, and like Latin America's elites, we can live behind walled compounds, and drive around in armored cars with no jewelry showing.
This situation is on Joe Biden, the product of his own doing. The White House has remained circumspect and silent about finding a way to get these Americans home, with some officials effectively telling them they are on their own with this one. The House is making noise, though, demanding that as much effort be expended on the missing Americans as was expended on Vladimir Putin to release basketball star Brittney Griner. Good luck with that with non-state actors who are among the world's most vile and evil criminals, entirely comparable to al Qaida or ISIS. Oh sure, Joe may authorize a ransom to be paid and try to hide that, but it will only make the situation worse.
The sooner he shuts down the open border and reestablishes U.S. sovereignty, the sooner this activity will contract. For now, we can only hope that the kidnapped Americans are somehow freed unharmed and the White House, even more than the unsuspecting Americans, learns the lesson.
Image: CBS Mornings video screen shot, via YouTube
THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN AND NARCOMEX!
Report: Two Kidnapped Americans Found Dead in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters)—Two of four Americans who went missing on Friday in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas are alive, and two are dead, the state governor said Tuesday on a call with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a news conference.
ABC News reported the four people kidnapped were Latavia "Tay" McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric James Williams.
Separately, a Mexican official told Reuters on Tuesday that two men had been found dead. The woman and another man were alive, safe and in the hands of authorities, the official said.
Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal told Lopez Obrador on the call that one of the survivors was injured.
Lopez Obrador said one person was in custody in relation to the kidnapping.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Boyle and Dave Graham; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)
Gulf Cartel Cell Kills Two Americans, Two More Missing in Mexican Border City
U.S. and Mexican law enforcement confirm that two of four U.S. citizens abducted in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, were killed by a Gulf Cartel cell. Breitbart Texas has confirmed through local authorities the identity of the crime boss responsible for the case. The fates of the other two Americans remain unclear. Breitbart Texas confirmed that both the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations are working with Mexican authorities to locate the missing individuals.
Known in the criminal underworld as “La Kena or Ciclon 19,” Jose Alberto Garcia Vilano is the current Gulf Cartel operational leader in Matamoros. Mexican federal law enforcement sources revealed that La Kena has gunmen running security throughout the city and they would be the ones that shot at the four U.S. citizens. Ultimately, the order to take them would have to be given by La Kena or someone in his inner circle with his approval, the law enforcement source said. Breitbart Texas previously reported on La Kena having been demoted from boss in 2021, however, he has since recovered. It remains unclear how the pressure over the shooting and kidnapping of U.S. citizens will affect his criminal career.
On Monday afternoon, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office announced they were carrying out a large-scale operation with U.S. authorities to find the North Carolina residents. By Monday evening, authorities were raiding stash houses.
The case began on Friday afternoon when Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric James Williams crossed from Brownsville, Texas, into Matamoros for medical tourism. During a news conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said they were looking for medicines, however, other sources suggest some were seeking cosmetic procedures.
After crossing into Matamoros, the group was chased, shot, and kidnapped. The group’s white minivan bore North Carolina plates. While being chased, the minivan crashed into another vehicle, and that is when the gunmen opened fire. The gunmen struck an innocent female bystander who was getting off a city bus. That woman died at the scene. It remains unclear if the gunmen directly targeted the four U.S. citizens or if this is a case of mistaken identity.
It also remains unclear why Mexican authorities did not respond to the scene until after the cartel gunmen had left with the victims.
Most news outlets in Mexico only reported on the death of the innocent bystander until after the U.S. Embassy released a statement confirming the kidnapping.
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.
