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The Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation are the main suppliers and producers of fentanyl. The drug has become extremely popular because it is cheap to produce and lets traffickers cut their loads several times while maintaining potency. However, due to its extreme potency and limited dilution in lab settings, overdoses are common.
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.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
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Texas Files Bills to Remove Migrants Crossing Border, Stiff Prison Terms for Re-Entry
The Texas Legislature is set to push the limits of the State’s authority to enforce immigration laws and increase border security. Two bills filed this session provide for the removal of migrants illegally entering the U.S. between ports of entry and call for stiff prison sentences for re-entering after removal.
A Texas Legislator filed a bill aimed at expanding the State’s authority to remove migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico. A bill filed in the Texas Senate provides stiff penalties for illegally re-entering Texas after being removed.
Texas State Representative Matt Schaffer (R-Tyler) filed House Bill 20 on March 10. The bill calls for the creation of a new law enforcement department called the “Border Protection Unit” (BPU).
The bill grants the BPU officers (commissioned law enforcement officers) the authority to “deter and repel” migrants attempting to illegally enter the State of Texas outside of a port of entry. It also allows BPU officers to “return aliens to Mexico who have been observed actually crossing the Mexican Border illegally, and were apprehended or detained in the immediate vicinity of the border.”
These powers are granted “to the extent consistent with the United States and Texas constitutions and federal immigration laws,” the bill states.
Schaffer’s bill is one of seven border security bills identified by House Speaker Dade Phelan as legislative priorities for the House on Friday. In a statement released by the speaker, Phelan’s staff wrote:
The Border Protection Unit would be headquartered along the border and prioritize the recruitment of individuals who are either residents of or have significant experience with border communities to staff the operation. In doing so, Texas National Guard soldiers, state troopers and game wardens that have been deployed along the border for weeks or months at a time would eventually be sent back home, returning them to their own core missions and communities.
The bill also allows for the use of “non-lethal force” to deter migrants from illegally crossing the border.
In the Texas Senate, Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) filed Senate Bill 2424 on Friday. The bill relates to the “creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from [a] foreign nation.”
The bill would make entering Texas by a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States outside of a location designated by United States immigration officials as a port of entry a state criminal offense. The initial offense would be a Class A misdemeanor. Penalties in Texas provide for up to one year in county jail and a fine of put to $4,000.
The bill provides for penalty enhancements up to and including a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for persons who illegally re-enter the state after being removed with various criminal convictions. The offense is a felony of the first degree if the migrant re-enters after having received a conviction for a first-degree felony or higher.
“Sen. Brian Birdwell has filed SB 2424 so the State of Texas is empowered to truly protect our border, as the Federal Government has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility,” Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said in a written statement on Friday.
“Sen. Birdwell’s bill creates a new state crime for entering Texas illegally. SB 2424 authorizes Texas law enforcement to arrest and prosecute all people who cross the border illegally anywhere in Texas,” Patrick continued. “Punishment starts with up to 1 year in jail for a first-time offender, two years in state jail for a second-time offender, and up to life in prison for convicted felons who illegally cross the border.”
The bills filed are expected to receive priority consideration after Governor Greg Abbott declared border security to be an emergency item during his State-of-the-State address in February.
“Texans are furious about the lawlessness caused by Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said during the address, “and they should be.
“Doing more to secure our border is an emergency item this session,” the Texas governor declared. “I look forward to working with Senator Birdwell and Representative Guillen to get this done.”
During the first five months of Fiscal Year 2023, which began on October 1, 2022, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 560,000 migrants in the five Texas-based border sectors, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report obtained by Breitbart Texas. In addition, more than 199,000 more are classified by Border Patrol as “known got-aways,” another Border Patrol report reveals.
This brings the total of known border crossers in the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors to more than three-quarters of a million migrants, the reports show.
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.
Human Smugglers Abandon Migrant Family with 2 Infants on Texas Bank of Rio Grande
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant family with two infants abandoned by human smugglers along the Rio Grande riverbank. RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez witnessed the rescue.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted a video showing agents from the RGV Sector rescuing a family abandoned in the dark along the Texas bank of the Rio Grande on March 9. The migrant family included two infants, Ortiz reported.
RGV Sector Chief Chavez witnessed the rescue of the migrant family near the Roma, Texas, historic district.
“Earlier today we were patrolling right near the edge of the river where we encountered families with children,” Chaves reported. She said the families came from Honduras, Guatemala, and China.
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“My most concern is for the unaccompanied children because they are little,” she continued. “I am concerned because they came [across] on a small raft. It was eight people.”
Chavez said the smuggling “guide” put the migrants and the children in a very dangerous situation.
“It’s very easy to fall off that raft,” she explained, “especially for children.”
Chavez reported that the Rio Grande Valley Sector agents have had more than 121,000 migrant encounters so far this fiscal year. The new fiscal year began on October 1, 2022. She said 37,000 of those occurred in the Rio Grande City Station area of responsibility.
In addition to the migrants apprehended, more than 27,000 more migrants are classified as known got-aways, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report obtained by Breitbart Texas.
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.
Huge Surge in Migrant Smuggling Reported by Texas County near Border
Law enforcement officers in Zavala County, Texas, report a serious uptick in organized migrant smuggling activity on county roads and highways in recent weeks. In just five days last week, Zavala County Sheriff’s Office deputies interdicted 23 separate smuggling ventures attempting to move migrants through the county to reach the interior of the United States.
The small law enforcement department in this county located just 30 miles from the Rio Grande border with Mexico stopped six vehicles found to contain migrants on one single day last week. The vehicle stops often involve high-speed pursuits, stolen vehicles, property damage, and according to local law enforcement officials most concerning, the frequent presence of loaded weapons within reach of the human smugglers. The smuggling attempts involved more than 100 suspected migrants, some of whom managed to escape arrest by running from pursuing deputies onto private ranches.
Zavala County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios told Breitbart Texas his deputies have responded to the increasing number of human smuggling incidents while trying to continue to meet their primary law enforcement obligation of keeping the county’s residents safe by responding to local calls for service.
Rios told Breitbart several of the smuggling ventures thwarted last week involved stolen vehicles from surrounding cities. Smugglers often steal vehicles from larger metropolitan areas such as San Antonio and Houston and immediately travel to the border region to transport the migrants away from the border.
Zavala County is a challenging environment for the deputies patrolling the myriad of roadways, including numerous farm-to-market roads that allow smugglers easy egress from the border region. Two pursuits during the past week involved migrant smugglers crashing their vehicles into innocent motorists.
The chief deputy reported that several incidents involved vehicles driving cross country to avoid interdiction while destroying private ranch fences along their way. He said their greatest concern is public safety. As the smugglers more often choose to flee from authorities rather than yield to the deputy’s emergency lights, the risk of injury to the public and the migrants rises.
In January, as reported by Breitbart Texas, two migrants died after a vehicle accident occurred on a bridge in Zavala County near Uvalde. The deceased migrants survived the crash but later died after jumping from the bridge as they fled from law enforcement authorities. Four other migrants survived the nearly 40-foot fall but suffered extensive injuries.
Rios says his department works to aggressively investigate each case and prosecute under current Texas law. Drivers are routinely charged under a Texas statute for Smuggling of Persons. The statute currently is at a minimum, a third-degree felony and carries fines up to $10,000 and a prison term between two and ten years.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has asked Texas legislators to increase the criminal penalties for human smuggling in hopes of creating a stronger deterrent to the illegal activity many communities are experiencing. Pending legislation proposed by Texas House Representative Ryan Guillen (R-Rio Grande City) currently under consideration may do exactly that.
House Bill 800 introduced by Rep. Guillen increases penalties under Texas law for human smuggling by raising the mandatory minimum sentence for a conviction under the current statute to ten years in prison.
The bill would also require a minimum of five years in prison for persons convicted of operating a stash house used to facilitate human trafficking or drug smuggling. A person under this provision could also be charged with a third-degree felony punishable by up to ten years for any additional offenses committed.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
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
Previously Deported Illegal Alien Indicted for Allegedly Murdering, Dismembering Woman and Her Son
A previously deported illegal alien has been indicted for allegedly murdering a woman and her young son and dismembering their bodies, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) said.
As Breitbart News reported in August of last year, 37-year-old illegal alien José Paulino Pascual-Reyes of Mexico is accused of murdering 34-year-old Sandra Vazquez Ceja and her 14-year-old son, Omar Gallegos Vazquez, as well as keeping her 12-year-old daughter captive in Dadeville, Alabama.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed that Pascual-Reyes was deported in 2014 under the Obama administration but later re-entered the United States via the southern border at an unknown date.
In an announcement this week, Marshall said Pascual-Reyes has been hit with an 11-count indictment — including nine counts of capital murder for allegedly killing Ceja and her young son and two counts for allegedly abusing their corpses.
The indictment claims that Pascual-Reyes murdered Ceja and Vazquez while kidnapping and sexually assaulting the woman’s daughter, who was allegedly kept captive in the illegal alien’s residence until she was found walking on the side of a road in the small town.
Pascual-Reyes, the indictment alleges, then dismembered Ceja’s and Vazquez’s bodies.
If convicted of the charges, Pascual-Reyes faces the death penalty or a life sentence without the possibility of parole for each murder conviction. For allegedly abusing corpses, Pascual-Reyes faces one to 10 years in prison.
Ceja and her two children, Breitbart News reported, first arrived at the southern border in 2017 and were given parole to enter the United States by the Trump administration while awaiting an asylum court hearing. Though Ceja was dating Pascual-Reyes, he was not the father of her two children.
The 12-year-old girl, according to the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Office, was held captive by Pascual-Reyes for a week beginning on July 24 — tied to a bed in his Dadeville residence — but was able to escape by chewing off her restraints.
Police allege Pascual-Reyes did not kill the girl and was keeping her captive for the purpose of later sexually assaulting her. The girl, police said, suffered a blow to the head at the hands of Pascual-Reyes while she was held captive.
Ceja, police said, was smothered to death with a pillow by Pascual-Reyes while her son was allegedly beaten to death. The woman’s daughter ultimately led police to her mother and brother’s bodies at Pascual-Reyes’s residence.
Pascual-Reyes remains in Russell County Jail without bail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
We've all heard about the four Americans who ran into a cartel at the U.S.-Mexico border. It was two dead in Matamoros. Shortly after, Senator Graham said we should "designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and authorize the use of military force against them."
Then came a speech by President López-Obrador. The first part was nationalism and totally expected:
"We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, much less a foreign government's armed forces," López Obrador told reporters during a press conference.
"We are not a protectorate of the United States, nor a colony of the United States," he added. "Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign state."
Honestly, that's exactly what you'd expect a president to say. It's "putting America first à la mexicana." What else is he supposed to say?
Then AMLO stepped in it big time. He decided to jump into the U.S. political arena. See for yourself:
"Starting today we are going to start an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in the United States and for all Hispanics to inform them of what we are doing in Mexico and how this initiative by the Republicans, in addition to being irresponsible, is an offense against the people of Mexico, a lack of respect for our independence, our sovereignty," he said.
"And if they do not change their attitude and think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, and political purposes, we are going to call for them not to vote for that party, because it is interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and corrupt," Lopez Obrador said, later adding that Mexico would be insisting that "not one vote" goes to Republicans from Mexicans and Hispanics.
That's beyond stupid. It is "estúpido," and other Spanish words that I can't post in a family-friendly website. It would have been more productive if President López-Obrador had called on the Biden administration to take the border seriously and not make it easier for these criminal organizations to operate on both sides.
Hopefully, both sides can sit down and talk about the border crisis. First, we consume. Yes, we do. We are the ones going into our pockets and buying the stuff. Second, Mexico has a bigger problem, because these well financed and armed cartels represent a direct threat to the Mexican state.
Finally, I agree with designating these groups as terrorists. They are terrorists. Just check the Mexican news — every day, there is a story in Mexico about murders.
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Image: Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Already, Biden’s DHS is using a little-known parole program to mass-release hundreds of thousands of border crossers into the U.S. interior every month. At current estimates, the Biden administration has released 1.6 to two million border crossers into American communities since February 2021.
Large Migrant Group from 14 Nations Apprehended at Arizona Border
Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials report the apprehension of a large migrant group who crossed the border near Lukeville, Arizona, on Monday. The group of 235 migrants consisted of citizens of 14 different nations and included children.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted a photo of a large migrant group apprehended by Ajo Station agents.
Agents found the group while responding to 911 calls reporting the crossings near Lukeville on Monday, Modlin stated. The responding agents took 235 migrants into custody including single adults, family units, and children, the photo shows.
Modlin said the large group crossing required the response of several agents to process the large migrant group. Border Patrol defines a “large group” as 100 or more migrants in a single event.
Modlin also tweeted a three-day report showing the apprehension of 3,410 migrants. This could indicate an increase in the monthly migrant apprehensions for the Tucson Sector which averaged about 22,000 migrants per month for the first four months of the fiscal year. In February, Tucson Sector agents apprehended more than 23,500 migrants bringing the FY23 total to more than 112,300 migrants, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
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Mexican President: Fentanyl is a U.S. Problem — ‘We Don’t Make It’
Mexico’s president blamed the U.S. for the fentanyl crisis as pressure mounts on his administration to stop cartels.
“They are doing this with a propagandist purpose,” Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said referring to calls by U.S. politicians for stronger actions against cartels. “They got this thing with fentanyl, that ‘it’s Mexico’s responsibility…’ Here, we don’t make fentanyl, nor consume it.”
The confrontational tone from AMLO comes as U.S. politicians increase pressure on Mexico and call for cartels to be designated as terrorist organizations. Some even float the idea of U.S. military actions.
The Mexican president said that while he feels bad for Americans suffering fentanyl overdoses, he asked why the U.S. does not do enough to fight distribution and target cartels domestically.
“Why don’t they take care of their young ones,” Lopez Obrador said. “Why don’t they take care of their social decomposition?”
The claims made by Lopez Obrador about Mexico not producing fentanyl go against information released by his own government. Military forces have raided clandestine labs where synthetic drugs including fentanyl are manufactured.
The Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation are the main suppliers and producers of fentanyl. The drug has become extremely popular because it is cheap to produce and lets traffickers cut their loads several times while maintaining potency. However, due to its extreme potency and limited dilution in lab settings, overdoses are common.
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.
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Politico: Biden May OK Quasi-Amnesty for New Nicaraguan Migrants
President Joe Biden intends to grant the quasi-amnesty gift of “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to the growing population of Nicaraguan migrants, per a Monday Politico report.
The Biden Administration’s plans for the move come amid “pressure from immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers,” Politico’s Maya Ward reported Monday, citing “three people familiar with” the situation.
“It’s not clear when the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] would roll out the policy, and plans were subject to change before final approval,” noted Ward. “The White House and DHS declined to comment.”
The TPS program grants temporary amnesty to 530,000 foreigners in the United States, as Breitbart News noted. The number does not include their U.S.-born children. The DHS reported that 4,250 Nicaraguans held quasi-amnesty status in 2021.
Last year border patrol agents had 163,876 encounters with Nicaraguan migrants, most of whom were allowed to seek asylum, CBS news reported.
“Biden has designated six new countries for TPS since taking office and redesignated six other nations, making an additional 712,000 U.S. immigrants eligible for the status,” Ward wrote, citing the Migration Policy Institute.
The DHS typically designates TPS for foreign nationals when they cannot arrive home safely due to circumstances in their native countries, such as war, environmental catastrophe, or different “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” the DHS notes. Nicaragua first gained the TPS in 1999 following the devastating Hurricane Mitch.
Congress created the system in 1990. Some presidents have abused the system “to quietly import and keep many foreign workers, renters, and consumers in the United States,” Breitbart News’s Neil Munro noted:
This TPS program policy is just one element of the federal Extraction Migration economic strategy. That strategy aids investors by cutting Americans’ wages and by boosting housing prices. It also pushes up inflation for a wide variety of goods, such as used autos and food.
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[Former] President Donald Trump did not extend some of the TPS grants that had been repeatedly extended by prior presidents. The extensions were often granted long after the original disasters had been overcome. But Trump was stopped by lawsuits and Biden’s election.
Nicaragua was one of several countries where Trump did not extend the program.
In a February 23 letter, more than a dozen House Democrats called on Mayorkas to redesignate Nicaragua’s TPS status, citing the rule of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and now-vice president, Rosario Murillo.
“The increasingly totalitarian nature of the [Daniel Ortega/Rosario Murillo] regime and the brutal political repression Nicaraguans face in their daily lives exacerbate the urgent need for the Biden Administration to redesignate and extend TPS to Nicaragua,” wrote the Democrats, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schulz (D-FL), and Joaquin Castro (D-TX).
Additionally, 272 organizations directed a letter to Mayorkas early last month calling on him to grant TPS for Nicaraguans, as the Miami Herald reported.
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