388 SHERIFFS FROM 40
STATES SAY BUILD THE
FREAKING WALL!!!
Mexico says we will simply
tunnel under it and our LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY will buy the shovels for us to
do it!
Bristol County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Thomas Hodgson state in an open letter, issued on March 21, makes clear that the
responsibility for the continued carnage of innocent Americans caused by those
who shouldn’t be present in the country in the first place lies firmly in the
lap of Congress. “Because Congress has failed to enact the necessary
reforms, our citizens and legal residents face even greater dangers, our
national security is more vulnerable, and our enforcement efforts have been
seriously compromised”
Seven Mexican Customs Agents Busted in Arms Smuggling Investigation
2:18
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Authorities arrested seven Mexican customs agents as part of an investigation into the smuggling of thousands of ammunition magazines from Texas into Mexico.
The arrest of the seven agents was the result of an investigation into information from within the agency about corrupt activity. The agents were caught trying to doctor importation documents and processes to claim that vehicles coming through the ports of entry were carrying electronic equipment. As part of the investigation, authorities learned that the vehicles were carrying thousands of ammunition magazines. Law enforcement authorities arrested the seven agents and transported them to Mexico City. Prosecutors charged the corrupt agents with violating multiple arm smuggling statutes.
Two factions of the Gulf Cartel have been waging a fierce turf war over smuggling routes in the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The fighting led to numerous firefights that have gone on for months resulting in a steady demand for weapons and ammunition from Texas, Breitbart News reported.
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Mexico’s new Treasury Secretary Ricardo Peralta announced the arrest claiming that the country’s Customs Office which falls under his control would be going through an extensive cleanup and vetting process in all the 49 offices throughout Mexico. According to Peralta, the vetting process will include background checks, polygraph testing, and financial investigations. The testing will be implemented in March and will be done every two years by members of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and Federal Police.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “J.A. Espinoza” from Tamaulipas.
President Lopez-Obrador and the Wall
There are many
reasons to build that border wall, as former Secretary of Education William
Bennett said on Sunday:
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied
taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal
defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
Mexican Judge Denies Bond for Cartel Boss Wanted in Texas
Breitbart Border / Cartel
Chronicles
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A Mexican federal judge has ruled against the
release of a recently captured cartel boss. The man is wanted by U.S.
authorities in connection to a high-profile cartel-execution near Dallas.
The ruling by the judge denying bond for Ramirez Bautista comes as a surprise since in recent months, as Breitbart News has reported, federal judges in Mexico have been releasing an alarming number of cartel bosses by ruling their arrests as illegal or alleging some other bureaucratic error. The man known as La Mora had been arrested in 2017. However, a Mexican federal judge ruled at the time that the raid that led to his capture was illegal and ordered his release.
Why
does it matter? Well, because the U.S. under President Trump is trying
hard to get along with the new Mexican administration, run by the leftist
Andrés Manuel López-Obrador. His followers are the top suspects in this
mysterious helicopter crash, which, if the investigation leads anywhere, is
likely to cast a Putinesque pall over López-Obrador just as it gets its
grounding. Prepare for relations to deteriorate if that grows as a
backstory.
Mexican Arkancide?
Sometimes, the coincidences get just
too...coincidental.
Now we have, in Mexico, the sudden
helicopter crash of a newly elected governor, after an apparently very bitter
election. Here's the Globe
and Mail report:
A Mexican
governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash
near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after
she had taken office following a bitterly contested election.
Martha Erika
Alonso, a senior opposition figure and governor of the state of Puebla, died
with Rafael Moreno, a senator and former Puebla governor, when their Agusta
helicopter came down on Monday afternoon shortly after take-off, the government
said.
This seems to happen a lot in Mexico,
quite unlike any comparable place in the region that I know of.
A number of
Mexican politicians have died in aircraft accidents in recent years, including
federal interior ministers in 2008 and 2011. The latter two were also
members of the PAN.
Maybe it was just the wildest of
coincidences, but given the savage character of Mexican politics, I
think it's natural to be a little suspicious. In most of these incidents,
the motive is suspected but not utterly obvious. This one is different:
it came after a bitterly contested election that the rabid left says was
stolen. It sounds like the sort of fury we saw from the left when Trump
won – except that now we see Mexican politics at play, potentially a
straight-up assassination, possibly by the embittered left.
Mexico sees a lot of these helicopter
downings, and what's more, it sees a lot of full blown assassinations. A
presidential candidate from before Mexico got into multi-party politics, Luis
Donaldo Colosio, was
straight-out assassinated in 1994, and his wife died under murky circumstances
shortly after that. Other elected officials have been gunned down or
else died in mysterious car crashes. There was definitely one of
those in Michoacán. Yes, some probably were the work of drug-dealers.
But others were far more likely to be Mexico's toxic politics. It
does happen.
Yet the Mexican government can
get real touchy when you bring up any suspicions about the helicopter
crash phenomenon. I remember how furious Mexico City's response was to an
actually sympathetic editorial I wrote for Investor's Business Daily, I think
in 2008, when a Mexican official was similarly killed in a helicopter crash.
At the time, they were obviously worried about the potential impact on
foreign investment, but my thought was to praise the Mexicans for
their resolve and sacrifice in fighting drug lords. That's not the way
they think over there.
Why does it matter? Well, because
the U.S. under President Trump is trying hard to get along with the new
Mexican administration, run by the leftist Andrés Manuel López-Obrador.
His followers are the top suspects in this mysterious helicopter crash,
which, if the investigation leads anywhere, is likely to cast a Putinesque pall
over López-Obrador just as it gets its grounding. Prepare for
relations to deteriorate if that grows as a backstory.
Perhaps even more, it matters because
Mexico's politics seems to be the model for Democratic Party politics these
days as rage over Trump dominates. In California, ballot-harvesting has
been adopted as a legal practice, in what's a straight-out
cultural appropriation of Mexican politics. If the Democrats are planning to make themselves
the "perfect dictatorship" along the PRI model of one-party rule, starting
in California and taking that style national, well, the unhappy question is,
what else are they borrowing from Mexican politics as they (without saying so,
of course) borrow from the Mexican Model? Yes, it sounds far-fetched.
But we also know how implacably angry the Democrats still are at the
election of Donald Trump and how they like to get away with things.
President Lopez-Obrador and the Wall
Over the last few years, I've had
conversations with friends in Mexico. We usually end up talking about the
border. For us, the border is illegal immigration. For Mexicans,
it's guns and cash corrupting a very fragile political system.
As a Mexican friend said recently, the
cartels have the politicians in their pockets, especially in the small towns
where many of these vans full of cash and guns drive through.
By weight, 86
percent of heroin that entered the United States in 2016 was of Mexican origin,
according statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"After
9/11 we shut down the border. When we shut down the border, drugs didn't come
in," Bennett said. "If you shut down that border, if you close it
off, if you build a wall, it can have a real and profound difference."
There is another reason, as any rational
Mexican will tell you.
On a weekly basis, lots of cash and guns
go south. They are the profits and rewards of the drugs going
north. According to unofficial estimates:
Officials in
Mexico believe the tide of laundered money could be as high as $50bn per year,
a sum equal to about three per cent of Mexico's legitimate economy -- more than
all its oil exports or spending on key social programmes. Internationally,
money laundering represents between two and five per cent of global GDP, or
between $800bn and $2tn annually, according to the UNODC.
It would be more difficult for money
or guns to go south if you had a wall on the border.
So President Trump should pick up the
phone and call President Lopez-Obrador. He should thank him for keeping
the caravans in Mexico and discuss the benefits of the border wall. Why
wouldn't the Mexican president support the wall? I'm sure that the
Mexican army and police would love to see that wall go up.
The lack of a stable border hurts both
sides.
This will
crack you up!
Mexican
Presidents Deny They Took Bribes from El Chapo
14 Nov 201898
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied
taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal
defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
The drug lord is facing several
money laundering and drug trafficking charges at a federal trial in New York.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman spoke of bribes
“including the very top, the current president of Mexico and the former.”
Soon after the statements became
public, Mexico’s government issued a statement denying the allegations. Eduardo
Sanchez, the spokesman for current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said
the statements were false and “defamatory.”
El
gobierno de @EPN persiguió, capturó y extraditó al
criminal Joaquín Guzmán Loera. Las afirmaciones atribuidas a su abogado son
completamente falsas y difamatorias
Former Mexican President Felipe
Calderon took to social media to personally deny the allegations, claiming that
neither El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel paid him bribes.
Son
absolutamente falsas y temerarias las afirmaciones que se dice realizó el
abogado de Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán. Ni él, ni el cártel de Sinaloa ni ningún
otro realizó pagos a mi persona.
Under Guzman’s leadership, the
Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world
with influence in every major U.S. city.
The allegations against Pena Nieto
are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel
operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation
was carried out by Mexican award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team. The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate”
for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The
allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an
award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel
Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. 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 the Cartel
Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him
on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
At a demonstration Wednesday in
Mexico City against Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government
gloated triumphantly after a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's
immigration law. But it's no victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders
ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists
crowed with glee and the Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's
government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's
injunction Wednesday "a step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign
Minister Patricia Espinosa declared: "The government of Mexico would like
to express its recognition for the determination demonstrated by the federal
government of the United States and the actions of the civil organizations that
organized lawsuits against the SB 1070 law."
In reality, it ought to be ashamed.
Supposedly framed as an issue of federal power pre-empting state power, it's
hardly Mexico's business. But Mexico made a big show of saying its interest was
in protecting its nationals from the dreadful racism of Arizona that its own
citizens, curiously enough, keep fleeing to.
Espinosa said her government was busy
collecting data on civil rights violations and her department had issued an
all-out travel warning to Mexican nationals about Arizona.
That's where Mexico's hypocrisy is
just too much.
First, Mexico encourages illegal
immigration to the U.S. Oh, it says it doesn't, but it prints comic book guides
for would-be illegal immigrants and provides ID cards for illegals once they
get here. In Arizona alone, Mexico keeps five consulates busy.
That's not out of love for its
own citizens, but because Mexicans send cash back to Mexico that helps finance
the government.
Instead of selling its wasteful state-owned oil company or
getting rid of red tape to create jobs in Mexico, Mexico spends the hard
currency from remittances. It fails to look at why its citizens leave.
According to the Heritage
Foundation-Wall Street Journal 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico's big
problem is — no shock — government corruption, where it ranks below the world
average.
That's where Mexico's cartels come in.
Mexico's encouragement of illegal
immigration undercuts its valiant war against its smuggling cartels. The
cartels' prowess and firepower have made them the only ones who can smuggle
effectively across the border. U.S. law enforcers say they now control
human-smuggling on our southern border.
Feed them immigrants and they grow
more cash-rich — and right now, immigrant smuggling is about a third of the
cartels' income.
Mass graves and car bombings are
signs of criminal organizations getting bigger, and more powerful. Juarez,
which has lost 5,000 people this year, bleeds because cartels fight over not
just who gets the drug routes, but who gets the illegal-immigrant smuggling
routes, too.
Aside from the cartel mayhem in
Mexico, the bodies are piling up in the Arizona desert and U.S. Border Patrol
rescues of abandoned illegals left to die have risen.
It's not the desert's fault,
and it's certainly not Uncle Sam's fault, as activists claim. No, it's the fact
that Mexicans are encouraged to emigrate. Criminal cartels don't fear
abandoning their human cargo in the desert, as long as Mexico does nothing and
blames Uncle Sam.
Hearing Mexico's government now cheer
the Arizona ruling, which will only encourage more illegal immigration, gives
the country's regime a pretty inhuman face.
If Mexico had any decency, it would
do all it could to discourage illegal immigration and keep a respectful silence
about Arizona.
It needs U.S. support for its war on
cartels. Instead of insulting American citizens, Mexico should confront
directly the reasons why its people are so desperate to leave, and do all in
its power to destroy the cartels that are slowly killing the nation. That
includes defunding the murderous gangs by halting illegal immigration.
Mexican Judge Denies Bond for Cartel Boss Wanted in Texas
18 Nov 201822
2:45
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A Mexican federal judge has ruled against the
release of a recently captured cartel boss. The man is wanted by U.S.
authorities in connection to a high-profile cartel-execution near Dallas.
In
a court hearing, a federal judge in Monterrey ruled against releasing Luis
Lauro “La Mora or La China” Ramirez Bautista. He ordered that he be held
without bond until further hearings. Officials removed the wanted drug boss to
the Cadereyta state prison. As Breitbart News first reported in an exclusive
article, detectives with the Nuevo Leon’s State Investigations Agency
arrested Ramirez Bautista at a checkpoint after
the wanted drug lord left a bar near the Barrio Antiguo neighborhood in
Monterrey.
Prior to his arrest, Ramirez
Bautista allegedly attempted to run over a law enforcement official at the
checkpoint and then resisted the arrest. During the arrest, authorities seized
a.38o caliber handgun carried by the wanted drug lord.
The
man known as La Mora is a key boss with a criminal organization that once
belonged to the Beltran Leyva Cartel but has since branched off and become
independent and highly dangerous. Under orders from his boss Rodolfo “El Gato”
Villarreal, Ramirez Bautista is believed to have played a role in helping
mastermind the 2013 murder of Gulf Cartel attorney Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa.
As Breitbart News reported, Guerrero Chapa was gunned
down in the ritzy Dallas suburb of Southlake after a long-term surveillance
operation. The murder was personal in nature since Ramirez Bautista’s boss El
Gato blamed Guerrero Chapa for the murder of his father.
Ramirez Bautista is wanted by U.S.
authorities in the ongoing case against Villarreal and federal authorities had
added him to a most wanted list of fugitive cartel bosses in the Texas border
region.
The ruling by the judge denying bond for Ramirez Bautista comes as a surprise since in recent months, as Breitbart News has reported, federal judges in Mexico have been releasing an alarming number of cartel bosses by ruling their arrests as illegal or alleging some other bureaucratic error. The man known as La Mora had been arrested in 2017. However, a Mexican federal judge ruled at the time that the raid that led to his capture was illegal and ordered his release.
Soon
after the most recent arrest, gunmen from El Gato’s criminal organization
murdered 34-year-old Santiago Aaron Urbina Arellano. This man managed Bar
Ambria, where Ramirez Bautista visited prior to his arrest. It is believed that
the gunmen targeted the bar manager suspecting that he may have tipped off law
enforcement.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas
traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to
recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels
silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the
hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf
Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon.
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