Sunday, July 4, 2021

JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, DON'T BE MAD AT THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS! - THEY BRING CHEAP LABOR OVER THE BORDER AND ALWAYS VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR MORE!

Biden gives cartel human-smugglers an 'assist' by handing out free hotel rooms to illegal migrants

By Monica Showalter

Well, that was deluxe.

After riding through Mexico under car seats, inside sweltering trucks, stuffed in packed trunks, shimmying through rat-infested tunnels, crossing rivers, and on the tops of trains, illegal migrant families (or "families") who make it illegally across to the states get free hotel rooms, courtesy of Joe Biden and the U.S. taxpayer. 


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 the American 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

On the same day, a 39-year-old Mexican national was arrested in Brownsville, Texas, after attempting to smuggle nearly 60 pounds of cocaine in his vehicle at the Brownsville-Matamoros International bridge. That seizure, according to CBP, was valued at $461,040.

65 Migrants Found Packed in Two Stash Houses in U.S. near Border

Border Patrol agents find 13 migrants in a filthy human smuggling stash house near Roma, Texas. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
File Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector
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El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with other federal agents to interdict two human smuggling stash houses in Texas and New Mexico. The interdictions led to the arrest of 65 migrants.

El Paso Border Patrol agents teamed up with ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents to raid a suspected stash house in central El Paso on June 30, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials. The agents found 22 migrants being warehoused in the house.

Agents conducted immigration interviews and determined the migrants came from Ecuador (10), Guatemala (4), Mexico (3), Nicaragua (2), Honduras (2), and El Salvador (1).

Agents working in nearby Sunland Park, New Mexico, found another stash hour near the border with Mexico on the same day. The agents found 43 migrants locked in the house. An immigration interview identified the migrants as coming to the U.S. from Ecuador (25), Mexico (6), Guatemala (6), El Salvador (4), and Brazil (2).

Officials said all 65 of the migrants were single adults who illegally entered the U.S. and were attempting to make their way undetected into the interior of the country. Smugglers frequently warehouse migrants in crowded conditions in these types of stash house operations, officials reported.

The agents processed the migrants and expelled them to Mexico under Title 42 coronavirus protection protocols put in place during the Trump administration by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The El Paso Sector has seen a significant increase in the number of single adults crossing the border illegally in Fiscal Year 2021,” Border Patrol officials reported. “In comparison to the Family Unit Crisis of Fiscal Year 2019, there has been an increase of 261 percent for single adult encounters in Fiscal Year 2021 year to date. As of the end of May 2021, the El Paso Sector has encountered 86,536 single adults.”

“Our El Paso Sector integrated targeting teams continue to disrupt human smuggling by transnational criminal organizations in our region,” El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said in a written statement. “We will continue to work together with other agencies to rescue these migrants from these deplorable living conditions where they are held for long periods of time.”

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.

 

Six Cartel Gunmen Sentenced in Mexico for Kidnapping U.S. Army Veteran
Coahuila Kidnapping
Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles
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Six cartel gunmen received a 140-year prison sentence in Mexico for their role in the kidnapping of a US Army veteran, his sister, and a third victim. The gunmen killed the victims in 2018.

A judge in the Mexican border state of Coahuila handed down a combined sentence of 140 years in prison last week to each of the six defendants in connection with the kidnapping case of a U.S> Army veteran and two others. While the Coahuila Attorney General’s Office (FGE) released information about the sentence, they did not reveal that one of the victims in the case was a U.S. Army veteran and a second victim was also a U.S. citizen. Breitbart Texas obtained access to court documents and information confirming the identity of the victims tying the case to one previously reported.

The Coahuila Attorney General’s Office (FGE) identified the gunmen in their release only as Héctor Daniel “N”, Manuel Enrique “N”, Francisco Javier “N”, Roberto Antonio “N”, Víctor Armando “N” y José Isaac “N.” The last names of the kidnappers were not made public by authorities in Mexico. The case took place in November 2018, when several gunmen in multiple vehicles arrived at a house in Piedras Negras and kidnapped three victims.

Breitbart Texas first reported on the case in 2018, when 20 gunmen riding in six vehicles kidnapped 29-year-old U.S. Army Vet David Gutierrez, his sister, 28-year-old Sarai Gutierrez, and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Argenes Gonzalez. The gunmen took their victims to a ranch called Centinela in the rural community of El Moral near Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

There, the gunmen tortured the victims and executed Gonzales. The gunmen also shot Gutierrez. Authorities were able to rescue the two U.S. citizens and at the time took them to get medical care in Eagle Pass, Texas. Piedras Negras has been an area used by the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas to smuggle migrants and drugs into Texas due to the lack of physical barriers and minimal border security.

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.M. Martinez” from Coahuila. 

$2.5M in Drugs Seized During Week of Trump’s Border Visit to Ground Zero

Marijuana Seizure in Rio Grande Valley Sector during week of Trump's border visit. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol
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During the days leading up to Governor Greg Abbott’s border briefing to former President Donald Trump in Weslaco, Texas, Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents seized more than $2.5 million in street value worth of cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in the Rio Grande Valley.

At Wednesday’s briefing Texas Department of Public Safety Director, Colonel Steven McCraw told President Trump about the threat an open border poses to residents across America.

Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw briefs former President Donald Trump during a tour of the Texas Border. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw briefs former President Donald Trump during a tour of the Texas Border. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

“If you have a drug problem anywhere in the country, you have a border problem,” McCraw told the former president. “If it’s cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin, the Mexican cartels own it, plain and simple.”

His words rang true during a week that saw numerous seizures at border ports of entry and in cities across the Rio Grande Valley. For the Border Patrol, agents routinely seize approximately 43 percent of all cross-border illicit-drug seizures in the United States. In one 12-hour period during the week of Trump’s visit, Border Patrol agents seized more than $1 million in marijuana being smuggled across the Rio Grande River in just three failed attempts.

On Tuesday, Border Patrol Agents seized nearly $500,000 worth of marijuana in two separate seizures in less than an hour in Rio Grande City, Texas. On the same day, just north of Roma, Texas, 20 drug mules carrying 14 bundles of marijuana abandoned their drug load and fled from Border Patrol agents. The marijuana weighed more than 1,040 pounds. In all, more than $1.5 million in marijuana was seized in just one day.

Marijuana Seizure in Rio Grande Valley Sector during week of Trump's border visit. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)

Marijuana Seizure in Rio Grande Valley Sector during week of Trump’s border visit. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)

The Mexican cartels are pushing the drugs across the river as Border Patrol agents attempt to cope with thousands of migrants entering illegally on a daily basis in the Rio Grande Valley. One official with the Border Patrol, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says they are seeing days where more than 2,000 migrant family units, single adults, and unaccompanied migrant children are flooding across the border.

At area ports of entry in the Rio Grande Valley, the cartels were also busy at work trying to smuggle concealed narcotics past the watchful eye of CBP inspectors. In one seizure on Monday, Customs and Border Protection inspectors arrested a 38-year-old Mexican national attempting to drive a drug-laden vehicle across the Veterans International Bridge with more than 22 pounds of methamphetamine and a small amount of cocaine. The street value of this seizure was more than $400,000 in today’s market.

Cocaine Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Cocaine Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

On the same day, a 39-year-old Mexican national was arrested in Brownsville, Texas, after attempting to smuggle nearly 60 pounds of cocaine in his vehicle at the Brownsville-Matamoros International bridge. That seizure, according to CBP, was valued at $461,040.

The narcotic seizures highlight the warnings McCraw delivered to the governor and former president at Wednesday’s briefing. At the busiest spot along the southwest border, law enforcement officials have seen no sign of a slowdown in illicit narcotics or migrants being smuggled across what was described at the briefing as a dangerous, porous border.

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.

Rival Mexican Cartel Gunmen Freely Clash near Border Despite Army Post Two Miles Away

Miguel Aleman
Breitbart Texas / Ildefonso Ortiz
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Mexican authorities are bracing for more border violence in the coming days as rival cartels fight for lucrative smuggling routes. In recent weeks, cartel gunmen killed more than 15 innocent victims and a dozen rivals.

The most violent shootout took place Tuesday morning when gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas rolled into Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, and clashed with members of the Gulf Cartel. While the shootout took place under cover of darkness, by daylight residents reported the discovery of nine bodies strewn along a highway leading into the city.

According to local residents, the shooting went on for more than an hour without any interference despite a Mexican Army building less than two miles away from the scene. The lack of military involvement comes as residents and state officials claim Mexican federal authorities are not clashing with gunmen.

Miguel Aleman is controlled by the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel. Their territories expand east to the border city of Reynosa. The Metros are currently fighting on two fronts with the CDN-Los Zetas pushing from the west, while another faction of the Gulf Cartel from Matamoros is encroaching from the east.

On June 19, Gulf Cartel gunmen from the Matamoros faction rolled into Reynosa and killed 15 innocent victims. Military forces and federal authorities did not respond until after the shooting. State police officers to intervene with force.

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.C. Sanchez” from Tamaulipas. 

Porous Border Causes 50 Percent Spike in Fentanyl Overdoses, Texas Sheriff Tells Trump

More than $1 million in fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine seized by CBP officers in Nogales, Arizona. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Nogales Port of Entry)
File Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Nogales Port of Entry
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WESLACO, Texas — A North Texas sheriff told former President Donal Trump his county is seeing a 50 percent increase in the number of deaths related to fentanyl being smuggled from Mexico. His comments came during President Trump’s tour of the Rio Grande Valley with Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

“We’re seeing a 50% increase in deadly overdoses this year,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill E. Waybourn told President Trump. “In fact, in the first quarter of 21, it was three times the amount it was last year with fentanyl overdoses.”

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn briefs former President Donald Trump on the increase in fentanyl overdoses in his county during border crisis. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

“We know that the cartel, the Mexican drug cartel is responsible for where it’s going and it’s going all over the country,” Waybourn continued. “I’m in Fort Worth, but it’s happening, and I’d be remiss to say, it’s on every sheriff and every chief and every Director of Public Safety’s radar, this business of fentanyl and the deadliness and the thread it is to us as it continues to grow.”

President Trump asked the sheriff if the fentanyl is coming from China. The sheriff responded that the drugs come from China through Mexico and across the porous borders.

The sheriff said the smuggling suspects they have arrested said they are bringing the drugs directly across the Mexican border into the U.S.

“I certainly believe, and I believe the law enforcement in the room, is that the drug cartels in Mexico should be the number one enemy of American law enforcement, plain and simple. And we need to draw a line and protect our children.”

Former President Donald Trump, with Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, responds to Texas border briefing. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Former President Donald Trump, with Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, responds to Texas border briefing. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Sheriff Waybourn told a story about a 15-year-0ld who died from a fentanyl overdose last month. He said the cartels package the drugs in pill form to make them appear safe.

“They got a hold of something they thought was safe,” the sheriff told President Trump. “They had no idea what it was. It was pressed in some cartel lab, far away.”

He explained that the increase in fentanyl smuggling across the porous border caused the price of these deadly pills from $50 a gram in January to about $15-$20 a gram now.

“And what we’re experiencing Tarrant County, way beyond the border,” Waybourn stated. “We’re a hub, we know that we’re a hub where we have cartel agents embedded up there that we’re trying to locate and arrest and prosecute, and we’re doing a pretty good job of that in some cases.”

“But we know that as it comes into the county it does have an effect,” he concluded. “And, you know, to that end, the group of people that it’s hitting is the 16 to 24-year-old group because, again, it appears to be a safe drug, they think it’s a pharmaceutical drug because of these pill presses that they’re using.”

Waybourn’s comments came during a briefing to former President Trump in Weslaco, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon. The briefing, attended by Governor Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, DPS Director Steve McCraw, and several members of the Texas congressional and legislative delegations, brought the former president to the Rio Grande Valley Sector — the epicenter of the human and drug smuggling border crisis.

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.

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.

Biden gives cartel human-smugglers an 'assist' by handing out free hotel rooms to illegal migrants

By Monica Showalter

Well, that was deluxe.

After riding through Mexico under car seats, inside sweltering trucks, stuffed in packed trunks, shimmying through rat-infested tunnels, crossing rivers, and on the tops of trains, illegal migrant families (or "families") who make it illegally across to the states get free hotel rooms, courtesy of Joe Biden and the U.S. taxpayer. 

That's what Biden has mandated in his self-created border crisis that didn't exist until he started offering immigration line-cutters benefits, and not surprisingly, the migrants are pouring over. Now some new goodies await at the finish line.

Yet here's what Biden said ahead of it:

“I can say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come over,'” Biden said regarding the rise in border crossings. “Don’t leave your town or city or community.

With free hotel rooms, and five thousand people and counting getting across each day, sounds like nobody is listening. 

According to Axios, cited by Daily Caller, illegal migrant families can now look forward not to migrant jails but to free hotel rooms once they make it across without papers. 

The Biden administration has awarded an $86 million contract for hotel rooms near the border to hold around 1,200 migrant family members who cross the U.S.-Mexico border, DHS officials confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: It's a sign of growing numbers of migrant families trying to come to the U.S. — in addition to already overwhelming numbers of kids crossing the border without their parents or legal guardians. Both trends appear to be straining government resources.

· The contract through Endeavors, a Texas-based nonprofit, is for six months but could be extended and expanded. The hotels will be near border areas, including in Arizona and Texas.

That's a lot more than legal immigrants get. That's a lot more than an American abroad who's been robbed and goes to a U.S. embassy for help gets. That's a lot more than even irresponsible people who's gone into the wilderness against advice and trigger costly rescues get -- they usually have to pay for their rescues. And don't even think about an American who can't pay his taxes, he's not getting free rides, either. Not even most of the homeless, judging by the blue-city streets, get free hotel rooms. (San Francisco has been an exception.)

Anybody paying for these free hotel rooms? Like maybe someone with a spare $6,000 to pay a cartel human smuggler? Doesn't sound like it. This one's on the taxpayer.

What is amounts to is Joe Biden trying to hide the crisis by throwing money at NGOs and hoping no one notices the unvetted illegals, some with COVID, filling up border town hotel rooms. No kids in cages pictures seems to be the aim, given Biden's effort to cover up such news from the media. Now with the migrants scattered about in private hotel rooms in border towns, the Biden logic is that perhaps the media will go away.

That's a service-added for the cartels, which do entice migrants to leave their homes based on such goodies and not surprisingly they make lots of money off these crossings. The free hotels will add more. Thanks, Joe.

At a minimum, busting a cartel and using its "earnings" from migrants ought to be mandated to pay for these hotels. And not just them, but the governments of the countries that permits these exoduses to benefit from billions in remittances as well as reduced public pressure to reform themselves to make their countries liveable. Anybody there paying? Nope, they get free money from Uncle Sam, too. And as for Mexico, well, they've managed to persuade bumbling Biden that they just don't have space to accommodate. Kind of saves them some trouble, doesn't it?

Strange how the federal government, in paying for free hotel rooms with taxpayer dollars is incentivizing more illegal immigration.

Let's take a look at Endeavors, the non-profit based in San Antonio, which appears to be fairly respectable with ties to various city governments and the United Way, with a reported 10% spent in overhead (which is low), though it doesn't disclose its total money-size in its last-posted 2019 Annual Report.

The group, founded by five Presbyterian churches around 1975 took various names until settling on its current one, and specializes in helping the drug-addicted homeless, including homeless vets and ex-cons, get back into society, which is obviously a costly process involving a lot of hand-holding. It's helped a grand total of 250 families (or, 800 individuals) over 15 years through its shelter project for them. Which is rather tiny, but remember, these projects are intensive. Here is a success story it reports in this video. Its 2019 Annual Report doesn't mention migrants.

But somehow, in the last one or two months, with the migrant surge, it's gotten itself this $86 million hotel contract, which sounds a little sudden, and a bit big as contracts go, for all the known indicators of its size, too. And it doesn't indicate in its report any specialty with migrants, though it has a minor migrant section on its website navbar under 'What We Do.' Migrants are going to want free lawyers, free phone calls, free meals, and free bus or plane tickets to their destinations of choice. Are they going to help with that, do they have enough bilingual staff that can be taken from their current hand-holding duties, or is someone else? They will probably have to hire people at pricey NGO salaries, raising their overhead.

Was there competitive bidding? Why did this take so little time, and why so much to a non-migrant group so small? There may be legitimate answers, or maybe it was cronyism, but unless the site tells us -- they actually say nothing about this on their website, it looks a little funny.

Now let's look at the size of this contract:

How many free hotel rooms for illegal aliens will $86 million buy? Well, here's a back of the envelope calculation:

Six months is 180 days of hotel rooming. The average hotel room cost in Arizona and Texas border cities -- I looked it up, is about $70 for Nogales, Arizona, and $108 for McAllen, Texas. Other border cities checked -- El Paso, Laredo, Tucson, and Douglas, are all between those ranges, with the Texas cities a bit above $100, and the Arizona towns around $90.

If $90 is the median, then the hotel room cost, divided evenly is about $478,000 a day, and extended over 180 days, brings us to $86 million. That would house about 5,000 families, which squares well with the Axios estimates for family sizes of two to three people. Maybe they get bulk rates or cheaper hotels and can house more, but this is unknown. Federal contracts are prized, after all, because they often pay full fare. Lots of $6,000 toilet seats, after all. But most families are supposedly staying only about 3 days, so the $17,200 figure for 5,000 people at a time would be for the entire six month duration. You can bet there will be a lot more than 5,000 people served if every illegal alien family only stays three days.

Bottom line, all of these new services for illegal border crossers are bonanzas, not just for the NGOs who benefit, they are benefits for human smuggling rackets, who can now advertise these wares as part of their illegal alien benefit packages and use the news of them to draw more business. Biden is helping that bunch ultimately with these free-hotel contracts even Americans in distress don't get. Cartels will use this incentive to drum up more business.

Image: Screen shot from a camera aimed at a live television broadcast, enhanced with FotoSketcher.

 

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 the American 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

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