America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
JOE BIDEN AND THE OPIOID CARTELS - 'You Notice How Many People Are Dying of Opioid Overdoses Now?'
Border Town USA: Migrants Busted in Michigan with Mexican Cartel’s 20K Fentanyl Pills
JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico. PATRICK BUCHANAN
Biden: 'You Notice How Many People Are Dying of Opioid Overdoses Now?'
Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stands in front of "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died of a fentanyl overdose, at DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl. (Photo by AGNES BUN/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden told an audience in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Tuesday that his crime fighting plan "does something else really important: It addresses the opioid epidemic," he said.
"You notice how many people are dying of opioid overdoses now?" the president asked. "And by the way, laced with fentanyl."
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexico and China are the primary source countries for fentanyl trafficked directly into the United States.
That drug, and others, are smuggled across the porous southwest border daily.
Just five days ago, in fact, U.S. Border Patrol agents seized 340 packages of fentanyl pills weighing 187 pounds near Gila Bend, Arizona. Fentanyl is generally considered lethal at just 2 milligrams.
"But we’re going to impose tougher penalties for deadly fentanyl trafficking that’s poisoning communities across this country," said Biden, who refuses to enforce border security -- or even visit the places where hordes of people cross illegally into the United States every single day.
Biden said tougher penalties for fentanyl trafficking "is a key part of the Unity Agenda...that I announced in my State of the Union Address. We can do this. We have to do this. We’ll make America safer."
As CNSNews.com has reported, Since February 2021, the first full month of Joe Biden's presidency, 3,385,016 people are known to have entered the country illegally, based on "encounter" statistics reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
That number includes 1,946,780 in the current Fiscal Year, which ends in September (see chart below).
(Source: CBP)
It's not clear how many of the total "encounters" have been expelled for public health or other reasons, only to repeat their illegal entry attempts.
Likewise, an unknown number of people, including human/drug smugglers, have crossed the southwest border undetected.
(CNS News) – Ten alleged MS-13 gang members have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas on a series of charges, including seven murders that “were allegedly brutal in nature.” Some of the crimes also occurred in Maryland.
On Aug. 25, 2022, the Department of justice issued a press release about the indictment. The indictment charges 10 alleged MS-13 gang members with “crimes including racketeering conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to murder in aid of racketeering, related firearms charges, and obstruction of justice.”
The indictment includes allegations that the defendants “were leaders and members” of La Mara Salvatrucha, or “MS-13.” The defendants face criminal charges “related to seven murders, one attempted murder, and one murder conspiracy,” the DOJ release reports.
These crimes allegedly took place between 2015 through 2018 in the Southern District of Texas and the District of Maryland.
“In or around July 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others contacted MS-13 leaders in El Salvador, including FRANKLIN TREJO-CHAVARRIA, A/K/A ‘IMPULSIVO,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, and requested and received permission to murder Elian Ortiz, a seventeen year-old male, because he wanted to leave MS-13.”
“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, lured Elian Ortiz to a wooded area in Houston, Texas, in order to murder Elian Ortiz.”
“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, murdered Elian Ortiz in Houston, Texas.”
“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, took photos of Elian Ortiz’s body to send them to MS-13 leaders in El Salvador, which included FRANKLIN TREJO-CHAVARRIA, A/K/A ‘IMPULSIVO,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury as proof of the murder.”
The DOJ noted that the seven murders in question “were allegedly brutal in nature,” including “multiple acts of mutilation and dismemberment with machetes.” Among the alleged murder victims are “a juvenile female and a police informant,” the DOJ stated.
In recent years “law enforcement uncovered several alleged homicides and attempted murders related to these cliques and their associates,” the release states. These crimes “were committed to maintain the gang’s control, to retaliate against rival gangs and to seek retribution against those who were believed to have cooperated with law enforcement against the gang,” said the DOJ.
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The press release further stated that, “leaders in El Salvador and elsewhere allegedly authorized the acts to ensure individual members and cliques followed the customs, rules, and protocols of the larger MS-13 enterprise.”
“MS-13, including its leadership, membership, and associates, constituted an ‘enterprise,’ as defined by Title 18, United States Code, Section 1961(4), that is, a group of individuals associated in fact, which engaged in, and the activities of which affected, interstate and foreign commerce,” the indictment reads.
“The 10 individuals indicted included Franklin Trejo-Chavarria, 25; Julio Vigili-Lopex, 25; Walter Antonio Chicas-Garcia, 25; Luis Ernesto Carbajal-Peraza, 30; Carlos Alexi Garcia-Gongora, 24; Wilson Jose Ventura-Mejia, 26; Angel Miguel Aguilar-Ochoa, 37; Marlon Miranda-Moran, 23; William Rivas-Guido, 26; and Carlos Elias Henriquez-Torres, 22.”
Among the 10 defendants, eight of them are in U.S. custody except for Trejo-Chavarria and Vigil-Lopez, both of whom are currently in El Salvador, according to ICE.
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“All ten defendants are citizens of El Salvador,” the release reads.
Neither the DOJ nor ICE’s announcement of the indictment specified the legal status of any of the 10 alleged MS-13 gang members. The DOJ press release omitted the fact that all 10 men are El Salvadorian nationals.
CNS News contacted the Department of Justice to inquire about the legal statuses of each of the eight indicted alleged MS-13 members currently in the custody of U.S. law enforcement. The DOJ did not respond.
According to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, “the charges in this case reflect the Justice Department’s commitment to dismantling and disrupting MS-13, a criminal organization that sows violence, terror, and fear in communities across the country.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “This indictment is one example of the persistent work being done by the FBI and our partners to combat violent gangs like MS-13 that inundate communities with violence.”
“The FBI is committed to reducing violent crime and combating the threat criminal enterprises pose,” said Wray. “We are proud to work alongside our local, state, Tribal and federal enforcement partners in bringing violent members of criminal organizations like MS-13 to justice.”
According to U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery, the case serves as “an important step in curbing crime in Texas,” as well as “a message to criminal organizations that federal authorities are working with local law enforcement to stop the violence.”
The allegations in the indictment further state that “transnational criminal street gangs like MS-13 are a plague upon society that must be rooted out in the interest of public safety and national security,” remarked Mark Dawson, the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston.
“HSI Houston is committed to continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners to bring an end to the relentless terror and violence that they reign on the innocent and law-abiding members of our communities,” said Dawson.
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The case is being investigated by the FBI, HSI, the Houston Police Department, the Galveston Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Prince George’s County Police Department, with assistance provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and the DEA.
According to the DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs, “MS-13 was formed by Salvadoran immigrants that came to the United States in order to escape the civil war in their home country. Some of its members were trained in guerilla warfare and the use of military weapons. The gang is well-organized and is heavily involved in lucrative illegal enterprises, being notorious for its use of violence to achieve its objectives.”
“Fear and intimidation are used in extorting payments from any legitimate or illegitimate business owners for the right to conduct their business in MS-13 territory,” said the Office of Justice Programs. “MS-13 members have been involved in rapes and witness intimidation. In addition to local crimes, MS-13 is known to participate in numerous transnational crimes; for example, they are involved in the illegal trafficking of stolen vehicles from the United States to Central America. They also participate in weapon smuggling and illegal firearm sales.”
Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration
Migrants illegally cross the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking about his "Safer America Plan" in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Biden mentioned Mexico's concerns about the southern border, but not America's concerns about that same border.
"Mexico, which has real problems, causing us real problems — you know what their biggest complaint is?" Biden asked. "Can’t we stop gun — gun trafficking across the southern border into Mexico."
While Biden complained about guns flowing north to south, he made no mention of the 3,385,016 people known to have illegally flowed south to north across that same border during Biden's presidency.
That number includes human smugglers, gang members, drug smugglers and dozens of people on the terrorist watchlist -- not to mention an unknown number of "got-aways" who fall into those categories.
So why should Biden worry what Mexico thinks?
Former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News Tuesday night:
"Well, to be honest, I'm not really concerned about what Mexicans think. I'm concerned about what Americans think, and I'm concerned about putting Americans first.
"And this administration, time and time again, refuses to acknowledge that there is a border crisis of their own making. The president refuses to go to the border; the vice president refuses to go to the border. They refuse to listen to law enforcement officers. You have the chief of Border Patrol on record in the last day or so, saying that the cause of this crisis, is because there are no consequences to illegal behavior,
"And this is the system that they have set up and designed, they do not apologize for it, and they actually brag about it.
"And so for the president to sit there and talk about what Mexicans are thinking and feeling -- he should really stop and think about that and say, I'm actually president of the United States and maybe should I be putting together policies and thinking about what's best for Americans.
"This gets me hot and bothered at the end of the day, because he's not doing his job, this administration refuses to enforce laws on the border and it's causing an unmitigated disaster when you have 100,000 overdose deaths because of fentanyl. Ninety percent of that comes across that southern border.
"So if he wants to protect Americans, he wants to be on the side of law enforcement, it's time to do your job along that border and solve that crisis we have today."
Fox News Digital reported on Tuesday that Raul Ortiz, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, said under oath that Biden's "no consequences" border policy is causing the unprecedented surge of illegal aliens.
"Fox News Digital first obtained a video of Ortiz's assertions, which came during a recorded deposition from July 28 as part of discovery in a lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody against the Department of Homeland Security and other border agencies," the report said.
"Ortiz, who has more than 31 years of experience in law enforcement, told attorneys representing Florida that he believes migration will increase at an exponential rate at the southern border because there are no 'consequences' in place to curb the tide of migrants flooding into the U.S.
"'In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,' said Ortiz during the deposition
"'So, if migrant populations believe that they're going...there are not going to be consequences, more of them will come to the border. Is that what you're saying?' questioned the attorney.
"Ortiz responded: 'There is an assumption that if migrant populations are told that there is a potential that they may be released, that, yes, you can see increases.'"
500 Migrants in 3 Large Groups Apprehended near Border in Texas
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents encountered five large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas over the past weekend. The groups totaled nearly 500 migrants from Central America and across the globe.
Rio Grande City Station Border Patrol agents encountered two large groups of migrants in Starr County, Texas, according to information obtained from Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials. The groups were made up of 142 single adults, 101 family units, and 130 unaccompanied children. The 373 migrants in the two groups came from Cuba and multiple South and Central American nations, officials stated.
Nearby in the McAllen Station area of responsibility, agents encountered a third large group. This group of 121 migrants located in Hidalgo County, Texas, was made up of 21 single adults, 30 family units, and 70 unaccompanied minors, the report continued.
In total, RGV Sector agents took 494 migrants into custody from the three large groups. Unaccompanied alien children accounted for 200 of these apprehensions — more than 40 percent of the total.
“RGV agents have encountered more than 130 large groups illegally entering the United States since October 2021, resulting in more than 21,000 migrant apprehensions,” sector officials said in a written statement. “The logistics required to transport and process groups of this size continues to place a strain on manpower and resources, as they are often encountered in desolate areas inaccessible to large transport vehicles.”
Border Patrol defines a group of more than 100 migrants as a large group.
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