NOW THE NARCOMEX CARTELS MAKE MORE MONEY CONVEYING JOE'S ILLEGALS OVER THE BORDER THAN THEY DO DRUGS!
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.
Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
It's time.
The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should, in a just world, refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans for Haitian drug smugglers, as The Dallas Morning News reported, hardly ameliorates the awful situation or lessens our imperative to recalibrate attention away from faraway proxy wars of dubious national interest, and toward the very monsters in our own backyard who run the Western hemisphere’s worst human trafficking rings and flood the U.S. interior with the most lethal drugs known to man.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the U.S.-Mexico border, at this point, is one of the most chaotic, over-trafficked and outright dangerous borders in the world. Vicious cartels, such as Sinaloa and Jalisco, engage in gang shootouts in outlaw fashion, with nary a Mexican law enforcement agent in sight — and even those in sight are more likely than not to be bribed, and in the cartels’ pockets. Human trafficking rings, often working hand in hand with the cartels and opportunistic “coyotes” who promise to smuggle vulnerable migrants into the U.S., parade hordes of Central American and Caribbean migrants through the Mexican interior and right up to the border. The humanitarian conditions on these migrant “caravans” are typically abysmal; drugs are rampant, children are exploited and far too many women are raped.
Drugs flow across the border like never before; the U.S. drug overdose crisis, which is primarily a fentanyl crisis, is nearly exclusively a phenomenon of the cartels. Drug overdose deaths in America last year reached an unconscionable 106,000-plus, or over 290 daily. That is the functional equivalent of a mid-size commercial airliner falling out of the sky each day; and here, as is the case with fentanyl, those proverbial airliners falling out of the sky would be predominantly packed with those under the age of 35. This tragedy is America’s single greatest humanitarian failing, at the present time.
It is also de facto chemical warfare waged against the United States by the criminal drug cartels that operate on our southern border. And the Mexican government, which especially in the northern part of the country nearest the border resembles a failed and deeply corrupt narco-state, is both unwilling and powerless to put a stop to it. The situation at the border, overall, is nothing less than deplorable. Ranchers in southern Arizona can hear gunshots and spot cartel thugs strategically perched in the desert hills a few hundred yards away; hospitals as far apart as Brownsville, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, are completely overwhelmed and unable to provide medical care for the law-abiding U.S. citizens who live there. And as we were reminded this week, American citizens are being killed.
It is a disaster. And such a disaster — especially one in our own backyard — requires a clear, unambiguous response from the putative greatest nation on earth.
As this column noted last week, one straightforward and potentially highly effective policy the Biden administration should announce would be to designate the leading drug cartels as State Department-recognized Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Doing this would allow the U.S. government to use various means to financially suffocate the cartels and deprive them of their funding sources. It would also aid law enforcement. Democrats’ typical response is that such a formal designation would complicate diplomatic relations with Mexico, but that barely passes the laugh test: Mexico has just as much — if not more — of an interest in cracking down on the cartels as the U.S., but it cannot publicly say so, let alone act upon that interest, due to the cartels’ successful bribery and corruption of the all-too-venal Mexican government.
Crucially, a formal Foreign Terrorist Organization designation for the leading cartels, such as Sinaloa and Jalisco, would also permit the U.S. to go even further.
Consider the fact that, as recently as 2021, 625 U.S. citizens were abducted in Mexico. Far too many did not come home, as their families failed to pay ransom and the abductees were thus killed. If an Islamic jihadist outfit were responsible for such atrocities on this scale, on an annual basis, Congress would pass a bipartisan authorization to use military force and the U.S. would not hesitate to declare all-out war. After 9/11, the U.S. waged war upon al-Qaeda; but for some reason, with hundreds of citizen kidnappings, far too many murders and an unfathomable number of Americans now dropping dead from cartel-supplied fentanyl poison, bipartisan elites cite concerns about diplomatic niceties and say our hands are tied.
Nonsense. Our hands are not tied.
There is even some precedent. From 1910 to 1919, the Mexican Border War unfolded in a series of military engagements along the border. After Pancho Villa’s infamous attack on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916, decorated U.S. Army General John J. Pershing launched the “Punitive Expedition” (or the “Pancho Villa Expedition”) into northern Mexico. It was only partially successful, but the U.S. Army did manage to kill Villa’s two top lieutenants.
It is now time for another “Punitive Expedition” into northern Mexico. With cartel violence, drug peddling and the sheer invasion of illegal aliens at the border the worst they have ever been, the U.S. has little choice but to affirmatively act. We should first seek to obtain the Mexican government’s permission to engage in a limited operation to hunt down and kill top cartel leaders, but this is one such mission where America must go alone if need be. The direct effect on virtually all facets of American life is far too galling for this to go on much longer. It is time to rain hell on the cartels, stopping their illegal alien smuggling, fentanyl-peddling chemical warfare, thuggery, brutality and corruption once and for all.
The American ruling class would currently have us believe that “democracy,” and the fate of the Western world more generally, is somehow now on the line in the hinterlands of eastern Ukraine. Suffice it to say that is not the case. But what is the case is that an increasingly failed, corrupt narco-state on our southern border refuses to do anything about some of the world’s most vicious transnational criminal rings, which also happen to control large swaths of the border. It is past time to focus in earnest on extirpating America’s massive problem south of the border.
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"If you see the pictures, if you see the video, it looks like a third world country. The crime is off the charts. We have people getting murdered at marijuana grows."
My guest today is Jeremiah LaRue, Sheriff of Siskiyou County. In a previous episode, we have covered how cartels taking over land in his county and grow massive illegal marijuana. Today, we will dive deeper to find out what’s happening in Northern California. And why the illegal grows have been out of control.
Mexican President Says He’ll Campaign Against GOP if it Presses For Military Action Against Cartels
Text Audio00:0000:00Font Size(CNSNews.com) – Taking aim at GOP lawmakers pushing for military action against Mexican drug cartels, President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that if the drive continues he will call on Mexican and Hispanic voters in the U.S. not to support the Republican Party.
One of the lawmakers involved advised López Obrador to “get a grip” and said he should be campaigning against the cartels murdering his people, rather than against those wanting to help.
“We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, much less the armed forces of a foreign government to intervene in our territory,” the Mexican president said during a press conference. “We are not a protectorate of the United States, nor a colony of the United States.”
The fentanyl crisis has prompted several Republican-led proposals to have the U.S. government designate the Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), and use military assets against them. Proponents say they aren’t calling for U.S. troops to be deployed on the ground, but for the use of cyber, drones, and other capabilities against gangs responsible for the drugs that are killing tens of thousands of Americans each year.
The deaths of two Americans kidnapped in northeastern Mexico has fueled the calls.
But López Obrador said they amount to an attack on Mexican sovereignty, and laid out his planned response:
“Starting today we are going to launch 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.”
Among those responding to López Obrador’s remarks was Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), one of the lawmakers pressing for military action against the cartels.
“The President of Mexico said today he would campaign against me & anyone who wants to target the cartels,” he tweeted.
“1. Bring it. Lol. 2. Get a grip. You should be campaigning against the cartels who are MURDERING your own people, not the Americans who want to help eradicate them.”
Earlier this week, after news broke that two of four Americans kidnapped last Friday had been killed, Crenshaw tweeted, “It’s time we authorize military force against them. Are you listening, [López Obrador]? We would love for you to be a partner. Help us help you.”
The cartel-focused congressional initiatives include a resolution introduced in January by Crenshaw and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), granting Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target specified cartels facilitating the fentanyl crisis.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – from whose state the kidnapped and murdered Americans came – joined Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) at a press conference this week outlining plans for legislation that would designate the cartels as FTOs, and then “give the military the authority to go after these organizations wherever they exist.”
“Not to invade Mexico. Not to shoot Mexican airplanes down,” Graham said. “But to destroy drug labs that are poisoning Americans.”
Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Rick Scott (Fla.) on Wednesday reintroduced their Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, previously proposed last September, that would designate four specified Mexican cartels as FTOs.
The designation would make it a crime to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to the cartels to enter the U.S., ban entry into the U.S. to any foreign citizen linked to the cartels, and authorize the Treasury Department to freeze cartels’ assets and block transactions.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that FTO designations for the cartels “would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t really have at this time.”
The Crenshaw-Waltz and Marshall-Scott measures both name the cartels they want targeted. Both lists include the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels, which have been linked to the production of most of the fentanyl coming across the southwest border.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71,238 Americans died in fentanyl overdoses in 2021.
In his press conference remarks on Thursday, López Obrador denied that fentanyl is produced or consumed in Mexico, characterizing the situation in the U.S. as a result of an inadequate law enforcement response and social problems.
“Why don’t they fight the distribution of fentanyl in the United States, the cartels in the United States that are in charge of distributing fentanyl and more thoroughly?” he asked. “Why don’t you take care of your youth? Why don’t they address their serious problem of social decomposition?”
See also:
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
The Border Crisis and Violent Crime
By Jason Richwine
American Greatness,
Excerpt: Despite advocates’ repeated insistence that illegal immigrants do not threaten public safety, the evidence is not so clear. In fact, some data out of Texas suggest that illegal immigrants are convicted of homicide and sexual assault at higher rates than the state average.
VIDEO - NARCOMEX ON, UNDER, OVER AND IN AMERICA'S UNDEFENDED BORDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLxjAcCrjC0
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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1,000 Migrants Storm El Paso International Bridge in Attempt to Enter U.S.
(CNSNews.com) – Taking aim at GOP lawmakers pushing for military action against Mexican drug cartels, President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that if the drive continues he will call on Mexican and Hispanic voters in the U.S. not to support the Republican Party.
One of the lawmakers involved advised López Obrador to “get a grip” and said he should be campaigning against the cartels murdering his people, rather than against those wanting to help.
“We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, much less the armed forces of a foreign government to intervene in our territory,” the Mexican president said during a press conference. “We are not a protectorate of the United States, nor a colony of the United States.”
The fentanyl crisis has prompted several Republican-led proposals to have the U.S. government designate the Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), and use military assets against them. Proponents say they aren’t calling for U.S. troops to be deployed on the ground, but for the use of cyber, drones, and other capabilities against gangs responsible for the drugs that are killing tens of thousands of Americans each year.
The deaths of two Americans kidnapped in northeastern Mexico has fueled the calls.
But López Obrador said they amount to an attack on Mexican sovereignty, and laid out his planned response:
“Starting today we are going to launch 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.”
Among those responding to López Obrador’s remarks was Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), one of the lawmakers pressing for military action against the cartels.
“The President of Mexico said today he would campaign against me & anyone who wants to target the cartels,” he tweeted.
“1. Bring it. Lol. 2. Get a grip. You should be campaigning against the cartels who are MURDERING your own people, not the Americans who want to help eradicate them.”
Earlier this week, after news broke that two of four Americans kidnapped last Friday had been killed, Crenshaw tweeted, “It’s time we authorize military force against them. Are you listening, [López Obrador]? We would love for you to be a partner. Help us help you.”
The cartel-focused congressional initiatives include a resolution introduced in January by Crenshaw and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), granting Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target specified cartels facilitating the fentanyl crisis.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – from whose state the kidnapped and murdered Americans came – joined Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) at a press conference this week outlining plans for legislation that would designate the cartels as FTOs, and then “give the military the authority to go after these organizations wherever they exist.”
“Not to invade Mexico. Not to shoot Mexican airplanes down,” Graham said. “But to destroy drug labs that are poisoning Americans.”
Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Rick Scott (Fla.) on Wednesday reintroduced their Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, previously proposed last September, that would designate four specified Mexican cartels as FTOs.
The designation would make it a crime to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to the cartels to enter the U.S., ban entry into the U.S. to any foreign citizen linked to the cartels, and authorize the Treasury Department to freeze cartels’ assets and block transactions.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that FTO designations for the cartels “would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t really have at this time.”
The Crenshaw-Waltz and Marshall-Scott measures both name the cartels they want targeted. Both lists include the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels, which have been linked to the production of most of the fentanyl coming across the southwest border.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71,238 Americans died in fentanyl overdoses in 2021.
In his press conference remarks on Thursday, López Obrador denied that fentanyl is produced or consumed in Mexico, characterizing the situation in the U.S. as a result of an inadequate law enforcement response and social problems.
“Why don’t they fight the distribution of fentanyl in the United States, the cartels in the United States that are in charge of distributing fentanyl and more thoroughly?” he asked. “Why don’t you take care of your youth? Why don’t they address their serious problem of social decomposition?”
See also:
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
The Border Crisis and Violent Crime
By Jason Richwine
American Greatness,
Excerpt: Despite advocates’ repeated insistence that illegal immigrants do not threaten public safety, the evidence is not so clear. In fact, some data out of Texas suggest that illegal immigrants are convicted of homicide and sexual assault at higher rates than the state average.
VIDEO - NARCOMEX ON, UNDER, OVER AND IN AMERICA'S UNDEFENDED BORDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLxjAcCrjC0
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkca09EHRI&t=772s
1,000 Migrants Storm El Paso International Bridge in Attempt to Enter U.S.
3:59 A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a group of nearly 1,000 frustrated migrants attempted to force their way into the United States at the Paso de Norte International Bridge in El Paso. The group of mostly single adult migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration authorities and attempted to breach the United States Port of Entry by force on Sunday afternoon.
The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas that CBP officers staffing the U.S. side of the bridge prevented the group from entering the city of El Paso. The large migrant group has been pushed back into Mexico and was somewhat dispersed at press time.
The source believes the group may attempt a breach at another international bridge in the area, namely the Stanton-Lerdo facility located on Stanton Street in El Paso. The source says the migrants are likely frustrated by the increased application of the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The Title 42 order was recently expanded by the Biden administration to include the immediate expulsion of Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.
Video published by the City of El Paso shows the bridge being closed on Sunday afternoon with barricades and CPB officers standing guard:
The increased application of the emergency rule reduced crossings along the southwest border in recent months and forced migrants to wait in Mexico for the rule to expire or to turn to cartel smugglers and finance a more surreptitious, dangerous, and expensive journey into the United States.
Before the enhanced application of the Title 42 authority that sees migrants quickly expelled to Mexico or their home country, most migrants crossing in large groups were quickly released to pursue asylum claims in the United States. According to CBP, the rule will expire in May and will be replaced by an immigration enforcement measure that will subject migrants who fail to apply for asylum in a third country to expedited removal and imposes a five-year ban on re-entry to the United States as a consequence.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions with nearly 56,000 apprehensions in December prior to President Joe Biden visiting the sector in January. As a result of the enhanced application of the Title 42 COVID-19 authority imposed shortly after the president’s visit, migrant apprehensions in the Sector dropped by more than 40% to 31,900 in February.
It is unknown if any migrants attempting to breach the Paso Del Norte International Port of Entry were arrested during the event by U.S. or Mexican authorities. A request for information from Customs and Border Protection remains pending as of press time.
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.
A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a group of nearly 1,000 frustrated migrants attempted to force their way into the United States at the Paso de Norte International Bridge in El Paso. The group of mostly single adult migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration authorities and attempted to breach the United States Port of Entry by force on Sunday afternoon.
The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas that CBP officers staffing the U.S. side of the bridge prevented the group from entering the city of El Paso. The large migrant group has been pushed back into Mexico and was somewhat dispersed at press time.
The source believes the group may attempt a breach at another international bridge in the area, namely the Stanton-Lerdo facility located on Stanton Street in El Paso. The source says the migrants are likely frustrated by the increased application of the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The Title 42 order was recently expanded by the Biden administration to include the immediate expulsion of Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.
Video published by the City of El Paso shows the bridge being closed on Sunday afternoon with barricades and CPB officers standing guard:
The increased application of the emergency rule reduced crossings along the southwest border in recent months and forced migrants to wait in Mexico for the rule to expire or to turn to cartel smugglers and finance a more surreptitious, dangerous, and expensive journey into the United States.
Before the enhanced application of the Title 42 authority that sees migrants quickly expelled to Mexico or their home country, most migrants crossing in large groups were quickly released to pursue asylum claims in the United States. According to CBP, the rule will expire in May and will be replaced by an immigration enforcement measure that will subject migrants who fail to apply for asylum in a third country to expedited removal and imposes a five-year ban on re-entry to the United States as a consequence.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions with nearly 56,000 apprehensions in December prior to President Joe Biden visiting the sector in January. As a result of the enhanced application of the Title 42 COVID-19 authority imposed shortly after the president’s visit, migrant apprehensions in the Sector dropped by more than 40% to 31,900 in February.
It is unknown if any migrants attempting to breach the Paso Del Norte International Port of Entry were arrested during the event by U.S. or Mexican authorities. A request for information from Customs and Border Protection remains pending as of press time.
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.
Huge Surge in Migrant Smuggling Reported by Texas County near Border
Previously Deported Illegal Alien Indicted for Allegedly Murdering, Dismembering Woman and Her Son
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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.
Mexican president speaks, and it's pretty 'estúpido'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.
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
2:53 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.
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 Face book.
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.
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 Face
Mexican President: Fentanyl is a U.S. Problem — ‘We Don’t Make It’
2:18
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.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
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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.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
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Politico: Biden May OK Quasi-Amnesty for New Nicaraguan Migrants
3:42 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.
…
[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.
LIE! WH: ‘DHS Screens and Vets Every Individual Encountered at the Border’ Text Audio00:0000:00Font Size(CNSNews.com) - The White House on Tuesday addressed concerns that Mexican cartels responsible for the murder of two kidnapped Americans in Mexico could cross the southern border and enter the United States.
As CNSNews.com reported, four Americans were kidnapped and the bodies of two of them were found, according to Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal. The other two Americans were found alive, although one of them was injured. They were all kidnapped after crossing into Matamoros in Tamaulipas, Mexico, which has a level four State Department travel advisory warning.
“I should say this administration from day one has made sure as it relates to the safety, I know some folks have asked if we’re concerned about these individuals actually coming across the border and coming into the U.S., so DHS screens and vets every individual encountered at the border,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when asked whether the U.S. needs to do more to tackle organized crime in Mexico.
“The president has secured record levels of funding for border security and management, including 23,000 border officials, which is a historic amount of border officials to help with the security process at the border, and we have stepped up coordination with government of Mexico to ensure security along our shared border,” the press secretary said.
“As you know, the president was recently in Mexico City. He met with — with AMLO to talk — that was one of the conversations that were had, that was part of the agenda, and so we’re going to continue to do that — those coordination, and — and we’re going to continue to do everything that we can to secure the border,” she said.
“These individuals were reportedly going across the border to Mexico for medical care. There are a lot of Americans who cross the southern border for medical care or for prescription drugs. What is the advice to those individuals? Should they avoid doing that?” a reporter asked.
“So I’m not going to speak specifically to — I know — I know it’s ongoing. I know there’s a lot of comments out there as to what these four individuals were going to do. So I would say the federal law enforcement has been in touch — has been, you know, doing — leading this investigation — clearly in touch with family members, and so I’m just going to be really careful on commenting why they were crossing the border,” the press secretary said, citing privacy concerns.
“But, again, I just laid out moments ago, when Michael was asking me the question about the Americans in Mexico or thinking about traveling to Mexico: The State Department puts out these alerts, has been — has tried — tries very hard to communicate what’s going on — this — their own safety — for their own safety in certain countries,” she said.
“And I would — I would make sure that if Americans are thinking about traveling to Mexico, that they certainly heed the call from the State Department. This particular area, as I just mentioned, is at Level 4, and so folks need to be really careful,” Jean-Pierre said.
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.
…
[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.
(CNSNews.com) - The White House on Tuesday addressed concerns that Mexican cartels responsible for the murder of two kidnapped Americans in Mexico could cross the southern border and enter the United States.
As CNSNews.com reported, four Americans were kidnapped and the bodies of two of them were found, according to Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal. The other two Americans were found alive, although one of them was injured. They were all kidnapped after crossing into Matamoros in Tamaulipas, Mexico, which has a level four State Department travel advisory warning.
“I should say this administration from day one has made sure as it relates to the safety, I know some folks have asked if we’re concerned about these individuals actually coming across the border and coming into the U.S., so DHS screens and vets every individual encountered at the border,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when asked whether the U.S. needs to do more to tackle organized crime in Mexico.
“The president has secured record levels of funding for border security and management, including 23,000 border officials, which is a historic amount of border officials to help with the security process at the border, and we have stepped up coordination with government of Mexico to ensure security along our shared border,” the press secretary said.
“As you know, the president was recently in Mexico City. He met with — with AMLO to talk — that was one of the conversations that were had, that was part of the agenda, and so we’re going to continue to do that — those coordination, and — and we’re going to continue to do everything that we can to secure the border,” she said.
“These individuals were reportedly going across the border to Mexico for medical care. There are a lot of Americans who cross the southern border for medical care or for prescription drugs. What is the advice to those individuals? Should they avoid doing that?” a reporter asked.
“So I’m not going to speak specifically to — I know — I know it’s ongoing. I know there’s a lot of comments out there as to what these four individuals were going to do. So I would say the federal law enforcement has been in touch — has been, you know, doing — leading this investigation — clearly in touch with family members, and so I’m just going to be really careful on commenting why they were crossing the border,” the press secretary said, citing privacy concerns.
“But, again, I just laid out moments ago, when Michael was asking me the question about the Americans in Mexico or thinking about traveling to Mexico: The State Department puts out these alerts, has been — has tried — tries very hard to communicate what’s going on — this — their own safety — for their own safety in certain countries,” she said.
“And I would — I would make sure that if Americans are thinking about traveling to Mexico, that they certainly heed the call from the State Department. This particular area, as I just mentioned, is at Level 4, and so folks need to be really careful,” Jean-Pierre said.
AP Poll: 44 Percent Plurality of Americans Want Less Immigration
7:10 A poll released Tuesday shows a 44 percent plurality of Americans want less immigration, up four points from a Gallup poll in mid-February.
The poll of 1,247 adults by the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago shows that only 20 percent of Americans want immigration increased. “Only 11% of Republicans favor increased immigration, along with 27% of Democrats,” outlined the AP’s March 7 statement.
Sixty-five percent of Republicans want less migration, said the poll, which was conducted February 16-20.
Thirty-four percent of all Americans say the inflow should “remains the same as it is,” the poll said.
However, that “same as it is” number is likely inflated by the establishment media’s policy of hiding the huge migration numbers and the growing pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
The AP poll matches the rising public opposition to President Joe Biden’s business-backed policy of importing millions of legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants for jobs and homes that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
Only 28 percent of registered voters believe immigration has been positive for their local economy, and only 38 percent say immigration is good for the United States, according to an August 12-15 survey of 2,025 registered voters conducted for a pro-migration advocacy group.
By a factor of more than two to one, Americans agree companies “should raise wages and try harder to recruit Americans even if it causes the prices of their products to rise,” said a July 20-22 poll by YouGov.com.
Forty percent of Americans want less migration, up from 19 percent in January 2021, said the Gallup poll, released February 13. The 40 percent includes 71 percent of Republicans, 36 percent of independents, and 19 percent of Democrats, according to the poll, which did not describe the scale of Biden’s migration.
The pocket-book-driven shift in public opinion, however, is being dismissed by immigration advocates as merely a normal and temporary reaction to White House policies.
“The thermostatic bounce-back is disappointing, but not particularly surprising,” wrote Noah Smith, a fervent supporter of migration into Americans’ society. “Immigration has always been a core U.S. strength, but right now the country needs new recruits even more than we usually do,” he wrote on February 18.
Smith argued for more immigration because he claims it is needed to bolster high-tech innovation — and also to replace the absent American children who were not born amid a national decline in births:
We need immigrants is to keep our population young. Despite a very small post-pandemic uptick, the country’s total fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement level over the past decade and a half … the America fertility exceptionalism of the 1990s and early 2000s is now a thing of th’ he argued. e past.
Immigration “also increases fertility because immigrants tend to have more kids,” Smith claimed, even though the report he cited blames the fertility drop-off on federal economic policy:
“[When] you look at young adults — the people who are supposed to be having children — and they were not doing nearly as well,” said Guzzo [Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center]. They were facing all kinds of financial challenges: crushing student debt, a housing bubble that made securing a mortgage virtually impossible for some, jobs that weren’t rewarding or stable or the inability to move to cities where the job growth was [happening because of migration].
Since the 1990s, the federal government has allowed Wall Street to move millions of manufacturing jobs to cheap-labor countries, and to import millions of workers for low-wage labor in the U.S. consumer economy. The resulting cheap-labor bubble forced down Americans’ wages, shifted wealth and power to Wall Street — and likely reduced Americans’ ability to have the number of children they want.
So far, there is little evidence that the establishment wants to help American families have more kids.
“We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a press conference in November. “The only way [emphasis added] we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them,” he said.
Meanwhile, the GOP establishment does not try to win more voters by promising to reduce the pocketbook damage from migration.
Instead, it only uses the migration issue to spike base turnout in elections with ads about border chaos, illegal migration, and drugs.
Like many other migration advocates, Smith wants the establishment to make an immigration deal with the public. But his deal would merely be a card trick because it would simply import more legal migrants in place of fewer illegal migrants.
That kind of deal would allow the establishment to congratulate itself for boosting its stock-market wealth with more migrants — while doing nothing to raise the wages, productivity, and civic status of the many millions of ordinary Americans.
Unsurprisingly, those Americans are growing increasingly alarmed at the establishment’s visceral preference for foreigners over Americans.
The current wave of migrants adds up to a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center, taxpayer-supported National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority includes 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats. Just 19 percent of all respondents — or one in five — said the term is false.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkca09EHRI&t=772s
SAVE AMERICA FROM JOE BIDEN!!!
A poll released Tuesday shows a 44 percent plurality of Americans want less immigration, up four points from a Gallup poll in mid-February.
The poll of 1,247 adults by the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago shows that only 20 percent of Americans want immigration increased. “Only 11% of Republicans favor increased immigration, along with 27% of Democrats,” outlined the AP’s March 7 statement.
Sixty-five percent of Republicans want less migration, said the poll, which was conducted February 16-20.
Thirty-four percent of all Americans say the inflow should “remains the same as it is,” the poll said.
However, that “same as it is” number is likely inflated by the establishment media’s policy of hiding the huge migration numbers and the growing pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.
The AP poll matches the rising public opposition to President Joe Biden’s business-backed policy of importing millions of legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants for jobs and homes that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
Only 28 percent of registered voters believe immigration has been positive for their local economy, and only 38 percent say immigration is good for the United States, according to an August 12-15 survey of 2,025 registered voters conducted for a pro-migration advocacy group.
By a factor of more than two to one, Americans agree companies “should raise wages and try harder to recruit Americans even if it causes the prices of their products to rise,” said a July 20-22 poll by YouGov.com.
Forty percent of Americans want less migration, up from 19 percent in January 2021, said the Gallup poll, released February 13. The 40 percent includes 71 percent of Republicans, 36 percent of independents, and 19 percent of Democrats, according to the poll, which did not describe the scale of Biden’s migration.
The pocket-book-driven shift in public opinion, however, is being dismissed by immigration advocates as merely a normal and temporary reaction to White House policies.
“The thermostatic bounce-back is disappointing, but not particularly surprising,” wrote Noah Smith, a fervent supporter of migration into Americans’ society. “Immigration has always been a core U.S. strength, but right now the country needs new recruits even more than we usually do,” he wrote on February 18.
Smith argued for more immigration because he claims it is needed to bolster high-tech innovation — and also to replace the absent American children who were not born amid a national decline in births:
We need immigrants is to keep our population young. Despite a very small post-pandemic uptick, the country’s total fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement level over the past decade and a half … the America fertility exceptionalism of the 1990s and early 2000s is now a thing of th’ he argued. e past.
Immigration “also increases fertility because immigrants tend to have more kids,” Smith claimed, even though the report he cited blames the fertility drop-off on federal economic policy:
“[When] you look at young adults — the people who are supposed to be having children — and they were not doing nearly as well,” said Guzzo [Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center]. They were facing all kinds of financial challenges: crushing student debt, a housing bubble that made securing a mortgage virtually impossible for some, jobs that weren’t rewarding or stable or the inability to move to cities where the job growth was [happening because of migration].
Since the 1990s, the federal government has allowed Wall Street to move millions of manufacturing jobs to cheap-labor countries, and to import millions of workers for low-wage labor in the U.S. consumer economy. The resulting cheap-labor bubble forced down Americans’ wages, shifted wealth and power to Wall Street — and likely reduced Americans’ ability to have the number of children they want.
So far, there is little evidence that the establishment wants to help American families have more kids.
“We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a press conference in November. “The only way [emphasis added] we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them,” he said.
Meanwhile, the GOP establishment does not try to win more voters by promising to reduce the pocketbook damage from migration.
Instead, it only uses the migration issue to spike base turnout in elections with ads about border chaos, illegal migration, and drugs.
Like many other migration advocates, Smith wants the establishment to make an immigration deal with the public. But his deal would merely be a card trick because it would simply import more legal migrants in place of fewer illegal migrants.
That kind of deal would allow the establishment to congratulate itself for boosting its stock-market wealth with more migrants — while doing nothing to raise the wages, productivity, and civic status of the many millions of ordinary Americans.
Unsurprisingly, those Americans are growing increasingly alarmed at the establishment’s visceral preference for foreigners over Americans.
The current wave of migrants adds up to a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center, taxpayer-supported National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority includes 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats. Just 19 percent of all respondents — or one in five — said the term is false.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkca09EHRI&t=772s
SAVE AMERICA FROM JOE BIDEN!!!
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’
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(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.
(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.
Murders of Americans in Mexico Fuel Calls for US to Treat Cartels as Terrorist Targets
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(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.”
(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.”
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