As historic numbers of illegal migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border continue to draw the attention of law enforcement and the nation as a whole, the drug cartels are taking advantage of that distraction, according to former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott. In a March 28 interview with Steve Lance of NTD News, The Epoch…
Cartels Using Migrants as ‘Human Shields’ for Drug Smuggling: Ex-Border Patrol Chief
March 29, 2023
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Destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels
Commentary 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…
Border Officials Say Technology Is Good, But People Make the Difference
March 9, 2023
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At a hearing to discuss the technology needed to secure the nation’s borders, one Homeland Security official said that without one critical resource, all the technology in the world would be useless. “Technology will never replace the men and women pursuing what the technology uncovers,” said Anthony Salisbury, acting deputy executive associate director for Homeland…
Lindsey Graham to Introduce Bill Allowing Use of Military Force Against Mexican Cartels
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday he will introduce legislation laying the groundwork to use U.S. military force against Mexican drug cartels and foreign terrorist organizations. Graham was responding to the recent kidnapping of four Americans in the border town of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and the flow of fentanyl from Mexico to the United States…
New York Congressman Says Cartels Are ‘Controlling the Border’
February 28, 2023
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Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) said cartels “are controlling the border,” following a recent trip to El Paso, Texas, with fellow colleagues on the House Homeland Security Committee. The New York congressman shared a video he recorded from a helicopter with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operation, showing “what appeared to…
House Committee Testimony Highlights How Border Policy Failures Are Driving America’s Fentanyl Crisis
February 28, 2023
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Poignant testimony delivered during a Feb. 28 Congressional hearing on the U.S. border crisis brought legislators to a firm conclusion: failed or ineffective immigration policies are directly fueling America’s drug crisis. “Our country faces record fatalities from drug overdoses, eclipsing 100,000 deaths, 71,000 from synthetic opioids alone,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said during the hearing….
Treasury Department Sanctions Mexican Drug Cartels’ Fentanyl Suppliers
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six Sinaloa Cartel members and six Mexico-based entities due to their involvement in the drug trade. According to a Feb. 22 press release, brothers Ludim Zamudio Lerma and Luis Alfonso Zamudio Lerma lead a network allegedly responsible for diverting illicit precursor…
Republican States File Lawsuit to Cease DACA Protections for Illegal Immigrants
February 1, 2023
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Nine Republican states have filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program, aiming to phase it out over two years, and insisted that President Joe Biden overstepped his authority when he renewed it in 2022. DACA allows illegal immigrants who arrived in the United…
Mexican Crime Cartels Wage Narcotic and Demographic War on USA
January 12, 2023
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Commentary Confident propagandists relentlessly play “Nothing to see here, move along.” Their don’t-believe-your-eyes con game has despicable goals. No. 1: Suppress evident facts that expose their official worldview (narrative) as self-serving fantasy. No. 2: Buy time to peddle lies that blur the real-world situation that challenges their self-serving political, legal, and economic agendas. President Joe…
Southern Border Crisis: Drugs, Human Trafficking, and Cartels
Commentary An estimated 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs. Fentanyl alone accounted for two-thirds of the 110,236 overdose deaths and killed over 73,000 Americans in 2021 alone. Fentanyl is now the main narcotic Mexican cartels are smuggling into the United States. The flow of illegal drugs through the southern border is the largest security threat…
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