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| ‘Defund the Cartels' ‐ Rep. Mayra Flores Talks Border Crisis in Exclusive Interview |
| 2022-07-15 |
| [Breitbart] A newly-elected Texas Congresswoman is calling for the defunding of the Mexican cartels effectively in control of the U.S. southwestern border. “We need to defund the cartels,” U.S. Congresswoman Mayra Flores said during an exclusive interview in Spanish with Breitbart News, where she talked about how criminal organizations from Mexico are the only ones benefiting from the current border crisis. Flores made history in June when she became the first Mexican-born female to be elected to the House of Representatives. She flipped Texas Congressional District 34, which was historically a Democrat stronghold. “Unfortunately, we have a border that is in control of criminal organizations,” Flores said, referring to the operational control along the border by the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. Currently, the Gulf Cartel operates one of the most active human and drug trafficking corridors in Flores’s district. “It is a sad reality, but no one can cross the border into this country without having to pay thousands of dollars to criminal organizations.” The issue which has been largely ignored by most politicians in Washington and helped create a cycle of violence and abuse where women and children suffer unspeakable horrors at the hands of cartel-connected smugglers, she said. In many cases, victims suffer sexual and physical abuse. In other instances, victims are kidnapped and held for ransom. “It is something that is happening that in reality, it embarrasses me that it is happening in this country because we are better than that,” Flores added. According to Flores, securing the border and creating a streamlined process for legal immigration would help to defund cartels. “I believe that we need to secure our border and to help good people come here legally,” she said. “Where there is a safe process also where people can come without having to go through, like I said before, without having to go through hell.” Related: Mayra Flores: 2022-07-13 Welcome Breakfast Tacos Mayra Flores: 2022-07-10 Shocking video shows elementary school kids in San Francisco getting off bus and being forced to pick their way through crowd of homeless drug addicts shooting up in broad daylight Mayra Flores: 2022-07-08 Pelosi Refuses to Explain Her Role in Jan. 6 Riots Related: Gulf Cartel : 2022-05-02 15 Cartel Members Convicted in South Texas Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Gulf Cartel : 2022-05-01 Narco-Banners Promise More Violence in Mexican Border State Capital Gulf Cartel : 2022-04-16 Abbott: Enhanced Inspections Have Forced Multiple Mexican States to Negotiate on Border Security, We'll Keep Inspections if They Don't |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 I think they should be designated as terrorists, but they aren’t on the radar of most Americans. Narco cartel doings are filed under War on Terror here, originally because of the longstanding connections between various cartels in Latin America and various jihadi groups, including Iran’s IRGC. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-07-15 21:37 |
| #3 But if they kill THAT beautiful young Congresswoman would the politicians and media actually mind? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-07-15 11:33 |
| #2 The cartels are pretty careful about not provoking a US response by plugging ranchers or otherwise creating American martyrs. I think they should be designated as terrorists, but they aren’t on the radar of most Americans. If they kill a beautiful young Congresswoman, there will not be much political will to derail designating them as terrorists. People will be faced with the reality of the number of Americans that they are killing with fentanyl. Only Planned Parenthood and Toni Fauci kill more Americans. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-07-15 09:36 |
| #1 She is going head to head with Los Zetas. People just across the border that did this ended up encobijados. |
| Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430 2022-07-15 01:11 |