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| Texas Sheriff Says Mexican Cartels at the Heart of Border Crisis |
| 2019-02-26 |
| [Epoch Times] WASHINGTON‐A porous southwest border is the gift that keeps on giving to Mexican cartels, whose multibillion-dollar businesses depend solely upon getting illicit goods into the United States. Sheriff Andy Louderback of Jackson County, Texas, said border security efforts need to focus more on disrupting the cartels. "The cartels remain at the heart of the problem here in the United States. They have unlimited funding. ... They’re very good at what they do. They’re very powerful, very powerful, in this country," he said. Louderback said the cartels are exploiting weak borders and are "profiting hugely off human misery in this country‐profiting off of Americans." "It’s imperative that the American public understand the criminality of what we’re facing. That alone is enough to secure the border," he said. Mexican cartels, otherwise known as transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), show continued signs of growth in the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in a 2018 report. The cartels control lucrative smuggling corridors, primarily across the southwest border, and maintain the greatest drug-trafficking influence in the United States, states the DEA. "They continue to expand their criminal influence by engaging in business alliances with other TCOs, including independent TCOs, and work in conjunction with transnational gangs, U.S.-based street gangs, prison gangs, and Asian money laundering organizations," the DEA said. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Comment saved in my personal notes for future reference, noMoreBS. My thanks for explaining. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-26 19:08 |
| #3 Good long post, noMoreBS. Thanks. I wish somebody would ask Nancy Pelosi point blank so she cannot dance away from the question: What are you afraid of? We know it isn't the $5.7 billion cost of the wall. I think she's either afraid the wall will work or she's afraid the cartels will stop the flow of money to her coffers or both. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-26 16:32 |
| #2 From 1990-1995 I was the Active Duty Commander of the California National Guard Counterdrug Program, and among other things, had senior command for the unit constructing the initial border wall, the improved road network and observation posts along the border, as well as manpower support for inspections at the 5 ports of entry along the California portion of the US-Mexico border. We worked extensively with the US Customs Service and the Border Patrol during that period focused on counterdrug interdiction. Althou0gh a quarter century ago, I am confident that my information still has validity, given my subsequent years in Criminal Justice policy and Homeland Security in California. The cartels use both POE and between the POE routes, and move most quantities in small bulk, so seizures don't become too costly. And they are flexible and cunning, flooding a zone with smaller loads and mixing in illegals to overwhelm sector personnel and resources. And when enforcement is heightened, they shift the volume to other lesser enforced areas. To argue that enforcement at the POEs would solve the problem is either uninformed or disingenuous since it would merely move primary routes between the ports. Both are essential, and the physical barrier enables the limited number of BP agents to be more effective at the reduced number of incursions. The same reasoning applies to the silly argument about the wall and ladders or tunnels. While both can overcome a physical barrier, the numbers of those who do so are massively diminished, again making BP enforcement more effective. Sorry for the long post but I an deeply trou0bled by the way this isn't being countered with common sense/ There has been a crisis for decades, and the Democrat resistance is about political power, cloaked in silly reasoning to guile the public, vile and destructive motives! |
| Posted by: noMoreBS 2019-02-26 14:06 |
| #1 I've heard a lot of progressives claim that most illegal narcotics shipments are smuggled through legal ports of entry so a wall will not stop them. But if they're not stopping those shipments, how do they know how much is coming across the border, and how do they know at which points along the border they're coming? After all, the whole point of smuggling is to get it across the border without ICE knowing about it. I don't understand how these progressives know so much. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-26 10:47 |