Posted on 08/26/2021 5:06:44 PM PDT by Scarlett156
Jose Rafael Vasquez tried to smuggle guns from the U.S. to Mexico, but was arrested as part of Homeland Security's Operation Without a Trace.
A Washington man drove to a U.S. border crossing last year in his teal Ford pickup truck loaded with a hidden arsenal bound for a Mexican cartel war zone.
Miguel Diaz Calderon never made it out of Texas. U.S. Customs agents searched his vehicle at the Eagle Pass crossing and found 43 shotguns, rifles and pistols.
They also discovered more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in an ice chest in the gas tank and inside the spare tire, court records show.
Diaz is part of what cartel members call the “Hormiga,” Spanish for “ant,” referring to an ant trail of reliably flowing weapons transported from the southern U.S. to Mexico, said Jaeson Jones, who tracks cartel trends and previously managed the daily operations of the Texas Rangers' Border Security Operations Center.
The Mexican government estimates that more than half a million guns are smuggled from the U.S. each year, arming Mexico's deadly cartel wars.
(Excerpt) Read more at borderlandbeat.com ...
Why, from Democrat presidents a democrat Attorney General’s, of course!!!
“10,000 rounds of ammunition”
Piker.
i’ve watched hundreds of https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootage/
and i can guarantee, the hundred M240’s and 243’s i’ve seen dint come from and BillyBob’s Guns and Such...
Afghanistan.
China
LOL
They get them by the conex box from Pakistan, South Korea , Eastern Europe etc..
Close the freakin border. Build the wall.
And now the Taliban can be some big time players.
now now... that’s crazy talk!
Question: Where do Mexican drug cartels get their guns?
Answer: Anywhere they want.
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Unrelated joke question for laughs:
Question: Where do the Ku Klux Klan members get their outfits and hats?
Answer: KKK Mart
Nod to the late and much loved humorist of the South, Lewis Grizzard.
There will be a lot of guns from Afghanistan on the market pretty soon.
Only one mention of China, which hasn’t cut its fentanyl exports to Mexico. (Actually, I think they are exporting the precursors rather than the drug, as they have plausible deniability that way.)
Not one mention that China is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of not only small arms, but sophisticated weapons like shoulder launched antiaircraft weapons and tripod mounted missiles. Is it possible that China in ONLY supplying precursor chemicals and no weapons? Really? If China wanted more plausible deniability they could purchase and resell Turkish or Pakistani weapons both of which are high quality and widely available. Or, if they REALLY want deniability they could broker the transshipment of American made weapons through a third country. The Mexican ports are very busy and there’s no way they could check every shipment in anymore than we can in the US. If you land in Belize there are billboards at the airport saying they’ll smuggle your goods into America and deliver them to your doorstep, guaranteed. So, the Mexican cartels can’t arrange to have carloads of weapons transported in without ever worrying about US border controls? I think we’re so focused on ourselves we are ignoring the rest of the world. It’s hard to believe that China, which sells weapons to everybody, is not also supplying them at cut rate prices to the cartels. (Ridiculous, actually.)
Do they mean now that Eric Holder is not at the DOJ?
Nah… they’re still nothing more than goat humping Stone Age cavemen.
Biden Surrendered; Americans didn’t.
Yeah.....NO!
They ain’t buying automatic weapons here in the US. They buy those by the crate from China and Russian interests. Don’t even try blaming us.
Same place terrorists in Afghanistan do.
Drug overdose deaths in 2020 hit highest number ever recorded, CDC data shows
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/14/health/drug-overdose-deaths-2020/index.html
More than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020, according to provisional data released by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That’s a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected for 2019.
Fentanyl seizures at U.S. southern border rise dramatically
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1272676
I propose a countersuit by the families of those who’ve have family members overdose from fentanyl, meth and heroin. When the Mexican officials show up in court, serve them as they walk out with their smug smiles thinking they’re going to win.
Of course, unlike the Left that has an army of lawyers all over the country willing to do that work for free, is there an army that would do the same for the families that have lost their family members?
One more thing, when the terrorists that have been trafficked over our southern border in the last year and the ones that will soon be coming over due to train wreck unfolding in Afghanistan, can the Mexican government be sued for its complicity in not securing the border?
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