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Mexican cartel violence is now spilling into San Diego -report
American Thinker ^ | 04/15/2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/15/2024 9:57:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Plenty of people think Joe Biden's open borders is mainly about millions of illegals rolling into the U.S., while the billions rolling into Mexico's notorious crime cartels as a result is Mexico's problem, not ours.

But that's not quite what's going on.

Mexico's cartels have grown so big and so powerful from migrant and drug smuggling that they not only threaten Mexico, they are now taking their internecine warfare on the road into the U.S., which now faces a Tijuana-like future. If you recall the sight of all those Tijuana cars burning as that city shut down from cartel warfare, obviously it can happen here, too.

In a little-noted San Diego Union-Tribune frontpager from Sunday, headlined "Tijuana drug violence bleeds into San Diego County with recent cartel shootings":

Three shootings that left two people dead and three wounded over the past couple of months in San Diego County were linked to Mexican drug cartels and involved a drug cell embroiled in a vicious dispute with its rivals in Baja California, according to sources with knowledge of cartel activity and the ongoing investigations.

One of the shootings wounded James Bryant Corona, an alleged drug cell leader with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship, according to sources on both sides of the border with knowledge of the investigation. Baja California Deputy Attorney General Rafael Orozco Vargas described Corona as “one of the main generators of violence” in Tijuana and greater Baja California.

Another attack killed 35-year-old Christian Espinoza Silver, a reputed member of the same drug cell, after a gunman opened fire on him inside a BMW near the parking garage of a pricey high-rise apartment complex in University City.

University City is the wealthy area just east of ultra-wealthy La Jolla, and nowhere near the border badlands where such activity wouldn't be that surprising.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; banglist; california; cartel; dystopia; mexico; sandiego; violence
These kinds of rubouts have been unheard of up until now, although there was a good report from investigative reporter Ioan Grillo at Crashout Media about cartel kidnapping and 'stewmaker' activity going on in Chula Vista just south of San Diego and closer to the Mexican border in the past couple years, writing at the time.
1 posted on 04/15/2024 9:57:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, isn’t Cauliphonya a Gruesome Newsom cartel sanctuary state?


2 posted on 04/15/2024 10:02:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gun show sales aren't the problem, public school zombie walkers are the problem.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This didn’t happen under Trump’s policies


3 posted on 04/15/2024 10:05:58 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There is a point where Americans have to decide that tolerance in order to be sweet natured citizens has a limit.


4 posted on 04/15/2024 10:06:12 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Oops, a big slip up-——Mexican president Obrador didnt think that one through.


Obrador demanded on tv talk that the US send $20 billion to his neck of the woods......or else.

And what, he was asked, would happen if the U.S. were to refuse Mexico’s blackmail threats?

Obrador abruptly snapped:

“The flow of migrants will continue” - a stark unequivocal admission that he, Obrador himself, has all the power to stop, or turn on, illegals pouring into the U.S.

This is what’s driving the Mexican greedster.

He figures its worth the risk........the more migrants
they escort here here means more remittances back to Mexico.


How much in $remittances alone does Mexico receive from the US?

SAN DIEGO (Border Report—Feb 8, 2024)

More than $63 billion in remittances were sent to Mexico in 2023,
with most of the money arriving from the US, according to
Banxico, Mexico’s central bank.

The figure is a 7% hike from the previous year.


Not to mention the annual billions we give to these troublesome Latin American countries.


5 posted on 04/15/2024 10:06:37 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Joe Biden and his puppetmasters are complete traitors to the United States. And so is his entire kakistocratic cabinet.


6 posted on 04/15/2024 10:08:02 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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What did you expect? They were invited in by President Retard and his buddies


7 posted on 04/15/2024 10:10:00 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Liz
AMLO and the cartels need to be on the receiving end of a modern day Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition.


8 posted on 04/15/2024 10:13:10 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Eventually it comes to everyone’s backyard


9 posted on 04/15/2024 10:14:30 AM PDT by bigbob
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The crime cartels merging with a D.C. party?.

The 5 NY Mafia family’s made it work.


10 posted on 04/15/2024 1:07:28 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind; All

I bet cinquo de mayo will be a hell of a celebration in San Diego.


11 posted on 04/15/2024 2:48:20 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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