Posted on 10/26/2025 2:42:30 AM PDT by CFW
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in Laredo, Texas, arrested a father and son accused of smuggling hundreds of firearms, including rifles, magazines and ammunition into Mexico after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers discovered hidden compartments in two trailers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
On Oct. 23, CBP officers working at the Laredo Bridge 2 Port of Entry stopped two southbound vehicles towing box trailers for inspection.
Agents said they noticed irregularities in the trailer walls.
A secondary inspection revealed false compartments packed with an arsenal: roughly 400 firearms of various calibers, high-capacity magazines, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
HSI officials said the guns were headed into Mexico, where cartels fuel ongoing violence.
The drivers were identified as Emilio Ramirez-Cortez, a lawful permanent resident, and his son Edgar Ramirez-Diaz, a U.S. citizen. Both were arrested on charges of federal firearms smuggling and turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service pending an initial court appearance.
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I’m not familiar with southern crossings. Why are we checking vehicles going into Mexico?
“a lawful permanent resident”
Not any longer.
Because they can.
I see a lot of “z”’s! Wonder how legal they are.
Where and how did they obtain the weapons?
zer0/biden’s Fast & Furious ?
Paging Eric Holder, paging Eric Holder
Please pick up the WHITE courtesy telephone.
Because of $$$,$$$,$$$.
Fair to say many of these weapons were stolen, house robbing, holdups, etc. That was quite an arsenal too, got to be going to one of the drug cartels with operations in the USA.
I wonder if the determination of this person's citizenship is based on the current media version of the Anchor Alien test. Hope mama's carpet burns from being dragged across the border have healed by now.
Ever wonder what happens to all those guns “bought back” by local governments?
Every so often a story pops up about some cop reselling them.
I bet it’s more than a one-off deal and far more common than any of us might suspect.
“It’s the lure of easy money it’s got a very strong appeal” - Smuggler’s Blues, Glenn Fry
There’s trouble on the streets tonight,
I can feel it in my bones.
I had a premonition,
That he should not go alone.
I knew the gun was loaded,
But I didn’t think he’d kill.
Everything exploded,
And the blood began to spill.
So baby, here’s your ticket,
Put the suitcase in your hand.
Here’s a little money now,
Do it just the way we planned.
You be cool for twenty hours
And I’ll pay you twenty grand.
I’m sorry it went down like this,
And someone had to lose,
It’s the nature of the business,
It’s the smuggler’s blues.
Smuggler’s Blues
The sailors and pilots,
The soldiers and the law,
The pay offs and the rip offs,
And the things nobody saw.
No matter if it’s heroin, cocaine, or hash,
You’ve got to carry weapons
‘Cause you always carry cash.
There’s lots of shady characters,
Lots of dirty deals.
Every name’s an alias
In case somebody squeals.
It’s the lure of easy money,
It’s gotta very strong appeal.
Perhaps you’d understand it better
Standin’ in my shoes,
It’s the ultimate enticement,
It’s the smuggler’s blues,
Smuggler’s blues.
See it in the headlines,
You hear it ev’ry day.
They say they’re gonna stop it,
But it doesn’t go away.
They move it through Miami, sell it in L.A.,
They hide it up in Telluride,
I mean it’s here to stay.
It’s propping up the governments in Columbia and Peru,
You ask any D.E.A. man,
He’ll say “There’s nothin’ we can do”,
From the office of the President,
Right down to me and you, me and you.
It’s a losing proposition,
But one you can’t refuse.
It’s the politics of contraband,
It’s the smuggler’s blues,
Smuggler’s blues.
Writer/s: Glenn Lewis Frey, Jack Tempchin
Publisher: Wixen Music Publishing
It is fairly easy to get guns in the US
‘In recent years, the smuggling of bulk currency has become a preferred method for drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises to move illicit proceeds across our borders.’ US ICE
A number of rifles in the foreground are either Ruger Mini-14s, Ruger 10-22s, or M1 Carbine clones.
The “most-counterfeited” US bill is the $5 bill.
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day......
I spied two legs extending from a large cardboard box
Blocking the sidewalk, blocking my way
(on the Square)
Some US police agencies sell their confiscated firearms—or did...
I was thinking that looked like a “bug back” collection.
These guys may not be pure evil.
Since the guns seem to have more than a few mongrel types as opposed to 100% tacti-cools...They may be smuggling guns to supply the private militias and citizen MAGs that fight to keep cartels out of their small towns and rural areas.
The state/local cops and Federalis/Army out of Mexico City are all cartel complicit, so if you need protection you either kiss cartel a$$ and let them take your children, or be too bitter a bite to take for the small amount of money involved....then they leave you alone and go to the next town.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/a-mexican-town-wages-its-own-war-on-drugs
Rot roh! Fast and furious guns?
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