The Border Crisis Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg. In Mexico, A Cartel Crisis Looms

The Federalist ^ | September 23, 2022 | John Daniel Davidson

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Amid record numbers of illegal border-crossers, a larger crisis looms in Mexico with dire implications for the United States.

This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that apprehensions of illegal immigrants surpassed 2.1 million for the fiscal year in August, with more than 203,000 apprehensions last month alone, marking six straight months of southwest border arrests exceeding 200,000.

Nothing like this has ever happened before. The 2.1 million figure represents an all-time high, surpassing the previous record of 1.7 million, set in fiscal year 2021. That is to say, every year President Joe Biden has been in office has been a record-breaking year of illegal immigration. Biden’s policies are directly responsible for the ongoing border crisis, which will continue unabated until those policies change. Whatever the number ends up being for 2022, the number for 2023 will almost certainly be higher. 

But the shocking volume of arrests at the border, and the dramatic footage of illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande or lining up by the hundreds along stretches of the border wall (or scaling it), can blind us to another, less obvious crisis unfolding on the Mexican side of the border that we need to understand if we hope to craft policies that will put an end to mass illegal immigration.

That crisis, put simply, is the gradual takeover of the Mexican state by cartels. I hesitate to call them “drug cartels,” because what these criminal organizations do goes far beyond the manufacture and trafficking of narcotics. In addition to drugs, Mexican cartels are now involved in industrial agriculture, port operations, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, and even the control and distribution of water in drought-stricken...

[Liz]

Maybe Marthas Vineyard actually meant it has a cartel sanctuary city?

[dodger]

What happens in Mexico doesn’t stay in Mexico. Sadly, t’s already here …

[Envisioning]

I would bet more congressmen are taking payoffs from the cartels than from China….and have been for a long time. Open border for how many years? Makes no sense otherwise….

[cuz1961]

The Border Crisis Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg.

In Washington D.C.,
( district of cartels)

A Cartel Crisis also Looms.

Organized crime has overtaken both the DOJ and FBI it seems, imo.

[llevrok]

Mexico is not our neighbor. They are our enemy and are facilitating an invasion of America.

[TigersEye]

I posted this in 2011. It's quite an illustration of how the FedMob has supported the cartels and who was in charge when it really got rolling.

Let's call Fast and Furious what it is. State-sponsored terrorism.

On this side of the border it's violations of the RICO Act. In Mexico and Honduras it's state-sponsored terrorism.

What else would you call heavily arming international criminal syndicates within a foreign country wherein that country is in a death struggle with those syndicates?

Especially when it goes beyond thousands of assault rifles to include grenades, RPGs, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft guns, night vision equipment, body armor and special deals to bring their drugs onto our soil with legal impunity?

Not to mention that the rip crew that killed BP Agent Brian Terry was there with DEA and FBI assistance and approval to attack and kill a rival cartel's smuggling crew.

Let's not leave out the DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.

It's organized, it is spread through every Federal LEA and it violates numerous domestic laws and numerous statutes and treaties that deal with foreign nations. Yet none of it has been officially sanctioned. It's the FedGov acting like mafiosa.

DHS Complicit In Drug Cartel Human Trafficking

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
businessinsider Jan. 13, 2014

0bama, Holder and Hillary Clinton are all deeply involved in this and it is state-sponsored terrorism. These criminal thugs are dragging our country down to the level of Tehran and Pyongyang.

Updated entry...

Report: Homeland Security Officials Took Millions in Bribes to 'Look the Other Way' on Drug Cartels December 31, 2016

[TigersEye]

Mexico is not our neighbor. The Federal government is not our government. They are our enemy and are facilitating an invasion of America.

See post #7

[unread]

I would wager a very large percentage of our public officials within the blue cities are owned and operated by the cartels..

What other explanation could there be for local governments to be providing free nettles and safe places to shoot-up if it wasn't an effort to sell more drugs.? Isn't it obvious, anything that helps the addict use more drugs, is effort to sell more drugs.?

[R_Kangel]

"I would wager a very large percentage of our public officials within the blue cities are owned and operated by the cartels..

..... I read somewhere years ago that the Cartels pay BILLIONS of dollars every year to Politicians and Law Enforcement on our side of the border every year to allow them unhindered cross border access. I would hazard a guess that the price has probably increased significantly since then.

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[Does so]

“I would bet more congressmen are taking payoffs from the cartels”.

Or cocaine...

[Ex gun maker.]

“Words have meaning”.
So until we stop being too chicken to use the correct words we cede at least half the argument from the start.

“immigration” in this case is properly spelled INVASION!

And not just Mex, everywhere.
And explain to me exactly how “Destitute Migrants” are able to afford travel half way around the world to get here?

[caseinpoint]

FWIW, investigative reporter Lara Logan claims a high-level source within WEF maintains there is a plan to flood the US with 100 million illegals and then argue the border between the US and Mexico (and Canada) is irrelevant and should be abolished in favor of a regional government. I am skeptical, to say the least, but Biden is certainly doing his part if it’s true.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Every country in the western hemisphere is a failed state except for Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil (barely), Canada (barely) and the USA (barely).

[Carriage Hill]

It sure doesn’t.

CCP-China is slowly taking-over South and Central America, and US farmland, even near US Military Bases.

The socialists, Marxists, communists, leftists, liberals, anarchists, BLMers etc etc etc are no longer dancing on the head of a pin; they’re infiltrating (since the 50s) and taking over the sop hop.

Academia, unions, business, law enforcement, executive, legislatures, judiciary etc at local/state/federal level are ‘owned’ by them.

And the gutless GOP does nothing...

[trebb]

The cartel is the one in charge of our borders - those who pay get the pass 9with maybe a rape or two) and those who don’t pay don’t get to see the border...

[sauropod]

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[bitt]

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