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  • Miranda Devine: Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises

    03/21/2025 6:20:23 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    NY Post ^ | 20 Mar, 2025 | Miranda Devine
    If you ever doubted that Washington’s corrupt cartel of Democratic law firms, judges, NGOs, and deep-state bureaucrats is a machine designed to thwart the Trump administration, just watch as judge after judge blocks the president’s ability to keep his campaign promises. It may not be brown paper bags changing hands, but this lawfare that defies the people’s will is every bit as corrupt. It will be up to the Supreme Court to define the limits of presidential authority, but Chief Justice John Roberts’ preemptive scolding of Trump for musing about judicial impeachment doesn’t bode well for the president. Trump won...
  • Alleged cocaine quality control tester for Mexican drug cartel extradited to US

    02/26/2025 2:02:16 AM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/25/25 | Louis Casiano
    She was sniffed out by the feds. A Mexican woman responsible for testing the quality of cocaine being trafficked by a drug cartel has been extradited to the United States and charged by federal prosecutors, the Justice Department said. Irma Elvira Cruz, known as "Huzipol" and "Madre," 60, was indicted earlier this month on federal charges of conspiracy to unlawfully import cocaine into the United States and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. "Cruz allegedly played a critical role in the trafficking of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States," said acting U.S. Attorney Richard Moultrie, Jr....
  • How a factory city in Wisconsin fed military-grade weapons to a Mexican cartel

    02/25/2025 12:36:07 AM PST · by srmanuel · 49 replies
    Reuters ^ | 12/9/23 | Sarah Kinosian
    The article does push gun control but is eye opening none the less. Large numbers of Barrett .50 Cal rifles are being legally purchased in the US and shipped to Mexico to be used by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Additionally, recent allegation against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel indicate that 4 US Special Forces Soldiers, 1 Green Beret/Delta Force Operator, 2 US Navy Seals and a Ranger from 75th Ranger Regiment. The point that is interesting to me is this one particular cartel has professional military people running their operations who have all received special forces training in the...
  • How Cartels Actually Operate in America: Drug Trafficking, Sicario's, and High-ranking Members.

    02/22/2025 7:52:07 PM PST · by Fitzy_888 · 6 replies
    IRONCLAD Podcast ^ | 2/17/25 | IRONCLAD Podcast
    Video at link.
  • EXCLUSIVE: Border agent accused of being a cartel member was arrested after wife's lifestyle raised major red flags

    02/18/2025 11:45:02 AM PST · by TigerClaws · 22 replies
    Lavish trips to Dubai and designer clothing for a federal border agent's wife were allegedly funded by his suspected membership of a Mexican drug cartel, sources told DailyMail.com. Prosecutors allege Manuel Perez Jr., an agent with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in El Paso, Texas, had been bankrolled to the tune of $300,000 to $400,000 a year by 'La Linea,' the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel, El Paso Times reported. In stunning court testimony, Perez was accused of getting paid to let illegal immigrants and drugs into the US, but also of being a member of the...
  • Exclusive: CIA flying covert drone missions into Mexico to spy on drug cartels

    02/18/2025 9:03:43 AM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 40 replies
    CNN / USA News Independent ^ | February 18, 2025 | Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen
    The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border. The missions, which have not been previously reported, come as the Trump administration moves to treat transnational drug cartels as terrorist organizations — a designation it has yet to officially make. The MQ-9 drones used for the missions are not currently armed. But they can be equipped with payloads to carry out precision strikes. The US...
  • CBP Officer Arrested in El Paso, Charged with Alien Smuggling and Drug Trafficking

    02/14/2025 9:07:16 AM PST · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    www.justice.gov ^ | February 10, 2025 | Staff
    EL PASO, Texas – A Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested in El Paso on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented noncitizens for financial gain and alleged drug trafficking activity. According to court documents, between on or about Dec. 21, 2023 and Feb. 5, 2025, Manuel Perez Jr., 32, of El Paso, allegedly smuggled and attempted to smuggle undocumented noncitizens into the United States for commercial advantage and private financial gain. The indictment alleges that, in multiple instances, Perez Jr. admitted a vehicle driven by an undocumented noncitizen at the Paso Del...
  • WINNING: SecDef Pete Hegseth Tells Reporters, "All Options Are Open. We Will Secure the Border."

    02/03/2025 2:57:31 PM PST · by Texan4Life · 28 replies
    RedState ^ | Feb. 3rd, 2025 | WARD CLARK
    "Border security is national security. Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries guarding other people's borders. It's about time we secure our own border. Tens of millions of people have poured across this border under Joe Biden's administration unchecked. We have no idea who they are. We have no idea where they're coming from. We have no idea what their intentions are. In many ways, under the Biden administration, and Tom (Homan) knows this better than anybody else, they were facilitated, their entry into this country. THAT STOPS NOW under President Trump and the Defense...
  • House Judiciary Committee sends letters to investment firms tied to ‘woke ESG cartel’

    12/24/2024 2:23:00 AM PST · by Libloather · 12 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/23/24 | Ariel Zilber
    The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee took aim at a group of US asset managers over their involvement with a “woke ESG cartel” — adding pressure against environmental efforts by large investors. The committee, chaired by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, sent letters to 60 firms — including BlackRock, State Street and JPMorgan Asset Management — that are members of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, or NZAM, an international group of investors that signed on to a pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The letters, sent Friday, made claims in line with a committee report released on Dec. 13...
  • Notorious Mexican drug cartel boss ‘El Chabelo’ gunned down in wild shootout after cockfight bloodbath

    12/19/2024 5:40:17 AM PST · by Libloather · 21 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/18/24 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    A notorious Mexican cartel boss was gunned down in a shootout with police — after pulling off a hit at a local cockfight that left two dead and others wounded, according to reports. Jose “El Chabelo” Isabel, the top honcho for the Sinaloa Cartel in the Mexican city of Manzanillo, got into a fatal shootout with cops after he and his cohort pulled off the cockfight bloodbath on Sunday, according to the Spanish-language news outlet Excelsior. Isabel’s crew stormed into the clandestine arena in the Las Parotas neighborhood and opened fire on the crowd, killing two before fleeing, the reports...
  • Well-Known Priest Shot Dead After Officiating Mass in Mexico State Wracked by Cartel Violence

    10/23/2024 5:29:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    CBS News ^ | October 22, 2024
    Well-known priest shot dead after officiating Mass in Mexico state wracked by cartel violence Updated on: / 6:01 PM EDT / CBS/AP Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. The Chiapas public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it had arrested the suspected killer, AFP reported. It was a killing that many say was a tragedy foretold, in a state where drug cartels have caused thousands of people to flee their homes. Mourners gathered in San Andres Larrainzar, near the city...
  • Mexico calls for recognition of Palestinian state amid war

    10/12/2024 1:44:44 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 41 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | October 12, 2024 | By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
    President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for the recognition of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, reaffirming Mexico's longstanding position on the matter. In a statement on Saturday, reported by Revista Proceso, she declared, "We condemn the aggressions that are being experienced and also consider that the State of Palestine must be recognized in its entirety just like the State of Israel. This has been Mexico's position for many years, and that is the position we have and the search for peace above all. War will never lead to a good outcome." Sheinbaum, known for her leftist political stance and European Jewish...
  • Cartel Violence Forces Several Cities in Mexico to Cancel Independence Day Celebrations

    09/15/2024 6:52:22 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/15/2024 | Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby
    Several cities throughout Mexico have been forced to cancel their traditional Independence Day celebration due to widespread cartel violence. Historically, every September 15 at night, the president, each governor, and each mayor hold a celebration at their Plaza Square where they remember the start of Mexico’s Independence. During that celebration, they ring a bell while shouting a call to arms, death to a bad government, and the traditional “Viva Mexico.” The party is meant to commemorate the same call to arms known as “Grito de Dolores” given by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on September 15, 1810, when he called on...
  • U.S. World Politics HealthWatch MoneyWatch Entertainment Crime Sports Essentials Politics U.S. Navy sailor detained in Venezuela, officials say

    09/05/2024 5:13:13 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 5 replies
    CBS News ^ | 4 Sep 2024 | Eleanor Watson, James LaPorta
    An American Navy sailor has been detained in Venezuela while visiting the country on personal travel, several U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News. It's not yet known why the sailor is being detained, but one of the officials told CBS News the sailor was not on approved leave by the U.S. military or on official travel to Venezuela at the time of the detention.
  • Fight Between Sinaloa Cartel Members Leaves 7 Injured at Juarez Prison

    08/13/2024 9:52:38 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    KMID ^ | Julian Resendiz
    Authorities seize 50 homemade weapons, transfer 76 cartel members to other jails; police chief says violence not related to arrest of 'El Mayo' Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the finding of illegal weapons and the transfer of inmates to other prisons.Seven inmates at a prison in Juarez, Mexico, were injured during a fight between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel on Sunday, Chihuahua state police said. The fight stemmed from “personal issues” between the gang members and is not part of an internal war over last month’s capture of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo”...
  • Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel arrested IN TEXAS

    07/25/2024 8:05:09 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 14 replies
    BBC ^ | 07 25 2024 | Max Matza & Will Grant
    One of the world's biggest drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, has been arrested by US federal agents in El Paso, Texas. Zambada, 76, founded the criminal organisation with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is currently jailed in the US. Arrested with Zambada on Thursday was Guzman's son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, said the US justice department. In February, Zambada was charged by US prosecutors with a conspiracy to make and distribute fentanyl, a drug more powerful than heroin that has been blamed for the US opioid crisis. In a written statement on Thursday evening, US...
  • US authorities have arrested ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel

    07/25/2024 5:41:05 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 58 replies
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. A leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel for decades alongside Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Zambada was known for running the cartel’s smuggling operations, but keeping a lower profile. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his capture.
  • Lineman will never go back to Houston TX after what he experienced...[short via X]

    07/16/2024 6:26:50 AM PDT · by beaversmom · 45 replies
    X ^ | July 16, 2024 | ImMeme0
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  • Female alleged gangster wanted in connection with gruesome human sacrifices in Mexico arrested in Texas

    03/16/2024 10:05:27 AM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 13, 2024 | Cortney Weil
    A woman wanted in connection with several brutal, gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested inside the United States. On February 15, the combined efforts of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, the El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, and Border Patrol resulted in victory when agents arrested Mexican fugitive Michelle Angelica Pineda, sometimes referred to as La Chely, in a motel in eastern El Paso, Texas. American and Mexican law enforcement officials believe that Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of a drug-trafficking ring perpetrated by the violent street gang...
  • ‘Casey’s Cartel’: NRSC Exposes How Democrat Bob Casey’s Family Has Engaged in ‘Cynical Self-Dealing,’ ‘Graft’

    07/05/2024 11:49:18 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/05/2024 | SEAN MORAN
    The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) highlighted how Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and his family have engaged in “cynical self-dealing” and “graft.” Casey first ran for Senate in 2006 on a “wave of reform,” promising to “end a culture of scandal and self-dealing” in D.C. Casey then unveiled an ethics plan at the restaurant formerly owned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Now, Casey is fighting to get reelected for his fourth term in office, where he will face questions about his family’s relationship with his official position as senator. NBC News reported: There’s a brother who registered to lobby for...