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The Mexican Senate is considering a bill to increase the tobacco tax, arguing that it would improve health by discouraging use and increase the government’s bank account.It could also fill the accounts of some of Mexico’s major cartels. Experts say the cartels have a significant hand in Mexico’s black market for cigarettes and stand to gain an even bigger share from the tax.President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for raising Mexico’s ad valorem tobacco tax from 160% to 200%. The per-cigarette quota tax would nearly double by 2030.The inevitable result would be a bigger black market for cartels to exploit, said...

Mexican cartels have reportedly placed bounties on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago, offering to pay up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in a Tuesday statement that it had obtained “credible intelligence” that Mexican criminal networks are working with domestic extremist groups to coordinate a “tiered” bounty system. Mexican cartels are working with street gangs in Chicago and groups like Antifa “to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” according to the DHS. The federal agency alleged that cartels “have disseminated a...

Federal law enforcement officials suspect Mexican criminal organizations are funding a scheme to pay thousands of dollars in cash bounties for the killings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with payouts allegedly increasing based on an employee’s rank and actions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday announced the alleged bounty system offers $2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing agents — including photos and family details — $5,000 to $10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard immigration officers, and up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials. "Under President [Donald] Trump and [DHS Secretary Kristi...

FinCEN says Chinese networks moving billions for Mexican cartels also push illicit cash through U.S. real estate, elder care centers, and human trafficking schemes. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a stark warning Thursday that Chinese money laundering networks have become a primary engine driving Mexico-based drug cartels’ expansion into the United States, flagging $312 billion in cartel-linked suspicious transactions and a further $53.7 billion in illicit real estate activity over the past four years. Officials underscored the systemic risks posed by what they described as a sprawling global underground economy.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum filed a controversial series of changes to the country’s constitution that would essentially block any investigation or action by foreign law enforcement agencies without their permission. The provisions could enable Mexico to criminally pursue anyone involved in those investigations. The changes come after the United States designated six Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and announced the intent to eradicate them. This week, Sheinbaum filed a series of changes to the country’s constitution that, if approved by the legislative branch, would change Articles 40 and 19 of Mexico’s constitution. “What we want to make clear...

If you’ve been wondering where all your hard-earned tax dollars are going in Ukraine, wonder no more. Tucker Carlson may have cracked the case during his recent trip to the very exclusive European Alps. And what did he find? Well, a whole lot of Ukrainians living the high life. That’s right—the very people we’ve been told are suffering in a war-torn disaster zone are actually sipping champagne in ski lodges, courtesy of the American taxpayer. Tucker puts two and two together, and it’s obvious: your money isn’t funding a war—it’s funding their luxury getaways. But should we really be surprised?...

A Mexican woman believed to be a witch with cartel ties, was killed after she tried to snatch an 18-month-old out his parents' arms with the stated intent of killing the child as sacrifice to the patron saint of cartels. Before Maria Guadalupe R.M., 33, tried to kidnap the child, she had made it known to her nephew, also the father of the child, that she believed a dead family member had been reincarnated as his son, reported local newspaper Norte Digital. Sunday, she broke into her relatives' Ciudad Juarez home as her nephew slept with his wife and son...

The altercation was likely due to the illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border without cartel permission. . Members of a Mexican cartel opened fire on illegal immigrants who were utilizing Uber rides to cross the into the US across southern border unlawfully... The incident occurred in Caborca, an area heavily under the control of Mexican cartels. The victims, all from Ecuador, were traveling in three separate Uber vehicles when they came under attack from the cartel. Tragically, one woman lost her life in the shooting, while four others sustained injuries. According to an internal Border patrol memo leaked to...

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ... Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on tribal reservations in her state because they know the federal government has jurisdiction over those lands, and that the Biden administration is "letting it happen." "Even though South Dakota isn't a neighboring state to Texas, we're on the front lines of this thing," Noem said .. "I've got nine Native American tribes, and the cartels are set up on our tribal grounds. They are facilitating this drug trafficking, this human trafficking through my tribal grounds here in South Dakota because I don't have jurisdiction there....

Pete Santilli joins The Alex Jones Show to break down intel by federal sources claiming two leading cartels have joined forces to wage a terror campaign on U.S. soil to serve as the pretext for the Biden regime to stay the lifting of Title 42 and come after the American people’s guns.(Video at link) Also available here: https://banned.video/watch?id=64585541c97967094378983b

What's happening at the southern U.S. border with Mexico is in fact an invasion, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says. “We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years. He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk. The “silent invasion,” Coe said, is being committed primarily by...

Mexican drug cartels have conducted more than 9,000 drone flights into U.S. airspace in the last year to surveil American law enforcement and security operations in the southern border region, a senior Homeland Security official told Judicial Watch this week. The drones are observing federal, state, county, and city agencies near the Mexican border, including the U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard, county sheriffs and local police. The Border Patrol, which operates under Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has captured about a dozen of the drones, and accessed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) guidance and...

I told you so. It's become crystal clear I was right on the money. I've said for two years now on my national radio show that the best thing that could ever happen for the Mexican drug cartels would be a Democratic presidential victory. Mexican drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy. They must be singing, dancing and toasting champagne right now, because President Joe Biden is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon the Mexican cartels. Experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the cartels at around $500 billion a year. That's half a trillion...

Joe Biden Is Not ‘President-Elect’ Public Colleges Defy the Law with Segregated Events to Further Diversity Mexican Cartels’ Ability to Control Territory, Co-opt Governments is a Great Threat to U.S. Joe Biden Is Not ‘President-Elect’ Changing vote counts after Election Day raises significant legal and constitutional concerns, and President Trump should use every legal and constitutional remedy to ensure that the American people can trust the results. Meanwhile, the media, including social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, are inaccurately labeling Biden as president-elect. No official sources have called the election. Federal law and the Constitution limit official sources...

Drug cartels ambushed and murdered a number of Americans, mothers and their infant children, in northern Mexico yesterday.  A vehicle belonging to members of a Mormon family and traveling north through the Mexican state of Sonora was riddled with bullets and burned. They were reportedly on their way to a wedding in the United States as part of a family caravan. Rhonita Maria LeBaron was killed, along side her twin babies and two other children. Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of her children were also murdered in a separate attack. During and after the ambush, other children escaped...

by Brian Hayes New Mexico's new, Trump-hating open-borders governor has taken radical actions just to spite the President -- but the results are proving disastrous for her own state, and likely nation as well. Trump deployed National Guard and U.S. Army troops to the Mexican border to deal with a huge increase in illegal entries in January. In act of what she called "resistance" against the president, New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham withdrew 118 National Guard troops from the state’s southern boundary. She said she did it to counter what she called Trump’s “charade of border fear-mongering,”...

Clean House at Justice Department Major New Lawsuit on Awan Brothers Democratic IT Scandal Judicial Watch Sues for Docs on Influence Peddling Scandal At Energy Department Government Warning: Narco-Terrorism will Worsen Under New Leftist Leader Clean House at Justice Department Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned , bringing an end to his controversial tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. He advanced some significant policy advances for the rule of law, but made a terrible mistake in recusing himself needlessly from the so-called Russia investigation. This led to the abusive, unconstitutional Mueller special counsel investigation of President Trump....

Full title: Narco-Terrorism to Worsen under Mexico’s New Leftist President, State Dept. Warns; Amnesty for Drug Traffickers The overwhelming majority of illegal drugs in the United States already come from Mexico and Mexican traffickers are the greatest criminal threat to the nation, but things are about to get worse when Mexico’s new leftwing president takes over. His name is Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known popularly as AMLO), he opposes hardline anti-drug policies and believes in amnesty for drug war criminals. A State Department document obtained by Judicial Watch warns that Obrador, who takes over on December 1, will seek to...

A recent surge in arrests and cocaine seizures in Peru points to an increased presence of Mexican drug cartels, counter-narcotics officials say. The cartels have also contributed to more drug-related violence in Peruvian cities, ports and in remote valleys in this Andean country where coca, cocaine's base material, is grown, the officials say. Peruvian claims of Mexican cartels expanding echo those by officials in other Latin American countries, from Honduras to Argentina, where Mexican gangs have supplanted once-powerful Colombian cartels as kings of the illicit-drug underworld. .... That Mexican drug lords are sending emissaries here is no surprise to Hidalgo...

Are these people insane or what? This clown is a former official of the Mexican government, and he wants Mexico to flood America with drugs to get back at Trump? WTF is wrong with these people and how long does this guy get to keep his new job at NYU? That's what I want to know. America is not putting up with these snowflake's any longer. I can tell you that for sure. More snowflake videos below to make you laugh.