The Trump Administration’s policies have curbed the flood of illegal immigrants trying to penetrate the U.S.-Mexico border, but the region continues to be a hotbed of violent criminal activity.
Recent reports highlighted the stranglehold drug cartels have over border towns when they assassinated an American Mormon family, including women and children. The slaughter made international headlines, and President Donald Trump has been weighing designating these crime syndicates as terrorist organizations. He’s also offered his Mexican counterpart military assistance to bring murderous cartels to justice.
While the number of illegal border-crossing apprehensions has dramatically declined since the president implemented the “Wait in Mexico” policy that negates Obama-era catch and release loopholes, cartels appear to be in full command of the human trafficking trade. Many Central Americans pay cartel-associated coyotes to sneak them into the United States. Some make it across. Others disappear or turn up in mass graves. Women are often victims of rape or sold into sex slavery.
“I remember one lady saying, ‘I let them. I let them because I know (human smugglers) going to do it, and I didn’t want them to get my daughter,’” Del Rio Sector Division Chief of Operations Randy Clark reportedly said. “Those stories are out there. We know it’s part of the border life, and it’s horrible.”
Boots on the ground reporting from sources such as Breitbart News Border and Cartel Chronicles projects Director Brandon Darby estimates that upwards of one-third of all women and girls are being sexually assaulted by cartel members and their affiliates.
“Some estimates when it comes to the way females are treated, the women and girls, I think Doctors Without Borders has it at 33 percent of the females are assaulted sexually along the journey,” Darby said. “Other estimates have it as high as 80 percent of females are sexually assaulted.”
When cartels are not making money from human trafficking and sex slavery, they fill their coffers with drug money. The rise in violence along the southern border has hit epidemic proportions.
In one quiet Texas border town, the Los Zetas cartel launched a brazen drug smuggling initiative. Pandemonium erupted as Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations helicopter aircrew targeted the high-value smuggling operation. Gunfire has grown commonplace as cartels clash with law enforcement on both sides of the border.
A barrage of bullets killed 22 people in the northern Mexico town of Villa Union near the U.S. border in early December. The Mexican government reports that 13 of the dead were cartel members. The report would give the appearance that authorities are putting lawlessness in check. However, multiple mass graves linked to cartel violence near the border and homicide rates hitting all-time highs paint a bleak portrait. In Ciudad Juarez, drug runners and police have shot it out on the very streets hard-working families walk to markets and shops.
“The violence we are living in Ciudad Juarez stems from the sale of drugs, particularly crystal meth. Both in Juarez and in our state of Chihuahua, four out of five killings have to do with the distribution of drugs,” Chihuahua state Police Commission Director Óscar Alberto Aparicio Avendaño said. “They are street dealers for bigger organizations and, in some cases, also their triggermen. Through our investigations, we have found out that many times the people who commit murders are also involved in drug sales.”
For those unfamiliar with the Southwestern landscape, Ciudad Juarez shares a border with El Paso, Texas.
Although illegal immigration attempts have plummeted by upwards of 70 percent since the May 2019 peak of 144,000, law enforcement officers are still putting considerable resources in dealing with more than 40,000 border crossing apprehensions on a monthly basis. In some cases, cartels take migrants’ money and deliberately use them to distract the U.S. Border Patrol in an effort to move drugs in nearby sectors. There’s little doubt that drug cartels have the manpower, resources, and will to do violence that allows them to operate with impunity. That puts everyday Americans in harm’s way near the border.
What has Trump done to keep us safe from drugs, humane trafficking, and crime in general? He has been building a wall and adding guards to patrol it. What has the Democrats done? NOTHING except oppose the wall and everything sensible. That is why I call them Scum-o-crats. They are just as bad as our worse enemies, perhaps even worse!
Most drugs come into the country by means through which huge quantities can shipped at one time and not by “mules” bringing in a few ounces or a few pounds at a time with a far greater chance of getting caught. The system in place has been there for a long time and is quite effective. In fact, from 2011 to 2015, the amount of drugs seized at the Mexican border has dropped by an annual amount of over 1 million pounds.
Human trafficking is hard to measure as can be seen by the shortage of data. Trafficking in the US, though, is more prevalent on a domestic basis than that that involves outsiders crossing the border.
Immigrants are considerably less likely to commit a crime than a natural born American citizen and the severity of the crimes committed by the American are greater.
In general, the wall is a scam to hook the naive who have been scared by the Trumpies into thinking that people are swarming the border for the chance to do terrible things to those terrified by Faux Snooze and the nonsensical lies of the president.
The Dems are not wasting time and money to mollify the terrified. They, unfortunately, are faced with un-doing the insanity of the Trumpies and trying to re-unite parents with children that is taking the majority of their time allocated to the problem.
Your worst enemies are those who are continuously lying to you and using you as pawns in their efforts to stay in power while being a significantly serious underperforming minority party who are also doing their best to keep you terrified.
The only thing that is terrifying is that your support of the Democrats lies are allowing for the things that the experts who protect our borders are reporting. Stop with your lies and support the wall to help stop Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking, and all the other crimes associated with the lack of border security. Plus after DNA testing over 1/3 of the children forced to travel to the border are NOT related to the person who dragged them here. You suffer from the Democratic ideals that your truths out way the Facts and evidence.
Bill Lingle, does your BUTT tingle when you lie?. You are either extremely stupid, or you are an illegal yourself, or perhaps part of the cartels. Illegals are the biggest criminals, next to the blacks. (CHECK .Chicago/Detroit.) *If you cannot tell the truth, just SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE.
Tell Pelosi, to change her Depends and flush them down the sewer to the swamp where she resides. Her own streets where she lives tells you where she should dwell. Her motto is piss on you. and you don’t give a damn even while you yourselves win with everything our President is doing. Sad you enjoy that, unless you are and want to keep it going till 2050 but some of you won’t care, you be gone as me.I am glad we have a President that you all see. Big change is coming for the (D) won’t look nice, but some asked for what they will have come around. RED
Build the wall and send those Dems. to hell its time for them to go!
Keep Building the WaLL, President Trump……………..Real Patriots and Americans are with you………it is needed to protect and keep our country safe from invaders………………..WE ARE WITH YOU, ALL THE way!!!!
The democrats don’t want to build a wall. They make too much money on the sex and drug trafficking they allow the cartels to do. Can anyone prove me wrong? I hope so but I don’t think they can.
Democrats are aware that if President Trump were to build the wall, “it will severely curtail their dreams of ultimate power and a stranglehold over everything in the United States. Plus, it will reveal, that as in so many other things, they don’t know what they are talking about.”
USA!USA!USA! Trump/Pence 2020 all the way! Left wing (D)’s as well as some RINO’s go away…..far away! You can take some celeb’s with you !
Leave America with GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY & YES…GUNS !!!
I heard that Pelosi was paid millions by the drug cartels to be able to bring drugs into California, is this where she got her millions being a drug dealer. She should be investigated along with Obama, Schumer, Kerry, Nadler and shifty Schiff.
Stand with President Donald Trump. He is the one that can help us out of this shit hole. Vote TRUMP!!!!!!!
THE HOMELESS IN PELOSI’S DISTRICT SHOULD CAMP OUT ON HER PROPERTY AND DEFECATE ON HER DRIVEWAY, SO SHE CAN SEE FIRST HAND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN LA AND SAN FRANCISCO. MAYBE THEN SHE WOULD CHANGE HER POSITION ON “OPEN” BORDERS, AND LETTING ALL THE ILLEGALS INTO THIS COUNTRY. BECAUSE MANY OF THE HOMELESS ARE ILLEGALS. AND EVEN IF THEY AREN’T ILLEGALS, SHE SHOULD BE MORE INCLINED TO WORK FOR THE BETTERMENT FOR THOSE IN HER DISTRICT. THAT GOES FOR THE REST OF THE SQUAD AND THE DEMONRATS. STOP PLAYING “GOD” WITH THE IMPEACHMENT AND DO THE WORK YOU WERE SENT TO CONGRESS TO DO AND THAT IS TO BETTER THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.