Mexico

Biden’s false border victory

Scrapping Title 42 was a smokescreen

One has to admire the chutzpah of Kamala Harris. Less than 24 hours after Title 42 expired, there she was, merrily clinking glasses at a Democratic Party soirée in a wealthy Atlanta suburb. When a journalist asked about the possible fall-out from the termination of Trump’s pandemic policy, which swiftly turned back immigrants at the border, she was typically nonchalant. “I hear that everything in the last couple of days is going rather smoothly,” she replied. There was no mention of the 30 migrants who had been bussed to her home in Washington DC from Texas the evening before; nor of the deep misgivings expressed by officials who work on the border. Everything, you see, was going “smoothly”. Nothing to see here.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, USA

Afghan national on the FBI’s terror watchlist apprehended in California

When people think of illegal immigrants brazenly crossing into the United States, usually it is assumed that they are Mexicans or Central Americans. The truth is that illegal immigrants come from all over the world. Migrants from more than 160 countries have been apprehended at the southern border, including people listed on the FBI’s terror watchlist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Afghanistan, Mexico, USA

Land of no return: the Mexican city torn apart by cartel kidnappings

María Zapata Escamilla woke to the sound of shattering glass. Armed men in military fatigues had burst into her home: they dragged her disabled husband outside, along with her 14-year-old son, still in his pyjamas. Then they drove away into the night.

Two weeks later, her husband’s brutalized body turned up, along with nine others. But after more than a year, her son remains missing.

“I was left navigating alone,” she said through tears. “If they told me, ‘Give up your life in exchange for your son,’ I would give it.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Leaked docs show Border Patrol ordered to release thousands of migrants —with no way to track them

Straining under the pressure of thousands of migrants flooding into the US, Border Patrol agents were ordered to begin releasing swaths of people from overwhelmed holding facilities Wednesday.

Agents were ordered Wednesday to release migrants from any border sector that reached 125% capacity. They are being released without having a court date and with no way the US can track them, but given instructions to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, according to NBC.

“We’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line,” one DHS official told the network.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

US Immigration: What happens when Title 42 is lifted?

The policy has long faced fierce criticism from immigration advocates and some Democrats who believed it prevented many asylum seekers from coming into the country.

Republicans have argued that the policy should remain in place to stop illegal border crossings, fuelling an increasingly intense and politicised immigration debate ahead of the 2024 election.

Here’s what you need to know about Title 42.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Mexico, USA

In Bordertown USA, Biden sends in troops — and Trump rubs his hands

Undocumented migration is already a problem for the White House. Next week it is expected to get much worse

Officer Sanchez of the El Paso police department on the US border with Mexico is bracing for a leap into the unknown.

He and his colleagues are already flat out dealing with thousands of illegal migrants crossing into the United States but they are expecting a surge in the number of arrivals after a controversial Trump-era entry restriction known as Title 42 expires in four days’ time.

“The fact is that on Thursday and after that, we don’t really know what is going to happen,” Sanchez said. “There could be a lot more people here, and that is a real concern.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Mexico, USA

Trump Endorses Using Military to Crush Cartels: ‘I Would Do That’

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he supports a proposal from Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) that would authorize the use of military force against Mexican drug cartels to target the criminal enterprises and dismantle them.

There is no question Mexico is a Narco state.

The drum beat for military intervention has grown louder of late.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexico’s President Attacks U.S. DEA for Investigating Sinaloa Cartel

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador harshly criticized the U.S. government over an ongoing investigation into the Sinaloa Cartel. The president stated U.S. authorities not only sent informants into the criminal organization but also tapped the communications of military forces and their response to cartels.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Gunmen kill 7, including child, at resort swimming pool in Mexico

At least seven people were killed, including a 7-year-old child, when a group of gunmen stormed a resort teeming with vacationers in central Mexico on Saturday.

An eighth person was seriously injured in the mid-afternoon shooting — which took the lives of three women, three men and a child — near the pool at the La Palma resort in Cortazar, a small town south of the city of Guanajuato.

Alarming video footage taken soon after the assault showed stunned adults and children walking dead bodies piled up near the pool.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

US charges 28 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel including El Chapo’s sons

The US justice department has charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.

The attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced the charges on Friday alongside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief, Anne Milgram, and other top federal prosecutors. The charges were filed against cartel leaders, as well alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, fentanyl traffickers, security leaders, financiers and weapons traffickers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Mexico’s President Attacks U.S. on Human Rights

Mexican President Lopez Obrador has responded to a U.S. State Department report on the Central American country’s Human Rights record.

The U.S. report mentions corruption and the violation of people’s rights by members of the security forces, as well as the failure on the part of Mexico’s judiciary to prosecute certain crimes.

“What if we evaluate their [the USA’s] record on human rights?” asked the President during a speech delivered to members of the press, referring to the high-profile case of Julian Assange by way of example: “Why don’t you free Assange? If you’re talking about journalism and freedom, why do you keep Assange in prison?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, USA

We Are at War with Mexico

Are military invasion and annexation the only solutions?

There is a great deal of agonizing handwringing over the crisis that the United States faces at our southern border. Legislators from both ends of the political spectrum talk about comprehensive political reform, increasing border patrol at the U.S./Mexico border, and granting a pathway to citizenship to DACA residents living in America.

Few dare to diagnose and declare the nature of our real problem and proffer viable solutions: that Mexico is a hostile foreign power located at our border, that we are actually at war with Mexico, and that the only solution might be air strikes, military invasion, placing the country into political receivership or, more—outright annexation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, USA

Mexican cartels threaten America’s playground

Olivia Rose Withington can remember when kitesurfers in the Mexican village of La Ventana would struggle to find a taco or a beer after a day on the water.

The village on the eastern side of the Baja California peninsula was a well-kept secret, known to a relative handful of “wind chasers” attracted by perfect conditions for the sport. Now, after years of American tourists flocking south for a slice of the good life, La Ventana is a secret no more. Withington is among the locals worried that it risks attracting the attention of Mexico’s increasingly rampant cartels.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Mexico too dangerous for spring break, Texas officials say

Authorities in the US state of Texas have advised American citizens not travel to Mexico during the spring break holidays for security reasons.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that drug cartel violence represented a significant threat for anyone crossing into Mexico.

It comes after four Americans were kidnapped shortly after crossing the border last week.

Two of them were murdered, while two were released unharmed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Texas trooper issues stark travel warning to Americans after three women vanished crossing the border – as it’s revealed more than 550 U.S. citizens are now missing in Mexico

A Texas trooper is warning Americans to rethink traveling to Mexico after three women vanished when crossing the border to sell clothes at a flea market – joining the more than 500 US citizens currently missing in the country.

Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told travelers gearing up for Spring Break to be careful when planning vacations to the popular travel destination.

‘Our department is urging anyone traveling to Mexico, especially spring breakers, to avoid those areas, because right now it is too dangerous with the increase in violence and kidnappings in Mexico,’ Lieutenant Olivarez told Fox News. ‘I can’t express enough to those thinking about traveling to Mexico, especially to spring breakers…to avoid those areas as much as possible.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State