Violence at various businesses in Cancun has not slowed with at least 30 cartel-linked executions taking place in January.
In the most recent execution, a team of gunmen entered Oasis Bar, killing three customers and injuring five others. The gunmen managed a complete escape. Two of the fatal victims died inside the bar while the third passed en route to a local hospital. The bar is in the popular tourist area called El Crucero.
The attack at the local bar is not an isolated case. Earlier this month, a team of five gunmen entered a bar called “La Palapa de Chucky” and killed two men while injuring seven other victims. One of the victims was identified as a local drug distributor.
In recent months, violence in Cancun and Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, considered the “jewels of tourism in Mexico”, have become the scenes of cartel executions like never before. In December, Breitbart Texas reported on an execution where a group of gunmen left the body of a beheaded victim next to a poster board warning of more organized violence.
Recently, the U.S. Department of State published its most recent travel advisory which documents the dramatic spike in violence in many parts of Mexico and shows various areas as dangerous as Syria and other Middle Eastern conflict spots.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Tony Aranda from Nuevo León.
Enough Fentanyl to Kill Millions Found En Route to U.S. South of
Border
A traffic
stop led Mexican authorities to seize enough fentanyl to kill millions of
people as well as almost 1,000 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and other
drugs that were headed to the California border.
of American citizens are the Mexican drug
cartels.”
Mexico drug cartels stealing billions of dollars in oil from
Pemex
GRAPHIC — Mexican Cartel Cuts
Out Living Victim’s Heart near Acapulco
A group of
cartel gunmen fighting for control of a Mexican coastal state cut out the heart
of one of their living victims while another was beheaded. The violence took
place not far from the beach resort cities of Acapulco and Ixtapa Zihuatanejo,
Guerrero.
A year ago, President Trump committed to the American people to build a
wall along the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and the
flow of drugs into the country.
Border City near Texas
Considered Mexico’s Most Dangerous, Finds Survey
Family Unit Border Crossings Up
625 Percent from April 2017 Low
The number of families apprehended by Border Patrol agents grew by 625
percent from a low point in April 2017. The figure fell sharply during the
first four months of the Trump Administration but has risen steadily
thereafter.
A surge of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border that could
reach up to one million border-crossings is “guaranteed” following a possible
amnesty for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens, says Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial
candidate Kris Kobach.
Criminal illegals, tax
cheats, sanctuary cities OK'd in Gang of Six immigration deal
Enough Fentanyl to Kill Millions Found En Route to U.S. South of
Border
Mexico's National Security Commission
A traffic
stop led Mexican authorities to seize enough fentanyl to kill millions of
people as well as almost 1,000 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and other
drugs that were headed to the California border.
This week, Mexico’s National Security Commission announced
the seizure of 45.5 kilograms of fentanyl that were found as part of a
synthetic drug shipment in the Mexican beach resort town of Ensenada, Baja
California. The seizure also included more than 914 pounds of crystal meth, 87
pounds of cocaine and 18 pounds of heroin.
Unlike the other synthetic drugs, fentanyl is a medically used
opioid that is considered to be 100 times more powerful than morphine and prone
to lethal overdoses.
According to the Oxford Treatment Center, the
lethal dose for an individual taking fentanyl is 2 milligrams.
The 45.5 kilograms of fentanyl seized is enough to fuel millions
of possible lethal doses.
The seizure was made by federal police forces who spotted an SUV
without license plates that had been traveling along the highway that connects
Ensenada with the town of Lazaro Cardenas. The beach resort of Ensenada is
directly south of the border city of Tijuana and its various ports of entry
into California.
After pulling over the vehicle, authorities searched the SUV
and discovered 10 bundles, three suitcases, 18 bricks and 18 plastic containers
with the various drugs inside. As part of the investigation, Mexican
authorities were able to confirm that the SUV is registered in
California.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart
Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and
Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can
be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of
Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso
Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted
at bdarby@breitbart.com.
ILLEGALS CLIMBING CALIFORNIA’S BORDERS FOR JOBS AND WELFARE: SAN
DIEGO … Mexicans (registered democrat anchor baby breeders
(1,877).
In just
the month of October 2017 CBP Border Patrol San Diego border sector reported apprehension of individuals from
Bangladesh (12), Brazil (1), Camaroon (3), Chad (1), China (16), El Salvador
(76), Eritrea (7), Gambia (4), Guatemala (178), Honduras (54), India (101),
Iran (1), Mexico
(1,877), Nepal (31),
Nicaragua (1), Pakistan (13), Peru (1), Somalia (1), and “Unknown”
(1) — a total of 2,379 individuals. These numbers are similar
to volumes seen in this sector for October
since 2012. MICHELLE MOONS
THE MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN
BORDERS
Overall,
in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000
pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to
443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG
BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives
of American citizens are the Mexican drug
cartels.”
“Mexican
drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists
have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every
community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
Reuters has an astonishing report about Mexican drug
cartels tapping into oil pipelines owned by the state oil company Pemex in
order to steal enormous amounts of fuel from the Mexican oil industry.
Apparently, oil has become a target of the carte...: An astonishing report on how the cartels
have made billions off of fuel thefts.
January 24, 2018
Mexico drug cartels stealing billions of dollars in oil from
Pemex
By Rick
Moran
Reuters has an astonishing report about
Mexican drug cartels tapping into oil pipelines owned by the state oil company
Pemex in order to steal enormous amounts of fuel from the Mexican oil industry.
Apparently,
oil has become a target of the cartels because it is cheap to steal and the
risk of being caught is negligible. The cartels employ several methods to steal
the oil, including bribing and threatening Pemex employees and directly tapping
the pipelines that bring gasoline and other fuels to the people.
The
practice has skyrocketed over the last few years, scaring off foreign investors
and severely cutting into the profits of one of Mexico's largest industries.
Fuel theft
is not new or unique to Mexico. But cartels are taking it to calamitous new
dimensions and, in the process, bolstering their bottom line.
“Fuel theft
just makes these groups more powerful,” according to one senior official from
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, who asked not to be identified.
By
targeting refineries, already suffering from a lack of investment, Mexico’s
most notorious criminals gain access to nerve centers for much of the country’s
fuel supply. That threatens an oil industry that accounts for about 8 percent
of Mexico’s economy and creates yet more uncertainty for a country already
reeling from U.S. threats to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement.
“It hurts
the national coffers, weakens national security and hinders the reform and
development of Mexico’s energy market,” said Gustavo Mohar, a former Mexican
energy and intelligence official.
Between
2011 and 2016, the number of unauthorized taps discovered on Mexico’s fuel
lines nearly quintupled, according to a recent report by the federal auditor.
Repair costs surged almost tenfold, to 1.77 billion pesos ($95 million).
A May 2017
study, commissioned by the national energy regulator and obtained by Reuters
via a freedom of information request, found that thieves, between 2009 and
2016, had tapped pipelines roughly every 1.4 kms (0.86 mi) along Pemex’s
approximately 14,000 km pipeline network.
After
decades of poor upkeep, the refineries are bleeding money as well as fuel. In
addition to unscheduled outages, which cause big operational losses,
maintenance problems have led to fatal accidents, including fires and
explosions.
Together,
the refineries have accumulated annual operating losses of about $5 billion in
recent years. Production of refined products, meanwhile, fell to just over
700,000 barrels per day in 2017. That’s about half the production levels at the
refineries’ peak in 1994.
It's
estimated that annual losses in revenue to the Mexican government as a
result of the thefts amounts to more than a billion dollars.
The drop in
production over the last couple of decades is due to Mexico's antiquated and
inefficient oil infrastructure. Energy reforms in 2014 was supposed to
encourage foreign investment in the oil industry, changing long standing policy
that prevented it. But there have been few takers because of Mexico's downward
spiral into failed state status as a result of violence by
the cartels.
Efforts by
Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex to attract about $5 billion in capital
to help modernize its two largest refineries so far have proved futile,
according to two people familiar with the process who declined to be named
because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The company
is seeking a joint venture partner for its Salina Cruz refinery on the West
Coast. It’s also looking for an investor to complete construction of a coking
unit to process heavy crude at its Tula refinery just north of Mexico’s
capital.
Among those
to rebuff overtures from Pemex over the past year are U.S. refining giants
Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) and Tesoro Corp TSO.N, the people said.
Valero and
Tesoro declined to comment. Those and other companies were deterred by
operational, political and market concerns, the people said.
Pemex
officials said they “categorically reject” the notion that they are struggling
to find investors.
“There has
been interest,” a company spokesman said Thursday. “We’ve had talks with many
companies whose names we can’t reveal.”
Pemex has
said publicly it’s seeking investment from Korean, Japanese and Chinese firms.
The company hired Bank of America last year to seek potential partners.
The world's
oil companies are showing little confidence in Mexico's ability to deal with
the cartels. They have good reasons. Why pour money into projects that have
been compromised by criminals? Pemex is bleeding red ink and the irony is, they
won't start making money again until foreign investors can be enticed to become
involved, but foreign investors refuse as long as so much of the oil is being
siphoned away by the cartels.
Mexico has
had some success in bringing down drug king pins. But that success has resulted
in an even bigger problem; the fracturing of drug cartels into many smaller
entities, only compounding the misery of the country. The violence and
political corruption flowing from the drug trade is rapidly making Mexico into
a failed state. The consequences of that for the US is obvious; a growing
number of Mexican citizens looking north for salvation.
GRAPHIC — Mexican Cartel Cuts
Out Living Victim’s Heart near Acapulco
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
A group of
cartel gunmen fighting for control of a Mexican coastal state cut out the heart
of one of their living victims while another was beheaded. The violence took
place not far from the beach resort cities of Acapulco and Ixtapa Zihuatanejo,
Guerrero.
The
execution was recorded by cartel gunmen who then disseminated the footage
through social media. Mexican intelligence sources revealed to Breitbart Texas
that the murders took place at a ranch near the boundary between Michoacan and
Guerrero states. The location of the murders is not far from the famed resort
city of Acapulco. Law enforcement sources also revealed that the ranch once
belonged to former Los Zetas ally and founder of La Familia Michoacana, Carlos
Rosales Mendoza.
During
the execution, a leading figure within Los Viagras Cartel threatened and
tortured two villagers whose hands were tied behind their backs.
The
victims were killed for allegedly relaying information to their
rivals. One of the gunmen used a large stick to beat one of the villagers.
Another
gunman then comes up from behind and uses a sharp knife to slash the man’s
throat and then sever his head.
While
the second victim screams for mercy, the gunmen use knives to slice open his
chest to the point where they can see the man’s beating heart. One of the
gunmen reached inside the victim’s chest cavity and manually removed the vital
organ.
Soon
after the executions, the gunmen issued a series of threats toward rivals
claiming they would meet a similar fate.
The
Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacan are theaters for a fierce territorial
war between the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and their rivals with
Los Viagras, La Nueva Familia Michoacana, and some factions of the Sinaloa
Cartel.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists
willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their
communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel
Chronicles are
published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by
Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense
Movement in Michoacán.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel Chronicles Project contributed to this
report.
THE
HORDES OF ILLEGALS KEEP COMING…. Despite America’s jobs, housing and Mexican
crime tidal wave.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes
the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement
will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil
rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to
either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing
Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect
our own governors of all the states within Aztlan."
MARK LEVIN: ‘THERE IS A BIG, UGLY SIDE TO ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION
BY JOSE R. GONZALEZ
THURSDAY ON LEVIN TV, NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO
SHOW HOST MARK LEVIN WARNED ABOUT THE DANGERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SAYING,
“THERE IS A BIG, UGLY SIDE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,” LEVIN SAID. “THERE’S ALL
KINDS OF CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY PEOPLE WHO AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.”
Heather
Mac Donald of the Manhattan
Institute has
testified before a Congressional
committee that
in 2004, 95% of all outstanding
warrants
for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal
aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles
County
jail inmates were illegal aliens and that
in
1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street
gang,
the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens
THE INVADING
CRIMINALS:
A county by county
chart:
DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS AND THE STAGGERING COST OF
MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE ON AMERICAN BACKS.
SQUANDERING AMERICA!
Endless wars for Muslim dictators while the Mexican
drug cartels expand from border to open border.
TRILLIONS WASTED AS AMERICA CRUMBLES!
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS REMIND AMERICANS
(Legals) THAT THERE IS NO (REAL) BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of
heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure
of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United
States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the
U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael
Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THEY INVADE OVER AND UNDER OUR BORDERS… and do so by invitation of
the Democrat Party.
Lawmen are worried that the cartel tunnel builders on the Mexican
border are now using their engineered concoctions to smuggle illegals, not
merely drugs.
That's what the Daily
Caller has found, describing the
new anxiety as one was discovered over the weekend, catching about 30 illegals
coming in from Mexico and China. MONICA SHOWALTER – AMERICAN THINKER.com
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American
citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to
America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican
drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
*
“Mexican
authorities have arrested the former mayor of a rural community in the border
state of Coahuila in connection with the kidnapping, murder and incineration of
hundreds of victims through a network of ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas
cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart Texas exposed not only the horrors of
the mass extermination, but also the cover-up and complicity of the Mexican
government.”
*
“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of
heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure
of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United
States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff
Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the
U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael
Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall,
in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000
pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to
443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART –
JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
THE
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall,
in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000
pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to
443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART –
JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
THE
ILLEGALS’ AND THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified
before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants
for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los
Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los
Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
One Year of Trump: Border Wall Prototypes
Sit in Desert As Border-Crossings Surge to Obama Levels
A year ago, President Trump committed to the American people to build a
wall along the United States-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration and the
flow of drugs into the country.
A year later, Trump is still promising to build the border wall,
as prototypes of what the wall could look like sit in the San Diego,
California, desert and border-crossings surge back to President Obama-era
illegal immigration levels.
Since September 2017, eight border wall prototypes have sat in
San Diego, being tested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and toured
countlessly by government officials.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
toured the border wall prototypes in December 2017, telling Fox News that
the wall was paramount to ending illegal immigration.
“We got to have a wall, we’re going to have a wall. But then you
need the technology, you need the people, you need the censors, you need the
cameras, you need the monitoring, to make sure that that wall is as effective
as it can be,” Nielsen said.
A month later, Nielsen and the Trump administration have
continued to struggle to secure the full $18 billion funding for the border
wall from a Republican-controlled Congress that remains dedicated to the big
business lobby’s interests on immigration, constantly demanding more legal
immigration and continued access to illegal alien workers.
While the prototypes continue collecting dust in the San Diego
region, border-crossings under Trump have surged back to where they were under
Obama, a pattern that proves pro-American immigration reformers’ assertion that
talk of cracking down on illegal immigration will only deter illegal immigrants
from breaching the southern border for so long.
Between April 2017—when border-crossings hit a historic low—and
December 2017, family unit border-crossings have surged 625 percent, Breitbart
Texas reported, with the
last month of 2017 even exceeding the number of border-crossings under Obama.
In the month of December alone, U.S. Border Patrol agents
apprehended almost 30,000 illegal aliens trying to cross into the country
between ports of entry, where Trump’s border wall would be sitting if it were
constructed today.
As Breitbart News reported, for the
last two months of 2017, the Republican establishment, Nielsen, and Democrats
have floated the idea of giving amnesty to nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded
from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program.
The mere talk of the DACA amnesty has coincided with surges in
border-crossings, with Nielsen admitting last month that human smugglers on the
southern border and future illegal aliens pay close attention to the national
immigration debate in the U.S. to decide when will be the best time to cross
into the country illegally.
Nearing the end of the first month of 2017,
the Republican-controlled Congress has yet to hand over full funding for
the border wall, and more importantly, have shifted focus to getting DACA
illegal aliens a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Border City near Texas
Considered Mexico’s Most Dangerous, Finds Survey
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
by CARTEL CHRONICLES23 Jan 201859
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The citizens of this border city consider it as one of the most dangerous in Mexico.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The citizens of this border city consider it as one of the most dangerous in Mexico.
The perceived lack of security conditions was measured through a
study of urban public safety by Mexico’s National Institute for
Statistics and Geography (INEGI).
The city where citizens felt least safe is in Reynosa, according
to 95.6 percent of local respondents.
Since 2010, this border city has been immersed in waves of
violence where rival cartel groups fight for control. The violence began when
the Gulf Cartel split off from its former enforcers, Los Zetas, thus setting
off a series of gun battles for control of the streets. The skirmishes continue
in waves where in addition to the fight with Los Zetas, the CDG went through a
series of internal fractures that spread even more bloodshed. As a consequence
of the high cost of being constantly at war, residents have also been
victimized by a spike in extortions, carjackings, kidnappings, and home and
business robberies.
As Breitbart Texas reports, the perception of insecurity
comes at a time when Mexico had its bloodiest year in decades.
According to the 2017 statistics, Mexico suffered 29,168 tallied murders,
surpassing all prior records.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to
risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The
writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that
operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym
were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel
Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This
article was written by “A.C Del Angel” from Tamaulipas.
Family Unit Border Crossings Up
625 Percent from April 2017 Low
File Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
The number of families apprehended by Border Patrol agents grew by 625
percent from a low point in April 2017. The figure fell sharply during the
first four months of the Trump Administration but has risen steadily
thereafter.
In April 2017, Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,119 Family
Unit Aliens (FMUA), Breitbart Texas reported. The
number of FMUA apprehensions rose nearly every month since the his low point to
8,121 in December, according to the Southwest Border Migration report released
by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday. This number represents
an increase from April of more than 7,000 FMUAs (625 percent). CBP defines FMUA
as the “number of individuals (either a child under 18 years old, parent or
legal guardian) apprehended with a family member by the U.S. Border Patrol.”
CBP officials released the shocking numbers on the same day
President Donald Trump met with Congressional leaders to
discuss amnesty for illegal alien minors brought to the U.S. by their families
under the same circumstances as the FMUAs currently entering the country. The
meeting addressed Congressional plans to replace President Barrack Obama’s
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Shortly after the
meeting, a judge in the Ninth Circuit ordered the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to largely reinstate DACA.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the DACA
program in September, Breitbart News reported. He said
there would be an “orderly and lawful wind-down.” His announcement
followed a threat from Texas and nine other states to add the DACA program to
an already successful lawsuit that effectively ended President Obama’s Deferred
Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program.
“For these same reasons that DAPA and Expanded DACA’s unilateral
Executive Branch conferral of eligibility for lawful presence and work
authorization was unlawful, the original June 15, 2012 DACA memorandum is also
unlawful,” the letter from the states explained. “
Following the DACA rescission by Sessions, Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxton announced the states would drop their threatened lawsuit,
Breitbart Texas reported.
DACA is seen by many as a magnet that draws FMUAs and
Unaccompanied Alien Children to risk their lives to come to the U.S. illegally.
These groups pay large sums of money to cartel-connected human smugglers to
bring them to the U.S. in hopes they will be included in a DACA replacement
amnesty program.
FMUAs and UACs represented nearly 40 percent of all illegal
aliens apprehended by Border Patrol agents during Fiscal Year 2017. Agents
apprehended a total of 117,057 FMUAs and UACs during the FY2017 which ended in
September. Between the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1 and
December 30, agents apprehended 31,209
additional families and unaccompanied minors.
The UACs are reported to be coming from Guatemala (5,697),
Mexico (2,433), Honduras (1,740), and El Salvador (993). Guatemala also leads
the list of countries sending FMUAs to the U.S. with 10,650 during the
first three months of FY2018. This is followed by Honduras (5,545), El Salvador
(3,136), and Mexico (481).
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor
for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team.
Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Gab, and Facebook.
Kris Kobach: Border Surge of Potentially 1M Illegal Aliens ‘Guaranteed’
Following DACA Amnesty
ELIZABETH RUIZ/AFP/Getty Images
A surge of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border that could
reach up to one million border-crossings is “guaranteed” following a possible
amnesty for nearly 800,000 illegal aliens, says Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial
candidate Kris Kobach.
In an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday, hosted by Breitbart News
Political Editor Matt Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House, Kobach
warned President Trump against negotiating a deal wherein illegal aliens
shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are given amnesty, saying such a plan would
trigger a massive border surge.
KOBACH: And there will be a surge, it is guarenteed. If there is
a DACA amnesty, there will be a massive surge of hundreds of thousands, if not
more than a million, new illegal aliens.
HOUSE: Right, we saw that in the ’80’s and the ’90’s, as well,
following the 1986 amnesty.
KOBACH: That’s exactly right. And as some Breitbart readers may
know, if they’ve seen my piece this week, I put some statistics in there. Yeah,
that ’86 amnesty, it ended up being for 2.7 million people which was a larger
number than was expected by Congress and by President Reagan’s administration
when it happened. And the reason its a larger number is its estimated that
about 700,000 people came in or applied for the amnesty who were not eligible
for it. And so… what happens when you grant amnesty is immediately people flood
across the border because they want to falsely claim that they were already
here and get the new amnesty or they want to at least get here and wait for the
next amnesty.
An amnesty for DACA illegal aliens has the potential to trigger
a border surge that could triple the current level of border-crossings, which
under President Trump, have ticked back up to Obama-era levels due to border
wall construction being stalled in the prototype stage for months.
As the Migration Policy Institute has
chronicled, previous border surges from amnesty programs have brought hundreds
of thousands across the U.S.-Mexico border:
While the flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) has been
climbing steadily since 2012, a dramatic surge has taken place in the last six
months, with the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as the principal place of
entry. The Border Patrol there has converted entire stations to house
unaccompanied minors and families.
According to the Border Patrol, apprehensions of unaccompanied
children increased from 16,067 in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 24,481 in FY 2012
and 38,833 in FY 2013. During the first eight months of FY 2014, 47,017 such children
were apprehended by the Border Patrol. If the influx continues apace—and it
shows no signs of slowing—the administration predicts that by the end of the
fiscal year on September 30, totals could reach 90,000.
Ninety-eight percent of unaccompanied minors currently arriving
at the border are from Honduras (28 percent), Mexico (25 percent), Guatemala
(24 percent), and El Salvador (21 percent). This breakdown represents a
significant shift: prior to 2012, more than 75 percent of UACs were from
Mexico.
In recent days, Trump has said that negotiations for a DACA
amnesty — that would include cutting legal immigration levels to benefit
America’s workers and immediately constructing the border wall — are “probably
dead” due to Democrats’ unwillingness to cut legal immigration and bar
employers from hiring illegal aliens over U.S. citizens.
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WASHINGTON SECRETS
Criminal illegals, tax
cheats, sanctuary cities OK'd in Gang of Six immigration deal
by Paul
bEdard | From left, President Donald
Trump, accompanied by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Sen.
Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Vice President Mike Pence, Senate
Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.,
speaks during a meeting on immigration in the Roosevelt Room at the White
House, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)