What if you were told that 80 percent of Mexico's territory is controlled by dangerous cartels, including all of the key smuggling routes at our border, and that the cartels are orchestrating all of the illegal immigration into our territory and bringing their members back and forth across our own border?
Several weeks ago, the Mexican investigative journal Contralínea posted a map of Mexico prepared by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, showing that 80 percent of the country's 266 districts recently targeted for enforcement by the Mexican National Guard in a new counter-cartel operation are either controlled or disputed by the cartels.
It's important to note that according to Jaeson Jones, retired captain of Texas' Department of Public Safety Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, the priority areas color-coded on the map are mainly the areas where people live, and the ones left out are simply not a priority, not because the cartels don't control most of those areas, but because there is little infrastructure or population in those areas.
The other areas are deserts with few people and no infrastructure, so they weren't a priority for the Mexican government's campaign, but they still affect our security because the cartels are sending large flows of migrants in areas like Antelope Wells, New Mexico, which are absolutely controlled by Sinaloa.
So why do we not have Special Operations Command engaged in protecting our border from the cartels? Unlike the Taliban, cartel operatives come over our border all the time.
What is amazing is that Border Patrol and the National Guard are ordered not to engage the cartels and armed smugglers at all and cannot nab any of them even a few feet over our border for concern of violating Mexico's sovereignty.
The Mexican cartel culture is similar to the ideology of ISIS and al Qaeda in the sense that they seek "To intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or or to effect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping," which is the definition of international terrorism defined under 18 U.S.C. 2331.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/mexican-government-admits-80-populated-territory-run-cartels-including-key-border-areas/
Several weeks ago, the Mexican investigative journal Contralínea posted a map of Mexico prepared by the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, showing that 80 percent of the country's 266 districts recently targeted for enforcement by the Mexican National Guard in a new counter-cartel operation are either controlled or disputed by the cartels.
It's important to note that according to Jaeson Jones, retired captain of Texas' Department of Public Safety Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, the priority areas color-coded on the map are mainly the areas where people live, and the ones left out are simply not a priority, not because the cartels don't control most of those areas, but because there is little infrastructure or population in those areas.
The other areas are deserts with few people and no infrastructure, so they weren't a priority for the Mexican government's campaign, but they still affect our security because the cartels are sending large flows of migrants in areas like Antelope Wells, New Mexico, which are absolutely controlled by Sinaloa.
So why do we not have Special Operations Command engaged in protecting our border from the cartels? Unlike the Taliban, cartel operatives come over our border all the time.
What is amazing is that Border Patrol and the National Guard are ordered not to engage the cartels and armed smugglers at all and cannot nab any of them even a few feet over our border for concern of violating Mexico's sovereignty.
The Mexican cartel culture is similar to the ideology of ISIS and al Qaeda in the sense that they seek "To intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or or to effect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping," which is the definition of international terrorism defined under 18 U.S.C. 2331.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/mexican-government-admits-80-populated-territory-run-cartels-including-key-border-areas/
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