Cartels Have Operational Control of US Border, Are 'Terrorizing' the US, Says Rep. Chip Roy

Mexican cartels are making billions of dollars from drug trafficking, human smuggling, and exploiting the U.S. border, said Rep. Chip Roy.

They often send large groups through in one area of the border to tie up Border Patrol resources, which leaves nearby areas unpatrolled and open for illicit transport, said Rodney Scott, former U.S. Border Patrol Chief.

"These are human beings. They are put into the labor or sex trafficking trade and they're basically held as slaves to enrich the worst elements of our society-cartels, but also just illegal illicit organizations that are perfectly happy to use the cartel network to get the people that they're going to abuse. It's absolutely horrific," Roy said.

"The driver of the car was an American citizen employee of one of those cartels, moving those eight people-two of whom were bound in the trunk-heading to a stash house in Houston," Roy said.

Roy has introduced a bill that seeks to designate two cartels as terrorist organizations in the last two congressional legislative sessions.

"They don't give a rat's rear end about securing the border or trying to go after cartels," Roy said.

Roy said the United States needs to go after the cartels and reclaim operational control of the southern border.

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