From ACT For America <[email protected]>
Subject Cartels Ruling Our Borders
Date February 10, 2023 8:45 AM
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10,000 Drones Unimpeded!

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Dear John,

“The U.S. is no longer a law-and-order sovereign
nation.  Sophisticated cartels evade our pitiful, underfunded,
undermanned border patrols that operate with their hands tied behind
their backs BY DESIGN.   This chaos is the result of two years of
the Biden administration’s deliberate and calculated open border
policies.”  

“Make no mistake, the cartels do NOT consist of groups of ragtag
smugglers and drug dealers.  This is a multi-billion-dollar global
enterprise with its own uniformed troops, military weapons, and
armored vehicles.”

-Janet Levy, Los Angeles

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Border Chief: Mexican Cartels Use Drones to Identify Law Enforcement
Locations 

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square | 2/7/23

IN THE PAST YEAR, THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 10,000 DRONE INCURSIONS
FLOWN BY MEXICAN CARTELS operating in Mexico and in Texas in the Rio
Grande Valley Sector of south Texas, Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief
Gloria Chavez testified Tuesday before the House Committee on
Oversight and Accountability.

The cartels are using the drones to identify where state and federal
law enforcement officers are to avoid them and engage in criminal
activity, she explained.

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Like Tucson Border Patrol Sector Chief Modlin who testified before her
that the majority of his sector’s apprehensions was of single
military age men, Chief Chavez testified that the RGV Sector was
mainly apprehending single adults from Central America and Mexico.

Because of the sector’s proximity to Central America and Mexico, she
said, the sector “is identified as a major corridor by cartels and
transnational criminal organizations and it is exploited daily for
human smuggling, narcotics trafficking and other illicit
activities.”

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SHE ALSO SAID AGENTS “CONTINUE TO FACE THE MOST EGREGIOUS ILLICIT
TRENDS SUCH AS CRIMINAL MIGRANTS, GANG MEMBERS, HARD NARCOTICS,
FIREARMS, BULK CURRENCY OUTBOUND AND DRONES USED FOR COUNTER
SURVEILLANCE.”

Within one year, referring to last year, she said, the sector had
“over 10,000 drone incursions and 25,000 drone detections
demonstrating the drone capability of transnational criminal
organizations pinpointing law enforcement locations to increase the
success of smuggling attempts.”

While the sector has made “great progress in countering the threat
of small, unmanned platforms,” she said, Border Patrol agents’
“adversaries,” referring to Mexican cartels, “have 17 times the
number of drones, twice the amount of flight hours and unlimited
funding to grow their operations.”

She said the sector’s goal was to gain resources to help it do its
job, but six weeks prior one of her agents told local law enforcement
that funding was ending for one of the most important resources agents
use: aerostats. Unless Congress provides funding, by this spring, all
aerostats, balloons with surveillance capabilities, won’t be
operational because they are no longer being funded.

She also said funding allocated by Congress was being used to pay
civilian personnel to process illegal foreign nationals, including
paying the salaries of over 250 processing coordinators, 140
contractor processors, 120 childcare givers, 80 security personnel and
100 volunteers. Their jobs include “feeding, care and security of
migrants in custody, duties that would otherwise fall to Border Patrol
agents,” she said.

She also said roughly 200 Texas National Guardsmen were providing
invaluable support to her agents, by assisting with “camera
operations and mobile surveillance, increasing our situational
awareness daily.” Texas Department of Public Safety and local
sheriffs provide daily support as well, she said.

They are operating in the RGV and throughout the Texas border under
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Since March 2021 and
as of Feb. 3, OLS officers have apprehended over 347,000 illegal
foreign nationals and made over 24,000 criminal arrests, with over
22,000 felony charges reported, according to state data. Texas law
enforcement have seized over 360 million lethal doses of fentanyl
since March 2021, more than enough to kill every in America.

“OPERATION LONE STAR CONTINUES TO FILL THE DANGEROUS GAPS LEFT BY
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S REFUSAL TO SECURE THE BORDER,” Gov.
Abbott maintains. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested
and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way
into communities across Texas and the nation due to President
Biden’s open border policies.”

Last week, he appointed the state’s first “border czar,” a
retired Border Patrol agent who served for 23 years, Mike Banks, “to
oversee border security” in Texas “in President Joe Biden’s
absence.”

Of Banks, Abbott said, “He understands the dangerous impacts that
Mexican cartels have on our country.”



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