by Frank Holmes, reporter
It’s official: Joe Biden has “empowered and emboldened some of the most vicious, ruthless, and savage individuals and groups in the world.”
Those are the words of a new congressional report that highlights just one of the president’s failures: America’s open border with Mexico.
The report’s stone-hard facts detail how Biden’s dereliction at the border has sent U.S. citizens to their graves—and drug- and human-smuggling cartels laughing all the way to the bank.
“The sheer volume of people and drugs the cartels are moving across the border has generated historic profit margins for these criminal organizations. Indeed, the cartels are no longer just ‘drug cartels,’ as human smuggling and trafficking have become central to their business model,” says a new report just released by the House Committee on Homeland Security.
The report explains that, over the years, the cartels have made so much money that they’ve decided to “shift away from simply drug trafficking to the insidious practice of human smuggling and trafficking.”
In fact, these gangs “do not simply smuggle illegal aliens across the Southwest border—they are now engaged in transnational human trafficking operations worth billions of dollars.”
How much? Cartels raked in $13 billion just from their human trafficking operations in 2021, according to The New York Times… and they’re making more now.
In 2021, the Border Patrol recorded 1.5 million illegal border crossings. That number jumped to a record-breaking 2.2 million a year later. This year’s illegal immigration report is expected to top two million illegal encounters at the southern border, as well.
“This damning report emphasizes how Secretary Mayorkas’ refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress have given cartels a historic business opportunity, allowing them to rake in billions of dollars from historic levels of human smuggling and trafficking, as well as the trafficking of deadly drugs like fentanyl into our communities,” said committee chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn.
Things are so bad that even The New York Times said last year that a decade of weak border enforcement has turned human smuggling “from a scattered network of freelance ‘coyotes’ into a multi-billion-dollar international business controlled by organized crime.”
Every illegal alien represents a huge pile of money to the cartels—anywhere from $7,500 to $15,000 for transportation… but that’s not where the cartels’ profit ends.
The cartels sometimes crowd illegal aliens into “stash houses,” where they sometimes hold them for ransom. They take the victims’ cell phones away from them and threaten to dismember them unless their families back home cough up more money.
Sometimes the coyotes suddenly hit the illegal aliens with another charge from out of the blue, demanding thousands more to release them from the stash house. This can be paid in cash, favors, or future service as a street hustler or prostitute for the cartels.
This can cost some Mexicans hundreds of thousands of dollars each—all funneled back to expand the cartels’ operations, including buying paramilitary equipment capable of outgunning the official Mexican military.
Slavery and narcotics have gotten so terrible that even Biden officials couldn’t completely deny it. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, who has since retired, told Congress in March that the U.S. did not have functional control of the border… the cartels do.
Nine Mexican cartels are hammering the U.S. with deadly drugs: the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacána, Los Rojos, Guerreros Unidos, and others.
“If the Biden admin refuses to stop the invasion of cartel led human and drug trafficking into our country, states should consider seceding from the union,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., on Sept. 11.
The real problem is the cartels, the Biden administration, and left-wing “NGOs have the same goal at the end of the day—which is to get these individuals across the border any way you can,” said former Trump administration DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf.
Their attitude is all over Congress, too, he said.
“We should let everybody in,” three different U.S. senators told Wolf. “That is the responsibility of the United States.”
The Biden Administration and cartels seem to have the same goal – get as many across the border as possible.@ChadFWolf pic.twitter.com/rQsE3dZID1
— America First Policy Institute (@A1Policy) September 7, 2023
The report has sparked outrage among congressional Republicans, though.
“We must hold them accountable for their failures,” said Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
Biden and Mayorkas’ open border policies have emboldened the cartels.
We must hold them accountable for their failures.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) September 8, 2023
Even some Democrats are starting to hammer Biden on the issue. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, of the Democrats’ rival candidates, skewered Biden’s open borders policies as nothing more than “a way of funding a multibillion-dollar drug and human trafficking operation for the Mexican drug cartels.”
“As president, I will secure the border, which will end the cartel’s drug trafficking economy,” RFK Jr. declared.
@RobertKennedyJr called the Biden administration’s open border policy “a way of funding a multibillion-dollar drug and human trafficking operation for the Mexican drug cartels.”
“As president, I will secure the border, which will end the cartel’s drug trafficking economy. I will… pic.twitter.com/OA3R284VYE
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) September 9, 2023
Now that the facts are known, House Republicans promise real “accountability” for the Biden regime.
“This secretary’s dereliction of duty is on full display” in this report, Rep. Mark Green said. “It’s time to stop subsidizing cartel crime.”
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”