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Over the past 10 years, the drug landscape in the United States has shifted, with the tripartite opioid threat (controlled prescription drugs, fentanyl, and heroin) having risen to epidemic levels.

 

Drug poisoning deaths are currently at their highest ever recorded level and, every year since 2009, drug poisoning deaths have outnumbered deaths by firearms, motor vehicle crashes, suicide, and homicide  

 

Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) supply illicit substances to distributors and users in the United States.  TCOs continue to form relationships with gangs, who in turn commit violent crimes and serve as retail-level drug distributors for TCOs, presenting a serious risk to public health and safety. The number of deaths attributed to controlled prescription drugs (CPDs) continues to outpace those for cocaine and heroin combined.  

 

Methamphetamine distribution and abuse significantly contribute to violent crime rates in the United States.   

 

Mexican TCOs remain the greatest criminal drug threat to the United States; no other group is currently positioned to challenge them. These TCOs maintain territorial influence over large regions in Mexico used for the cultivation, production, importation, and transportation of illicit drugs. By controlling lucrative smuggling corridors across the U.S. Southwest Border (SWB), Mexican TCOs are able to introduce multi-ton quantities of illicit drugs into the United States on a yearly basis.  Once these drugs are smuggled across the Mexican border, they are delivered to consumer markets in the United States using transportation routes and distribution cells that Mexican TCOs oversee both directly and indirectly.   

 

 

 

https://www.dea.gov/...DTA Summary.pdf

 

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Mexico:

 

In recent years the conflict has spread into grounds that exceed criminal activity including beheadings, kidnappings, gun battles near preschools, and political assassinations. The terror tactics have spread to include the murder and mutilation of American tourists, ICE agents and Border Patrol Officers, as well as Consulate employees

 

Organized crime groups in Mexico are engaged in much more than just drug trafficking. They're involved in kidnapping for ransom, extortion, human smuggling, and the sale of pirated goods

 

Connection are emerging between the Cartels and radical Islamic groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. These Islamic radical organizations have had a long history in the tri-border region of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, it is a strong possibility they have finally moved north, as there have been mixed reports of Cartel members sporting Farsi tattoos and other indications that Hezbollah is in Mexico training drug traffickers in tactics crossing the border and how to properly use explosives and small arms.

 

USA:

 

 According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, there were an estimated 1.4 million active gang members, comprising more than 33,000 gangs in the United States. Street gangs most commonly engage in street-level drug trafficking, large-scale drug distribution, assault, threats and intimidation, and robbery. Prison gangs’ greatest threat lies in their nexus to street gangs and their ability to corrupt prison officials to facilitate the smuggling of drugs, cell phones, and weapons into prison. Prison gang members also maintain relationships with street gang members, and engage in assault, racketeering, extortion, murder, robbery, witness intimidation, and prostitution.

 

 

 

 

http://globalsecurit...can Cartels.pdf

 

 

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Second Mexican Journalist Murdered in One Week, Juarez Cartel Implicated  

 

Unknown gunmen shot Miroslava Breach, a career journalist. Breach was leaving her home Thursday morning in the city of Chihuahua when she was fatally shot.

 

At the crime scene, the gunmen left behind a poster board that read “por lenguona. Sigue tu Gobernador. El 80”. The message in the sign claims that the reporter was murdered for saying too much and that the state governor was next.  

 

 

http://www.breitbart...tel-implicated/

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Visits U.S. Southern Border:  

 

But it is also here, along this border, that transnational gangs like MS-13 and international cartels flood our country with drugs and leave death and violence in their wake. And it is here that criminal aliens and the coyotes and the document-forgers seek to overthrow our system of lawful immigration.   

 

• The transportation or harboring of aliens. As you know too well, this is a booming business down here. No more. We are going to shut down and jail those who have been profiting off this lawlessness — people smuggling gang members across the border, helping convicted criminals re-enter this country and preying on those who don’t know how dangerous the journey can be.
• Further, where an alien has unlawfully entered the country, which is a misdemeanor, that alien will now be charged with a felony if they unlawfully enter or attempt enter a second time and certain aggravating circumstances are present.
• Also, aliens that illegally re-enter the country after prior removal will be referred for felony prosecution — and a priority will be given to such offenses, especially where indicators of gang affiliation, a risk to public safety or criminal history are present.

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On Immigration 2017

1. Authorized DHS to hire 10,000 ICE officers & 5,000 border patrol agents
2. Secured funding for more immigration judges for deportation cases in 2017 budget
3. Ended “catch and release” policy
4. ICE arrests up 40% as of May
5. ICE arrests are 75% criminal illegals as of May
6. Ice Arrests for non criminal illegals up 150% as of May due to sanctuary cities polices making Ice go to the home instead of the court houses
7. 70%+ decrease in border crossings of illegal aliens in first 6 months per head of ICE (07/18/17)
8. No Cuban refugees seen by Coast Guard in Apr first time in 7 years
9. Open bidding and plans submitted for the WALL. Finalists selected, prototypes to be unveiled this summer per CBP official/Breitbart news.
10. 6ft chain linked fences being replaced by 20ft hardened steel fencing at border
11. More than 1400 gang members have been arrested by ICE
12. This year the U.S. has already deported 398 MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador – compared to only 534 for all of 2016
13. Texas has passed a law outlawing sanctuary cities
14. Foods stamp requests by ILLEGALS D O W N
15. The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who had been given a reprieve from deportation by Obama
    1. Per Sec Kelly Plans are to start building the WALL by end of summer.
16. Travel ban EO cut refugees to 50,000 limit has been reached as of 07/12/17). USA now closed to refugee without a close connection to the USA
17. per Breitbart Sec Kelly has refused to expand H2-B visa program in FY 2017 Update 06/22/17 Sec Kelly will expand the H2-b visa program for a limited number of businesses that are in danger of failing and can’t find employment per breitbart.
18. Pres Trump and Sec of DHS ended DAPA (06/16/17)
19. Refugees dropped by half entering the USA in first three months of Pres Trump’s admin over Obama’s admin. (6/24/17 per Washington Times)
20. In fiscal year 2017 so far, ICE has removed over 2,700 criminal gang members, compared to 2,057 criminal gang members in all of fiscal year 2016. (07/20/17) per Whitehouse
21. Per Sec Kelly 66,000 mostly criminal illegals arrested by ICE in first 5 months
22. Kate’s Law passed the House 06/29/17)
23. No Sanctuary Cities Law Passed the House (06/29/17)
24. Illegal immigrant arrests in San Diego, Ca have more than doubled from 2016 and 2015 figures per the San Diego Union Tribune (07/04/17)
25. In a reversal of Obama administration policy, federal prosecutors with Operation Streamline are filing criminal charges against migrants the first time they are caught crossing the border illegally. Per Tucson.com and breitbart (07/05/17)
26. Refugee Arrivals Plummet in Week After Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Executive Order per Breitbart and Department of State website (07/05/17)
27. The International Entrepreneur Rule obama era loophole was closed by DHS on (0711/17). The rule allowed illegals to stay in the country for 2 and half years if they were “starting a business” per breitbart.
28. ICE crackdown in Pueblo scaring some families back to Mexico per the Pueblo chieftain (07/10/17)
29. House subcommittee includes $1.6 billion in funds for Wall in approbations bill (07/12/17) goes to full house for vote
30. DHS proposes rule change to increase length (from 2 weeks to 90 days) and Distance (from 100 miles from the border to entire USA) for people to be immediately deported freeing up courts and stopping the lawfare over immigration. (07/15/17 ) per dailymail
31. Thomas D. Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview that since Trump entered office, illegal border crossings have crashed by almost 70 percent, “an historic low,” arrests inside the country have jumped 40 percent and that demands for illegal criminals in local jails has skyrocketed 80 percent. (07/18/17) per Washington Examiner
32. AG Sessions said one goal of DOJ is to totally end illegal immigration (07/18/17) per Breitbart
33. The Trump Administration is providing funding for the Texas National Guard’s efforts to assist in securing the state’s border with Mexico per Breitbart (07/18/17)
34. Acting ICE Director Thomas D. Homan said he is going to deploy more officers and agents to “sanctuary cities” to arrest illegal criminal (07/18/17) per Washington examiner
35. President Trump ordered the creation of the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office at DHS, ensuring that our Government can no longer ignore the victims of criminal acts by illegal aliens. (04/26/17) 

 

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