Thread: America’s Heroin Epidemic Fueled By Flood Of Illegal Immigrants

11:44 PM 09/14/2015
Ethan Barton

Violent drug cartels help “every single illegal alien” cross the border between the U.S. and Mexico for a fee, and often the price is carrying a backpack full of heroin, according to a Border Patrol union president.

“Every single illegal alien that comes into the country goes through the hands of a drug cartel,” even if the immigrant doesn’t want the help, said Hector Garza. He is president of the Laredo, Texas, chapter of the National Border Patrol Council.

Garza was briefly in the national spotlight earlier this year when Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump held a campaign event near the U.S. border with Mexico to highlight his demand for an end to illegal immigration. Garza’s chapter pulled out of hosting Donald Trump in Laredo just hours before the Republican presidential front-runner’s visit.

Most heroin is smuggled into the U.S. by illegal immigrants crossing the border with help from Mexican drug cartels, according to Department of Homeland Security officials. The cartels are also responsible for most of the violence in the border region.

"When we talk about securing the border, it’s not just about stopping illegal immigration,” Garza said. “It’s also about stopping dangerous drugs from entering our communities and our schools and getting into the hands of kids and affecting family members.”

“Most of the drugs coming into the country are not coming into the ports of entry,” he said. “Coming across the border is the easiest way. You cannot imagine how easy it is to cross the border. You would be shocked at how open our borders are down here.”

Mexican drug cartels put heroin into a backpack and help immigrants illegally cross the border.

“The price for being led across is carrying one of those backpacks,” Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge Adam Parks told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

In other words, curbing illegal immigration by securing the border would restrict the major method cartels use to smuggle heroin — a drug that’s causing an epidemic of suffering and criminal violence in the U.S. Deaths from the opiate nearly quadrupled from 2002 to 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Numerous federal agencies and task forces are responsible for catching heroin dealers, but ultimately, if the border is unsecured, the drug will still make its way in.

Violence in the region would also decrease by securing the border.

“Much of the illegal activity and associated violence on the southwest border is interrelated, given the well-documented link between drug trafficking and human smuggling/trafficking organizations,” DHS’s Southern Border Joint Task Force — West Director Robert L. Harris told the Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform Wednesday.

“This lawlessness is a direct result of the drug cartels operating in Mexico, evolving into massive criminal organizations,” said committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah. An attack on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter in June “made clear the cartels have no reservations about expanding the scope of their violence on the American side of the border.”

The ranking Democrat on the oversight panel agreed.

“Drug cartel violence in Mexico threatens both American and Mexican citizens and their families on both sides of the border,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. “Combating the violence and stabilizing this region needs to be a top priority for both countries.”

But Customs and Border Protection needs more resources to complete that task, according to the Border Patrol union.

“Without the manpower on the border, we just can’t physically secure the border,” National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told the committee.

In fact, the border is only about 40 percent secure, Judd said, though Garza told TheDCNF that may be overestimated.

Technology and infrastructure upgrades are essential to secure the border, Garza said.

“We have to make sure we have the most up-to-date camera systems,” Garza said. “There are spots on the border where we don’t have radio reception.”

The border needs more towers and with cameras that conceal which direction they point, he said. Immigrants exploit obvious gaps in cameras’ visibility.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/14/am...al-immigrants/

So, Mexico will assure an ISIS member that he can get into the U.S. for just bringing over a backpack. Then we have drugs to kill our children AND an Islamic radical to build bombs to destroy Boston celebrations and more Americans.

The real worry about this is that republican leadership does not see this as a problem!! As they haven't since November,1986.

This Independent is not interested in Republicans being added to Congress or the WH.

Somebody---PLEASE---put this article up. Apparently I am still not able to? Taxpayer funded PBS once again does some media saber rattling on behalf of illegal immigrants:http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpo...ation-rhetoric



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From California, A Warning To Republicans On Anti-Immigration Rhetoric

September 15, 201511:42 AM ET

Ina Jaffe

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Activists for and against Proposition 187 rallied in Los Angeles in 1996, after it was thrown out by the courts. Political analysts say tough rhetoric and laws targeting illegal immigration could now have lasting political consequences for the national Republican Party.

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California is often considered the nation's trendsetter. But Republicans running for president better hope that's not true.
Their talk about immigration echoes what Californians heard in the 1990s. That's when Proposition 187, a ballot measure viewed as strongly anti-immigrant, was a key to the re-election of California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson.

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Anyone who was in California in 1994 probably remembers the infamous campaign commercial for Wilson's re-election. "They keep coming," intoned the narrator over grainy black and white video of people dashing into traffic, as they cross the border from Mexico. "Two million illegal immigrants in California," he says over ominous music.
Then Wilson appears on screen saying, "I'm working to deny state services to illegal immigrants. Enough is enough."
Wilson was linking himself to Proposition 187, a ballot measure to deny public services, including health care and education, to people in the country illegally. It won overwhelmingly and Wilson did, too. But 187 was thrown out by the courts.
And over the past two decades, Republican registration in California has plummeted. It's now just 28 percent.
Political scientist David Damore traces the party's decline to the 187 campaign.
"The moment when the Latino population is about ready to explode in California and have an impact on politics, the Republicans were pushing a very, very hostile agenda," said Damore. "The end result is, it's no longer a competitive state."
Damore is a senior analyst for Latino Decisions, a research and polling organization. He co-authored a study called the "Prop 187 Effect." One of those effects is the increase in voter registration and turnout among California Latinos.
Damore said his research also found that "folks who were not naturalized citizens, they increasingly became citizens so they could participate in the political process."
Now all California statewide offices — from governor to insurance commissioner — are held by Democrats. Democrats also have overwhelming majorities in both houses of the state Legislature and in California's congressional delegation.
Nationally, the Republican Party is aware of the California example. Its own postmortem of the 2012 presidential election, said "If Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies." It also called for comprehensive immigration reform.
That was then. Donald Trump is now.
Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs," Trump said when he announced he was running for president. "They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Now, Republican presidential hopefuls are increasingly taking up the issue of unauthorized immigration. For example, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has called for the elimination of "sanctuary cities," that is, cities that limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Other GOP candidates — like Trump — support building a wall on the border with Mexico. Some have joined Trump in questioning the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.
"Trump's entrance into race made it so that they had to discuss it whether they wanted to or not," said Republican political consultant Reed Galen.
He worked on the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. He thinks it's possible that the current harsh rhetoric on immigration could alienate Latino voters around the country, the way that Proposition 187 alienated them in California in the '90s.
"Latinos, who at [that] time might have been with the Republicans on any number of issues, be it the economy or social issues, thought, well, if this is something you're going to be for, then you probably don't like me."
That shifting attitude can now be seen on the national level, too, said Damore.
"George Bush in 2004 wins 39, 40 percent of the Latino vote" after supporting comprehensive immigration reform, said Damore. But just eight years later, "Mitt Romney's in the low 20s," after saying that people who come to the U.S. illegally should "self-deport."
"So there's a big swing in a relatively short amount of time there."
Republican consultant Reed Galen doesn't like the trend.
"As a Republican who has to go win elections, I would like more people to like our candidates than less," he said, laughing. "That's sort of a baseline."
But with Donald Trump leading in the polls, it's undeniable that the talk about illegal immigration has struck a chord with part of the Republican base, said Galen.
"Do I believe that it has the ability to derail the party?" he asks. "Absolutely. Is it a long-term concern? Absolutely."
But in the short term it's hard to get candidates to think about anything but winning the nomination

33,000 people dead in Ohio in 2015. The illegal alien drug cartels are killing people with highly addictive and deadly drugs primarily brought from Mexico. This aspect of illegal immigration and its deadly consequences are far more important the some silly woman at MSNBC trying to hid her adultery and face lifts and bunch of sore loser Democrats socialists that whine and carry on like fools. JMO

Yes, James Comey is in this video, it was done in 2016 and he does the introduction. .

Chasing the Dragon (C)



Published on Feb 4, 2016
In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, the FBI and DEA have released "Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict," a documentary aimed at educating students and young adults about the dangers of addiction. More at www.fbi.gov/ChasingTheDragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdmWRExOkQ

Yes, the illegal drug business is the driving force behind illegal immigration, they orchestrate it, they plan it, they fuel it, they promote it and they fund the protection of it by buying up our politicians. There is no doubt about that and I'm so glad to see reporting on this scourge. I support a domestic legal, regulated, taxed recreational drug trade, but I do not support any foreign recreational drug entering the United States because they aren't safe, they aren't regulated, they aren't managed and most importantly, they are the reason we have 30 million illegal aliens in the United States infesting our nation with these horrible unsafe drugs and hauling out our money to boot, leaving a trail of death and despair in the wake for Americans to deal with.

Connect the dots and doing so with go a long way towards solving the problem of illegal immigration.