{"id":1608474,"date":"2022-08-16T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608474"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:04:17","slug":"cartels-had-the-border-looking-like-a-serious-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-had-the-border-looking-like-a-serious-war-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartels Had The Border Looking Like A Serious War Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcartels-had-the-border-looking-like-a-serious-war-zone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1608474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A spate of bloodshed right across the border in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/murders-at-the-border-and-attacks-in-jalisco-and-guanajuato-stun-mexico\/ar-AA10CyEk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico has left 11 dead<\/a> and many businesses demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday that a prison riot and the impending arrest of cartel members sparked the rash of violence, much of which took place right across the U.S. southern border from El Paso, Texas in Ciduad Juarez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mexican cartel violence on border\u2014next stop USA! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d1GjgrSXc5\">https:\/\/t.co\/d1GjgrSXc5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VDARE (@vdare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vdare\/status\/1558581089559613444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/new-jersey-to-give-60m-to-residents-for-electric-vehicles\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Jersey To Give $60M To Residents For Electric Vehicles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Shocking Violence<\/h3>\n<p>The amount and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/murders-at-the-border-and-attacks-in-jalisco-and-guanajuato-stun-mexico\/ar-AA10CyEk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brutality of the violent attacks has even those<\/a> who are used to violent attacks by gangs and cartels shocked, and hundreds of army troops were sent to Juarez.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of many civilians was especially shocking, as violence is usually limited to people involved in one form or another with cartel activity or criminality. Adrian Lopez is the director of a newspaper called Noroeste. He says, \u201cThe Mexican state has been overrun and can no longer protect its citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador addressed the violence on Friday during a news conference: \u201cThis is something that hadn\u2019t presented itself before and hopefully won\u2019t be repeated, because they attacked the civilian population, innocents, as a kind of retaliation. It wasn\u2019t just a clash between two groups, but they began to shoot at civilians. \u2026 That is the most lamentable part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in places like Juarez, which sits along a key cross-border smuggling route, it\u2019s been ground zero for a large amount of gang and cartel activity and very often innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mexico Sounds The Alarm Over Biden\u2019s Border Policy, Says He Is Helping Cartels, Creating Organized Crime<\/p>\n<p>Mexican officials believe these policy\u2019s are driving the criminal activity include support for victims of gangs and violence<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zu5EcYXn5V\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zu5EcYXn5V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6drHPBXPGx\">pic.twitter.com\/6drHPBXPGx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Al (@Al01619246) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Al01619246\/status\/1520399980472815616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/elizabeth-warren-claimed-people-would-have-voted-for-her-if-she-had-a-penis-ted-cruz-says-how-do-we-know-she-doesnt\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Warren Claimed People Would Have Voted For Her If She Had A Penis, Ted Cruz Says \u2018How Do We Know She Doesn\u2019t?\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Soft On Crime<\/h3>\n<p>Since the election of reformer Lopez Obrador in 2018, the homicide rate has declined only slightly, and gang and cartel crime shows no signs of slowing down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Average Mexicans may have a problem with Lopez Obrador\u2019s approach to law and order. Rogelio Cornejo Diaz owns a fruit and vegetable stand in one of the hardest hit cities by the crime wave, Celaya. He says, \u201cThere\u2019s no government here: Here the narcos are the government. If the president thinks all is fine and tranquil, he should come here sometime with his wife and children to see for himself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS is what happens when the U.S. gov&#8217;t goes out of it&#8217;s way through failed policies to EMPOWER and ENRICH brutal drug cartels who live RIGHT NEXT DOOR and are now moving in to OUR neighborhoods..<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Democrats<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKLwAH1Cbw\">https:\/\/t.co\/fKLwAH1Cbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angel Mom Virginia Krieger (@c0lettea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/c0lettea\/status\/1558792289299959809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/video-shows-hundreds-of-mostly-single-adults-crossing-border-in-texas-in-one-day\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Shows Hundreds Of Mostly Single Adults Crossing Border In Texas In One Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Cartel Violence Already Effecting Americans<\/h3>\n<p>The use of extreme violence by Mexican drug cartels is not new. In March of this year, the U.S. consulate in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/u-s-consulate-shut-down-after-being-hit-with-gunfire-grenade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nuevo Laredo was shut down after<\/a> not just sustaining gunfire, but also grenade explosions.<\/p>\n<p>This in response to the arrest of a suspected cartel leader. The entire city of Nuevo Laredo, which sits directly across the border from Laredo, Texas endured a night of violence and gunfire due to gunfights between cartels.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/u-s-border-takes-another-hit-as-biden-admin-ends-remain-in-mexico-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending the \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy<\/a>, which requires those seeking asylum in the U.S. to await their hearings in Mexico, and thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/video-shows-hundreds-of-mostly-single-adults-crossing-border-in-texas-in-one-day\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single adults continue to pour across the border<\/a> with no signs of letting up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Hope is a Mexican security analyst. He summed up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/murders-at-the-border-and-attacks-in-jalisco-and-guanajuato-stun-mexico\/ar-AA10CyEk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nightmare of Mexican organized crime,<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019re in a high-violence equilibrium that has become self-sustaining and that government policy is doing very little to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BorderCrisis?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BorderCrisis<\/a>: Gang violence leaves 11 dead in Mexican border city<br \/>Riots spread to the streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CiudadJuarez?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CiudadJuarez<\/a> where gang members killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station<br \/>U.S. Citizens Told to Avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tijuana?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tijuana<\/a> as Violence Erupts<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMmgOtVib2\">https:\/\/t.co\/HMmgOtVib2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zayphar is now, and has always been colorblind (@Zayphar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zayphar\/status\/1559246756856049664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of bloodshed right across the border in Mexico has left 11 dead and many businesses demolished. 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