{"id":1872554,"date":"2023-03-09T05:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartel-attack-on-us-citizens-at-mexico-border-too-close-to-home-say-texas-republicans\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T05:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:28:45","slug":"cartel-attack-on-us-citizens-at-mexico-border-too-close-to-home-say-texas-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartel-attack-on-us-citizens-at-mexico-border-too-close-to-home-say-texas-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel attack on US citizens at Mexico border too close to home, say Texas Republicans"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fcartel-attack-on-us-citizens-at-mexico-border-too-close-to-home-say-texas-republicans%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=1872554&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-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78244632\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"'Zombie' drug of horse tranquilizer-laced fentanyl ravages US and alarms health officials\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The emergence of a new lethal drug concoction is connected to a wave of fatal overdoses nationwide. 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Now, the FDA is stepping in to restrict imports of the drug, Xylazine.\">               <meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M5S\">               <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-08 02:31:02\">               <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/1257286_th_1678242978.jpg6409b49f5e1b4.jpg\">               <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.brid.tv\/live\/partners\/19383\/sd\/1257286.mp4\">              <\/div>\n<p>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> var _bp=_bp||[]; _bp.push({ \"div\": \"Brid_78244632\", \"obj\": {\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"16\",\"height\":\"9\",\"video\":\"1257286\"} }); <\/script>               <script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 <\/b>Just after driving across Texas, Americans were attacked by an armed group. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border<\/a> Northern <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a> According to Republican legislators from the border, this shows that there are powerful criminal organisations right outside America.<\/p>\n<p>The March 3 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/us-citizens-kidnapped-mexico-identified-traveling-medical-procedure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidnapping<\/a> of four U.S. citizens ought to serve as an enhanced warning to the U.S. government of how seriously cartels that facilitate human and drug smuggling are about their billion-dollar businesses \u2014 and stir the Biden administration and Congress to take major action to stow up the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/border-deaths-880-bodies\">BODIES OF 880 IMMIGRANTS FOUND AT SOUTHERN BORDER IN 2022: BORDER PATROL<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These cartels are brazen enough to shoot at and kidnap foreign nationals in broad daylight,&#8221; Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX (in an email to The <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> Wednesday. &#8220;There is no limit to brutality they will use to achieve their ends \u2014 the profiteering off of human suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R. Texas), who is a member the House Intelligence Committee, and was formerly a Navy SEAL, stated that this incident happened too close home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cartel-fueled violence can easily spill into the United States and threaten American lives, and that&#8217;s exactly what has happened,&#8221; Crenshaw wrote the following: Crenshaw represents a District near Dallas <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/03\/08\/drug-cartels-killing-americans-fentanyl\/11413187002\/?gnt-cfr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz (Republican from Texas) asked the Biden administration for assistance in sending the military into the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our answer is not just go to war with Mexico, the answer is put pressure on Mexico and have the Mexican army show up, arrest these guys, extradite him to the United States \u2014 they need to be prosecuted and face the full force of American justice,&#8221; Cruz talked to Fox News with Jesse Watters on Tuesday evening. &#8220;If we had a president with a scintilla of willingness to stand up to other nations, that&#8217;s exactly what would be happening, right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/kidnappings-mexico-lindsey-graham-military-action-cartels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leading<\/a> Senate GOP efforts to act against cartels. Graham and Senator John Kennedy (R.LA), announced Wednesday legislation to press the U.S. to take action against the cartels. The bill authorized military use, perhaps within Mexico.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetUrl\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We need to find the cartel thugs that are behind American deaths! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qi9517Kt0n\">pic.twitter.com\/Qi9517Kt0n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1633464334071242752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2023<\/a>               <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>               <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Four black Americans, who just had crossed the border into Canada from Africa, were involved in March 3&#8217;s incident<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Click Here to Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/cartel-attack-us-citizens-mexico-border-too-close-to-home-texas-republicans\">Cartel attack on US citizens at Mexico border too close to home, say Texas Republicans<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Just after driving across Texas, Americans were attacked by an armed group. border Northern Mexico According to Republican legislators from the border, this shows that there are powerful criminal organisations right outside America. 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