{"id":1906729,"date":"2023-03-29T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-using-migrants-as-human-shields-for-drug-smuggling-ex-border-patrol-chief\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:16:10","slug":"cartels-using-migrants-as-human-shields-for-drug-smuggling-ex-border-patrol-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-using-migrants-as-human-shields-for-drug-smuggling-ex-border-patrol-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartels Using Migrants as \u2018Human Shields\u2019 for Drug Smuggling: Ex-Border Patrol Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-using-migrants-as-human-shields-for-drug-smuggling-ex-border-patrol-chief%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=1906729&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0329\/e1003899-9816-4d30-8e91-8165049c3186\/audio.mp3?length=3041901&#038;duration=253\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>As historic numbers of illegal migrants at the U.S.\u2013Mexico border continue to draw the attention of law enforcement and the nation as a whole, the drug cartels are taking advantage of that distraction, according to former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott.<\/p>\n<p>In a March 28 interview with Steve Lance of NTD News, The Epoch Times\u2019 sister outlet, Scott noted that the people crossing the border serve as the perfect \u201ccover\u201d for the cartels\u2019 other operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cartel uses these people as human shields to shape the border to completely overwhelm all law enforcement in areas very systematically, so that they can bring in other threats\u2014people that are willing to pay more money to not meet a border patrol agent, or the narcotics, the fentanyl that we see poured into our cities all across this country,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are the threats that the illegal immigration is a cover or a mask for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And those migrants often pay a far bigger price than money to serve as the cartels\u2019 shields, Scott added, citing recent incidents where groups of people had been found locked inside railcars, resulting in hospitalization and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a fire engulfed a Mexican immigration detention facility on March 27, resulting in at least 39 deaths and dozens of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese events get a lot of attention when the numbers are high, but the deaths associated with illegal migration and the cartels\u2019 control on our southwest border happen every single day,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Preventable Tragedy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cAny loss of life is tragic,\u201d the ex-Border Patrol chief stated. \u201cAnd the really horrible, sad thing is this is preventable. I mean, not every death, but a lot of them are preventable if we just reestablished law and order on our border and got rid of the chaos that this administration has created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott, who served under both the Trump and Biden administrations, contended that Biden\u2019s return to the Obama-era \u201ccatch-and-release\u201d policy of releasing illegal migrants into the United States pending their court date had effectively served as a \u201csales pitch\u201d to those seeking to circumvent the legal immigration process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [migrants] just see that as a win,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, as long as that continues and people don\u2019t see an immediate consequence for an illegal action, this flow of human beings is going to continue pouring across our border.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Toxic Relationship<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Deadly drugs like fentanyl are also pouring across the border, Scott said, thanks to a partnership the Mexican cartels have entered with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe threat we\u2019re seeing today, more than ever before, is China systematically working with the cartels, sending precursor chemicals into Mexico,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe cartels in Mexico are creating fentanyl, and the profit is so high and the commodity is such a small amount, it\u2019s easier to smuggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials, the vast majority of the fentanyl entering the United States is produced by two Mexican cartels, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco cartel, and they obtain the necessary chemicals to do so almost exclusively from China.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s primary benefit from that relationship is believed to be the poisoning of Americans with fentanyl\u2014and the communist country would appear to be succeeding in that mission.<\/p>\n<p>According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, fentanyl poisoning became the leading cause of death for American adults aged 18 to 45 in 2019 and killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2021 alone.<\/p>\n<p>However, Scott stressed that the Mexican drug cartels still pose the biggest threat when it comes to illicit fentanyl as they are mass producing the drug and have established themselves as the \u201cde facto government\u201d in large areas of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the cartels will be able to exploit that situation as long as U.S. Border Patrol remains overwhelmed by the continuous flood of illegal migrants at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no idea what\u2019s coming into the country,\u201d Scott said. \u201cBut what we do know is there is no shortage of fentanyl throughout the cities and towns of this country, and it is killing more people \u2026 than our wars did\u2014than 9\/11 did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a national security threat, And we need to address it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As historic numbers of illegal migrants at the U.S.\u2013Mexico border continue to draw the attention of law enforcement and the nation as a whole, the drug cartels are taking advantage of that distraction, according to former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott. 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