{"id":1994254,"date":"2023-08-08T13:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-blasted-over-report-of-suspected-cartel-gunmen-crossing-border-eluding-capture\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T17:13:17","slug":"biden-admin-blasted-over-report-of-suspected-cartel-gunmen-crossing-border-eluding-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-blasted-over-report-of-suspected-cartel-gunmen-crossing-border-eluding-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Criticized for Cartel Gunmen Crossing Border, Escaping Capture."},"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\">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%2Fbiden-admin-blasted-over-report-of-suspected-cartel-gunmen-crossing-border-eluding-capture%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=1994254&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--><h2>A Shocking Report: Cartel Gunmen Illegally Cross US Border<\/h2>\n<p>A recent report about suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cartels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cartel<\/a> gunmen illegally crossing into the United States and\u200c eluding \u2064capture over the weekend has sparked a fresh wave of condemnation against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handling\u200d of the southern border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bill \u200cMelugin, a national correspondent for Fox News, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/images-show-men-armed-rifles-body-armor-coming-southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the news<\/a> on Tuesday \u2062in a post showing grainy, black-and-white images of men holding \u2063rifles running \u2064through a thicket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPer \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-want-everything-pelosis-san-francisco-home-vandalized-with-pigs-head-and-spray-paint\/\" title=\"\u201cWe Want Everything\u201d: Pelosi\u2019s San Francisco Home Vandalized With Pig\u2019s Head and Spray-Paint\">law enforcement source<\/a>, a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drug-cartel-gunmen-taunting-texas-national-guard-while-carrying-ak47s-report\/\" title=\"Drug Cartel Gunmen Taunting Texas National Guard While Carrying AK47s: Report\">suspected cartel gunmen<\/a> armed with rifles &#038; body armor were seen \u200bon cameras crossing illegally into the Fronton, [Texas] area\u200c in the [Rio Grande Valley] Saturday \u200cnight. Elite\u2064 Border Patrol BORTAC agents were called out &#038; searched [the] area, but found nobody,\u201d Melugin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1688913982273560576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Per law enforcement source, a \u2064group of suspected cartel\u200c gunmen armed with rifles &#038; body armor were seen on cameras crossing illegally into the Fronton, TX area in the RGV Saturday night. \u2062Elite Border Patrol BORTAC agents were called out &#038; searched area, but found nobody. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9GuhQngPKj\">pic.twitter.com\/9GuhQngPKj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1688913982273560576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post quickly went viral, eliciting comments from Republican lawmakers and \u200cothers who criticized the Biden administration for not\u200c doing more to secure the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden has empowered these vicious, deadly cartels giving them free rein over our border,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1688916452479561729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Sen. \u2064Ted Cruz (R-TX). \u201cOur communities\u200d are forced to suffer the dangerous consequences of his refusal to follow the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Stephanie\u200d Bice (R-OK) said the report underscored why the GOP-led House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/house-vote-republican-border-security-bill-title-42-lifts-rcna83903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/2\/actions\">H.R. 2<\/a>, \u2064which she called the \u201cmost comprehensive border security bill since 1996.\u201d The \u200bcongresswoman added, \u201cUnder this administration, American communities feel like border communities. It is past time for the Senate \u2062to act to secure our \u200dborder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden\u2019s open border endangers the\u2063 life of every single American. How many more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-sheriff-biden-border-wall-halt-incited-more-violence-cartels-act-more-aggressive-against-biden-administration\/\" title=\"Ariz. Sheriff: Biden border wall halt incited more violence, cartels act more aggressive against Biden administration\">cartel members<\/a> are slipping \u2064through undetected? Let\u2019s call it what it is: National. Security. Crisis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBraun\/status\/1688919703417458688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN).<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u200d Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenKatieBritt\/status\/1688929959195066368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> daily encounters at the border averaged nearly 7,300 during the first week of August. \u201cThis crisis is a \u2062clear national security risk, and every day the Biden Administration \u200brefuses\u2063 to reverse course\u200d puts more hardworking American families and \u2064communities in grave danger,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The National Border Patrol Council, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bpunion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> representing Border Patrol agents, specifically chastised President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, \u2062and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. \u201cHere is what Biden, Harris, Mayorkas and their [mainstream media] don\u2019t want \u200dyou to see. It\u2019s called \u2018reality,&#8217;\u201d the union <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPUnion\/status\/1688920521365405697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> to X.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to U.S. Customs and\u200b Border Protection, the agency that houses the U.S. Border Patrol, seeking comment on the\u2062 report.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas defended the\u2062 administration\u2019s efforts to secure the border \u200cwhen he \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?529480-1\/homeland-security-oversight-hearing-secretary-mayorkas-part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared before\u2063 a House committee<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur approach to managing \u2064the borders securely and humanely \u2014 even within our\u2062 fundamentally broken immigration system \u2014 is working,\u201d Mayorkas testified. The secretary also\u2063 insisted that \u201cour \u2064efforts have weakened\u201d cartels \u201cby the investigations and prosecutions that we have conducted with our international partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up post to X, Melugin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1688914502488932352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cFronton, TX is a heavy cartel area with significant drug smuggling.\u200c Border Patrol sources \u200btell me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-notorious-drug-lord-el-chapo-arrested-for-international-drug-trafficking-u-s-authorities\/\" title=\"Wife Of Notorious Drug Lord \u2018El Chapo\u2019 Arrested For International Drug Trafficking: U.S. Authorities\">armed gunmen<\/a> are\u2063 frequently encountered there. This was another group of suspected cartel gunmen who \u2062were arrested there in June.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fronton, TX is a heavy cartel area with significant drug smuggling. Border Patrol \u200csources \u2062tell me armed gunmen are\u2063 frequently encountered there. \u200bThis was another group of suspected cartel gunmen\u2062 who\u200b were arrested there in June. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJ4koq6Fta\">https:\/\/t.co\/SJ4koq6Fta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u200bBill Melugin \u2064(@BillMelugin_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/1688914502488932352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report on suspected cartel gunmen crossing into the US and evading capture sparked criticism against the Biden administration&#8217;s border management. 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