{"id":2025280,"date":"2023-09-07T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-house-committee-report-accuses-mayorkas-of-emboldening-cartels-at-border\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:19:26","slug":"gop-house-committee-report-accuses-mayorkas-of-emboldening-cartels-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-house-committee-report-accuses-mayorkas-of-emboldening-cartels-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP House Committee Report: Mayorkas Accused of Empowering Border Cartels"},"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%2Fgop-house-committee-report-accuses-mayorkas-of-emboldening-cartels-at-border%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=2025280&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>The GOP-controlled House Homeland Security Committee released a report on Sept. 7 accusing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of \u200chaving\u2062 &#8220;emboldened cartels, criminals and America&#8217;s enemies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a 62-page report, the \u200ccommittee went in-depth on the problems at the southern border and\u200b pinpointed them on Mr. Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>The report accuses Mr. Mayorkas of\u200d allowing\u200b for the cartels to seize the southern \u2064border. The committee blames \u200dthe Biden administration undoing the Trump administration&#8217;s strict border policies in addition to enacting its own policies, leading to millions of illegal immigrants\u200c crossing the U.S.-Mexico \u2064border.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The massive increase in the number of people now traveling up \u200bthrough Mexico on their way to the Southwest border\u200c represents a\u2062 historic business opportunity for the cartels, as \u2063each person \u200cis someone off \u200cwhom they can profit,&#8221; states the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally,\u200b the committee says the overwhelming flow of illegal immigrants across the southwest\u200d border has caused Border Patrol to shift\u200c its resources to &#8220;processing, transporting, and releasing unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens, rather \u2063than patrolling the border,&#8221; thereby making it easier for the cartels to exploit this disadvantage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Moreover, the cartels send illegals to one\u200d part of the southwest border in order to trick \u200dBorder Patrol into focusing\u2063 on one part of \u2063the border, allowing the cartels to enter\u200d the United States through an unpatrolled area of the border, according to the\u200d committee. This tactic, as one expert testified to the committee, is called &#8220;flooding the zone.&#8221; The committee remarks\u2064 that this strategy &#8220;has been repeated day\u2064 in \u2064and day \u200cout ever since\u2064 Mayorkas implemented \u200dhis open-borders policies, a fact confirmed by\u200d senior Border Patrol officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>A Lucrative Time for Cartels<\/h2>\n<p>The report notes how much \u200cthe cartels have been profiting during the Biden \u2064administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u200b cites that although cartels raked in at least $500 million during the Trump administration, as of 2021, they have\u200c gotten\u200d between $2 \u200dbillion and $6 billion. The committee cites reports of illegal aliens paying thousands of dollars to be smuggled into the United States, with Chinese nationals paying tens of thousands of dollars more than those coming from El Salvador, Honduras,\u2062 and Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the report \u2064blames\u200d Mr. \u200dMayorkas for allowing cartel crime to flourish at the southern border and move into all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Mayorkas and Biden\u2019s border crisis has continued to expand, so has the\u200d reach and \u200dinfluence of these groups,&#8221; states the report, which alleges the cartels make the illegal aliens\u2063 they transfer across \u200dthe \u200bborder do \u2063so with illegal\u2064 drugs in order to pay off\u2062 their debts to the cartels. The report paints a dark picture of human trafficking of illegal \u2063immigrants, especially children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cartels\u2019 mass use of debt bondage, \u200band the complex systems devised to make it a reality, are a unique consequence of Mayorkas\u2019 open-borders policies,&#8221; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The committee goes into detail about\u2064 stash houses used by \u2062the cartels as part\u2064 of the trafficking of illegal immigrants, a practice that &#8220;has exploded on Mayorkas\u2019\u200c watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that &#8220;the crime and chaos caused by [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-cartels-traffickers-exploiting-unfinished-border-wall-construction\/\" title=\"Blackburn: Cartels, Traffickers Exploiting Unfinished Border Wall Construction\">transnational criminal organizations<\/a>] has been\u200b exacerbated by Mayorkas\u2019 policies.&#8221; Examples include drug trafficking, which the committee says &#8220;is booming on Biden and Mayorkas\u2019 watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>&#8220;Under Mayorkas\u200c and Biden\u2019s policies, no community is safe \u200cfrom\u200b the expanding reach of the cartels and the\u200c drugs they are trafficking,&#8221; added the\u2063 report.<\/p>\n<h2>Mayorkas Testimony<\/h2>\n<p>In \u200cresponse to an inquiry about the report, the Department of Homeland Security referred The Epoch Times to \u200cMr. Mayorkas&#8217;s comments in\u200b front of the House Judiciary Committee on July 26.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The remarks include him saying,\u200b &#8220;We seized nearly 2 million pounds of narcotics last fiscal year. Operations Blue, Lotus and Four Horsemen alone stopped nearly 10,000 pounds\u200b of fentanyl \u2063from the U.S., led to 284 arrests, and yielded invaluable insights into the transnational criminal organizations wreaking this death\u200d and destruction on our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are taking it to the \u2064transnational criminal organizations, the cartels that \u200dpeddle in death and\u200c destruction,\u2063 to an unprecedented degree,&#8221;\u200c he said. &#8220;We have arrested more criminals involved in cartel activity than\u200d in the prior several years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While not as \u2064much of a problem as it is in Mexico, cartel and gang violence is still an issue in the United States, according to the report, which also alleges that the infamous gang MS-13 \u200chas &#8220;thrive[d] \u2064 on Mayorkas&#8217; watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the committee laments that &#8220;the \u200chistoric influx\u200d of [unaccompanied children] is another area in which Mayorkas\u2019 policies have\u200d uniquely benefitted the gang, and almost certainly served \u200cto swell its ranks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report \u2064claims that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-house-committee-report-accuses-mayorkas-of-emboldening-cartels-at-border\/\" title=\"GOP House Committee Report: Mayorkas Accused of Empowering Border Cartels\">simple math makes clear<\/a> \u2062that Mayorkas and the Biden administration\u2019s policies have almost certainly brought a flood of new potential recruits\u2063 right\u2063 to MS-13\u2019s doorstep&#8221; thanks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Homeland Security Committee, led by the GOP, accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of empowering cartels, criminals, and America&#8217;s enemies. In a detailed 62-page report, they blamed Mayorkas for the issues at the southern border. The report alleges that Mayorkas permitted the cartels to flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":2025281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}