{"id":2075340,"date":"2023-10-21T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-have-100-percent-operational-control-over-our-southern-border-warns-sen-cruz\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T23:49:38","slug":"cartels-have-100-percent-operational-control-over-our-southern-border-warns-sen-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-have-100-percent-operational-control-over-our-southern-border-warns-sen-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Cruz warns: Cartels fully control our southern border."},"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\">18<\/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-have-100-percent-operational-control-over-our-southern-border-warns-sen-cruz%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=2075340&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>Sen. \u200bTed \u200cCruz: \u2063Democrat Policies\u2064 Have Given Cartels Control Over Southern Border<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Ted \u200bCruz (R-Texas) is deeply concerned about the state of the southern border, placing\u200c the blame for illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and human\u200d trafficking\u2064 squarely on the shoulders of Democrat policies.<\/p>\n<p>Having personally visited the border multiple times,\u200d Mr. Cruz asserts that &#8220;if you haven&#8217;t seen it firsthand, you can&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s happening.&#8221; During \u200ba midnight tour with\u200c Border\u2063 Patrol and\u2063 fellow members \u2062of Congress, he witnessed &#8220;dozens of cartel members, screaming across the \u200briver and taunting in Spanish, &#8216;you can&#8217;t\u2064 stop us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, he admits that\u2062 they \u2063are right. &#8220;The cartels have\u2063 100\u200c percent operational control over our southern border,&#8221; he revealed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<h2 class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-4 sm:line-clamp-3\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/texas-reclaims-drug-smuggling-island-from-mexican-cartels-todd-bensman-on-witnessing-what-happened-5505883?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-sm sm:text-base\">Texas\u200c Reclaims Drug Smuggling Island From \u200bMexican Cartels: Todd Bensman on Witnessing What Happened<\/h3>\n<p>            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">10\/7\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[70px] sm:basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/texas-reclaims-drug-smuggling-island-from-mexican-cartels-todd-bensman-on-witnessing-what-happened-5505883?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\">\n            <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" https:><\/source><source type=\"image\/*\" https:><\/source>\n            <\/picture>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-4 sm:line-clamp-3\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/border-patrol-chief-says-cartels-using-illegal-immigrants-to-distract-agents-5498078?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-sm sm:text-base\">Border Patrol \u200cChief Says \u2064Cartels Using\u200c Illegal Immigrants to Distract Agents<\/h3>\n<p>            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">9\/25\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[70px] sm:basis-[120px]\">\n          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/border-patrol-chief-says-cartels-using-illegal-immigrants-to-distract-agents-5498078?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\">\n            <picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" https:><\/source><source type=\"image\/*\" https:><\/source>\n            <\/picture>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Nobody crosses the border without paying the cartels,\u201d<\/strong> he declared. <strong>\u201cIf you try to \u2062cross the border without paying the cartels, \u2064they&#8217;ll kill\u2064 you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Cruz, <strong>\u201cIn 2018, the Mexican drug cartels made roughly $500 million from\u2063 human trafficking,\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201clast year, the cartels made\u200c over $13\u200b billion from \u200bhuman trafficking.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the cartels, Mr. \u200bCruz believes that <strong>\u201cthe very \u2062best thing to happen is Joe Biden becoming\u200b president.\u201d<\/strong> \u200bHe\u2062 claims \u2062that <strong>\u201cJoe Biden and open border Democrats have\u2062 transformed the Mexican drug cartels into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartels-have-100-percent-operational-control-over-our-southern-border-warns-sen-cruz\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz warns: Cartels fully control our southern border.\">international multi-billion dollar empires<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong> Meanwhile, he laments that <strong>\u201cthe people of Mexico are victims of these cartels who have\u2062 become the most powerful force\u200b in\u200c the\u200c nation with \u200ctens of billions of dollars behind them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMexican drug\u2063 cartels are vicious criminals and murderers,\u201d<\/strong> he emphasized. <strong>\u201cThey\u2019re not viewing the people being trafficked into the country,\u2062 not as human beings, but as nothing more than cargo.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Every year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/human-trafficking-sexual-assaults-key-aspects-of-crisis-on-southern-border-2765383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thousands<\/a> \u2063of women are sexually assaulted by human traffickers, and <strong>\u201cthousands and \u200dthousands\u200d of children, little boys and little girls, are brutalized\u2064 by human \u2063traffickers,\u201d<\/strong> he added.<\/div>\n<p>As people are trafficked into the United States, Mr. Cruz reveals that <strong>\u201cif someone falls sick or falls behind, they are left \u2064to die.\u201d<\/strong> Texas farmers and ranchers have shown him <strong>\u201cphotograph\u2062 after \u200bphotograph of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-a-mobile-morgue-chip-roy-rips-into-secretary-mayorkas-biden-administrations-immigration-policy\/\" title=\"\u2018This Is A Mobile Morgue\u2019: Chip Roy Rips Into Secretary Mayorkas, Biden Administration\u2019s Immigration Policy\">dead bodies found<\/a> on their property.\u201d<\/strong> These bodies\u200c include \u2062 <strong>\u201celderly people,\u200d toddlers, or pregnant women abandoned by the cartels to die in the heat because\u2062 they can\u2019t keep up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">The senator has even \u200dwitnessed <strong>\u201ca dead body floating in the [Rio Grande] River, the \u200dbody of someone who tried to cross but died.\u201d<\/strong> Last year alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/migrant-deaths-crossing-us-mexico-border-2022-record-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">853 migrants died<\/a> while attempting\u200c to cross illegally.<\/div>\n<p>According to Mr.\u2064 Cruz, there&#8217;s a reason President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not visited the southern border. He believes that <strong>\u201cif they visited the border, reporters would follow with TV cameras and the American people would realize what\u2019s really happening \u2063down here.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden \u200dadministration\u200c claims to seek a more humane immigration\u200b system, \u2063but Republicans argue that \u200btheir policies are too lenient, pointing to record numbers of illegal \u2062immigrant crossings and \u2063overwhelmed cities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">Despite receiving little support \u2064from\u200c the White House, Sen. Cruz commends the work of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in combating illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and human trafficking. He describes them as <strong>\u201cAmerican heroes\u201d<\/strong> \u2063and <strong>\u201cpatriots who love this country.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>However, he acknowledges that <strong>\u201cmorale has never been remotely as \u2064low as it \u2064is right now.\u201d<\/strong> Working in\u200b a harsh environment\u200b where they risk their lives dealing with\u200b vicious criminals, drug traffickers, and human traffickers takes a toll.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Cruz, apprehending these criminals \u200dis futile because <strong>\u201cpolitical superiors are allowing these people to be brought in, then turned \u200baround and let go \u2064to do it\u200c all over again the very next\u200c day at times.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges, Sen. Cruz expresses gratitude for the dedication\u200d of Border Patrol agents. He \u200bcondemns the Biden administration for <strong>\u201cdemonizing and undermining\u201d<\/strong> these brave individuals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What specific Democrat policies does Sen. Ted Cruz believe have contributed to the cartels&#8217;\u2062 control over the southern border?<\/h2>\n<p><span> <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-lg font-semibold mb-4\">Sen. Ted Cruz:\u200d Democrat Policies Have Given Cartels \u200dControl Over Southern Border<\/h2>\n<p>In recent years, the state of\u2063 the southern border of\u200d the \u2064United States has become a major concern for lawmakers and citizens alike. The \u2063issues of illegal immigration, drug trafficking,\u200c and human trafficking have reached alarming levels. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) firmly believes that the blame for this dire \u200bsituation lies\u200d squarely on the\u200d shoulders of Democrat policies.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz&#8217;s concerns are not merely based\u200b on hearsay or media reports. \u2062He has made multiple personal visits to the border to witness the situation \u2062firsthand. According to\u2064 him, &#8220;if you haven&#8217;t seen it\u2063 firsthand,\u200c you can&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s happening.&#8221; During \u200done such visit,\u2064 he \u2062participated in a \u200cmidnight tour with Border Patrol and fellow members of Congress. It was during \u2062this eye-opening\u200c experience\u200d that he came face-to-face\u200d with the\u200d grim reality.<\/p>\n<p>He describes witnessing &#8220;dozens of \u200ccartel members, screaming across the river and taunting in Spanish, &#8216;you\u200c can&#8217;t stop us.'&#8221; This incident provided a clear indication that the \u2064cartels hold a significant level of control over the southern border. Their audacity to openly challenge the authorities \u200dis a testament to their brazen influence.<\/p>\n<p>In a solemn admission, Sen. Cruz acknowledges that the cartels are\u200d indeed correct\u200d in \u2064their claim. &#8220;The cartels \u2064have 100 percent operational \u2063control over our southern border,&#8221; he reveals. This\u200b statement paints a grim picture of the extent of\u200c the\u200b problem and highlights the urgent need for \u2063action.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of this control are devastating. Illegal immigration has surged, leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-paso-texas-at-a-breaking-point-amid-jump-in-migration-mayor-says\/\" title=\"El Paso, Texas Mayor warns of crisis as migration surges.\">overcrowded \u2063detention centers<\/a> and overwhelmed border patrol \u200bagents.\u200d Drug trafficking has reached unprecedented\u2062 levels, fueling \u200baddiction and\u200b crime\u200b within \u2063the United\u2062 States. Human trafficking victims are exploited\u2064 and subjected to unspeakable atrocities as\u2062 they are trafficked across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz firmly believes that the\u200b policies implemented\u2064 by the Democratic Party have contributed to this alarming\u200c state of affairs.\u2063 The laxity in enforcing immigration laws and the \u2064rhetoric that suggests open borders have\u2063 emboldened the cartels to exploit and manipulate the system. By failing to take decisive action, Democrats have inadvertently\u200d granted \u2062the cartels\u2063 a dangerous level of power and control.<\/p>\n<p>The Senator&#8217;s concerns are not unfounded. The situation\u200b at the \u200bborder demands immediate attention and\u2063 comprehensive solutions. It is crucial for policymakers to reassess\u2063 and\u200b prioritize border\u2064 security,\u200c strengthen immigration laws,\u2063 and provide the\u200d necessary resources \u200cto \u200dlaw enforcement\u200d agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The implications of the cartels&#8217;\u200d control\u200b over the\u200d southern border go beyond national security. It affects \u2064the safety\u200d and well-being \u2064of American citizens, \u200cthe integrity of the\u2063 legal immigration system, and the \u2064fight against drug addiction. \u2064Addressing these \u2064issues\u2064 requires \u200dbipartisan cooperation \u2063and a commitment to putting the interests \u200cof the American people first.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz&#8217;s powerful\u200d message serves as a call to action. \u200cIt is essential for policymakers to recognize the gravity of the situation and work towards \u200cimplementing effective \u2064policies\u200c that will regain control over the \u200dsouthern border. Only through a\u200b united effort can we combat the influence of the cartels and restore safety and security to our nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the southern border, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) expressed deep concern over illegal immigration, drug, and human trafficking. He attributed these issues to Democrat policies. 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