The numbers behind the migrant crisis — and how much cartels have profited — are truly staggering

[rangerrebew]

 
The numbers behind the migrant crisis — and how much cartels have profited — are truly staggering
Opinion by Bianca De La Garza • 1h


Mexican cartel violence leaves some Mayan ruins inaccessible to tourists
That number can’t be right, I thought. Too many zeroes. I was sitting in my studio, preparing to go on air and deliver a report about how much money Mexican drug cartels had made per year since Joe Biden took office. There, in the research materials in front of me, was the figure $13,000,000,000.
 
That’s thirteen billion dollars. With a b.

There’s an old saying about the difference between a million and a billion dollars, which many people (including me) have trouble fathoming. A million seconds, the saying goes, is 11 days. A billion seconds, on the other hand, is roughly 32 years.
 
And under the open-borders policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the cartels have made a billion dollars 13 times over. Shockingly, that number is up from just $500 million in 2018, when President Trump was in office. (Recently, The New York Times published a story that included this figure, though it was hidden down in the 17th paragraph.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-numbers-behind-the-migrant-crisis-and-how-much-cartels-have-profited-are-truly-staggering/ar-AA1sYkm6?ocid=anaheim-ntp-feeds&pc=HCTS&cvid=83d59c6ddaab490d9b701e84c7cac730&ei=14

[Fishrrman]

The following was posted by me to TOS on about April 1, 2006 -- going on 20 years ago. I reproduce it here, unaltered:
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The writer of this article is behind the curve. I proposed war upon and annexation of Mexico a few years back. I may have been the first person to do so (since the _last_ war with Mexico in the nineteenth century).

There is a choice to be made here. That choice is:
1. Conquer,       or,
2. BE conquered

If you do not believe answer #2 could happen, go to parts of California RIGHT NOW. Are they still the United States? Or do they more resemble another country, another culture?

A real "shooting war" with Mexico would last about 30 minutes once our troops began advancing - about as long as it would take the Mexican soldiers to decide which end of their guns they should throw down first. They would make the French look lethargic by comparison.

I wonder what percentage of the Mexican population despises their government, and [regardless of what they might say for public consumption] would welcome the possibility of U.S. statehood.

it is becoming obvious now that NEITHER party - not the Democrats, and certainly not the Republicans - is going to do much of anything to try to stop the ongoing invasion of our country. There is going to be amnesty, mark my words. It may not be _called_ "amnesty", but that's what it's going to be.

And once it happens, not only will you see the continuing flood of Mexicans across the border, but an ever-increasing flood of Central and South Americans, as well.

An American "Camp of the Saints".

As I stated above, we have two choices.

I know which one I prefer.
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Fishrrman, today:
Nothing's changed.