What is happening on the US-Mexico border

 This gives a first-hand look at what is happening on the Arizona-Mexico border in the first days of the Biden presidency

Joe Biden Admin is opening up borders.... a 0bamma 2.0

A Mexican journalist's response to Joe Biden

 It is very easy to criticise Trump' s wall or inhumane treatment of children by ICE.  But is it that easy to turn around disastrous policies without harm?  Is there another way of seeing it?

Mexican Journalist Exposes 

Joe Biden's Human 

Trafficking Compact

Sooner Politics,

23 October, 2020

After last night's presidential debate, a Mexican journalist immediately filed a live video event, to respond to the deadly lies of Joe Biden.

Oscar 'El Blue' Ramirez is a Mexican journalist, based in Tijuana. He gives an excellent breakdown of the U.N. compact that Joe Biden & Barack Obama signed. That compact led to a massive influx of child trafficking and over 20,000 children in cages during the Obama administration.

 El Blue gives a first hand witness to the Coyote network of organized crime in human trafficking of children. He describes a massive black market industry that Obama/Biden created by signing the UN Global Compact of open borders.

The fake families that resulted from the compact are a result of the poorly designed text with loopholes wide enough to build concentration camps within.
 

El Blue says 72,000 trafficked kids have been rescued during the Donald Trump administration because of efforts to determine if the child was actually a biological offspring of the so-called 'parent' who paid coyotes for the use of the child.

El Blue also asserts that Antifa is involved in the trafficking syndicate.  Trump's effective shutdown of the global human trafficking has crushed the 'cash cow' of international trafficking.

Coyotes are losing enslaved children when DNA tests verify whose child the youth actually is. Kids from deep in South America are now miraculously returned to parents as a result

Coyotes have used those same kids over & over again, as an anchor to keep an illegal alien in the USA long enough to disappear in the interior of the US.  That's when the child is collected by the coyotes and looped back to the border regions of Mexico, to be recycled into another fake family and sent again, through the US/Mexican border.

The rapes and tortures are rampant because the child is purchased property... well, okay; rented property.  And these children live in perpetual fear because of the global presence of the black market human trafficking syndicates, even in the USA.

How drugs are really moved freom Mexico into Arizona - and it's not through official ports of entry

This is my third attempt to get this article up which contradicts the narrative that Trump's wall may be a solution to a “non-existant problem”

Trump's “solution” may be problematical to say the least but the problem sure ain't “non-existant” and the powers-that-be don't want you to know that especially if it comes from a Spanish language source.

I got this posted successfully a couple of days ago after many shennnagins but it has disappeared.

I tell the story in the following video

By tunnel or by mule: how drugs are moved from Mexico into Arizona

The Sinaloa Cartel controls 90% of the narcotics shipped through this stretch of the US border

El Pais,
4 November, 2016

Sandra lives less than 10 minutes from Arizona but she cannot cross over to the US side because she does not have a visa. Her modest house with its unpainted walls sits atop a hill at the end of bumpy dirt road in Nogales, Sonora, a state in northern Mexico that is home to 234,000 people. The border wall that separates this Nogales from Nogales, Arizona – a town of some 20,000 people and a few stores where Mexicans with visas like to shop – runs next to her house. From the door of her home, Sandra can see the high fence, made of three-meter-high rusting metal pales, that divides the two countries and snakes across the hills toward the horizon.

“They found a drug tunnel in the pink house down there. Helicopters arrived that day and closed down the streets,” says the 38-year-old who lives in Buenos Aires, a shanty town outside Nogales whose strategic location means US officials regularly search there for tunnels. The gangs that control the underground routes patrol the area and there are informants with binoculars and radios on every avenue, street corner and alley, watching and reporting the movements of agents near the entrances to the tunnels, where drugs and people are trafficked into the United States.

The cartels are continually finding new ways to smuggle drugs

“Sometimes, when I’ve been outside washing clothes, I hear how they shout at them in their language to get down from the wall. When I see someone trying to climb over with a bag [of drugs] I go inside my house to avoid problems,” she says.

Sandra has lived in this slum for 15 years. Before the United States built its wall of rusted metal bars, she says, there was a shorter fence that locals would cut with pliers and slip through to go shopping “on the other side.” Then the fence was replaced with metal sheeting, until in 2007 the current barrier was put up.

“In the 1990s, I used to cross through the hole, as we used to say. There wasn’t all this technology,” Sandra says, pointing at security cameras on the other side.

A few meters down the road, a kindergarten decorated in bright colors stands in sharp contrast to the wall. Vanessa Quijada, the director of the school, says it is normal for young kids to see police activity and men scuttling over the wall. “They know the wall divides us, that it separates one country from the other,” she says. The street where the school is located runs all the way through downtown Nogales where men with backpacks filled with drugs climb up the rectangular bars in front of the stores just a few steps away from the checkpoint. “It’s a very common thing,” one shopkeeper explains. “They climb up like Spider-Man and quickly jump over to the other side.”

According to municipal authorities, 40% of the population in Nogales, Sonora, is transient. Hundreds of people who have been deported from the United States stay in the town, sometimes indefinitely, most of them picking up jobs in manufacturing, waiting for another opportunity to enter the United States. Nogales was one of the first cities in northern Mexico to attract maquiladoras, or US assembly plants. Father Ricardo Reciado, who is involved in outreach work in troubled communities, says hundreds of young men and women have joined the drug trade as recruits. “They use primary and secondary school students to move drugs, as well as little boys from the slums to serve as informants,” he adds.

A dangerous border

The Arizona-Sonora border is one of the biggest entry points for drugs into the United States, and the Tucson border patrol is one of the busiest units, with eight stations covering most of Arizona, from New Mexico to Yuma County. Its agents typically seize around half of the marijuana that enters the country along the 350-kilometer border, says Vicente Paco, the spokesman for the Tucson border patrol.

The gangs operating here not only oversee the drugs trade, but also control the gun and migration routes, Paco says. “Any person who wants to enter the United States illegally has to join organized crime. They have to pay the organizations and if they don’t have money they are used as mules.”

One of the most dangerous areas along the Arizona-Sonora border is the Great Desert of Altar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where temperatures can reach 50ºC. Its inhospitableness makes it attractive to the drug traffickers, says the border patrol. A common way to transport drugs is to send the mules in groups of up to 15 to make the 15-day journey through the desert with 20 to 25 kilograms of marijuana strapped to their backs.

The gangs that control the tunnels use look-outs to spot border patrols

The organized crime network is so large it uses people on both sides of the border. Since 2014, more than 80 individuals have been arrested in the hills for spying on law-enforcement agents working at the border. “Before, a lookout who watched our police efforts would enter the country as an illegal immigrant and the only thing we could do was return him to his country,” one agent says. Now, if border patrol finds a campsite on a hill with paramilitary equipment and radios operating on secret frequencies, the state of Arizona will charge the suspect. “They are the eyes of the criminal organizations,” he adds.

A recent US border patrol report said agents seized 1.5 million pounds of marijuana and 4,294 pounds of cocaine in 2015, with Tucson alone accounting for 48.6% of all seizures. Agent Paco says he has seen a rise in the confiscation of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine.

The cartels are continually diversifying the ways they transport drugs. Authorities have discovered 107 cross-border tunnels in Nogales alone, while each day dozens of men carrying drug shipments climb over the wall. “Nogales is also known as the tunnel capital. Since Sonora is a mining state there is the kind of technology [needed] to build this type of infrastructure,” Paco says. The border patrol has also found catapults, staircases and loading ramps near the border.

Meanwhile, the Sinaloa Cartel has reinforced its presence in Arizona in order to ramp up its shipments of marijuana and heroin, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says. The organization once led by imprisoned drug boss Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, who is now fighting extradition to the United States, poses the greatest threat to Arizona’s communities, controlling an estimated 90% of drugs that cross the border. The Sinaloa cartel also controls arms and money-laundering routes.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s lawyer: Bribes paid to Mexican president

This week, Zambada is expected to reveal he paid at least $6 million in hush money to the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto so that the Sinaloa Cartel could continue moving drugs through Mexico City, according to court transcripts made public Friday.

El Chapo’s lawyer: Mexican presidents are on cartel’s payroll

NY Post,

14 November, 2018

Brooklyn prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to strike explosive opening statements made by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s lawyer — in which he claimed both former and current Mexican presidents are on the drug cartel’s payroll.

“Opening statements are not argument, and should be confined to statements about the evidence,” US Attorney Richard P. Donoghue wrote to federal Judge Brian Cogan in a letter filed early Wednesday.

In his openings, which are expected to continue Wednesday, one of Guzman’s lawyers, Jeffrey Lichtman, claimed that his client was the victim of a vast conspiracy orchestrated to “scapegoat” the accused kingpin and allow the drug trade in Mexico to go on uninterrupted.

Lichtman even asserted that longtime Guzman associate Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada had “bribed” the entire Mexican government, including President Enrique Peña Nieto, and was the true leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Both Peña Nieto and his presidential predecessor, Felipe Calderón, decried the statements as blatantly false on Twitter on Tuesday.

Lichtman’s claims failed to touch on the boatloads of evidence prosecutors told jurors they have on Guzman, including statements in his own words implicating him as a major cartel figure.

In court Wednesday morning, Lichtman argued with Cogan while continuing to claim that Guzman was the victim of a “frame-up by the government.

“And it’s been done in American courtrooms a thousand times a day,” the lawyer complained.

Cogan replied dryly, “No, that’s not hyperbolic at all.

“What does it matter if the last two presidents took bribes if it’s not tied to the defendant here?” the judge said.

He added to Lichtman, “Your opening statements handed out a lot of promissory notes that it’s not going to be able to cash.”

But Cogan refused to strike the defense’s opening statements, instead issuing a reminder to jurors that the arguments are not evidence.

“There were some references in Mr. Lichtman’s opening statements to conduct that might be considered outrageous,” he told the panel. “The conduct of the government is for me to decide, not you.”

Guzman stands accused of running a criminal enterprise, multiple counts of importing cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine from Mexico into the US, and other charges.

If convicted, he faces life behind bars.

ElChapo bragged he got ‘pleasure’ from killing longtime rival:testimony

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman once bragged that the greatest pleasure he’d ever experienced was having his longtime enemy slaughtered as he was detained by corrupt cops, according to a former cartel associate.

Attack on cash

Now Mexico Bans Cash

the Daily Bell,

18 October, 2012

Large Cash Transactions Banned In Mexico ...

Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon has signed into law a ban on large cash transactions. The ban will take effect in about 90 days and it is part of a broader effort to control monetary flows within the country. Under the law, a Specialized Unit in Financial Analysis operating within the Attorney General's Office will be created to investigate financial operations "that are related to resources of unknown origin." For real estate transactions, cash payments of more than a half million pesos ($38,750) will be forbidden and, for automobiles or items like jewelry, art, and lottery tickets, cash payments of more than 200,000 pesos ($15,500) will be forbidden. The law carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison. – Forbes

Dominant Social Theme: Terrorism must be combated by controlling people's money.

Free-Market Analysis: What we consider to be the "phony" war on terror is the gift that keeps on giving to those who run our governments.

The phony war on drugs only adds to the rationales for telling people what they can and cannot do with their resources.

What is going on is a pattern, not a series of defensive moves taken out of desperation. The power elite intends to lock down the world, it seems, in order to track every monetary transaction of any significance.

We wrote about this trend previously in "Spain Bans Cash." Here's an excerpt:

... As we have long predicted, the phony "sovereign debt" crisis in Europe is being used to justify all sorts of authoritarian measures.

It is government pols that gladly borrowed what European banks threw at them. And somehow the upshot earlier this week is that Spanish citizens now lose the right to conduct many transactions in cash.

Spectacularly, the reports such as this one, excerpted above, don't even both to hide the real point. The Spanish government wants to ensure that it can "track transactions and make sure that people and businesses are paying taxes."

Of course, anyone who has visited Spain of late knows that the tax burden in Spain is onerous indeed, and is one reason that the truculent tribes that have co-existed uneasily with Madrid are again beginning to beat the drums of secession.

The taxes that the central government levies on small businesses especially are verging on punitive. But there are no apologies. The official position is one of unflinching demands.

And now Mexico is going the way of Spain. Always there is a justification. But the reality of the project is much broader and has to do with a power elite wish, apparently, to create a world government that is fully in charge of what people can and cannot transact. Here's some more from the Forbes article excerpted above:

In 2010, Mexico instituted strict limits on foreign exchange cash transactions to $1,500 per person per month, which caused several cash dollar exchanges to withdraw from the business and had the effect of penalizing tourists.

Of course, US dollars are a huge portion of the actual paper cash that this effort is aimed at, but the Mexican peso is the 12th most traded currency in the world and by far the most traded currency in Latin America.

Reuters reported that, "Sales of drugs from marijuana to cocaine and methamphetamine in the United States are worth about $60 billion annually, according to the United Nations. About half of that amount is estimated to find its way back to cartels in Mexico."

The Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars' Mexico Institute published a comprehensive study in May 2012 entitled "It's All about the Money." The report recommended tight integration and coordination with the United States in the areas of legal framework, financial institution regulation, intelligence on cross-border currency flows, and non-conviction based asset forfeiture.

Two years in the making, the new law also requires notaries, real estate brokers, and other dealers to report the forms of payment for transactions above the respective limits. Financial institutions will also be required to report monthly credit card balances in excess of 50,000 pesos ($3,875).

The article mentions that Italy has also banned cash transactions above a certain amount. Certainly this is a growing trend.

The Forbes article mentions the prevalence of the Mexican drug trade but it is well known at this point in alternative news circles that US Intel is behind much Western drug trade in order to fund various black and gray ops. Presumably, MI6 and the Mossad are also involved.

The British Crown made a fortune in the 1800s selling opium to the Chinese. Government drug trafficking is an ancient business. In order for something to be maximally profitable, it has to be in short supply. Making something illegal is one way to damp supplies and raise profits.

Conclusion: We figure at some point  gold and silver  will also come under attack, as that's the way the world is trending. But in the meantime, these national bans continually pressure more and more freedoms, including the freedom of shielding one's wealth from prying eyes. And that's just the point ...

More murders in Mexico

There have been lots of examples of violence like this in Mexico recently. Just a few days ago nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge.

17 bodies found dumped along road in Mexico

Seventeen bodies were found dumped along a road in western Mexico, according to police, in what appeared to be a drug gang killing.

The Telegraph,

16 September, 2012

"The 17 bodies were semi-naked, with their feet and hands tied, and they had chains around their necks," said a security officer from Tizapan El Alto, a small town near where the bodies were found, almost 70 miles from Guadalajara, the capital city of the state of Jalisco.

Tizapan is near the border with the state of Michoacan, home to the "La Familia" drug gang and its offshoot, "The Knights Templar," which have been mired in a bloody struggle for control of the area.

More than 55,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico under the administration of Felipe Calderon, who launched a war on traffickers shortly after taking office in December 2006.

Separately Mexican prosecutors said one in three drug trafficking suspects received prison sentences during the first five years of President Felipe Calderon's administration.

The report from the federal Attorney General's Office says Mexican drug enforcement authorities recorded 3,439 drug suspects arrested, but only 1,072 actually went to prison. The report doesn't specify what happened to the other suspects arrested.

The report says authorities made the most drug trafficking arrests in 2009, with 866 suspects detained and 122 sentenced to prison. Last year, authorities arrested 772 suspects and sent 574 to prison. The report says the Mexican justice system was being reformed during the period studied.

Mexican officials also extradited 502 people between Dec. 1, 2006, and the end of 2011, with 478 of them sent to the United States.

More on banking fraud

HSBC 'allowed drug cartels to launder money'

US senate probe has found that Europe's largest bank had lax controls that allowed money laundering for seven years.

al-Jazeera,

18 July, 2012

Lax controls at Europe's largest bank, HSBC, allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its US operations, an investigation by the US senate has found.

The extensive report on London-based HSBC Holdings PLC by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations also says US regulators knew the bank had a poor system to detect problems but failed to take action.

HSBC executives brushed off complaints from other bank employees, so that the problems persisted for eight years, the report says.

In addition, some HSBC bank affiliates skirted US government bans against financial transactions with Iran and other countries, according to the report.

And HSBC's US division provided money and banking services to some banks in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh believed to have helped fund al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the report said.

The subcommittee released the report Monday ahead of a Tuesday hearing on the topic. HSBC released a statement saying its executives will offer a formal apology at the hearing.

"We will apologise, acknowledge these mistakes, answer for our actions and give our absolute commitment to fixing what went wrong," the statement said.

The US justice department said it is conducting a criminal investigation into HSBC's operations but declined to confirm that the bank is in settlement talks.

The US investigations follow the Barclays Bank scandal in the UK over manipulated interest rates, which has provoked international outrage over what many view as regulators' failure to enforce financial regulation.

HSBC's net income last year was $16.8bn. It operates in about 80 countries around the world. Its US division is among the top 10 banks operating in the United States. It has assets of roughly $210bn in its US operations.

Illicit money

Money laundering takes profits from the trafficking of drugs, arms or other illicit activities and passes them through bank accounts to disguise the illegal activity.

The bank used its US operation as a "gateway" into the US financial system for other HSBC affiliates, Senator Carl Levin, the subcommittee's chairman, told reporters Monday. Because of lax controls against money laundering, HSBC Bank USA "exposed the United States to Mexican drug money" and other suspicious funds, Levin said.

"In an age of international terrorism, drug violence in our streets and on our borders, and organized crime, stopping illicit money flows that support those atrocities is a national security imperative," Levin said Monday.

The bank said in its statement that it changed its senior management last year and has made changes to strengthen its compliance with rules to prevent money laundering.

"We ... recognize that our controls could and should have been stronger and more effective in order to spot and deal with unacceptable behaviour," the statement said.

Levin also blasted the federal agency supervising the bank's US operations, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He said the agency "tolerated" HSBC's weak controls against money laundering for years.

Thomas Curry, who heads the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also will testify at Tuesday's hearing.

Compliance with anti-money laundering laws "is crucial to our nation's efforts to combat criminal activity and terrorism," Curry said in a statement. He said the agency expects banks to have adequate programs in place to comply with the laws.

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that HSBC and the justice department have been in settlement talks and an accord could be struck within weeks.

Alisa Finelli, a spokesperson for the justice department, acknowledged that an investigation is under way but declined to comment on possible settlement discussions or a deal.