A notice in the federal register [SEE HERE] scheduled to be published on February 20, 2025, outlines how the U.S. State Department under Marco Rubio intends to designate Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and MS13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
In combination with enhanced actions by the Dept of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol and the U.S. Treasury Dept., the designation opens up a lot of authority for the U.S. government to target not only the gangs, but any entity or enterprise who supports their activity; including the government of Mexico.
WASHINGTON – […] This designation allows the U.S. to impose financial sanctions on these groups and people connected to them, and cooperate with allies to cull cartels. It also allows the U.S. to declare members of these groups as “inadmissible” to the country and ineligible for immigration benefits.
It’s not immediately clear how far these sanctions might go — or who they may target. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment.
The move follows President Donald Trump’s latest efforts to crack down on cartels. On Jan. 20, Trump signed an executive order that established a pipeline for cartels and other international groups that “constitute[d] a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” to be labeled as global terrorists.
These moves could expose countries like El Salvador — which the U.S. aims to collaborate with on countermigration, but have also been accused of having dealings with gangs — to terror charges and restrict their cooperation with the U.S. (read more)
Troll’em Pres Trump, tell’em you’re considering renaming the Gulf of America to the “Gulf of Drug Cartel Terrorists.”
Then play:” From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli!”
They’ll get the ridicule and your Resolve,…straight up!
I hope that Vance will remain committed to the Trump doctrine during his terms.
You spelled Musk wrong.
If Trump/Musk get it done, as good as JD sounds now, Elon will get the Trump mantel, should be want it, and rightly so!
Don’t think he’s eligible.
True, but if Obama can be President….
No.
Not legally he wasn’t.
I doubt that and DOGE has a Musk end date 7/4/26.
Save any DOGE rebate(s) until the 3rd week of October 2028, as a reminder to the Dems who’s in charge.
How about a twofer; part now, part later?
Personally think any Doge refund should not even be a thought. How did the mentality of “free” hand outs ever become acceptable to US citizens? Our country is so far behind monetarily. Please, allow us as a country to think of just that, “our country.” We as a country have failed “our country.”
Elon is foreign born so he can’t rightfully be President. I know they forced the Kenyan in, but look at the price we’re still paying.
The Kenyan’s mother was American. Neither of Elon’s parents are American.
Can’t run,not born here
He can do as much good from a different position.
You don’t need to be President to do presidential things.
His DOGE work will be worth a dozen presidencies if it follows through….
These foreign gangsters would have never been successful coming here unless invited and supported by our government.
Follow the money!
May 10, 2024
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“In a letter included in the report, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram says that the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG “rely on chemical companies and pill press companies in China to supply the precursor chemicals and pill presses needed to manufacture the drugs.”
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“Finally, the Cartels utilize Chinese money laundering organizations to move their profits from the United States back to Mexico.”
DEA drug threat assessment finds cartel activity in every US state
August 3, 2024
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“For much of his career as a federal drug agent, Ray Donovan had a singular focus: the capture of Mexican cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. When Guzman was finally arrested in early 2014, fentanyl trafficking was on the rise in the U.S., and Donovan soon found his next project.
“He enlisted a data scientist in an effort to map out the fentanyl networks operating on the East Coast. Reviewing the telephone records of suspected traffickers, investigators saw a pattern of activity that shocked them.
“A ton of calls to China,” recalled Michael Mezner, one of the DEA agents leading the effort. “I looked at that data from every way, and I went to the data guy and told him, ‘I don’t know what’s going on here, but I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.’”
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“The same Chinese brokers who were laundering fentanyl proceeds were now heavily involved in marijuana trafficking across the U.S. as well.
“That was an eye-opening moment,” Donovan said.
“What Donovan’s team was first to recognize has national security implications, experts say. Over the past decade, Chinese organized crime groups in the U.S. quietly became the dominant money launderers for Mexican cartels. Then they used the profits to take over the illicit marijuana trade.”
Marijuana and Mexican cartels: Inside the stunning rise of Chinese money launderers
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January 2024
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“Chinese military-aged males have been crossing the US’s southern border in alarming numbers over the past years, according to official data.
In recent years, according to US Customs and Border Patrol, there has been a significant increase in the number of Chinese nationals apprehended for illegally crossing the southern border.”
Chinese military-aged males illegally flooding across the US border in record numbers
May 13, 2024
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“Since the start of the year, as the Chinese newcomers adjust to life in the U.S., Trump has alluded to “fighting age” or “military age” Chinese men at least six times and suggested at least twice that they were forming a migrant “army.” The talking point also appears in conservative media and on social platforms.
“They’re coming in from China — 31, 32,000 over the last few months — and they’re all military age and they mostly are men,” Trump said during a campaign rally last month. “And it sounds like to me, are they trying to build a little army in our country?”
Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an ‘army.’ The migrants tell another story
My apologies- I just accidentally flagged your excellent comment while trying to click the link icon. Apologies to the OP and @Sundance
It’s like a reverse OPIUM war.
Back 150 years ago the British East India shipping company ran drugs into China….
Was quite profitable.
Now China is doing the same to us.
Know your History and you will know the methods.
Katie Hobbs……that means you.
If it quacks like a duck….
She was elected by fraudulent ballots.
Omega4America.com
Interesting article on Lawfare. Note Norm Eisen connected to Brookings. According to
another article Brookings is heavily funded by one of Obama’s Middle East connections.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTMPJRGwXZZGKQbtXChxbZWJG
I thought that designation was already made? What’s the holdup?
So far Rubio appears to be ticking all the right boxes. Makes you wonder about the 99-0 approval vote for him in the Senate.
As SD previously noted, BEWARE RUBIO as he makes all the right moves ahead of 2028…same playbook as Gov. Desantis looking perfectly MAGA in COVID FL…premeditated positioning by the Sea Island crowd (R side of the uniparty bird who run the Senate). Stay vigilant and enjoy his MAGA actions while they last.
Sundance has well defined Rubio DeSantis Graham ) and others…..
They are all Deep State or Rubio would not have “sailed” through Senate confirmations or the others won their elections.
Look at these Senate confirmation votes as a litmus test.
Look at how Trump won certain states by huge numbers, yet the Senate and Congress elections down ballot did not match.
You shall know them by what they do.
Here is a short, a heads up, concerning Mexico and the Canal.
https://youtube.com/shorts/dljbLqNDF3A
Will this turnout like the great deportation? Where is Homan? Where are the bus loads of illegals leaving? The sheriff in our county said if you’re obeying the law, no arrests! Churches hiding illegals, who’s paying for this? It appears everyone has forgotten the murders, rapes, disfigurement of innocent Americans. My granddaughter knew Laken Riley, her life taken by an illegal!
Where are the arrests of those that stole billions from us? Or the arrests of those who tried to overthrow our government?
Be watchful and demand results!
The CIA has had a past relationship with the Sinaloa Cartel, as evidenced in the links following this post. This is most likely the outgrowth of the movement of Iran-Contra ground operations from Arkansas (primarily around Mena, Arkansas and its recently expanded airport) to Mexico. This upset Bill Clinton as chronicled in the book Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA by Terry Reed and John Cummings. Clinton had been using the influx of capital into Arkansas for some of his own pet projects, which led to the CIA deciding to abandon Arkansas and hide its “drugs in/weapons out” operations to Mexico, where nothing like that can be operated without the cartels getting to “wet their beaks” in the money flow. This was the beginning of the expansion of the Mexican cartels and their ability to procure military weaponry from United States sources. The operational codename for the move from Arkansas to Mexico was OPERATION SCREW WORM.
Just like the cartels got cuts from the latter phase of the Iran-Contra operation, they also get to “wet their beaks” in the whole MIGRATION OPERATION. If USGOV wanted to, it could just bus the migrants who survived the Darien Gap trek directly into the United States, but eventually the buses would wind up being blown up by the mortars, Claymore mines, rocket launchers, and machine guns supplied to the cartels by USGOV. The buses go as far as Costa Rica and the migrants are on their way north on foot, or by hitching rides on freight trains. The money for the migrants to pay the cartels to guide them over the border comes from US taxpayers just like all the rest of it, in case anyone had any doubts about that. The migrants’ entry into the country has to look like past illegal migrations. This is part of the essence of DE FACTO OPEN BORDERS.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/7/24/mexican-official-cia-manages-drug-trade
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/cia-assets-and-rise-guadalajara-connection
https://www.pvangels.com/news-mexico/181677/el-chapo-guzman-and-the-alleged-cia-dea-betrayal
The American government is corrupt from end to end.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!
We must now unleash holy hell on these evil cartels…it will be extremely dangerous as…I am sure…they have infiltrated not only the Mexican Army…but our own intelligence apparatus.
The cartels have infiltrated our own intel? Truely?
How about that money laundering cartel those Senators that use Congress as a cover.
Good. This should have happened long ago, it’s not Trump’s fault that it did not.
Can we throw out the criminals who were somehow allowed in “legally”, and have been here for decades?
But but but Mexico says that will harm business!
Wonder how much the cartels bought their pres for.
If they,
Walk like terrorists
Talk like tettotists
Smell like terrorists
Act like terroristss
Then to quote the late Archie Bunker, “Ipso Fatso, they MUST be terrirusts!”
More on the International Office of Migration (IOM), an office of the United Nations:
The auspices of what the UN is doing moving all of these migrants around the world is part of the GLOBAL PACT FOR MIGRATION. This is how the State Department gets involved in funding the migration with our tax dollars and using USAID to subsidize the NGOs that are the financial engine that the people are permitted to see and know, while the State Department and USAID funnel our money to the migrants through the NGOs. Either the migrants are paying our tax money to the cartel coyotes, or USGOV is funneling the money directly to the cartels. Those who puzzled over how these “downtrodden, oppressed, and starving” migrants managed to come up with money to get here can now stop wondering. USGOV is paying just like it is for the upkeep of the migrants once they get here.
On the way, the IOM is the nominal provider of three camps in Panama on the US side of Panama’s Darien Gap which serve as “rest stops” for the migrants that survived the gap. Panama gets to clean up after the migrants’ trash piles, and the bodies of migrants who failed to survive. This has the President of Panama angry that tens of millions of these people troop through his country, like ants raiding a picnic, completely undocumented. There have been confrontations between migrants and Panamanian officials at some of the camps.
We need to get out of all UN operations, and their supporting agreements (not enforceable if not treaties ratified by the Senate) and treaties just like getting out of the World Health Organization (WHO), and STOP FUNDING THESE OPERATIONS WITH TAXPAYER MONEY.
CPAC Addresses the Global Pact for Migration:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/08LZAWr3kG5V/
Camps in Panama: San Vincente
https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon/status/1672450354363990018
The IOM Admits to Operating the Camps in Panama:
https://panama.iom.int/en/news/international-cooperation-panama-through-human-mobility-group
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is certainly controlled by these cartels.
She’s dead meat no matter which way she turns.