The bullet-riddled police station in the small town of Villa Union, Mexico, just below the Texas border, was stark evidence of yesterday’s horrific gun battle between security forces and terrorist drug cartels. Two dozen people on both sides were killed in the hour-long fight.
A severely damaged black pick up displayed C.D.N. in big white letters on the driver-side door. It’s Spanish for Cartel of the Northeast, reports FoxNews. Interestingly, the truck bore Texas license plate LGR*1265. Another cartel pick up had the Texas plate FYW*2645, with ISIS-like black-and-white death flags flying high.
Putting two and two together, it would appear that cartel fighters have residence across the border in the US. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, and even earlier, enemies knew that US rules of engagement often prevented pursuing American Armed Forces from crossing national borders.
But cartel violence and crime have become permanent fixtures in Sanctuary Cities across America, though the media downplays them as mere gangs, evoking the nostalgic West Side Story musical for some.
An online article earlier this year, “The tentacles of the Mexican cartels in the United States,” laid out a map of cartel infiltration and their growing fifth-column allies in this country, including the Hells Angels, Crips, Mongols, Bloods, and Black Gangster Disciples:
“In Mexico, drug-related murders reach epidemic proportions, but according to the DEA, Mexican criminal organizations based in the United States generally refrain from confrontations to avoid detection by the authorities, which means that violence is relatively low.”
One commenter, however, angrily adds “Forget about kidnapping 15 years old girls with the government turning a blind eye and bullying innocent civilians who can’t protect themselves.” Another says that “I live in Phoenix and have heard of cases similar to Mexico. People Decapitated and places where they burn bodies but government keeps it on the low and will not make it to the news.” Others join in with similar comments about US media and their politically correct agenda simply not reporting these incidents.
The article includes a map showing the extensive zones of influence in American cities by the following Mexican cartels: Sinaloa, Juarez, Golfo, Beltran-Leyva, Jalisco Nueva Generation, and Los Zetas. They are all along the coastal and border states, with lots in the Midwest too. Thankfully, South Dakota—or DAKOTA DEL SUR—isn’t considered a significant enough zone of influence at this point.
Those in South Dakota seeking to curb the current meth epidemic should study at least one key cartel supplier, the Sinaloa Cartel: “It is one of the oldest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico; It exports and distributes wholesale quantities of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin in the United States, has distribution centers in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago.”
As President Trump already knows, the Mexican cartels are the new ISIS. The American military needs to be re-deployed. Unsympathetic and Fake News media need to be kept at a distance. Ad campaigns against drugs simply won’t cut it.
