Posted on 01/04/2024 10:51:07 AM PST by rktman
Dozens of congressional Republicans traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the illegal immigration crisis resulting from what they argue are the Biden administration’s failed policies.
“It’s been an eye opener,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, who led the delegation of more than 60 GOP lawmakers to Eagle Pass, Texas.
The trip came amid ongoing negotiations on Capitol Hill to strike a bipartisan deal on border security.
Lawmakers toured a Border Patrol processing center and heard from local residents and sheriffs as well.
“We’ve learned a considerable amount of what’s going on at the border and it’s much of what we already anticipated,” Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) said during a Fox News interview about the trip.
The House Homeland Security Committee chairman highlighted one figure that did stand out, however: the amount cartels are making per week in just one sector alone.
“The cartels are making $32 million dollars a week, that’s one of nine sectors…just trafficking humans,” he told host Neil Cavuto. “That’s not counting the fentanyl that they’re pouring into this country. This is a catastrophe that’s happening to our country and it’s all on the hands of [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas and Biden.”
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Time to start taxing ‘em; with thanks to Will Rogers.
Slave traders in a new age, and no sailboats. The Cloward-Piven Plantation. (Regulating and profiting from the poor)
do they make as much as claudia gay did?
Now that the photo op is over, nothing will be done.
With that much money it is worth it to them to create their own lobby in the guise of charity to pay off politicians not to do anything that would harm their business.
I’d like to know how much Allahandro Lopez-Opendoor, The Keeper of the Gateway to America makes for each illegal alien imported into America.
That’s only about 1.7 Billion per year.
Chicken feed in today’s ‘Govt. Economy’.
That’s what the NGO’S are for.
And how much do Congressional Rats and Repukes get in kickbacks from the cartels?
He is quite good with his money. On a salary of $200,000 he has managed to save up $1 – $5 Million.
https://popularnetworth.com/alejandro-mayorkas/
There are 9 southern border sectors.
All things being equal...
9 x 24 = 216
216 x 52 = 11,232
Now, let's add in the zeros, shall we?
11,252,000,000
The Cartels are raking in Eleven Billion Dollars a year, plus or minus a billion or two, in one year, on one operation.
This does not count the income from the gotaways.
This also does not count the income from the drug smuggling operations.
This is in cooperation with the FED GOV SCUM TRAITORS!
There's outrage on Capitol Hill over menthol cigarettes.
It took the Republicans 3 years to take a 60-person CODEL to the OPEN southern border. YIPEE!
Let us know when it reaches a “buhzillion” as Liz warren would say.
The Stupid Party should have figured this out three years ago.
10% to the big guy.
Nothing will be done until IEDs start going off, mass murders in schools and churches, highway snipers, shot up power stations, nationwide forest fires, and fentanyl dumped in reservoirs. Then, maybe the federal government might do something.. except thank Obama and Soros in the destruction of America.
How many zeros am I gonna’ need? (scratching head emoji)
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