Posted on 03/16/2022 11:42:34 PM PDT by blueplum
A Texas rancher who worked with a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle illegal immigrants and weed into the US was slapped with a 38-year prison sentence, prosecutors said.
Cuban citizen Gilberto Morales, 57, coordinated with a cartel out of Porvenir, Chihuahua to smuggle immigrants and more than a ton of marijuana a month across the Rio Grande through his ranch in Fort Hancock, 40 miles east of El Paso, according the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
“For more than a year, Gilberto Morales operated his very own smuggling corridor ...
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(Why was he still here?)
He was doing the jobs Americans refused to do? /W
He did it out of love? /Jeb!
Now you know why some border landowners don’t want a wall.
More than a few border ranchers do this despite the propaganda that they worry about the border. A landowner cannot stop Border Patrol from their ranches, but they do not have to allow, Jeeps, horses or ATVs. That makes it very hard to interdict.
Some do it out of fear when approached with the lead or silver offer, others from greed.
I have never understood the quirkiness of the U.S being one of the few countries not to use it’s military to defend it’s borders. Just seems so weird. Be like defending everyone else’s doorways, but leaving your own wide open. Crazy. Is it a constitution thing? Please explain
40 miles east of El Paso
The first major checkpoint you hit on I10 heading east from El Passo is something like 20-30 miles out. I always thought that one was kind of sneaky. So his ranch was chosen to be past that checkpoint.
Bet this Cuban was just a strawman owner for the cartel.
I’ve always thought the US should use the more poorly-fenced segments of borderland as A-10 gunnery training grounds erratically scheduling a mix of day and night live-fire training missions.
Word would get around in a hurry, you can bet.
Couple days and there’d be no noise out there but the occasional yip of a coyote, and BRRRRT The Avenger.
Only rationale I can possibly see is posse comitatus act but unsure.
Ok thanks. So odd
What he was really guilty of is cutting in on Govco’s action.
Get the little guy parade him around throw him in jail but the politicians causing all this still have a job and are walking free
We don’t actually have to build a wall. Just seed the border with a lot of spent uranium pellets. And don’t tell the illegal crossers where they are. Make a big deal of how dangerous they are. Pay a few actors to fake radiation sickness. Illegal immigration would drop like a rock.
That rancher had a lot of nerve...didn’t he know he was stepping on the Biden Cartel’s turf?
I remember when Trump wanted to build The Wall and one of the talking used by the Democrats, and more than a few here (at least at the beginning), was that there were many ranchers on the border opposed to it.
...make sense now?
Miami was built on Cocaine.
It’s Washington, DC’s turn...
I was surprised to see this bust, but then realized it was back in 2020 when President Trump had the border under more control.
Perhaps the rancher was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
BRRRRT The Avenger.
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I’m not a pagan,,,
but if I was,
my stone idol would look like an A10.
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Half our border is coastline, that’s guarded.
The other half ,
the guards are , undermined, hamstrung with tied hands, villified by globalist in and out of the Washington district of cartels, under payed, under prayed, undermanned , under equiped and under hostile fire.
They have been demoralized by wanting to do their job and being denied the very tools they need.
Two of the stupid libertarian's beloved platforms. Open borders and vending machine narcotics.
"But, hey man! It's only weed!"
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