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This is a subject that doesn't get much attention in the juden media.
But it should, drugs smuggled into the US and large scale human trafficking operations coming in through Native American reservations.
Aren't you getting sick of the same idiotic excuse of, "People want a better life".
Who doesn't want a better life?
It boils down to many will not work to earn it like us. Instead they cheat, scam, and engage in illegal activities to get it.
Fact is they do not care what they have to do or how many people get hurt or stolen from. As long as they get what they want.
The silent spinning of infrared scanners. The plume of dust launched by tires on a dirt road. The faint chop of a distant helicopter. And everywhere — unseen save for the occasional cut in the barbed wire — the billion-dollar business of moving people and product from one side of the border to the other.
In Arizona, southwest of Tucson, lies the Tohono O’odham Nation, the third largest Native American reservation in the United States, and home to one of the busiest smuggling corridors in North America. The Tohono O’odham, or “desert people,” have lived and died here in the Sonoran Desert since long before the border divided our nations and theirs, but over time, tribal members found themselves on the front lines of this illicit trade and the efforts to stop it.
Buffeted by powerful forces on both sides of the border — and corrupted by complicity — some leaders fear that the crisis facing their nation is an existential one.
“We’re killing our own people,” David Garcia, a tribal elder, told ABC News, “We have to do something. And if we don’t do anything, then we’re just as much the problem as well.”
Over the course of a yearlong investigation, ABC News travelled to both Arizona and Mexico to conduct interviews with law enforcement officials, cartel soldiers and tribal members on both sides of the border, compiling a detailed portrait of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the challenges it faces airing Thursday on Nightline.
“It’s no secret,” Garcia said, “that a lot of our tribal members are involved in the smuggling of migrants and drugs.”
The Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most powerful criminal enterprises, has taken advantage of endemic poverty on the reservation, he said, hiring tribal members as spotters, stash house operators, and transporters.
Garcia’s nephew Matthias lives in an area of Mexico that operates as a staging ground for much of the cartel’s cross-border smuggling. Stores cater to migrants preparing to make the dangerous journey, selling — among other necessities — slippers with special soles that do not leave footprints.
Matthias would be a prized collaborator, because his tribal status allows him to cross the border freely, but he refused the cartel’s latest offer.
“Someone from one of the groups asked me if I could drive a truck with a hidden compartment onto the reservation and drop it off,” Matthias told ABC News. “And they were willing to pay me $10,000 just for [a] two-hour shift.”
I think that there is a very deep-rooted involvement in smuggling. I think that it’s gone on for generations, so there are a lot of people that get involved in it,” Hall told ABC News. “Not only are we dealing with border issues, but we really have to balance the sovereignty, the culture, and all of those things that come with being on the reservation.”
That balance is, to say the least, delicate, and the significant federal presence on the reservation feels to some like an occupation, creating deep resentment among tribal members.
Ofelia Rivas, for example, has lived just a few hundred yards from the border her entire life, and she said her community feels trapped by the Mexican cartel on one side and U.S. law enforcement on the other.
“We are under siege,” Rivas told ABC News. “We’re always under constant surveillance, and also it makes us feel like we’re criminals on our own lands, and that we’re trespassing on our own lands.”
She has endured harassment by border agents who believed that she was an illegal immigrant, she said, but Trump’s proposed border wall would be intolerable.
“They’re proposing this wall, it’s gonna be right here in my backyard,” Rivas said. “And it’s gonna force me to move [from] here, where I was born.”
But the issues of border security are created by the drugs … The drugs that are coming through this nation are intended for your citizen[’s] towns across America.”
An Arizona sheriff revealed a major loophole that he said is allowing Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs and people into the United States "left and right."
Lamb, 46, detailed the difficulties he and his deputies face patrolling their county, where a Native American reservation serving as a sovereign entity extends into Mexico and has become a hotspot for smugglers.
"Some people want a better*life," he said. "Some*people are actually working with*the cartel."
At theTohono O’odham reservation, which overlaps on 62 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, there is little more than a three-strand barbed wire fence as protection, Lamb said.
The Sinaloa cartel typically waits until the coast is clear, then brings groups across the border, Lamb said. His officers will typically patrol a five-mile area in between the reservation and the interstate and attempt to apprehend those crossing illegally there.
Lamb added that many crossing the border are prepared to go undetected, donning "carpet shoes" to mask footprints and camouflage clothing.
"The cartel has been pushing people through left and*right," he continued, saying the activity is not slowing down as it usually does when the weather gets hotter.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-sheriff-cartel-border-reservation
Posted : 01/07/2019 3:08 pm