13 Years Ago, This Operation Stifled Illegal Immigration From Central America

[longknife]

Oh my goodness. How did that happen? And, guess who was president?

Bill Clinton? Uh, sorta. But President Bush took the oath of office and managed to work this out. Will he get the credit? Don't bet on it!



Check it out @ Operation Stifled Illegal Immigration From Central America

 

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What did they know, and when did they know it?...

2011 Intel Report Warned: ‘Rio Grande River Can Easily Be Breached by Smugglers on Foot’
August 15, 2014 - In 2011, nearly three years before the current wave of more than 227,000 illegal aliens flooded the U.S.-Mexico border, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) warned the federal government that the U.S. border “can easily be breached on foot” by criminal aliens and Mexican drug cartels, who smuggle billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs into the United States each year.

The NDIC’s 2011 Drug Market Analysis for South Texas stated: “Few physical barriers exist between [points of entry] to impede drug traffickers from smuggling illicit drug shipments into the region from Mexico.” “Along many areas of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas, the Rio Grande River can easily be breached by smugglers on foot, in vehicles, or on boats or makeshift rafts, enabling Mexican [drug trafficking organizations] to smuggle multikilogram quantities of illicit drugs, primarily marijuana and cocaine, into the United States,” the report continued.

The NDIC also reported the illicit drug trade in the United States was “dominated” by Mexican drug cartels, with drug trafficking organizations from other countries lagging far behind in production and distribution of substances like cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines. “Major Mexican-based TCOs (transnational criminal organizations) will continue to dominate wholesale drug trafficking in the United States for the foreseeable future and will further solidify their positions through collaboration with U.S. gangs,” the NDIC predicted in its 2011 National Drug Threat Assessment.

A man wades across the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border.


The agency added that “The threat posed by the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs will not abate in the near term and may increase.” Soon after the report was published, the NDIC was shut down in June 2012 for “budgetary reasons.” Now two years later, more than 227,000 illegal aliens have been apprehended at the Southwest U.S. border since last October, according to the latest report from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. About 63,000 of these are unaccompanied minors, with another 63,000 being family units. The surge of unaccompanied minors is largely coming from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

The wave of illegal crossings is highest by far in the Southwest border region, the region the NDIC reported is also the “primary gateway” for drug trafficking. In 2011, the NDIC pointed out that the vast majority of drugs trafficked into the United States was coming across the Mexican border, saying the region “remains the primary gateway for moving illicit drugs into the United States” and that “most illicit drugs available in the United States are smuggled overland across the Southwest Border.” “Major Mexican-based [criminal organizations] continue to solidify their dominance over the wholesale illicit drug trade as they control the movement of most of the foreign-produced drug supply across the U.S. Southwest border,” the report stated.

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