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Mexican cartels are behind the spike in organized retail crime and are deeply entrenched in every level of the process, according to the federal government's chief investigative agency.
Retailers nationwide sustained nearly $100 billion worth of losses in 2021, the highest year on record, according to the National Retail Federation report published in September 2022. The growing number of cartel-run theft rings around the country drove that figure up from $70 billion in 2019.
"Organized retail crime is leading to more brazen and more violent attacks in retail stores throughout the country. Many of the criminal rings orchestrating these thefts are also involved in other serious criminal activity such as human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, weapon trafficking, and more," said Steve Francis, acting executive associate director for Homeland Security Investigations, in a statement. HSI is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

More from Joe Biden's open borders: Mexican cartels reportedly behind organized retail thefts

By Monica Showalter

Is there anything on the mayhem front an open border can't do?

The latest news is that Mexico's cartels are behind the organized retail thefts that are shutting down the shopping centers of America.

According to the Washington Examiner:

Mexican cartels are behind the spike in organized retail crime and are deeply entrenched in every level of the process, according to the federal government's chief investigative agency.
Retailers nationwide sustained nearly $100 billion worth of losses in 2021, the highest year on record, according to the National Retail Federation report published in September 2022. The growing number of cartel-run theft rings around the country drove that figure up from $70 billion in 2019.
"Organized retail crime is leading to more brazen and more violent attacks in retail stores throughout the country. Many of the criminal rings orchestrating these thefts are also involved in other serious criminal activity such as human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, weapon trafficking, and more," said Steve Francis, acting executive associate director for Homeland Security Investigations, in a statement. HSI is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Just a few days ago in San Francisco, Nordstrom's shut its doors in the heart of the city's downtown after 35 years, citing massive organized theft attacks which have destroyed that establishment as a business.

And just yesterday in that same city, a beloved clerk at a small liquor store in San Francisco's Outer Richmond district died of his injuries in hospital after confronting a dirtbag participating in one of these massive retail theft attacks on even that small establishment, beating him to death with a baseball bat.

Your Mexican cartels at work.

There's no doubt that these parasites will consume every establishment whose goods they can get their hands on. Already, San Francisco is a wasteland of "for lease" signs as shop and restaurant pull out.

And let's not forget that homes and cars are also being raided.

The glittering malls of yesteryear are all long gone. It won't stop until they've got them all, and then San Franciscans can learn to live without retail shops and cafes and public spaces. Once they are gone, the insatiable monster will target its industrial-scale organized criminal muscle against homes.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Yes, the fact that California's voters have voted themselves in a law decriminalizing thefts under $1,000 is a major reason for this problem. And yes, dropping bail and defunding the police have added to it mightily.

But the Mexican cartels have been fattened considerably by Joe Biden's open borders. They've collected millions in "crossing fees" from illegal border crossers who somehow have that kind of money and gladly pay it, all because they know that if they can get across, they will be permitted to stay. Biden not only enables cartels by doing that, but by paying NGOs to carry on the rest of the work once done, paying cartel crossing fees, paying for migrants' rooom, board, transport, medical, educational and legal fees and anything else they might think they need for a worry-free entry into the U.S. illegally. All of that significantly benefits Mexico's cartels, where this activity profits them.

Since then, they have branched out. They aren't just importing foreign nationals from Mexico into the U.S. but from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and now Africa, Asia and the Middle East. They've spread population-killing quantities of fentanyl all through the U.S. where the death toll already is above 100,000. They've gone into human smuggling, slave labor, and child-sex slave smuggling rings depicted by the movie "Sound of Freedom." They've challenged Mexico's government, shutting down border cities with gunfire and taking over ports, prompting Mexico's government to militarize its society. They have also spread mayhem all the way down through the hemisphere, where in Ecuador, for instance, a major presidential candidate was assassinated for vowing to take on these very same cartels.

Now we learn that we are behind the organized retail thefts that are changing the face of America's cities -- leaving junkie-strewn hellholes and boarded up storefronts.

Very little of this, it must be noted, was going on before Joe Biden opened the border and allowed some two million foreign nationals in. It started happening afterward -- when the cartels started getting paid -- and started looking for new opportunities. California has certainly given them, but so has Joe Biden. Cartels are evil, but they are also smart, or they wouldn't be around.

There seem to be no limits for them in terms of opportunities brought on by Joe Biden's utter failure to enforce U.S. immigration law, leaving the border wide open.

Mexico Investigating if Cross Border Shooting was Connected to Assault, Says Mexican President

FILE: John Moore/Getty Images

ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

29 Aug 20230

2:18

Mexican authorities are investigating a cross-border shooting where a member of the Texas National Guard shot from El Paso at a man in Ciudad Juarez.

During his morning news conference, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that the case was being investigated by his foreign relations secretariat and would be providing updates once more information was confirmed.

“It is being looked at,” Lopez Obrador said.

During the brief mention of the case, Lopez Obrador’s spokesman, Jesus Ramirez Cuevas, shared that the case was being investigated to confirm if the shooting was tied to an attempted assault on migrants or to a migrant caravan event. As Breitbart Texas reported, Texas authorities said the shooting took place when a National Guardsman saw a suspected cartel member armed with a pistol and machete attack a group of migrants preparing to cross the border. The Guardsman fired into Mexico to save the migrants from death or serious bodily injury.

Breitbart Texas contacted the Mayor of Ciudad Juarez Cruz Perez Cuellar who claimed to have no information on the case and would not comment.

The case was first reported in Mexico by La Verdad de Juarez. However, the case has not garnered much media attention in Mexico. Despite the lack of media attention, some US news outlets and activists have used the case to criticize Texas Governor Greg Abbot’s Operation Lone Star, where he deployed Texas State troopers and Texas National Guardsmen to the border in an attempt to curb the current immigration crisis.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.

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REPORT: Biden Admin Welds Arizona Border Wall Gates Open

U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector

BOB PRICE

23 Aug 20231,835

3:49

A media report revealed that Biden administration officials welded border wall gates open near Lukeville, Arizona. The open gates allow migrants to freely walk through the border wall and into the Arizona desert.

Border Patrol officials admitted responsibility for a decision to weld open flood gates in sections of border wall near Lukeville, the New York Post reported. The admission reportedly came after the agency attempted to blame other federal agencies for the action that allows thousands of migrants to freely cross into what is now the nation’s busiest border sector.

The Tucson Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions in July. The apprehension of nearly 40,000 migrants represents an increase of nearly 136 percent over July 2022. The sector is in second place in year-to-date apprehensions following the arrest of nearly 274,000 migrants — an increase of 59 percent over the same period last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports.

“We thought the agents were going to say something to us,” an Ecuadorian migrant told the Post. “But we just got in.”

A Cuban migrant added, “It was so easy to get into the United States. Nothing like our trip through Mexico. That part was difficult. I thought there was going to be more security.”

The gates were installed in the border wall construction to allow monsoon-season floodwaters and migratory animals to pass through.

“High water flow combined with excessive sediment and debris buildup can stress or comprise the design integrity of the barrier,” CBP officials told the Post.

However, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told the New York newspaper that the Mexican cartel human smuggling intelligence apparatus quickly discovers these gaps in the wall and exploits them for profit.

“Because the cartels are constantly surveilling what we do, the moment something gets left open, it gets exploited,” Judd explained. “In this particular case, it exploded almost immediately, which shows you how adept the criminal cartels are at exploiting any weakness at any time that we show them.”

Judd added that the gates “should never open up.”

The New York Post article contains multiple photographs of the welded-open gates and migrants crossing through at will. One photo shows a steel spike in the ground welded to the gate to keep it open.

In June, Tucson Sector agents apprehended an average of 821 migrants daily. In July, that number increased to approximately 1,200 migrants per day. During the first two weeks of August, unofficial Border Patrol numbers obtained by Breitbart Texas show a continued increase to 1,483 migrant apprehensions per day.

Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

Mexico sends 1,200 more troops to Michoacan state after weekend of cartel violence

Associated Press

Mon, August 28, 2023 at 5:24 PM PDT·2 min read

FILE - A worker unloads a truck-full of Mexican limes at a citrus packing plant in La Ruana, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, Nov. 6, 2023. The government of Michoacan state said Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2023, that it has launched a criminal investigation into the extortion of lime growers by a local drug cartel in the western Mexican state. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Monday it sent 1,200 more troops to the cartel-dominated western state of Michoacan after a weekend of violence.

State prosecutors said three convenience stores and five trucks and cars had been set afire, a tactic often used by drug cartels in the state to block roads and enforce extortion demands. Prosecutors said three men and three youths aged 16 and 17 were arrested in the attacks.

A Defense Department statement said the soldiers and National Guard members were deployed over the weekend. It said they were ordered to prevent cartels from blocking any more roads, “so that people can go about their business normally.”

Soldiers are stationed in every Mexican state, but the army did not say how many already were in Michoacan before the weekend deployment.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that “peace and tranquility” had been restored to the region and called the weekend violence acts of “propaganda and publicity.”

Life in the cities affected by the violence — Apatzingan, Buenavista and Uruapan — is anything but normal.

Lime growers and farmers in the township of Buenavista complained in recent weeks of widespread drug cartel extortion, and in Apatzingan most basic goods cost almost double their normal price because the cartels takes a slice of most purchases.

That kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers sparked an uprising by civilian vigilante groups a decade ago.

One lime grower, who spoke on condition of remaining anonymous for security reasons, said last week that the local drug cartel had increased the price of protection payments fivefold in the space of weeks.

The Michoacan state government said Wednesday that it had launched a criminal investigation into the extortion shakedowns. The situation threatens the supply of fresh limes, a mainstay of Mexican cuisine, and recalls the darkest days of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war.

Back then, the Familia Michoacana and later the Knights Templar cartels burned down packing houses. imposed crop prices, demanded protection money and even told growers on which days they could harvest their crop.

That sparked an armed uprising in 2013 and 2014 by angry farmers. That vigilante movement largely kicked out the old cartels, only to see them replaced by others.

By then, most of the vigilante groups had either disarmed or been infiltrated by drug gangs.

Cartel Gunmen Hang Bodies from Border State Overpass in Mexico

Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles

ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

26 Aug 2023239

3:15

Cartel gunmen hung three bodies from a highway overpass in a Mexican state that borders Texas. The gory crime comes at a time when the state of Nuevo Leon is experiencing an unending rise in cartel violence.

The gory crime scene took place on Thursday early morning in Salinas Victoria, located just north of the Monterrey metropolitan area. At the scene, authorities found the bodies of three unidentified victims who had been strung up from a highway overpass near the 21st-kilometer marker along the highway that connects Monterrey with the Colombia International Bridge.

The incident took place as the state of Nuevo Leon continues to be one of the regions with the most targeted killings in Mexico. Various cartels continue to fight for control of drug corridors into Texas.

Soon after the killing, one of Monterrey’s most outspoken politicians, Waldo Fernandez, a state legislator from the MORENA Party, took to social media to call for a unified front in dealing with cartel violence.

He said that criminal organizations are intimidating and spreading fear among innocent civilians while government officials and authorities are busy trying to score political points.

“He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it,” Fernandez said in a streamed video where he recalled the region’s dark history. The cartel violence of ten years ago witnessed drug cartels fighting each other in a fierce turf war that escalated to attacks on law enforcement and ultimately to attacks on innocent civilians that simply became “collateral damage.”

“Today in the state of Nuevo Leon, we are seeing the same,” Fernandez said, recalling a similar scene on the city’s south side ten years before where gunmen hung a body from an overpass and set fire to it. “These acts are acts of intimidation between one cartel and another one, it is between organized crime groups, but they are acts of intimidation for the local citizenry.”

Fernandez spoke to Breitbart Texas and stated that it was time for government officials to establish a series of security boards to coordinate law enforcement activities at the local, state, and federal levels to keep the cartel violence from spiraling out of control even more. The Mexican state legislator claimed that politicians from various parties have focused on pushing their own agendas instead of providing a unified front against organized crime.

“As long as this political conflict continues, the only thing that is going to happen is that in Nuevo Leon, criminals will continue having a party,” Fernandez concluded.

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VIDEO: Alleged Human Smuggler with Five Migrants Flees from Texas Troopers near Border

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BOB PRICE

25 Aug 20237

2:40

An alleged human smuggler from Houston led Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a high-speed chase while transporting five migrants. The driver and migrants reportedly fled on foot at the end of the pursuit.

Texas DPS spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez reported that a man from Houston failed to yield to troopers during an attempted traffic stop on August 19 in Kinney County. The driver reportedly led police on a high-speed pursuit in the dark of night.

The video shows the driver slowing and pulling into the oncoming lane of traffic before jumping out of the still-moving sedan. The vehicle then swerves back across the roadway and the driver attempts to flee on foot.

The man stumbles before reaching a fence and is placed under arrest by a pursuing trooper assigned to the border region under Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.

During questioning, the driver, identified later as Dashon Ahmad Hamilton, said he was from the east side of Houston.

Police found five migrants, three women and two men, in the sedan after it came to a stop. No one appears to have been injured in the incident.

Troopers turned the five migrants over to Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents. Law enforcement authorities did not release their nationality.

Troopers arrested Hamilton, who now faces charges of evading arrest and smuggling of persons.

Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas show Hamilton has an extensive criminal history, including charges of aggravated robbery in Texas and Louisiana. He was also previously arrested on a charge of a felon possessing a firearm and for evading arrest.

Human Smugglers Abandon Migrant Children in Heatwave Along Texas Border

Texas Department of Public Safety

ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

24 Aug 2023114

3:16

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers rescued two young migrant children who had been abandoned in a brushy area by human smugglers along the Rio Grande border with Mexico. The children, who are four and seven years old, only had a sheet of paper with a contact number for two relatives in Alabama.

The incident occurred this week near Eagle Pass, Texas, where human smugglers had left a four-year-old boy and his seven-year-old sister near the Rio Grande. According to information released by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the two children were from Chiapas, Mexico. In a 24-hour span, troopers deployed under Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star found two more abandoned children near Eagle Pass, one of the busiest human smuggling corridors into Texas, despite the life-endangering heat wave experienced during the past month.

Due to the lack of physical barriers at the border and the complicity of Mexican authorities, human smugglers have turned the state of Coahuila into one of the top routes for moving migrants and “asylum seekers” into Texas. Since the start of the year, there have been close to 100 fatalities on both sides of the border, Breitbart Texas reported.

Earlier this year, Governor Abbott ordered the deployment of a series of border buoys in some high-traffic areas to keep migrants and asylum seekers from illegally entering the country. The move sparked much controversy from the Biden administration and Mexico’s government.

Cartel Gunmen Hang Bodies from Border State Overpass in Mexico

Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles

ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

26 Aug 202334

3:15

He said that criminal organizations are intimidating and spreading fear among innocent civilians while government officials and authorities are busy trying to score political points.

“As long as this political conflict continues, the only thing that is going to happen is that in Nuevo Leon, criminals will continue having a party,” Fernandez concluded.