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EndlessWire

(7,912 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 10:50 AM Friday

Why does no one care about the drug cartel

family members being allowed to cross our border? Is this rump's "Art of The Deal" where truly vile drug kingpins are welcomed to sanctuary? What did we get out of this deal?

And, I want to know, if we catch any of them, no matter what they are now doing, is ICE going to deport them back to Mexico? Why should Sinaloa Cartel members become a protected class over our lawfully performing immigrants who are now running for their lives?

Trump has a fixation on pardoning and collecting up the thugs of the Universe, in order to have his own, subservient private Army. This is but another example of bad presidenting by rump. He is a liar and a hypocrite.

But, what do we get on this? Crickets...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cartel-family-members-entered-us-deal-trump-mexican-chief-confirms-rcna206917

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Wounded Bear

(62,279 posts)
1. Haven't seen many real gang members being shipped out...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 10:54 AM
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just farmworkers, meat packers, and day laborers.

S/V Loner

(9,364 posts)
7. That is because they are cowards and...
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:13 AM
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only target the defenseless. It is not lost on them that gang members carry guns while the people they are actually grabbing carry shopping list.

Attilatheblond

(6,425 posts)
10. Nah, they just like to shop. Tucson retailers rely on people coming to shop
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:51 AM
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Some of those shoppers are filthy rich cartel families. There was a young boy, I think 10 or so, seen with a huge roll of cash in a Tucson store some years back. I mean a HUGE roll of cash.

markodochartaigh

(3,113 posts)
5. I remember seeing that in the US and Mexican press,
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:06 AM
Friday

but it sure didn't make much of a splash. I think that to be functional a democracy requires an informed and engaged electorate. And it seems to me that our electorate has been becoming less and less informed.

Hotler

(13,254 posts)
6. Drugs in, guns out, kind of the standard CIA thing. Iran-contra never ended, just changed playing fields and more
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:07 AM
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refined operation. Plus there most likely is some shakedown going on. The orange one gets his cut.

doc03

(38,022 posts)
8. A drug cartel is let into the country and
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 11:22 AM
Friday

crickets from the news media or Democrats in Congress.

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