It may be incorrect to call the situation at our southern border “chaotic.” Chaos connotes complete lack of organization or direction. True, the border area is overrun with illegal immigrants, many of whom arrive without valid papers or Covid-19 tests. But this does not mean that no one is directing the activity, or that no one is benefitting from it.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R, TX) points out that the cartels are profiting from allowing the immigrants to pass through their territory, and also profiting from the drugs and trafficked young people being brought in. Note that I do not call them Mexican drug cartels. This term is obsolete. They operate in many nations and profit from trafficking in humans and weapons as well as drugs.

It is said that nature abhors a vacuum. But criminal gangs love a vacuum. They rush to fill it with their power and evildoing. Those who created this power vacuum at the border have much to answer for. But it is we ordinary citizens and the immigrants themselves who will do the suffering. As usual, the dim-witted, self-anointed elite will be free to arrange their next fiasco.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/patfallon-drugs-trafficking-cartels/2021/03/19/id/1014493/

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