EXCLUSIVE: Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation Expands into Migrant Smuggling
7 May 2021
One of Mexico’s most powerful and violent cartels branched into the lucrative business of human smuggling. Law enforcement officials identified several routes used by Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) to eventually move migrants across the U.S. border.
Breitbart Texas consulted with U.S. law enforcement officials operating in Mexico, as well as Mexican military sources who agree CJNG is actively operating human smuggling routes from Mexico’s southern border to Texas. While CJNG is linked to a large part of the violence in central and western Mexico over control of lucrative drug production territories and corridors, the incursion into the human smuggling went largely unnoticed for a while, a U.S. law enforcement source tells Breitbart Texas.
One point from the
Breitbart piece that caught my attention was how the cartel drone operators may have received military training in the US:
Information obtained exclusively by Breitbart Texas revealed that the operator behind the development of the weaponized drones claims to have had U.S. military training. However, Breitbart Texas was not able to confirm the claim.
Perhaps this is speculation, but there is past evidence of Mexican cartels hiring U.S. soldiers as contract killers [
, Fox News, August 1, 2013]. There’s plenty of military muscle in the US that has bleak economic prospects, so the allure of lucrative cartel gigs is tantalizing. Plus, 16% of the U.S. military is made up of Hispanics, where there’s likely a not-so trivial number of them who perhaps feel more at home serving as mercenaries alongside their kin [
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We are trapped here : A Mexican town isolated by cartel terror
Patrick J. McDonnell and Cecilia Sánchez, Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2021
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1of3A convoy of vehicles from the Mexican Army patrol during the visit of the Apostolic Nuncio Franco Coppola, not pictured, in Aguililla community, state of Michoacan, Mexico, on April 23, 2021.ENRIQUE CASTRO/TNSShow MoreShow Less
2of3Monsignor Franco Coppola, the Vatican s diplomat to Mexico, bless people as he arrives to meet families and celebrate Mass in Aguililla, a town that has been cut off by warring cartels in Michoacan state, Mexico, Friday, April 23, 2021. State police and soldiers were sent in to restore order earlier this month, but cartels responded by parking hijacked trucks across roads to block them, as well as digging deep trenches across roadways. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)Armando Solis/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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