Via Judicial Watch (as the media doesn’t cover this). Since taking office, the Trump administration has systematically made life harder for gangs/cartels who traffic in people, drugs, etc. Today’s example:
In a major shift from lax Obama-era regulations, the Trump administration is finally allowing customs officers to screen all cargo trucks entering the U.S. from Mexico and sources on both sides of the border tell Judicial Watch Mexican drug cartels are fuming. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is using X-ray technology and other non-intrusive tools to screen 100% of cargo trucks crossing the southern border after eight years of sporadic or random screening permitted under the Obama administration.
“We felt like we were the welcoming committee and not like we were guarding our borders,” said veteran U.S. Customs agent Patricia Cramer…“The order was to facilitate traffic, not to stop any illegal drugs from entering the country,” Cramer added…
…a veteran Homeland Security official told Judicial Watch that cattle trucks passed without inspection during the Obama administration because Mexican farmers complained that the security screenings frightened their cows. “Our guys were livid that we were not allowed to check cattle,” the federal official said…
Federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch Mexican cartels operate like efficient businesses that resort to “other more treacherous routes” when necessary, but driving through a port of entry in a cargo truck is a preferred method of moving drugs…
It could also help to control human trafficking (like that recent incident). Think about it: It took Trump to do this. Obama could have; and he didn’t. Instead, Obama supplied arms to the cartels.
I have a constant suspicion that this kind of policy – plus some other specific, important things like wanting interventionism (Syria war), and wanting to keep hiding the Clinton scandals and the Awan scandal – would be why certain U.S. power players have been so desperate, all this time, to overturn the 2016 election and remove President Trump under any pretext.
Obama wanted the drugs in the united states. a drug addled society is an easy society to conquer. communists have always been the biggest promoters of drug use.
A few years ago I did some engineering work on a system which moved trucks slowly past x-ray machines to inspect their interiors. The x-rays had to be so powerful (to penetrate metal trailers) that they were far too dangerous to use if there was any chance that there were people hiding in with the cargo. They wanted to find them, not kill them. I don’t know how that project ended up; perhaps nobody ever used those machines.
“…certain U.S. power players..
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On both sides of the aisle…
I hadn’t thought of that. tom, thanks for bringing it up. I’ll keep an eye out for how they handle it. Maybe first they do a quick visual inspection (“no humans here”)? or not? Oops.
Absolutely, Beaches. You caught my intent.