Cartels Have Operational Control Of US Border, Are "Terrorizing" The US, Says Rep. Chip Roy

Mexican cartels are making billions of dollars from drug trafficking, human smuggling, and exploiting the U.S. border, said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas).

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1.3 million illegal immigrants crossing into Texas from Mexico in 2021. Hundreds of thousands more weren’t captured. Seizures of the deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl, have sharply increased, as have overdose deaths in the United States.

“We have 100,000 Americans die from opioid poisonings. They’re not really overdoses—they’re poisonings,” Roy told NTD’s Capitol Report on Jan. 28.

“China is moving it through Mexico, cartels are making money, China is getting empowered, America’s getting hammered—all because this administration refuses to do its job of securing the border.”

The chemicals to make fentanyl are produced in China and shipped to Mexico, where counterfeit pills are manufactured, heroin is spiked, and other products are laced before being sent across the southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a 1,066 percent increase in fentanyl seized at south Texas ports of entry during fiscal year 2021.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cartels-have-operational-control-us-border-are-terrorizing-us-says-rep-chip-roy

Fulton County Georgia DA Goes After Trump on Junk Charges — But Opens Up Her Office to Investigations on ALL FRAUD ACCUSATIONS in Fulton County

Last week Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis requested a special grand jury in her investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s fraudulent 2020 election results.

The move would allow the far left DA to submit subpoena requests to the special grand jury, unlocking a powerful tool to move the investigation forward.

Willis sent out a letter to the Chief Judge on the Fulton County Superior Court on January 20th.

Willis and her handlers are investigating a now-infamous call between former President Trump and Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump pressured the secretary to uncover what he insisted was fraud that would overturn Georgia’s election results.

The infamous phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was recorded by Raffensperger and his office. They then leaked and lied about it to the far left Washington Post.

Raffensperger’s office released the dishonest story to the liberal media and it was published on January 9, 2021 — days before the sham impeachment trial!

Georgia Chairman of the Republican Party David Shafer posted this on his Twitter account as the news broke after they all got caught lying about the phone call.

If the far left District Attorney does not want to be charged with selective prosecution — she will want to investigate ALL accusations of election fraud!

Let’s see how this plays out.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/boomerang-fulton-county-georgia-da-goes-trump-junk-charges-opens-office-investigations-fraud-accusations-fulton-county/

Biden To Designate Qatar A Major Non-NATO Ally Amid Efforts To Blunt Putin's 'Energy Weapon'

On Monday we learn that "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" will extend to include formally designated "major" allies all the way in the Persian Gulf…

"US President Joe Biden said on Monday he plans to designate Qatar as a major non-Nato ally, granting a special status to the Middle East partner," the UAE-based The National reports. The announcement was made while Biden hosted Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in the Oval Office. Biden stressed he's soon to notify Congress of the designation "to reflect the importance of our relationship." The State Department says the designation "provides foreign partners with certain benefits in the areas of defense trade and security cooperation."

Crucially this special relationship was solidified in recent years, it should be recalled, during the Syrian proxy war in which intelligence services from both countries teamed up in an attempt to overthrow the Assad government. Qatar even hosted US training camps in the desert for fanatical jihadists "secular freedom fighters".

And the tiny oil and gas rich monarchy had for years been widely accused of seeking to destabilize Syria while eyeing energy transit opportunities, as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote in a 2016 lengthy Politico piece:

While the compliant American press parrots the narrative that our military support for the Syrian insurgency is purely humanitarian, many Arabs see the present crisis as just another proxy war over pipelines and geopolitics. Before rushing deeper into the conflagration, it would be wise for us to consider the abundant facts supporting that perspective.

In their view, our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011. Instead it began in 2000, when Qatar proposed to construct a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometer pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-designate-qatar-major-non-nato-ally-amid-efforts-blunt-putins-energy-weapon