Smugglers flood border with migrants to divert security forces from drug interdiction

Smuggling foreigners into the United States earns transnational criminal organizations billions of dollars. Every year, hundreds of thousands of migrants shell out anywhere from $3,500 to $50,000 to get themselves into America illegally.

“The smuggling organizations, they’re in it for the money," said Paul Beeson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Task Force's West division. "They’re not in it because they’re some altruistic folks who think they’re doing a service. The people, they’re a product. They’re chattel.”

But the crime organizations are not just moving people to make a few thousand dollars each time. They're moving human cargo because they've discovered how to leverage that operation in a way that helps ensure the success of their real money-maker, drug smuggling.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/smugglers-flood-border-with-migrants-to-divert-security-forces-from-drug-interdiction

Senate confirms Robert Wilkie, Trump's pick to lead the VA

Wilkie was confirmed by an 86-9 vote. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted against Wilkie, saying that he believed the Trump administration would seek to "privatize" the VA, a move he and Democrats oppose.

Sanders was joined in his opposition by eight Democratic senators, including Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker of New York, Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein of California, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon. This is the first time in the 30-year history of the post that senators have voted against a president's nominee.

Wilkie, 55, has vowed to “shake up complacency” at the government's second-largest agency, whose veterans have faced long wait times for medical care.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/senate-confirms-robert-wilkie-trumps-pick-to-lead-the-va

>>2258722 Coast Guard seized ~3/4 of a billion dollars worth of cocaine in past two months from smugglers (more winning)

NOTABLE

for consideration

>>2258760

Thanks anon.

Really like the photo of POTUS on #45.

Well done.

These will be in history books someday.