one for the sinaloa cartel, and one for the hollis go cartel.these teams are made up of special agents, intel analysts, targeter's, data scientists, and chemical and finance experts from across our agency. the teams centralize all of -- intelligence. they map these cartels and they analyze the criminal networks that today exist in more than 40 countries around the world. they are also developing targeting information on the members of those networks wherever they operate around the world. and we've transformed our execution. we are drawing on the talent and intelligence of the men and women in our 334 offices worldwide. and we are working as one dea, to defeat the criminal networks. we've made all of these changes in the last two years with urgency, to save lives, stop fentanyl, and to defeat the drug cartels that are responsible for bringing fentanyl into our communities. and we are already starting to see results. on april 14th, 2023, dea announced indictments against the network that is primarily responsible for the massive influx of fentanyl

one reached cartel.these are made up of special agents intel analysts, marketers, data scientists, chemical and finance experts from across our agency. the team centralize dea intelligence. analyze the criminal networks that today exist in more than 40 countries around the world. it works wherever they operate around the world. we have transformed our execution but we are drawing on the talent and intelligence of the men and women in our 334 offices worldwide. we are working as one dea to defeat the criminal networks. we have made all of these in the last two years with urgency to save lives, stop fentanyl and defeat the drug cartels that are responsible for bringing fentanyl into oururit communiti. we are already starting to see resultsn. on20 april 14, 2023 dea announce indictments against the network that is primarily responsible for the fentanyl into the united states. the network of the cartel. he pioneered the manufacturing and trafficking of fentanyl into the united states. they control a global c

these cartels need to be brought to justice. fy 24 president's budget for hsi calls for just 22 new positions. an increase of less than one half of 1% to combat human trafficking, child exploitation, counter fentanyl and investigate cyber crimes. similar to the worsening conditions we are likely to confront fentanyl title 42 goes away. i'm sure the cartels are busy planning on how to take advantage of what is sure to be an even more chaotic situation and continuing to profit from human trafficking. they cartels are replaced they operate with near impunity and mexico. they are well-financed, well organized and well connected. there are certainly differences among this committee on how to handle the crisis at the border, there surely in agreement that something must be done. to help them stop them one more man assaulting one more woman or sexually trafficking one more child are killing one more person. cbp and ice to great work there is no doubt used to be done to stop the illegal flow of drugs across our border to ensure cbp and

cartels. and then lastly, we could t allocate more resources to help mexico stop the precursor chemicals from getting to mexico in the first place. a bipartisan group of us went to meet with president lÓpez obrador last month.ro he committed to us to partner with us in that work. the last two things to say are these, and i'll turn it over senator britt for opening comments. all of this investment in stopping fentanyl from getting to the united states would be impossible under last week's house republican vote. under their plan, fy24 funding for the department of homeland security would be cut by 22%. we're not talking about a singld expansion of our fight against fentanyl. the budget proposal from the house would drastically cut funding at the border, would drastically cut funding for the very capacities that right now are trying to fight fentanyl from coming into the united states. and the final thing to say is this. if you watch some folks on cable news, you come to the conclusion that every

-- owe the cartels. virtually all of them come in massive debt to the cartels. the cartels, this is cargo. not human beings. this is how they treat them and you have teenage boys who come in and out $3000, $4000, $5,000 to the cartels with the biden administration sends them to your city and those teenage boys are working for the drug cartels. they have to work for the drug cartels because they will murder their families back home if they don't miss so every city in america is getting an influx of criminals working for the drug cartels courtesy of joe biden and kamala harris, and as bad as it is for the boys, the girls have it a lot worse. there are thousands upon thousands of girls in sex slavery right now, in forced prostitution. i look at those wristbands as modern-day leg irons, and for the secretary of homeland security to say, i don't even know what they are tells you that he has not spent one day going into the office saying, tell me what's happening at the border and how do we stop it. he is not

i have seen women who have been violently raped at the cartels -- by the cartels. i have seen children, little girls and little boys horribly physically assaulted, sexually assaulted. what is happening is people -- evil and the result of political decisions and next week biden will lift title 42 and their plan will make it worse. they don't intend to fix it dared they don't intend to stop it or shut down the cartels or secure the borders. they don't intend to stop drug traffickers. they intend to make it worse. they want 6 million to become 10 million to become 12 million to become 15 million. their actions demonstrate they don't give a damn about the lies that we lost in the process. they don't care about the children assaulted in the process. they don't care about the drugs that are killing our children in this country. nobody who looks at what is happening can defend this because it's indefensible. reporter: senator graham, where are you on [inaudible] . sen. graham: it's ridiculous theater. it will not change the outcome. they will not be there as soldiers turn

por los miembros del cÁrtel de cÁliz a celebrarle el cumpleaÑos a mi papÁ.una larga condena. >> un artista popular siempre da de que hablar, y juan gabriel no iba a ser la excepciÓn. >> siguen las intrusiones de santa cruz, basÁndose en el testimonio de fernando, el programa crÓnicas de sÁbado reconstruyÓ asÍ el incidente. recientemente, el hijo del narco ampliÓ los detalles univisiÓn investiga, vÍa telefÓnica. >> la champaÑa corrÍa mÁs rÁpido. ya hablaba de tÚ a tÚ con ellos. >> los hermanos miguel y gilberto rodrÍguez controlaban el 90% del mercado internacional de la cocaÍna. amado carrillo era su principal socio en mÉxico. volviendo a la fiesta, santa cruz le hizo una broma pesada a rodrÍguez usando juan gabriel. >> era uno de los que habÍa contratado, era el mÁs jocoso, le dice que querÍa jugar una chance a mi padre en sus 50 aÑos, y le dice que le cante la canciÓn. >> central que le pidiÓ juan david que le cantara al oÍdo a rodrÍguez " te voy a olvidar" su canciÓn favorita. juan gabriel sigue las instrucciones. se reconstruyÓ el incidente. >> juan gabr

el cÁrtel del golfo pide ayuda a sus rivales para evitar el control del cÁrtel jalisco.s armados. por estos hechos se logrÓ la detenciÓn de hugo armando salinas. del grupo "los metro", afÍn al cartel del golfo. dos sicarios fueron abatidos hice decomisaron seis camionetas con el logo del "cÁrtel jalisco nueva generaciÓn". leÓn: la policÍa de los Ángeles, la patrulla de caminos y el departamento del seres de ese condado lanzaron un operativo contra los automovilistas que ocupan ilegalmente las calles, ademÁs de provocar accidentes con las acrobacias como la que vemos ahora, tambiÉn estÁn saqueando negocios. >> mÚltiples ciudades tienen multas de entre $1000 hasta $2000, dependiendo del vehÍculo ylo que estÉn haciendo. se les puede quitar su carro, se les puede multar y suspender su licencia por un mÍnimo de seis meses. leÓn: autoridades dijeron que el simple hecho de observar "take—over" o transitar por la zona, es ilegal. un juez ordenÓ a hunter biden... en septiembre hunter biden le pidiÓ al juez que le bajara los pagos al madre del niÑo, pero ella pidiÓ que detuviera a

the cartels. we just had a major indictment of the -- related to the cartel.bviously very significant to you. i mentioned that we have transnational organized crime task forces that our focus specifically on that threat. we work on the strike forces against the threat. i think part of the reason what you have is precursor is very heavily coming from china. and there is actors in china that seem all too happy to send these chemicals to mexico where there than produced by the cartel laws. sent across the border. and distributed by gangs here in the united states all over the country. one of the challenges about something like fentanyl is that the cartels no longer require acres of farmland. or to wait for a harvest or something like that. these are things that can be done all year long in very small spaces that are harder to detect. easier to get across the border and then if you combine that with the potency the lethality of the substance. and you combine that with the fact that it's now finding its way into all sorts of other drugs including prescriptions that

the sinaloa cartel is in tucson arizona. if you go to tucson arizona you cannot cross the border without seeing the sinaloa. when individual tried to do it on his own and wasn't captured by our border agents but was captured by the cartel. he darted back to the car was never found again. if you cross in that area every single person is dressed the same as the camouflage outfit on. he's the number one place. 71% of people crossing our sinaloa. it's a big territory. every single day we risk the lives of american people in the military and on the border trying to rescue people up on the cliff each and every day. the real challenge as well as they have to do a lot of this. when the numbers continue continue to taking a look at administration. the cut the number of bulletins we had so we could count the number of people coming over illegally. they want to tell you the numbers are down but it's only growing more food you catch fentanyl time and again from these individuals so spend a little time their new payable to say. yes. [ina

the cartels are running our southern border. today we are going to lose 300 young people to fentanyl deaths because president biden opened our southern border. yesterday, 300 young people died. tomorrow another 300 young people in america will die because the president opened the southern border and he doesn't care about it. he issued a veto threat on the bill that will fix it. house republicans are not going to sit on the sidelines. we brought a bill to the floor that everybody should vote for. again, get back to rule of law. give our border patrol agents the tools they need so that if somebody has an asylum claim, they can come and seek asylum the legal way. you want to come to america. we are the most generous nation in the world. legal immigration works. when you open the border and five million people in two years, it undermines the entire legal system and it breaks down communities. not just at the border, all across america. this is reeking devastation across america. not only the deaths. all of the other things that go w

one controlled by the drug cartels. the administration's refusal to enforce the law or implement effective policies to secure the border has led us to this point. completely dismantling any semblance of law and order. over the past several month, members of the committee on homeland security have been hard at work crafting a solution to address the administration's self-inflicted crisis at our borders. with input from our colleagues across the republican conference as well as border patrol agents, victims of illegal alien crime and the drug crisis, small business owners, state and local law enforcement and farmers and ranchers, the committee has taken the time to fully understand secretary mayorkas' record breaking crisis. these are the everyday americans bearing the brunt of this crisis who are all too often overlooked by the media and the d.c. beltway. the numbers that day and now all americans are face -- that they and now all americans are fating are staggering. more than five million encounters at the southwest bor

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anecdotal story several credits on half of the park cartels. the surrendering of our border. well intention or not resulted in what merrick garland the strategy of the cartels it is been a tragedy that has been perpetrated by those policies. at this again unconscionable. >> a gentleman from california there were statements made by the ranking member of this committee a little bit earlier sank this legislation would demonize asylum-seekers looking to enter illegally. there are leaving and traveling thousands of miles of fear of persecution. they are looking to legally claim asylum. then matthew 25: thirty-five from helping those migrants. busy gentleman from california greatest nothing of the sort but rather does prevent providing transportation lodging legal service is the magnet for the -- in other words participating in the human smuggling operation. >> yes, it restores the concept of asylum. it prevents the abuse of asylum claims. it assures the system is therefore legitimate claims to asylum in this country. and most of all it restores the integrity of our borders are des

they have a link to the cartels. these cases have a direct link that we found between these social media sites and the two cartels. when we looked back at all of these cases, the vast majority of them have a link either social media or encrypted applications online. when you look at the social media it is facebook, instagram, snapchat, tiktok. and that's where these cartels and their traffickers, the people we've arrested, are selling fake pills meant to look like oxy but are actually fentanyl. one of the cases is a case from washington, d.c. a woman named diamond lynch. forever 20 years old, purchased what she thought was a percocet pill and died almost immediately. it was not percocet, it was fentanyl. we tracked our washington field division with our local police department and partners. they tracked that back to the drug dealers who had sold her that pill. we then tracked that back to the source of supply. the suppliers in los angeles who were using instagram to communicate and do their business. and then we trac

the cartels are running our southern border.ay we are going to lose 300 young people to fentanyl deaths because president biden opened our southern border. yesterday, 300 young people died. tomorrow another 300 young people in america will die because the president opened the southern border and he doesn't care about it. he issued a veto threat on the bill that will fix it. house republicans are not going to sit on the sidelines. we brought a bill to the floor that everybody should vote for. again, get back to rule of law. give our border patrol agents the tools they need so that if somebody has an asylum claim, they can come and seek asylum the legal way. you want to come to america. we are the most generous nation in the world. legal immigration works. when you open the border and five million people in two years, it undermines the entire legal system and it breaks down communities. not just at the border, all across america. this is reeking devastation across america. not only the deaths. all of the other things that go with

right back to the cartel. >> thank you. my time has expired. >> the chair that recognizes the ranking member for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hetfield, thank you for your belly compelling cast with the addition of one of the biden administration's answers to increase migration at the border is to expand legal pathways. as title 42 is set to expire earlier this month the united states announced its opening of regional processing centers all over the hemisphere. they will be starting in guatemala and colombia n expanded to other countries including mexico. this seemed like a positive step by the administration to build up its capacity to take increased numbers of refugees before they ever even make that dangerous journey to our southern border. would you agree with that and what do you think the united states needs to do to make these regional processing centers a success? >> i absolutely agree with that. i mean i also agree with chief scott assessment about the overuse of parole, the british station each rel

but we have to go after the cartels. we have to drop illegal immigration to normal levels. if we drop it to normal levels, we have those resources and the taxpayer does not have to foot the bill. host: very is in texas --mary is in texas. go ahead. caller: mr. judd, i want you to give a message to the border patrol, the ones who protect our border and do the best they can. i understand and i want the american people to understand this is not a political border patrol. this is citizens of america making a political statement. i wanted to ask them, the american people, oh, humanitarian. how many do you want into this country? how many are you going to take into your town? if you think we are only getting a few, what happens if we end up with another 32 million? are you going to take care of them? are you going to take care of 100 million? what is the cost? i want you to tell border patrol to keep up their morale because i tell you what, some of the citizens are behind them. no, it is not political and shame the citizens making a political. guest: what i can assure you of is t

cartel traffic golden and smuggling dented fentanyl into our communities. border patrol apprehended nearly 200 illegal crossers who are on the terrorist watch list. border patrol agents are exhausted and being pulled off the front lines with morale at an all-time low. all of this happening before 22 was set to expire. the last few days with got a glimpse at what our southern border will look like is biden's open borders agenda continues. 10000 crossings a day with majority leader who said pure chaos in the president's word himself pure chaos because joe biden in the administration let the world know are borders are open and make no mistake it is intentional and not humane. the day kevin mccarthy and house republicans stepped up to provide another commonsense solution will biden and the democrats failed. after two years of disregard from the white house, house republicans passed legislation that builds the border wall, strengthens asylum laws, and guidance parole programs and e-mailing addresses horrific child trafficking business at our southern border. it

de los arellano fÉlix, hay tres cÁrteles de sinaloa, arellano y jalisco nueva generaciÓn.mportante que equivale mÁs de $15,000,000. >> mario muÑoz fue uno de los primeros en llegar al hogar y en publicar vÍdeos de esta masacre. >> fue de temor, de miedo, de asombro, nunca me habÍa tocado estar en una situaciÓn de estas con tantas muertes. >> asegura que lo que viviÓ fue impactante, la gente del lugar estaba aterrorizada, la autoridades dicen estar coordinadas para dar con los responsables de esta agresiÓn, que de no haberse dado de forma directa, la tragedia habrÍa sido mucho mayor. en ensenada, mÉxico, porque fregoso. jorge: se investigan las causas de una estampida que ocurriÓ en un estadio de la capital del paÍs y que dejÓ 12 muertos y cerca de un centenar de heridos. se cree que la posible sobreventa, los cuerpos de las vÍctimas ya fueron entregados a sus familiares, mientras que los lesionados estÁn en recuperaciÓn. ilia: 1 millÓn y medio de personas podrÍan perder su empleo si demÓcratas y republicanos no se ponen de acuerdo. el presidente biden y kevi que se alegrab

criminal cartels in mexico do and he gave it to them. this man lies under oath, embarrassment to the position he holds this. is on him, all of this. he took the most secure border in my lifetime and created this. this is on him. and i've said for two years he needs to be impeached, the men and women of the border patrol don't respect him. the men and the women of the border patrol, thank god for the state of texas -- governor abbott should be the secretary of homeland secretary. he's done more to secure the border than anybody. >> john: i think he likes being governor of texas, at least for the moment. good to talk to you. thank you so much, appreciate it. >> you've got it. >> john: a lot more ahead on this as well, sandra, throughout the afternoon. >> sandra: just -- the numbers we are talking about are incredible here and we'll have a lot more reaction coming up in cities they are not border towns, chicago, new york are dealing with this massive number of migrants being sent to the cities. raymond lopez in chicago, he's witnessing firs

one controlled by the drug cartels. the administration's refusal to enforce the law or implement effective policies to secure the border has led us to this point. completely dismantling any semblance of law and order. over the past several month, members of the committee on homeland security have been hard at work crafting a solution to address the administration's self-inflicted crisis at our borders. with input from our colleagues across the republican conference as well as border patrol agents, victims of illegal alien crime and the drug crisis, small business owners, state and local law enforcement and farmers and ranchers, the committee has taken the time to fully understand secretary mayorkas' record breaking crisis. these are the everyday americans bearing the brunt of this crisis who are all too often overlooked by the media and the d.c. beltway. the numbers that day and now all americans are face -- that they and now all americans are fating are staggering. more than five million encounters at the southwest bor

this used by 12 days of the cartel meets a much older one.ple still emerge from this route, but it's mostly walked by the ghosts of those before. their clothes and plastic caught in the trees from when the rains took the rivers higher. now it is flat, silent, and speaks of decay. the bodies here have traces of the past, but there's no burial, no name, no memory. no matter how busy it evidently got, people were left behind. fragments of lives abandoned or childhoods interrupted, cast aside. moments almost frozen in time. and the sound of the river, giant yet calm, echoing. the people who pass us say they set out in a group of 400 from colombia, but something has changed. locals tell us the cartel is fracturing and now this old route competes with the new to be the safest and fastest. it's clearly losing. this is likely a crime scene. there are three bodies here in similar decay. little is certain but it is unlikely they died of natural causes in the same place at about the same time. the first, that of a man lying face down amid the roots on t

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crossing the border as they were beingbe interviewed hm i was that they mexican military and the cartels were metering the number of people and they recognize that is going to be very bad for business if they would've pressed the border like it was expected s&l fully have seen is this tapering off numbers are going back up but if you look at the numbers right now, the numbers are still four times higher than what they should be and if you look back at the obama administration secretary johnson, he said that there was a very bad day we apprehended a thousand people right now, where between three - 4000 people per day so we are still three - four times higher than what we should see when we are that high, creates gaps in our coverage we don't have the resources until necessary is to meeting recesses resource doing them is for duties we don't have resources in thehe field it creates gaps and when we have in coverage limits and we see the higher value products such as fentanyl, criminal aliens and that is when those people with us partners cross the borders illegally and we've already appreh

that will dry up the cartels business. in the ongoing tragedy. >> i heard from earlier testimony that quote title 42 is cruel and restrictive policy. the gentleman from texas. my college in san antonio. title 40 tool is cruel. as a judgment aware title 42 is set to expire the day after tomorrow? >> yes thanks his administration. >> went title 42 expires as a gentleman agree essentially one third to one half of the flood that has been coming across the border to date has been dealt with or turned away through title 42? oxide a way to forecast the future. it is quite clear what is unfolding this week the collapse of title 42 is the collapse of the board about going to see that very graphic las vegas midsize a gentleman at the gentleman from san antonio and a nether colleague from texas requesting $38 million in fema emergent hourly for san antonio in preparation for the express and title 42. for social safety net designed to help americans and invest not just at the border that's everywhere now. >> a question for the gentlem

you can't outflank me when it comes to being aggressive on the cartels, i want to use every means to target them. you have to be careful of the side effects, that is what that discussion was about. i appreciate the speaker doing is allowing us to start a task force that i will lead for future cartel legislation. this legislation hr-2 doesn't deal with cartels, we'll do it separately and, methodically and have a team of members with staff that will be a focal point for all cartels that crosses the committees and i'm excited and proud to lead it and i thank the speaker for doing this. >> brian: this will turn to domestic afghanistan, we are seeing overwhelmed border patrol and special forces actually pushing people back for the first time getting ahead of the border patrol. chaos in new york has the city overwhelmed and sending against the county wishes into the suburbs and no place to put these people. they are breaking our system and border patrol came out and said if anyone is dumb enough to believe the lies from the white house, seek help and stop being manipulated from the white h

that money is going to the mexican drug cartel.are basically -- this administrations border policies have reinstituted slavery in this country where we are bringing people all over the globe to make indentured payments to the cartel south of the border. host: what will the gop bill on the house for today do to stop the flow of migration? guest: a couple of things. number one, it sends a message. the instant asylum program, these are unaccompanied minors that i saw at fort bliss at the emergency intake center. we were shipping children to google addresses around the country with no verification on who they are going to. the sponsors are sending information in, so we are trafficking children. we have lost 85,000 of those children. the u.s. government doesn't know where they are at. we send a message that we are going to detain those unaccompanied minors, send them back coming have to process asylum in your country rather than coming here. we are putting the burden on the american taxpayer. the system, education or health care, people

i hate the cartels.brador, the president of mexico, he ran on a slogan with respect to the cartels of hugs, not bullets. that's not working out too well for him. >> neil: i think what they are referring what you said to the mexicans, they are eating out of a cat food can and tents. that got too cold. what i said -- what i proposed to the head of the dea is that xi and the president call the president of mexico and ask if the american military and the american law enforcement can come in to mexico under the supervision of the mexican military and the mexican law enforcement and let us work together to eradicate the cartels. because we know who they are. we know where they are. and i suggested to the dea secretary that we use america's economic leverage to try to convince the president of mexico to do that. >> neil: makes perfect sense the way you explained that. what i'm asking you sir and not meaning to badger you, but robert f. kennedy jr. is, regrets that some people think you're related to him. he wen

because that's where the cartel had moved the mass migration to. i reckon that was the easiest way to get all the people from venezuela that they'd recruited to come to america. that was the easiest, most economical route to get them to the border was from venezuela to brownsville, texas. i have to tell you it's worse than i expected. the scene was bleak. the morale was at an all-time low. and there was no sign of this crisis ending any time soon. at least that's what was going on on our side of the border. on the other side of the border, these migrants were celebrating. they were having a party. the worst party of their journey was over. we toured example monument -- we toured camp monument. camp monument was a park just weeks before, but the border patrol had come in there and set up an emergency command post. now, again, the dhs secretary is telling us the border is open, but this is what the border patrol told us. just the day before, 11,000 illegal migrants had been recorded at this location alone. and more than 3,000 got-aways the same day.

should be a designation established to address such cartels. two, information related to actions by such cartels that causes harm to the united states. in title 8 of division b, redesignate section 815 as section 816. in title 8 of division b, insert after section 814 the following -- section 815, sense of congress on further implementation. it is a sense of congress that in implementing the e-verify program the secretary of homeland security shall ensure any adverse impact on the nation's agricultural workforce, operations, and food security are considered and addressed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the amendment and on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question on the amendment and on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. ms. scanlon: mr. speaker, we request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: