Letter to the Editor

What is Congress doing?

By Jeff Gliedman, Marlboro
Posted 6/5/19

Last month during a visit to Laredo, Texas a reporter met with Joel Martinez, deputy chief of the Border Patrol for the Laredo sector.

The Deputy Chief said “The Laredo sector is unique …

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Letter to the Editor

What is Congress doing?

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Last month during a visit to Laredo, Texas a reporter met with Joel Martinez, deputy chief of the Border Patrol for the Laredo sector.

The Deputy Chief said “The Laredo sector is unique compared to our bordering neighbors to the left and to the right of us, up river and down river, in that we sit right across the border from the headquarters of the Cartel del Noreste, formerly known [as] the Zetas Cartel,”

“They are the main reason we are not getting the massive humanity coming at us,” Martinez said of the drug cartel, “because they control that part of the border so violently.”

“So last month they discovered through interviews with aliens that a lot of people were being held against their will until they could pay the Zetas, or the Cartel del Noreste. That being said, our agents were actually able to identify the smugglers and the keepers of these houses. And working with FBI and other federal partners, and also our Mexican partners, we were able to identify exactly where these stash houses were, and who these smugglers were. And keep in mind, they’re pretty ruthless. If you don’t pay, they start punishing these people severely until the families pay. So we just got a conviction on two of them on our side, on the American side; when they did come across, we were able to identify them.”

So whether you want to call it a humanitarian or security crisis we currently face at our southern border, our Congress needs to act. Why are they remiss at doing their jobs? If you didn’t do your job you’d get fired!