The United States and other countries in the West are being flooded with illegal immigrants. These so-called refugees are often coming from a handful of countries under socialist dictatorships. Many others are coming from countries that have been destabilized by gangs and terror networks. Yet what’s less talked about is the nuance between all these—the overlap between socialist regimes, organized crime, and global terrorism. In this episode of "Crossroads," we discuss this issue and others.
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The United States and other Western countries are being flooded with illegal immigrants
The so-called refugees are often coming from a handful of countries under socialist dictatorships
Many others are coming from countries that have been destabilized by gangs and by terror networks
You know, what's less talked about is the nuance between all of these the overlap between socialist regimes
Organized crime and global terrorism
Now it was known in the past that terror networks use drugs to finance their operations
we paid attention to the poppy fields in Afghanistan and the
International market for opium, but we paid less attention to the narco terrorist
Organizations that have found their way around Latin America
We don't talk as much about the influence of Russia China and Iran in the region
We don't discuss Hezbollah's networks and political parties
We don't talk about the network behind the Mexican cartels tied in with international powers
And at the very least the issue is not well known in the public
Now when we talk about drugs, we mostly talk about Mexican cartels
They get their precursor chemicals and synthetic drugs mainly from China
Money laundering is also handled by China often through casinos such as with the so-called Vancouver model in Canada
Lower level trades are often done by street gangs. The full network of this forms a sort of underworld order
Now in the surface world, we have multi-billion dollar companies and brands that we all know
It's the same in the criminal world. There are
multi-billion dollar industries and drugs
Human trafficking money laundering and well things a whole lot worse than those
There's a sort of order between street gangs organized criminal networks and even entire
Countries that use this alternative global economy as a way to bypass the sanctions of the surface world order
while advancing their own global interests notably
now
Global terrorism is a key part in all of this
The drugs and organized crime are a foundational part of their system in the United States
One of the main agencies that helps fight this network is the DEA the Drug Enforcement Administration
one of the DEA's key branches that oversees interagency support for field investigations into
Terrorist networks tied in with the system is the counter narco terrorism operations center
Which is under these special operations division back in January of 2020
John Fernandez a special agent in charge of that Center
he gave a public speech at the Washington Institute describing the real picture of
international drug trade watch of the 68
FTOs foreign terrorist organizations designated by the State Department
DEA has linked 25 of those to some form of drug trafficking or role in the drug trade
If you notice IRGC was added last year
In 2019
Now, did you get that? The US State Department has defined 68 foreign terrorist organizations
these are most of the known and designated terrorist groups in the world and
25 of them which is almost half are involved in the drug trade
If you look at the infographics shown in John Fernandez's speech, you'd also notice something interesting
Almost every group on that list is tied to either Iran or as a Maoist group that ties to the Chinese Communist Party
On the list of foreign terrorist organizations engaged in drug trafficking our names
We're now seeing in news headlines around the terror attacks against Israel
including Hamas and Hezbollah now as John Fernandez noted as well, they added the
IRGC to that list in 2019
The IRGC is one of the main branches of Iran's military
So why is the military of a country?
Listed as a foreign terrorist organization a foreign terrorist organization
Which in this case plays a key role in the international drug trade
Well, it goes back to that alternative world order. I mentioned
Let's call it the a new underworld order in this case and my own work as an investigative journalist
I've encountered many of these networks when I was investigating CCP front operations
I found that tongs which are Chinese fraternal organizations throughout the United States in the world
They play a key role in the regime's operations to subvert the United States and other countries
Some of these have recently been referred to as these so-called Chinese police stations operating in the u.s
Under many tongs are the triads the Chinese mafia and like most groups of this nature
Whether it's the Mexican cartels or Hamas or many others
They often have both legitimate and illegitimate operations. For example, they might have
Humanitarian efforts some have hospitals some do community outreach programs
But they also have the flip side and they will use the legitimate side to gain access to people of power
With Chinese espionage and drug trade the CCP has a government branch that uses them
It's the United Front Work Department and this network engages in what's called leadership capture
They compromise our politicians. They invite business and university professors on trips to China
they attempt to co-opt and then compromise the systems and
Individuals who steer the nation's this forms the basis of CCP espionage and subversion now
Similar systems exist for other countries as well
When I was researching CCP spy networks, one of the big questions I had was why do they care about drugs?
What are the uses of criminal networks? Well part of that is
Destabilization they can create crime they can poison the youth of a nation, you know with fentanyl
They can kill more Americans every single year than we lost in the entire war in Vietnam
But even beyond this it also creates a tiny type of alternative economy and the entire system around that
Which is outside international regulations and sanctions now that alternative economy is not just money again
It's a system. It's people it's businesses as institutions
One of the key interests for the CCP on a military level is to use that control of the drug trade
To give them control of smuggling networks. It gives them access to people willing to break laws of a country
it gives them access to people who are willing to kill and
Even the powerful figures who are willing to harm or betray the people of their own countries
When you combine those with smuggling channels, what does that mean?
Well, it means they can bring whatever they want into a country without alerting the authorities
Think guns, think fighters, even types of weapons far worse than anything we've experienced
There's also deeper interconnections between various networks
Including between terror groups and cartels that are otherwise not involved in these types of operations
As the other one is doing. The Wilson Center reported in 2018 for years
Hezbollah has had business links to drug cartels
especially in South America
Its operatives have helped move narcotics and laundered the proceeds of sales to finance its operations in
Syria as well as its terrorist wing
Now a lot of this goes back to 2010
Back when the war on terror was still going strong in the United States. It was one of the biggest topics we had
Business Insider reported this
Islamic terrorist groups are setting up shop in Mexico and
forming alarming ties with the country's brutal drug cartels
The alerts stem from a leaked Tucson Police Department memo from September of 2010
The memo noted that Hezbollah had established operations and even had large
Stockpiles of weapons in Mexico that included assault rifles hand grenades
C4 explosives and anti-tank munitions
Now, why would Hezbollah be in Mexico?
Well because of its proximity to the United States
in fact that Tucson police memo said that
Hezbollah's main goal is to cast out any form of Israeli rule and or occupation
Due to the US political and financial support of Israel
Hezbollah regards our nation as a viable target and that's the exact quote
Now with this knowledge in hand wouldn't the US work to root out Hezbollah terror influence throughout Latin America?
Well, they were but it turned out that Barack Obama when he was president
He put a stop to that
Politico reported in 2017 that Obama
Allegedly ended that whole investigation in order to strike deals with Iran. He let Hezbollah off the hook
however, the investigations into these organizations were reopened under President Donald Trump in
2018 then Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Announced a transnational organized crime task force to target five groups of interest
MS-13, the CJNG, the Sinaloa cartel, the Clan de Golfo and
Hezbollah
The US designated drug cartels together with Hezbollah as the greatest threats we face
because of how intertwined cartel drug trafficking and
Hezbollah's terrorism is
Now understand what's happening in this country right now and understand how this relates to what is happening in the broader world
We're already in an undeclared war with the Chinese Communist Party
In fact, the Chinese Communist Party openly declared a people's war on the United States
We're already in a proxy war with Russia over Ukraine
China and Russia have a no-limits agreement signed right before the whole invasion of Ukraine and
War with either of them is war with the block of nations
They command as I mentioned previously and exposed on my documentary the final war last year
The CCP has an agenda to pull the United States into four separate wars
One of those they say needs to be a war on terrorism and with the recent terror attacks against Israel
It's also possible where we could very soon be in a proxy war with Iran. That will be Hamas
Hezbollah and the IRGC
Connected to that will be networks. I just discussed on the underworld order the networks of international organized crime and terrorism and
How does all this relate to our open border you might ask?
Well, here are some hidden cameras taken from the US-Mexico border in remote Arizona over the course of several years
These videos were shared with us by Arizona border recon
These show what appear to be drug traffickers of the cartels and military fatigues and
Walking along the border and footage of what appears to be a Middle Eastern man
You can see here being escorted into the United States by heavily armed men
The man sitting on the gate in civilian clothing was of particular note in these videos
So this is what's happening at our border as we've discussed the drug trade and human trafficking are being
Facilitated by the cartels
Open border policies have kicked these into overdrive
There are concerns now that Hezbollah could engage in terror attacks against America and it was known
They already had weapons caches in Mexico and now because of the cost of taking care of the illegal immigrants
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