Enabling Drug Cartels
With Biden’s choice to open the borders comes the immense risk that violent cartels will do everything in their power to traffic drugs across the border when the country already struggles with an opioid epidemic. Recently, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was warned by border officials that Biden’s policy changes are sure to enable the dangerous cartels to increase trafficking drugs across the border.
“They also said that the reason for the change, the reason for the increase and the influx is because of the policy change by the Biden administration,” Abbott said. “More importantly, though is … Border Patrol officers told me that the Biden administration policies, they are enriching and they are empowering the drug cartels in Mexico, who make money off of the people that they assist in smuggling them into the state of Texas.”