Biden Silent After Texas Family Goes Missing in Cartel Territory, Reportedly Kidnapped by Gunmen


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A Texas family has reportedly been kidnapped by a criminal cartel while traveling through Mexico, and there’s a stark silence on the apparent abduction from the White House.

According to Breitbart, gunmen from the Los Zetas cartel are likely responsible for the disappearance of the family of 39-year-old Gladys Cristina Perez Sanchez. The mom and her two children, ages 9 and 16, were last seen on June 13.

All three are American citizens, making President Joe Biden’s silence even more worrying.

The apparent kidnapping happened after the family left Sabina Hidalgo, a town in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon where a sick relative of Sanchez’s lives.

Although the group only had about 80 miles to cover before reaching their Laredo, Texas home, they never reached the house. Family members became even more concerned when calls to Sanchez and the children went straight to voicemail.

The stretch of road the family was traveling on is infamous for cartel attacks and abductions. Many other roads leading to the U.S. in Mexican border areas are also plagued by narco-bandits.

Soon after the family’s disappearance, Mexican officials in the state issued notices and began to look for the missing Americans.

While victimizing American citizens seems like a big move for low-life highway bandits, cartels are becoming much bolder in the way they conduct crime.



Earlier this month, professional cartel gunmen ambushed an ammo convoy loaded down with 7 million rounds bound for the United States. While nobody was hurt in this heist, it emboldened the narco gangs and landed the violent criminals a cache of deadly munitions.



For much of Mexico, cartel violence is ever-present.

Recently, the extortion, murder and drug trade has made its way to the north of the country as criminals prey on the masses of people migrating to the U.S. border.

Innocent families, hoping for a chance at American prosperity under a progressive Biden administration, become easy targets for human traffickers and are often left to a horrific fate in the inhospitable southwest scrublands.

As cartels take full advantage of Biden’s border crisis, the situation in the north of Mexico has become so bad that locals have a very grim attitude on traveling.

“To travel through the highways of the north of the country is to breathe death,” is the dark advice some locals give, according to a Google translation of the Spanish-language Mexican media outlet Infobae.

What’s particularly troubling about this family’s disappearance is the fact that their American citizenship was apparently no protection.

American citizens traveling abroad can generally assume that any government doing them an injustice would ultimately have to answer to the United States.

However, the non-government criminal cartels that have been empowered in northern Mexico by Biden’s leniency toward the trafficking of illegal immigrants have no need for such concern. The Biden administration’s own clear disregard for U.S. laws can’t help but inspire the same disrespect south of the border.

Ignorance is also unlikely to be a factor. The most inept of cartel thugs would have noticed right away that this family was American. Even without passports, the car was tagged with Texas plates and Sanchez likely had registration, a license or other documents with a U.S. address.

Of course, criminals south of the border are likely well aware that the current American president would sooner airlift their families to a comfortable hotel than hunt down outlaws to recover a few Texans.

With Biden apparently unable or unwilling to help victimized Americans, it seems as though it will only be a matter of time until much of Mexico is considered a no-go zone for visitors from north of the border.

How is Mexico not worse than Iraq and Afghanistan? The cartels are basically equivalent to the Taliban and other radical groups. We have our own 3rd world shit hole in our backyard. Time to get serious about it.

Again?

Yep. Travel to Mexico should now be only for dire emergencies. Loss of tourism money might encourage the government there to take more issue with the lawlessness.

flashguy

Maybe the US could send a self driving van with animatronic people, monitored cameras and fat stacks of C4 and ball bearings in the outer panels through the worst roads at the worst times. Maybe follow it with a small drone or a big satellite. The predators probably strike on remote deserted stretches of highway. I bet they'd eventually get a bite.

You could drive it over (I never saw measures to detect anything like explosives on the part of Mexican border guards), install the animatronics (mailed over) and switch license plates. Use a vehicle that was seized from traffikers making tracing the VIN an irrelevant exercise. The whole thing becomes a big mysterious, meaty hole in the highway.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:
Maybe the US could send a self driving van with animatronic people, monitored cameras and fat stacks of C4 and ball bearings in the outer panels through the worst roads at the worst times. Maybe follow it with a small drone or a big satellite. The predators probably strike on remote deserted stretches of highway. I bet they'd eventually get a bite.

You could drive it over (I never saw measures to detect anything like explosives on the part of Mexican border guards), install the animatronics (mailed over) and switch license plates. Use a vehicle that was seized from traffikers making tracing the VIN an irrelevant exercise. The whole thing becomes a big mysterious, meaty hole in the highway.

No need.

We have Benicio del Toro.



(pop quiz: what's wrong in that picture)

I was going to say it sounds like the Army convoy ambush in Lone Wolf McQuade. And we all know how that turned out.

Benicio appears to be ambidextrous.

And yet that shithole country blames the US for their problems. I wish the US-Mexico border was built like the DMZ separating the Koreas.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Benicio appears to be ambidextrous.

The first picture has the paddle release on the wrong side: the picture is reversed.

He is holding the mag release, that mag should have popped out and be laying on the ground.

I figured his thumb would be injured, and he'd take a hit in the face, too.

flashguy

And he is on safe...

Seems to me if we really wanted to stop the cartels, we could. Wouldn't really be that hard. Drones with hellfires and some cruise missiles could take out most of their production, warehousing, and management. We don't have the will to do it. Mexico's army and police are compromised, essentially useless, and taking money from the cartels to defend the cartels' interests.

But a good President, with promises to defend the Mexican President and help him stay in power, could get things done. Someone who, you know, like set the US Military free to decimate Isis. Which they did, quickly and efficiently.

We fail because we approach it as law enforcement and not war. It is war.

Some years ago, my wife worked for an unnamed well-known company that had a manufacturing plant in Mexico.
They got a new plant manager at her facility who previously ran that Mexican plant. One night we were at a dinner with them and his kids began talking about the game the youngest son played.

It seems that the manager's family actually lived in Texas where the kids went to school. Each morning the bodyguard would drive the manager into Mexico to the facility and back home in the evening. The son’s game was counting the new bullet holes in the armored Suburban used for each trip. (Armored glass, armored doors/body and I assume some sort of run-flat tires).
The manager was fortunate in that he moved to new location before things really got serious.

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Originally posted by Rinehart:
the facility and back home in the evening. The son’s game was counting the new bullet holes in the armored Suburban used for each trip. (Armored glass, armored doors/body and I assume some sort of run-flat tires).

We used to do something similar with airplanes, in Colombia. Small world.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Seems to me if we really wanted to stop the cartels, we could.

Well... A little over 100 years ago, we twice invaded Mexico to quell violent unrest that had begun impacting American interests and spilling over the border.

The US Marine Corps invaded and occupied the Mexican port of Veracruz in 1914, and in 1916 the US Army marched into and occupied a portion of Northern Mexico.

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Originally posted by Rinehart:
the facility and back home in the evening. The son’s game was counting the new bullet holes in the armored Suburban used for each trip. (Armored glass, armored doors/body and I assume some sort of run-flat tires).

We used to do something similar with airplanes, in Colombia. Small world.

The first time I went to Colombia we were out walking around Cartagena. I learned a number of lessons there.

#1 was- be very particular about eating at the sidewalk cafes. We were walking with a guide and I noticed some employees at a sidewalk cafe diligently moving tables and washing down the pavement with several water hoses. Turns out the reason for the really thorough clean-up was that someone had pulled up in a car that morning and hosed down a few tables of rival ‘businessmen”. (But the guys in the car didn't use a water hose).

#2 was- we had the Colombian customs officers come on board our boat and I noticed what appeared to be a 22' Boston Whaler running around the harbor with something dark and metal on the bow. After we had broken the ice with the officials, I asked about it and he made some hand gesture.
As soon as he did that the boat came roaring by and there was a guy crouched down at the bow behind a tripod/bolted down Ma Deuce.
He didn’t need to explain further-

An extra thing I learned- moored all over the harbor were 50-70’ sailboats of all types, some with drink glasses still in the holders and sails not even properly furled. The boats appeared abandoned.
I asked about those and the official said, “ Señor, these are sailboats that were confiscated for trafficking and selling drugs, and the people who owned them are now in a Colombian prison”.
(I had this instant glimmer of bidding/buying an auctioned drug seizure boat).
When I asked him if the boats would be sold/auctioned by the government, he laughed heartedly at that and said “Bacano, if the mayor wants one, he takes it, as does any other official.
THAT is what happens to the boats”….