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OAKLAND — Last May, when 53-year-old Elk Grove resident William Lusk was arrested in Florida for allegedly possessing a pound of cocaine and distribution of fentanyl, he allegedly told police that his close friend who had a drug cartel connection had been gunned down in Oakland months earlier.

Police in Jacksonville, Fla. didn’t know it at the time, but back on the West Coast authorities were still investigating the homicide of 57-year-old Delondo Bellamy, and Lusk was the prime suspect. Investigators believed that Lusk had used a cellphone app to hide his number and disguise himself as a woman, then lure Bellamy to a location where he could safely gun him down. . . . Read more about Oakland murder suspect and victim were friends, tied by illicit business and drug cartel connection, police say

If you've read or seen reports from the media this week, or heard Biden Administration officials talk about the border, you might think that the border crisis is beginning to wind down.

Yes, the number of illegal border crossings has lessened. But the illegal aliens showing up at ports of entry along the Southwest border in June hit its highest level since Pres. Biden took office in 2021. And we don't know yet how many illegal aliens were paroled into the country by the administration at a port of entry NOT along the Southwest border.

First, let's take a closer look at the newest report from the Department of Homeland Security detailing the number of illegal alien encounters along the Southwest border last month. . . .

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As "Sound of Freedom" continues to push conversations of child sex trafficking further into the American zeitgeist, insiders and experts say President Joe Biden's border policies are helping facilitate the burgeoning child sex trafficking industry.

Released July 4, "Sound of Freedom" grossed $14 million, becoming the number one film in America.

According to a July 28 press release, national box office sales for "Sound of Freedom" surged past $130 million. The film will soon be released internationally. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: Biden Border Policies Open Loopholes for Human Traffickers, Insiders Say

TRINITY COUNTY, Calif. — If you buy weed illegally, you unwittingly could be supporting Mexican cartels and other criminal syndicates that lure workers to farms in Northern California and Southern Oregon, where they often suffer inhumane conditions and sometimes sexual abuse. Or worse.

Some disappear, presumed murdered, their bodies discarded within the area's vast wilderness.

Others are held against their will. Sometimes, workers' passports, visas or driver's licenses and cell phones are locked away until they finish the harvest season. And cultivators often threaten to harm the workers or the workers' families if they run off or talk to police, said Trinity County Sheriff Tim Saxon.

"They're basically being held prisoner," he said. . . . Read more about Cartel-backed pot grows linked to human trafficking, inhumane working conditions

Opioids are responsible for more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. By far, the biggest share of those deaths results from fentanyl, and our own border and immigration policies play an outsized role in facilitating the carnage. At the same time, the fentanyl trade is strengthening and enriching global criminal cartels and hostile regimes, most notably communist China.

Let’s start with the obvious. The majority of the lethal drugs that are responsible for more than 300 death every day in the U.S. cross the border from Mexico, trafficked by the same Mexican cartels that are responsible for moving unprecedented numbers of migrants to the U.S. . . . Read more about The CCP Is Killing Americans and Laundering the Profits – With Our Help

Federal authorities raided the headquarters of a Texas border sheriff’s office whose top official is widely known for claiming that the border is safe. The sheriff frequently minimizes cartel activity even though one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations operates in his county.

On Monday, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided the Webb County Sheriff’s Office in Laredo, Texas. The Laredo Morning Times first reported on the raid. Breitbart Texas contacted an FBI spokesman who confirmed that they executed court-authorized law enforcement activities at the building but could not provide additional details. . . . Read more about Feds Raid Office of Texas Border Sheriff Known for Downplaying Mexican Cartel Influence

Last Tuesday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held its third hearing on the Biden Border Crisis.

The hearing focused in on the devastating effects of the Biden Administration’s open-border policies, emphasizing the harms facing American citizens from criminal illegal aliens.  The hearing also highlighted the record numbers of suspects on the terrorist watchlist entering the country.

Witnesses for the hearing included:

• Tammy Nobles, mother of Kayla Hamilton who was allegedly murdered by an unaccompanied alien child MS-13 gang member . . .

The Biden administration is ending a Trump-era plan designed to crack down on fake claims of family relationships among illegal immigrants crossing America’s southern border.

The policy will end May 31, according to a leaked memo published by Just the News.

“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) familial DNA contract with BODE Technologies will end on May 31, 2023 and all familial DNA testing will conclude on that date,” the memo said.

In 2019, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told the Senate Judiciary Committee that, based on initial results of one pilot program, 15 percent of alleged migrant families are committing fraud by claiming unrelated children as their own, according to The Hill. . . .

  Read more about Leaked Memo Exposes Biden's New Policy That Will Dramatically Spike Human Trafficking - Report

Multiple arrests have been made in connection with the case of Francisco Oropesa, who faces murder charges in the Friday night killings of five people in Cleveland, Texas.

According to the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office, the incident began late at night when the 38-year-old Mexican national was asked by a neighbor to stop firing a rifle in his yard because an infant in the next house was trying to sleep, Fox News reported.

“The suspect said something along the lines of, ‘It’s his property, he’ll do whatever he pleased on his property,’” Sheriff Greg Capers said. “The man went back into the house. Next thing they know, he’s walking up the driveway with rifle in hand.” . . . Read more about Police Announce More Arrests in Case of Illegal Immigrant Accused of 5 Murders - Did He Have Help?

A source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection not authorized to speak to the media on these matters told Breitbart Texas that agents apprehended more than 37,000 migrants in April. The monthly total represents an increase of more than 100 percent from the nearly 18,000 migrants apprehended in March. It also exceeds the total apprehensions for February and March combined — just under 33,000.

The tremendous spike in migrant apprehensions in April come just ahead of the expected demise of the CDC’s Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol that allows Border Patrol agents to expel migrants for health concerns. That program will reportedly end on May 11. . . . Read more about EXCLUSIVE: April Migrant Apprehensions in South Texas Border Sector Double Prior Month