Suppose you are in the business of human trafficking over the United States’ southern border, and have the organization/resources to make a huge side business out of massive shoptlifting/resale of the stolen goods?
How deliriously overjoyed would you be with the Biden administration and the hard-left mayors/District Attorneys of major U.S. cities?
From Anna Giaritelli’s article at the Washington Examiner:
Mexican cartels are quietly expanding their global criminal empires to include mass theft operations targeting big-box stores, luxury retail brands, and small businesses, then selling the stolen goods online and laundering the profits through Chinese brokers.
The same transnational criminal organizations, known as cartels, that have facilitated the greatest-ever human smuggling operation across the U.S.-Mexico border over the past two years and simultaneously caused the fentanyl epidemic in America now have a hand in organized retail crime.
“It’s a $70 billion a year enterprise — organized retail crime,” said Eric DeLaune, special agent in charge at the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, arm within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during an announcement this week of a public-private partnership between HSI; U.S. attorneys in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; and industry leaders from Albertsons, Home Depot, and Walmart to create an Organized Retail Crime Alliance.
“In contrast to shoplifters, organized theft groups engage in large-scale thefts which rely on teams of ‘boosters’ who steal goods from major retail stores, ‘cleaners’ who disguise the origins of stolen merchandise, ‘fencers’ who resell products through brick-and-mortar fronts and major e-commerce websites, and professional money launderers who funnel illicit profits to criminals orchestrating schemes,” HSI wrote in a June press release.
In the same way that Mexican cartels use Chinese brokers to funnel their profits from fentanyl back to Mexico, the cartel-operated retail crime rings send money made from reselling goods back to Mexico through the same Chinese money launderers.
How can they do this? How can they possibly get away with it?
Well, when you have a presidential administration determined to leave our southern border open, to get as many illegals (and, as soon as they can get them “legal”, future Democrat voters) into the country as possible…
…and Mayors/District Attorneys who barely (if at all) support the police, while looking the other way at just about all non-felonious criminal activity – very much including shoplifting…
…they have a virtual free pass to do it all.
The fact that this is destroying our country as we know it? Irrelevant ‘n immaterial.
This can only continue if voters keep electing the people who allow it to happen. And if that is what they do, I guess the destruction of our country as we know it is what they want.
