Cartel attack on US citizens at Mexico border too close to home, say Texas Republicans

AUSTIN, Texas — Just after driving across Texas, Americans were attacked by an armed group. border Northern Mexico According to Republican legislators from the border, this shows that there are powerful criminal organisations right outside America.

The March 3 kidnapping of four U.S. citizens ought to serve as an enhanced warning to the U.S. government of how seriously cartels that facilitate human and drug smuggling are about their billion-dollar businesses — and stir the Biden administration and Congress to take major action to stow up the U.S.

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“These cartels are brazen enough to shoot at and kidnap foreign nationals in broad daylight,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX (in an email to The Washington Examiner Wednesday. “There is no limit to brutality they will use to achieve their ends — the profiteering off of human suffering.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R. Texas), who is a member the House Intelligence Committee, and was formerly a Navy SEAL, stated that this incident happened too close home.

“The cartel-fueled violence can easily spill into the United States and threaten American lives, and that’s exactly what has happened,” Crenshaw wrote the following: Crenshaw represents a District near Dallas op-ed published Wednesday.

Ted Cruz (Republican from Texas) asked the Biden administration for assistance in sending the military into the investigation.

“Our answer is not just go to war with Mexico, the answer is put pressure on Mexico and have the Mexican army show up, arrest these guys, extradite him to the United States — they need to be prosecuted and face the full force of American justice,” Cruz talked to Fox News with Jesse Watters on Tuesday evening. “If we had a president with a scintilla of willingness to stand up to other nations, that’s exactly what would be happening, right.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is leading Senate GOP efforts to act against cartels. Graham and Senator John Kennedy (R.LA), announced Wednesday legislation to press the U.S. to take action against the cartels. The bill authorized military use, perhaps within Mexico.

Four black Americans, who just had crossed the border into Canada from Africa, were involved in March 3’s incident