It’s the old playbook…
[Via Michael G]
Notes from the Resistance

This is what Democrats protesting deportations of unvetted criminal aliens, and demanding the government disarm you, want to reduce this country to.
Every protester and politician impeding ICE is a traitor. Let the RICO prosecutions of those funding it begin.
[Via Jess]

What we’re seeing is a practical repeat of what the anti-gunners and their media amplifiers were telling the American public prior to “Gunwalker” in an attempt to swindle them out of their rights… [More]
It’s déjà vu all over again.
A father and son living in Alabama pleaded guilty in Laredo, Texas, to attempting to traffick over 500 weapons and a cache of ammunition over the border. Emilio Ramirez Cortes, 48, a Mexican citizen who legally resides in Albertville, Alabama, and his son, Edgar Emilio Ramirez Diaz, 23, also of Albertville, have now admitted to smuggling of goods from the United States and trafficking firearms, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei announced. [More]
Who do they think they are? ATF?
[Via bondmen]
Forty-three state police officers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have been suspended. They are under investigation for having turned their police station into a bar and being drunk on the job. The scandal comes at a time when Tamaulipas continues to experience rising levels of cartel violence, and state police officers have been accused of not acting against cartel gunmen. [More]
If that’s their alternative, I’d say they made the right choice.
[Via bondmen]
Both the government and the Vatican, with the steady connivance of the United States, saw how detrimental the ongoing struggle was to their mutual interests; in consequence, an agreement or modus vivendi was reached and reluctantly accepted by the Cristero combatants, who, in the end, were betrayed by it. [More]
I haven’t read this book but will put it on the list, because I’ve long been interested in how the Church hierarchy betrayed the faithful then and continue to do so today.
[Via Antigone]
Mayor Who Begged Sheinbaum for Help Fighting Cartels Assassinated at Day of the Dead Celebration [More]
What, he didn’t know?
[Via Michael G]
Mexican Senator: ‘Trump is Right, Mexico Ruled by Cartels’ [More]
And the ones not directly on the take are kept in check with the knowledge that anyone within their circle — at the highest levels — could be.
Understand that if the cartels objected to lawsuits against American gun manufacturers, they would make their expectations known loud and clear.
[Via bondmen]
ICE, CBP seize 400 firearms hidden in fake trailer walls at southern border crossing… HSI officials said the guns were headed into Mexico, where cartels fuel ongoing violence. [More]
That’s what happens when you’re not sanctioned. Funny, how a little bit of border security works, almost like the lack of it was deliberate.
But as we all know, this isn’t how the cartels gets their “good” stuff.
Shoot, I could’a told ’em that 16 years ago.
Related UPDATE
Note that last link was from April 2009, nine months before Mike Vanderboegh and I started our Fast and Furious reporting, but worth mentioning because it helps show how we were positioned to use the information we uncovered subsequent to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry that kicked the whole thing off.
I mention that because of this:
I appreciate the recognition. Most were never told and will never know.
You’ll not find our names here (I’ve been told by those who tried that attempts to add them have been edited out) or in an incentivized media narrative.

Gulf Cartel Gunman Caught in Mexico near Texas Border with 151 Explosives, 18 Drones, 3 IEDs [More]
We keep coming back to it’s not the laws, it’s the person, don’t we?
[Via bondmen]
And all with no hyperventilating accusations of racism…
I guess protest can’t happen unless there they serve cartel interests…
[Via WiscoDave]
Federal prosecutors are accusing a Chicago cop of using his status as a law enforcement officer to buy guns for an accomplice who funneled them to Mexico… Prosecutors say Rodriguez abused his position as a cop to acquire AR-style rifles and pistols not available to private citizens under Illinois law. [More]
You’d think living there he’d understand about encroaching on a bigger gang’s turf.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.
TikTokker and singer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, 32, husband Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, 36, son Gael Santiago, 13, and 7-year-old daughter Regina were discovered murdered inside the abandoned gray Ford Ranger in Guadalajara on Aug. 22… [More]
Democrats want their killers to be able to cross the border and embed themselves in our society at will. And they want us to be defenseless.
[Via Michael G]
59 Cops Arrested in Southern Mexico for Working with Cartels [More]
Hey, they’re just following the example set by their leadership…
Besides, we all know Mexican “gun violence” is U.S. gun companies’ fault.
Hey, we got us a category.
[Via bondmen]
About 7,000 local and state police officers in Tijuana, all licensed to carry firearms, have been told they can’t take on part-time work as armed security guards in the region. [More]
I’m sure there are plenty of moonlighting exceptions.
[Via bondmen]
DOJ: Sinaloa Cartel Used Mexico City’s Camera System to Track FBI Agents – Kill Informants [More]
Gee, it’s almost like they control the government or something…
At least it’s a lot more difficult to blame things on American “lax gun laws” now.
[Via bondmen]
According to the United States Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Missouri, 13 individuals were indicted for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine along with illegal possession of machine guns. The statement said ten of these individuals are Mexican Nationals… [More]
So, who should be suing whom…?
Note anti-gun Democrats and their judges fight deportation attempts tooth and nail.
[Via Steve T]