Border Wars Texas is Ground Zero (update) Texas Border Security Report
“During the past two years, the state of Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime,” the report concluded.
The report states six of the seven Mexican drug cartels have “command and control” operations in Texas cities.
“Texas has become critical terrain and operational ground zero in the cartel’s efforts to expand into the United States,” the report stated.
McCaffrey said the cartels are heavily recruiting Texas gang members to help insure the transportation of drugs into the United States and cash from the sale of drugs back into Mexico. McCaffrey said the Texas Department of Public Safety estimates at least 18,000 Texas gang members are already working for the cartels, and the number of prison gangs working with the cartels increased from four to twelve in the last year.
“That is an enemy division inside Texas that is armed and criminal in nature and fueled by drug money,” McCaffrey said.
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