Chip Roy Reveals that Mexican Cartels are Expanding into the US

Texas Congressman Chip Roy claims that Mexican drug cartels such as the Gulf Cartel and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas are operating inside the United States. 

According to Ildefonso Ortiz and Gerald Tony Aranda of Breitbart News, Congressman Roy made several visits to the Texas border while the country is experiencing a crisis there at the moment. The current crisis is largely due to the Biden administration’s lax immigration policies, which reversed many of the Trump administration’s sensible measures to keep immigration flows in check. 

Congressman Roy made his statements after Breitbart Texas exclusively interviewed him as he traveled to the Texas border. Roy visited several border flashpoints such as Carrizo Springs, Eagle Pass, Laredo, and McAllen. Roy observed that Mexican cartels have de facto control of the border due to Mexican government’s inability to stem cartel activity. This is a microcosm of Mexico’s current institutional chaos, in which it can barely provide public order and crack down on cartels.