Cammack Details How Lucrative Open Borders Are for Cartels

The Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations, such as Venezuela's Tren de Aragua, are making hefty profits off of the border crisis, which Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) discussed in a recent appearance on Fox News's Faulkner Focus, calling it "a cash cow" and deriding soft-on-crime policies in American cities where the gangs operate almost with impunity.

Host Harris Faulkner began by asking how many potential members of Tren de Aragua have flown into the country under the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program due to inadequate vetting, which Rep. Cammack said needs to be discovered because "[the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)] has been unwilling to come forward and be transparent with Congress."

"So we certainly know TDA will have members that have been flown into the United States at taxpayers' expense. But here is a disturbing trend: for the nine times that I have been at the Southwest border, I can tell you, talking with agents and with people at the border myself, these individuals are paying the cartels to come here, and the ones that pay subsidize the efforts of the drug trafficking and the sex trafficking," Rep. Cammack added.

More dangerously, the Florida Congresswoman noted, is how the volume of people crossing the border under the Biden-Harris Administration's policies has allowed the cartels to control the drug trade into the United States more directly without "subcontracting" American gangs to do the dirty work for them.

"That speaks volumes about how much of a cash cow the Biden-Harris illegal open border really is to the cartels and to the gangs," Cammack continued.

Faulkner then asked if DHS would "wait for them to just declare war all out on our soil" before anything happened, which the Florida Congresswoman said was effectively happening already.

"Why wouldn't they when there are no repercussions or consequences for their actions?" Cammack replied, "That is why they are operating in a lot of states that have no cash bail. They are going to places that they know they will not be harassed by law enforcement, where they are weak on crime, soft on crime."

The solution, Cammack concluded, was "one: to enforce the laws on the books that we already have. Two: to get rid of the Soros policies in place, and then there have to be consequences, we need the deportations. We need to get these people out of the country, people that should have never been here in the first place. There is a long list of things that we have to do, but the catch and release policy is literally killing Americans."