Lt. Gen. Flynn: State Sponsors of Terrorism Work with Mexican Cartels for Smuggling Operations

Gen. Flynn is part of a growing consensus that Muslim terrorist groups like ISIS and Hezbollah have forged unholy alliances with Mexican cartels so that their fighters might be able to sneak into the US. They’re not just sneaking through Mexico however: at least one training camp for members of the Islamic State has been set up just two miles of the border, putting citizens in the American southwest at even greater risk than they already are:

“Gen. Flynn’s remarks came in response to Boyle asking for his reaction to Breitbart News’ recent analysis of CBP data showing that the U.S. border authorities apprehended 916 illegals from terrorism-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), in 2015 (454) and 2015 (462).

The number of SIA arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border has nearly doubled since 2011 (255). According to a U.S. government estimate of successful entries known as ‘gotaways,’ an estimated 370 SIAs may have infiltrated the United States since 2014.

The number of estimated SIA ‘gotaways’ has also nearly doubled from 102 in 2011 to 192 in 2015.

Gen. Flynn’s comments are consistent with warnings from the top U.S. military official in Latin America, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) chief Navy Adm. Kurt Tidd, indicating that criminal organizations in the region are collaborating with violent Islamic extremist groups.

SOUTHCOM has also noted that there are criminal networks in Latin America and the Caribbean that focus on trafficking individuals from terrorism-linked countries, officially known as Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), into the United States.

Both SOUTHCOM and the U.S. State Department have sounded the alarm on Shiite Iran’s increasing influence in the region as well as operations by Hezbollah and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) there.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has determined that Mexican drug cartels ‘control access to the U.S.-Mexico border’ and the ‘smuggling routes across’ it.”

Source: Breitbart

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