https //fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/three-local-shootings-in-last-two-months-allegedly-linked-to- drug-cartel-report/ JD Vance visit Fox 2 via MSN 2024/9 JD Vance guarded by snipers during border visit to San Diego-Tijuana area https //www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jd-vance-guarded-by-snipers-during-border-visit-to-san- diego-tijuana-area/ar-AA1qfNqH?ocid=BingNewsSerp https://fox2now.com/video/jd-vance-visits-san-diego-tijuana-border/10019957/ Excerpt: Vance spent about 20 minutes at “Whiskey 8” talking with a select group of invited guests, including San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond… Vance did speak with reporters assigned to his campaign and talked about what former President Donald Trump wants to do along the U.S.-Mexico border if elected president. “We want to go to war against the Mexican drug cartels, we want to close down the American southern border, reinstitute deportations, we want to stop the insanity at the southern border,” Vance said. News Nation via MSN 2024/09 San Diego CBP agents accused of profiting from Mexican cartel. Story by Ashley Soriano https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/san-diego-cbp-agents-accused-of-profiting-from-mexican-cartel/ar- AA1q80lh?ocid=BingNewsSerp San Diego Union Tribune 2024/09/05 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/09/05/2-san-diego-cbp-agents-accused-of-working-with- cartel-allowing-drugs-through-inspection-lanes/ 2024/07/29 Tijuana drug violence bleeds into San Diego County with recent cartel shootings A high-ranking member of an Arellano Félix Organization remnant cell was gunned down near UTC. Then a man who Mexican authorities say is a reputed leader was shot in Chula Vista. Alex Riggins https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/04/13/tijuana-drug-violence-bleeds-into-san-diego-county- with-recent-cartel-shootings/?clearUserState=true https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-mexicos-sinaloa-cartel-used-group-tied-chinese- underground-banking-2024-06-18/ 2023 Justice dot gov 2023/04/11 Sophisticated Sinaloa Cartel Money Laundering Organization Dismantled https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/sophisticated-sinaloa-cartel-money-laundering-organization- dismantled Excerpt: According to the superseding indictment, an investigation was initiated in the fall of 2020 after FBI agents identified a complex money laundering organization allegedly led by Enrique Daan Esparragoza Rosas of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. The indictment said Esparragoza’s organization used a network of shell companies incorporated in Wyoming to launder millions of dollars in cash belonging to the Sinaloa Cartel. The shell companies and a sophisticated financial network were created and overseen by Luis Ramirez, a U.S. citizen residing in Mesa, Arizona, the indictment said. White Supremacist criminal network NBC San Diego 2023/01/25 Raids Target San Diegans With Ties to White Supremacist Groups; Guns, Drugs, Hot Cars Seized: SDPD Twenty-four stolen cars, 7 guns, 530 rounds of ammunition, 7 pounds of meth, 9 ounces of fentanyl, 1,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills, 6 ounces of heroin, 4 ounces of ketamine were seized, police say By City News Service and Dave Summers • Published January 25, 2023 https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/raids-target-san-diegans-with-ties-to-white-supremacist-groups- guns-drugs-hot-cars-seized-sdpd/3151343/ Excerpt: San Diego political and law enforcement officials Tuesday announced dozens of arrests and seizures of an array of guns and illicit drugs as part of a 10-month "takedown" of a large San Diego-area criminal network. The targeted crime gang has ties to various white supremacy groups, SDPD Chief David Nisleit said during the news conference at the downtown SDPD headquarters. -70 Felony Arrests -7lbs of Methamphetamine -9oz of Fentanyl (powder) -1000 Counterfeit M30 Oxy Pills -6oz of Heroin -4oz Ketamine -7 Firearms/530 rounds of ammo -24 Stolen Cars recovered -Illegal Butane Honey Oil (BHO) Lab Equipment. pic.twitter.com/OaBXgQPr0Z 2022 San Diego Union Tribune 2022/12/24 San Diego quietly prosecuting high ranking memers of ultra violent cartel jalisco nueva https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2022/12/24/san-diego-quietly-prosecuting-high-ranking-members- of-ultra-violent-crtel-jalisco-nueva-generacin/ 2021 Justice dot gov 2021/06/29 Sixty Defendants Charged in Nationwide Takedown of Sinaloa Cartel Methamphetamine Network Tuesday, June 29, 2021 https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/sixty-defendants-charged-nationwide-takedown-sinaloa-cartel- methamphetamine-network 2020 NBC San Diego Cash, Drugs, Ammo Seized in Multi-Year Investigation Targeting Sinaloa Cartel, 3 Charged https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/cash-drugs-ammo-seized-in-multi-year-investigation-targeting- sinaloa-cartel-3-charged/2454706/ Justice dot gov https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/massive-takedown-targets-east-county-drug-trafficking-networks Out of State - CA Surenos California gang member arrested near Lordsburg, New Mexico, charged with human trafficking (Lordsburg, NM):A member of the Sureños Street Gang from California and his cousin were arrested in New Mexico earlier this month, on suspicion of trying to smuggle people into the country. Source: Las Cruces Sun-News Date: July 29, 2019 https://www.lcsun-news.com/... COMMENTARY - OPINION Note from PF: This is not written by a professional social worker, counselor or policing/gangs expert Cultural Issues We need to address cultural issues in such a way that it helps us to overcome the racial and religious divides that split us in New Mexico and beyond. Gang and cartel behavior often start from within the groups themselves, with multi-generational tendencies spanning decades. There are things inside group membership which keep members doing the same old thing for a long time. Some of this has to do with hidden abuses that, because of group culture, do receive proper outside intervention. However, there are also stresses and strains from outside the group which can make things worse. Part of this is the sense of feeling separate from the rest of the country, often because of racial or religious differences. So being part of a gang can also be about skin color and can be mixed in with religion or not. To accomplish getting people to work together across the gang world divide will require people from different groups to find new footing together. This means coming up with new ways of talking and looking at things. We need to start by understanding coded language and stereotypes. Codes Coded language is a big one, because people inside the group might not realize their language is coded. They think it’s other people’s language that sounds so funny. On the other hand, the group might deliberately talk a certain way to keep things among the family, so to speak. They use certain for words for things. They use certain hand signals, maybe nuanced gestures. It can be about colors of clothing, tattoos, icons, dragging baggy pants, wearing certain kinds of crosses and much more. But language can also be about cussing, saying certain things and not other things, getting whopped for tripping over wrong subjects, and that sort of thing. Language can be bad but seen as good, and the other way around. Being too good might seem bad. Sweet talk might sound like something else. You have to hear it right, say it right, or you don’t fit in. Being cool means different things to different people. Language is actually a big deal, but not all communication is about the spoken word. Being able to bring a gang’s way of communicating to the forefront of your awareness might be the first step to pulling out. If you can understand what you do and why, where it came from, and how it fits into group dynamics, you start calling in your own destiny. You are no longer just a player or follower, or a misguided leader. You become more the master of your own life when you realize you have choices and that life doesn’t have to just be one way. Codes are actually a big deal and to deal with gangs, so we have to talk about them. But let’s go onto the next thing, stereotypes. Stereotypes To address stereotypes, we need to understand there also can be stereotypes about stereotypes. That can sound a little strange, but what that means is this: people can feel they are being stereotyped, which means they feel they are not seen or heard. It can mean they feel others are suggesting that they are less important. It can mean feeling downtrodden or otherwise downcast. Stereotyped situations go further than that. It is about how people might feel they are not getting their due from history because in another world, another time, they could have won or kept things intact. Also it could have meant their ways were the ways. In modern times, because of lost prestige, not feeling honored or valued, it might also be people don’t hear them about what their culture and gender feels is important. Sometimes it is about manhood, according to the culture, the other culture does have not the right approach to honoring the man. Some people want to call it machismo, but there is another way to look at it, it’s about being the man and having that respect. So according to this view, stereotyping makes these issues go upside down, kind of ridiculing the man who wants to be the man. It’s a cultural issue which can put a slur on the whole male gender; in this way, a man can feel stereotyped for believing what he believes, for feeling what he feels. He might want to express there is more to it than that stereotype. Some of the feelings can be: I have brown skin. I get lumped in with other brown skinned people. I feel categorized and lumped in with everyone else. I am Hispanic and have a half-white brother. When we go to a store, the clerks look at him and give him special attention. They are nicer to him, but they treat me like crud, if they even notice me at all.” (this was taken from a blog section and slightly modified here). People think all Hispanics are members of gangs or part of the anti-American agendas like the ones which cling to old Mexico history. I am a Hispanic male and don’t do the machismo thing but try to treat women fairly. I am black. But I am more of a white-black than a black-black. That is, I am fully black, but I talk easier with white folks sometimes than blacks, or otherwise I get along with everyone. I get in trouble for this with other black people, who think I am high-minded or have an attitude, or whatever. I am black. I see blacks in Chicago beating up on the general citizens, killing girls and stuff like that, just taking a gun and shooting without compunction in public areas. I get profiled by the police if I am wearing a backpack or whatever. I don’t want any part of that gang nonsense. I want to go places where it’s safer from other blacks who are thugs. So these comments - and many more - can indicate the deep feelings of frustration, anger and sometimes the giving up that happens among certain racial groups in the USA who feel unfairly stereotyped. But, agreeing to the above concerns about stereotyping where applicable, there is another side to all of this. Sometimes people are not stereotyping and so are getting a bad rap for that. People who feel stereotyped can also themselves misperceive behavior from others, thinking it is about stereotyping. That is, sometimes it is not about stereotyping, but about misunderstanding and miscommunication. You might think someone is profiling you or stereotyping you, when in fact, something else is going on. How to know the difference is part of the key. Part of the issue can be an insistence that non-discriminatory behavior must look and feel a certain way. There also might be a desire to inundate a dominant group with punishments so that group fully knows what the underlings in history felt like, so that it is no longer an act. That is, the dominant group might be perceived as people with an attitude until they finally are whipped into submission and “get it” by knowing from the inside out what it meant to be on the wrong side of history for awhile. This can include making the new dominant group feel like kings and queens. Making the other guy or gal feel it can take on a lot more than words. Gang related antics, then, can also be about getting even, standing up for one’s race, culture and/or religion, showing who is boss, and an overall power orientation. Showing power can have violent ramifications, but it also can be about mind over matter in certain ways. That is, a game of pre-calculation. There also can be people playing around with the paranormal or bioenergy. Some notions might have been spoonfed to you since childhood. There are no easy answers; women need to stand their ground and realize that. Updates: 2022/11/23; 2020/04/24 moved gangs nm material from NM corruption page to NM Gangs; will sort, delete duplicates and integrate later; 2020/04/10 several articles added- Hobbs News 2017/09/12; 2019/09/03 excerpt added to masq dot org; page started 2019/08/20-09/01.

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