Texas rancher thinks cartels will take over American border towns trends now
With the kidnap of four Americans in Mexico and rampant drug trafficking, a Texas rancher is issuing this stark warning: it's only a matter of time before the cartels take control of our border towns.
Debi Douglas' lives in Brownsville, Texas, near Matamoros - where four Americans were kidnapped last week by members of the Gulf cartel
Debi Douglas' lives in Brownsville, Texas, near Matamoros - where four Americans were kidnapped last week by members of the Gulf cartel.
The kidnaping was the latest in a string of violent shows of force from the drug gangs that maintain control in Mexican towns and cities, and which are threatening tourism.
Douglas told FOX News that unless the Biden administration fixes up its act, they will soon have the run of American border towns too.
'The Mexican government is afraid of the cartel. If Biden does not do something, this is going to come more into our country.
'And unless we do something, everybody had better get ready.
'The Mexican government is either partially paid off by the cartels or they fear the cartels.
'So the fact that Biden is saying he's going to work with them is absolutely a joke and an insult to the American people,' she warned.
The Biden administration is yet to secure the border sufficiently.
In the last several months, a handful of separate incidents - including the kidnaping and the shooting of a migrant by an elderly Arizona rancher on his land - have crystalized the crisis.
National Guard and military vehicles take part in an operation to transfer two of the four US citizens kidnapped in Mexico's crime-ridden northeast, back to Brownsville in the US
Of the 32 states in Mexico, 30 are currently subject to some form of travel advisory by the US government.
The only two states that are
