David Sherfinski and Stephen
Dinan at the Washington Times offer a piece on Secretary of Homeland Security John
F. Kelly (seen in the above official photo) and his concern over transnational criminal organizations.
Smuggling cartels are now a
major threat to the fabric of American society, Homeland Security Secretary
John F. Kelly declared Tuesday, saying the international crime syndicates have
shown an incredible ability to sneak drugs and people — and potentially terrorists
and dirty bombs — into the U.S.
Mr. Kelly, a former Marine
Corps general who is three months into his tenure as secretary, said among all
the other dangers facing Americans, the threat from the cartels, known in the
security world as “transnational criminal organizations” is what keeps him up
at night.
He said the Trump
administration has already notched some victories over the criminal networks,
including cutting the level of illegal immigration across the southwestern
border by a staggering 70 percent. But he said the amount of drugs has
increased and that the smuggling cartels share ties with the terrorist networks
that the U.S. is fighting overseas.
“We know, as an example, that
the money-laundering of massive amounts of profit from the U.S. drug demand —
there are terrorist organizations that make money from that money-laundering
process,” he said. “It’s an incredibly lucrative way to raise money. They’re
not doing it in huge amounts yet, I don’t believe. But to me, it would be a
next step. So the nexus between criminal networks and terrorist networks is
real, and, I would predict, will get more sophisticated.”
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