cervantes, nobody has been heard from since two weeks ago. a look at the women, penitas pd says they have been contacted by the families and highly concerned that they were potentially kidnapped somewhere in mexico. penitas pd says they relayed to the fbi. the fbi are aware of this case but do not have any comment on it at the moment and police say the women were last seen driving in a green 1996 chevy silverado with texas plates. let s talk about where exactly they were going. if we can pull the map up. the women were from in penitas, sound of the border west of mcallen. we are told they were driving toward montemorelos, mexico close to monterrey. we are told that mexican authorities were taking lead on this case and that the fbi is
warfare, we re going to sound like we re genuine and apologetic, but really they have ulterior motives. absolutely. they want to keep things quiet because the kaquieter they are, the better they re able to commit their crimes. and just to give you an idea of who they are, the gulf cartel has been around for at least a couple of decades, but in the past they have fractured. i was looking at the recent report by the congressional research service, and this is what they say about them. let s see if we can put the quote on screen, please. the gulf cartel was the main competitor challenging for trafficking routes in the early 2000s, but now battles the former enforcement wing, splinter groups, over territory in northeastern mexico. the main thing here, fred, is that these groups have fragmented and that s what has
been amplified, scores of times before this that we ve had hundreds actually kidnapped or killed in the cross traffic with mexico and as a result of cartels and violence there. this is a serious issue because of fentanyl that can kill hundreds of thousands of americans as well as the influence of the cartel controlling that border and causing such huge devastation. griff: it s interesting, asa, that you mentioned you would like to see the cartels designated as foreign terrorist organization texas governor abbott has done so in his state, suggestion by lindsey graham to others to do this is met by resistance by mexico s president lopez obrador or amlo saying fentanyl doesn t originate in
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