Kevin McCarthy says Sinaloa cartel is now biggest employer in southern Arizona county
The Sinaloa cartel is now the biggest employer in Cochise County, Arizona, because it hires so many people to smuggle people and drugs, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday.
He also blasted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom he said needs to adjust and restore the policies that worked in the Trump years.The speaker traveled with several newly elected Republicans to the border, getting an up-close look at the wall — and places where it remains unfinished following Mr. Biden’s Inauguration Day halt of construction.
The cartel has taken to hiring American teenagers as smuggling drivers on the U.S. side, which Mr. McCarthy said is the proof of his claim that the cartel is now the largest employer in the area. Multiple House committees are holding hearings about the situation — including one slated for next week in Yuma, Arizona, with the Judiciary Committee.“Instead of focusing on real solutions to a complicated problem, Judiciary Republicans will once again not hear from any federal government witnesses at their hearing, further cementing this hearing as a brazen act of political grandstanding,” said Reps.
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