An alleged Sinaloa Cartel leader admitted in an interview with CNN that President Trump’s aggressive border policies have made the illegal work of the powerful Mexican drug gang more difficult.
An anonymous member of El Chapo’s former gang explained that Trump’s immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black-market tradecraft in a bizarre interview with the news station’s senior national correspondent, David Culver, in the back of an SUV.
“From killing to coordinating smuggling operations, he says he’s done it all,” Culver said.
“Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making your job tougher?” he asked the confessed killer and cartel boss.
“Oh yeah. Yeah,” the gang member — dressed in a black mask, sunglasses, black gloves, and a hat to conceal his identity — admitted flatly.
A leader in the Sinaloa Cartel admitted in an interview with CNN that President Trump’s border policies are hurting business. REUTERS
The cartel member claimed that the price to cross the southern US border illegally has drastically risen due to increased enforcement under the Trump administration. CNN“So it’s becoming more difficult, you think?” Culver prodded.
“Yep,” the supposed gangbanger said.
The CNN report further revealed that cartels are charging much more to get migrants across the southern US border because of the Trump crackdown on illegal migration.
Border-hoppers are expected to pay $10,000 each instead of about $6,500 per person prior to the Trump-era policies, according to Fox News.
The hardened criminal said that though he has killed people, he considers himself a good person.
“I did what I had to do,” he said.
In the interview, the cartel leader expressed that he came forward to speak with CNN hoping to deter others from joining drug gangs.
From Mount Cristo Rey, a Borber Patrol truck looks over the wall and Rancho Anapra, Mexico. Agents from the US Customs and Border Protection El Paso Sector patrol the area west of El Paso in Sunland Park, NM, just north of Rancho Anapra. Aristide Economopoulos
A 23-year-old Mexican man is detained after crossing the border in February. Aristide Economopoulos“It’s not a life. It’s not good,” the man said in broken English.
“Once you get in, you can’t get out,” he warned in Spanish.
The anonymous man is not the first Sinaloa Cartel member to credit the Trump administration for its robust approach to halting the human and drug trafficking operations at the southern border.
Margarito “Jay” Flores Jr., who made millions with his twin brother as members of El Chapo’s cartel, praised the president in an interview last month.
“I think the aggressive approach is going to send a strong message to every drug trafficker across Latin America and places like Venezuela that’s used as a transport hub from Mexican cartels and Colombian organizations,” Flores told Fox News.
That “aggressive approach” is continuing with the United States prepping for attacks against drug gangs deep inside Venezuela, according to an NBC News report.
