A retired FBI assistant director is sounding alarm bells for U.S. college students who are considering going to Mexico over spring break after four Americans were kidnapped and two of them killed, likely by cartel members.
“No, absolutely not,” former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes told “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“The problem with these self-contained resorts – and they have all kids of security and protection and everything – [is] you have to get to the resort. So the danger is getting off the plane or bus or train and getting from the transportation hub to the actual resort which there you have protection,” he added.
He drew a parallel between that situation and the one in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which resulted in cartel members surrounding four Americans who were only a few miles from Brownsville, Texas.
“En route, you’re in danger, just like these Americans that were killed in Matamoros – because once they crossed the border they were on their own,” Fuentes said.
“They might have gone on their way to a medical facility that had security guards or any of that – we don’t know for sure. But they certainly once they crossed the border they were on their own.”
Fuentes further commented that it appears the Biden administration does not have a clear strategy to tackle the issue of cartel smuggling and violence. “Or if they have [a strategy], they failed to articulate it in any kind of sensible manner,” he said.
“If they’re going to have a strategy, it’s going to have to start with closing the border. That’s number one – And until they do that, they’re not serious about any of this.”
Regarding the Republicans’ calls to permit the U.S. military to intervene in Mexico, Fuentes pointed out that the last time such an event occurred was over a century ago when General John Pershing was sent to apprehend Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1914.
“Pershing and a contingent from Fort Bliss were sent to track him down after he and his people shot up a New Mexico City and killed U.S. soldiers and American citizens. Now, they spent 18 months in Mexico trying to chase him in the mountains unsuccessfully,” he said.
“And that’s not too popular to this day with the Mexicans that know we did that,” the former FBI official added.
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