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March 15, 2021

Title: Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration
Topic: Illegal Immigration

Discussed by Josh Jones
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)

Part 1 of 2

The Texas Public Policy Foundation recently conducted a study that explains how both transnational gangs and transnational criminal organizations are involved in the massive waves of illegal immigration currently coming across America’s southern border.

Josh Jones is a Senior Fellow for Border Security at the TPPF. He is an eighteen-year veteran of the US Department of Justice and a former Federal Prosecutor in Washington, DC and San Diego.

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Questions/Issues Discussed:

Are most of the illegal aliens crossing our southern border members of criminal organizations? Do they have intentions of committing crimes in the United States?

Where is the Northern Triangle?

Are criminal organizations largely responsible for the violence that permeates Mexico and the Northern Triangle?

Do they control, regulate, and tax the movement of people and goods wanting to enter the US?

Do these criminal organizations control every land port along the southern border?

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Title: Part 2 of 2 - Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration
Topic: Illegal Immigration

Discussed by Josh Jones
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)

Questions/Issues Discussed:

Are there two broad categories of organized criminal activity in Mexico and the Northern Triangle?

Who are the Transnational criminal organizations? What is their main activity?

Who are the Transnational gangs? What is their main activity?

Are these organizations and gangs gaining more and more land along the southern US border?

Do these criminal organizations and gangs control and influence the flow of illegals entering the US?

Can these criminal organizations be permanently stopped?

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