Katarina Szulc

And also, I think a major one.

would be the arms dealing too, because the majority of the guns that are used at Mexican crime scenes, like 70%, are American-made firearms.

So all of their guns are coming from, most of their guns are coming from the US.

And so...

they're not going to want that to shut down or to stop at any point in time.

Because without those weapons, they can't commit the crimes.

And because you can't really get a gun in Mexico the way you can get a gun here, which is exactly why they use that to their advantage.

So that would be... And not to mention, a lot of the straw buyers too are moving guns from the US into Canada to arm these same people.

So that's a big one that I believe that they're lobbying for.

I mean, yeah, the border one is a big one, but...

Without the guns, they can't run any of their operations.

But you asked, you know, why would they want people to know that they are a cartel if they're lobbying or have certain, they have money in certain aspects of the federal government.

I think in some ways, sometimes them instilling that fear does work depending on what the initiative is.

And I think they do use that to their advantage sometimes.

And there are certain people that they can have in their pockets knowing that the fear and knowing that the cartel is on my ass is going to keep them doing exactly what they want and keep them from moving away or speaking out because once you have the cartel on your ass, the only way to get out of that is basically to die.

That's certainly less of the circumstance, but it is happening.

Like people crossing the border?

As a tool for what?

I mean, I have no idea.

the use of distraction groups is so that they can get people and drugs across the border.