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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD Profile picture
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Apr 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
At America’s Most Lawless Border with Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Mark Dannels
(March 2023) #BidenBorderCrisis #CochiseCounty #ArizonaEsUnNarcoEstado @PeterSantenello
”Cartels recruit drivers through social media. These are U.S. citizens working for criminal cartels, transnational organizations, they’re working here for profit. Their labor on the U.S. side coordinates the efforts, pays them, runs the stash houses.“ — Sheriff Dannels
“A lot of these people don’t have the money [to pay the cartels to cross the broder]. They become servants to these criminal cartels. Drugs, sex, labor, gangs, you name it. If I can stop it here, I call it preservation of life. If you’re caught here, there’s consequences.”
“The numbers are staggering. We’ve always had drugs, but this is the worst I’ve seen it. I’ve been here 38 years. The message from Washington DC, from the president, from Secretary Mayorkas, all you hear is, the border is secured. That’s a false narrative.” — Sheriff Dannels
“Cartels set diversionary fires, there, while they bring something here. They have the upper hand. We’ve given them an extra hand to do that. Let’s get real. [Biden policies] allowed them to do this. That’s the most frustrating thing there is. We’ve got to get it back.” Image
“I sat on Biden’s transition team. I was optimistic. They were complimentary on the innovative projects we were doing here. I was shocked on the day Biden took office, he declared the southwest border non-emergency and shut down all these projects. It’s the worst I’ve seen.”
“I was appointed, on behalf of sheriffs around the country, to be a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council to help DHS address community issues. When Biden took over, within months, Secretary Mayorkas sent a letter to 28 out of 31 council members and relieved us.”
“If you enforce the rule of law, and have a strong message that we will have a secure border, and you take the oath of office that says you’re going to protect and defend this country, whether you’re in local office or federal, the Constitution says you’ll have a secure border.” Image

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Jun 6
🧵/1 How did the 🌐 UNITED NATIONS organize the INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in recent years the U.S. has “devoted significant taxpayer funds to facilitating illegal immigration” through a network of NGOs coordinated by the UN. Image
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🧵/2 At the June 4, 2025 DOGE Subcommittee hearing, “Public Funds, Private Agendas: NGOs Gone Wild,” Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian testified about a vast UN-NGO network formed in 2019 to establish way stations for illegal migration.
🧵/3 “What the Center has examined is what happened before the migrants got to the Rio Grande. In other words, how NGOs and UN agencies were paid by U.S. taxpayers to facilitate the illegal movement of migrants through South and Central America and Mexico.”
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May 29
🔥🧵/1 TREN DE ARAGUA’S TIES TO THE MADURO REGIME

An FBI Intelligence Assessment titled “Venezuelan Government Officials Use Tren de Aragua to Undermine Public Safety” has been unsealed.

The New York Times reports this memo pits the FBI “against other intelligence agencies in a heated dispute” over evidence connecting TdA to Venezuela’s government.

The 13-page FBI memo, dated January 23, was submitted by the Trump administration to a federal court in Texas considering a challenge to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.Image
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🧵/2 President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans swiftly as “alien enemies” hinges on evidence that Venezuela’s government controls TdA.

The Alien Enemies Act provides, “whenever there shall be any invasion or predatory incursion perpetrated … against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, all natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of the hostile nation … shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”Image
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🧵/3 Other U.S. intelligence agencies have rejected the FBI’s conclusions, dismissing evidence of collusion between Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the Maduro regime. A controversial assessment by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) dated April 7, 2025 released earlier this month expressed skepticism, concluding that “the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TdA and is not directing TdA movement to and operations in the United States.”
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May 8
🧵/1 House Intel Committee Democrats Jim Himes of Connecticut and Joaquin Castro of Texas accuse Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of “misrepresenting intelligence in public” concerning Tren de Aragua’s links to the Maduro regime. Image
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🧵/2 The National Intelligence Council on April 7 put out a “sense of the community memorandum” titled

Venezuela: Examining Regime Ties to Tren de Aragua.

A redacted version of the memo discusses TDA’s origin in a prison in Aragua State, Venezuela. “In 2023,” the memo reads, “the Venezuelan regime cleared TDA from Tocoron Prison, although the group’s leaders were able to escape in the operation, possibly assisted by low-level Venezuelan military and political leaders, judging from DHS reporting.”

The memo notes that TDA “and other Venezuelan organized crime groups” have spread to other countries using the larger body of Venezuelan migrants as cover.

TDA has a presence in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

“From 2021 to 2024 there was a spike in Venezuelan encounters at the US-Mexico border, in which some TDA members could have been present as they have generally moved with Venezuelan migrant communities and profit from human trafficking and migrant smuggling.”

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🧵/3 The NIC memo speculates that the Maduro regime “probably maintains ad hoc links to some criminal groups in Venezuela,” citing evidence of prior instances of regime officials’ cooperation with armed criminal groups reportedly motivated by “desire for help controlling territory or deterring a perceived threat of invasion, or for individual financial gain.”

The memo describes a harmonious coexistence of the Venezuelan regime with “illegal armed and criminal groups.” The relationship is characterized as “cooperating with armed groups for insight and control” over territory, reasoning that the regime might prefer to cooperate rather than contest armed groups because “combatting such groups often results in personnel losses.”Image
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Apr 29
UNCENSORED TESTIMONY

Pelosi and House Democrats Refused to Hear From Experts in 2022 about How the United Nations, Non-Profit Advocacy Groups and Criminal Human Smuggling Cartels COLLABORATED to OVERRUN U.S. BORDER

In February 2022, the House Freedom Caucus held a panel to hear bombshell testimony about the growing mass migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Caucus chair Scott Perry explained that the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, had refused to green-light an official hearing and had even refused to allow the caucus to use a Congressional hearing room to hold the panel.

Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, detailed his investigation into the United Nations’ activities on the migration trail, and he shared evidence of how UN agencies appeared to be colluding with non-governmental organizations and human smuggling gangs.

Bensman testified the UN was offering cash handouts, pre-paid debit cards, and even legal and psychological counseling to coach “migrants” in how to answer immigration authorities’ questions about persecution in their home countries.

Part of the audio from Bensman’s testimony has been censored or corrupted, but I have reconstructed the missing segment [italicized] from his written notes.

Bensman testified:

“I have interviewed hundreds of the immigrants, most recently on an eight-day fact-finding journey to the Guatemala-Mexico border city of Tapachula. From my vantage point, I can confidently report that there is but one root cause that they — the immigrating foreign nationals — most often cite for coming now.

“It is that President Joe Biden opened the American southern border wide to them.

“They see, over their cell phone social media, many hundreds of thousands who have gone before secure quick releases and resettlement into America.

“And they decide to also gamble huge smuggling fee investments that criminal smuggling gangs will get them in to stay, too.

“With such an enticing, motivating return on smuggling investment, no thinking person should wonder why this global migration hit the all-time national record of nearly two million border patrol apprehensions in a single year. With probably 500,000 more gotaways, and that’s an undercount.

“But the Caucus should also know that ‘non-profit advocacy groups — and more notably the United Nations — appear to be working side-by-side with the criminal smuggling organizations on the very same mission.

“United Nations agencies such as the International [Organization for] Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are providing hard cash, food, shelter, legal services, psychological services — all along the migrant trails.

“Which also materially facilitate journeys that everyone involved very well knows, despite any protestations to the contrary, always lead to an illegal American border-crossing.

“In whatever small or large way, the United Nations and the non-profits it funnels money to can reasonably be said to contribute to the current mass migration crisis.

“I found my first clue on a Rio Grande riverbank, on the Mexican side: A discarded UNHCR-stamped booket advising in great detail how migrants can and should travel north for the greatest chance of safety and success. Later, in Reynosa, Mexico, I witnessed the United Nations grantee, the IOM, hand out cash debit cards to migrants in long, snaking lines. The workers handing them out said they give $400 every 15 days to families of four, renewable every two weeks.

“The UN tells me only the most vulnerable get this cash. But in Reynosa and again most recently in Tapachula, Mexico, where I saw the same long lines at the UNHCR office, nothing about them indicated acute vulnerability. They were regular family units of the sort crossing by the tens of thousands right now. Some showed me their debit cards there, too, and said were it not for this money they might have to leave the migrant trail and go home.

“Further inquiry showed the cards are just part of a vast and sharply escalating UN program called ‘Cash-Based Interventions’ all along the migrant trail through Latin America.

“According to the UN documents and migrants, these include the unrestricted, unconditionally useable plastic cash cards, and also cash-filled envelopes in some areas (never a good look — cash filled envelopes), money transfers for lodging, pharmaceutical prescriptions, and for something called ‘movement assistance’, which means transportation money to move forward when camps empty and reform further north.

“Credible reporting shows that the UN is providing these forms of assistance all along the migrant trail, from South America to Texas. On a Cúcuta to Bogotá, Colombia segment, the UN was seen handing out food, clothing, and necessities worth an estimated $200 to $300 a day per migrant.

“And then there’s important non-cash assistance keeping migrants on the U.S. trail.

“In Tapachula, approval for Mexican asylum these days is important for permission to move legally beyond the southern provinces (where I was) — always to the U.S. border, of course. But many coming in from Guatemala innocently tell Mexican immigration they’re going for U.S. jobs — which is not an eligible asylum claim, so they get denied.

“But I found a UN-funded solution recently. The manager of a UN-funded migrant advocacy center told me a full-time staff of certified psychologists helps these migrants recover ‘repressed memories’ of more eligible government persecution. This manager told me in a recorded conversation that his group also trains migrants on the front end of the process how to pass muster with Mexican asylum interviewers the first time around.

“He said these operations produce a 90 percent success rate for thousands a year. Other UN-funded psychologists offer what sounds like similar work. If this is all true, the UNHCR in Mexico has found another way to keep thousands more on the trail over the American border.

“Many can, and, will defend this UN assistance as lifesaving, but others who learn of it reasonably interpret it — [*SEE BELOW FOR CONTINUATION OF THE WRITTEN STATEMENT] — in a very different way, and they want to know more, of course.

“However Americans want to interpret this assistance to migrants they undoubtedly know they are joining an historic mass migration. All Americans deserve to know the full extent of it, because the United States is the UN’s largest donor and the U.S. Congress appropriates a huge amount of money to the UN every year.

“I also would mention that the border is a national security concern. Just recently I was able to report that a Venezuelan crossed the Rio Grande from Matamoros to Brownsville, and that the FBI wanted that FBI-watchlisted individual held, and that ICE headquarters here in Washington, DC, intervened and demanded that, ordered that he be cut loose because he might get Covid in detention. That individual is now living freely, pursuing an asylum claim in Detroit. Thank you.”

*[WHAT FOLLOWS IS THE WRITTEN STATEMENT PUBLISHED ON MR. BENSMAN’S WEBSITE ToddBensman dot com]

“— as material support for mass illegal migration.

“However Americans interpret UN assistance in the new context of a historic mass migration event, public debate in the American square is necessary because the United States is the UN’s largest donor. In 2019, the last year in which expenditures are fully known, the executive branch and Congress separately allocated $11 billion, $5.5 billion of which filled accounts that fund migration and refugee support activities, Congressional Research Services recently reported.

“It’s unclear what the U.S. will contribute in 2022. The Biden administration proposes $3.7 billion, and it remains to be seen what Congress will want to appropriate separately.”

For FY 2025 CONGRESS MUST CUT FUNDING TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION (PRM) which funds “migration and refugee assistance” programs including IOM and UNHCR.
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Mar 18
Guatemalan journalist @JeanLaeward exposes USAID’s shady cash network from the U.S. State Department, to USAID in Guatemala, to a UN commission to combat impunity, to the four winds.

According to Laeward, billions in U.S. dollars allocated to eradicate criminal drug trafficking networks in Guatemala was diverted to other interests, under the supervision of former U.S. State Department official Todd D. Robinson.

A December 25, 2024 report from Ryan Matta’s substack explains: “The experimental concept of CICIG [the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala] was not a bad one. Its lack of checks and balances and its weaponized use against political targets was. The disheartening irony is that the ‘fight against corruption’ was usurped and used to violate the laws of Guatemala, bribe witnesses, bury cases for money, and create a system of immunity for members of ‘the Semilla’,” a corrupt group that now refers to itself, according to Matta, as Guatemala’s “government in exile.”Image
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Laeward says that in October 2023, with funding from USAID, Semilla hijacked Guatemala, paralyzing the economy.

“Today, after a series of disastrous policies and outright robberies, the people are rising up against those who plundered Guatemala.”
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Mar 8
Why is LIZ CROKIN defending ANDREW TATE?

TATE: I became a multimillionaire by creating a webcam [porn] studio. By taking girls who had never been on webcam before … [and who] didn’t have the will … to make money with this exchange.

I created a system that allowed me to convince girls to do this, allowed me to retain one hundred percent control of their income, allowed me to make sure they were effective … I learned every tip and trick it takes to make sure a girl gets paid. I know how to make sure the girl can’t run away. Because once you teach a girl how to do this, she has the ability to earn unlimited money from home. Why would she give it to you? Why wouldn’t she just run off?

CROKIN: I don’t think it’s black and white, with him. … I think there’s a lot of truth to every viewpoint on his situation. …

I guess he was involved in kind of encouraging girls to do OnlyFans type of stuff.

I actually would really like to see him come out and, you know, um, speak out against that. And say that, you know, that was something he did in his past that was a mistake. You know, he regrets that. …

Did he do anything that was criminal? I’m not sure, because I’ve heard that, you know, when he was doing his business, you know, he was in a country where the legal age of consent was 16. Um, but I didn’t know about the other girl possibly being 15. If she was, clearly that’s wrong, and it sounds like illegal, to me.

I just don’t know enough about that to know if he has done anything criminal.

I’ve also heard that there’s no victims that have come forward.

I do believe that he is being unfairly persecuted. …

Based off of what I’ve investigated about him, what he did comes nowhere close to what Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein and their associates are guilty of.

I would love to see him ask for redemption. And to say, you know, porn isn’t the way, I regret doing this, any of the women, you know, that I brought into this, I’m sorry.

MAGA is a very forgiving community. And I would like to see him encourage women to, you know, not get involved in porn, and to respect their bodies, and respect themselves.

(Hey @LizCrokin, convincing women to do porn when they don’t have the will is recruitment. Doing it under the false pretense of a favor for a romantic partner is deception. Retaining their money is use of payment to control someone. Making sure they can’t run away is slavery. Andrew Tate literally confessed to being a trafficker, and you want to claim he’s being unfairly persecuted? REALLY? Other evidence of Tate’s violence, including his habit of strangling while raping his girlfriends, is circulating online. He doesn’t just pimp and enslave young women and girls. He teaches other men how to do it, too. This is not MAGA, and if someone in the MAGA movement wants to go easy on Andrew Tate, that is not someone we can trust.)Image
Tate joined Rumble after he was deplatformed by Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube for “harmful content.”

On the week of August 22, 2022 Tate announced a “mass exodus” to the platform. Daily users on Rumble surged 45.3% compared to the previous week.
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Are the Rumble investors close to Trump the reason why Alina Habba and others have been defending the Tate brothers with an absurd free speech argument that is completely disconnected and irrelevant to the criminal investigations for trafficking and rape?
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