Source: Breitbart · 2026-09-17 · Original article ↗

Biden Administration Handicapped Federal Law Enforcement from Aggressively Pursuing Terrorist Cartels, Says South Texas U.S. Attorney

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The sicario said he burned the bodies. Without the FTO tag he would have been a short re-entry case.

Summary

  • Breitbart reports Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz said Biden-era rules tied federal hands against terrorist cartels, and that President Trump's Foreign Terrorist Organization designations now let prosecutors hunt them.
  • Reitz said cartels controlled ingress and egress on the southern border through assassination, rape, trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, and smuggling. The FTO tool, he said, lets his office and federal partners bring the worst people to justice.
  • He cited 21-year-old Jose Angel Flores Flores of the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel. Border Patrol arrested him after he crossed from Reynosa into Mission, Texas. He claimed to be a minor. Agents had encountered and deported him in January 2025.
  • A follow-up found phone photos and videos of Flores dismembering or incinerating bodies and posing with weapons. Reitz said Flores admitted he was the sicario they called to dispose of a body. Without FTO charges he would have faced a short illegal re-entry sentence and a return to Mexico. With them he faces 20 years if convicted.

Commentary

A mill dad still smells river mud on a work boot and knows a hitman is supposed to face a terrorism count, not a misdemeanor clock. He did not pay the levy so a minor lie could send a sicario home in months.

January 2025 deportation. Another crossing. A phone full of burned bodies. Twenty years versus a short hop. The honest household already paid for a border that Biden's memo told prosecutors to undercharge. The vinyl chair in that Mission holding room still waits.

Look every working father who still lives one county from that river in the eye and answer this: if the FTO tag is the only thing standing between a body-burner and a short sentence, who still owns the next cartel file a prior administration would have pled down?

Comments

If the sicario already had the phone, who still wants a short re-entry plea?
u/border_dad · 5h

Flores. Metros. Reynosa to Mission. January 2025. Keep that order.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a river so a hitman still meant a terrorism count. A minor claim is not a shield.

u/rule_first · 4h

Reitz. FTO. 20 years. Short re-entry alternative. Print the four.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied desks still treat a body-disposal video as a war crime, not a status tweak.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Claimed minor. Prior deportation. Phone evidence. File the three.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still drive that valley at 2 a.m. I want the next sicario in a 20-year box.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A burned-body phone is not a labor case. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A missing FTO tag is a second border around every ranch road.

u/press_clip · 30m

Breitbart printed Reitz and the 20-year contrast. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Keep the FTO. Charge the lookouts. A cartel is not a street crew.

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