Former Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner Mark Morgan told Newsmax on Friday that, despite the FBI’s recent arrest of multiple leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, they “aren’t going anywhere.”
“From an investigative standpoint, this is undoubtedly a significant win, a significant investigative win, full stop,” Morgan said during an appearance on “American Agenda.” “But the challenge is, is that we’ve been doing this for the past 30 years. We’ve been using the same criminal enterprise theory of investigation to go after the ‘head of the snake,’ the leaders, along with the same prosecutorial methodology, and the only thing that’s happened for the past 30 years is the cartels have gotten more powerful, more strong, and more influential. And the reason is, is because that approach simply does not work.”
Morgan said that there may be “some infighting in Mexico as they see a perceived weakness within this cartel” and they may vie for control “over the drug-smuggling routes, but, at the end of the day, the cartels aren’t going anywhere.
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