Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers

[PAF]

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Police Union Leader Charged with Importing Large Quantities of Fentanyl into US

The head of a police union in the San Francisco Bay Area faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling thousands of synthetic opioids into the U.S. from multiple countries with the intent to distribute them.

San Jose Police Officers Association Executive Director Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, has been charged with attempt to unlawfully import a controlled substance -- specifically valeryl fentanyl, a fentanyl analog -- according to a complaint filed in federal court earlier this week.

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia received 61 shipments that were labeled "Wedding Party Favors," "Shirts Tops," "Gift Makeup," "Chocolate and Sweets," "Food Supplement," "Health Product" and "Supplement," originating from countries including Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore, according to the complaint. In reality, they were illicit drugs, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California allege.

Full article:

https://abc7news.com/police-union-leader-charged-with-importing-large-quantities-of-fent/13058512/

 

[Anti Federalist]

My home is more than my house.

But yes, they are.

My little town up the woods just had it's first armed home invasion a few months back.

The suspects were two Guatemalan invaders.

Take a look at the clip below, it's a PSA film from Chevy, other than one of the characters being a salesman, incidental to the story, there is no other mention of GM or it's products.

In spite of this maybe coming off as "hokey" or "corn", this is what a high trust, homogenous society looks like.

Many other races and cultures perceive this as weakness.

This is what I mean, when I say that there is more to my "home" than just my house.

My little home town is, in many ways, similar to this idyllic setting.

I have every right to wish to keep it that way and not see it overrun by hordes of invaders that do not want that, and perceive it as weakness to be exploited and conquered.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Indeed so. I know how my ancestors and your ancestors got here. Most came over in the nineteenth century to do just what you said.

Nope, coming to an undeveloped wilderness from what was an advanced economy at the time and building an advanced economy is not the same as coming from a third world dung heap and pillaging an advanced economy.

You are exaggerated. They built nothing like America is an asinine statement; they had nothing to build but America. The Iroquois confederation was indeed a confederation of tribes, yes, but that doesn't mean the agreement didn't give tribes space to be free individuals.

Their primitive society was far behind Europe and what the colonists built.
Their society had not advanced to modern levels of tyranny, but it was ruled by chiefs whose word was law, only limited by what might cause a revolt a secession.
Property rights were soft to say the least.
The Founders had plenty of Classical and European examples of confederations and individual liberty and any examination of the Iroquois was supplementary at best.

Primitive societies had bureaucrats, official theft and laws against neighbors helping neighbors? We had liberty so down pat that it wasn't necessary for Quakers, Amish, Mennonites, and many other sects to cross the Atlantic to find it?

They had rule by absolute chiefs who took and distributed property as they saw fit and dispensed justice or injustice subjectively.
We had not only the seeds but the sprouts of individual rights and came here to develop them further and escape those who were trying to reverse the process and drag us back towards where the natives here were.

I'm not an open borders person. You keep lumping me in with them because it's easier than arguing that an expensive and tyrannical attempt to hermetically seal the border can never be as effective as removing all incentives to come but a chance to work your ass off.

Funny, you keep defending them and promoting their talking points.
Closing the border is not tyrannical and is much less expensive than what the invaders cost us.
We both agree on getting rid of the incentives, but it won't be enough by itself and you can't get it done while the border is not closed.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Back to topic:


Police Union Leader Charged with Importing Large Quantities of Fentanyl into US

The head of a police union in the San Francisco Bay Area faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling thousands of synthetic opioids into the U.S. from multiple countries with the intent to distribute them.

San Jose Police Officers Association Executive Director Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, has been charged with attempt to unlawfully import a controlled substance -- specifically valeryl fentanyl, a fentanyl analog -- according to a complaint filed in federal court earlier this week.

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia received 61 shipments that were labeled "Wedding Party Favors," "Shirts Tops," "Gift Makeup," "Chocolate and Sweets," "Food Supplement," "Health Product" and "Supplement," originating from countries including Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore, according to the complaint. In reality, they were illicit drugs, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California allege.

Full article:

https://abc7news.com/police-union-leader-charged-with-importing-large-quantities-of-fent/13058512/

Joanne Marian Segovia

Anyone want to bet on his connections and cultural loyalties?
Or how he got into the country? (or his parents)

 

[acptulsa]

Funny, you keep defending them and promoting their talking points...

We both agree on getting rid of the incentives, but...

You believe in getting rid of incentives? You're promoting PAF's talking points! You're promoting PAF's talking points! And you haven't insulted him once in this whole post!

You've gone open borders! You've really gone open borders, repeating their talking points and not treating them like dirt!!! Turncoat!!!

[MENTION=40029]PAF[/MENTION] you seeing this guy defending you and promoting your talking points? You have a new ally! You made a convert!

Yeah, yeah. I know. You aren't his ally, even though you promote his talking points. And, yes, I'm proud to say I am. Because this is you:

Whether you're smart enough to see it or not.

 

[Swordsmyth]

You believe in getting rid of incentives? You're promoting PAF's talking points! You're promoting PAF's talking points! And you haven't insulted him once in this whole post!

You've gone open borders! You've really gone open borders, repeating their talking points and not treating them like dirt!!! Turncoat!!!

@PAF you seeing this guy defending you and promoting your talking points? You have a new ally! You made a convert!

Yeah, yeah. I know. You aren't his ally, even though you promote his talking points. And, yes, I'm proud to say I am. Because this is you:

Whether you're smart enough to see it or not.

Getting rid of government incentives for the invasion was never the point of contention, securing the border was.
You guys oppose it and pretend natural incentives wouldn't bring them here even without government incentives.

Your juvenile nonsense isn't fooling anyone.

 

[acptulsa]

Getting rid of government incentives for the invasion was never the point of contention, securing the border was.
You guys oppose it and pretend natural incentives wouldn't bring them here even without government incentives.

Your juvenile nonsense isn't fooling anyone.

We aren't just pretending there never were, and never would be, convoys of hundreds of thousands marching up without this ongoing crap:

https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1752012447836246188

Instead of screaming at us, why don't you save a little vitriol for the GOP traitors helping ram that crap through? Too logical for you?

Talk about juvenile nonsense. "If you agree with the guy who wants to stop increasing inflation to pay people to come seeking jobs that don't exist you're open borders because I prefer shooting everyone within a mile of the border and any more Christian solution just doesn't satisfy my bloodlust" is the most childish argument possible.

Juvenile. There's nothing -- nothing -- more juvenile than accusing someone who isn't on either side of being on "the other side" because they don't agree with every drop of drool that falls from your lips.

 

[Swordsmyth]

We aren't just pretending there never were, and never would be, convoys of hundreds of thousands marching up without this ongoing crap:

https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1752012447836246188

Instead of screaming at us, why don't you save a little vitriol for the GOP traitors helping ram that crap through? Too logical for you?

There would still be too many of them.
And I denounce everyone who gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

Talk about juvenile nonsense. "If you agree with the guy who wants to stop increasing inflation to pay people to come seeking jobs that don't exist you're open borders because I prefer shooting everyone within a mile of the border and any more Christian solution just doesn't satisfy my bloodlust" is the most childish argument possible.

Juvenile. There's nothing -- nothing -- more juvenile than accusing someone who isn't on either side of being on "the other side" because they don't agree with every drop of drool that falls from your lips.

By misrepresenting PAF's no borders position you again demonstrate exactly what side you are on.

 

[acptulsa]

By misrepresenting PAF's no borders position you again demonstrate exactly what side you are on.

There you go again. Agreeing with half of his border position isn't misrepresenting it. Only a partisan could be bizarre enough to think so.

 

[PAF]

^ The Vision for Amerika ^



I had a friend some time ago who was going through money like an OPEN SIEVE. We sat down to figure out where it was going, and the friend immediately wanted to buy a brand new computer (the existing one wasn't good enough), 3-ring binders, color markers and pens and a metal filing cabinet in order to "get a handle on and track where it was going". My response was: "WHOA STOP! The first thing you have to do is STOP SPENDING, take a breath, and think about how/why you feel you must spend more money in order to save it". Long story short, the friend continued to spend, ended up filing for bankruptcy, and got into massive debt yet again. The friends life-style didn't mesh with mine, so unfortunately we haven't spoken to each other in a long, long time.

Now, if the spending stopped, and the incentives were ceased, and we still had a problem, I might consider other solutions as long as they met the criteria of responsible spending while preserving freedom. As it stands, the 2 graphics above which are happening simultaneously are nothing but an "endless loop" and I want absolutely nothing to do with them.

 

[acptulsa]

As it stands, the 2 graphics above which are happening simultaneously are nothing but an "endless loop" and I want absolutely nothing to do with them.

And that's exactly what comes of forgetting, or never figuring out, that government is the enemy. Even as we scream for the most violent, expensive, anti-liberty "cures" we can think of, government is making the disease it created worse just to egg us on all the way to martial law.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first step is always to stop fucking digging. I've had enough of the "that's not politically feasible at this point in time" apologists for welfare for non-citizens. This is the most politically feasible that has been in fifty years.

I'm all for this flap at the border because I'm hoping it'll get me divorced from Washington, D. C, and I'm close enough to Texas to expect to be the first to go. While this is going on, those in Congress trying to shove that TAFWA bill through are, however, the enemy, not the poor slobs who picked the wrong decade to join the federal Border Patrol.

 

[RJB]

It's good to see that Kennedy's not falling for the left right paradigm like a lot of his followers.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

They don't necessarily have to cross the border. Only the fentanyl has to cross...

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1759680854681346063

 

[Occam's Banana]

Think of the conversation between two people passionate about avoiding a problem with mice in the house. One believes the only sure solution is permitting no point of entry, sealing every nook, cranny and mortar chink of the foundation (hermetically if possible). The other knows mice either die off or leave (or a little of both) if you make sure there's nothing in the place they can get at to eat.

And while those two are conversing, a third housemate is diligently and continuously bringing more mice into the house ...

They can work for it, or starve. [...]

They can - but why should they?

They're not going to starve - the third housemate is also feeding them cheese he stole from the other two.

Adams defends prepaid migrant cards, part of $53M NYC pilot program: 'Not giving people American Express'
Mayor Eric Adams claims program giving migrants cards to buy food, baby supplies will save New York City $6.7 million per year
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ad...ot-program-not-giving-people-american-express
{Danielle Wallace | 06 February 2024}

[bold emphasis added - OB]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended a reported $53 million pilot program to hand out prepaid credit cards to migrant families housed in hotels despite public outcry.

Appearing before a state legislative budget hearing in Albany on Tuesday, the Democrat mayor said he sought to dismiss "misinformation" about the program.

"We’re not giving people American Express cards," Adams said. "We found that the food delivery service that we set up during the emergency – we could find a better way to do it in our belief that we want to cut 20% of the migrant costs. So we have a pilot project with 500 people that we are giving them food cards, so instead of a debit card, instead of having to deliver food, and have people eat food – we were seeing wasting food – they’re now able to get their own food, that is going to be spent $12 a day."

"So we are going to save money on delivery, we’re going to save money on people wasting food, and this is a pilot project we’re going to use that is going to save us $6.7 million a year," Adams said. "And if the pilot turns out to be successful, then we’re going to expand it not only with the migrants and asylum seekers, we’d look to do that expansion throughout the entire system – trying to find smarter, more cost-effective ways to deal with this crisis that was dropped in our lap."

Under the pilot program, migrants will be getting 40% more than the state gives to low-income and elderly New Yorkers under SNAP benefits.

Each migrant would receive about $350 a month to spend on food and baby supplies. As noted by Newsweek, that's more than the maximum allotment that low-income New York residents receive in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. According to the state's website, single households are eligible for up to $291 a month in SNAP benefits aimed at providing "low-income working people, senior citizens, the disabled and others" money to buy food products.

The migrant pilot program also hands out more than two times the amount the state gives monthly in services for single veterans, Fox News's Bryan Llenas reported.

The mayor's explanation came during an annual hearing, known as "Tin Cup Day," when mayors make budgetary requests before the state legislature.

Adams, who testified that the Big Apple's shelter population has tripled since he took office, asked the state to cover 50% of the costs to handle the migrant crisis in New York City.

New York City's government has projected it will spend at least $10.6 billion on migrants by summer 2025. New York state has already vowed to contribute about $2 billion in the current budget cycle to the migrant crisis, but Adams told lawmakers on Tuesday that the state pledge would only cover one-third of the city’s migrant costs.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, another Democrat, has suggested the state earmark $2.4 billion to go toward migrant services in the next budget cycle, but the details have not been ironed out before the state legislature. Adams' office said even that allocation proposed by Hochul would be $600 million short of what the city needs in its next budget cycle, the New York Daily News reported.