‘It’s theirs now’: Border agents concede N.M. mountain to Cartel control

By Piñon Post, April 7, 2024:

A video posted by reliable Fox News reporter Matt Finn shows illegal immigrants ravaging a mountain in Sunland Park, New Mexico, while Border Patrol agents apparently won’t defend it, calling the mountain the Cartel’s.

Finn wrote in the video post, “Unbelievable. A Border Patrol agent in Sunland Park, NM just told us a mountain in the United States is ‘not ours’ anymore. ‘It’s theirs.’ Referring to Cartels. We literally spent five minutes on Mt. Cristo Rey and a group of illegals breezed by.”

Mt. Cristo Rey is adorned by a 29-foot-tall statue of Jesus, which was erected in 1940 after the vision of Fr. Lourdes Costa “ who in 1933 after looking out the back window of his residence in the community of Smeltertown, envisioned erecting a monument at the summit of this glorious mountain.”

Since the purchase of the mountain and the building of the Jesus statue, Mt. Cristo Rey has become a holy place for Catholics for generations.

But the criminal illegal immigration seeping across the border by way of the mountain has led to vandalism and desecration. Vandalism and gang-related graffiti have scourged the holy place.

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLES:

IMMIGRATION RELATED VIDEOS: ‘I live with the cartels’

BIDENOMICS: The Mexican Drug Cartels Raking in $338 Million Weekly Transporting Illegal Aliens

House Committee Says Mayorkas ‘Enriched The Cartels’ After Second Phase Of Republican-Led Investigation

Garland: Drug Cartels Unleashed Fentanyl Crisis Here ‘on Purpose’

POST ON X:

Unbelievable. A Border Patrol agent in Sunland Park, NM just told us a mountain in the United States is ‘not ours’ anymore. ‘It’s theirs.’ Referring to Cartels. We literally spent five minutes on Mt. Cristo Rey and a group of illegals breezed by. pic.twitter.com/MQnOEiZ2Bz

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) April 5, 2024

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.