(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Dealers allegedly running San Francisco’s open-air drug markets are reportedly making enough money to prompt a home-construction upsurge in a central Honduras village cluster when they—or some of their profits—return across the border.
Democrat-run San Francisco’s sanctuary city status for illegal aliens, and its general soft-on-crime approach, seem to be enabling a “real estate boom” in the otherwise impoverished Siria Valley, the San Francisco Chronicle claimed in a very lengthy report that was a culmination of an 18-month investigation.
“The valley is also the hometown of a high concentration of people who, fleeing poverty and a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates, migrate to San Francisco, where they ultimately sell drugs,” the Chronicle revealed.
One dealer explained to the left-leaning news outlet why the northern California city is a popular destination.
“The law, because they don’t deport, that’s the problem…Many look for San Francisco because it’s a sanctuary city. You go to jail and you come out.”
According to the report that was the result, in part, of interviews with 25 current or former drug dealers, Honduran migrants allegedly started “dominating” the out-in-the-open drug sales in crime-infested San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authorities there have charged an estimated 200 Honduran migrants with drug dealing since last year alone.
The purported Bay-Area-to-Honduras cashflow has had a significant impact back home in the Siria Valley. And construction jobs paying $35 a day is an upgrade over the average $8 a day that locals earn in farming or performing menial tasks.
“More extravagant emblems of San Francisco appear unexpectedly and often, alongside crumbling adobe huts, stray roosters and heaps of singed garbage. Handsome new homes, some mansions by local standards, some mansions by any standard, rise behind customized iron gates emblazoned with San Francisco 49ers or Golden State Warriors logos,” the Chronicle asserted.
Some dealers who operate or operated in San Francisco boasted that they can supposedly rake in up to $350,000 a year in illegal drug transactions, including involving deadly fentanyl, while others are just scraping by.
In the previous four years, authorities have only managed to convict a paltry 6% of San Francisco drug-dealing suspects on drug-related crimes.
Most of the cases were plea-bargained down to about one month in jail, dismissed, or sent to a diversion program. Some never show up in court.
“Almost all of the alleged dealers are released on their own recognizance before trial, which means they do not have to post bond but may be required to check in regularly with a case manager.”
Further from the Chronicle: “Under the central tenet of the sanctuary law, the city jail does not allow ICE to place holds on local prisoners so they can be picked up upon release and deported. The only way most dealers face deportation is if they are arrested on federal charges or in another city.”
Even that perhaps may be a waste of time because many of the accused drug dealers apparently just turn around and again cross the border illegally.
“Most Hondurans reaching the cities in the Bay Area or elsewhere in the U.S. find legal work,” the Chronicle noted, however.
Although the news organization does not mention the Biden administration’s disastrous open-borders policy, the expose also seemed to confirm that the degree to which the cartels are very much in charge of the “secure” border region.
