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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: DACA Recipient Sent to U.S. Prison for Buying Guns for Mexican Cartels A Mexican national living in the U.S. under the protection of an Obama- era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) will be spending more than eight years in prison for leading a straw purchasing ring that supplied firearms to cartel members in Mexico. This week, 22-year-old Mario Elier Leal went before Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane for a sentencing hearing at a federal courthouse in McAllen. Texas. Leal previously pleaded guilty to straw purchasing charges in 2024. During the hearing, Judge Crane sentenced Leal to 97 months in federal prison. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, since Leal is not a U.S. citizen, he will face a deportation process once he completes his sentence. Leal was in the country under the DACA program, meaning that he had been brought illegally into the country as a child but had since been allowed to stay. According to federal prosecutors, Leal had recruited other individuals to purchase AK-47-type rifles in South Texas that would then be smuggled into Mexico. At the time of his arrest, authorities seized three AK-47 rifles that Leal obtained using two other young men who were U.S citizens and could legally buy weapons in Texas. Court documents do not specify the cartel for which the guns were purchased. However, just south of McAllen is the area controlled by the Gulf Cartel. Poster Comment: Trump Effect: Remittances to Mexico to Drop to Lowest Level in More than a Decade During the daily press conference, Sheinbaum announced a delegation of officials would travel to the United States to address a proposed 3.5 percent tax on remittances to Mexico found in the “Big Beautiful Bill” budget reconciliation legislation. The tax contained within the legislation could result in revenue to the U.S. of more than $2 billion annually, based on more than $60 billion in remittances sent to Mexico in 2024. https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/06/05/trump-effect-remittances-to-mexico- to-drop-to-lowest-level-in-more-than-a-decade/?utm_source=newsletter Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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