The Biden administration does not have a plan in place to prevent Hezbollah from cashing in on its proposed menthol cigarette ban, which lawmakers and experts say will open up a black market that will enrich the Iran-backed terror group and Mexican drug cartels.

I wish bmf was here to speak on this

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    8 months ago

    "It should alarm every American that our border is wide open, Hezbollah is about to be incentivized to establish massive cigarette trafficking networks in America, and the agencies responsible for stopping it have not been tasked with any mitigation plan," said Goldberg, now an adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank.

    Rep. Mark Green (R., Tenn.), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said there is compelling evidence to indicate that Hezbollah will take "advantage of this new black market in illicit tobacco products and [use] the profits to fund their nefarious activities."

    DC Think Tanks are straight up writing fan fiction and passing it off as policy