; Whereas the Mexican cartels employ an estimated 175,000 members; Whereas human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar-a-year industry; Whereas the United States is one of the top destinations for human trafficking; Whereas the cartels made approximately $13 billion just from human trafficking and smuggling in 2021; Whereas human trafficking cases in the United States increased drastically in fiscal year 2022, with arrests increasing by 50 percent and convictions by 80 percent; Whereas, in February 2021 alone, Border Patrol estimated that the cartels made $14,000,000 per day smuggling illegal aliens across the border; Whereas the cartels charge illegal border crossers between $10,000 and $70,000 per person to cross our border illegally and invade our country; Whereas the Sinaloa Cartel employs gatekeepers assigned to Ports of Entry and controls the Arizona and California smuggling corridors into the United States; Whereas former special agent for DEA’s Special Operations Division testified under oath that the cartels have total control over the United States southern border; Whereas, in March 2022, inside 4 houses controlled by a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel in the northern state of Sonora, the Mexican army recovered 2,800,000 rounds of ammunition, 89 hand grenades, 20 machine guns, 6.50 caliber sniper rifles, more than 150 handguns and automatic rifles, and bulletproof vests; Whereas, in May 2022, United States authorities broke up a Cartel del Noreste scheme to buy $500,000 worth of machine guns, grenades, and rocket-propelled launchers to be smuggled south from the United States into Mexico; Whereas, according to the American Sheriff Alliance, transnational criminal organizations like the cartels and gangs are directly responsible for the increases in deaths, human trafficking, sex trafficking, and unprecedented violence occurring in cities and counties across our Nation