San Francisco is reportedly funding a real estate boom in Honduras as drug dealers pocket $350,000 a year or more and then send the money back home, making bank selling fentanyl and other deadly, addictive drugs to Americans.
One such place is a small farming community north of Honduras’ capital city Tegucigalpa. It is undergoing a construction boom. The town of El Pedernal is now dotted with mansions that boast the San Francisco 49ers logo and metalwork depicting the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, according to the Daily Mail.
Locals claim that many of the mansions are being purchased with drug money sent home from the sanctuary city of San Francisco.
Honduran dealers plying their deadly wares in the City by the Bay told The San Francisco Chronicle that they earned huge sums and since it was a sanctuary city, San Francisco was a very appealing destination for them. The media outlet spent 18 months researching El Pedernal and where all the money was coming from only to find it was an unintended consequence of liberal policies.
You don’t say ♀️ One drug dealer told the Chronicle that at least 50% of the drug dealers in his home town were selling in San Francisco because of the lax enforcement policies.
“The reason is because, in San Francisco, it’s like you’re here in Honduras,” pic.twitter.com/E47hlPRkfy
— Paula La Bedz (@telling_news) July 11, 2023
Because of the sanctuary city status, there is little risk of deportation. And since the city tends to kick offenders right back onto the streets and hand out light sentences to drug dealers, there’s little risk of imprisonment there either.
“The reason is because, in San Francisco, it’s like you’re here in Honduras,” one dealer said. “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.”
El Pedernal used to have a population of about 1,600. It was a small, rural farming community barely getting by. Now, the town is booming and a worker makes $35 a day in construction, which is four times what they would make farming.
One teacher quit and took up being a full-time metal artist who crafts custom work for the new homes. The gaudy designs echo those of Colombian “narco houses” according to Oscar Estrada, a Honduran author who wrote a book on drug trafficking’s impact on Honduras.
Thousands of miles from San Francisco, on the outskirts of a village in Honduras, a mural appears like a mirage: the Bay Bridge. More emblems of the city appear unexpectedly and often. New homes rise behind gates emblazoned with 49ers or Warriors logos.
This is the Siria Valley. pic.twitter.com/GuUthujJWF
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) July 10, 2023
“I have seen from, probably the ’90s, this remittance architecture, which was very obvious and they have this very clear design and usually is related with aspirations of the immigrants to the United States,” Estrada recounted. “But this is not that. It looks more like a typical Narco house. The one you see in places like Colombia, you see the kind of architecture totally over the top of the community. That’s very clear.”
One dealer told The San Francisco Chronicle that the three-bedroom that he lives in with his wife and children in El Pedernal cost $150,000. He earned that amount in five months of dealing in the Tenderloin district.
In San Francisco, over 200 Honduran illegal immigrants have been charged with drug dealing since 2022. The true scale of the drug dealing network is reportedly much, much greater in scope. That number doesn’t include Honduran dealers who were convicted in previous cases or others who have never been arrested.
Most of the drug dealers come from the Siria Valley, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. Many are related and/or know each other.
Wade Shannon, who ran the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Francisco office before his recent retirement, told the media outlet that the Hondurans are street-level dealers specializing in fentanyl. They get the drugs from the Sinaloa Cartel.
Turns out these “underprivileged immigrants” in San Francisco are actually fentanyl dealers from Honduras that make $350k a year or so by selling deadly poison that is killing Americans
Democrat politician policies are designed to help these people . Not you ..
— Make L.A Great Again (@lalovestrump) July 12, 2023
A retired police officer told the Chronicle in an interview that Hondurans have been dealing in the Tenderloin district for 35 years, but they have recently gained control of the open-air drug markets in San Francisco.
Stunningly, according to the media outlet, “Only six percent of people charged with drug-sale crimes in San Francisco from 2018 to 2022 have so far been convicted on a drug charge.”
When they are convicted, they get anywhere from a day to three years. The average is 168 days.
The Chronicle reported, “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. Some get assigned to diversion programs or have charges dismissed, while others plead guilty to lesser, non-drug charges.”
“The rest either go on trial or skip court proceedings and have warrants issued for their arrest,” the outlet added.
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