Californias Privacy Laws Are Helping Cartels

If you’re a cartel boss wanting for some candy new wheels, you are unlikely to sit in the gross sales workplace filling out pages and pages of a lease settlement. And since you’re doubtless a ruthless kind certainly if you made it to the top of the drug dealing, human trafficking world, you’re also in all probability not in parting with any of your money or dealing with a talkative salesman.

The answer? Just steal your car. Or, even better, steal heaps of them.

The capos are doing just that, according to a report Sunday by The Los Angeles Times, and they’re doing it by the hundreds:

Mexican cartels are stealing vehicles and vehicles from U.S. rental companies at an alarming price, spiriting hundreds of autos across the border each 12 months to keep top capos in the latest model BMWs and Cadillacs.

You received’t be shocked to study which state is at the top of the checklist of targets:

Law enforcement companies and firms charged with attempting to get better stolen autos say that while a lot of the thefts happen in border states, cartel operatives have stolen autos from as far-off as New York, Chicago and Miami. But California stays the top goal.

Each 12 months, about 850 autos stolen from California end up in Mexico, according to the California Highway Patrol. LAPD Sgt. Juvey Mejia, a member of the Task Force for Regional Auto Theft Prevention, said the cartels love heavy-duty pickup vehicles and Jeeps.

“Anything that can drive through tough terrain to get away from Border Patrol so they can move dope,” Mejia said.

Overall, the quantity of U.S. rental autos ending up illicitly in Mexico is believed to be in the hundreds each 12 months.

My buddy and California State Senate District 22 candidate Mike Netter notes that California’s strict GPS restrictions on firms that need to find their autos exacerbate the issue:

Mexican cartels are building luxurious fleets by stealing U.S. rental vehicles
Mexican cartels are stealing hundreds of U.S. rental vehicles and vehicles to construct luxurious fleets and outfit autos with armor and gun mounts. California is a prime goal, in half, because of its restrictive… pic.twitter.com/bOtD3o8oYb

— Mike Netter (@nettermike) October 11, 2026

Mexican cartels are building luxurious fleets by stealing U.S. rental vehicles Mexican cartels are stealing hundreds of U.S. rental vehicles and vehicles to construct luxurious fleets and outfit autos with armor and gun mounts. California is a prime goal, in half, because of its restrictive privateness legal guidelines on GPS monitoring of rental autos. 

So you possibly can thank California Politicians for serving to the Cartels How do you’re feeling about that?

Putting limits on the technology is sensible; no one desires Hertz or Avis watching their every transfer. But as is so often the case, the Golden State seems to have gone too far:

Unlike other states, California requires that rental companies wait to flip on GPS monitoring until the vehicle return deadline has handed and the renter has been contacted by the company. By then, most stolen autos are deep in Mexican territory.

“California allows criminals to take advantage of the fact that we are not allowed to see where the vehicle is until it’s too late,” Laguana said. The American Car Rental Assn., a commerce group, said in a assertion that California legal guidelines make it tougher to get better autos.

The drug lords have high-end tastes, and have an affinity for Cadillac Escalades and BMW SUVs. They also steal Chevy Suburbans, Ford Raptors, and Toyota pickups for discipline work, many of which they flip into “mutant tanks” with metal plating, firing ports, and gun mounts.

If you’ve ever had the disagreeable expertise of strolling up to a rental counter only to be told that they ran out of vehicles and can’t honor your reservation, now you recognize a potential cause why.

Your car is on trip in Mexico.

Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly help President Trump’s law and order agenda.

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