Your Liberty is the Target: A Texas Border Expert’s Warning to Canada.
As cartels outpace law enforcement with Israeli tech, Ammon Blair reveals why securing our communities is the only way to save our country.
If you’ve been following The Elevate Report, you know we don’t just sit back and swallow the talking points coming out of Ottawa or D.C. We want to know what’s actually happening in the shadows where the federal governments are too afraid—or too incompetent—to look. Today, we had a conversation that I can only describe as a “lean-in” moment. I sat down with Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a veteran of the Lone Star Task Force.
Ammon isn’t your stereotypical “loud American.” He’s humble, reserved, and incredibly dangerous to the status quo because he has the data to back up the dread we’ve all been feeling. We moved past the basics and got into the grit of how the CCP, Mexican cartels, and organized crime in Canada have created a seamless web of criminality that our politicians are completely failing to acknowledge.
Here is the breakdown of the most groundbreaking revelations from our sit-down.
1. The ‘Tactical Alliance’: Texas Law Enforcement Meets First Nations
The most shocking part of our discussion wasn’t a statistic; it was a story of a “ground-up” alliance that bypasses the federal “mom and dad” who can’t stop fighting long enough to secure the house.
While the Trump/Carney administrations have been busy with high-level hand-wringing, Ammon and his task force in Texas did something radical: they invited the North to the South. In December, two First Nation chiefs—Chief Swamp from Akwesasne and Chief Zacharie from Kahnawake—travelled down to the Texas border. Why? Because they realized that if they didn’t secure their own territories, nobody would.
Breaking the Silos
Ammon’s team took these chiefs on a week-long operational immersion. We’re talking:
On-the-ground surveillance training to identify smuggling routes.
Tactical gunboat operations with the Texas DPS.
Shared Intelligence: The chiefs sat before a task force of 64 law enforcement agencies and laid out their problems.
As Ammon put it, “While mom and pop are fighting, the kids have to figure things out.” This isn’t just a feel-good story; it’s a tactical necessity. The cartels see the Akwesasne territory as a wide-open gap. By training these chiefs in the same counter-insurgency tactics used in Texas, they are building a “bridge at the tactical level” that bypasses the bureaucratic rot in our federal capitals.
2. The ‘High-Tech Cartel’: We’re Bringing Knives to a Drone Fight
We need to stop thinking of cartels as primitive groups of “drug runners” in the woods. According to Ammon, we are facing hybrid threats—organizations that function more like foreign intelligence services or parallel governments than street gangs.
The tech gap Ammon described is terrifying. While Canadian and American agents are still “following sign”—literally tracking broken brush and footprints like it’s 1850—the cartels are operating in the future.
“In one sector alone in Texas, we’ve had over 60,000 drone incursions from Mexico since October. They have access to Pegasus spyware. They are making as much money on cyber operations now as they are on narcotics.”
The cartels are out maneuvering law enforcement at every turn. They aren’t just smuggling; they are conducting counter-intelligence. They use coercion and corruption to control socioeconomics on both sides of the border. When we treat them as mere “traffickers,” we lose. We need to start treating them as the foreign terrorist organizations they are—groups that control 80% of the populated areas of Mexico and are now effectively “taxing” legitimate businesses and land owners in our own backyards.
3. The ‘Mutual Failure’ Critique: Flipping the Blame Game
Usually, the border conversation is a finger-pointing exercise: Americans blame Canada for being a “sieve” for extremists, and Canadians blame America for the flow of guns. Ammon flipped the script.
He was incredibly candid: Neither side is secure. The Missing Denominator Ammon pointed out that the metrics used by politicians to claim the border is “secure” are fundamentally flawed. They point to “apprehensions” or “seizures.” But as any math student knows, you can’t have a percentage of success if you don’t know the denominator.
We don’t know how many people/drugs are crossing.
We don’t have “Domain Awareness” of the air, electromagnetic, or cyber space.
We are using Vietnam-era sensors to fight 21st-century insurgencies.
It is a mutual failure of sovereignty. Both nations have allowed their borders to become seamless for criminals while becoming more restrictive for the average law-abiding citizen.
4. The Trucking Routes: From Sinaloa to Ontario
We touched on a topic I’ve been vocal about: the Khalistani trucking routes. Ammon confirmed that his task force is seeing a massive overlap between legitimate trade and illicit smuggling.
Because of USMCA guidelines, there are “non-domicile” CDLs (commercial driver’s licenses) being sold in Mexico to foreign nationals from all over the world—including people who can’t pass a driving test in the US or Canada. These drivers then move “narco-subsidized crops” (like avocados and citrus) across our borders.
Ammon’s team used dual authority—combining Sheriff power with Department of Agriculture checkpoints—to open up these trucks. What they found were Canadian plates on trailers coming straight from South Texas, driven by individuals with ties to these extremist smuggling networks. They are using our own supply chains against us.
5. The Solution: Sovereignty or Dependency?
The interview ended on a heavy note: Sovereignty.
Ammon argued that the cartels thrive on the “globalist system.” They want us to be dependent on foreign nations for our food, our auto parts, and our clothes. When we can’t feed or water our own populations, we lose our agency.
Mexico is the #1 criminal marketplace in the world.
The cartels are in 100 different countries.
The only way to win is to move toward a “Canada First” and “America First” mentality—not as a slogan, but as a survival strategy. We need to domesticate our supply chains to eliminate the “leverage” these criminal organizations have over our daily lives. If we don’t need their narco-subsidized crops, we take away their primary cover for moving poison into our communities.
Final Thoughts
This conversation with Ammon Blair was a wake-up call. It’s easy to get lost in the “Summer of Love” political drama in Ottawa, but while the politicians are arguing over terminology, guys like Ammon are on the river, watching the drones fly over.
The “Tactical Alliance” with the First Nations chiefs gives me hope. It shows that when the top is rotten, the bottom can still hold strong. We need to secure our own communities, listen to our neighbours, and acknowledge that the enemy isn’t just at the gates, they are driving the trucks.
Watch the full interview here: