<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top House lawmakers received a classified briefing on Thursday from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Homeland Security</a> and the Drug Enforcement Agency on the proliferation of illegal Chinese-backed marijuana farms across the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), who heads up the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, and Rep. Clay Higgins, who leads the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, alongside other committee members, received the briefing from the DHS, DEA, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a committee spokesman told The Daily Wire.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the spokesman, the briefing focused on “the recent trend in illicit marijuana grow operations within the homeland by People’s Republic of China (PRC) nationals,” as well as how federal “entities are working to combat the issue.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the last several years, Chinese-backed marijuana operations have cropped up across the United States, including major drug busts in New Mexico and </span><a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2023/11/triad-weed-illegal-chinese-marijuana-grows-are-all-over-maine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maine</span></a>. In Maine alone,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Border Patrol has </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-chinese-marijuana-grow-operations-worth-billions-cropping-up-in-maine-border-patrol-memo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reportedly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> identified at least 270 illegal marijuana grow operations throughout the state that are worth billions of dollars.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November, a suspected Chinese national <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspect-massive-church-marijuana-operation-was-run-by-chinese-foreign-national" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> in rural Tennessee for allegedly operating a large marijuana growing operation out of an old church. A Daily Wire request for the police report on the arrest was denied due to an ongoing investigation into the operation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Committee continues to conduct oversight of the federal government’s response to the worrying trend of illicit Chinese-operated marijuana farms,” the spokesman added. “Many of these operations work in conjunction with transnational criminal organizations, engage in human trafficking and force labor practices, and pose serious threats to public safety. The Committee is committed to combating the threats posed by transnational criminal organizations and countering the malign influence of the PRC on U.S. soil.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The briefing comes after House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN), Pfluger, and Higgins </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-republicans-investigating-spread-of-chinese-backed-marijuana-farms-in-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">requested a briefing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the DEA Administrator Anne Milgram in a letter first reported on by The Daily Wire.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Illicit Chinese-operated marijuana farms have been found across the country and pose significant risks to our nation’s security,” the lawmakers wrote. “In addition, Chinese investors have financed some of these illegal operations, and these investments include cash payment for large swaths of land to conduct these operations.”</span></p>

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