Our people are target practice in Mexico!
Mexico should let US agents carry guns, lawmaker says - Fort Worth Star Telegram "An agreement from 1990 bars agents from carrying weapons in Mexico, which leaves them as "sitting targets," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin."
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/02/18/2860995/mexico-should-let-us-agents-carry.html#
US agent death sparks concern over Mexico strategy - AFP Killers Knew Men Were From U.S. - Wall Street Journal San Antonio Express - Christian Science Monitor
Travel warnings to Mexico!
[snip]A new U.S. government advisory urges a "heightened sense of alert" for Americans living or traveling in central Mexico - a destination for many North Texas residents - after drug cartel gunmen fatally shot a U.S. agent and wounded another there.
The agents were ambushed in San Luis Potosi state on Tuesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata later died of his wounds. Agent Victor Avila was wounded.
In North Texas, the second-largest population of immigrants is from San Luis Potosi, and many of them travel to their hometowns on federal Highway 57, where the attack on the agents took place.
About 300,000 natives of San Luis Potosi state live in Texas, many of them in North Texas, said Peggy Jaramillo, president of the group Your House San Luis Potosi in Texas, which provides immigrants with help and information.
Traditionally, about 60 percent of them return to their hometowns at some point each year, often at Christmas or in the summer, but that number has fallen by about half as concerns about security have grown, she said.
Jaramillo said she and other Mexicans are "definitely thinking twice before traveling not just to San Luis Potosi but anywhere in the country."
The route is also popular for Americans vacationing in the states of San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, with its popular community of San Miguel de Allende, a second home to thousands of Texans.
"For every American who does visit, there are 100 of their American friends who ask, 'Are you crazy?' " said Dan Scher, co-owner of Casa Puesta del Sol, a bed and breakfast in San Miguel popular with Americans and Mexicans. "We're grateful that we're getting more Mexican tourism because tourism from the U.S. is dead."
Scher and his wife, Gabriela, plan to offer discounts, a rarity, to lure tourists as spring break and Easter near.
"Get on a plane and fly, don't drive," he advised. "I wouldn't."
Whether the U.S. advisory affects Texas-Mexico commercial ties remains to be seen. One business security consultant said Friday that plans to move goods - everything from food to televisions, jeans and auto parts - would go ahead as planned.
"That highway, which is our NAFTA highway, has been dangerous for quite some time," a U.S. corporate security consultant said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This incident only makes us that much more cautious."
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/02/18/2860995/mexico-should-let-us-agents-carry.html#
Only problem is that all of the refugees will come here!
Seal the damn border. Throw back anything that comes across illegally. Let ‘em kill each other.
If we have to enter Mexico, make it a full-boat show of force.
It’s a war, and some of us know it...
FUBAR
If you’re in an armored vehicle travelling through Mexico, don’t open the window for unknowns, especially if they’re dressed as civilians and armed.
Sounds like these agents may have known one or more of the assailants...or at least been familiar with people similar....possibly the assailants were acting as Federales or the equivalent?
Its time to seal the border, deport all illegals, and end NAFTA. Mexico is nothing more than a latrine-pit....and the US cannot afford dealing with Mexico in the present manner
Isn't the murder of US Diplomats in Mexico,
an act of war
on the United States by Mexico ?
Had this been a Mexican agent killed you know we would have hourly updates and this administration would be out in full force to find the killers.
Usually, Third World governments are terrified armed foreigners are there to overthrow them (which is why all those cargo ship crews find themselves forced to travel unarmed right into the hands of Somali pirates) but since that is clearly impossible in this case we can only assume the Federal Police want to retain the option to easily kill any US agent who sees too much. I don't blame Calderon directly, but he could fix this. Unless US politicians are really behind it, attempting to make sure their bribe payments are not interdicted.
The local radio station is getting this out.
http://www.kpho.com/news/26899814/detail.html
Houston Medical Examiner Refuses Agent’s Autopsy (Feb 17, 2011)
MEXICO CITY — ICE agents say a medical examiner in Houston refused to conduct the autopsy on a border patrol agent who died in an ambush in Mexico.
Agent Jaime Zapata and another ICE agent were shot near Mexico City.
CBS News has learned that agents Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila were driving on a toll road between Mexico City and Monterrey when two SUV’s sandwiched the agents’ vehicle. As many as ten gunmen got out of their vehicles and opened fire, killing Zapata.
Sources say their vehicle was targeted by drug cartel hit men, but it’s unclear if the shooters knew who was inside.
Zapata’s body was flown to Houston for an autopsy, but the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office refused to accept the body.
They reportedly did not want to do a second autopsy since one had already been performed in Mexico.
ICE officials then began looking for a plane to take the body to Dover Air Force base to the Department of Defense’s Mortuary.
After a few hours, the medical examiner relented. ICE officials refused to return.
Injured agent, Victor Avila, was discharged from a U.S. hospital Wednesday and is now home recovering from being shot twice in the leg.
The FBI is now leading a task force to find out who is responsible.
Ping!
Send the second Gen ‘Black Jack’ Pershing Military incursion into Mexico to wipe out the Zettas and Druggies.
To quote Darth Vader ‘Wipe them out, Wipe them all out!’