Posted on 03/13/2011 11:32:44 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will double the number of its agents deployed in Mexico and examine new security measures in the wake of the killing of one of its officers, director John Morton said Friday.
"We're going to go from 20 people to 40 people" in Mexico, Morton told members of Congress in a hearing on his agency's budget for the upcoming fiscal year. "It will be by far our largest office."
The comments come less than a month after ICE agent Jaime Zapata, 32, was killed and a second ICE agent wounded while driving in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi in a region plagued by drug violence.
ICE, with 7,000 agents, part of the Department of Homeland Security and is one of the main agencies guarding against drug smuggling and crimes related to the trade. It has agents in Mexico City, Tijuana, Monterrey and other cities.
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Exactly
everything 0dumbo’s admin does shows lack of leadership and most of all common sense
Look out, there’s going to be a run on bean bags at Walmart.
Now that’s really brilliant. Obama reiterates in a press conference with Calderone that U.S. agents aren’t going to be armed, but we are going to double the number of sitting ducks in the country.
Unarmed - more targets.
Hopefully they’ll rewire their ‘armored’ cars so all of the door locks don’t automatically pop open when they put it in Park, as happened to those agents.
There are some REAL IDIOTS in government that, I guess, never gave that ‘feature’ a second thought.
They’re going to raise the number of agents from 20 to 40?
Heck, the drug gangs regularly murder that many people in one town in one night, and cut off their heads.
“and examine new security measures . . .”
Will they give them all pea-shooters? Surely that would be distrespectful of our Neighbor to the South.
Nice of the administration to telegraph to the cartels that we are doubling the number of unarmed agents in Mexico.
Bean Bag Napolitiano isn’t happy until others die so uselessly..
Spit-wads, will they at least be armed with spit-wads?
This is asinine.
Bring home the troops from Afghaniturd, and put THEM on the border... Mexico has already declared war on us, by firing their people into the USA..
ROE .. they heading NORTH shoot, if they heading south, shoot over their heads and make them run a little faster.
Give them sniper rifles and let them guard the border. They will do American citizens far more good there than running around in Mexico.
Great. More unarmed targets for the Mexican drug gangs.
I hope they at least let them upgrade to fully-automatic beanbag shooters this time around.
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