Posted on 10/05/2020 1:12:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
350 miles completed, 231 miles under construction, 157 miles under pre-construction (738 Total).
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Oops, just checked it out and it turns out that's a bit of an exaggeration. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a series of trails, 50 miles wide, wending their way under jungle canopy, headed more or less in the same direction. Each little trail in the series of trails was 18 feet wide and well-maintained by an estimated 40,000 troops and guerrillas.
They are always doing that at some level, but it is likely to ramp way up. They are getting paramilitary - improvised armored vehicles, with higher caliber machine guns mounted on them, armed drones (grenade or mortar round droppers), and even an occasional stolen Military anti-tank missile. They get into some grand shootouts with each other, the Police and the Military.
Cartel Jalisco, New Generation:
Good point. I wonder how much it would cost them to come up with an effective drone attack air force? I know they’re super rich, but I bet they’d think a bee had stung them down there where they carry their wallets!
Thanks! Savin’ that map.
“You don’t think those crazy cartel bosses would order their “armies” to attack our guys who are building the wall, do you?”
I don’t. It would draw a lot of heat on their operations, and not stop the wall. A lot of the contractors have their own security guards built into their contract pricing, and Border Patrol often posts officers at the job sites.
I also think it would draw to much heat on the Government of Mexico itself, and they would have to make a show of force in response. Cartels rightly fear that.
The new National Guard Force (26,000 strong) that was established by Mexico last year, is dedicated to Border and migrant control. They have a special enabling law governing their ability to use force - essentially to use whatever force they determine to be appropriate. The Military in Mexico, in just the last few years, has a long record of hard actions against the cartels - shooting on sight, disappearances/targeted assassinations, torture - just like one of the boys, but with the heaviest weapons.
I think if we were going to see that tactic, we would have seen it by now.
“I personally long for the day when the Southern Border of California is completely Walled-off.”
Just about all of the flat parts are getting done, and some of the steeper terrain as well.
Drone/counter-drone is already a big phenomena on the border.
Mainly, they carry small loads of drugs, or look out for folks getting ready to make a run over the border.
They can be detected with radar or acoustic sensors, and disabled with RF jammers. Some have even been taken over by Border Patrol, and guided into landing where directed for capture.
That map is from this article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12658641/jalisco-new-generation-cartel-outgun-el-chapos-empire/
Statistically, half of those who fall from 30 feet will die from it - and those stats were predominately fit, military age men (roofers, linesmen, tree trimmers).
Those who don’t die from the fall, are typically wrecked badly. One of the first to fall from the new thirty footers in Calexico, broke both of his femurs, and his back. A young lady died recently West of El Paso (Anapra), from falling off of eighteen footers.
30 feet up is like a fourth floor window ledge.
Thanks for that. Fascinating article.
It says the Mexican army is militarily far superior to the cartels. It should go all out and wipe the cartels out of existence, and anyone who belongs to them. Really appalling brutality like that just cannot be allowed to continue on and on indefinitely.
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