Mexico Requests Tougher Efforts To Halt Border Weapons Trafficking

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[Happy2BMe]

Mexico Requests Tougher Efforts To Halt Border Weapons Trafficking

Mexico is asking the U.S. to strengthen efforts to halt arms trafficking along the Mexican border, a spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday.

The request was delivered Friday at a U.S.-Mexico working group on arms trafficking.

It comes after recent complaints that Mexican organized crime groups have access to high-tech weaponry that could only come from the United States.

Mexican federal police and soldiers arrived in two border states this month to help control a surge in violence linked to drug trafficking groups.

Meanwhile a man was shot to death and assailants shot up a motel in what appeared to be drug-related attacks in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, despite the presence of federal forces sent to quell violence in the city across the Rio Grande from Laredo.

Assailants with automatic weapons entered the Tres Caminos motel Sunday and shot up three rooms.

No one was killed, but witnesses told police at least three men were taken from the hotel by the gunmen.

It was the most brazen attack since the Mexican president sent soldiers and federal agents to take over the city.

Violence has increased all along the border as Mexico's two main drug gangs fight to control smuggling routes.

Nuevo Laredo is on the front line of the battle.

More than 70 people have been killed there since January.

[A.B.Normal]

PS my cheap keyboard sticks and stinks - hecho en Mexico. Sorry for dwwd which could eb dood or dude but was deed.

[Reagan Man]

PresBush has offered no leadership on the issue of illegal immigration. Sadly, Bush appears to support open borders, which has further undermined the US Constitution and strained major portions of the nations social and fiscal infrastructure. The vast majority of Americans don't support open borders or amnesty. Something Bush has kept right on ignoring.

[potlatch]

It's the Mexican side of the border that checks your vehicle when you enter Mexico so if weapons are going in it's their fault!!

When we go down for White wing hunting the beginning of September we check and double check our cars for a single shotgun shell laying around. Don't want to end up in a Mexican jail!!

[Happy2BMe]

[Happy2BMe]

"A-m-n-e-s-t-y was Reagan's dwwd, and Bush wants to play the same game."

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Let's set the record straight on that, shall we please?

* * * * * Ronald Reagan's Big Mistake

[OKIEDOC]

They don't want any guns in their country because the common people would use them on the corrupt politicians.

[potlatch]

LOL, I think you're right. Only the drug runners can have the guns.

[FBD]

This reminds me of Saudi Arabia. Both Saudi and Mexican govts overlooked their problems: terrorist groups In Saudi Arabia, and the drug cartels in Mexico.
Now, the pot is boiling over in both countries, and they are looking to the U.S.A. for help.

[potlatch]

LOL, that's a good one Happy!

[William Terrell]

It comes after recent complaints that Mexican organized crime groups have access to high-tech weaponry that could only come from the United States.

Humm. I wonder of some of those "Mexican organized crime groups" would be citizen (or subject) militias plotting to overthrow the corruption.

[Happy2BMe]

Then who would be left to protect the drug cartels?

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your assessment, and it doesn't please me to feel compelled to view the Bush administration in this light.

One of the most troubling aspect of this is that "conservatives" (and I use that term very loosely), are plenty happy to facilitate this travesty of constitutional adherence on the part of the president.

IMO we should all be advocating strong support of Bush's policies with regard to Iraq. He deserves that support, and it's good for the nation.

On the other hand we should to a man and woman be skewering him in no uncertain terms with his refusal to adhere to his oath of office as it applies to protecting the states against invasion.

That this hasn't and doesn't take place has told me that "true conservatism" is all but dead in this nation. As long as it's our guy, the U.S. Constitution means nothing more to these pretenders than a role of toilet paper that someone who will go un-named at this point, uses to wipe his butt with.

This is truly demoralizing. Our team is basically no team. How sad it has been to find this out.

[William Terrell]

Could be the drug cartels are the ones issuing the announcement.

[Happy2BMe]

From out of the past . . sanity and integrity call out to us . .

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149 May 7, 1918

[VeniVidiVici]

Well, how do these same people explain the thousands of troops placed down here nearly a hundred years ago to chase bandits such as Pancho Villa.

That was before the Pussy Communist Act was passed.

[DoughtyOne]

What and excellent timely poignant quotation.

[Happy2BMe]

The Mexican Hierarchy (In Order Of Political and Economic Dominance) . .

#1 - The Mexican Oil Industry (coveted by Communist China)

#2 - Revenue from the "THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY" out of the United States

and . .

#3 - The Drug Cartel (which controls the other two through terror and coercion)

[devolve]

[B4Ranch]

"right to expect a good and safe way of life, and reality"

The Bush Administration says they have the right to expect a good and safe way of life. All that's necessary is slip across the border and BINGO!, you shall have it. Then there's the American citizen and the Minutemen who defy the Bush Administration and Liberal Courts. We are doing all we can to prevent their right to expect a good and safe way of life because we live in a world where reality exists.

Reality is a Bitch

>>• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,strung 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.<<

Reality is a Bitch

[commonasdirt]

I know I cannot be the only one who finds this story and the request really funny.