Posted on 07/12/2005 9:29:42 PM PDT by 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.
As I said just last night to another FReeper.
"While the President has done a remarkable job in prosecuting the WOT and while his tax cuts for American workers advanced a major component to the agenda of the conservative movement, the President has failed to hold down social spending and limit the growth of the federal bureaucracy."
"If the President doesn't stick to his word and nominate conservative jurists to the USSC who are in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, he will have let down conservatives once again."
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In the name of being good neighbors I absolutely feel that we should do our best to comply vigorously with El Presidente Fox's request. Deploy the National Guard on the borders immediately!
that's a laugh!
the only people that have guns in mexico are the government and criminals.
That's the way it works in most countries, the innocent civilians are caught between the police/military and the gangsters. Every American citizen should have two or more guns in his/her home and know how to use them.
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I'd laugh if this were a joke - Mexico throws responsibility for everything else they can on the US taxpayer, now they want us to police them.
We oughta annex Mexico once for all.
It appears to be the other way around - Mexico is annexing us.
Those weapons are just doing jobs that mexican weapons refuse to do..
When I stop laughing I'll explain why the government that prints brochures explaining how to succeed at breaking US laws has no right to expect ANYTHING from the US govt.
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