Mexican mercenaries expand base into U.S.

The Washington Times ^ | 1 AUGUST 2005 | Jerry Seper

[FreedomCalls]

I have been following the border problem for a while now and my understanding as to why the armed forces have not been used is because they don't have arrest authority and would cause a bigger headache in the civil courts than it already is concerning the illegal immigrant problem.

There's a simple solution for that. Just declare a one miles strip along the American side of the border to be a military zone, like a military base is. The military has full power to detain and arrest anyone trespassing on a military installation and has the power to expell them from there. Since they would be from Mexico, they could easily be expelled (or "deported" back to the other side). The military could patrol the strip of the border just like they do on any other military base and like the military does in most countries with militarized borders.

[TheLion]

The drug problem on the border is getting out of control

[semaj]

Its a case of an active conspiracy by a foreign power..."

With the tacit approval of our own elected government officals ala CAFTA and NAFTA, and unprotected, open borders.

[garybob]

Soldiers are soldiers, and as a vet, I'm adamantly against placing our troops on the borders.

As a vet, when I read "Their assailants were dressed in black commando-type clothing, used high-powered weapons and hand-held radios to point out the agents' location, and withdrew from the area using military-style cover and concealment tactics to escape back into Mexico." I think of SEALs or Army Rangers blocking their retreat into Mexico.

Time to take out the trash

[Dante3]

Our military has been protecting the South Korean border. It is more important they they should be protecting ours.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"Just declare a one miles strip along the American side of the border to be a military zone, like a military base "

is great idea - posse comitatus would not be in effect..
some ACLU type would try to stop it based on no military use but that would fail - also eco nuts would say it would harm the environment..but it could fly.

[swampfox98]

Building a North American Community: Report of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America

Speaker: William F. Weld, co-chair, Independent Task Force on the future of North America, former governor of Massachusetts and assistant U.S. attorney general

Speaker: John P. Manley, co-chair, Independent Task Force on the future of North America, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Canada

Speaker: Pedro C. Aspe, co-chair, Independent Task Force on the future of North America, former finance minister of Mexico

Speaker: Robert A. Pastor, co-chair, Independent Task Force on the future of North America, director of the Center for North American Studies, American University

Presider: Anthony DePalma, correspondent, the New York Times Council on Foreign Relations New York, N.Y. May 17, 2005

ANTHONY DEPALMA: [in progress] because we are determined and will guarantee you that we will be done by 2:00, so that you can get back. My name is Anthony DePalma. I'm a correspondent and reporter for the New York Times. Welcome to this session this afternoon.

We are here, and forgive me for just reading this, but I want to make sure that I've got all the rules correct, to discuss the conclusion of the Independent Task Force on North America sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. You all have details of the Task Force report, which was released today for the first time in your packet, as well as biographies of all the panelists up here. I'd ask you to bear with me as I go over a couple of housekeeping rules. I've already turned off my cell phone, so I would ask you all to do the same. Any other iPods, wireless devices, PDAs, whatever it is that you have, secret decoding devices, please turn them off. And in a little bit of a diversion from previous practices, this particular session is on the record, and all the comments that are made today will be on the record.

(This is the beginning of a meeting that discusses combining Canada, United States, Mexico and Central America into one nation called, The North American Community. This excert I got from the website of the Council on Foreign Relations before they hid the articles that were telling too much to the American people about the selling out of our nation. I have this one, only because I bookmarked it.)

NAFTA, CAFTA and now one Bush is working on to complete the set which I thins is called, FTTA Free trade with South America. Bush and these people are working toward an American EU, and here it is.

[dljordan]

"As a vet I also wonder why we have "peace keeping" forces half way around the world and yet live under the threat of someone walking in with a nuclear bomb."

Easy, in the minds of our rulers Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are already one country as they are demonstrating with their quite public announcements of impending unity. Why do they need to protect us against other "North American" citizens.

The ruling elite (and whether you like it or not we have them) are trained to believe that they have an obligation and a right to direct the lives of the rest of us. We're just here to provide a labor force, that's why they refer to us as "human resources". We have departments in every university that teach public administration and social engineering. Bureaucracy has become a career path and bureaucrats produse nothing but paperwork and debt.

[sgtbono2002]

For some reason Both parties appear to be selling our sovereignty. along with watching as we get invaded by foreigners.

[swampfox98]

For some reason Both parties appear to be selling our sovereignty. along with watching as we get invaded by foreigners.

Right you are. But the Republicans will probably be hurt more than the Democrats in the next election. American citizens will look at their neighborhoods and see the Mexicans standing with their hands out for our tax money, and many will vote for the Democrat nominees just to get even.

What really floors me is the so called conservative Republicans who don't give a flying flip. 2010 is when the fat will hit the fan.

[jetson]

if this is true W better get his head out of his rear end real fast.

[Cindy]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/140805borderwars.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/august2005/140805mexico.jpg

"The Secret Border Wars
Mayhem and terror in Southern states to protect government drug cartels"

Paul Joseph Watson/Alex Jones | August 14 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "While the threat of terrorists attacking the US is regularly one of the top news headlines on a daily basis, real terror that has already claimed the lives of 600 people this year is being routinely ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media.

Mexican drug commando organization los Zetas has been carrying out kidnappings of American citizens and politically motivated assassinations which have stretched from the border town of Nuevo Laredo through to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio all the way to Nashville, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga.

If Al-Qaeda had infiltrated the US and carried out hundreds of assassinations and kidnappings including those of FBI and DEA agents as well as police chiefs, do you think the media would be interested? Of course they would and yet this very scenario is being played out with scant coverage in local newspapers and the occasional wire blurb.

A February 2005 wire report describes just two of the incidents that have claimed the lives of over a hundred people just in the last month."

[Cindy]

http://www.newschannel5.tv/2005/8/19/4068/Violent-drug-gang-in-training--FBI-says

"Violent drug gang in training, FBI says"
Friday, August 19, 2005 Updated: 07:06 PM


PALMVIEW -- FBI agents are taking unconfirmed reports of drug-trafficking and gang activity in the Valley very seriously.

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PALMVIEW -- FBI agents issued a warning to Valley law enforcement this week. They said an intelligence report warns Guatemalan commandos are training a drug-trafficking group called the Zetas.

FBI reports claim 30 men once members of the Guatemalan Kaibiles are training Zetas near Rio Bravo, Mexico. That's right across the river from Donna.

The Zetas are believed to be behind most of the drug violence along the border from Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros.

Local police are taking the alert very seriously."

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=zetas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ms13
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=gangs

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468043/posts

"Mexican cattle business linked to drug cartels"
Houston Chronicle ^ | August 22, 2005 | MICHAEL HEDGES, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

Posted on 08/22/2005 12:52:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department, trying to block an elaborate money-laundering scheme, has announced that two Mexican cattle companies are fronts for drug-trafficking cartels.

The action means that cattle sold by the companies to Texas ranchers after Friday's announcement are subject to seizure by the federal government, said a high-ranking Treasury official who asked not to be named.

"Cattle already purchased and owned before the companies were identified as tied to the drug cartels are not going to suddenly be blocked," the official said.

The Treasury Department plans to inform cattle associations and other groups later this week of the action taken against the Mexican companies, officials said. The Treasury also will provide other information, such as the brands used by the cattle companies linked to the drug cartels.

For now, buyers are expected to practice due diligence when purchasing cattle.

Two Mexican drug cartels were named in the Treasury Department's statement, the Arriola Marquez organization and the Arellano Felix cartel based in Tijuana. The Arriola Marquez group, based in Mexico's Chihuahua state, is linked to Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the department said. Guzman leads one of the factions fighting for control of Nuevo Laredo and its smuggling routes into Texas, officials have said.

'Another blow' to cartels Treasury officials said the Arriola Marquez group developed the idea of laundering cash from drug deals by buying large herds of cattle in Mexico.

Identifying the companies laundering drug money "deals another blow to the notorious Mexican drug cartels by targeting their financial webs," said Robert Werner, director of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The two Mexican cattle companies named by the Treasury Department are Corrales San Ignacio S.P.R. de R.L. de C.V. and Del Nortes Carnes Finas San Ignacio S.A. de C.V., both of Mexico's Chihuahua state.

A U.S. company in Presidio called Corrales San Ignacio L.L.C. was identified by the Treasury Department as a "mirror" entity — an organization that exists on paper to give a foreign company a U.S. outlet — officials said. "I don't know that (the Presidio) company has any cattle pens or feed lots," the Treasury official said.

Representatives of the companies could not be reached."