Posted on 08/01/2005 3:43:47 AM PDT by rdb3
A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said.
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Isn't that special? Heck we need their votes so let them in.
A discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a DALLAS MORNING NEWS article via KANSAS CITY STAR: "FBI BULLETIN OUTLINES POSSIBLE TERRORIST PLOT AT TEXAS BORDER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The plot, according to uncorroborated information provided by an FBI informant, involves a man, described as an Arab who goes by the nickname "El Espanol," and Ernesto Zatarin Beliz, also known as El Traca, a reputed Mexican drug trafficker and member of the Zetas, the feared enforcers of the notorious Gulf cartel.") (July 17, 2005) (Read More...)
WorldNetDaily.com: Washington - "MEXICAN DRUG COMMANDOS EXPAND OPS IN 6 US STATES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The ultra-violent, U.S.-trained elite, Mexican paramilitary commandos known as the "Zetas," responsible for hundreds of murders along the border this year, have expanded their enforcement efforts on behalf of a drug cartel by setting up trafficking routes in six U.S. states. A U.S. Justice Department memo says the U.S.-trained units have recently moved operations into Houston, San Antonio and the states of California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. They have been operating in Dallas for at least two years, according to the feds.") (June 21, 2005) (Read More...)
A Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding a July 12, 2005 article in THE TIMES (N.W. INDIANA): "POLICE ARREST MS-13 GANG MEMBER IN MONTICELLO" (July 13, 2005) (Read More...)
Stop right there. I want a vigorously enlarged Border Patrol. What we have now is a joke.
Soldiers are soldiers, and as a vet, I'm adamantly against placing our troops on the borders.
Bob Grant WOR AM Radio 710 NYC had a good idea last week; land mines, preceded by ample warning signs.
Why? Isn't it important enough? I'm a Navy vet, from '66-'68, have all the appropriate ribbons, and a couple extra. I may be wrong, but I think defending our own border is why we have a standing Army (Navy, and AF). I see nothing about stationing troops in foreign lands, within our Constitution...
Did I miss something? Where is the mandate for a "border patrol"?
Just doing jobs (protecting drug smugglers) that Americans would not do.. this is what BUSH means by his open border policy?? WAKE UP GOP the conservative voters are willing to walk away.
I have to wonder, at what point will our government consider this an invasion?
I also have to wonder how soon out military will become involved in defending the country. It seems this is beyond the capabilities of local law enforcement or the border patrol to deal with.
Yes, it's important enough. But that is not what we were trained to do.
I'm a Navy vet, from '66-'68, have all the appropriate ribbons, and a couple extra.
Good for you.
I may be wrong, but I think defending our own border is why we have a standing Army (Navy, and AF). I see nothing about stationing troops in foreign lands, within our Constitution...
So you'd take former Presidents to task for stationing our troops in foreign lands to contain the spread of communism, right?
Did I miss something? Where is the mandate for a "border patrol"?
Okay. Everybody, let's do away with the Border Patrol. pageonetoo doesn't want it.
Don't be cute. And I know your style.
It hasn't failed. It's not large enough and PC rules the day. We need to root out the PC and the corruption and fund them to do their job correctly.
If our troops can help patrol every other country's borders than why not our own country?
This has all gone beyond serious it is now an obvious threat to our security.
We are being invaded here folks. Between the Ayrabs and the Mexicans soon it wont be safe to be in our own country. What will it take for the Congress and the President to WTFU and make a move? Citizens armed and fighting in the streets? Now we sign on to Cafta and send more jobs over the border, WTF is going on?
I know. And that was a HUGE disappointment.
What's going on? Big government Republican style, is what's going on. You didn't really think there was major differences in political parties, did you?
Ya think the ACLU will organize a protest against these gun toting vigilantes?
Don't we have us some 'ole B-52's and other payload-droppers out in the Mojave???
Why not restore them to airworthiness (just enough to stay aloft & maneuver), fill'em with fuel & bombs and pilot them right out over the masses coming in???
Who knows? We might even get to take out one or more of those Commando's bases of ops.
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