Posted on 02/02/2006 5:21:38 PM PST by CAWats
In the past few days, Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department deputies and their families have received threats to stay off the Rio Grande. Sheriff Arvin West told ABC-7 Thursday morning, before departing for Houston that the Mexican military is behind all of this.
Sheriff West said, "There is no doubt in my mind -- from the first time going back to a couple of years ago and every time in between --- it's the Mexican military. In a nutshell, everybody's been trying to tell everybody that they were here...they've been here ...[and] they come here quite often, regularly."
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The cartel ARE Mexico now and have the use of military units and equipment. The official government is working on becoming irrelevant.
For some reason, you equate that with illegal immigration?
The US has a big appetite for drugs and it doesn't make any difference where the drugs come from.
Perhaps we should decrease the amount of drugs coming from Mexico and increase the amount brought in from Columbia.
According to an article I read a FR a few months ago, Mexico recently surpassed Columbia as the #1 supplier of Drugs to the US.
Pass that joint.
You may be right. But a war in the traditional sense? No, we are being challenged by a group of drug smugglers. If it were me, a border incursion would happen once and once only. After that those Mexican Army units would simply disappear.
Well tell me are you ready for a war with Mexico? If you call them on it thats what it would be.
Mexico will not go to war with the U.S.
If you call them on it they will back down.
It's time the sheriff and his deputies shoot to kill.... Enough of this nonsense. Since no one in DC seems to care, then to heck with them!! Declare open season on anyone dressed in a Mexican Army uniform that sets foot on American soil. IF we kill a few it will touch off a big uproar and maybe THAT will get the attention of Bush and his gang of fools.
Fox News just showed some video of a few perps...
Ben, I do equate the illegal immigration with the drug trade. The enormous illegal immigration problem has not only given cover for the drug runners, it is in fact facilitated in many instances by coyotes who themselves are associated with the drug trafficers. There was money to be made. The drug cartels weren't going to take a pass on facilitation for a price.
Our border is essentially wide open between checkpoints. We're paying the price. It's only going to get worse until our officials get with the program.
Your probably right. Some don't have their flags on their homepage either.
Believe me, their are plenty Texans against illegal immigration.
If not at first, they are now because their nice little subdivisions have turned into barrios.
That's how I see it. I am shocked at the lack of comprehension skills displayed by some folks who think it's just peachy if this nation goes Spanish and Mexican.
The bario effect cannot be explained. It has to be experienced. Once it has, the folks with the big supportive mouths (for illegal immigration) will get religion but quick.
I've runacross more than my share of Southern haters, too, but I haven't got my panties in a wad about it.
Sorry. Being free means having the right to hate whomever you want.
Personally, I have no use for criminal invaders either. If that makes me a Mexican-hater, oh well.
If we are gonna shut the border down than by all means, lets do it with the same enthusiasm we have about the WOT.
That one, I'll agree with you on. Leading a frontal assault on an enemy while leaving your back unprotected is asinine, IMHO.
"Well tell me are you ready for a war with Mexico?"
YESTERDAY!
Mexico needs to pull it's troops off the border and send them as far south as they can. OUR people in Washington Had better get a freakin clue or there's going to be hell to pay and that soon.
Selling us out, THAT'S where Cornyn is...
Senate to consider immigration in late March
Cornyn said he doesn't see a lot of support in the Senate for a provision denying children of illegal immigrants born in the United States citizenship or for building a fence on the southern border.
Organized crime's participation in illegal alien smuggling is relatively new, since 9-11 and the subsequent tightening of the border which drove up the price.
If the drugs don't come from Mexico, they will come from elsewhere.
Shows how out of touch the "Senate" is.
If something happens, the TX gov needs to roll some M1 Abrahams and put them on the border.
This brings up an interesting question... Let's say that the governor of a state calls up the national guard to patrol a border that happens to be a border with a foreign country. Constitutionally, that's the federal government's job, and a state official does not have the authority to do something like that. More importantly, what would happen when the federal government decides that they like the status quo better, and overrides the governor by federalizing the guard...
Mark
Then we have lots of Bank Robbers, that you would let out of jail? I think they are only seeking a better life too.
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