Posted on 07/19/2007 7:30:52 AM PDT by BGHater
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. today announced the U.S. Strategy to Combat Criminal Gangs from Central America and Mexico at a security meeting in Guatemala City with the seven Central American countries. This comes three months after President George W. Bush’s Latin America tour when he met with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger Perdomo, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to discuss the severity of the security situation in Central America. The Presidents also discussed the threats that gangs pose to both the United States and Latin America, and development of a regional strategy to combat gangs and other transnational threats in Central America.
The U.S. Strategy to Combat Criminal Gangs from Central America and Mexico is part of a developing regional security plan. The Strategy is aimed at both prevention and enforcement. It will help prevent youth from entering gangs and strengthen the fight against gang-related violence and other crimes. The United States will work with partner countries to combat transnational and other gangs that commit crimes in Central America, Mexico, and the United States.
We will work with our neighbors to combat criminal gangs through diplomacy, repatriation, law enforcement, capacity enhancement, and prevention.
The Strategy to Combat Criminal Gangs from Central America and Mexico will increase communication and information sharing at all levels of government and between governments. Many elements of the strategy already are underway. Implementation involves most U.S. agencies, including the U.S. Departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security and the U.S. Agency for International Development, as well as partner governments in the region. This strategy enhances U.S. interagency and international cooperation, increases coordination, and systematically enhances linkages between foreign governments and U.S. Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.
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No mention of a fence along the border.
Hey you toadies in charge; these gangs are already here and have been doing criminal business for years.
Translation: No Fence.
I hope this plan works better on the alien gangs than it has on our inner city gangs.
Hmm... arrest them and enforce the law??
WTF: Where’s The Fence? THat, along with extremely strict, Joe Arpayo enforcement of the laws would do it.
Hey there - the neighbors you mention are the very ones who breed and send the gangs here. You are not so much a blinking porch light as you are a porchlight with a broken bulb.
A large part of the illegal gang members are known to law enforcement. The only real solution is to declare them all to be domestic terrorists (which they are), hunt them down and eliminate them. Make sure that they all know that if they are identified as a gang member then they will be shot on sight.
I’d write something snappy in response, but I can’t make any sense of your post.
So you see? I was right about the burnt out porch light! I knew it.
The fence, indeed! And the dobermans! Remember Zeus and Apollo? And the landminese! This is sounding better and better, isn’t it!
take their bribes and let them do what they want in the US? /sarc
A fence is needed...there’a drug war going on in Mexico...and the bad guys have turned into decapitators as well.
i’ll believe that when i see it.
here in socal people are starting to realize that our police departments are corrupted by drugs and thugs.
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