“No arrests have been made.”
Wouldn’t expect it either, considering the federales are in the game.
In our war against terror, it seems we are totally ignoring the carnage that is happening along the Mexican border. All of this is over drugs. Mexico has lost control and the US is just sitting idly by.
Yesterday 9 de-captitated bodies were found in Tijuana.
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Police say the men were armed with AK-47 ................. Mexican National Army equipment? Doubt it, possible Chavez connection? Could be. He’s building a factory to make them, I don’t think they’ll be for Venezuela’s defense.
Friday night CBS evening news was reporting on the war zone that Mexico has become. They said on any given weekend the murders outnumber the deaths in Iraq and ‘this is a country on our border’...
Here’s the video report from CBS about the threat that is Mexico.
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“The Obama Administration will have its work cut out for it in the foreign policy department, but this time it’s not the usual suspects stirring the pot. Bob Orr has more.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4638273n
Note to self: Take Mexico of this years winter vacation list.
You have two huge drug cartels in Mexico. They have taken over the Columbian drug trade. They have large groups of paid swat teams that are X Mexican Cops. (Hint, drugs pay more.) Those cops were trained at Ft. Benning. So you have lots of drugs, lots of money and lots of professional enforcement. They LIKE to kill by the way.
They now have invaded most major Cities in the U.S. They use the Mexican gange like M-13 to sell their drugs. We have already lost U.S. towns in Texas to these gangs.
The thing that gets me, and what seems to be the glaring Elephant-in-the-Room, is the river of unaccounted for money from the drug trade. We’re pretty sure it’s corrupting the Mexican gov’t. Any ideas how its corrupting ours, for it surely must be. It would be a given that law enforcement is being bought off. How would it extend into the political arena? Killing projects that might actually fight the drug traffic?
My brother was a cop back in the ‘70s and told me about a plan two New York cops had to end the drug trade at half the cost of drug war : simply buy up the entire world’s supply. Even with jacking the prices up, the drug prices would get to be too high for the distribution network to support and we’d have a true market value. Then all the dope-heads would have to clean up. Maybe that’s too simplistic. Probably so.
Mexico has banned guns. Okenyan’s thugs will make us safe like Mexican citizens are safe.
The Mexican government seems to be so hopelessly corrupt that the only way out of this is the legalization of drugs. This would take a severe toll on their society, but at this point, it would be better than the status quo.
I will guarantee you that if you don't flash money or expensive items around, don't try to score any dope, and show the same kind of good common sense you would use in the USA about neighborhoods, being aware of surroundings, etc, that Mexico as a whole is as safe or safer than the USA. The border is crazy b/c of the smuggling gangs. Be careful and aware of your surroundings and you will have no greater problems than most other places. I stayed in my friend's house in Mitla, Oaxaca. We didn't even lock the doors. It was like life in the USA in the 60s when I was growing up.
Was it a Longjohn Silver or Red Lobster?
President Bush, just what is your excuse for not sending down an executive order to seal our borders after the 9-11 attacks? Screw waiting for Congress to do something, they never would, never will. The President could have closed that border with a wartime executive order. He did not want to because he is so cozy with the Mexicans. He was so chummy with Vincente Fox it was sickening. The new Mexican leader is getting the same coddling from Bush. If President Bush were really serious about protecting the country from terrorists, he would have secured our borders. He likes all the cheap labor streaming across the border, and if Mexican thugs cross over and kill Americans I guess that doesn’t bother him. Another Bush disappointment.
I believe if I were Governor of the great state of Texas, I would order the national guard to close all border crossings. Feds be damned!
“The best way to cure Mexico’s problems is to open our borders and welcome immigrants with open arms, automatic citizenship, and directions to the welfare office/Democrat registration center.” - John McCain