"I'd hit it!" -B.Obama
Posted on 01/02/2009 8:12:58 AM PST by BFM
Add another pressing challenge to President-elect Barack Obama's growing to-do list - tamping down a dramatic rise in violence and corruption that has overwhelmed the U.S.-Mexico border and spread an escalating turf fight between warring drug cartels into the United States.
Near-daily shootouts and ambushes along the southwestern border pose a serious threat, according to separate government reports, which predict a rise in "deadly force" against law enforcement officers, first responders and U.S. border residents.
Even President Bush, during a Dec. 21 interview with The Washington Times, warned that Mr. Obama faced a looming war with drug cartels where "the front line of the fight will be Mexico." He said the new president will need to deal "with these drug cartels in our own neighborhoods."
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the agency has begun to make progress against "the criminals and thugs" operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, but "we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers ... seek to protect their turf."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the investigative arm of Homeland Security, said in a recent report that border gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless, targeting rivals, along with federal, state and local police. ICE said border violence has risen dramatically over the past three years as part of "an unprecedented surge."
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the agency has begun to make progress against "the criminals and thugs" operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, but "we are beginning to see more violence in some border communities and against our Border Patrol agents as these traffickers ... seek to protect their turf."
This from the same administration that for years supported amnesty and fought a walled border.
"I'd hit it!" -B.Obama
Bush did little on the border issue and Obama will do less.
War? What war? Border guards must permit drug thugs to shoot them or face the possibility of going to prison. The US surrender is already in place.
If it really is as bad as this, you Yanks ought to have your Army securing your Southern border and perhaps doing a clean-up incursion to build a buffer zone.
As presented, this problem has gone well beyond the capability and resources of LEAs and Border Guards to adequately manage.
It wouldn’t be the first time the American Army had to clean up the Mexicans, and it probably won’t be the last.
The IAF has shown the way.
Drones watch and report locations of the bad guys. A long list is developed of persons and locations. Then one bright morning, there is a swarm of aircraft thet hits each and everyone of the locations and vehicles pretty much simultaneously.
We SHOULD have our military on the border. The Mexican military has been caught SEVERAL TIMES escorting drug dealers into the US and even pulling guns on our border patrol who have been given the order to “stand down”.
This is a true invasion.
It’s a good think nobody in congress or the senate are getting drug money bribes wink wink or we wouldn’t be winning the drug war.
Here in San Diego we are just north across the border from Tijuana where all the killing and beheading, etc. have been
going on.
NBC News out of New York last night had a segment on this here.
Only, this is old news . It is just catching up in other parts of the country. Short of an invasion of Mexico, not to much can be done.
The corruption in every quarter of Mexico is overwhelming.
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