Hundreds Arrested In Raids Targeting Mexican Drug Cartel (In USA)

kwtx TV ^ | Oct. 22, 2009 | KWTX

[AuntB]

Hundreds of people have been arrested in Texas and around the country what officials say is the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel in the U.S

WASHINGTON (October 22, 2009)—U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calls the arrests of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids in Texas and across the country the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating here.

Holder said at a news conference Thursday that the arrests over the past two days were aimed at the U.S. operations of the La Familia cartel. Click here to find out more!

Holder said La Familia is the newest and most violent of Mexico's five drug cartels.

"We will not allow these cartels to operate unfettered in our country, and with the increases in cooperation between U.S. and Mexican authorities in recent years, we are taking the fight to our adversaries,” Holder said Thursday.

“We will continue to stand strong with our partners in Mexico as we work to disrupt and dismantle cartel operations on both sides of the border."

More than 3,000 federal agents and police officers made the arrests in more than a dozen states.

Arrests were made in Texas as well as in California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington.

The raids are part of a long-running anti-drug operation that has led to nearly 1,200 arrests over almost four years.

A New York grand jury has indicted alleged cartel leader Servando Gomez-Martinez.

[AuntB]

These arrests are in the USA. The Mexican Cartels are very active in at least 230 of our cities.

CBS news, last night also did a piece on their activity in Atlanta, which seems to be their 'hub'. Most interesting is how these drug lords employ their pre teen children (often anchor babies) to carry out transactions.

So you all can stop worrying about Mexico's narco terrorism reaching us...IT IS HERE.

Exclusive: Mexican Drug Cartels in Atlanta

Atlanta's Hub of Highways Makes it a Crossroads for Drug Distribution

[snips] Four rival Mexican drug cartels have dug in along Atlanta's interlocking highways, a shipping link to the rest of America.

For Alcaraz, it's a family business. CBS News footage shows his 13-year-old son settling a drug debt with a woman.

Gilberto's house is low-key considering that Whipple says he earns $50,000 a week.

Whipple said, "They're going to drive the beat-up pickup, and they're going to try to look like they're running a landscaping business."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/eveningnews/main5407354.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea

[AuntB]

I wonder how many they'll be able to arrest before they're all given amnesty???

This story also from other sources:

New York Times - Eric Beech - minutes ago; La Familia is a violent drug trafficking cartel based in the state of Michoacan, in southwestern Mexico, the Justice Department said. ...

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHwMLdfAPuFT_wNmHshxaMxaDS5dQ&cid=1455504165&ei=CpDgSqilC4HklQTwxJzNAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Freuters%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fworld%2Finternational-uk-usa-drugs-mexico.html

More than 1100 feds, LA police conduct gang sweep Houston Chronicle - ‎37 minutes ago; Thursday's operation also took place in the midst of a nationwide series of raids against a Mexico-based drug cartel. Over the past two days, more than 300 ...

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_4_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHU8pGlwR5yKzCq6kFKyttIqJqnRQ&cid=1456047145&ei=CpDgSqilC4HklQTwxJzNAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fdisp%2Fstory.mpl%2Fap%2Ftop%2Fall%2F6680686.html

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[your local physicist]

This is all fine and good, but it may also be a diversionary sideshow from the administration’s attempts to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and create a permanent democrat majority in America. Right now about the only things slowing down a push for amnesty by Pelosi & Reid are opposition from conservatives and (in an odd coincidence) labor unions that don’t want the competition in the labor market from Mexican immigrants. But there is so much to be gained by the democrats from amnesty, you know they’re going to try to push it through congress somehow.

[Regulator]

It's more than just drugs as you know.

I go into fast food restaurants here in the Bay Area and of course the staff is 100% Mexican.

No shock there. They always use ethnic intimidation to make sure that any non-Mexicans are driven out of "their" jobs.

But what is interesting is something new: the managers are now 50 something males, guys who definitely would not work in that job if there wasn't extra cash involved.

So I suspect that they are the slave caretakers: they are the guys that the workers are "sold" to by the alien smugglers. They are the enforcers, the guys who make sure the little people pay off their smuggling debts.

And yes, they are part of the Mafias - you can bet that the Jefe is someone's cousin, because it's all based on family networks - who else can they trust?

It's right out in the open for our "see no evil, hear no evil" police....but because they don't want to get called names like "racist" by the likes of La Raza, they do nothing.

And the Mafias run free in our country, in broad daylight.

[Regulator]

but it may also be a diversionary sideshow from the administration’s attempts to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and create a permanent democrat majority in America

Umm...bingo.

[AuntB]

“
It’s more than just drugs as you know.

I go into fast food restaurants here in the Bay Area and of course the staff is 100% Mexican.

No shock there. They always use ethnic intimidation to make sure that any non-Mexicans are driven out of “their” jobs.

But what is interesting is something new: the managers are now 50 something males, guys who definitely would not work in that job if there wasn’t extra cash involved.

So I suspect that they are the slave caretakers: they are the guys that the workers are “sold” to by the alien smugglers. They are the enforcers, the guys who make sure the little people pay off their smuggling debts.

And yes, they are part of the Mafias - you can bet that the Jefe is someone’s cousin, because it’s all based on family networks - who else can they trust?

It’s right out in the open for our “see no evil, hear no evil” police....but because they don’t want to get called names like “racist” by the likes of La Raza, they do nothing.

And the Mafias run free in our country, in broad daylight. “

Indeed!

[AuntB]

“This is all fine and good, but it may also be a diversionary sideshow from the administration’s attempts to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants and create a permanent democrat majority in America. Right now about the only things slowing down a push for amnesty by Pelosi & Reid are opposition from conservatives and (in an odd coincidence) labor unions that don’t want the competition in the labor market from Mexican immigrants. But there is so much to be gained by the democrats from amnesty, you know they’re going to try to push it through congress somehow.”

Anything is possible from the ‘Squatter Support Squad’. I just wish so many GOP elites weren’t on the Obama side on this issue.

[Dogbert41]

You can arrest 300 Mexican gang bangers every single day in each and every city, and you haven’t even scratched the surface of the invasion.

This whole story when put in context of the actual problem is nothing but a sick joke to divert the people into thinking or keeping us from looking somewhere else today.

[Dogbert41]

Sorry, I should have read all the posts before I posted the obvious.

[bgill]

The raids are part of a long-running anti-drug operation that has led to nearly 1,200 arrests over almost four years.

Oh, puleez don't make me laugh. That's 300 arrests per year. That's hardly a drop in the bucket. Of course there's no mention how many were actually convicted, are behind bars, or were given a one way ticket south. Much more to the point is how many were released and still on the streets.

[AuntB]

“You can arrest 300 Mexican gang bangers every single day in each and every city, and you haven’t even scratched the surface of the invasion.

This whole story when put in context of the actual problem is nothing but a sick joke to divert the people into thinking or keeping us from looking somewhere else today.”

Your first statement contradicts your second one. This is INDEED a big problem, and it’s about time the people of this country knew about it. I can’t think of much more important that we should look at than the invasion of our nation by a foreign army/organized crime and the loss of it’s sovereignty. As for the feds arrests...I’m sure Obama and the GOP Squatter support squad will put a stop to it one way or another.

[DeaconRed]

Who are they kidding? Not Me.
The druggies have many many photos of Ben Franklin.
Somebody tell me the Chicago bunch won't get a lot of them. . . . . .

[bpjam]

Good thing Bush didn’t do this or this raid would have been labled ‘RACIST!!!!!!!’

After all, ‘La Familia’ means ‘the family’ in spanish. So Bush would have been continuing his policy of breaking up hispanic families in America through this racist, xenophobic policies.

Thank the Media Gods it is Obama doing this so we don’t have to apologize to the gangs.

[bpjam]

Wait, does this mean that Eric Holder is now as big a racist as Joe Arpaio?? (they are doing the same thing - with the exception of the nationally televised press conferences...)

[AuntB]

“

Wait, does this mean that Eric Holder is now as big a racist as Joe Arpaio?? (they are doing the same thing - with the exception of the nationally televised press conferences...)
“

Good point! The hypocrisy of this administration knows no bounds.

[AuntB]

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Border Patrol taking on cartels in battle for young minds
By Ray Gomez

http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/65094157.html

Story Created: Oct 20, 2009

Story Updated: Oct 21, 2009
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo sector are now taking a stand on juvenile crime.
They see drug smuggling cases almost everyday and say they are seeing an increase in juveniles being the smugglers.
Operation Detour is a nationwide initiative.
The public service campaign is targeted at the community’s youth from the ages of 14 to 18.
All this is in an effort to educate them about the dangers and consequences surrounding narcotics smuggling.
This program provides a real and true sense of the horrors and tragedies juveniles go through when they are involved with narco-terrorism.

So how dangerous is this lifestyle of becoming a smuggler for drug cartels?
According to Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies in Laredo, they have seen an increase in juveniles hired to transport drugs.
Our Noraida Negron tells us about a video Border Patrol is using to educate students in our community.
“They need to be given the reality of the consequences of those decisions that they are going to be faced with.”

Rusty Fleming has produced several documentaries on narco terrorism along the south Texas border including Laredo.
Now he’s teamed up with Border Patrol creating a documentary bringing awareness to the youth of our community.
“What’s really happening now with drug cartels is they are trying to indoctrinate these kids. They not trying to hire them. They are given a doctrinarian to a way of life.”

It’s a lifestyle that Border Patrol says is dangerous and has consequences.
“It’s a harsh reality but it’s something that’s really impacting our students throughout America and especially here along the southwest border,” Acting Border Patrol chief Rosendo Hinojosa told Pro 8 News.

The documentary has already been shown to students in Zapata.
The video, which is described as graphic, was shown to students from seventh grade to seniors.
“This is the first time that what they are doing is a little on the graphic side and it’s reality and we had the opportunity to show it in Zapata,” Zapata ISD Superintendent Romeo Rodriguez said.

Fleming, the creator of the documentary says he has researched juveniles as smugglers for years now, interviewing numerous kids from the ages of 13 to 21 talking about their initiations and how they were taught to operate.
“Some of them have been famous in Laredo in terms of being trained to be assassins. For five years I’ve been doing this.”

Meanwhile Fleming says kids are very aware of who is who in their world, saying they are facing these temptations to join a lifestyle that will lead them to death or jail.
“We can’t talk down to our kids. Just say no. This is your brain on drugs.”

Border Patrol is now in talks with United ISD and Laredo ISD to bring the documentary to their classrooms.
They want to spread the narco-terrorism awareness among students in the area

[stephenjohnbanker]

“I just wish so many GOP elites weren’t on the Obama side on this issue.”

Much of the GOP is bought by the Chamber of Commerce, who want cheap labor at everyone else’s expense.

[blackie]

[AuntB]

“Much of the GOP is bought by the Chamber of Commerce, who want cheap labor at everyone else’s expense.”

So true! With open border policy makers like Grover Norquist on their board of directors...Most definitely part of the Squatter Support Squad of the GOP.