Posted on 02/18/2010 8:54:07 AM PST by granite
Reporting from Nogales, Ariz. - In a politically sensitive operation at the Arizona- Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican federal police officers are training together, sharing intelligence and coordinating patrols for the first time.
The goal of the historic partnership: a systematic joint attack on northbound flows of drugs and migrants, and southbound shipments of guns and cash. It is part of a major, unannounced crackdown started in recent months involving hundreds of U.S. and Mexican officers in the border's busiest smuggling corridor.
The initiative appears likely to expand. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna will sign a declaration Thursday in Mexico City agreeing to replicate the experiment. Eventually, officials say, joint operations borderwide could lead to the creation of a Mexican force serving as a counterpart to the Border Patrol -- an agency once regarded with nationalistic aversion in Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“I have a very special place in my heart for Border Patrol Agents. Pray for them, please.”
Many of us share your affection. For the best news check out NAFBPO.
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Unrestricted migration to be proposed- Open Western Hemisphere borders
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BP— splendid people.
But the mexican government or any agency of the Mexican government is totally hopless.
this is merely for show.
You can not co-operate with any portion of Mexico’s law enforcement system. The info we will get will be miniscule compared to the info the narco kings will get by using planted agents and bought intel information.
You would think we would have learned that by now.
ah! so you are onto the obama-napolitino scheme.....
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