Posted on 03/28/2010 11:46:23 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – A government report says Mexican criminal organizations have more than doubled heroin production in a year and have cemented their grip as the predominant wholesale suppliers of illicit drugs in the United States.
The National Drug Threat Assessment concluded Thursday that Mexican groups were the only drug trafficking enterprises operating in every region of the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Police chief decapitated in northern Mexico town
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100327/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
Doing the trafficking that Americans won’t do...
Spring breakers look at a man dressed in a Spiderman costume during a party at a bar in Cancun March 28, 2010. Mexico is expecting a dip in tourist numbers this Easter week after a surge in drug violence prompted some U.S. universities to warn spring breakers to avoid Mexico this year. REUTERS/Gerardo Garcia (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY)
If heroin was legal this wouldn’t be happening.../s
Spring breakers cheer on a beach in Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo March 26, 2010. Mexico is expecting a dip in tourist numbers this Easter week after a surge in drug violence prompted some U.S. universities to warn spring breakers to avoid Mexico this year. REUTERS/Gerardo Garcia (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY)
Yeah that “war against drugs” is really working out well.
Just legalize it all, tax it and regulate it and a whole bunch of drug lords are out of business.
They have a tight grip on LA for sure.
I’m sure the leaders of law enforcement in the USA are on top of this ... right? Eric Holder, hello?
A broken and empty swing stands in a deserted park in Porvenir March 25, 2010. Mexican drug hitmen are shooting up houses and terrorizing remote farming towns on the U.S. border, forcing residents to flee, as they try to secure key trafficking routes into the United States. In the latest flare-up of border drug violence, masked, heavily-armed men are torching homes, firing on shops and businesses and have killed at least three local politicians in a cluster of towns near the deadly drug war city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)
It sounds so simple. How does it work?
God damn the pusherman, but they would be nothing without steady demand from stoners in the US. Meanwhile, the DEA sends the bill for billions and billions more, as some very wealthy men in Juarez laugh their asses off.
Yeah, the Obama cartel would be selling it.
Alleged drug trafficker Jose Antonio Medina, aka "Don Pepe", is escorted by police officers during a press conference in Mexico City on Thursday. Medina delivered an average of 200 kilos (440 pounds) of heroin a month to the United States. (AFP/Str)
Many more await the opportunity to be like Pepe..
Lol, they never say, do they? Who can sell it? Who can buy it? Will the Acapulco Gold be right there next to the Winstons and Marlboros? And little tins of loose marijuana right next to the Copenhagen and Skoal?
And I guess the cocain, heroin and crack will be kept under the counter, sort of like condoms in the old days.
Bring our troops home and station them on the border.
The feds cant do their job
Over and above the millions who violate our borders, 1.5 million legal foreign workers come to the US each year, as a matter of course.
But this number isn’t high enough for Dem Cong Gutierrez and his 92 co-sponsors. Their Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill includes a provision called “recapture” that will add up all the supposedly “unused” work visas since 1992 and issue them immediately.
This is a complete fraud, as all unused work visas are rolled over to the family reunification category the next year as it is.
Gutierrez' Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill will create 100,000 visas from countries that send the most illegal immigrants every year. According to the State Department, this will mean 550,000 new foreign workers.
AND GET THIS Mexico is the staging area for Third World and other illegals preparing to violate our borders. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill rewards Mexico b/c they calculatedly promote illegal immigration.
Gutierrez' bill will make it much easier for more illegal aliens to break in. Under the Bill, to prove they have jobs and were in the country BEFORE Congress passed amnesty, illegals are allowed to use stolen ID's, fake green cards, and fraudulent SS numbers....... without fear of prosecution.
Mexico facilitates the profitable staging area for global illegals to cross the border. Contrary to Obama’s claim that CIR bill will increase border security, it does just the opposite.........
<> it guts successful enforcement measures,
<>limits raids on illegal immigrants,
<> prohibits use of troops on the border,
<> replaces E-Verify used to ensure employers hire legal American workers,
<> overturns all state and local US laws that crackdown on illegal immigration,
<> abolishes 287(g) that allows local L/E and federal authorities to apprehend criminal illegals.
About all we can do, is thank Our Heavenly Father that MeCain can’t do what he would otherwise do, because it’s an election year. (steam coming from both ears)
From our friend at NAFBPO, with a message:
“And the U.S. continues to admit over 125,000 foreign workers every month, both permanent residents and temporary workers. Not to mention the illegals who successfully get in, perhaps as many as 30,000 a month.”
March 23, 2010, 10:42 am
Unemployed Immigrants
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Last year, and for the first time since 2003, foreign-born workers were more likely to be unemployed then their counterparts who were born in the United States.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
These numbers are from a new report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The bureau found that the composition of foreign-born workers was roughly unchanged from the previous year. In both 2008 and 2009, about half of all foreign-born workers in the United States were Hispanic, and about 22 percent were from Asia.
Native-born American workers typically make significantly more money than foreign-born workers, with median weekly wages of $761 and $602, respectively.
This differential likely has to do with the types of jobs that immigrants and native-born citizens are more likely to hold. Foreign-born workers are more likely to be in service occupations, for example, while native-born workers are more likely to be employed in management jobs or professional and related occupations.
[snip]http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/unemployed-immigrants/?pagemode=print
Here is the latest NAFBPO foreign news report. Note that Mexico is still complaining that all their problems are our fault. BTW, Hillary & Gates & Napalitano went down there last week and gave away what little we have left.
Merida Initiative has Nation’s Focus
Posted: 26 Mar 2010 08:13 AM PDT
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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/24/10
Mexico not important to the United States
EDITORIAL-Until a few days ago, Mexico was not important to the United States.
Only after the assassination of two of its officials on Mexican soil did they understand the gravity of the violence at its door. It is to be seen if this time words will become acts.
One must remember the recent past. The first diplomatic actions and declarations of Barack Obama in relation to Mexico generated many expectations. Felipe Calderón was the first to be received by the then president elect. Some months afterward, already in office, the Democrat visited this country then in the sense of “mea culpa” by his
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. For the first time in history, the United States accepted, without conditions, its enormous responsibility in the consumption of drugs and the arms traffic. But subsequent actions did not reflect their alleged concern. The budget for the Merida Initiative was reduced to a level representing only what the United States spends in one day in Iraq. Besides, there was not one change in the prevention policy and attention to the addictions of the North American population. As for the arms traffic, neither was there any change, only a bill by a small group of US legislators in favor of closing the way to the marketing of rifles (armas largas). Nothing more.
Yesterday (3/23/10) Hillary Clinton returned to Mexico. No longer just to give a pat on the back to Felipe Calderón, but to agree on concrete actions that include in the diagnosis the consumption of drugs in both countries, investments in security operations, major intelligence in matters of money-laundering and financial crimes, destruction of the cartels, social investment on the Tijuana-San Diego and Ciudad Juarez-El Paso borders, as well as strengthening the institutions of those locations. At least this time there really are commitments to measure.
We must hope that in the short term, President Barack Obama’s personal disregard of Mexico will not affect the agreement. He already failed once in detecting the gravity of the problem.
The United States should understand that its level of integration with Mexico is not measured just in kilometers, but in days. Increasingly there are major commercial and cultural ties, including blood relationships. Nevertheless, integration is not fusion. The limit is in the presence of foreign troops and military bases on Mexican soil. There are many possibilities of mutual cooperation pending, enough yet to make before suggesting the possibility of that kind of help.
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Prisoners escape from jail in Matamoros
At least 40 convicts escaped from a Matamoros prison today. In a press release, the state
government announced that the escapees are guilty of federal crimes. No further information available at this time.
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Federal agents begin “Operation Holy Week” (Easter) this Friday
From Friday through Sunday, 8496 Federal Agents will spread over Mexico using 3,700 cars, 6 Blackhawk helicopters and 19 ambulances. The objective is to insure security, prevent crimes and preserve public order during this vacation weekend. They will assist returning Mexicans who live outside this country, assure that travelers use seatbelts, enforce speed limits and protect people in high crimes areas.
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Owner of Global Vision held in Venezuela
CARACAS-The Owner of privately held Globalvision, Guillermo Zuloaga, was arrested as he was attempting to leave the country. He was detained by authorities as he was leaving on an Easter weekend trip with his family. He is being held on suspicion of making statements to SIP (an international news agency) against Hugo Chavez. “This man needs to take responsibility after making such statements”, said a government official.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo
Headlines:
* Pharmacies that sell antibiotics without a prescription will be closed
* Two burned bodies found on a ranch
* Forty-one fugitives now on the loose in Matamoros
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