Posted on 04/08/2010 5:43:02 PM PDT by Tammy8
WASHINGTON - U.S. border cities are not experiencing spillover violence from Mexico, the new head of Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday.
Violence in U.S. cities near Mexico cannot be compared with the level of lawlessness across the border, Commissioner Alan Bersin told reporters.
Bersin also said that U.S. security measures on borders with Mexico and Canada should be carried out in a way that improves the efficiency of trade so that America can remain competitive globally.
(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...
So...are we supposed to wait until the violence here that is due to the issues in Mexico is as bad as it is in Mexico before we secure the border?
What? You don't believe your lying eyes? Things along the border towns have not been getting worse of late?
Methinks this dude is selling a pile of manure.
Whistling past the graveyard.......that, or a total f**king idiot.
Probably the latter.
He seems to be trying to reassure us by pointing out our border violence is not at the same level as the violence in Mexico. To me he seems to be saying until we have the same level of violence on our side we
a)shouldn’t worry about it
b)he has no plans to do anything about it until it does reach the level Mexico is experiencing
Where oh where do they find these clueless people??
Not bad enough that this guy is concerned. This man needs to attend a town hall meeting in Ft. Hancock, Texas and attend some of the rancher meetings near me. He also needs to attend the funeral of Rob Krentz and try to convince his family and friends that our violence hasn't reached a high enough level yet to concern him.
Hubby had to check water for cattle today~ three miles from town and I would not let him go alone and we were both armed. Everything we have had to do since the Rob Krentz murder has been done at least in pairs and armed. Everyone else I know is doing the same- but according to this guy we don't seem to have a problem. We don't even go to town without calling home from designated check points to let everyone know where we are and that we have not been harmed. I wonder if he feels the need to be not only armed but accompanied by at least one more armed person when he runs his daily errands where he lives?
Yes, “the system is working.”
Right.
What I think he is trying to say is that “So far the Mexican cartels, the Mexican Mafia, the Mongols Mexican motorcycle gang, and Mexican street gangs, have mostly been slaughtering Mexicans in the US. So until they start slaughtering white people, it is unimportant.”
See, it clears things right up. As far as the administration is concerned, white people==important; Mexicans and Mexican-Americans==not important. It doesn’t really matter which side of the border it is on.
Ping!
The absolutely stupid get advanced to the highest positions in Washington!!!
Illegal Immigrants may not be murdering people in border towns but they sure as hail are doing it elsewhere! In spades.
Remember Hoover the FBI honcho spent decades denying the existence of the costra nostra.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
“U.S. border cities are not experiencing spillover violence from Mexico, the new head of Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. “
Another idiot. This entire nation is experiencing Mexico’s violence.
Violence on the border endangers Americans
Examiner Editorial
April 8, 2010
A clash with police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a border city overrun by drug gang violence. (Miguel Tovar/AP)
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, hears a lot of disturbing reports from Texas law enforcement officials working along the U.S. border with Mexico. Poe returned from his most recent trip to the Lone Star State claiming to have seen photographs taken by local sheriffs of Mexican military helicopters in action over U.S. territory. One copter was photographed hovering over a building; the other over a recreational vehicle park, according to the Examiner’s Barbara Hollingsworth. “We don’t know what their intention was,” Poe told Hollingsworth, adding: “The Mexican military has no business coming into the United States.”
As troubling as is the possibility that a foreign military force may have violated U.S. airspace on multiple occasions, what is even more disturbing is the escalating violence on the border. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Mexican government is fighting a desperate battle with powerful drug cartels for control of the country. Americans who dismiss fears that this violence will spill over into this country should listen to Poe. He recently contacted sheriffs in the 14 Texas counties that share the border with Mexico and found that more than a third of the people in their jails are foreign nationals who have been charged with committing serious crimes in this country.
The apparent apathy of President Obama and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is inexplicable. Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently asked Napolitano to dispatch unmanned surveillance drones and 1,000 additional U.S. soldiers to boost federal Border Patrol agents and local sheriffs in the effort to protect the border. Instead of heeding Perry’s warning, Napolitano instead canceled the “virtual” border surveillance project approved under the Bush administration. That decision virtually leaves Perry and the governors of Arizona, New Mexico and California to cope with the increasing flood of illegal immigrants, drugs, money and guns coming over the border from Mexico.
Some of the Mexican nationals crossing into the United States from border towns do so in desperation, seeking safety from the horror of towns like Guerroro, a town of 6,000 in which the local authorities recently warned residents to stay inside whenever possible or risk being killed in the crossfire between the drug cartels and Mexican troops. But al Qaeda-linked terrorists from Somalia may also be coming into this country from Mexico, according to the Examiner’s Sara A. Carter. At least 23 Somalis were detained by Mexican authorities for illegally entering that country last year, but then mistakenly released, according to a U.S. intelligence memo Carter obtained. The memo’s author warned U.S. law enforcement personnel “to maintain a heightened level of awareness.” The warning needs to be heard in the Oval Office, too.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Violence-on-the-border-endangers-Americans-90102992.html
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