Posted on 04/21/2010 3:25:28 AM PDT by Man50D
Rest of Title: at U.S.-Mexican Border
The number of tunnels being used to smuggle illegal drugs across the Southwestern border grew by more than half from 2008 to 2009, according to a March 25 report from the National Drug Intelligence Center.
In Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents stationed along U.S.-Mexico border discovered 26 illegal tunnels a 60 percent increase over the 16 tunnels that authorities discovered in 2008.
Most of the subterranean routes were discovered in Arizona, with 20 found in the Tucson Sector a 262-mile long section of the border from the New Mexico state line to Yuma County, Ariz., the NDIC reported in its 2010 annual drug assessment.
The proliferation of the underground tunnels is an indication that smugglers see them as an effective venue to bring in contraband into the U.S., the report said.
According to the Justice Department, most of the illegal tunnels are being used by drug smugglers to bring in illegal substances.
DTOs (drug trafficking organizations) consider these tunnels as useful investments to smuggle drugs into the United States, the NDIC assessment said.
But the report also noted the potential for the tunnels to be used for terrorist activity.
Of some concern to law enforcement officials is the potential for using drug smuggling routes to move terrorists or transport weapons of mass destruction into the United States, it revealed.
The Justice Department, however, concluded that it is very unlikely that Mexican smugglers would bring in terrorists and weapons of mass destruction into the U.S.
(T)here have been no incidents of this type documented, and according to federal law enforcement officials, the involvement of Mexican DTOs in this type of activity is very unlikely, the report noted.
The NDIC assessment highlighted steps that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has taken to combat the proliferation of underground tunnels along the southwest border, which include interfering with groups or individuals attempting to build tunnels in the sewer system beneath Nogales, Ariz.
In February 2009, CBP initiated a program designed to impede the construction of tunnels in Nogales's extensive drainage system. The initiative involved the construction of a 12-foot-deep steel and concrete underground wall that extends 100 yards along the border near the DeConcini POE (port of entry) in Nogales, the NDIC.
Tunnel passageways found under the California and Arizona border with Mexico undermine the virtual fence, which are cameras and sensors being placed along the southwest border in an effort to deter illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
In June 2009, U.S. Border Patrol agents uncovered a massive elaborate tunnel through the southwest border, measuring 48 feet in the U.S. and 35 feet in the Mexico.
The tunnel had wooden framed walls and ceiling construction, as well as electrical wire, ventilation, and lighting.
There were five underground tunnels found in California in FY 2009, four of which were discovered in San Diego.
Besides underground tunnels and other on land operations, Mexican drug traffickers also rely on moving contraband by using low-flying small or ultra light aircrafts.
According to the NDIC assessment, drug abuse, including the toll on the environment from the production of drugs, comes at a $215 billion annual cost for the U.S.
Most illicit drugs available in the United States and thousands of illegal immigrants are smuggled into the United States across the nearly 2,000-mile Southwest Border, the report noted.
“Drug smuggling tunnels”? I think not. More like a direct pipeline for illegals.
A two-fer, toll for the illegal to use the tunnel is to carry a load of dope.
From what I've read about the war on our southern border it goes something like this: "Paco, carry this package north and give it to our friends or you will never see any of your family again."
These Mexican drug cartels are every bit as ruthless as AQ or any other terrorist organization. Meanwhile, our gubmint keeps ignoring the problem. Makes you wonder what side the gubmint is on, doesn't it?
Yet another excellent use for dynamite.
February 09, 2008 McCain pushes bill to improve health care......in Mexico!
What would Americans think of a member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in the United States, but to improve health care in Mexico? Insane? Drunk? Unworthy of public office?What would Americans think, then, of a bill introduced in Congress that required federal agencies to come up with a plan, not to expand health coverage in the United States, but to expand health coverage in Mexico? Impossible? Unthinkable? Wildly irresponsible? What would Americans think of the motives of a senator, who not only introduced a bill to improve Mexicos health care system andextend coverage to a growing population of 120 million people, but gave health insurance companies the right to help devise the plan? Blatantly corrupt? Grossly indifferent to the well-being of the American people? Downright treasonous?
Unbelievable as it may seem, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving insurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health care to Mexico (Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE).
Even more unbelievable, the senator who sponsored the bill was not on the verge of being thrown out of office for this odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona, was locking up the Republican nomination to be our next president
SOURCE http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=McCain+temperhttp://opensourceactivist.org/content/legislation/S1033/text.php#sec1004
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Mexican Drug Violence Spills Over Into U.S.
Fox News | Feb. 9, 2009
FR Posted on 02/10/2009 8:31:13 AM PST by AuntB
Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States.
Investigators fear the violence could erupt elsewhere around the country because the Mexican cartels are believed to have set up drug-dealing operations all over the U.S., in such far-flung places as Anchorage, Alaska; Boston; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"They are capable of doing about anything," said Rusty Payne, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman in Washington. "When you are willing to chop heads off, put them in an ice chest and drop them off at a police precinct, or roll a head into a disco, put beheadings on YouTube as a warning," very little is off limits.
In an apartment in Columbiana, Alabama, police found five men with their throats slit in August. They had apparently been tortured with electric shocks before being killed in a murder-for-hire orchestrated by a Mexican drug organization over a drug debt of about $400,000.
In Phoenix, 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of the Mexican border, police have reported a sharp increase in kidnappings and home invasions, with about 350 each year for the last two years....
Put our troops on the Mexican side of the border!
If the child dictator, Obama, thinks he can ram amnesty for 20 million “undocumented Democrats” down our throat, we may just have another civil war!
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Illegal alien wins defamation case for being called a 'criminal' set back for 1st Amendment
DOJ sues college over proof of citizenship
Arizona Sheriff Says Cops Are Being Killed by Illegal Aliens; Joins Call for U.S. Troops at Border
Boycott of Arizona urged over immigration
Salinas Police: Victim falls for gold bar scam (California)
AZ-Sen. 2010: McCains Tough Stance on Arizona Immigration Bill (MCCAIN FLIP FLOP ALERT)
Somali Terrorists Trying to Enter U.S. Via Mexico
McCain's reversal on immigration shocks many in the Latino community
LA cardinal: Nazism in Arizona immigration bill
Text of S. 3081: Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 (excerpts)
McCain, Kyl, Dever present security plan
Mexico voices concerns over immigrant bill (Mexican govt. pulls the race card on Ariz.)
AZ-Sen. 2010: McCain, Kyl: Put 3,000 troops at Ariz. border (ANOTHER MCCAIN FLIP-FLOP)
[South Texas:]Lockdowns becoming common among area schools
Arizona passes tough illegal immigration law
Dem to Obama: Push immigration or Ill tell Latino voters to stay home
AUDIO: Congressman Tom Tancredo Interviewed by YWC'S Kevin DeAnna
John McCain: Illegal immigrants are intentionally causing car accidents (BUSH-MCCAIN-KENNEDY LEGACY)
Students arrested in protest over state's immigration legislation(More violence from the left)
ARIZONA'S DREADFUL ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW (Nazi & communist)
Immigration Group Demands Lindsey Graham Admit Hes Gay (LOL)
El Universal: Zetas forming alliance with MS-13?
House Hispanic leaders ask Obama to block Arizona bill
ARIZONA'S DREADFUL ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW (Nazi & communist)
Gird your loins: Obama tells Scott Brown immigration battle is coming soon
Question about the proposed immigration law in Airzona
Father Bascio on the immorality of illegal immigration ( God Bless America!)
Barack Obama woos Scott Brown on immigration
Living in the Bizarro United States, where illegal aliens cannot be called "criminals" (Video)
Report: Obama says immigration next on Dems' agenda
AZ border militia to offer armed patrols in Cochise County
Will [Maricopa County Sheriff] Joe Arpaio run for governor? Many signs say 'yes'
“”They are capable of doing about anything,” said Rusty Payne, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman in Washington. “When you are willing to chop heads off, put them in an ice chest and drop them off at a police precinct, or roll a head into a disco, put beheadings on YouTube as a warning,” very little is off limits. “
Want America to be a 3rd world hell hole, FReepers? Amnesty with chain migration will destroy the USA!!
Been to Los Angeles recently? The mayor is a former LaRaza college radical!
Also up dramatically is the rate of submersibles and semi subs that the cocaine producing countries are producing. Each one is capable of ferrying eight tons of cocaine, and are extremely difficult to detect because of their very low radar profile. Each one is also less than a million dollars to build are are scuttled upon arrival with their contact ship on the West Coast.
There are many options for dealing with those tunnels.
Daisy cutters to start with......
Thread bump.
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