This is only the beginning...we have to sweep these infiltrators from power, immediately.
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Posted on 05/21/2010 8:00:39 PM PDT by neverdem
Mexican President Felipe Calderon called on Congress on Thursday to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons that he said are ending up in the hands of violent drug cartels south of the border, using a highly contentious estimate of U.S. guns seized in Mexico when addressing Capitol Hill lawmakers.
Mr. Calderone said he respects the Second Amendment, but argued that violence south of the border spiked in 2004 after the expiration of a U.S. ban on semiautomatic weapons. Echoing statements made by President Obama Wednesday, Mr...
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"With all due respect, if you do not regulate the sale of these weapons in the right way, nothing guarantees that criminals here in the United States with access to the same power of weapons will not decide to challenge American authorities and civilians," he said.
Mr. Calderon told a joint session of Congress that of the 75,000 guns seized by Mexican authorities over the last three years, 80 percent are traced to the U.S.
That assertion is suspect as gun-rights advocates and several media outlets have debunked similar figures in the past. Indeed, Mr. Calderon's comments drew a harsh rebuke from the National Rifle Association on Thursday.
"The answer to Mexico's drug and violence problem does not lie in dismantling the Second Amendment; it lies in making sure that the Mexican government takes care of problems on their side of the border," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said. "With all due respect to the president, he's either intentionally using false data, or he's unknowingly using bad numbers."
Mr. Arulanandam pointed to congressional testimony given in March 2009 by an official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who said there is no factual basis for the claim that as many as 90 percent of the weapons come from the U.S...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Calderon might want a semipermeable membrane for a border, but his whining about Arizona is in regard to Arizona LEOs enforcing federal immigration law being de facto racial profiling well beyond any sort of border.
Calderon's visit strikes me as a Kabuki dance orchestrated for the November's election done as a favor for the rats to rally their base. Only the hard left wants another amnesty, whines about racial profiling even when there's no proof of it and wants a renewal of the so called "assault weapons ban."
Whining about racial profiling will remain as long as different races intermingle, IMHO, but there's probably no chance of another amnesty while the economy is in the crapper or a renewal of an assault weapons ban after 65 rat members of the House sent a letter to Holder last year telling him to fuggitaboutit.
I didn't watch the speech, but if I had to guess, there was no standing ovation for Calderon when he asked for a renewal of an assault weapons ban.
Words fail me.
Felipe’s toking hard on some of that Mexican turf peddled north of his border. Either that or he’s lying. Take yer pick.
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Indeed, this “threat to Hispanics” and these “abuses in law enforcement," have been ongoing for years.
The Associated Press carried a story where a Maria Elena Gonzalez, reported how female migrants were “forced to strip by abusive Mexican police officers, supposedly to search them, but the purpose is to sexually abuse them." Jose Ramos, 18, reported “that extortion by Mexican border police occurs at every stop on their migratory route. Until migrants are left penniless and begging for food.”
According to AP: “Others said they had seen migrants beaten to death by Mexican police, their bodies left near the railway tracks to make it look as if they had fallen from a train.
"If you're carrying any money, the Mexican police take it from you," said Carlos Lopez. "Federal, state, local Mexican police--all of them shake you down. If you're on a bus, Mexican police pull you off and search your pockets, and if you have any money, the Mexican police keep it all and say, get out of here.” Mexican Police shake down motorists on bogus traffic stops so regularly it is like going through a toll - money paid right there on the spot or your car gets impounded.
All of the above “hate” and “abuses in law enforcement” as reported by the Associated Press, befell Central American migrants who enter Mexico. (Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com
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Get outta my country, Calderon----we spit on you, your countrymen, and your stupid Azatlan ambitions to undermine US national security by grabbing US Territory.
This asshole tacobender should shut up and go back to Mexico before someone asks him for his ‘papers’.
Just so's we're clear...you talk'n 'bout Ohaha or Calderon? Never mind, it applies to both anyway!
Must be the out-of-control bayonets.
Mexico....our continent’s North Korea
Calderon should shut his racist trap. Its his people killing his people
Why have not more Americans been killed? Because Americans have fewer gun restrictions than Mexicans. Also, Mexico has no death penalty
Fine Democrat Party Whine, all! Continuous, supply of whine! Soon to join the Whine, scams, cons, and crises (never let a good crisis go without whine).
The only part of that problem which is in any way our problem is the “War on Drugs(TM)”; we need to get rid of it.
This rino POS is way past his expiration date and needs to be removed with extreme prejudice.
He and his fellow drug gangs didn’t get thier handgrenades and automatic rifles and explosives from the US.
Mexico`s Calderon Knows Nothing About America`s Gun Laws
http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13817
Gun Trafficking to Mexico: Already Against the Law
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=257&issue=015
GAO Reports On Arms Trafficking In Mexico
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4991
With regard to the “87 percent” statistic, the report’s figures make clear that BATFE only traces a fraction of the guns seized. Those firearms are not selected randomly, but are likely selected because they are the guns most likely to have come from the U.S. Trace data reveals nothing about the large number of guns that are not traced.
The report also states “According to U.S. and Mexican government officials, these firearms have been increasingly more powerful and lethal in recent years. For example, many of these firearms are high-caliber and high-powered, such as AK and AR-15 type semiautomatic rifles.” The report, however, states that about 25 percent of firearms traced were of that type, which works out to only eight percent of all firearms seized. Also, the report does not indicate what percentage of murders is committed with various types of firearms, but it does note, “The majority of the casualties have been individuals involved in the drug trade in some way.”
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