Posted on 09/04/2010 12:38:08 PM PDT by Kaslin
One of the most underreported ongoing stories around is the war in Mexico between the government and the drug cartels. Here are the grisly stats: More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 1996. In Iraq, 4,421 Americans have been killed. In Afghanistan, 1,141.
The truth is that Mexican drug merchants are even more deadly than al-Qaida. They have more firepower and more money and are just as willing to kill civilians as are the homicidal jihadists. Yet, we Americans know little about the chaotic situation south of the border.
The reason is that the drug cartels don't seem to threaten us directly. But, of course, they do. Illegal narcotics from Mexico wind up in almost every community in the United States. The FBI estimates that about 70 percent of crimes from coast to coast are drug-fueled.
The latest atrocity in the Mexican drug war was the discovery of 72 bodies on a ranch 100 miles south of Texas. The dead -- 58 men and 14 women -- were migrants from South and Central America. The lone survivor of the massacre says that cartel gunmen shot the unarmed folks because they resisted an extortion attempt.
The reliably anti-American New York Times partially blamed the mass killings on the USA: "Mexico's drug cartels are nourished from outside, by American cash, heavy weapons and addiction; the northward pull of immigrants is fueled by our demand for low-wage labor."
I had to read that editorial three times to believe it. Here we have the Times, which opposes putting the National Guard on the border, the tough anti-alien law in Arizona and most other measures that might secure the border, complaining about the illegal gun and drug traffic. Can you believe this? Hey, you pinheads, if the United States would send ten thousand National Guardspeople to help the border patrol, drugs and guns would not be able to cross the border so easily. Comprende?
This entire grisly charade is infuriating. This country has the power to stop the smuggling of human beings and drugs across the southern border. We could do that. But, for political reasons, we don't. Meanwhile, the drug cartels kill at will and create terror on a scale not seen anywhere else on earth at this time.
Mexico, itself, is at fault because it won't ask for American help. Apparently, they think 28,000 dead is acceptable. Well, it's not. U.S. law enforcement and troops should be assisting Mexican authorities in the destruction of the cartels. The fact that these drug animals have been able to operate their murderous industry so openly for so long is beyond shameful.
Well, O’reilly, you were doing pretty good until you got to this point.
“Mexico, itself, is at fault because it won’t ask for American help. Apparently, they think 28,000 dead is acceptable. Well, it’s not. U.S. law enforcement and troops should be assisting Mexican authorities in the destruction of the cartels. The fact that these drug animals have been able to operate their murderous industry so openly for so long is beyond shameful.”
Listen, ‘pinhead’....either get it straight or shut it!
We have dea agents, defense department agents IN MEXICO. Congress approved 1.5 BILLION to send down there to help them fight the mess. Days ago, the Obama administration released millions of it because Mexico has complied with ‘human rights’ improvements.....BS!
The national guard is on the border because Mexico wants them there to guard THEIR side of the border...DHS, Obama says they are not allowed to enforce immigration into the USA.
[snip]The Obama administration said Friday that Mexico has met enough human rights requirements for the U.S. to release $36 million in previously withheld funds that were part of the $1.4 billion Merida Initiative.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DRUG_WAR_FUNDING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
FACTS!
Mexico is the same corrupt cesspool it’s always been, just getting worse by the day. As Duncan Hunter said, the State Dept. is a bunch of knuckleheads!
From THEIR news media. (you won’t see perky Katie Couric or any of them going into Mexico!)
Information courtesy of NAFBPO, just the past few days.
http://m3report.wordpress.com/
Chihuahua: a state of barbarism
While more than 2,030 homicides have taken place in Ciudad Juarez during this year, the state attorney general prosecutors have only been able to find suspects in 67 of those cases, that is, one in every hundred. This is seen as a motivating factor for others to commit crimes, since the local perception is that killing has no consequences here.
Jesus Camarillo, a law professor at the University of Ciudad Juarez, said in an interview that, “In civilized societies, every conflict must be resolved by a third party, which is the State, now practically excluded, and then the conflict is resolved by private vengeance, and that is what we see presently: a state of barbarism, because the state’s presence is totally excluded, since there is no one to challenge crimes, no one to investigate them.”
[The new month began with ten assassinations in Juarez on its first day.]
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/09/02&id=664f7c02edc34a30f9e2f057dc490e88
ATTORNEY GENERAL ADMITS LAWLESSNESS AND CORRUPTION
Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 8-30-10
Morelia – In a speech before local legislators, the Attorney General of the State of Michoacan, Jesus Montejano Ramirez, admitted corruption, lawlessness, lack of coordination with other agencies and practices contrary to citizens’ interest within the State Attorney General’s Office (PGJE).
http://www.cambiodemichoacan.com.mx/vernota.php?id=132762
Human trafficking, a 3 billion dollar business for organized crime in Mexico
Mexico, D.F. (Notimex) – A Mexican legislative report pointed out that between 1998 and 2008, more than 60,000 Central and South Americans “disappeared” while transiting Mexico en route to the US, inasmuch as none of them reached their families in the US or returned home. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Unofficial reports point out that in the past five years, as part of the incursion of narcotraffickers into the business of kidnapping of migrants, the number of deceased could exceed 400 per year. Official figures put the estimated number of annual deaths of Central American migrants in Mexico at 200.
A member of the National Confederation of Public Organizations (CNOP), Edmundo Ramirez Martinez, explained that the trafficking of people over the northern border has become a “huge business” that generates earnings of over three billion dollars a year for organized crime.
Murder of journalists (two separate reports)
El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 8/3/09
Seventeen journalists have been murdered in Mexico during the last 18 months. There have also been 365 “acts of intimidation” against other media persons, though the highest incidence of the latter was caused by public security personnel in the area of Mexico City.
Milenio (Mexico City) 8/3/09
[The following figures were in an op/column titled “Achilles, the czar and July’s 854” about insecurity problems in Mexico]: This past June had held the record for execution-style murders in Mexico during any single month. That record has now been broken in July, when there were 854 violent deaths recorded. The figure for the year is now 4,300 and 12,900 from the date President Calderon took office.
—-http://m3report.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/mexican-and-central-american-papers-report-crime-data/
El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 8-30-10
Twelve hour gun battle
The Governor of Veracruz, Fidel Herrera, confirmed that a gun battle in the northern part of the state yesterday between the military and members of a criminal organization lasted at least 12 hours.
As of this moment there are no exact details given by the state government, but there has been coordination between the government of Tamaulipas, the government of Veracruz, federal forces and state forces.
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1764273.htm
Mexico has double standards toward migrants
According to Mexico’s Center for Human Rights of Migrants (CNDH), Mexico operates on a double standard in regards to the treatment of undocumented migrants. In a communique issued from Cd. Juarez, the organization pointed out that while the Mexican government demands respect for their countrymen in the US, it violates the human rights of Central and South Americans in Mexico. In reference to the recent massacre of 72 people in Tamaulipas, what happened there is only a reflection of the vulnerability of migrants in Mexico. Just this past May, they point out, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council expressed surprise at the growing xenophobia, aggressions, tortures, anti-migrant laws and even murders suffered by undocumented Central and South Americans in their transit through Mexican territory.
One of the most serious problems facing migrants in Mexico today is kidnapping. The CNDH documented the kidnapping of 9,758 undocumented migrants in Mexico between September 2008 and February 2009, more than 1,600 per month. The report also warned that the kidnapping of migrants has become a common practice, usually unpunished and with acts of extreme cruelty, carried out as much by the authorities as by organized crime. The crime is very lucrative. In the total number of cases cited above, the take in those six months was approximately 25 million US dollars.
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n1761035.htm
Mexican police rescue Cuban migrants Agence France Presse, September 2, 2010 http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/mexican-police-rescue-cuban-migrants-20100902-14p4x.html
Mexican police have rescued six Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month near the popular beachside resort of Cancun.
A police patrol stormed a house in Bonfil, on the outskirts of Cancun, on Tuesday after receiving a tip, Quintana Roo state public security chief Enrique Alberto Sanmiguel told AFP.
‘When the patrol arrived, they found five men and a woman who explained they were Cubans,’ he said on Wednesday, noting that the abductors were seeking between $US8000 ($A8792) and $US10,000 ($A10,990) in ransom from the migrants’ US relatives in Miami.
During the ordeal, the Cubans were moved constantly to different sites in order to avoid detection by police.
Cancun is a major transit point for thousands of Cuban boatpeople who leave their communist island illegally and travel through Mexico in a bid to reach the United States and be granted asylum there.
The rescue came a week after Mexican police discovered the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants on a ranch in northeastern Mexico close to the US border.
Police: Human smugglers kidnap 16 migrants in Mexico
http://www.google.com/search?q=Police%3A+Human+smugglers+kidnap+16+migrants+in+Mexico&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Just how much should we babysit this corrupt banana republic?
I think we have to look a little deeper than the Mexican problem or the Mexican/American border and the illegals crossing our border. If our government wants to address the illegals, it can’t stop at our Southern border. It has to consider ALL illegals coming into our country. That means illegals from the middle east also. I don’t believe this administration wants to enter that arena. The way our President supports all countries of the Middle East, supports muslims, stops him from considering illegals at all.
You mean these people???????????
Phoenix, Arizona features an astounding annual car theft rate of 57,000 vehicles and has become the new “Car Theft Capital of the World”.
U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the country. These 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the United States each year.
Here they are !!! Take a look !!!
More information on the wonderful illegals now inside our country thanks to the Demoncrats ...
Take a look at this FBI Wanted for Murder List to see how wonderful diversity is !!!
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm
About 90% Hispanic, for those who don’t wish to count (or see all their ugly mugs)
Also:
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/07/los-zetas-in-los-angeles-—mexican-cartel-expands-in-california.php
62% of Hispanic Voters in Colorado said they are in favor of AZ type of immigration law.
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_15340750?source=commented-
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I think we have to look a little deeper than the Mexican problem or the Mexican/American border and the illegals crossing our border. If our government wants to address the illegals, it can’t stop at our Southern border. It has to consider ALL illegals coming into our country. That means illegals from the middle east also. I don’t believe this administration wants to enter that arena. The way our President supports all countries of the Middle East, supports muslims, stops him from considering illegals at all.”
EXACTLY! You nailed it. They could care less about poor Mexican peasants, except they become good democrat voters. They’re perfectly willing to let hundreds of them die in the desert with the hope of getting here. That hope has to be eliminated.
This was the problem with Bush’s amnesty....it’s author, Grover Norquist, is a Muslim convert and the biggest amnesty pusher around.
Also today:
States file brief supporting Ariz. immigration law
© 2010 The Associated Press
Sept. 4, 2010, 10:06AM
PHOENIX — Nearly a dozen states have filed a legal brief in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law.
A”friend of the court” brief filed with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday argues that a federal judge was wrong to block implementation of key provisions of the law.
The brief submitted by Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox argues that the judge used the wrong legal standard to rule on the U.S. Justice Department’s request for a preliminary injunction.
It also says the judge erred in ruling that the law interferes with the executive branch’s immigration enforcement priorities.
Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia joined in the filing.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7186521.html
I would say especially from the Middle East
Almost on a daily basis we have small boats show up on the San Diego coast with immigrants and or drugs. The fact that one or so a week is captured means that a lot more are getting ashore. That operation isn’t cheap and the cartels are running it and supplying the money for the boats and motors. The USCG and DHS doesn’t seem to do any at sea prevention. The boats are all tied to a dock at night and they wait for someone to report a landing before they try to intercept. If we could shut down the coastal traffic in all of Vietnam, we can sure do it with 75 miles of San Diego coast line.
Great post.
Mexico won’t change until it has some leadership of the calibre of Uribe, of Colombia.
The Mendellin Cartesl were destroyed, but it required the will to do it.
Dear Mr. O'Reilly, you have the top-rated cable news program for 9 years running. Isn't your statement the equivalent of "I'm a failure. I'm not doing my job informing Americans."?
We know the MSM is hopeless. They don't report the violence in Mexico, because that would bring their 'multi-culturalism agenda' (all cultures are equal, except American, which is worse) into question. And it would put the kibosh on the MSM's agenda for unlimited illegal immigration from Mexico. Yeah, we don't expect the truth or even news from the MSM. What's your excuse? Just wondering.
Here is what we should do:
1. The USA should declare all illegal immigrants from Mexico refugees (from violence, corruption and poverty).
2. Put refugees in HUMANE camps along the border and call on the UN to come in an take care of them. This is not to pushish the immigrants, but to shame Mexico for it’s ill treatment of their own people.
3. The UN calls for international sanctions against Mexico until they get thier _ _ _ _ together, stop the drug trade, stop the corruption, provide safety and a decent living for its own people to they don’t have to become refugees.
There is NO REASON why Mexico should not be a rich and prosperous country. None. They have the resources to be extremely well off and all their people safe and well cared for. No excuses. They have oil, they have thousands upon thousands of miles of beautiful beaches, mountains, history, culture .... zero reason why this should not be a tourist mecca and every sinlge Mexican citizen with a decent job and decent standard of living.
No excuses.
Calderon and his cronies should be hauled before the ICC to answer for their crimes of making Mexico into a criminal haven and its people refugees from violence, corruption and poverty.
It is very possible we are dealing with by far the most corrupt federal government that has ever existed in the US. Compliments of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Johnny Suntrade
Mexico’s day of reckoning is fast approaching. In some 400 years it has never been a country that has respected or ever operated under the the rule of law. In a perverse way Mexicans are actually proud of their contempt for it. And because of this it is a country that is collapsing by the day, virtually by the hour. This danger is spilling over our borders and if things in Mexico don’t change for the better(and they probably never will) the violence, lawlessness and the Mexicans desperate to flee will become a flood.
You hit every nail on the concerning Mexico. What it doesn’t have is respect for the rule of law. This is why it’s a lawless cesspool and is collapsing as we speak.
Thanks, save for later.
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