Posted on 12/12/2010 4:37:17 PM PST by moonshinner_09
MADRID – A cable provided to WikiLeaks indicates that U.S. diplomats are concerned about the situation along Mexico’s border with Guatemala, describing events in the region, where arms smugglers operate and planes loaded with cocaine land in broad daylight, as “dramatic,” the Spanish daily El Pais reported Sunday.
The diplomats who wrote the cable point out that Mexico has deployed few immigration officers along the border with Guatemala.
“While there are 30,000 U.S. CBP (Customs and Border Protection) officers on the 1,926 mile Mexican/U.S. border, only 125 Mexican immigration officials monitor the 577 mile border with Guatemala,” the cable says.
“Mexican immigration officials repeatedly confirmed that they do not have the manpower or resources to direct efforts effectively along the southern border,” a cable classified “CONFIDENTIAL” and dated Jan. 25, 2010, said.
Visits by U.S. diplomats to crossings along the Mexico-Guatemala border “offered dramatic evidence of the porous southern border and serious resource shortfalls,” the cable said.
The diplomats concluded that there were “weak controls on Mexico’s southern border that are contributing to problems with illegal migration and guns/drugs smuggling.”
“Much more needs to be done to improve secure information sharing among federal agencies and between Federal and State officials in Mexico. Better cooperation among Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize could also help coordinate current efforts by each state and ensure that existing laws are enforced,” the cable says.
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—yeah , those southern borders—Canada has a big problem there, too-—(sarc)
Geez, without Wikileaks, I'd probably continued to believe that most of the guns going into Mexico came from US gunshows.
The Mexicans don’t want to stop the drug trade and concern from the current US administration and two-dollars will get you a stern talking to and a cup of coffee from Starbucks.
I’m betting fake.
What about OUR border you idiots??
Exactly. Mexico isnt worried about drugs coming into Mexico,if drugs dont come in money doesnt come in.
The fact is that Mexico’s government is nothing better than a drug cartel. They are as deep into drug dealing as the Cartels. It;s an outlaw country.
Any American using drugs is helping the Cartels.
It’s long past time to send in The Big Red One.
Why is it the this current administration and all the US seats of power; never get beyond being concerned.
Looks like that NAFTA scheme isn’t working out to well, huh?
“While there are 30,000 U.S. CBP (Customs and Border Protection) officers on the 1,926 mile Mexican/U.S. border”
I wish that were true, we wouldn’t havw the illegal problem that we do!
I wonder how many of our millions of immigrants from Mexico use drugs?
Instead of hanging Assange.....we need to Nuke Mexico instead.
That Third World s-hole to the south of the US is one of the biggest problems on the planet
“where arms smugglers operate and planes loaded with cocaine land in broad daylight”
Oh, that’s never happened before.
Looks like that NAFTA scheme isn’t working out to well, huh?
Only the most Brain-Dead, Commie Statist Liberal Free Trade Globalist thinks NAFTA still works. NAFTA is an absolute disaster
Free Trade = Open Borders
“Instead of hanging Assange.....we need to Nuke Mexico instead.”
I would say that most of the population of Mexico are good and honest people just like the U.S. They suffer from a corrupt, elitist government just like we do. What you are advocating is murder, pure and simple.
Having crossed the border between Mexico and Guatemala, headed north, I can explain why they only need 125 INM agents on the Guatemala border. There are only about 3 road crossings - Tenosique, Ciudad Cuatamoc and Ciudad Hidalgo. Most of the rest of the border region is reasonably impenetrable jungle and all of it is patrolled by at least two battalions of the Mexican Army.
At the border road crossings the first person you speak to on entry is an army NCO who passes you along to La Migracion who stamps your passport. Unlike some countries Mexico takes it territorial sovereignty seriously.
I doubt many can afford them.
I would say many of the gang leaders , M-13 are hooked.
“What you are advocating is murder, pure and simple.”
It’s really not that simple. Murder is the taking of one human life by another, without justification or excuse and with malice aforethoght.
Tactical bombing of border areas that harbor drug vermin is arguably justified and excused by self-defense and defense of others: all the Americans killed and hurt by illegal Mexican nationals every day.
I would say that a national policy—Mexico’s—that actively assists its citizens in violating our laws and hurting our citizens, and then has the temerity through its Bund organizations in this country to call us `racists’, is malice per se.
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