Posted on 10/18/2011 10:07:28 AM PDT by jazusamo
While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican drug cartels have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.
In fact, drug-cartel violence is so severe that Texas counties along the Mexican border are under attack around the clock, according to an alarming report published by the state’s Department of Agriculture. The agency was ordered by the state legislature to conduct an assessment of the impact of illegal activity along the Texas-Mexico border on rural landowners and the agriculture industry.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples hired two reputable military veterans to conduct the probe. One of them is a retired four-star Army General (Barry McCaffrey) who served as Bill Clinton’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The other, retired Army Major-General Robert Scales, is the former commander of the U.S. Army War College.
The results of their in-depth investigation have ignited outrage among border state officials who are sick of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s reassurances that the border is “as secure as it has ever been.” Just a few months ago, during a heavily promoted visit to El Paso, Napolitano said violence along the Mexican border is merely a mistaken “perception” because the area is better now than it ever has been.
The reality is that in the past two years Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime as the enterprises move their operations into the U.S., according to the new assessment. They recruit street gangs and exploit porous borders by using all the traditional elements of military force, including logistics, intelligence and deadly firepower.
This has created a sort of “narco-terrorism” which takes on the classic trappings of a real war, the report concludes. “Crime, gangs and terrorism have converged in such a way that they form a collective threat to the national security of the United States.” However, the report points out that “federal authorities are reluctant to admit the increasing cross-border campaign by narco-terrorists.”
In the meantime, Texas has become an “operational ground zero” in the cartels’ effort to expand into the U.S. This has put residents of border communities in the crossfire of escalating violence resulting from conflicts between cartels, paramilitary enforcement groups and transitional gangs struggling for control of drug and illegal alien smuggling routes into the U.S. from El Paso to Brownsville.
Incredibly, Napolitano proclaimed that “some of America’s safest communities are in the Southwest border region…” during her spring visit to El Paso. She actually said that “misinformation about safety” was negatively impacting border communities by driving visitors away and hurting local businesses.
Merely advanced softening up of the soon to be acquired territory.
Proof again the Feds won’t protect Texas which is precisely why Texas should secede!
DPS (Texas) Warns Parents that Cartels Recruiting High School Students
The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents about drug cartels recruiting Texas high school students. DPS officials say they caught a 12-year-old boy driving a stolen pickup truck containing more than 800 pounds of marijuana last week.
Last month, two Texas teenagers were lured to Mexico where they were kidnapped, beaten, ransomed and released in a remote area along the Rio Grande River. In one Texas border county, more than 25 juveniles were arrested for drug trafficking within the past year.
“Mexican cartels have corrupted nearly an entire generation of youth living in Northern Mexico and they seek to corrupt our youth as well to further their smuggling operations,” said DPS Director Steven C. McCraw. “The Mexican Cartels value Texas teenagers for their ability to serve as expendable labor in many different roles and they have unlimited resources to recruit our children.”
These gangs are extremely profitable. They are well armed, well funded and politically connected.
The situation is very bad. It is about to get much worse. The problem is spreading to other parts of the country.
Got guns?
Hmmm. Profitable.
I wonder how much Obama will rake in from small, untraceable donations this campaign cycle?
This alone is a huge reason to get rid of Obama next year. It boggles the mind that Obama's lapdogs Napolitano won't enforce our immigration and border laws and Holder sues states that try to enforce them.
I’m not much on conspiracy theories either but after all the lying and stunts by Obama in ignoring and even breaking laws I wouldn’t rule anything out.
Want the scary answer??? ;-)
To ME, “NO,” would be the scariest answer.
“Proof again the Feds won’t protect Texas which is precisely why Texas should secede!”
Don’t think they should do that. What they should do is use the National Guard to patrol down there, but use some good ole pipe hitting home boys to rid the border of the vermin.
Drop a couple of dozen cartel heads on the cartel bosses table and the problem will go away.
“Proof again the Feds won’t protect Texas which is precisely why Texas should secede!”
Don’t think they should do that. What they should do is use the National Guard to patrol down there, but use some good ole pipe hitting home boys to rid the border of the vermin.
Drop a couple of dozen cartel heads on the cartel bosses table and the problem will go away.
Why fret about such trifles? Why we have Governor Perry pooh-poohing E-Verify and supporting instate tuition for illegal aliens and abandoning the stalled sanctuary city bill in the 82nd lege to fill in the air space, I’m sure Gov. Perry will handle this when he gets back.
We need drones on the border shooting anyting that moves.
We need drones on the border shooting anything that moves.
All true of rumrunners during Prohibition. Now, how did we solve that problem, again ... ?
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