Or Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and a supporting cast.
when will mexico wise up. The Policia take the bribes and make themselves a target.
Something need to be done.
They are a major threat to the US in more ways than one.
I think it’s time for the 1st armored division to roll across the border...
Which cartels side were the police on?
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/at-least-14-dead-in-mexico-gunbattle-near-texas-border/
Alls ya gotta do is ask.
We will rain down fire and brimstone on all the bad guys you point at.
Its not really that hard being on the winning side.
Remember, the Mexican president and his staff are angry the US labelled the Cartels as terrorists.............
I suspect that cartels are moving to control new territory along the border, as barrier is being built in the previously most valuable stretches.
The three biggest corridors for illegal traffic - San Diego, the Rio Grande Valley and Yuma - will all be substantially closed by the end of next year, with Trump-style super barrier system. The cartels must prepare new routes, where the terrain allows.
The more than 200 mile unfenced gap along the Rio Grande in Texas, between Falcon Lake (South of Laredo) and Box Canyon (just North of Del Rio), is the biggest and best open stretch of border for smuggling left in Texas after the Rio Grande Valley gets closed off - arguably it will then be the best stretch of the whole US/Mexico border for illegal traffic, after the currently funded barrier building is finished (end of 2020).
52 miles of that stretch already has this year’s money budgeted against it (but that contract has not yet been awarded).
The attack described in this article, in Villa Union, Coahuila; is on the main highway leading to the Northern edge of where that barrier will run (52 miles running North from the Colombia Laredo Port of Entry).
This attack seems like a cartel (CDN) coming into a small town to take over. The big battles will erupt when cartels go against each other, for the biggest new routes.
When that happened before in Nuevo Laredo, the local police were disbanded an effective state of martial law persisted for years.
Those trucks in pictures have Texas plates. Declare these groups terrorists, name Mexico a a failed state, deploy troops, and Close the border. Give Mexico 72 hours to secure their side of the border, else deploy troops to do so for 25-100 mile safe zone to then repatriate Mexicans from the US. DEPORT THEM ALL, let them fix their country.
Pick up the speed on getting the wall finished.
After the conclusion of the Mexican War, we should have purchased the Baja California peninsula and about 10 miles of land south of the existing border, excluding the Rio Grande River.
Somebody ping Stephen King. He needs to explain how this could happen in such a country. Are the anti-knife laws stronger than the anti-gun laws in Mexico?
I saw a video of the headquarters and there were bullet holes all over the place. Those cartels are better armed than the police are.....
They must have their own embedded medical services.
There seems to be a disconnect between the event and what is displays about the marauders capabilities and the last line from the state government.
Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing.
He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged members of the Cartel of the Northeast were killed in the response.
Videos of the shootout posted on social media showed burned out vehicles and the facade of Villa Union’s municipal office riddled with bullets. Rapid gunfire could be heard in videos along with frantic people telling loved ones to stay indoors. A damaged black pickup truck with the C.D.N. of the Cartel del Noreste, or Cartel of the Northeast, written in white on its door is seen on the street.
Security forces will remain in the town for several days to restore a sense of calm, the governor said.
“These groups won’t be allowed to enter state territory,” the government of Coahuila said in a statement.