Border War: Mexican police join drug lords

Wash Times ^ | 9-25-02 | Jerry Seper

[jordan8]

SONOYTA, Mexico

[jordan8]

Hmmm. . . foreign armies launching chemical weapons of mass destruction into the U.S. while the government looks the other way.

[jordan8]

And let me take the opportunity to post one of my favorite recent quotes:

Representing Arizona for the last time as she approaches the end of her term in office, Gov. Jane Hull [R.] reiterated the need for guest workers but also went further, noting she'd like to see the formal border disappear within two decades.

"Borders have a way of blocking our vision," she said.

"I see a region some day without walls. I envision a region where our children chat in English and Spanish, where we have an equal footing economically and we no longer need to count the bodies of migrants in the desert."

[Dante3]

Excellent article.

[WyldKard]

Well gee, when you push pot into the black market, and create a situation where criminals can make millions off it's sale, this sort of thing is bound to happen. Just like it did with Alcohol prohibition. Of course, drug money has corrupted our own LEO's and politicians, and the last thing THEY want is legalized pot as well. It would cut off their dirty money...

[Kermit]

Bingo!! President Bush told us that the 9/11 attacks were attacks on our freedom. Shouldn't one response be to increase the amount of our freedom? What would be better than to attack the terrorists in two ways with one action? Increase our freedom and gut the funding of terrorism by re-legalizing drugs? That would help us worldwide and along the FBI, DEA, CIA etc to focus on the terrorists, rather than waste their time on the self-created problem of drug prohibition.

[MissAmericanPie]

Shouldn't we be mailing these stories to the White House and congress each and every day?

[FITZ]

Chief Delgado noted that because of the flood of immigrants and drug smugglers, the reservation has become a violent place

La Raza will just say this guy is another racist for not welcoming millions of illegals.

[FITZ]

They should have this woman live in a city like Juarez so she can see the future of the US she envisions.

[Wolfie]

Of course, nothing like this could ever happen in the U.S. military.

[Area51]

Thank you Jorge Delano Bush....... While we prepare to Bomb Sadam (which I think is needed and long past due) The Illegal Mexicans are invading from the south...

Nothing to see, Move along now.

[MoGalahad]

These are acts of war and should be treated as such. Where is the Arizona National Guard (to hell with the bureaucrats in Washington!). Set ambushs for these murdering savages and annihilate them. I'll pay for a bullet for each of them but nothing more.

[two23]

Why don't the individual states take their own measures instead of relying on federal alphabet agencies? Does a state have the right to protect itself from foreign invasion of drugs and unsavory (illegal) characters?
Or do the border states love the influx of cheap labor?
I am really disappointed that the politicians are not serving the majority of the people who want the borders SECURED. But then again, politicians don't have to live and mingle with the small folk who are seeing their towns and rural areas turned into slum alleys for drug traffickers.

[marron]

This is serious stuff.

I want to know why the National Guard isn't patrolling these regions. There are specific corridors where this stuff is coming through. It would take nothing more than a decision on the part of the state governor to implement patrols-in-force. The Border Patrol guys are outgunned, and it is wrong to send them into this kind of situation. The Guard has plenty of motorized infantry, and even their own special ops forces, who can be mobilized for a few months to close this down.

There is also a place for regular military special ops teams in this.

A targeted effort should be made to grab the Mexican soldiers involved. It is not the whole army, these are specific individuals, specific officers, and they have names. They can be targeted. It would cause a storm in the press, especially the Mexican press, but who cares.

And these individuals have protectors in Mexico City.

This needs to be given the serious treatment you would give if these individuals were Arabs. They are firing on American citizens. I want to hear that they are being taken into custody, or mysteriously turning up dead.

[two23]

Very seldom do we hear the many stories from American citizens who live along the borders who have to turn their property into fenced compounds to keep the illegal aliens from ransacking their homes. Seems Americans along the borders can't turn their backs for a moment. One woman was awakened to the sound of noises in her kitchen only to find illegals ransacking her kitchen for food. She reported that they break into homes to take food and clothing items and then leave. (by the way, this woman was armed and shot one while the other fled away on foot)

[MrLeRoy]

Just like it did with Alcohol prohibition.

It's amazing how the same people who scoff at "social engineering" and praise the wisdom of experience can completely ignore the lessons of Prohibition.

[philetus]

Gee, anybody who wanted to make some easy money could take a few friends and go to "This isolated area of the U.S.-Mexico border, a 100-mile-wide stretch of wild desert between the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Coronado National Forest".

This is truly the land of oppertunity.

[Tancredo Fan]

Shouldn't we be mailing these stories to the White House and congress each and every day?

Why? They apparently don't care about it. The borders are still loose as a goose a year after the worst attacks on U.S. soil in history. If Juan the weed dealer can sneak in with a couple of kilos, so can Mohammed with a suitcase nuke. Heads should be rolling.... this is insanity. The military should be on the borders... at least until the war is concluded.