Maybe the ATF is there to set up another Waco situation.
Let’s see, who can be the perpetrators in a possible gun-running scheme from the US into Mexico? Not that that is a significant source of the weaponry being used in places like Juarez, or anywhere in Mexico, for that matter. Daily shipments of full automatic and military grade ordnance are received from China, Venezuela and North Korea.
But say that there is a religious colony in the near location to El Paso, and they also happen to have a small stockpile of (legally purchased) sidearms. They will be surrounded and stormed as being the “source” of the illegal weaponry being used in Mexico. And how were they getting them into Mexico? Why, a tunnel under the Rio Grande, of course, a highly engineered avenue of exchange of illegal drugs for illegal weapons.
Doesn’t matter that the religious colony never so much as exchanged business cards with the Mexican drug cartels, the fact remains that they COULD have, and the attack on the compound will be launched.
Waco all over again.
No persecution in this country. Nosiree, Bob
I have no doubt that some weapons in Mexico come from here but it’s piecemeal. Wealthy drug lords aren’t going to waste time with handfulls of weapons when they can get them off container ships through mexican ports that they control.