Posted on 01/18/2008 6:03:37 AM PST by Brilliant
While Republican presidential candidates have been hammering away about border security, focusing on the flow of immigrants north, Mexico’s the top concern is the flow of guns south...
Mukasey... met with Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora to hear first hand how the surge in drug-related violence in Mexico ties directly to the leaky U.S. border.
The Mexican government has intensified its efforts against drug cartels, and, in response, the cartels have unleashed a campaign of violence, killing police and military officers... Mexico has strict gun laws, with domestic arms sales tightly controlled, but automatic weapons, high-powered rifles and even grenades are believed to make their way across the border...
The flow of illegal weapons has fueled armed conflict... the violence has left about 100 people dead in the first two weeks of 2008. U.S. officials say that whenever they raise issues such as immigration... with their Mexican counterparts, they hear Mexican concerns that the U.S. seems unable to stop the flow of guns.
...the Justice Department announced a program, “Gunrunner,” aimed at stemming the trafficking. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lets Mexican prosecutors track the U.S. origins of guns seized in Mexico using new computer software...
Mukasey promised Medina Mora that the Justice Department would yank the licenses and prosecute U.S. gun dealers... “The United States is committed to addressing the flow of illegal guns to Mexico,” Mukasey said... “We recognize that the control of our border is an important national security priority for both our governments...”
Medina Mora said his government is increasing its cooperation with the U.S., including the extradition of drug cartel bosses... Medina Mora said one sign of success from the two countries’ cooperation is that “we’ve seen the increase in prices of drugs... on the streets of the U.S.”
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
Some "success".
Riiiiight. Hey Mexico, you put a STOP to the illegal immigration AND illegal drugs coming into the US over the border, and then we'll see about tightening up the flow of weapons to YOUR country.
Close the borders and take no sh-t.
Maybe Mexico should consider building a wall on its northern border.
Send more guns. Let’s see how mexico likes a porous border when the flow is south instead of north.
Maybe Mexico should build a fence. Obviously we won’t...
How can Mexico stop depending on exporting poverty unless it begins to allow its people to create wealth for themselves? In other words Mexico would have to change its government more than it has been able to do. Maybe if we took away our oil dependence it would give them some incentive to have to allow entrepreneurship along with some other folks that need the same solution on our part to stop harming us.
Damn, son. You trying to hold other countries to the same standards that they require of us? Shame, shame on you.
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