Posted on 05/12/2008 6:53:48 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday it was shocked at escalating attacks on police officers in Mexico, adding organized crime posed a "serious threat" to democratic institutions there.
"We're shocked by the escalating violence against Mexican law enforcement officials," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement read out at the daily press briefing.
"The recent murders of three high-level police officials by criminal syndicates and drug trafficking cartels are a brutal reaction to President (Felipe) Calderon's determination to fight organized crime," he said.
"They illustrate the serious threat these organizations pose to democratic institutions in Mexico," he said, adding Washington offered its condolences to the family and colleagues of the dead police officers.
He added that the United States gave its "whole and immediate support" to Mexico's fight against organized crime.
"Mexico's success in this struggle will be our success," he said, urging Congress to "fully fund" President George W. Bush's Merida initiative to help Mexico and Central America fight organized crime.
Gunmen assassinated a commander of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping police on Friday, the fourth top police authority slain in 10 days in Mexico City as the toll from a rising organized crime wave hit top brass.
The violence is believed to be mostly related to the government's stepped up fight against drug trafficking.
Sure am glad we don’t have a border with these folks.
Why is the federal government looking beyond our own borders for escalating violence? Perhaps it needs to look into our own cities first!
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
No one at this house is shocked.
90% of socal tourism of baja is off.
it used to be that high schoolers, college students and people went to tj to drink and dance.
no more. too violent.
Hey, Feds, look closer to home (like oh, say, Arizona) and see the jails, the violence and other crap that is going on because we don’t have a FENCE!
Main Street America in a couple of years.
EXACTly!
Mark my words, we will one day have to go in and occupy Mexico.
Time for the FBI and the Chicago typewriter.
yeah like the magic stop at the border
You get the “At-A-Boy” of the day with that post!
What sucks even more is my small group of 8 actually has direct control over test and production of some of our products being made there. (Guadalajara) (I’m sure a trip is in offing as we haven’t been in two years to fix and upgrade).
this has been going on for a very long time. nothing new here.
but it is coming to a neighborhood near you in our American
Communities because of open borders.
Yet these same “shocked” officials can’t see that if we continue to let illegals stream across the border unchecked that they are importing that violence here. I guess all the drunk driving deaths and murders caused by illegals doesn’t register with them somehow.
Another dumbass headline.
The flip side........
If the U.S. took over Mexico, would that solve the problem?
Jerk!
Only if we bagan to control our borders like Mexico controls their southern border, and punished criminals the way they do. (partly sarcastic, mostly true)
Our PTB will never be shocked enough to do the right thing by building the fence and enforcement by attrition.
Yeah play dumb McCormick. Keep the streak alive.
Not all are home grown.
The government will do nothing to protect you or I or our families. That is our job.
By any means necessary.
The fence will go up only when its good for business. Mexico is heading down a long road to revolution and bloodshed. sadly enough it will be some Communist Radical who will have to come in and break the gangs and corruption in a bloodbath that will send millions across the border as refugees. Then mexico will be saddled with some Castro like tyrant for years.
Those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it.
Good news: US to spend $23 million on border fence;
Bad news: The money is going to build the border fence in… Egypt.
By Michelle Malkin • March 22, 2008 05:35 PM
Item: The US government is forking over $23 million to help build the border fence and calling in the Army Corps of Engineers to assist with construction.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/22/good-news-us-to-spend-23-million-on-border-fence/
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( The only date on the page is Nov. 7, 2001 but it isn’t with the article, so this may be old news, or not. )
US to give Pakistan $73 million for border security
The United States State Department on Tuesday night in a statement said it would provide Pakistan with $73 million dollars in emergency funds to safeguard the security of its borders, particularly with Afghanistan.
The assistance would include helicopters and planes, land vehicles, communications gear, night-vision goggles and training, the department release said.
http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/nov/07ny2.htm
Yeah.
Ain’t that a slap in the face?
Refugees. Here come millions more.
How can the adminstration be shocked? Hell, it is only too eager to import that madness to the United States. Bush’s love affair with Mexico and his embrace of illegals (especially from Mexico) says it all.
I expect some of the same “bait and switch” tactics this summer, as election day approaches.
We need a lot of changes, and term limits is a major necessity.
beheadings?
Oh come on. It’s meheeko, not iraq.
Yes, beheadings.
Severed heads rolled like bowling balls into a nightclub in one of the big tourist cities a few months back.
In meheeko.
Not just Iraq.
Before picture -
After picture -
And our door's wide open...
Sorry. I’m more shocked at the violence perpetrated by Mexicans HERE. The drunk-driving, child rapes, and outright murders. Screw Mexico, fix US!
State is always enthusiastic about throwing billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars at third world cesspools. And the result is always the same -- problems unsolved, more resentment.
What we should be fully funding is an electrified fence running the entire length of the border. ....and more border patrolmen.
Thank you, airborne. First time I’ve seen those photos.
Disgraceful!
Mexico’s escalating violence is now part of our escalating violence. It’s all part of the wonderful, multicultural experience.
well thank goodness that will never happen here....................right?......
Yea, me too. Wait . . .
Well hey, it’s not my problem. I’m all the way up in Wisconsin.
Wait . . .
Why can't Mexico be more like Las Vegas?
Well they’re idiots then. Without exporting illegals and importing american tourism, that country cannot stand. And if it collapses, then we will have to go in a take our oil wells back.
Yeah, right. It's far more likely that our $Billion will buy six rifles while the rest is distributed among the corrupt government officials, organized crime lords and politically connected leading families.
I'd rather buy fence with our $Billion.
Maybe Mexico should try gun control. That should end the violence.
lol
It's not all wasted, State Department officials are treated like royalty in these countries after they fork over so many of our hard earned dollars.
/S
They need to be watching both. The violence in Mexico is slowly moving across the border and will be here before you know it. The Mexican government has lost control of Mexico to the drug cartels and Mexico is like Colombia was a few years back. The thing is when the “good” (in Mexico we can never be too sure) guys are shot up we bring them to our hospitals- knowing the “bad” guys still want them dead. The Mexicans can move back and forth across the border with ease- so I am actually amazed we haven’t had a major shoot out on this side yet- but I bet we do any day now.
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