Posted on 08/26/2008 6:16:18 AM PDT by kellynla
EL PASO, Texas -- Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.
Law enforcement officials would not discuss specific security measures being taken at the ports of entry, along the border or in the city of El Paso.
"We received credible information that drug cartels in Mexico have given permission to hit targets on the U.S. side of the border," El Paso police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said.
Authorities learned of the threat last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Officer Rick Lopez said: "CBP is on heightened alert ever since we became aware of the threats in Mexico."
U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said officials "are reinforcing the importance of vigilance."
Drug cartel violence has claimed thousands of lives in Mexico this year. Nearly 800 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, a hardscrabble city of about 1.3 million people across the Rio Grande from El Paso.
The cartels, battling one another and the Mexican government for supremacy and control of lucrative drug and human smuggling routes, have become brazen in their attacks in recent months.
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I thought they were just searching for a better life?
They sure are on the ball! Not like they haven't been a threat for about 20 years or so.
Our “palestinian” problem continues to worsen.
I’m guessing the “targets” on the US side of the border are in Government or Politics. After all, regular folk on the US side of the border were being raped and murdered with impunity, and they (US Gov’t) didn’t see cause to tighten border security for that. Only when they see themselves at personal risk do Politicians and Agency heads take action.
My boyfriend’s nephew sat at the Christmas dinner table and scoffed at the notion of a ground war on U.S. soil. Had to bite my tongue from blurting out, “Hey kid, we’re already fighting a ground war against Mexicans.”
MAY SEND? MAY? The Mexican cartels and the Mexican government have been sending hit men and soldiers into the United States for years. The cover up by our government in Washington has been fairly successful so far. What's changed?
I just got back from two weeks in El Paso. It’s wild out there.
“wild?” meaning...
In the sense that every morning’s newscast led with how many people were assissinated in Juarez the night before. I had a lovely view of Juarez from my hotel window, but there was no way I was going near that place.
The cartels pick a target and they don’t care a whit about collateral damage. They murdered their own national motocross champion before I left, just because he happened to be in the same house with one of their targets. They just mow down everyone.
It’s safer in Afghanistan right now.
Bumping your comment.
okay...
ROFLOL
Bienvenidos a Amexica.
But one thing I found extremely interesting--when I first came to EP, my daughter-in-law told me that the city was one of the safest in the country. "Yeah, right I thought." But then, I was told the same thing by one of the most delightful "little old white-haired ladies" I have ever met. This lady, who I will call Miss R., spent over twenty years establishing an organization known as Shield a Badge With Prayer--which pairs seekers of "prayer cover" in law-enforcement (members of the Border Patrol, Sheriff's Department, and Police Department), as well as those involved in Fire and Rescue, with persons willing to pray for them. Miss R. knew all the heads of each of these departments, and spoke most highly of Leo Salmaniego(sp?), who was head of the Sheriff's Department until his death from cancer this past Spring. I had never heard of the man at the time his death was announced, but I could tell from the tone of the news coverage that the loss of this man was taken greatly to heart--mainly because of his great personal integrity and the demand for it that he brought to the department he headed.
Then, after I met Miss R.--she told me of how good and decent a man Mr. S. had been--and how much he had encouraged her in her work with Shield a Badge.
This past May, Miss R.--with the help of the Mayor and other dignitaries, as well as a slew of SAB prayer-partners--sponsored a Law Day picnic intended to honor those in El Paso who "serve and protect"--and also those who cover these servants with prayer, trusting in the grace and mercy of an Almighty God for strength and safety, and not the power of men.
So--while the drug cartels certainly are forces to be reckoned with because of the Evil that guides them, it helps to know that in El Paso there are ordinary men and women willing to put on the "armor of God" and stand against this Evil.
So, even though I am now back home in my beloved Oregon, I pray, literally, every day, that those who have to stand that Evil in El Paso will be--by the power and grace of God--"more than conquerors!"
At what point do we send in the National Guard ?
Thanks for sharing that. Those of us too old to "join up" in the ranks of the armed forces or LEOs can still be warriors.
AMEN!
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