Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider's atop San Juan Hill
Posted on 10/18/2008 11:40:48 AM PDT by BGHater
U.S. drug czar John Walters said Friday that Mexico's drug cartels are crossing the border to kidnap and kill inside the United States, and promised that an anti-drug aid package to help Mexico to fight the gangs will be ready soon.
Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, was in Mexico for two days to discuss efforts with local officials to stem killings, weapons trafficking and money laundering by Mexican cartels and their U.S. associates.
"Some of these groups not only engage in crime and violence not only in Mexico and along the border, but they come across and kidnap, murder and carry out assassinations," Walters told reporters. "These groups do not respect the border."
Walters said some of the US$400 million in U.S. drug aid approved for Mexico earlier this year under the Merida Initiative could be ready in a matter of days.
Walters praised Mexican President Felipe Calderon for mounting a police and army offensive against the cartels, whom he called "terrorist criminals."
"They have a choice: Come in and face justice, or die," he said of the drug gangs.
He also said the United States did not object to the Calderon administration's current legislative proposal to allow people caught with small amounts of some drugs to seek drug treatment rather than prison terms.
"There has been an impression left that this is legalizing the possession of amounts of drugs. That is not what Mexican officials tell me the bill does," Walters said. "For the lower quantity, for use, you will still face jail time, you'll be given an option if you're an addict to get treatment."
"I think the parameters and the intentions, that is exactly what we do in the United States."
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“anti-drug aid package to help Mexico to fight the gangs will be ready soon.”
Nonesense. Our USA tax dollars will go right into the cartels pocket. If this government had a brain they would give this money to sheriffs to fight the cartels HERE!
I thought they all came to pick apples and lettuce and cook at El Toritos.
‘U.S. drug czar John Walters’
Drug czar.
Bailout czar.
HUD czar.
It never ends.
How about setting up the NG on the border states and have them shoot to kill any crossers, regardless of sex, age whatever. It would soon stop any crossers from coming over. Not only that instead of giving Mexico money, they get plenty from us already, how about telling the government to get a handle on the problem and stop it or we are coming across the border and they won’t be happy when we do.
On top of stating the obvious, he’s proud of the fact that taxpayers will pay protection money to mexico.
I was waiting on the edge of my seat for the Border War to come up on the debates. /s
This is a consequence of our failure to go on offense and win the war on drugs. As long as we fail to surge in the war on drugs and take the fight to the enemy’s home then the enemy will come here to our home.
This has to stop. Even if it means building a Great Wall of America and putting a million soldiers atop the wall. I say we close the border—No one goes north, no one goes south. No goods tainted with DDT, No cheap fruit, Nothing from US factories in Mexico—let em sell to China. No US tourists, No money wired south,No visits. It should be like North Korea. No drugs coming north and no US money bleeding south. We don’t need anything Mexico has.
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider's atop San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Rider's atop San Juan Hill
How about 50% “border safety tax” imposed on Western Union remittances to Mexico from the US?
Maybe they don't respect our border because we keep trying to pay them off instead of either building a wall to stop them or just shooting their sorry asses.
Oh yeah, I guess they ran out of time or something, huh? /s
Just doing the jobs American’s won’t do....
South Texas deputies authorized to fire into Mexico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108447/posts
How’s the border fence coming along, BTW?
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