"Our southern border is as secure as it's ever been."
Posted on 08/11/2010 1:42:15 AM PDT by Cindy
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ON THE SOUTHWEST BORDER Corruption, Drugs, Gangs, and More
08/02/10
The U.S. border with Mexico extends nearly 2,000 miles, from San Diego, California to Brownsville, Texas. At too many points along the way, criminals ply their trade with surprising ease and devastating results.
Drug cartels transporting kilos of cocaine and marijuana, gangs who think nothing of kidnapping and murder, traffickers smuggling human cargo, corrupt public officials lining their pockets by looking the other way—any one of these offenses represents a challenge to law enforcement.
Watch Video: The FBI's role on the border.
Taken together, they constitute a threat not only to the safety of our border communities, but to the security of the entire country.
During the next several weeks, FBI.gov will take you to the Southwest border for a firsthand look at our efforts there to fight crime. We will take you to San Diego—home of the world’s busiest port of entry—and across the border into Tijuana. We will also visit El Paso, Texas, whose sister city in Mexico—Juarez—has become as deadly as any war zone thanks to the drug cartels.
In articles, pictures, and video, we will chronicle the Bureau’s efforts to combat Southwest
Assistant Director Kevin Perkins
border crime through our participation in drug, violent crime, and public corruption task forces; our extensive intelligence-gathering efforts; and our vital partnerships with Mexican law enforcement.
Despite our continuing successes, however, much work is left to be done.
“With such a great expanse of territory to cover,” said Kevin Perkins, assistant director of our Criminal Investigative Division, “there are places where the border is permeable. In some areas of the desert, people can cross illegally at will, and they do. The U.S. government has built fences and other barriers that our adversaries are continually trying to defeat, and in some cases they are defeating them,” he added. “Either they're tunneling under, flying over, or actually cutting through the various defenses we've put up.”
About This Series
FBI.gov recently visited the Southwest border region for a firsthand look at what the Bureau and its law enforcement partners are doing there to combat crime.
The cartels make billion-dollar profits trafficking drugs. Gaining and controlling border access is critical to their operations. They maintain that control through bribery, extortion, intimidation, and extreme violence. Some areas on the Mexican side of the border are so violent they are reminiscent of the gangster era of Chicago in the 1930s or the heyday of the Mafia’s Five Families in New York. In Tijuana, for example, a man who came to be known as "The Strew Maker"—El Pozolero—worked for one of the cartels dissolving hundreds of murder victims in acid to dispose of the evidence. In Juarez, decapitated heads of murdered cartel members have been displayed on fence posts to intimidate rivals.
“We think al Qaeda is violent,” said one of our senior agents in El Paso, “but the cartels here are often just as willing to resort to extreme brutality and bloodshed to carry out their objectives.”
The disturbing level of violence sometimes overshadows the national security risks along the border, Perkins said. “Unfortunately, there are border guards who are corrupt—people who can wave vehicles through checkpoints. Those vehicles could contain narcotics or illegal aliens, but they could also be pieces to the next dirty bomb brought into the country by terrorists. We are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
The violence which here is written of as separate from the drugs , slaving, kidnapping, etc, is very much part of the "national security risks."
"Our southern border is as secure as it's ever been."
You know when the idiots at the fbi finally figure there is a problem at the border, it way beyond being just a problem, it is a full scale invasion.
But God forbid they, the idots at the fbi, should fight the problem without first making sure they won’t loose their monica status with obama the usurper.
......Corruption, Drugs, Gangs......
.....They maintain that control through bribery, extortion, intimidation, and extreme violence......
Putting aside the extreme violence, these words describe the Obama administration.
If there is honor among thieves one can only wonder if there is not a connection between the Cartels and the Obamaoids. One can only wonder if the permissive attitude is not the result of money flowing from the south to the hidden Chicago pockets or to some off shore location.
You mean these people???????????
Phoenix, Arizona features an astounding annual car theft rate of 57,000 vehicles and has become the new “Car Theft Capital of the World”.
U.S. law enforcement authorities claim that there are now over 1 million members of criminal gangs inside the country. These 1 million gang members are responsible for up to 80% of the crimes committed in the United States each year.
Here they are !!! Take a look !!!
More information on the wonderful illegals now inside our country thanks to the Demoncrats ...
Take a look at this FBI Wanted for Murder List to see how wonderful diversity is !!!
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/vc/murders/vc_murders.htm
About 90% Hispanic, for those who don’t wish to count (or see all their ugly mugs)
Also:
http://newamericamedia.org/2010/07/los-zetas-in-los-angeles-—mexican-cartel-expands-in-california.php
62% of Hispanic Voters in Colorado said they are in favor of AZ type of immigration law.
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_15340750?source=commented-
They found it about a week after the insurance paid out. It was on the other side of town. It was pretty much gutted out sans a Mother of Mary air freshener.
"Glen has used unmanned aircraft to fly over the border fences in search for illegals. When they are spotted, using high definition cameras (and night vision) he reports the activity to U.S. Border Patrol Agents.
{this for the McCain backers.]
He has met with Senator McCain many times with detailed information about what is going on but the Senator doesn't take any of Glens suggestions seriously.
One of the ladies in The American Border Patrol organization brings her six German Sheppard's to Glens ranch and they are trained to walk the length of border fencing on the ranch in search of any activity. They have also installed sensors and video cameras on many of the trails used by illegals.
I forgot to tell you that a few weeks ago ICE arrested a couple of human smugglers in my neighbor's (across the street) back yard. This all happened after a high speed chase thru Sierra Vista."
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/august10/border_081210.html
“ON THE SOUTHWEST BORDER
When Violence Hits Too Close to Home”
08/12/10
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