Posted on 04/14/2011 12:09:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
Should Americans believe Janet Napolitano’s rosy picture of a U.S.-Mexico border that’s “as secure as it has ever been” or a Pentagon assessment that it’s actually a gateway for Mexican criminal organizations that have infiltrated the entire country and joined forces with terrorist groups?
For months the nation’s Homeland Security Secretary has repeatedly insisted that everything is hunky dory on the southwest border, even as violence escalates and overwhelmed federal agents are increasingly attacked by heavily armed drug smugglers. Just last month Napolitano declared that violence along the Mexican border is merely a mistaken “perception” because the area is safe and “open for business.” Furthermore, Madame Secretary assured that “some of America’s safest communities are in the Southwest border region….”
A top Pentagon official contradicts that fairytale assessment, pointing out that Mexican criminal organizations extend well beyond the southwest border to cities across the country, including big ones like Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit. Addressing a U.S. Senate hearing this week, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats William Wechsler warned lawmakers that all their constituencies are confronted by the threat of Mexican drug cartels.
Even more alarming is that, once in the United States, Wechsler says the Mexican criminal groups are becoming more dangerous by forming networks with each other and insurgent or terrorist groups. In some regions the “threat networking” not only engages in drug trafficking but kidnapping, armed robbery, extortion and other serious crimes.
The threat is so great that the assistant Defense Secretary offered federal legislators military assistance in the name of protecting national security. “Many of the global and regional terrorists who threaten interests of the United States finance their activities with proceeds from narcotics trafficking,” Wechsler reminded, adding that “extremist and international criminal networks frequently exploit local geographical, political or social conditions to establish safe havens from which they can operate with impunity.”
Law enforcement NEEDS these types of problems, they need the illegal immigration problem and the drug war to continue to justify huge budgets, unions and the war on civil liberties.
Its all part of the game...
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Ding, Ding, Ding, we have a winner!!!
“E” if I would have scrolled down two more posts I would have read your words. We are on the same wave length. It’s true this is all about the money, like the global warming scam.
I'd assume the annexation process would be very thorough in regards to a purge.
The Open Borders crowd is an enemy of the U.S.
Only if obama's bunch does not get to set the rules of engagement
Annex Mexico? A country even more dysfunctional as the US?
Annex Mexico? A country even more dysfunctional as the US?
It's much worse than that. We spend billions on defense and use them as international police and millions on law enforcement and end up militarizing them, only to have politicians block using either effectively on our borders.
Clean it out first, of course.
"Law enforcement NEEDS these types of problems, they need the illegal immigration problem and the drug war to continue to justify huge budgets, unions and the war on civil liberties. Its all part of the game..."
Add Law Enforcement, Judges, Jails, Attorneys, etc., etc.. and you have all the @#$%@# BLOOD-SUCKERS THAT ARE KILLING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE ARE KAPUT :-(
I thought we conquered Mexico once!
I thought we conquered Mexico once!
Dear Pentagon: I am not nearly as worried about the threat from Mexican drug cartels, as I am about our current federal goverment which has run completly out of control
No kidding!?! We never guessed.
“Law enforcement NEEDS these types of problems, they need the illegal immigration problem and the drug war to continue to justify huge budgets, unions and the war on civil liberties. Its all part of the game...”
Add Law Enforcement, Judges, Jails, Attorneys, etc., etc.. and you have all the @#$%@# BLOOD-SUCKERS THAT ARE KILLING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE ARE KAPUT :-
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drummer 10
Don’t ever give up. It looks bad, but there are too many on our side, and I have worked, talked, played, and fought with them. You learn to adapt, innovate, and overcome.
We face internal threats that make the old Mafia seem like nothing.
I would suspect that the gangs followed on the heels of employment seekers in the hospitality trade.
When I last visited Alaska in the fall of 2001, I was surpised that the housekeeping staff in our downtown lodgings in Anchorage were Hispanic Spanish speaking. And some of the staff at Anchorage Zoo, as well.
The gangs follow the trail blazed by the laborers.
So the access allowed to these laborers is not innocuous.
“The Open Borders crowd is an enemy of the U.S.”
The Crawford Coyote takes great exception to such nativist, xenophobic chatter. He spent the better part of his own Presidency feeling mucho compassion for all those Future Americans South of the Rio Grande.
He is proud that his successor, the Kenyan Imposter, is seeing fit to continue down the road to Comprehensive Immigration Amnesty. Reform. whatever.
And as for you, he will be sending his poodle, K. Rove, to pee on your leg.
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