Border Wars Texas is Ground Zero (update) Texas Border Security Report

Click 2 Houston ^ | 9-26-2011 | Robert Arnold (report:Gen Mccaffery &Major Gen Scales

[Marty62]

"During the past two years, the state of Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime," the report concluded.

The report states six of the seven Mexican drug cartels have "command and control" operations in Texas cities.

"Texas has become critical terrain and operational ground zero in the cartel's efforts to expand into the United States," the report stated.

McCaffrey said the cartels are heavily recruiting Texas gang members to help insure the transportation of drugs into the United States and cash from the sale of drugs back into Mexico. McCaffrey said the Texas Department of Public Safety estimates at least 18,000 Texas gang members are already working for the cartels, and the number of prison gangs working with the cartels increased from four to twelve in the last year.

"That is an enemy division inside Texas that is armed and criminal in nature and fueled by drug money," McCaffrey said.

[matthew fuller]

Here is a 2006 report by my Rep. Michael McCaul about border security.
http://mccaul.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=53&sectiontree=5,53

“When the Homeland Security Subcommittee I chaired in 2006 authored the report A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, exposing the rise of the Mexican drug cartels, no one could have predicted the enormity of the bloodshed to come. In 2008, nearly 6,000 people in Mexico were murdered by these cartels. That’s more than the number of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.”

McCaul’s website also has this current 92 page McCafferty PDF listed.

[Ajnin]

I don’t need to read any reports. I have fourteen years of experience dealing with illegal immigration nearly everyday to tell me that anything other than zero tolerance of illegal immigration is capitulation to the open border marxists.

[matthew fuller]

"Name ONE candidate that will do what HAS to be done."

Herman Cain

http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/Cain/Immigration.php

[lonestar]

A lot has changed since the 50s.

[matthew fuller]

"Eisenhower did something similar in the 1950s and it worked out well enough without the chaos we have today. "

It was called "Operation Wetback" and it caused many/most illegals to self-deport.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

There would be no will for something like that today, most conservatives just call for attrition through routine enforcement or cutting off the jobs magnet.

Eisenhower also enforced a strict guest worker program, which is what they need to do today.

Any candidate who stands for this along with no amnesty would be a vast improvement over what we have now.

[AndyJackson]

You do realize that the more we fight this idiotic war on drugs the higher the incentives to get drugs through. Decriminalize (not legalize, but decriminalize) drugs like Portugal, Spain and Italy have done and then the financial incentive for this idiocy will go away.

[Marty62]

Do you hire them or report them?

[Marty62]

Good the more the merrier.

DEAD silence from the msm.

[algernonpj]

Get off it. The LAST TWO YEARS HAVE BEEN OBAMAS TOTAL ABANDONMENT OF THE BORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Face it your boy Obama has invited the Cartels in, even giving them arms. HAPPY

AND.. prior to that it was total abandonment by Bush II who called those who wanted secure borders vigilantes and had no problem with prosecution of border patrol who did their jobs.

Prior to Bush II, it was Clinton and prior to Clinton it was Bush I who totally abandoned border security!

If you think Open borders, NWO, crony capitalist, illegal alien-philic, jihadi-philic Perry will improve the border I have a bridge to sell you.

[algernonpj]

Even during the Bush years he was for a mass registration program, temporary needs-based 2yr worker visas, deportation and ban of the criminals. No citizenship. No amnesty. ...

For comparison, Palin told O'Reilly in 2010 her solution was also registration and work visas.

Amnesty is the removal of the penalty for a crime. The penalty for being an illegal alien is deportation.

Both Bush II and Palin are for amnesty for the ~ 40 million illegal aliens in the US because it's 'humane' and 'compassionate'. Humane and compassionate for whom? Certainly not the citizens of the US! Certainly not for those whose jobs are taken nor for those whose salaries are suppressed nor for those whose taxes are raised as a consequence of flooding the country will illegals and 'guest workers'.

[algernonpj]

... Eisenhower also enforced a strict guest worker program, which is what they need to do today. ...

There is an agricultural guest workers program - H2B visa, but illegals are so much more convenient and compliant!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

There is an agricultural guest workers program - H2B visa

Agreed but these programs are not strictly enforced. Even when they enter legally many will work the job for a while then fan out across the country taking other jobs or joining their illegal alien families. The H-1b visa is another instance of where Americans are being scammed this way.

Current guest worker programs are a joke and why there's little support for additional ones.

[algernonpj]

'Re:There is an agricultural guest workers program - H2B visa'

Agreed but these programs are not strictly enforced. Even when they enter legally many will work the job for a while then fan out across the country taking other jobs or joining their illegal alien families. The H-1b visa is another instance of where Americans are being scammed this way.

Current guest worker programs are a joke and why there's little support for additional ones

1. My point was that the current H-2B is not used because illegals are still cheaper and more compliant.

2. Agree the guest worker programs are not enforced. ~40% of the ~40 million illegals are visa overstays. In IT and in other professional fields we compete with illegals!

3. While there may be no support from american workers for more guest workers or 'guest worker' programs, corporations are constantly shouting shortage of americans who won't/can't do xyz job. Here in NJ people are taking out loans to become nurses while hospitals are firing american nurses, shortage shouting, and hiring guest worker nurses at a fraction of the cost. New graduates can't get jobs because they lack experience!

With record unemployment/underemployment 125,000 new legal workers are brought into the US each month! That's 1.5 million per year and its down from its former peak because of the economy.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

My point was that the current H-2B is not used because illegals are still cheaper and more compliant.

There's no disputing the agricultural industry would much prefer the taxpayer-subsidized illegal alien labor. Even in the unlikely event one of these candidates actually secures the border and forces farmers to keep their workforce legal as Eisenhower did I have little confidence the government will enforce the requirements for them to stay legal.

Agree the guest worker programs are not enforced. ~40% of the ~40 million illegals are visa overstays. In IT and in other professional fields we compete with illegals!

Unless something like e-verify passes all of these "guests" can just drift around as easily as they are now finding better jobs and nothing much will change.

[algernonpj]

Agreed. I have come to the conclusion there must be an enormous amount of money involved in our wide open borders and flooding the country with illegals and guest workers!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

When reading up on what precipitated Eisenhower’s actions in the 1950s I was shocked to find the exact same open border interests that we see today were playing out then. But unlike now he had the will to deal with it head on.

[algernonpj]

Yup ... IIRC to bypass the corruption at the head of the border patrol, Eisenhower placed a friend from the military in charge of Operation Wetback.

Agents swept through the country, placed illegals on a boat and shipped them to southern Mexico. It didn’t take long for illegals to start self deporting )something we ought to encourage).

It both saddens and infuriates me that no one today will deal with it head on. Those who even mention it as a problem are called racists, xenophobes, and ridiculed by the MSM, and the elites of both parties.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

It both saddens and infuriates me that no one today will deal with it head on.

Same here, this should have been taken care of years ago.