[InvisibleChurch]

This month, "we made an arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was in a stolen pickup truck with 800 pounds of marijuana," he said. "So they do recruit our kids."

McCraw says the state of Texas is joining a program initiated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection called "Operation Detour," in which law enforcement officers meet with children and their parents in schools and at community centers to warn them about the dangers of what appears to be the easy money the Mexican drug gangs offer.

Law enforcement officers say children are less likely to be suspects than adults, are easily manipulated by relatively small sums of money, and face less severe penalties than adults if arrested.

Last month, Texas officials released a report indicating Mexico-based drug gangs are intent on creating a "sanitary zone" on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, and are "intimidating landowners" in south Texas into allowing them to use their property as "permanent bases" for drug smuggling activity.

[InvisibleChurch]

these people sicken me

[OrioleFan]

Interesting. That’s what the socialists and progressives think of the OWS useful idiots.

[Ingtar]

At least they won’t have HPV... wait...

[Army Air Corps]

B-b-b-b-but Incompetano declared the border to be safer than ever before in the history of the Universe!

[freekitty]

Why are they surprised. Most of the Mexican kids are on this side of the border.

[MestaMachine]

WAR AT THE BORDER-MORE THAN A TEXAS PROBLEM

ALIPAC

JUST DO IT!

[detective]

“six Mexican drug gangs — including the violent Zetas”

The Mexican drugs gangs are given weapons by the Obama Administration. The Obama Administration works to prevent law enforcement from arresting Mexicans illegally in the United States. In addition to narcotics dealing these gangs are involved in auto theft, prostitution, identity fraud and other crimes. They are making enormous profits and are armed and protected by the Obama Administration.

[wizardoz]

We are NOT winning this drug war, ever. We might as well legalize, grow it ourselves, undercut the Zetas price-wise, and hope we can just bankrupt them.

[Tammy8]

Everyone needs to warn their kids about this, the bad guys sucker these kids in by paying them a lot of money to do little errands, like pick up burgers for them at a fast food place on their lunch hour and drop them off somewhere for them- pay them $50 to a $100 or so to do it. Then after a time of doing these “innocent” errands for big bucks they are suckered into the bad stuff without knowing what is going on. I was present when a 14 year old was arrested with drugs in a vehicle and he was not a hardened gang type kid at all, it was very sad. They started suckering the kids in when their regulars were getting killed or quit due to the cartel war.

[napscoordinator]

The Texas Border has definitely gotten worse under Perry's watch. He does a dismal job as governor. I bet if they were illegal aliens he would be all over this. Why doesn't he do something. His predecessors never had this. He is just awful. I am so glad that I don't live in Texas. What a complete embarrassment.

[Clintonfatigued]

If the drug cartels ever team up with Islamic terror groups, we’re in big trouble.

[Salvavida]

Perry nor the federal goverment have the answer. If we were to look into our past, we already had the answer. Commitees of Safety and militia. Nothing in more American than you and your neighbors loading up and hunting down druggies and gangs. And killing them legally.

http://committeesofsafety.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Safety_(American_Revolution)

[GOPJ]

...drug gangs have a chilling name for the young Texans lured into their operations. "They call them 'the expendables,'" he said.

The Expendables - sounds like a great anti-drug gang movie title. Too bad Hollywood would be on the side of the killers....