Posted on 12/08/2011 7:44:45 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Mexican organized crime cartels' smuggling of drugs and the illegal entry of “Special Interest Aliens” (SIAs) who may pose a threat to national security into the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in Texas has risen so quickly that US Border Patrol and law enforcement officials now refer to the "Valley" as “the new Arizona," Homeland Security Today has learned.
While drug and human smuggling in Arizona continues at a brisk pace, the “Valley" has become “ground zero” on the southern border for narco-trafficking and the illegal smuggling of citizens from countries other than Mexico, officially referred to by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as “Other Than Mexicans” (OTMs), according to numerous authorities interviewed by Homeland Security Today.
But more disturbing, throughout the Rio Grande Valley there’s been a parallel rise in violent gunfights and assaults on federal, state and local law enforcement.
“And it’ll probably get a whole lot worse before it gets better,” a federal official familiar with the situation in the RGV said.
"I've been working along the border for 14 years and in those 14 years I've seen the level of aggression increase exponentially,” Capt. Stacy Holland of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Aircraft Section recently told NBC's Nightly News. “We have video of them carrying AK-47's and side arms during [their drug smuggling] operations and they are not afraid to use them.”
DPS pilots told NBC Nightly News they are convinced traffickers are much more likely now than they were a few years ago to confront US law enforcement officials.
During the last several years, Border Patrol, CBP, other federal, state and local law enforcement officials all along the southern border have expressed their concern that it was only a matter of time before Mexico's crime cartels began to violently confront US police authorities.
(Excerpt) Read more at hstoday.us ...
Not to mention kidnappings and disappearances.
But the administration shill, Janet Napolitano tells us the Border has never been more secure and violence is not slopping over to the US from Mexico...so it must be so.
In Big Sis/Bank of Amigo land, “Special Interest Aliens” are ones that pay no closing costs on mortgage loans.
The Texas/Mexico border, at least in the Rio Grande Valley, “is not secure,” ........”It’s becoming a battleground!” ***
If border patrolmen Bill Jordan and Charlie Askins Jr were alive today they would be in HOG HEAVEN!!
Valle ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Form a line and shoot anything that crosses it for a while and that should clear it out IMO.
Militiary should be doing that instead of just the locals getting shot at.
Down in Piedras Negras you gotta watch yourself
There's a whole lotta hungry people lookin to share some wealth
And when the oilfield's busted and the peso takes a dive
Stay off the side streets if you wanna come back alive
Yo no busca nada I'm just standin here
Mindin my own business, gonna get back outta here
Back to the safe side
Back to the safe side
And at the base of the barstool there's a drain in the floor
You better not go in there, if you don't know what that's for
It's no place to take your lady, she'll get the evil eye
Sizin up their prospects, sharpin up their knives
No me gusta nada, yo no queiro ver
Once I get across this river, never gonna go back there
Stayin on the safe side
Stayin on the safe side
Yo no fuma mota yo no quiero ver
Once I getacross this river, never gonna go back there
Up in San Antonio all the pretty people know
They better stay off of the west side where the black tar flows
They hide in their sheltered enclaves up around Olmos Park
They got their own policeman so they can stay out way past dark
Back down in Piedras Negras, the children play with dirt
We keep our pistols loaded so we don't get hurt
No importa a nadie, it's always been that way
Never gonna get no different, long as we got our say
Stay on the safe side
Stay on the safe side
No me gusta nada, it's always been that way
Never gonna get no different long as we got our way
Stay on the safe side
Stay on the safe side
Stay on the safe side
Stay on the safe side
Since the current junta will not defend the border & will prosecute Border patrol officer who in fact try to do so it might be time to resurrect the old Range Detectives to protect the property of folks along the border.
The Range Detective would be private armed guards employed by rancher/cattleman’s associations equipped with rifles & pistols,night vision/FLIR ,4 wheel drive vehicles , first class radio communications that will work with the local officials/LEO’s .
In doing so they side step the corrupt Federal types who refuse to enforce the border & immigration laws by acting as agents of the land owner defending their employers interests from rustlers cattle thieves saboteurs /vandals, drug smugglers etc...
Thanks for the post. Brought back some memories of my younger days when I’d go down those side streets looking for...whatever.
Viva El Moderno! Viva Piedras Negras!
Lies! All lies! Big Sis told us the border was as safe as always and promised the violence wouldn’t cross it.
I wonder how many of those are 'Eric Holder Specials'?
But not the lethal, addictive drug alcohol - because we wisely relegalized and regulated that once-illegal drug, thus ceasing to channel prohibition-inflated alcohol profits into criminal hands. Why don't we pursue the same wise policy with respect to other drugs?
For years, during prohibition, a combination of the churches and the bootleggers kept prohibition alive. Each got what they wanted. The preachers got increased tithing because of their Godly stands and the bootleggers and politicians profited greatly. The politicians pleased everyone by preaching against alcohol while refusing to enforce the laws they passed for kick backs from the bootleggers.
Burke resigned on August 30, four months after a 14-count indictment was obtained against the assailants who ambushed and killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s BORTAC team outside Nogales with assault rifles that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Fast and Furious” gun smuggling operation had allowed to be smuggled into Mexico, the investigation of which is on-going. Burke’s office was involved in oversight of the operation.
More recently, federal court records filed in the case of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel who was extradited from Mexico to the US in February 2010 to face narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges. He “and other cartel leaders engaged in acts of violence to further their narcotics trafficking activities and threatened to do so in retaliation for the Mexican and American governments’ enforcement of their narcotics laws,” US federal prosecutors said.
According to the indictment of Zambada-Niebla and fellow cartel leaders, they “sought to obtain weapons from the United States and discussed the use of violence against American and/or Mexican government buildings.”
Similarly, intelligence indicated that Los Zetas leaders had planned to attack the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo – an assault that was able to be thwarted by authorities.
It is eleven months before the election. If it looks like Obama and the Democrats are going to take a shellacking I expect civil uprisings, military involvement to stop it, and cancelled elections. In addition, Napolitano has already declared that us patriot conservative and Tea Party Movement citizens are terrorists. Ron Paul recently said the the definitions of al Qaeda and Talliban have been changed so that anyone could be declared terrorists.
These Occupy such-and-such efforts are just probing tactics but they will continue. Next will be racial tension agitated by the regular suspects, and then these OTMs as well as Mexican Atzalan types will play a big part. That is why this administration is arming them.
I don't know that there is a good way to prepare for this folks. Survival tactics won't work against such a concerted effort but we know most of the military won't turn on their own either but some will for our military has been infiltrated, legally, by Muslims and illegal Mexicans and OTMs. Military service is supposedly their path to citizenship but I see it as a ploy to get them in and give them military and terrorist training.
Civil war will be the result and the other side will have most of the big weapons. Us old guys may have to man the points and take the first shots
For years, during prohibition, a combination of the churches and the bootleggers kept prohibition alive. Each got what they wanted. The preachers got increased tithing because of their Godly stands and the bootleggers and politicians profited greatly. The politicians pleased everyone by preaching against alcohol while refusing to enforce the laws they passed for kick backs from the bootleggers.
Burke resigned on August 30, four months after a 14-count indictment was obtained against the assailants who ambushed and killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s BORTAC team outside Nogales with assault rifles that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “Fast and Furious” gun smuggling operation had allowed to be smuggled into Mexico, the investigation of which is on-going. Burke’s office was involved in oversight of the operation.
More recently, federal court records filed in the case of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel who was extradited from Mexico to the US in February 2010 to face narcotics trafficking conspiracy charges. He “and other cartel leaders engaged in acts of violence to further their narcotics trafficking activities and threatened to do so in retaliation for the Mexican and American governments’ enforcement of their narcotics laws,” US federal prosecutors said.
According to the indictment of Zambada-Niebla and fellow cartel leaders, they “sought to obtain weapons from the United States and discussed the use of violence against American and/or Mexican government buildings.”
Similarly, intelligence indicated that Los Zetas leaders had planned to attack the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo – an assault that was able to be thwarted by authorities.
It is eleven months before the election. If it looks like Obama and the Democrats are going to take a shellacking I expect civil uprisings, military involvement to stop it, and cancelled elections. In addition, Napolitano has already declared that us patriot conservative and Tea Party Movement citizens are terrorists. Ron Paul recently said the the definitions of al Qaeda and Talliban have been changed so that anyone could be declared terrorists.
These Occupy such-and-such efforts are just probing tactics but they will continue. Next will be racial tension agitated by the regular suspects, and then these OTMs as well as Mexican Atzalan types will play a big part. That is why this administration is arming them.
I don't know that there is a good way to prepare for this folks. Survival tactics won't work against such a concerted effort but we know most of the military won't turn on their own either but some will for our military has been infiltrated, legally, by Muslims and illegal Mexicans and OTMs. Military service is supposedly their path to citizenship but I see it as a ploy to get them in and give them military and terrorist training.
Civil war will be the result and the other side will have most of the big weapons. Us old guys may have to man the points and take the first shots
Dang, sure is going to mess up my next weekend trip. Couple Buds and me are going down to travel the ol Military Highway to visit a couple of museums and markers. One bud is retireing 3rd generation King Ranch and has never driven it.
Sure hope these guys do not make our weekend. /s
They could be anywhere.
How far north are you going?
Placemark
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