CBS news, last night also did a piece on their activity in Atlanta, which seems to be their 'hub'. Most interesting is how these drug lords employ their pre teen children (often anchor babies) to carry out transactions.
So you all can stop worrying about Mexico's narco terrorism reaching us...IT IS HERE.
Exclusive: Mexican Drug Cartels in Atlanta
Atlanta's Hub of Highways Makes it a Crossroads for Drug Distribution
[snips] Four rival Mexican drug cartels have dug in along Atlanta's interlocking highways, a shipping link to the rest of America.
For Alcaraz, it's a family business. CBS News footage shows his 13-year-old son settling a drug debt with a woman.
Gilberto's house is low-key considering that Whipple says he earns $50,000 a week.
Whipple said, "They're going to drive the beat-up pickup, and they're going to try to look like they're running a landscaping business."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/eveningnews/main5407354.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea
This story also from other sources:
New York Times - Eric Beech - minutes ago; La Familia is a violent drug trafficking cartel based in the state of Michoacan, in southwestern Mexico, the Justice Department said. ...
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More than 1100 feds, LA police conduct gang sweep Houston Chronicle - 37 minutes ago; Thursday's operation also took place in the midst of a nationwide series of raids against a Mexico-based drug cartel. Over the past two days, more than 300 ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_4_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHU8pGlwR5yKzCq6kFKyttIqJqnRQ&cid=1456047145&ei=CpDgSqilC4HklQTwxJzNAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fdisp%2Fstory.mpl%2Fap%2Ftop%2Fall%2F6680686.html
I go into fast food restaurants here in the Bay Area and of course the staff is 100% Mexican.
No shock there. They always use ethnic intimidation to make sure that any non-Mexicans are driven out of "their" jobs.
But what is interesting is something new: the managers are now 50 something males, guys who definitely would not work in that job if there wasn't extra cash involved.
So I suspect that they are the slave caretakers: they are the guys that the workers are "sold" to by the alien smugglers. They are the enforcers, the guys who make sure the little people pay off their smuggling debts.
And yes, they are part of the Mafias - you can bet that the Jefe is someone's cousin, because it's all based on family networks - who else can they trust?
It's right out in the open for our "see no evil, hear no evil" police....but because they don't want to get called names like "racist" by the likes of La Raza, they do nothing.
And the Mafias run free in our country, in broad daylight.
You can arrest 300 Mexican gang bangers every single day in each and every city, and you haven’t even scratched the surface of the invasion.
This whole story when put in context of the actual problem is nothing but a sick joke to divert the people into thinking or keeping us from looking somewhere else today.
Oh, puleez don't make me laugh. That's 300 arrests per year. That's hardly a drop in the bucket. Of course there's no mention how many were actually convicted, are behind bars, or were given a one way ticket south. Much more to the point is how many were released and still on the streets.
Good thing Bush didn’t do this or this raid would have been labled ‘RACIST!!!!!!!’
After all, ‘La Familia’ means ‘the family’ in spanish. So Bush would have been continuing his policy of breaking up hispanic families in America through this racist, xenophobic policies.
Thank the Media Gods it is Obama doing this so we don’t have to apologize to the gangs.
Wait, does this mean that Eric Holder is now as big a racist as Joe Arpaio?? (they are doing the same thing - with the exception of the nationally televised press conferences...)
The following article was sent by NAFBPO...what they are talking about here is ‘ANCHOR BABIES’. This instant US citizenship HAS to stop!
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Border Patrol taking on cartels in battle for young minds
By Ray Gomez
http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/65094157.html
Story Created: Oct 20, 2009
Story Updated: Oct 21, 2009
Border Patrol agents in the Laredo sector are now taking a stand on juvenile crime.
They see drug smuggling cases almost everyday and say they are seeing an increase in juveniles being the smugglers.
Operation Detour is a nationwide initiative.
The public service campaign is targeted at the community’s youth from the ages of 14 to 18.
All this is in an effort to educate them about the dangers and consequences surrounding narcotics smuggling.
This program provides a real and true sense of the horrors and tragedies juveniles go through when they are involved with narco-terrorism.
So how dangerous is this lifestyle of becoming a smuggler for drug cartels?
According to Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies in Laredo, they have seen an increase in juveniles hired to transport drugs.
Our Noraida Negron tells us about a video Border Patrol is using to educate students in our community.
“They need to be given the reality of the consequences of those decisions that they are going to be faced with.”
Rusty Fleming has produced several documentaries on narco terrorism along the south Texas border including Laredo.
Now he’s teamed up with Border Patrol creating a documentary bringing awareness to the youth of our community.
“What’s really happening now with drug cartels is they are trying to indoctrinate these kids. They not trying to hire them. They are given a doctrinarian to a way of life.”
It’s a lifestyle that Border Patrol says is dangerous and has consequences.
“It’s a harsh reality but it’s something that’s really impacting our students throughout America and especially here along the southwest border,” Acting Border Patrol chief Rosendo Hinojosa told Pro 8 News.
The documentary has already been shown to students in Zapata.
The video, which is described as graphic, was shown to students from seventh grade to seniors.
“This is the first time that what they are doing is a little on the graphic side and it’s reality and we had the opportunity to show it in Zapata,” Zapata ISD Superintendent Romeo Rodriguez said.
Fleming, the creator of the documentary says he has researched juveniles as smugglers for years now, interviewing numerous kids from the ages of 13 to 21 talking about their initiations and how they were taught to operate.
“Some of them have been famous in Laredo in terms of being trained to be assassins. For five years I’ve been doing this.”
Meanwhile Fleming says kids are very aware of who is who in their world, saying they are facing these temptations to join a lifestyle that will lead them to death or jail.
“We can’t talk down to our kids. Just say no. This is your brain on drugs.”
Border Patrol is now in talks with United ISD and Laredo ISD to bring the documentary to their classrooms.
They want to spread the narco-terrorism awareness among students in the area
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr102209a2.pdf
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/oct09/coronado_102209.html
‘PROJECT CORONADO’
Major U.S. Takedown Against Mexican Drug Cartel
10/22/09
‘Project Coronado’ map shows locations of two-day operations in 19 states. See DEA Map (pdf)
On October 22, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder—with the heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—announced a massive multi-agency takedown targeting the U.S. distribution network of the exceedingly violent Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia.
Project Coronado seized more than 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine over 44 months. Above, a seizure of 126 kilos of crystal methamphetamine from earlier this year. More images at DEA.gov. Over the past two days, more than 300 individuals in the U.S. have been located and arrested by some 3,000 federal, state, and local law enforcement officials in Project Coronado, the largest U.S. enforcement action ever undertaken against a Mexican drug cartel. “While this group may operate from Mexico,” said Holder, “the toxic reach of its operations extends to nearly every state in the country.”
Since the initiative began 44 months ago, 1,186 people have been arrested and more than $32 million in U.S. currency has been seized, along with more than 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine, nearly 2,000 kilograms of cocaine, 16,000 pounds of marijuana, 29 pounds of heroin, and close to 400 weapons. Project Coronado, said Holder, “has dealt a significant blow to La Familia’s supply chain of illegal drugs, weapons, and cash flowing between the United States and Mexico.”
FBI Director Robert Mueller added: “This ongoing investigation is an example of intelligence-driven law enforcement. We often speak of intelligence in terms of terrorism, but intelligence is every bit as vital to disrupting criminal organizations like La Familia.”
La Familia, the newest and the most violent of the Mexican drug cartels, is responsible for most of the methamphetamine coming into the U.S. across the Southwest border, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Project Coronado was coordinated by the multi-agency Special Operations Division and attorneys from the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section.
From left to right: Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson.
According to Mueller, multi-agency investigations like Project Coronado are key to disrupting the operations of complex criminal organizations like La Familia. He said, “We have dealt a substantial blow to a group that has polluted our neighborhoods with illicit drugs and has terrorized Mexico with unimaginable violence.”
Resources:
- Press release