Posted on 03/16/2011 6:46:13 PM PDT by neverdem
Mexican lawmakers have condemned the US 'Operation Fast and Furious,' which purportedly allows gun smuggling in order to track weapons to Mexican drug lords.
(Reuters)
Mexico City
Mexico has long complained that drug gangs are terrorizing cities with high-powered weapons smuggled from the United States. But Mexican lawmakers are now up in arms over the recent revelation that the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) purposefully allows some of these weapons to be smuggled south of the border so it can track them as part of "Operation Fast and Furious."
“[The operation] is a grave violation of international rights,” Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, president of Mexico's lower house of Congress, said Tuesday. “What will happen if next time they’ll need to funnel in trained assassins, for example, or nuclear arms?”
Fellow congressman Humberto Trevino claims that an estimated 150 shooting injuries or deaths have been linked to guns that were allowed by US agents to proceed into Mexico.
The legislators are calling for a joint US-Mexico working group to examine Operation Fast and Furious. Some also proposed sending a congressional delegation to Washington to press for more action against gun trafficking, which plays a crucial role in fueling a drug war that has killed 35,000 people here since December 2006.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday requested “detailed information”...
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1,200 guns on the loose?
According to the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, a public-interest investigative organization that has done extensive reporting on the case, only 10 percent of the 2,000 guns that Fast and Furious allowed to gunrunners to purchase were eventually recovered in Mexico. Close to 30 percent – or 600 guns – were recovered in the US. The remaining 1,200 guns have not been recovered and possibly remain in the hands of drug gangs...
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Dear Mexico:
I suggest that you build a very large wall all along your northern border. Keep the gabacho barbarians from sneaking into your wonderful paradise.
They’re right, it’s all just madness - so let’s seal off the border so all this illegal stuff will stop.
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) vowed to have Congress investigate the Obama Administration for sending illegal guns to Mexico!
This historic announcement was made during an evening March 16 interview on The Roger Hedgecock Show, wherein Issa credited Hedgecock as being the impetus for his decision to investigate Eric Holder and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) for their scandalous and deadly Operation Gun Walker sting-gone-South.
During Hedgecock’s interview, Darrell Issa said the House Oversight Committee has dispatched four investigators to look into Operation Gun Walker at the BATFE.
The announcement comes at 1:35 into the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBbt6yxvFE
Yep. They have figured it out.
It was NOT to “prove” that guns in Mexico come from the u.S.
It would NOT have given cause to expand ATF.
It would NOT have led to a push for registration of all firearms.
It would NOT have lead to a new and more onerous “common sense” gun restriction laws.
No sir.
It was never about that.
No way.
It was about the Mexican “drug lords” and a “river of iron.”
Yeah.
What is scary is that there are folks out there that actually believe such crap. It boggles the mind. They can hold down a job, find their way home every day, are right next to me on the freeway at 70mph.
And they soak up the communist bull$hit like sponges.
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LoL The Mexicans really don’t like us, that’s news lol.
Thanks for the link.
“Dear Mexico:
I suggest that you build a very large wall all along your northern border. Keep the gabacho barbarians from sneaking into your wonderful paradise.”
PS: The people your trying to disarm are the same people who will not follow your gun laws.
THE FACTS ARE THESE : Mexico is calculatedly staging the "war on drugs" ------- with a hidden agenda------to wage war against the United States USING OUR TAX DOLLARS. Mexico has infiltrated the US political system, from domestic to foreign policy, AND US L/E, using deceit and guile. The mexican govt is sending millions of Reconquista shock troops over the border (illegal aliens) cueing them in WRT taking the US system.
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Mexico is extorting US tax dollars to support Marxist/terrorist movement via the Merida Initiative----which is Mexico's sub rosa plan to arm its police and military using US tax dollars, in order to safeguard the safety of terrorists and drug cartels across the border into the US.
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Clearly, the Mexican govt is fomenting drug violence in order to: (1) get billions of dollars in US assistance, and, (2) to help their populations flee over the border claiming they are victims of violence and need "asylum." Asylum claims gets illegals thousands of dollars in SS funds.
Mexican Federales are getting rich using some familiar strategies:
(1) plotting to become a ward of the US;
(2) faking victimization;
(3) secretly revving up internal conflicts;
(4) play-acting the ignoramus;
(5) claiming they can't "control" their enemies without US money;
(6) organizing voting blocs----exchanging votes for US cash.
REFERENCE There are documented instances where drug cartel savages infiltrated US law enforcement agencies......they were hired, then fired, and arrested. The US does not yet know how broad the problem is.....but the Mexican govt knows.
I mean, the Demi-Commies want this for the US of A so it’ll be a paradise just like Gun-free Mexico so why doesn’t that wonderful idea work down there?
/Industrial grade sacrasm.
Looks better than Detroit...
You’d think a country “smuggling” weapons into another country would be an act of war or something....
It is.
OK its fixed...
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