Posted on 04/05/2018 5:39:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Looks like the Wall will have to be that much higher!
The cartels are just an unofficial part of the government like they are in Chicago. Looks like Trump may have to find a Pershing to lead the troops for punitive forays into Mexico.
Change the rules of engagement. Won’t need a wall, just a willingness to shoot to kill, to set up Claymores, etc. Probably won’t take long for the message to get across - perhaps less dead than with the current system.
Incredible.
“We even governed that country for a while.”
Is that why the country’s government is set up almost identical to the United States? Just asking.
NO! The last thing we want to do is declare war on Mexico because they will lose in no time (will probably just lay down their muskets and go home like many of the Iraqis did in Desert Storm). Then the US will be expected to do the same as we did in Japan and Germany and spend billions to turn a shit hole country into the next global economic success and then be expelled by Mexico with no so much as a thank you.
But, Mexico is our friend.
Trump’s response: NAFTA is cancelled.
Troops on the border threaten Mexico’s pride, which is what this posturing in the Mexican Senate is all about.
Mexico has been *helping* us with the drug cartels?
Who knew?
With the success we’ve seen, maybe them not helping would be a good thing.
And just how is this *intolerable* for the Mexican people?
That they can't foist their violent criminals off on us any more but rather have to keep them at home and deal with them themselves?
Cry me a river.....
WIKI——THE MERIADA INITIATIVE AKA Plan Mexico
The U.S. Congress has now authorized $1.6 USD billion for the three-year initiative (2007–2010). The U.S. Congress approved $465 million in the first year, which includes $400 million for Mexico and $65 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. For the second year, Congress approved $300 million for Mexico and $110 million for Central America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A FY09 supplemental appropriation is providing an additional $420 million for Mexico; and $450 million for Mexico and $100 million for Central America has been requested for FY10.[21]
Only about $204 million of that, however, will be earmarked for the Mexican military for the purchase of eight used transport helicopters and two small surveillance aircraft. No weapons are included in the plan.[22][23][24] The bill requires that $73.5 million of the $400 million for Mexico must be used for judicial reform, institution-building, human rights and rule-of-law issues. The bill specifies that 15% of the funds will be dependent on Mexico making headway in four areas relating to human-rights issues, and on which the U.S. Secretary of State will have to report periodically to Congress.[25][26]
An additional $65 million was granted for the Central American countries (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama); the House also included Haiti and the Dominican Republic in this bill for Central America, which is a comprehensive public security package that seeks to tackle citizen insecurity in Central America by more effectively addressing criminal gangs, improving information sharing between countries, modernizing and professionalizing the police forces, expanding maritime interdiction capabilities, and reforming the judicial sector in order to restore and strengthen citizens’ confidence in those institutions.[27]
Much of the funding will never leave the United States. It will go toward the purchase of aircraft, surveillance software, and other goods and services produced by U.S. private defense contractors. While this request includes equipment and training, it does not involve any cash transfers or money to be provided directly to the Government of Mexico or its private contractors. According to U.S. State Department officials, 59% of the proposed assistance will go to civil agencies responsible for law enforcement, and 41% to operational costs for the Mexican Army and Mexican Navy. While the initial cost for equipment and hardware that the military required is high, it is expected that future budget requests will focus increasingly on training and assistance to civil agencies.
As of November 2009, the U.S. has delivered about $214 million of the pledged $1.6 billion.[28]
With the Mérida Initiative set to expire on September 30, 2010, the U.S. State Department has proposed a major renewal and expansion of the program. If approved, starting in 2011, $310 million would be granted to Mexico, another $100 million for the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), and $79 million for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).[29]
It’s bigger Jim, with all due respect.
Mexico is not limited to drug cartels or simple illegal immigration, it is a path to invasion by any global force.
I`m sure the cartels are just pleased as punch to have the courrpt government officcials they are paying off put it in writing to the President of the United States that they are working with that very same USA to get them busted.
Yeah, that is really thinking it through...
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The Mouse that Roared, except that Mexico isn't as charming as the Duchy of Gran Fenwick.
>Mexico has been *helping* us with the drug cartels?
They must be helping. /s
After all we’ve given them $2.8 Billion in the last 10 years specifically for drug interdiction.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41349.pdf
exactly.
If we secure the border then the cartels are screwed too. Seems their government is maybe helping or turning a blind eye to the drugs there, either way screw Mexico since they have given, or done us nothing .
For what could be a new situation for our country....we have a hostile nation on our southern border...mehico.
My thought...Mexico’s helping?
“Despite everything that is at stake in the relationship between our two countries, the way in which the Mexican Senate has behaved is, for the American people, unacceptable and intolerable”
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