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    $700 million program aimed at stopping Mexico violence

    U.S. to Redirect Resources to Southern Border to Stop Spillover Violence From Mexico
    The White House is announcing a new $700 million program aimed at stopping Mexico violence from entering the U.S.

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    The Department of Homeland Security is doubling the number of law enforcement working along the Southwest border and could request border state governors to send National Guardsmen to help curtail spillover violence from Mexico.

    DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday the goal of increased U.S. efforts along the border is twofold: to provide assistance to Mexico to break up the large cartels conducting what is essentially a drug war in Mexico and to guard against an increase in violence against the U.S. as a result of this war.

    Mexico's drug violence has killed thousands in the past two years as gangs battle each other for territory and fight off a government crackdown.

    The goal is to help the government of Mexico break up "huge cartels which are funneling tonnage quantities of illegal drugs into our country on a regular basis and are conducting this war of violence in Mexico that has resulted into 6,000 homicides, over 550 of which were assassinations on law enforcement and public office personnel," Napolitano said

    The recent moves are part of a $700 million plan for securing the southern border with Mexico. The plan includes "redeploying" existing personnel from immigration enforcement, work site enforcement and possibly even customs enforcement to help prevent spillover violence.

    President Obama is concerned about the increased level of violence, particularly in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, and the impact that it is having on the communities on both sides of the border, U.S. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden.

    "He believes that the United States must continue to monitor the situation and guard against spillover into the United States. And the president is firmly committed to ensuring our borders are secure and we are doing all we can to reduce illegal flows in both direction across the border," Ogden said.

    Working with the Department of Justice, DHS has announced eight components to fighting back against violence along the border, including doubling DHS presence in certain areas along the border and beefing up the violent crimes unit from 50 to 100 agents; tripling intelligence analysts along the border, likely centered in El Paso, Texas; and increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel at the attache office in Mexico from 24 to 36 officials.

    DHS is also increasing its technology and south-bound rail screening to look for guns going from the U.S. to Mexico. DHS will also increase its outreach to state and local law enforcement and grant programs aimed at law enforcement.

    Violence associated with drug cartels in Mexico has become the chief national security issue for Mexico. On Tuesday, the Mexican government announced it is offering $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country.

    The list indicated that drug gangs have splintered into six main cartels under pressure from the U.S. and Mexico. The two most powerful gangsââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â‚¬ï¿½the Sinaloa and Gulf cartelsââ‚à ‚¬Ã¢â‚¬ï¿½each suffered fractures that have given rise to new cartels, according to the attorney general.

    The Justice Department is going to treat the Mexican cartels like they treated criminal organizations such as the Italian mob -- using certain laws to target them.

    The FBI is also creating a Southwest Intelligence Group to serve as a clearinghouse of all FBI activities involving Mexico and is increasing its focus on public corruption, kidnappings, and extortion relating to border issues. It is also recommitting itself to the Central American Fingerprint Exchange initiative, which was developed to collect, store and integrate biometric data from El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and the Mexican state of Chiapas as well as the Transnational Anti-Gang initiative, which coordinates the sharing of gang intelligence between the U.S. and El Salvador, where the gang MS-13 originated.

    The Drug Enforcement Administration will add 16 new agents to its 11 offices along the southwest border region, and the Justice Department will create four new "mobile enforcement teams" in Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix and El Paso.

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is creating 37 new positions for "Project Gunrunner" to keep guns from going to Mexico. ATF has helped bring in 1,500 defendants on charges involving 12,000 weapons.

    U.S. Marshals are going to Mexico to help authorities pick up and bring back cartel leaders to prosecute and the Justice Department is going to create a Southwest intelligence group located in El Paso to focus on public corruption and kidnapping.

    Treasury has also made targeting the financial networks of Mexican drug trafficking organizations a top priority and is collaborating with the Mexican government to analyze cross-border cash flows to try to distinguish legitimate activity from drug money laundering and other illicit transactions.

    FOX News' Mike Levine contribute to this report.
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    Why has the EIGHT Rail going into Mexico not been checked until now? What has our government and agencies been doing? Sitting on their hand, out to lunch, in the rest area, just taking a pay check and not doing nothing to secure our COUNTRY.
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    As I have said this government of, by and for illegal aliens, the Mexican government and the drug cartels has absolutely no intention of EVER securing the border as they feel cheap labor for their corporate, Chamber of Commerce, union and big labor masters is far more important than the lives of Americans which they are more than happy to sacrifice to archive their goals of a border less North American Union.
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    Obama to beef up Mexico border policy

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    * Story Highlights
    * President Obama's plan designed to help with Mexico's war against drug cartels
    * $700 million to help bolster Mexican law enforcement, crime prevention efforts
    * White House cites concern about violence on border, spillover into U.S.
    * More federal agents, equipment and resources to be moved to Mexican border


    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration announced a major increase in security funding and the deployment of U.S.-Mexico border agents Tuesday as part of a comprehensive new plan to beef up resources at the Mexican border.
    A police convoy moves in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last month, across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.

    A police convoy moves in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last month, across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.

    The plan commits $700 million to bolster Mexican law enforcement and crime prevention efforts. The funds will provide, among other things, five new helicopters to increase mobility for the Mexican army and air force as well as new surveillance aircraft for the Mexican navy.

    The initiative is designed to help with Mexico's accelerating war against violent drug cartels.

    The plan, developed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, calls for doubling the number of border security task force teams as well as moving a significant number of other federal agents, equipment and resources to the border.

    It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico, which helps fuel the drug trade, the officials said. Video Watch CNN's Michael Ware analyze U.S. efforts in Mexico's drug war »

    "The president is concerned by the increased level of violence, particularly in [the border cities of] Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, and the impact that it is having on the communities on both sides of the border," the White House press office said in a statement.

    "He believes that the United States must continue to monitor the situation and guard against spillover into the United States. [He] is firmly committed to ensuring our borders are secure, and we are doing all we can to reduce illegal flows in both directions across the border."
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    The plan also will fund enhanced communications technology for Mexican prosecutors, law enforcement and immigration officials.

    The funds, meant to assist what administration officials described as an "anti-smuggling effort," will complement ongoing U.S. aid to Mexico under the Merida initiative, a three-year $1.4 billion package aimed at helping Mexico fight the drug cartels with law enforcement training, military equipment and improved intelligence cooperation.

    The administration also is looking to increase intelligence cooperation on the border with Mexican authorities, tighten enforcement of existing U.S. executive orders to go after drug trafficking money and money laundering and step up investigation and prosecution of cartel-related activities in the United States, the officials said.

    To help strengthen the U.S. side of the border, the administration also plans to triple the number of Department of Homeland Security intelligence analysts dedicated to stopping Mexican-related violence. It also will increase the number of immigration officials working in Mexico, double the number of "Violent Criminal Alien" teams on the border, strengthen the presence of border canine units and quadruple the number of border liaison officers working with Mexican law enforcement.

    It also will make an additional $59 million in federal funds available to support state, local and tribal border law enforcement operations.

    At the same time, more agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives will be deployed to the border region. The agents will be given updated equipment and surveillance technology to help track the movement of cash, drugs and weapons.

    "We are discussing more things we can do to address the very real problem of currency and weapons moving into Mexico and at the same time trying to prevent potential border spillover," one senior administration official said.

    The plan is scheduled to be announced at the White House by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and U.S. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden.

    The announcement comes shortly ahead of a planned visit of three Cabinet secretaries to Mexico before President Obama visits there next month. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mexico City this week, to be followed next week by Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder.
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    Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been pushing back against U.S. criticism of drug cartel-related violence, which killed about 6,500 people in Mexico last year. In speeches and other recent comments, Calderon has said the United States also must take responsibility because much of the demand for drugs and most of the weapons used by narcotraffickers come from the United States.

    "Mexico believes we are not acknowledging the transitional nature of the problem and the role the U.S. is playing in this," another senior administration official said. "So we are looking at what U.S. law enforcement agencies can do to respond to the Mexican concerns."

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/ ... cnn_latest

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    Why has the EIGHT Rail going into Mexico not been checked until now? What has our government and agencies been doing? Sitting on their hand, out to lunch, in the rest area, just taking a pay check and not doing nothing to secure our COUNTRY.
    I have wondered the same thing? What are they doing? What are they checking? Coz so far, outside of making air travel a nightmare, citizens who disagree with the government being labeled terriorists....I honestly can't see what they are doing to protect US! Seems the only laws that apply are what they do to citizens and give everyone else a free pass.
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    "Mexico believes we are not acknowledging the transitional nature of the problem and the role the U.S. is playing in this," another senior administration official said. "So we are looking at what U.S. law enforcement agencies can do to respond to the Mexican concerns."
    Excuse me.....maybe our government is stupid as heck, but the people see. We also see what your illegal citizens are involved with but God forbid we stop, question, or even notice their activities. Please.....bust a citizen with a joint, but ignore drugs under 500 lbs. crossing the border because it's too much work or you're right there screaming how it's people just wanting to work. They aren't all tomatoe pickers comming over the border. They aren't all looking for carpenter jobs....many are setting up their turf to continue the cartel works here. Ya they have families, and ya they are working for their families, but some are also doing it by selling drugs, moving stolen vehicles, prostitution, ID theft and the list goes on. Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico......but please, don't notice that or do anything about it.
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