Thread: Times: Battle Plan Puts Mexican Police on US Soil

Times: Battle Plan Puts Mexican Police on US Soil

Updated: Friday, 26 Aug 2011, 9:39 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 26 Aug 2011, 9:39 PM CDT
KRISTINE GALVAN Reporter

HOUSTON - Grisly images of a drug torn Mexico have emerged from that country for several years, but now a new report from the New York Times uncovers details on an operation that places Mexican police on American soil as they battle the drug traffickers.

According to the Times, the partnership between President Barack Obama’s administration and Mexico allows Mexican cops to use the US as a sort of command center.

They're landing and dispatching helicopters for drug raids and sharing information with our Drug Enforcement Agency.

Mark Jones is a political science professor at Rice University.

"At some point, they're going to be armed here in the United States before they leave for Mexico, and so that does raise a lot of questions about who is monitoring them," Jones said. "What are the conditions under which they're allowed to operate? When do they receive their arms, and when do they actually (get the arms) and by what means?"

According to the Times, authorities are not releasing too many details on the operation because of "legal and political sensitivities."

Don Clark, a former special agent in charge of the Houston FBI office, broke down the legal aspect.

"When I was an FBI agent, I could not put on my gun and go over the river into Mexico," he said. "The laws apply both for us going over and for anybody else from any other country coming into this country acting in a law enforcement capacity without the United States government being involved directly involved."

So if the DEA is involved, that would seem to make the operation legal, but what about the political part?

The report doesn't mention Texas, but if these international staging posts are in our state, did Rick Perry, our Republican governor and now candidate for president know about it?

We couldn’t ask Perry because he's on the campaign trail, but Jones says Perry probably didn't know.

"I doubt he knew or if he did, he's kept it under wraps," Jones said. "I think his opinion would be mixed. On one hand, he's strong on border security so the idea of attacking the cartels and working with Mexican police forces to combat the cartels is something he'd support. By the same token, I'm not sure he'd be all that happy about Mexican police forces operating on US soil."

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/lo ... z1WCWQfzz6

According to the Times, authorities are not releasing too many details on the operation because of "legal and political sensitivities."

You got that right. American police should not be in Mexico and Mexican police should not be in America trying to handle citizens of each nation.

W

Mexican police operating on U.S. soil? BRILLIANT!
What the hell? Bring em on up to Phoenix. They can visit all their relatives.
Have a little family reunion. Bring the drugs and we'll send them home with some Obama artillery. What could go wrong? Theres no crime or corruption in Mexico so if their bored send them north...Yeah Great Idea!
Man, we got to put a leash on this administration! NOW!

The NAU has gone into effect by memorandum.

Local news says they use Camp Pendleton Marine Base, north of San Diego.
They fly in and out on helicopters.
They do their training there.

U.S. allows Mexican police to stage cross-border raids

BY GINGER THOMPSON and MARK MAZZETTI • New York Times | Posted: Friday, August 26, 2011 12:05 am

WASHINGTON • President Barack Obama's administration has expanded its role in Mexico's fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to stage cross-border drug raids from inside the United States, according to senior administration and military officials.

Mexican commandos have discreetly traveled to the U.S., assembled at designated areas and dispatched helicopter missions back across the border aimed at suspected drug traffickers.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration provides logistical support on the U.S. side of the border, officials said, arranging staging areas and sharing intelligence that helps guide Mexico's decisions about targets and tactics.

Officials said these so-called boomerang operations were intended to evade the surveillance — and corrupting influences — of the criminal organizations that closely monitor the movements of security forces inside Mexico. And they said the efforts were meant to provide settings with tight security for U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officers to collaborate in their pursuit of criminals who operate on both sides of the border.

Former U.S. law enforcement officials who were once posted in Mexico described the boomerang operations as a new take on an old strategy that was briefly used in the late 1990s when the DEA helped Mexico crack down on the Tijuana Cartel by letting the specially vetted Mexican police to stage operations out of Camp Pendleton in San Diego.

Although the current operations remain rare, they are part of a broadening U.S. campaign aimed at blunting the power of Mexican cartels that have built criminal networks spanning the world and have started a wave of violence in Mexico that has left more than 35,000 people dead.

Still, the cooperation remains a source of political tension, especially in Mexico, where the political classes have been leery of the U.S. dating from the Mexican-American War of 1846.

But Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during a visit to Mexico this month strongly defended the partnership the two governments had developed.

"I'll simply repeat that there are clear limits to our role," Burns said. "Our role is not to conduct operations. It is not to engage in law enforcement activities. That is the role of the Mexican authorities. And that's the way it should be."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/a ... z1WFcJTCUk

The Mexican police are so corrupt they are more that likely to HELP the Cartels here. Obama must be a Cartel member!!!