Thread: MEXICAN PRESIDENT WANTS THE U.S. TO DO MORE!!!!

We Secure our National Borders and Enforce our Immigration Laws and stop sending your Citizens to the United States as ILLEGALS and we will be on the way to ending "YOUR" drug problem!!!

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May 29, 2008, 7:55PM
Mexican president says US must help more with drug war


By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Foreign Service

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MEXICO CITY — The United States needs to do more to help Mexico battle narcotics gangs, since Mexican police are dying in a war fueled largely by U.S. drug consumption, Mexico's president said Thursday.

"The drug-trafficking problem, that has been and continues to be the principle cause of border violence, comes down to one undeniable fact: the American narcotics market is the biggest in the world,'' President Felipe Calderon told a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors in Mexico City.

Gangland violence has killed some 4,000 Mexicans since Calderon unleashed his anti-narcotics offensive in January 2007. While many of the victims are suspected members of the drug cartels, an increasing number are soldiers and federal police, who are on the frontlines of the drug war.

On Monday, seven federal police officers were mowed down in the violence-torn city of Culiacan by narcotics gangs armed with grenades and AK-47 assault rifles.

"While Mexican police die fighting this battle every day, the majority of the consumers are Americans,''' Calderon said.

The U.S. Senate last week approved $350 million in anti-narcotics aid to Mexico under the provisions of the Merida Initiative, a multi-year, $1.4 billion program advocated by President Bush for Mexico and Central America. However the bill conditions that aid on Mexico reigning in human rights abuses by soldiers.

Calderon complained about the strings attached to the funds in Thursday's meeting, said Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He said he explained to Calderon that the bill was a federal matter. But he proposed that he and the governors of New Mexico, Arizona and California work harder to fight domestic drug consumption at the state level.

Perry said he also offered to lobby the federal government to crack down on arms smuggling into Mexico.

Mexican officials accuse Washington of turning a blind eye to the flood of illegal weapons flowing south into Mexico and into the arms of the drug gangs.

Perry said he was following the debate on the Merida Initiative in Washington. But, he said, "I'm more concerned about the results of getting an agreement where we can collaborate and fight these drug dealers and win this war that would poison our kids.''

He said the governors also discussed with their Mexican counterparts the growing reliance in the U.S. on grain-based ethanol, which is pushing up food prices in Mexico, while hitting Texas farmers. He is lobbying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to slash by 50 percent the amount of grain-based ethanol used in gasoline.

We need Duncan Hunter's double-layered fence stretched across the entire border!

Someone needs to stick an apple in Calderon's big fat mouth! The best way to get rid of the consumer is to reduce the available product. Once the product quantity is reduced, the cost will become too high to be affordable for the average consumer.

The United States may be the easy market for Mexican drugs but it's certainly not the only market. Furthermore, I'm suggesting that it would be impossible to reduce illicit drug consumption in the U.S. without first reducing product. Yes, the only logical way (IMO) to reduce consumption is to make the product unaffordable to the average user, and that is done by reducing product quantity.

Be it right or wrong, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Yep, the full double-layered fence... YESTERDAY!

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Mexican president says US must help more with drug war

Hahahaha, what? Oh... He's serious????

Please explain the photo of Harrison Ford because I'm missing the point. Thanks, TheFomorian.

Originally Posted by MW

Please explain the photo of Harrison Ford because I'm missing the point. Thanks, TheFomorian.

LOL

This is from the movie, "Air Force One". Harrison Ford is trying to take back the plane from hijackers. I juxtaposed this scene with Americans trying to "take back" our country against "illegal alien hijackers".

The movie is pretty good. As you can see from his facial expression, he's disgusted that the hijackers have the temerity to take over Air Force One.

BTW, how's you summer going? I love the weather this time of year!

TheFomorian wrote:

This is from the movie, "Air Force One". Harrison Ford is trying to take back the plane from hijackers. I juxtaposed this scene with Americans trying to "take back" our country against "illegal alien hijackers".

The movie is pretty good. As you can see from his facial expression, he's disgusted that the hijackers have the temerity to take over Air Force One.

BTW, how's you summer going? I love the weather this time of year!

Thanks for the explanation - makes sense now.

My summer is going great. Thanks for asking.

They want some money to finance the fight with the cartel? I think that is a bunch of dog wagging so they can free up money for something else.

Mexico, seize the assets, you know where they are and who they are. Your drug lords are driving the Cadilacs and Hummers all over Mexico just go deal with them.

Dixie