Thread: US to announce Mexican border deployment

US to announce Mexican border deployment

Sun Mar 22, 3:49 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US is expected this week to announce plans to dispatch more federal agents to its border with Mexico in a bid to combat drug cartel operations there, US officials said.

Washington appears poised to bolster its customs and border protection forces along the 3000-plus kilometer (2000 mile) frontier, in what would be President Barack Obama's first major domestic security initiative.

The announcement is expected to come "in the next few days" a Department of Homeland Security official told AFP ahead of the announcement.

The impending plan comes as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prepares to visit to Mexico on Wednesday.

Her trip is to be followed next week by a visit from US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Those high-profile visits will set the stage for a summit in Mexico between Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on April 16 and 17.

Mounting drug violence has claimed thousands of lives in northern Mexico and has emerged as a fully-fledged national security threat for the United States.

Obama said earlier this month that the government was considering deploying the National Guard to the border to prevent spillover from the bloody drug wars.

The governor of the border state of Texas, Rick Perry, last month asked the president to deploy 1,000 soldiers as a precaution.

In Mexico more than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in suspected drug attacks, amid the Mexican government's crackdown on warring cartels.

Last year saw more than 5,300 killed in drug related violence.

The violence flared after Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels nearly two years ago, prompting armed resistance from the country's drug barons and setting off a turf warfare between rival gangs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090322/pl ... 0322195127

We have 37,000 troops in South Korea guarding their border. Bring at least half of them home to secure our border and stop the invasion of our country by Mexican drug gangs and MILLIONS of other illegal aliens.

I hope whoever they send will be armed to show we mean business.

...followed by a HUGE amnesty push in the summer...

No to amnesty, deport all undocumented immigrants, how can we trust our government and police to work for our safety and security.

What you will see is additional ICE/DEA/ATF on the border but in my opinion they will focus on American citizens in the area and moving south to give Mexico the impression we are making an effort to stop "all those guns" going south, it will be another SNAFU.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

We have 37,000 troops in South Korea guarding their border. Bring at least half of them home to secure our border and stop the invasion of our country by Mexican drug gangs and MILLIONS of other illegal aliens.

Amen to that!! How many do we have in Germany, Japan, and other places they aren't needed? Not to mention Iraq. The USA is not supposed to be an empire!! Bring them home and secure our border with the narco-terrorist failed state to our south!!