Thread: As Violence Grows Along Border, Congress Debates Funding for

As Violence Grows Along Border, Congress Debates Funding for Fighting Mexican Drug Cartels

David Francis | 07 Mar 2008

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Originally Posted by David Francis

According to police in Phoenix, there were more than 350 kidnappings last year, compared to none a decade ago. In El Paso, the number of attacks on the border went up by 150 percent last year, Romero said. At the same time, attacks against border patrol agents increased 108 percent from 2004 to 2005, according to U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar. Romero attributed these jumps to more criminals being involved in the smuggling trade.

It's comforting to know that the coyote making $20,000 for a night's work
herding a van-load of illegal aliens around the checkpoints and through the woods

wasn't a criminal until now!

Originally Posted by David Francis

Rubén GarcÃ*a, director of Annunciation House, a shelter for undocumented immigrants in El Paso, said Washington and the public in general does not have a true idea of just how violent and dangerous the border has become. Throwing more money at the problem simply does not work, he said.

Hear! Hear! Some one give this man a bull horn and a White House pass!

Persuading Mexican / Salvadoran / Colombian gangs to stop smuggling cocaine, meth, and heroin
is not like paying honorable men in the U.S. to suspend planting tobacco or cotton.

The criminalization seen throughout the Southwest is not entirely caused by drug cartels and smugglers--government, military and police corruption runs wild. Calderon had some police forces disarmed by the military. Bands--dressed as police and military personnel, using military and police-like vehicles--roam the countryside and rob/rape/kidnap tourists and others.

The aid would be used to beef up Mexican law enforcement capabilities by providing funds for surveillance helicopters and airplanes, among other things. It would also be used to improve security along Mexico's border.

Improve security along Mexico's SOUTHERN NOT NORTHERN border--plans include a border fence built on Mexico's southern border.

The $1.4 Merida Initiative is the one Calderon DEMANDED no conditions attached to the money.

Mexico makes no attempt to stop illegal immigration into the U.S. nor co-operates in any manner. Buildings next to our border fence are left in place to shield smugglers and tunnel digging without Mexican intervention.

Mexican border agents on the U.S.-Mexican border are unarmed and without radios. They supply maps, survival booklets, water, food and clothing to illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. and first aid. They do nothing to assist our border agents even when they are attacked.

Aid to Mexico will simply enrich corrupt officials. Mexico is a semi-democracy.

Check-points are manned by Mexican military personnel.

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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