Thread: White House reveals anti-cartel plan for U.S. border

White House reveals anti-cartel plan for U.S. border

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it is sending more agents and equipment to the southwestern U.S. border to combat Mexican drug cartels.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden are at the White House announcing they are stepping up efforts to keep violence from spilling over the border into the United States.

Violent turf battles among cartels have wracked Mexico in recent years and led to a spate of kidnappings and home invasions in some U.S. cities.

Authorities say they will increase the number of immigration and customs agents, drug agents and antigun trafficking agents operating along the border.

Prosecutors say they will make a greater effort to go after those smuggling guns and drug profits from the United States into Mexico.

Officials said President Obama is particularly concerned about killings in Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana, Mexican cities just across the border from El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, Calif., and wants to prevent the violence from spilling over into the United States.

Among moves the government plans:

• Doubling border enforcement security teams that combine local, state, and federal officers.

• Adding 16 new Drug Enforcement Administration positions in the southwestern region. DEA currently has more than 1,000 agents working along the southwest border.

• Sending 100 more people form the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the border during the next 45 days. A recent bill passed by Congress already provided money for the ATF to hire 37 new agents and support staff in the region to fight gun trafficking.

The administration also is highlighting $700 million that Congress has approved to support Mexico's efforts to fight the cartels.
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Out bound inspections of all vehicles is a good idea
because we get to keep all of the money and guns that we find going south.
If Mexico finds the money and guns they get to keep them.

outbound inspections on all leaving
Inbound inspections on all entering the US as well

I'm underwhelmed.

Finish the Duncan Hunter double-layered fence, put the Nat'l Guard or even the Army on the southern border, withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, enforce interior immigration laws -- and then I'll believe they're serious and not just engaging in political CYA and talking points for an amnesty push.

100 people? No troops? Sending 100 agents while cutting off interior enforcement against employers which helps the cartels?

Enough is enough!

W

The present administration is more interested in products going south
not people or products coming north, my opinion.