Mexico: Insurgency or “Just” a Drug War? Either Way, We Don’t Want It Here
The veracity or otherwise of Hillary Clinton’s “insurgency in Mexico” comments is irrelevant: the reality is that Mexican lawlessness is coming to America with the Mexicans and has to be stopped.
The reality is that Mexico is gripped by drug-fueled conflict of epic proportion which is steadily finding its way north of the border. That is what lawmakers should be concentrating on, not academic debates over whether or not the criminal violence has political motivation.
The intensity of the Mexican drug war is illustrated by the fact that more than 28,000 people have been murdered in drug-related violence since 2006.
Mayors, policemen and civilians have been massacred in the ongoing violence which is also directly linked to the illegal immigrant smuggling operations around the U.S.–Mexico border.
The latest incident in this ongoing war which affects American interests took place over the past weekend, when border patrol agents were fired upon while seizing a drug shipment, according to a press statement from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP ) agency.
According to a CBP spokesman, the attack took place on September 11 around 7:40 a.m. near Mission, Texas. Several border patrol agents returned fire after being shot at several times from the Mexican side.
For more than two years, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have been warning that the dramatic rise in violence along the southwestern border could eventually target U.S. citizens.
According to reports, the “violence posed what the officials called a ‘serious threat’ to law enforcement officers, first responders, and residents along the 1,951-mile border.”
State Department figures have revealed that 79 U.S. citizens were killed last year in Mexico, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007.
In 2009, the Justice Department issued a list which contained about 200 U.S. cities in which Mexican drug cartels “maintain drug distribution networks or supply drugs to distributors” — up from 100 three years earlier.
The department’s National Drug Intelligence Center described the cartels as “the single greatest drug trafficking threat to the United States.” It said Mexican gangs had established operations in every area of the United States and were expanding into more rural and suburban areas.
The report noted that adding to the violence were assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers assigned to posts along the southwestern border. It said assaults against border patrol agents increased 46 percent from 752 incidents in 2007 to 1,097 incidents in 2008.
So Ms. Clinton’s comments are irrelevant: The bottom line is that America does not want to become like Mexico, and the only way to prevent that is to stop Mexico from coming to America.
Category: Establishment News
I would support a buffer zone of say 10 miles heavily patrolled by helicopter gunships, and if necessary even the laying of land mines.
I asked before, but apparently it has to be asked again, what will it take to get Americans to wake up?
We are being invaded. Our citizenry is under physical attack. We are at war with Mexico for lack of a better description.
So many people refuse to see it. How much longer can they hold on the lie that the Mexicans are here for a better life and that Americans are just bigots trying to deny them this life?
Sick.
The violence we see on our southern border and in Mexico at large is a direct result of the gene-pool of the population that resides there. If we don't won't the United States to become more and more like Mexico, we must secure our borders and encourage those here to leave.
It's just that simple!
Illegal Immigration is WAR. It needs to be treated as such. Just as in the early 20th century under General Pershing, the army needs to be sent to settle this problem and proper border protection constructed (see above posting by Robert jones). The US is under ATTACK and the traitor politicians are supporting the enemy.
try to go to mexico illegally and get a job…no way,,their laws are very strict ,and they hate to see agringo make a peso…plus they are not that poor…