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Mexican border NOT secure; cartels threaten to kill U.S. law enforcement

Here’s a perfect storm. The Monitor reports a new law enforcement bulletin warns that Mexican drug cartels are plotting to kill U.S. federal agents and Texas Rangers patrolling the border.

Congressman Michael McCaul references this bulletin on his House web site:

“March 2011 – A Law Enforcement Bulletin warned that cartels were overheard plotting to kill ICE agents and Texas Rangers guarding the border using AK-47s by shooting at them from across the border.”

McCaul wants the cartels officially recognized as terrorist organizations.

The second, closely related problem is that the Government Accountability Office reports that only 129 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border is secure. This leaves 93.4% of the border open for cartel operatives to cross, commit murder, rape, and mayhem, and retreat to safe territory controlled by their organization. Once back in Mexico, they’re safe from prosecution, especially considering that the U.S. can’t find agents to work there, and relations have become strained since the Mexican government found out that our ATF helped thousands of guns to cross the border, resulting in about 150 Mexicans being murdered with those firearms.

This is not a drill.

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Posted at 9:20 pm on March 31st, 2011 by

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5 Comments, 5 Threads

  1. 1. Ceteris Paribus

    If the Mexican drug cartels do what they say then the response will be, in Progressive terminology, disproportionate!

    March 31, 2011 - 11:42 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. LL

    My guess is that we’ll have to wait until cartel people start to murder law enforcement families on our side of the border. But by then they drugs people will be well established that nothing will really prevent them from effective terror in the USA.

    I’d back down and perhaps co-operate if unstoppable assassins menaced my family.

    March 31, 2011 - 11:48 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Black Sabbath

    Well, we know the Democrats are thrilled to see America collapsing due to its open borders policies.
    So let’s see what the Republicans are doing about it…

    hmm…

    Yup! Just like I suspected!

    Nothing.

    April 1, 2011 - 3:15 am   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Westie

    After it subdues KaDaffy, maybe we can get NATO to protect our southern border?

    April 1, 2011 - 6:34 am   Link to this Comment
  5. 5. IcePilot

    Cross-border shooting with an AK-47?

    Against even a WWI bolt action, that’s a death wish…

    April 1, 2011 - 3:34 pm   Link to this Comment