13 Mexican Troops Charged With Transporting Drugs

13? Those are the sacrificial lambs. They will take the heat off of the rest for now. If the truth be told the number should probably be 1,300 or even more. The drug lords have free reign in most of mexico, because they have purchased it from the government, the police and the military.

It's a smart move to sacrifice a few thugs once in a while. It gives the appearance that something is being done. When in reality, the corrpution continues...

Associated Press

The Mexican army has ordered three junior officers and 10 soldiers to stand trial on drug trafficking and organized crime charges.

Officials say they were caught with more than a ton of methamphetamines and 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of cocaine last week at a military checkpoint south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.

The Defense Department said late Thursday it will not tolerate such acts.

The troops are charged within the military justice system.

Corruption is widespread among Mexican police. Some experts worry it could spread to the tens of thousands of soldiers assigned to fight drug traffickers across the country.

Mexico’s President: ‘Anti-American Feeling in Mexico Is Growing’ Because of Public’s ‘Perception’ About Illegal Immigrants

This headline should have read "Anti-mexican Feeling in United States Is Growing’ Because of Public’s ‘Perception’ About Illegal Immigrants". Change just a couple of words and it has a brand new meaning. Why does mexico and calderon encourage mexican citizens to come here illegally? I can tell you, because it is a hell of a lot easier to prop up an economy with money from outside of the failing country instead of actually doing something about it. Illegals come here, make money, send it back to mexico and the mexican economy thirves. Money from the United States and drug money make up the lions share of the mexican economy.

mexico has huge natural resource reserves, timber, oil, natural gas, coal, gold. But they rely on criminal activity to keep their economy afloat. Can you imagine the wealth the country could enjoy under the proper leadership? calderon is just another in a long string of corrupt politicians using mexico for their own personal gain...

By Edwin Mora - CNSNews

mexican president felipe calderon, during his visit to Washington, D.C., this week, indicated that “anti-American” sentiment is growing in Mexico because of how the people there view Americans’ perception of illegal immigration.

Prior to going forward with immigration reform in the United States, “We need to change the general perception inside the public opinion in America and the public opinion in Mexico,” said calderon.

“My most serious concern is that bad feelings are growing on both sides of the border,” he added. “The anti-American feeling in Mexico is growing again.”

Meanwhile, he said, “the anti-Mexican or anti-Hispanic, or Latino, or immigrant feelings are growing here [in the United States].”

“What we need to do is remember each other – that we are neighbors, we are nice, and we are human persons,” said calderon. “We contribute to each other’s prosperity.”

Unless the public’s perception about immigration, in both countries, changes, “it will be impossible to persuade” people to implement immigration reform, said calderon.

The Mexican president’s comments were in response to a George Washington University student asking him to comment on what he thought was the “best solution” to deal with illegal immigrants in America. An estimated 13 million illegals are in the United States, many of them from Mexico.

calderon was questioned during a public forum sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

In answering the student, calderon said the DREAM Act, which he referred to as “tough comprehensive immigration reform” would have been a good step in the right direction of dealing with illegal immigration in the U.S.

The DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act, which failed to pass during the lame-duck session of Congress in 2010, would have allowed young illegal immigrants who have been in the states for at least five years to acquire legal status if they pass background checks, attend college or serve in the military for at least two years.

Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico

Finally, a lame stream media outlet gives this story some coverage. This is a big deal and it shows the utter incompetence of the atf. They are basically supplying guns to the drug cartels and have been for quite a while. At the same time, they are using the guns they supply to pad the numbers and make the problem of American guns in mexico seem worse than it really is. It really seems like the guns supplied by the atf are the majority of what makes it south of the border...

By Sharyl Attkisson - CBSNews

WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief.

He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico?

"Yes ma'am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was."

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.

Dodson's bosses say that never happened. Now, he's risking his job to go public.

"I'm boots on the ground in Phoenix, telling you we've been doing it every day since I've been here," he said. "Here I am. Tell me I didn't do the things that I did. Tell me you didn't order me to do the things I did. Tell me it didn't happen. Now you have a name on it. You have a face to put with it. Here I am. Someone now, tell me it didn't happen."

Agent Dodson and other sources say the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department. The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel. And it was all kept secret from Mexico.

ATF named the case "Fast and Furious."

Read the whole thing at the link above, it's an eye opener...

No guns for U.S. Agents in mexico...

obama is a pussy. calderon says our Agents can't be armed in mexico and obama goes right along with it. I would tell calderon to jam it up his ass.

We should keep our Agents at home then. Put them on the border, armed, with permission to shoot these drug dealing scumbags. We don't need to solve mexico's drug violence problem, we need to solve our own. Let calderon and his corrupt bunch of thugs take care of their own problems.

With the appropriate amount of force we can take care of things on our end. .308 rounds would be appropriate force when applied liberally

felipe calderón talks a lot of shit...

calderon says United States cooperation in the mexican drug war is "notoriously insufficient".

If we were allowed to do this by ourselves it would be more than sufficient, but currently our enforcement agencies can't even carry guns in mexico.

calderon's government seems to be pretty insufficient themselves. He has supposedly been fighting this war since 2006 and doesn't appear to have done anything but make it worse. Since calderon took office in 2006, there have been more than 34,000 violent murders in his country. And in that period of time we have given mexico in excess of $1.5 BILLION DOLLARS to help fight the drug war.

It seems we have done more than our fair share.

I have a better idea. Why don't we use the next BILLION dollars to seal our border. Put a man about every 50 yards with authorization to shoot anything that moves. In a matter of weeks, we no longer have a problem. mexico will still be screwed, but until they fix the massive corruption in their country, they will always be screwed...

Hezbollah Working with Cartels

Even with this new information, you can bet, that this lame administration won't do anything to secure the border. They are more interested in trying to secure amnesty for millions of people in this Country illegally than they are in the safety and security of American citizens.

obama and his gang of thugs care only about the next election. They prove it every day by neglecting the real issues in this Country. Border security, unemployment and the economy don't even appear to be on the radar of this bunch of incompetent buffoons.

Instead, they are more interested in garnering union support by attempting to thwart the efforts of a legally elected Governor, both in Wisconsin and in Arizona.

We have entered bizzaro world...

By Adam Housley - FoxNews

As if the threat of deadly drug cartels in Mexico wasn't enough, some of them are joining forces with Middle East terror groups.

"Hezbollah are absolute masters at identifying existing smuggling infrastructures," says former DEA Chief of Operations Mike Braun, adding that the group "is developing relations with those responsible for operating those smuggling operations and then forming close relations with them, so that they can move anything they have an interest into virtually anywhere in the world." That comment comes from former DEA Chief of Operations Mike Braun. He goes on to tell me that the Middle East terror group is "rubbing shoulders" with drug cartels around the globe.

My military and Department of Homeland Security contacts are insistent...it's not if Hezbollah operatives have been smuggled into the U.S....but how many? They note that drug tunnels are becoming much more sophisticated and striking similar as tunnels being used by terror organizations to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip. My contacts also say they have real concern that bombing techniques used in the Middle East to promote terror are now also being used inside Mexico, as the cartels war with each other and anyone in their way.

This comes as Mexican authorities busted a senior Hezbollah operative who employed Mexicans nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, according to multiple reports. The man's name is Jameel Nasr and he was arrested after a Mexican surveillance operation revealed that he traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah commanders and he also spent several months in Venezuela working with the terror group and Hugo Chavez's people. American security contacts say the Mexican operation was impressive and they are seeing some increased pressure on the cartels from Mexican authorities and thus...their friends.

Meantime, over this past weekend President Calderon of Mexico sent a significant number of troops to the border regions and while they are there to help battle the cartels, they have also been sent to deal with the growing connection to Hezbollah. As one contact told me, "Mexico knows the seriousness of a cartel connection with Hezbollah and the threat to their national security."

We also know from DHS documents that over 180,000 illegal aliens from countries Other than Mexico were apprehended from 2007 through mid-March 2010 and the State Department Country Reports on Terrorism said that "smuggling rings have been detected moving people from East Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia". I am told these people and drugs are then moved up through Central America and into the Unites States through Mexico.

Congressman Connie Mack chairs the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee and says, "I think the question that we all have to ask is, when the terrorist come into Latin America, when they move into Mexico, how many have come into the United States? Our government doesn't know the answer to that question. That should make all of us very fearful."

The Congressman is critical of the Administrations response to this increased threat, "What are we going to do to secure our border step one and step two what are we going to do to confront the drug cartels in Hezbollah from continuing to create a force inside Mexico that will destabilize the United States?"

In response to this story, I contacted DHS and various departments within the administration. To be fair, they are obviously not going to give up information on operations or threats that they are working to eliminate, however, we didn't get much in feedback about our story, or in a way of a statement. I did have testimony forwarded to me from Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela from February 15th where he acknowledges the threat to American security and says the U.S. will continue to assist in the region's need to combat drug trafficking and transnational crime.