Obama says he didn’t inform Mexico of U.S. gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it

I think obama did know about "gunwalker". I'm not so sure calderon didn't know too. And you can bet your ass holder knew what was going on.

The atf screwed the pooch on this. It's another example of a rogue agency gone wild. They planned to use the number of guns being trafficked to further encroach on our gun rights. The only thing they planned to leave out was that they allowed the guns to get to mexico.

We know about the Agent that was killed with one of these weapons, but how many innocent mexican citizens lost their lives because of the atf? There is no way that an operation like this could be implemented without the buy in of people way up the chain of command. This is going to lead to holder at the very least and probably to obama. I can't wait until there is hard evidence linking one or both of them to this mess. They are both scumbags and they are due...

by Richard Dunham - MySA

Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious.”

The Mexican government has complained that it didn’t know about the U.S. operation that allowed guns to illegally cross the southwestern border so they could track the weapons.

Obama told Univision‘s Jorge Ramos that President Felipe Calderon wasn’t informed of the operation because he — the president of the United States — wasn’t informed either. When asked whether he knew of the weapon smuggling plan, Obama responded that it is “a pretty big government” with “a lot of moving parts.”

The investigation into the program comes after it was connected to two weapons that were found at the scene of a border shootout that killed U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in December. Likewise, a gun smuggled from the U.S. were used to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Jamie Zapata, but it has not been determined if it was part of “Fast and Furious.”

When President Calderon came to visit Washington recently, the two presidents came together on a policy to stop drug and weapon smuggling across the border.

“Our policy is to ram up the interdiction of guns flowing south because that’s contributing to some of the security problems that are taking place in Mexico and what we’re doing is trying to build the kind of cooperation between Mexico and the United States that we haven’t seen before,” Obama told Univision.

The president said his attorney general has been “very clear that our policy is to catch gunrunners and put them into jail.”

The controversial operation was the subject of a CBS News Investigation that reported ATF was allowing traffickers to bring weapons into Mexico in order to track them rather than arresting the traffickers. Obama said Holder has assigned an inspector general to investigate what happened, because he does not know who authorized the operation.

“Letting guns ‘walk’ is not something that is acceptable,” Holder said during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing. “Guns are different than drugs or money when we are trying to follow their trail. That is not acceptable.”

Holder said he made this clear to attorneys and ATF agents.

Read the rest at the link above...

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.

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...