Wholesale murder in Mexico poses threat to U.S. Security
TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO
– Mexican security forces searching for abducted bus passengers in Tamaulipas
state bordering Texas discover pits containing the remains of 59 people. The gruesome discovery was made near a ranch
where last year a Mexican
drug cartel murdered 72 migrants on their way to the U.S.
According to Fox
News, investigators in Mexico are now working to exhume the bodies to determine
if they belong to the kidnapped bus passengers who are often abducted by drug
cartels or if they are drug traffickers executed by rival drug cartels.
The mass
gravesite is located about 80 miles outside of Brownsville, Texas. Investigators were in the area following reports
that gunmen are now routinely stopping busses and taking passengers for what is
believed to be forced recruitment into the drug trade.
Fox reports, “The
federal Interior Department said the first pit was discovered Saturday and
soldiers detained five suspected kidnappers. Tamaulipas officials said the pits
were found Wednesday, and a total of 11 suspected kidnappers were captured and
five kidnap victims were freed. The reason for the discrepancy was not clear.”
Officials do
agree that a series of eight burial pits were discovered, one of which
contained 43 bodies and the others holding the remains of 16 people. Fox News reports that Mexican officials believe
the deaths occurred between 10 and 15 days ago, dates which coincide with the
time-frame for the bus passenger abductions.
President Felipe
Calderon’s said the discovery “underlines the cowardliness and total lack
of scruples of the criminal organizations that cause violence in our
country.”
These burial
pits were discovered in a farming community called La Joya in the town of San
Fernando where 72 bodies of Central American illegal immigrants were found shot
to death back in August of 2010. MORE
HERE
Mexican
authorities blamed those murders on the Los Zetas drug cartel which has active
drug routes in the area, and is embroiled in a war with the Gulf cartel, a
rival drug gang which the Zetas gang once was a part of.
More on Mexican
Drug War Violence HERE
Drug cartels in
Mexico are known to routinely operate kidnapping rings in Tamaulipas and other
northern states bordering the U.S.
Highjackings and robberies are now commonplace as is the murder of
passengers in those vehicles.
More HERE
Since 2006 the
cartels have killed more than 35,000 people in Mexico. Over the past year the
cartels have killed three individuals (two US citizens) connected to the US
consulate in Juarez, Mexico, a gubernatorial candidate in the state of
Tamaulipas, 12 sitting mayors and one US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Special Agent.
Fox News reports
that now protests are occurring in Mexico in the wake of the ongoing and
ever-escalating violence. Fox News says
the protests, “…drew thousands of protesters into the streets of Mexico’s
capital and several other cities Wednesday in marches against violence.
“Many of the
protesters said the government offensive has stirred up the violence.
‘We need to end
this war, because it is a senseless war that the government started,’ said
protester Alma Lilia Roura, 60, an art historian.
“Several
thousand people joined the demonstration in downtown Mexico City, chanting ‘No
More Blood!’ and ‘Not One More!’ A similar number marched through the southern
city of Cuernavaca.”
In the U.S. Texas Governor Rick Perry
has repeatedly petitioned President Barack Obama for more support along the
embattled border, with little or no response.
U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-
TX 10th) has introduced legislation seeking to place six Mexican
Drug Cartels – the Arellano Feliz Organization, Los Zetas,the
Beltran Leyva Organization, La Familia Michoacana, Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf
Cartel – on the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list.
This designation would
allow the United States to limit cartels’ financial, property and travel
interests, and to impose harsher punishment on anyone who provides material support
to cartels.
McCaul, who is the Chariman of the Homeland
Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations & Management, also
convened hearings to further investigate the escalating violence along the U.S./Mexican
border.
In those hearings McCaul detailed some
of the bloody violence in Mexico:
“Over the past year the increase in violence by the Mexican
Drug Cartels has expanded to include more brutal forms of violence and deaths
of civilians and political leaders.
“March
13, 2010 – cartel members killed three individuals (two of them US
citizens) connected to the US consulate in Juarez, Mexico.
“June
28, 2010 – Tamaulipas gubernatorial candidate was killed by a drug cartel.
“January
through October 2010 – 12 sitting mayors were killed.
“February
15, 2011 – Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata
was killed and his fellow Special Agent Victor Avila was wounded by the Los
Zetas.
“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.
“These
are acts of terrorism as defined by federal law.”
The growing violence and drug traffic
from Mexico is posing a substantial threat to the security of the United States. La
Opinion, a Mexican newspaper, published information from a Wikileaks report
in December of last year that said internal U.S. documents reveal that the U.S.
government considers the Mexican Army to be “slow” and “risk averse” and the
Mexican police uncoordinated.
The report also says the U.S. government
believes that the Mexican justice system is corrupt and inefficient.
Despite Homeland Secretary Janet
Napolitano’s public praise of the efforts of Mexican officials to stop the cartels, these cables reveal the real opinion of the U.S. government, and that
the Obama Administration is actually very concerned with Mexico’s inability to
win the war on drugs, according to La Opinion.
A
Spanish newspaper, El País, has also reported that documents from 2009
reveal that Jerónimo Gutiérrez, Mexico’s under secretary for North American
affairs, admitted that the Mexican government had lost control in some parts of
the country. This has been vehemently
denied by Mexican officials.
La Opinión reported back on September 23rd, 2010 that four regions in
Mexico have the characteristics of a “failed state.” Since publishing that report, La Opinion
says, Felipe Calderon has refused any interviews or cooperation with the
newspaper.
OPINION –
The Obama administration is playing
politics with U.S. border safety and security.
Obama, Napolitano and their supporters
seem to be wholly incapable of separating the issues of illegal immigration by
Mexican citizens into the U.S. from the violent and deadly threat that Mexican
drug cartels and the war on those cartels by Mexico pose to U.S. security.
Obama, and Democrats in general, want to
keep Mexican-American votes and will do absolutely nothing substantial between
now and Election Day of 2012 to put an end to the threat posed by drug cartels,
drugs entering the U.S., violence along the border or the porous nature of the
U.S./Mexico border.
Meanwhile, not only do drugs cross the
border, human trafficking continues, and without question illegals from other
countries filter across the border as well, including individuals from nations on the Homeland
Security terrorist watch list.
Pinal
County, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu said in February of this year that close to 20 percent of the illegals already arrested in
Pinal County have established criminal records in the U.S. and that a
significant percentage of the illegals apprehended in Pinal County are from
“countries of interest” like Yemen, Somalia and Syria, known havens for radical
Islamic terrorist organizations.
“Our own federal government is
the one who is trying to lull us into a false sense of security,” Babeu
said. Babeu also warned that he believes
an armed conflict with Mexico is now inevitable.
The corruption which is rampant in
Mexico is now spreading dramatically into U.S. law enforcement along the
border. A Customs and Border Patrol Agent
was arrested this week for smuggling marijuana across the border in his CBP
vehicle. However, this arrest is not an
anomaly. Between 2003 and 2009, 129
Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested
on corruption charges.
The
U.S. must secure the border with Mexico, halt the violence at the border, stop
the flow of drugs and act in the best interest of the American people.
Many
on the left cry “Racist”
whenever an article like this appears regarding any subject releated to Mexico. The desire to stop border violence is
absolutely not racist. I would submit that racism may be one of the
reasons for not acting along the border.
35,000
people are dead in the ongoing violence in Mexico. The overwhelming majority of those people are
Mexican citizens, followed by illegal aliens who have entered Mexico from
points south: El Salvador, Honduras and other Central and South American nations.
To
do nothing seems to display an incredible indifference to the death and suffering
occurring in Mexico. Is President Obama
waiting out the election, or is he simply waiting for more Americans to
die? This is an issue of violence,
illegal drug trafficking, human trafficking and the security of the United
States of America.
Congressman
McCaul has it right. Governor Perry has
it right. Sheriff Joe Babeu has it
right. So, does Maricopa
County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Obama
has it wrong.
Rather
than sending scores of FBI agents to Arizona to investigate Joe Arpaio and filing lawsuits against U.S. states, our
president needs to get serious about the border, the death toll and the drug
wars in Mexico.
Then
again, perhaps the president is waiting to see what France does.
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John G. Winder has spent 29 years in the broadcasting industry as an on-air report, General Manager and Executive in both radio & television.
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I read the Mexican army is the largest cartel in mexico, and if President Calderon is in charge of the mexican army , does that put him in charge of the cartel