This documentary produced by the Center for Immigration Studies gives people a glimpse of what it’s like to live near the failed state of Mexico. No comment is necessary.
Part I:
Part II:
h/t Gateway Pundit
Category Archives: Border War
7 Reasons Mexico is the Biggest threat to American Security
My new Newsreal Blog post is up. It talks about narco-cults, Jihadists in Mexico, corruption spreading from Mexico to the American government and a host of other reasons Americans should be more concerned with Mexico than the Middle East. Check it out.
Sheriff Paul Babeu’s Interview with NRA News
Originally posted on Greenville Dragnet
Good News: Pinal County Sheriff Expects “Armed Conflict” with Cartels Soon
Soon as in 30-60 says. Sheriff Paul Babeu is predicting that he and his out manned and out gunned forces will be engaging cartel paramilitaries in the near future:
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members within the next 30 to 60 days.
Babeu made that prediction last week as he addressed an Ahwatukee Foothills Republican women’s club, and reiterated it Tuesday on the heels of a speech by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting that border communities are safer than ever.
A gunbattle is all but certain, Babeu told The Arizona Republic, because his deputies and members of a regional SWAT team are now routinely working to stop smugglers from pushing cargo through Pinal.
“We have had enough,” Babeu said. “That’s why we’re going into these areas and sending a very clear message to the cartels: We see you and we’re not going to let you through.”
An outspoken critic of U.S. immigration policy, Babeu said cartels have stepped up their tactics in Pinal County by reinforcing smuggling routes with armed guards to ward off potential bandits, in addition to stationing more lookouts on high points of the landscape. Some bandits are impersonating police, Babeu said, and he worries that smugglers won’t know the difference.
“When we announce ourselves in Spanish, ‘This is the sheriff, drop your weapons, this is an arrest,’ I pray every time they will surrender,” Babeu said. “In the event that any of them decide to point their weapons at our deputies . . . my directive is there had better be rounds going downrange to neutralize that threat.”
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Last year, the Sheriff’s Office reported seizing 44,189 pounds of marijuana, initiating 335 vehicle pursuits and making 370 calls to Border Patrol for assistance with suspected illegal immigrants. In 2007, deputies seized 28,903 pounds of pot, had 142 pursuits, and called Border Patrol 188 times.
Pinal County is about 70 miles from the border so the amount of activity they are seeing – including bandits targeting smugglers – means that border security is a joke at best. If you are in or near Pinal County get ready.
h/t N.T.A.
Germany Halts H&K Exports to Mexico
Canadian Business reported that the German government is stopping gun makers Heckler and Koch from exporting arms to Mexico:
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s government has banned weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch GmbH from any new arms deliveries to Mexico amid concerns they are ending in parts of the country where Berlin has forbidden weapons exports over human rights issues, according to a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
The letter from the Economy Ministry to the arms manufacturer, dated Jan. 4, says the company’s applications for exports of “weapons and other defense goods” to Mexico are suspended pending the outcome of judicial investigations in Germany.
Heckler & Koch is under investigation by prosecutors for allegedly providing its G36 assault rifle to Mexican police in the states of Chiapas, Chihuahua, Guerrero and Jalisco, where Germany prohibits such exports over alleged human rights violations.
The company, whose headquarters near Stuttgart were searched by prosecutors late last month, denies any wrongdoing.
Rights groups like Amnesty International have accused Mexican government troops and police of abuses in the ongoing fight against drug traffickers. Germany’s tight weapons export regulations allows arms deliveries to Mexico, outside of the four states where the human rights situation is in question.
H&K however says that Germany is mistaken:
Heckler & Koch maintains it did not deliver weapons to those four states, but only to the country’s Mexico City-based central weapons purchasing authority, which is overseen by the Defense Ministry.
“Heckler & Koch has at no point in time delivered to any Mexican states,” the company said in a statement late December.
The Firearms Blog explains this difference of opinion this way:
It sounds to me that the German government suspects that H&K knew where their weapons were headed and were knowingly selling them to a straw buyer. I believe it is the Mexican Army who runs the Mexico City gun distribution center. It seems crazy that they are allowed to export to Mexico, to a central distributor, but that only certain state police can receive them, and others cannot.
I’d add that it sounds to me like the Left party, who initiated the investigation, wants to keep Mexican forces outgunned by the FARC aligned cartels. FARC is a Chevez vassal and the Left party, who just called for the introduction of Soviet style communism in Germany, is supportive of the Chavez goal of toppling pro-Western Latin American government and spreading his communist movement northward. So extreme is the Left Party that the Christian Social Democrats have called for them to be outlawed.