Article By Randy Wyles From August 31, 2009
Does the border security problem in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California really have any effect on you in Atlanta? Fair question. Now, try these on. Does that Hispanic worker you're hiring have a "green card"? Where did he or she come from and are you setting yourself up for organized criminal activity within your business…or worse?
Brutal drug related crimes continue on both sides of the border – deep into the U.S., as well as in Mexico – as illicit drugs and smuggled slaves flow into the United States side by side with a steadily growing number of other illegal aliens and terrorists – and the toll in lives and money spent to combat this problem is incredible.
In 2007 alone, more than 300 Mexican law enforcement officials died in the line of duty in the war on drugs in Mexico, while, throughout Mexico, over 3,500 civilians have been murdered as a result of drug related activity – an average of 200 per month just in the border town of Juarez. In response, Mexican President Calderón has mobilized Mexican troops to hot spots across Mexico, including border towns like Juarez, to stem the tide of what the Mexican government calls “drug gang” violence. But there are a couple problems with this.
First, these aren't "gangs", these are organized crime operators – highly skilled, ruthless and without regard for borders – and, second, often the very military that has been sent to defend the people of Mexico against this activity is, in fact, working with the drug lords and smugglers. In fact, over the past three years, the Mexican military has actually crossed into the U.S. – invaded sovereign U.S. Territory – well over 200 times and even engaged in gun battles with U.S. Law enforcement as the Mexican soldiers aided smugglers into the U.S. with drugs and slaves.
But does this cause crime in Atlanta? Yes. In fact, the CIA estimates 50,000 slaves are being moved through or are being forced to work within the U.S. at any one moment, in jobs ranging from farm labor to prostitution – often using underage girls. Sound like the warring factions and corruption we see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan?
Now, if those countries bordered our country how tight do you think our border security would be? And if those people were kidnapping our innocent girls and forcing them into prostitution rings while recruiting our young men into their organized crime cells do you think we would stand for it? So, why do we tolerate it when it comes to Mexico? Of course, Congress is funneling $1.4 billion to Mexico as part of an anti-drug assistance package to help in the fight. But is it enough?
In a recent article, The Dallas Morning News reporter Alfredo Corchado revealed no less than six military style training camps set up and run by Mexican drug cartels, most within a few miles of the Texas border. The camps, often temporary by nature or set up on private land, train cartel recruits made up of Mexican army deserters and, shocking as it may sound, American teenagers. These camps teach commando style attack tactics similar to what we've seen in confiscated footage of Al Qaeda terrorist training camps. These Mexican drug cartel terrorists operate freely on both sides of the border, like a bad “B” Western movie, killing civilians and law enforcement agents at the rate of thousands per year.
In fact, if you were to extrapolate the statistics with regard to murders in Mexico at the hands of the Mexican drug cartels it would dwarf the number of American soldiers killed in the war on terror since 2001 – as I said, just in the past few years, over 3,500 civilians have been murdered in drug related crimes.
Make no mistake, this is a real war with real consequences and to allow the 2,000 mile border between the U.S. and Mexico to operate like a sieve is placing countless American lives in danger and the American way of life at risk. But we’re supposed to turn a blind eye?
Randy Wyles is Chief Investigator for Hunter Investigations and has worked as a contract field investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice. He is also the Executive Editor of Special Ops and News.com
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