[infelconi]

Mexico is a third world country.

[Vedun*]

Right, but did you read that article? It's like drug violence slash open warfare. I mean open warfare as in hundreds and hundreds of dead in a short time etc.

[XU8i6ysK]

A task for El Supercitizenio

[Cuccuccaltefe]

CO, I don't think so!

That is, I don't speak esperanto...

[WGRocky]

Sloww, if I was Texan, I'd be looking the border pretty carefully. Don't want that crap to spread across. It would be unforgiveable.

[ENCOSEARRALIA]

Well I guess that depends how far the real trouble is from the border and how willing these real gangsters are about moving across for some reason.

That said, that stuff can't go unwatched. A situation like that is in the interest of the US government or should be. I guess the DEA or so are closely working together with their Mexican fellow officers, and I think they should be.

[TeveVikep]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I've also said we need to tighten the borders. Finally a fence has been authorized. We'll see if that does any good. Sure can't hurt. The fence thing is a total joke. They only paid for 1/5 of it, and even once fully funded it will cover less then 1/3 of the border. Construction start time has never been declared.

This was nothing more then a lame, half ass election year sham. A complete and total lie. The Republicans didn't do anything on immigration reform because they were afraid of alienating latino voters and putting the Democrats in office while the Democratic proposal stands far more chance of actually slowing illegal immigration since it would massively increase fines to companies which hire illegals. OF course the President is against that because it might harm his law dodging corporate donors.

[soonahonsefalh]

And why did they arrest the top drug dudes and not the soldiers as well? That will leave the soldiers in the streets, of course there will be a war.

Like they do in Italy with the mafia, they take everyone out at the same time like in this last bust they just did.

[unishisse]

Likely just incompetance.

[iceleliewBync]

Originally posted by Pekka
Yeah, but this says it's also an open war against cops.. five heads of cops just got stuck in the PD fence with a note that this should teach some respect.. and that's just to begin with. That's crazy man.. to me that sounds like declaring an open war against police, and if you do that, you better have a lot of muscle. I guess they do.

But what about the police, what are they going to do, besides being in the recieving end? don't they have an army to come in and get everyone they know and just.. jail the ones they missed to shoot? The army does get used in drug enforcement. It's also a bunch of one year national service conscripts, except the rich kids find ways out. There is political penetration (a lot of organized crime is not just drug based, but political based - think of Governor Gotti or Senator Giancana) and organized crime penetration of the police and military, so most serious operations would be compromised, and anyone honest and hardcore knows they don't know who can be trusted.