Obama OK with Mexico softening on Drug cartels..so why not go soft on offshore..

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trillions held by American companies?


Mexico's newly elected president might be softer on the drug cartels because they can't control the violence..
Will Mexico go soft on cartels? (OneNewsNow.com)

so why doesn't Obama go soft on the literally trillions of already TAXED money held offshore?

I mean the USA is NOT getting any benefits NOW so why not bring it back tax free?
Obama wants to generate jobs... and today's disappointing job report should if Obama was not so anti-business encourage companies to bring back these trillions!

If half of the $1 trillion or $500 billion used to hire at $40,000/job is 12.5 million jobs!
Unemployment solved!

 

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Drug Cartels Have 'Representatives' in 2,000 U.S. Cities...

Border Patrol Union: Drug Cartels Have 'Representatives' in 2,000 U.S. Cities
August 1, 2013 – In a July 28 letter addressed to “fellow Americans,” the union of former Border Patrol agents called for Congress to deny amnesty to illegal aliens and cited “transnational criminal businesses” that have “representatives” in 2,000 American cities.

“Transnational criminal enterprises have annually invested millions of dollars to create and staff international drug and human smuggling networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise that they continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives in place as a means to guarantee continued success,” the letter, distributed via email by Zach Taylor, chairman of National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, Inc., stated.

“We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling, distribution and sale of illegal drugs,” the letter, signed by former agents for the U.S., Canada, Southwest and U.S./Mexico border chapters, stated. “Organized crime on this scale we are speaking about cannot exist without political protection. “Most heroin, cocaine, meth, and marijuana marketed in the United States is produced outside of our country, and then smuggled into the United States,” the letter stated. “The placement of trusted foreign employees inside the United States is imperative to insure success in continuing to supply the demand, and returning the profits to the foreign organization.

“Members of these vicious transnational crime syndicates are already well established in more than 2,000 American cities and their numbers are increasing as networks expand and demands accelerate,” the letter stated. “These transnational criminals present a real and present danger to all Americans, and they live among us.” The organization stated in the letter that “sanctuary cities” that allow criminal illegal aliens to live and work with impunity are partly to blame for the U.S. criminal network and urged Congress not to grant amnesty to the estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally. “Sanctuary cities established throughout the United States discourage even the most basic law enforcement initiatives within their boundaries against these predatory criminals,” the letter stated. “Encouraged by Congress and a disinterested mainstream news media, these havens deny the American public their constitutional right to national security and public safety while providing relative safety for dangerous foreign criminals.

“Congress must abandon their focus on rewarding illegal behavior for millions of persons by the grant of amnesty in favor of protecting American citizens who suffer daily at the hands of these seasoned criminals,” the letter stated. “To do otherwise makes a mockery of our laws, and encourages countless millions more from around the globe to do the same. “Transnational organized crime nationwide has flourished under these conditions,” the letter concluded.

- See more at: Border Patrol Union: Drug Cartels Have 'Representatives' in 2,000 U.S. Cities | CNS News

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Wildlife Biologists: Illegal Pot Farms Wreaking Havoc on Endangered Species
July 31, 2013 -- Illegal marijuana cultivation on public and tribal land has been identified as the culprit in the deaths of at-risk wildlife and environmental degradation throughout California, Oregon and Washington, according to researchers who have been investigating and documenting hundreds of marijuana “grow sites” since 2005.

The project, a collaboration between wildlife biologists at the University of California - Davis, the U.S. Forest Service, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and other organizations, began with an examination into the causes of mortality in threatened fisher populations. Researcher Mourad Gabriel documented “multiple contamination sites from marijuana cultivation, specifically the mass abuse of anticoagulant rodenticide as well as other toxicants at these sites.” “It’s a novel threat,” Gabriel, president and co-founder of Integral Ecology Research Center and a researcher at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, told CNSNews.com, adding that “there’s a lack of data” regarding the environmental impact of illegal pot farms.

Gabriel hopes that his team’s research will garner greater awareness among the public and policymakers “on the misconceptions that marijuana cultivation has little to no environmental impact . . . We’re seeing a strong negative effect of marijuana cultivation on our public and tribal lands.” California’s biodiversity makes it home to a wide variety of endangered and threatened species, including salmon, spotted owls, great gray owls, and Sierra-Nevada red foxes. Much of Gabriel’s work is focused on the fisher, an animal in the weasel family that is a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act. “All of these species inhabit either previously or potentially occupied marijuana cultivation sites,” Gabriel pointed out, and “are either potentially at risk or currently at risk” due to contact with the rodenticide used to protect marijuana plants.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $200,000 grant to the Hoopa Valley Tribe in northwestern California to research activities affecting tribal lands, which are “inundated with trespass grows” by drug trafficking groups “that are coming in [and] clearing their land to grow and cultivate marijuana,” according to Gabriel. “This is a vested interest of theirs, to protect their sovereign land.” Teams of volunteer have cleaned up and reclaimed 637 cultivation sites on public lands so far, according to Gabriel. These sites, found in only two out of 17 national forests in California, are “just a fraction of the grow sites that are currently present.”

The Humboldt County Sherriff’s Office used Google Earth technology to document 4,100 greenhouses that were cultivating marijuana plants on private land in the county in 2012, but only had sufficient resources to eradicate less than 2 percent of the grow sites due to limited funding. “If we were to have our drug task force go ahead and investigate two to three sites every day, it would take them multiple years just to hit every one of those 4,100 grow sites,” Gabriel explained. According to a 2010 report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that “law enforcement around the world only seizes 10-20 percent of the drugs produced.” Mark Higley, wildlife biologist for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, noted an additional 215 grow sites that are “quasi-legal” because they are “growing openly with medical marijuana recommendations.” “It often feels like we are running around like Chicken Little saying, ‘The sky is falling,’” Higley said. However, “it is clear that the problem is real, widespread and possibly getting worse.”

- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wil...havoc-endangered-species#sthash.ETvxGgL3.dpuf