US Busts Iraqi-Mexican Drug Operation in California

[Angelhair]

More than 60 suspects have been arrested in a federal sting operation that has taken down a drug and weapons trafficking ring involving members of San Diego's Iraqi community and a major Mexican drug cartel.

Federal officials said Thursday that the suspects were linked to the Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate were arrested.

Smugglers were shipping drugs from El Cajon to Iraqis in Detroit, where the Chaldean syndicate is based, authorities said.

El Cajon and federal police say they have seized 18 pounds of methamphetamine, narcotics, cocaine and other drugs; more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana; $630,000 in cash; four IEDs; and more than 30 guns, including assault rifles.

Mexico City Finds Inspiration in NYC's High LineIn April, a Drug Enforcement Agency undercover agent was shown a hand grenade by an immigrant and was told additional grenades were available from a Mexican military source.

The cartel, Sinaloa, is Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who has become one of the world's richest and most-wanted men since he escaped from a Mexican prison 10 years ago.

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[Angelhair]

Yes, Napolitano, our borders are very secure.......

 

[waltky]

Skinned head found in purse...

Five beheaded among 14 bodies found in Mexico
August 20, 2011 (AFP) - Mexican police found 14 bodies on Saturday, including five that had been decapitated, all apparently the latest casualties of the country's brutal drug violence.

In the resort town of Acapulco, police found five bodies that had been decapitated and dismembered, including the body of a woman, according to security officials in the southwest Guerrero state. One of the heads was stripped of its skin and found inside a woman's purse, they added.

On Friday hundreds of shops in the resort town closed after robbers hit three jewelry stores, making off with two kilograms of gold. Petrol stations also closed for three hours to demand stepped up security measures. In the western Nayarit state, police found nine bodies riddled with bullets on a highway, according to a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, who said they were searching the area for other bodies.

The province borders Sinaloa state, home to the Gulf cartel's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the country. Mexico has been gripped by drug violence -- featuring brutal and macabre killings -- in recent years, with some 41,000 people killed since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on the cartels in 2006.

Five beheaded among 14 bodies found in Mexico | My Sinchew

 

[waltky]

Ya doin' a 'heck of a job' Janet...

Napolitano defends immigration enforcement policy
Oct 5,`11 WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing critics on all sides, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday defended the Obama administration's new policy of deciding which illegal immigrants to send home first.

The government is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants, she said, but putting at the top of the line those who pose a public safety or national security threat. That's a shift from the Bush administration's enforcement strategy, Napolitano said in a speech at American University, the latest public push to promote the new approach. Republicans say making it a priority to deport those immigrants amounts to a back-door way of granting amnesty to other people who are living in the U.S. illegally but haven't committed crimes. Yet to immigration advocates, the administration is still deporting such illegal immigrants.

She said policies inherited from the Bush administration "allowed as many resources, if not more, to be spent tracking down and deporting the college student as were spent on apprehending criminal aliens and gang members." Authorities would conduct large raids at companies without consistently punishing the employer or targeting individuals who posed a threat. "Public safety wasn't enhanced by these raids, and they sometimes required hundreds of agents and thousands of hours to complete," Napolitano said.

Now, she said, the Department of Homeland Security is using fingerprints collected from those held in local jails to identify and deport criminals and repeat immigration violators. Advocates for an immigration overhaul say this program, known as Secure Communities, has resulted in the deportation of people accused of traffic violations or other misdemeanors. Several states have said they don't want to participate, arguing that immigration is a federal, not state, responsibility.

Napolitano denied that the program had led to more annual deportations and didn't give police immigration authority. She did acknowledge missteps. For example, participation at first was thought to be voluntary, but department officials later made it mandatory. "But as flawed as the beginnings of this program were, it has already helped accomplish a great deal toward ensuring that we use our enforcement resources where they do the most good," Napolitano said. She also said the administration was committed to comprehensive immigration changes.

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[Angelhair]

I would like to see her walk the streets of Mexico. She lives in la-la land. And to boot she was the governor of AZ and saw many things first hand - gets to WA and is deep in denial and see things through rose colored glasses!!! This administration needs a house cleaning badly!!!