$4 mil in Cocaine seized Texas the illegal aliens R busy this time of year Xmas rush

[Wolfmoon]

CBP Officers at South Texas International Bridges Seize $4.1 Million in Cocaine During Weekend Enforcement Actions

Monday, October 17, 2011

Hidalgo, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Hidalgo/Pharr International Bridges seized approximately 129.5 pounds of cocaine in four separate and unrelated narcotic seizures. The combined estimated street value of the cocaine is $4,146,000.

On October 15, 2011 CBP officers working at the Hidalgo International Bridge came in contact with a northbound 2000 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck driven by a Mexican national, age 42, from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. A CBP officer referred the vehicle and male driver to secondary for further inspection. In secondary, officers seized 10 packages of alleged cocaine weighing 27 pounds that were found hidden with a compartment behind the back seat. The estimated street value of the cocaine is approximately $770,375.

Later during the same day on a separate unrelated seizure, CBP officers working at the Hidalgo International Bridge referred a Mexican registered taxi cab and a male passenger to secondary for further inspection. In secondary, the passenger was identified as a Mexican national from Tulanzingo, Hidalgo, Mexico. In an ice chest belonging to the traveler, CBP officers found and seized six packages of alleged cocaine. The cocaine weight of 13.9 pounds has an estimated street value of $44,590.

On October 16, 2011, a CBP officer at the Pharr/Reynosa International Bridge referred a 2009 Mazda CX-7 SUV and its occupants to secondary for further inspection. In secondary, the male driver and female passenger were both identified as Mexican nationals, ages 24 and 21 from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. In secondary, CBP officers seized 20 packages of alleged cocaine that were found hidden within the dashboard area of the vehicle. The 47 pounds of cocaine has an estimated street value of $1,510,000.

Hours later on the same date, CBP officers working at the Pharr International Bridge encountered a northbound 2008 Mazda CX-7, SUV and its occupants, two Mexican male nationals, ages 23 and 32 and a Mexican female, age 21, all from Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.

A CBP officer referred the vehicle and male driver to secondary for further inspection. In secondary, officers seized 20 packages of alleged cocaine weighing 41 pounds that were found hidden within the vehicle. The estimated street value of the cocaine is $1,325,000.

CBP officers seized three vehicles and transferred five male and two female travelers to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigation for further investigation.

“This was a busy weekend as far as narcotic seizures and our officers, as always, met the challenge of intercepting these hard narcotics and keeping them from entering our country,” said Port Director Efrain Solis Jr. “I commend our frontline officers for a job well done.”

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36 lbs Cocaine in glove box & bumber of illegals car seized, female, 19 goes to jail.

CBP Officers Find 36 Pounds Of Cocaine In Vehicle Bumper And Glove Box At Southern California Port - CBP.gov

Monday, October 17, 2011

Calexico, CA. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Calexico downtown port of entry discovered 36 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a brown 2001 Maroon Saturn.

The seizure occurred on Sunday, October 16, at about 10:15 p.m. when a CBP officer conducting inspections of vehicles and travelers referred the driver, a 19-year-old female Mexican citizen, for further examination.

An intensive inspection that included a canine screening led officers to the discovery of two wrapped packages of the narcotic concealed inside the dashboard behind the glove box. An additional 12 packages were discovered in the rear bumper of the vehicle. All packages combined have a street value of approximately $324,000.

The driver, a resident of Brawley, California, was arrested for the alleged narcotic smuggling attempt and was turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who in turn transported the violator to the Imperial County Jail where she currently awaits arraignment.

CBP placed an immigration hold on the Mexican citizen to initiate removal from the United States at the conclusion of her criminal proceeding.

CBP seized the narcotic and vehicle.


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[Mad Scientist]

Are these the drug cartels that our Gov't is supplying weapons to? Are these the drug cartels that launder money through US Banks? ($370 Billion)?

 

[Wolfmoon]

"Our border has never been safer." -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

Can you imagine what they were like before???

During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border.

Homeland Security Report: A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border http://www.house.gov/sites/members/tx10_mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

 

[waltky]

Mass murder in Guadalajara...

Drug vendetta link in 26 bodies dumped in Guadalajara
November 25, 2011 : THE bodies of 26 young men dumped in three vehicles near a busy intersection in Guadalajara yesterday, bear signs of a drug vendetta and a chilling message of more to come in Mexico's second city.

The macabre discovery came just ahead of a major international book fair in the western city and a day after 17 charred bodies were found in two vehicles in the city of Culiacan, in Sinaloa state, further north on the Pacific coast. A message found with the latest bodies said the peace enjoyed by the states of Jalisco and Sinaloa, allegedly as a result of agreements between local authorities and the Sinaloa cartel, was over. "There were 26 corpses altogether, all male and aged from 25 to 35 years," Fernando Guzman, a top official in Jalisco state, of which Guadalajara is capital, told a news conference Thursday afternoon. Most of the men had been asphyxiated, some were naked and some marked with the words "Milenio" and "Zetas" - the names of drug gangs - in oil, Guzman said. The Zetas - set up by ex-army officers turned hitmen in the 1990s - are blamed for extortion, kidnappings and murders in ever-increasing areas of Mexico.

The Milenio gang is known to operate in the region and media reports recently suggested it had joined forces with the Zetas. "The Zetas are present in the north of Jalisco and they could have aligned with the Milenio gang ... to fight for the plaza (drug trafficking area) of Guadalajara," said Dante Haro, an investigator at the University of Guadalajara. Jalisco state, known as a stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel of fugitive billionaire drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has seen drug violence increase in recent months, including shootouts and roadblocks early in the year. Governor Emilio Gonzalez said on his Twitter account he was "outraged" by the discovery of the bodies and called for a probe.

The spectacular act of dumping bodies on a busy highway echoed another in September in which 35 bodies were tipped out of trucks under a busy overpass in the eastern port of Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico. "It looks like a copy of what happened in Veracruz," said Jose Reveles, author of several books on drug trafficking. But he said it was necessary to wait for the results of an inquiry. Authorities blamed the Veracruz killings on the New Generation drug gang, which has suspected ties to the Sinaloa gang and also calls itself the Zeta Killers. The vehicles found yesterday lay close to the city's convention centre, which will host the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the most important event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world, starting this weekend. Scores of authors, including Nobel laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Herta Muller, were expected to attend. Locals said that federal security forces deployed to secure the recent Pan American Games in the city had only left on Wednesday.

A survey released this week found few Mexicans believe the government can defeat drug cartels as its military crackdown on organized crime enters its sixth year. The poll, by the Mitofsky agency, showed 14 per cent believed President Felipe Calderon's strategy was succeeding, compared to 23 per cent in a poll in March 2010. The latest poll, of 1000 people interviewed in October, showed 44 per cent thought the situation would not improve during Calderon's last year in office, which ends in December 2012. Some 45,000 deaths have been blamed on rising drug violence since the start of the crackdown.

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[waltky]

Granny says if dey gonna act like terrorists - den treat `em like terrorists...

Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Mexican Drug Cartels as 'Terrorist Insurgency'
December 15, 2011 – Calling the situation along the U.S. border a “threat to national security,” a House committee Thursday took up a bill sponsored by Republican congressmen that would treat Mexican drug cartels like terrorists and apply a counterinsurgency strategy to the growing violence along the Southern border.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) introduced H.R. 3401 the “Enhanced Border Security Act” on Nov. 9 to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, stop criminal access to U.S. financial institutions, and work with Mexico to implement counterinsurgency tactics to undermine the control of the drug cartels in the country. The bill would also double the number of Border Patrol agents, and provide additional infrastructure to secure the border, including “tactical double layered fencing.” “A terrorist insurgency is being waged along our Southern border,” said Mack, during the mark up of the bill in the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves as chairman. “The term terrorist insurgency may be strong,” said Mack, who said the cartels operate across Mexico, Central America and in over 1,000 American cities. “But it is based upon unchallenged facts.” “Drug traffickers and criminal organizations have combined efforts to work across borders, unravel government structures, and make large profits from diverse, illegal activity,” he said. “The near-term result: schools, media and candidates all controlled by criminal organizations. In other words, total anarchy.”

Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), a supporter of the bill, said the situation is “an issue of national security. “The drug trafficking organization is out of control,” Schmidt said. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said the Enhanced Border Security Act “really tells the situation like it is.” “I believe that the drug cartels are acting within the federal definition of terrorism, which basically says to intimidate a civilian population or government by extortion, kidnapping or assassination. That is precisely, precisely what the drug cartels do. They extort,” he said. But Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, disagreed. While he offered his support for the aims of Mack’s bill, Engel argued the Mexican drug cartels are not operating within the legal definition of terrorism as to advance political aims. “I agree with you that Mexicans are terrorized,” said Engel. “If I were living in a place where gun battles were leaving scores of people dead and previously safe streets were now hideouts for thugs and criminals, I would feel a sense of terror, too.” However, Engel said, “There is a difference between acts which can cause terror and terrorist acts.” He said what’s happening in Mexico is “narco-crime” and not terrorism. “If we get the cause of the disease wrong, our treatment will be wrong as well,” he said. “The narco-criminals in Mexico have no political aims, they are brutal outlaws who want money, but they don’t want to throw out the government and take over.”

H.R. 3401 defines terrorist insurgency as, “the protracted use of irregular warfare, including extreme displays of public violence utilized by transnational criminal organizations to influence public opinion and to undermine government control and rule of law in order to increase the control and influence of the organizations.” The National Counterterrorism Center of the United States defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.” “They decapitate people on a daily basis. They burn people alive. Throw people in acid baths,” said McCaul. “If that’s not intimidation, if that’s not terrorizing a civilian population, I don’t know what is.” Engel also objected to the bill because he said it would supplant funding for a counterinsurgency strategy from the State Department’s Merida Initiative, a partnership with Mexico designed to to “fight organized crime and associated violence while furthering respect for human rights and the rule of law.”

Since 2008, Congress has allocated $1.6 billion to fund Merida to support Mexico’s implementation of comprehensive justice sector reforms, provide eight Bell helicopters to the Mexican Army/Air Force, three UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Federal Police, and three UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the Mexican and provide scanners, X-ray machines, and inspection equipment for Mexican checkpoints and airports, according to the State Department. Despite Merida’s efforts, Rep. Schmidt said -- “I don’t think it is working.” Since 2006, 34,600 people have died as a result of Mexican drug cartel violence, the U.S. government reported in January though the number is now believed to be much higher.

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Romney: Illegal Immigrants Should Have to Leave
December 15, 2011 — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he's all for immigration, as long as it's legal and U.S. policies don't reward those who are already here.

On Thursday night, Romney and his rivals discussed illegal immigration at the GOP debate. Romney says workers who have come to the U.S. illegally would have to leave the country but would be eligible to apply to return as long as they went to the back of the line. "We need an ID card for people who come here legally. People can show that card to EVerify or another system. Let Mastercard or VISA process that and determine it is valid or not. If the employer hires that person, they would have sanctions if that person is not legal. "Ultimately illegal people need to get in line behind everyone else," Romney continued. "I want legal people to come who follow rules not line jumpers."

Newt Gingrich said the nation has to be realistic in confronting the millions of workers without documentation. But Gingrich also said he would cut off funding for so-called sanctuary cities and would drop federal lawsuits against states with tough anti-immigration laws. "People who are here for 20 years are a separate matter," Gingrich said. "On Day One I would drop all lawsuits against states who are trying to enforce immigration policy. I would defund all federal aid to sanctuary cities. I would take away the incentives for breaking the law."

Jon Huntsman suggested that illegal immigration is no longer a problem: "In terms of immigration, no one is coming anymore because there are no jobs and no opportunities," he said. "Let’s not lose sight of the fact that legal immigration is an engine of growth. Half of Fortune 400 companies have been founded by immigrants. We need to remake the way people move back and forth. This is an economic development opportunity."

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/romney-illegal-immigrants-should-have-leave