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Justice Department: U.S. Border 'Underprotected,' 'Easily Breached'

45caliber Wrote: Jul 01, 2009 1:13 PM

Thanks but you are also right. People MUST get involved if they expect to keep our country. One city councilman in L.A. recently commented that with the Mexican numbers in LA plus the fact that most of the officials (and city workers) were Mexican, that they needed to just declare LA and southern California as part of Mexico again and no longer part of the U.S.

THAT is one of the reasons that illegal entry is wrong. We do not want or intend to turn part of our country over to another country just because they can sneak in enough of their people to outnumber ours.

Further, recently due to the lack of jobs, many of the Mexicans have returned home. The officals in Sonora, south of Arizona, made a trip to Phonex to insist...

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Justice Department: U.S. Border 'Underprotected,' 'Easily Breached'

Judging from recent reports by the National Drug Intelligence Center, you could come to the conclusion that Mexican drug cartels can do something the U.S. government cannot: control border crossings.

The cartels maintain "gatekeepers" -- their own sort of Border Patrol.

"Gatekeepers regulate the drug flow from Mexico across the U.S.-Mexico border into the United States by controlling drug smugglers' access to areas along the border," says identical language in NDIC reports on southern Arizona and West Texas. "Gatekeepers collect 'taxes' from smugglers on all illicit shipments that are moved through these areas, including drugs and illegal aliens. The...

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