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Border Patrol Agents: Cartels May Have "Rented" Cover From Mexican Military Helicopter in Shooting Incident ~ By Katie Pavlich

"Mexican military are oftentimes working hand in glove with the cartels. The Mexican military has routinely crossed the border in areas that Border Patrol agents are actively tracking or seizing drug loads. Inevitably the Mexican military claim they got lost, that the border was not clearly marked, or in extreme cases fire on agents to cover their retreat," National Border Patrol Council Spokesman Shawn Moran exclusively tells Townhall. "Ajo, AZ Border Patrol agents have had several incidents like this over the years where they have taken shots from the Mexican military. The cartels' resources are nearly limitless and it would not surprise me if they "rented" the cover by the Mexican military helicopter in this incident."

Do you by chance recall the two Border Patrol agents, Igancio Ramos and Jose Campean, who spent two years in federal prison, for the non-fatal shooting of a Mexican drug-runner before finally getting their sentences commuted by then President George W. Bush? I'm sure that the Mexican government will not be treating members of their military the same way, even though they crossed the border into U. S. territory, and fired at two Border Patrol agents in Arizona yesterday morning (June 26, 2014), possibly in support of a Mexican drug cartel operation.

Meanwhile, there is a Marine sergeant by the name of Andrew Tahmooressi, languishing ("rotting," as Gretchen Carlson said in the video below) in a Mexican prison for inadvertently ending up in Mexico, with three legally owned guns in his car.   Our dear leader, President Barack Hussein Obama, hasn't lifted a finger to pressure the Mexican government to release the sergeant, who has now been incarcerated in Mexico for three long months.

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You would think that this incident of a Mexican military chopper firing on OUR Border Patrol agents, probably for the purpose of helping a drug cartel, would be enough of a reason for the administration to turn up the burners, and put some heat on Mexico to release Sgt. Tahmooressi, a decorated Marine who has served in Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD. Yeah, you would think... But, this IS the Obama regime we're talking about, and they must be just too busy trying to deal with all of the "phony scandals that the Republicans are manufacturing to gin up the base."  Just saying...


Border Patrol Agents: Cartels May Have "Rented" Cover From Mexican Military Helicopter in Shooting Incident ~ By Katie Pavlich

Katie Pavlich

By Katie Pavlich

Jun 27, 2014

From Townhall.com

On Thursday morning between midnight and 6 a.m. at least one Mexican military helicopter crossed eight miles into the United States and shot at Border Patrol agents with lethal force before returning to Mexican territory. The incident occurred in an area notorious for violent drug cartel activity just west of the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation during a Border Patrol drug interdiction operation. The timing and location of the incident has prompted agents to believe the use of the helicopter by the Mexican military may have been on behalf of drug cartels operating in the area.

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Ask a Mexican? Good idea! ~ By Tom Tancredo

In the coming debate about immigration reform, or the Dream Act, Tom Tancredo recommends certain questions that should be answered - by Mexico and Mexican immigrants. He says that "[w]e cannot have a rational debate about immigration reform in the U.S. until there is emigration reform in Mexico."


Ask a Mexican? Good idea!

TOM TANCREDO

By Tom Tancredo

December 25, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

A week ago, the lame-duck U.S. Senate refused to pass the so-called DREAM Act, which had been passed by the House in its lame-duck session. There will be some talk of reviving the bill in the next Congress, but the ground has shifted. The next immigration reform debate will be about Mexico.

The truth is beginning to dawn on amnesty proponents. We cannot have a rational debate about immigration reform in the U.S. until there is emigration reform in Mexico.

Last month I participated in a debate in Denver with Gustavo Arellano, the leftist southern California journalist and author of the "Ask a Mexican" column which runs in a dozen or more left-leaning "alternative weeklies" across the country. The topic of the debate – never formally declared – had something to do with the success – or lack of it – of assimilation into American society by illegal aliens from Mexico and Latin America.

Whatever the hopes of the sponsors of the event, the debate turned out to be a long conversation not about politics or pending legislation but about culture – American culture. In retrospect, I wish we had also scheduled a second debate – about Mexican culture.

Given that 70 percent of the 15-20 million illegal aliens in our country are from Mexico, and the fact that Mexico officially encourages and facilitates this exodus, it is natural for Americans to have many questions about Mexico.

I think these questions should be encouraged, and I hope the defenders of illegal immigration can provide some answers.

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Bean bags vs. AK-47s ~ By Tom Tancredo

Here is how the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was reported in the media:

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Secretary Napolitano should do two things on Monday morning. First, she should order all Border Patrol agents to be issued weapons adequate for both self-defense and apprehension of armed drug smugglers. The second thing she should do Monday morning is resign.

~ Tom Tancredo, from this column

I'm not saying he's wrong about the facts of the case of the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, but the information in Tom Tancredo's column doesn't match up with what I had been seeing and hearing in the news. For instance, every news story I've seen had the Border Patrol up against FIVE bandits, with one escaping and being sought.  There has been no mention of the bean bag rounds that the Border Patrol are ordered to use.  There has been no mention of the EIGHT attackers, but rather, just five.  None of the reports have mentioned the BORTAC team (Border Tactical unit) tracking drug smugglers.  Why would this be?

Well, Tom gives us a hint of why the full truth of the incident hasn't been told in the media (until now). As you will read in this column, it's all about politics, and the failed Dream Act vote on Saturday. The politics trumped the real truth from being known.

Bean bags vs. AK-47s

TOM TANCREDO

By Tom Tancredo

December 18, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Another Border Patrol agent on the Arizona border was shot and killed by Mexican drug smugglers last Tuesday. Of the eight attackers, four are in custody and a fifth is under surveillance by Border Patrol Blackhawk helicopters as he tries to make his way back to the Mexican border.

BP Agent Brian Terry was part of a BORTAC team (for border tactical unit) tracking armed drug smugglers 15 miles northwest of Nogales, Ariz., (and only three miles west of Interstate 19) when they were attacked with automatic weapons fire. The area is well-known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, and the smugglers are known to frequently be armed with AK-47s and other long rifles.

Here's the part Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Border Patrol management are trying to hide: Border Patrol Agent Terry and the BORTAC team were under standing orders to always use ("non-lethal") bean-bag rounds first before using live ammunition. When the smugglers heard the first rounds, they returned fire with real bullets, and Agent Terry was killed in that exchange. Real bullets outperform bean bags every time.

The larger, ugly truth Napolitano and senior managers in the Border Patrol want to hide is that the rules of engagement and inadequate weaponry of the Border Patrol place the lives of all agents at grave risk. The National Border Patrol Council, which represents over 15,000 field agents, believes the border is too dangerous for officers to patrol without body armor, armored vehicles and automatic weapons.

Another aspect of this story that is not being reported is that the site of the shooting, Peck Canyon, is inside the area Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., has proposed to designate as the Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness reserve. If Grijalva's bill is enacted into law, what is now a well-established drug smuggling corridor will become a drug-smuggling superhighway, because the Border Patrol will be prohibited from patrolling the region. Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah has proposed legislation that will remove the restrictions on Border Patrol jurisdiction on such public lands within 50 miles of the border.

On Thursday, Secretary Napolitano and several aides flew to Tucson to meet with local Border Patrol brass. The Obama administration obviously has a mess on its hands, and Napolitano does not want it to blow up before today's U.S. Senate vote on the Dream Act. They know another murder on the southwest border will not help garner needed votes for the Dream Act, because senators supporting that bill must be able to say with a straight face, "The border is as secure as it has ever been."

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Felipe Calderon's blatant hypocrisy ~ By Pat Boone

Pat Boone writes about the Mexican President's sheer hypocrisy when it comes to Mexico's immigrations laws. Below is the Wolf Blitzer interview with Calderon as seen on CNN's The Situation Room that Pat refers to in his column:

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Calderon and Mexico are experiencing their own brand of "tea party," the grass-roots population-wide revolt against their government and oppression and corruption. But, instead of our Constitution-based, peaceful and electoral tea party, theirs is a veritable witches' brew of crime, violence, drug traffic – and the wholesale illegal departure of 15 million of their citizens desperate to escape to something better.

Mr. Calderon, go back to your own country and keep trying to clean up your own house. We Americans are about to clean up ours at the polls. Our tea party is "We the People."

By Pat Boone

Posted: May 22, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been making a big splash here lately. I'm wondering if our authorities checked his credentials when he entered the country. Probably not … racial profiling and all that, you know.

But the major news channels all dutifully trumpeted and broadcast his address to Congress, in which he lectured America on how we should conduct our immigration policy. After complimenting us on our history and standing in the world, he stated emphatically his disapproval of Arizona's recent announcement that the state will more strictly enforce our immigration laws. He paraphrased President Obama's earlier remarks about the Arizona stance not being reflective of America's moral code and ethical standards.

You may have seen the reaction on TV: Speaker Pelosi jumped to her feet and applauded wildly, at which the whole left side of the hall (the Democratic side) also stood and applauded, while the whole right side (the Republican side, of course) sat stolid and non-approving – much the same reaction as that of our Supreme Court justices when Obama chided them in front of the world for a decision he disagreed with.

Even without any approval or support from the right side of Congress, I'm sure both presidents were gratified by their mutual support of each other and Calderon's lecturing statements, which would immediately and repeatedly be spread abroad by the obedient media.

But amazingly, the Mexican president, after a congratulatory visit to the White House, granted one in-person TV interview, with Wolf Blitzer of CNN.

He probably deeply regrets doing that now.

To his great credit, Blitzer really pinned Calderon down on his own country's immigration policies and enforcement of its laws. Blitzer had actually read Mexico's laws – which have been, and are, far tougher on illegals entering their country than America's are on illegals here!

They've never been a secret. Surely you, like I, have read the horror stories about Americans stranded in Mexico after money and passports were lost or stolen. About the extortion by authorities, and imprisonments in notorious Mexican jails and, in the last several years, the disappearance and murders of visitors by rampant criminal gangs.

I remember several fact-based TV movies about tourists being extricated from prisons in Mexico, once by a heroic helicopter rescue. Even our government has advised against "spring break" visits to Mexico by exuberant American college students – because of real dangers caused by rampant lawlessness, corruption, drug cartels and renegade gangs, armed to the teeth and threatening even to Mexican law enforcement.

But it's being more widely revealed and known now: MEXICO'S IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE MUCH, MUCH TOUGHER ON ILLEGALS THAN AMERICA'S. (emphasis my own) And in his interview with Blitzer, Calderon – stammering at times, looking for the right words – had to admit it.

What are some of the provisions of Mexican immigration law?

• Immigrants must speak Mexico's language.
• No bilingual programs in schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business must be conducted in Spanish.
• Foreigners will never be able to hold political office.
• Foreigners will not have the right to vote no matter how long they're in Mexico; Article 33 states, "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country."
• Mexican authorities are ordered to keep track of every single person in the country.
• Foreigners will not be a burden to taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care or other government assistance programs.
• Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned.
• Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons.
• A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison.

Basically, and undeniably, under Mexican law, illegal immigration is (a crime). The General Law of Population says: "A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)

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Arizona is right to defend against foreign invasion ~ By Alan Keyes

Despite the strain on my brain to read some of Alan Keyes' columns, this one is a MUST READ (and remember to keep dictionary.com open in another browser window or tab!). This column will explain why Arizona could pass the law that enforces immigration laws - to protect it's own citizens against a foreign invasion - and why it does not infringe on the federal laws. As Alan will explain, there is plenty of support for what Arizona has done in the Constitution of the United States, and he provides the evidence and excellent examples.

Common sense rebels against this idiocy, which is why the framers of the U.S. Constitution allowed for areas of concurrent jurisdiction by the states and the federal government. Where the federal government is actively seeking to enforce federal law in such matters, it makes sense to recognize the primacy of its jurisdiction. But it is evident insanity to insist that, when federal officials unlawfully refuse to investigate, apprehend and prosecute criminal acts that directly damage the people of a state, this unlawful dereliction is constitutionally enjoined upon the state's government.

By Alan Keyes

Posted: April 30, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

"On the other hand, when the citizens are all more or less equal, it becomes difficult to defend their freedom from the encroachments of power. No one among them being any longer strong enough to struggle alone with success, only the combination of the forces of all is able to guarantee liberty. But such a combination is not always forthcoming." (Tocqueville, "Democracy in America," Part I, Chapter 3)

Sometimes clear and simple observations offer the key to understanding complex and gravely important crises. So it is with Alexis de Tocqueville's observation about the inverse relationship between the equality of citizens in a free republic and their ability to keep liberty from being destroyed by abuses of government power. Many Americans have begun to realize that the liberty we have taken for granted in the United States is now being assaulted by a range of powerful political, economic and social forces. Some have also realized that these forces can no longer be exclusively identified with one or the other of the two abusively entrenched political parties. Both parties appear to be dominated at that national level by elitist forces aiming to replace the sovereignty of the American people with an oligarchic form of government that uses the outward appearance of election by the people to legitimize outcomes predetermined by a coalition of elites. These elite forces are deceptively diverse in outward appearance, but they are actually united in their contemptuous distaste for (and impatience with) democratic republican liberty.

Nowhere is the ironic unity of these elites more apparent than when dealing with the issue of illegal immigration. Acting from a common-sense instinct for self-preservation, the decisive majority of the American people oppose the elite, bipartisan policy that has willfully neglected the security of America's borders; purposefully refused to enforce laws against illegal immigration; and persistently sought or implemented measures (amnesty, a shortened path to citizenship, lax supervision of the voters' rolls, etc.) that may carelessly dump millions of new so-called citizens into the electorate with no regard for the parlous state of their allegiance to or identification with the democratic, federal republic established by the Constitution of the United States.

As a case in point, consider the reaction of the supposedly competing major parties to Arizona's effort to respect and cooperate with federal laws against illegal immigration. The Obama faction deploys its now commonplace arsenal of race-baiting verbal terrorism, along with menaces of U.S. government action against any state that dares to heed and obey federal laws they mean to disobey and defy. At the same time, well-known or rising GOP figures join in the irrational and unwarranted chorus of criticism.

All appear to believe that state law enforcement officials have no right to recognize and apprehend those suspected of federal crimes. They decry the idea that state legislatures may pass laws that subject suspects to arrest and turn them over to federal authorities. Let's ignore the fact that, as a general rule, this would wreak havoc in other areas of concurrent state and federal jurisdiction (with respect to criminal acts like murder, bank robbery or extortion, for example). Do they mean to say that the forces of local law enforcement should henceforth do nothing to interfere with people who have violated federal laws? Or is it only federal immigration laws that they wish them to disregard? Do they want state legislatures to remove from the books any state statutes that make criminals liable to prosecution at the state level for acts also made criminal by federal law? This will come as a great relief to people growing marijuana and/or making and distributing other forms of intoxicants as part of the deadly international drug trade.

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Adios, Baby! ~ By Barbara Simpson

The news this week will be continuing on the Arizona bill signed last week by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, as the the debate. Barbara Simpson discusses just some of the debate that you will hear about. I also included a related video that I uploaded to youtube yesterday, which supports the fact that this is not a issue that is going to fade away anytime soon.  In fact, it will be heating up even more because of the talk of trying to get an amnesty - er, I mean, immigration reform - bill through Congress at their earliest convenience.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., calls Republicans 'mean spirited and anti-immigrant." He says immigrants shouldn't vote and people should boycott Arizona.

A Phoenix protest almost turned violent with accusations of racial profiling and goals to "get rid of us." Other claims: "This is not a Latino fight. This is a fight against hate."

A 13-year-old American citizen, Emilio Almodovar, told the Associated Press, "We can't walk to school anymore. We can't be in the streets anymore without the pigs thinking we're illegal immigrants."


Oh, yeah, that's the kind of American citizen we want.

By Barbara Simpson

Posted: April 26, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

There'll be quite a scene in Washington May 19 if Mexican President Felipe Calderon keeps his date to address a joint session of Congress. He'll also be honored at a White House state dinner.

The cool, calculating and composed U.S. president is going to have his hands full that day trying to navigate diplomacy and the almost guaranteed uproar about immigration that will test decorum on every level.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the official visit last week, she called Calderon "our neighbor and friend" and said we'd be looking forward to hearing his "message to the American people and his views on ways to strengthen our border communities, fight organized crime and reinforce the essential partnership between our two nations."

From the sound of that, Calderon will have his hands full, too, since he and his government are mightily upset that last Friday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the toughest law in the country dealing with illegal aliens.

Brewer was under huge pressure to veto the bill, by everyone from Mexican officials to immigrant rights groups, clergy and, of course U.S. politicians

The bill requires police, when there's probable cause, to ask people about their immigration status and ask for identification to back it up, and it allows arrest. Police would still work with ICE and the Border Patrol in dealing with illegals.

Brewer said, "We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act. But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation."

On Wednesday, Brewer called on Washington to deploy National Guard to the border. The AP quoted her: The responsibility to ensure that we have an orderly, secure border – not just some imaginary line or a rickety fence – belongs to the federal government, and it has failed.

Brewer said she asked President Obama five times for troops to be deployed; nothing was done.

Persistent federal inaction has resulted in Arizona being the most heavily trafficked state for illegals (most from Mexico, but in fact, people from across the world) in addition to organized and violent cartels smuggling drugs, guns and humans.

The value of that illegal "cargo" is in the multi-millions annually. With so much at stake, it's no wonder that violence and danger to innocent civilians veers out of control.

Illegals fan out to every state. Some work but others are part of criminal gangs, which have staked out turfs and have no compunction about using extreme violence to protect them.

The flood of illegals inundates Arizona, but every border state has the same problem and drug-cartel violence crosses the border with greater and greater regularity.

A month ago, Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was shot and killed on his ranch near the border. His last phone message was that he was going to investigate illegals on his property. Krentz was known for helping illegals with food and water and medical help.

The suspect is an illegal, likely involved with drug running. He was tracked back to the border. The investigation is ongoing and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told me it looks promising.

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The Back Door Way to Ignore the Bill of Rights ~ By Jacob G. Hornberger

By Jacob G. Hornberger (The Future of Freedom Foundation) Among the most shocking aspects of Barack Obama’s presidency so far has been his embrace of the power that George W. Bush assumed to incarcerate people suspected of terrorism for the rest of their lives, without a jury trial to determine whether they are in fact guilty of the offense. There is absolutely no reason why Obama and any future president cannot expand that power to other federal criminal offenses, including drug crimes and gun crimes. Let’s keep in mind, after all, that terrorism is a federal criminal offense. It was a federal criminal offense before 9/11 and it continued to be one after 9/11. Under America’s system of justice, people suspected of having committed a criminal offense are indicted by federal grand juries and tried in federal district court. Examples of criminal defendants who have been indicted and convicted of terrorism in federal court include Ramzi Yousef, Zacharias Moussaoui, and Jose Padilla. One of the fundamental principles of a criminal trial is the presumption of innocence. In order to get a conviction, the government must overcome that presumption with sufficient competent evidence that convinces a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is, in fact, guilty of the offense. What was so revolutionary about what George W. Bush did was that he took a federal criminal offense and simply converted it into an illegal act of war, which he said gave the government the power, at its option, to incarcerate a suspected violator of the terrorism statutes for life, without the benefit of trial by jury to determine whether he really committed the offense. Now, consider the war on drugs. Since the president has been permitted the power to declare terrorism an illegal act of war, thereby enabling him to treat suspected terrorists as illegal enemy combatants (or criminal defendants, at his option), there is absolutely no reason why he cannot do the same in the war on drugs or the war on guns (or any other federal criminal offense), especially given that many of the terrorists are using the drug trade to finance their terrorist operations and given that drug lords are using guns to commit their murders. Each year, the drug lords kill far more people than the number of people that the terrorists are killing in the United States. The many thousands of people being killed every year in Mexico include Mexican law-enforcement agents, judges, and other government officials. [CONTINUE READING]

One Lone Ranger Rides Again To Legalize Dope ~ By Mary Ann Akers

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Howard Wooldridge has one of the craziest jobs: trying to convince 535 of the most uptight people in Washington - the entire membership of Congress - to legalize drugs. That means everything from marijuana to cocaine to heroin. The idea isn't quite as far-fetched as you may think. The more money the United States spends on fighting a drug war that has spiraled out of control in Mexico, the more interest Congress seems to be taking in talk of decriminalization. "For the first time since I've been here, the "L" word, legalization, has been used in subcommittee hearings as a solution to the violence and Mexican cartels," says Wooldridge, a cowboy and retired police detective who three years ago became the lobbyist for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, known as LEAP. A handful of lawmakers have endorsed legalization of marijuana, including Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas). [Continue reading]

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Destroy Cartels With "Genius Bomb" of Marijuana Legalization

by Linda Valdez Mar. 15, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Imagine you had a really smart bomb - a genius bomb - that could blow up the leaders of every drug cartel in Mexico. By the time the smoke cleared, a new pusher would be sitting in every cartel's big chair and the distribution networks would continue satisfying the demand of every junkie and recreational-drug user in America. Mexico's drug cartels would continue to be, in the words of the Justice Department's National Drug Threat Assessment for 2009, "the greatest drug-trafficking threat to the United States." [Continue reading]

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Border blunders - By Barbara Simpson

Mexico, especially along the U.S. border, has turned into a virtual shooting gallery because of drug and weapons trafficking. Thousands of assault weapons are smuggled into Mexico every week. But pay attention: It could be used as a pretense to reinstitute the U.S. ban on the sale of assault rifles as Atty General Eric Holder is now suggesting. read more | digg story

Raising a white flag in the drug war - By Vox Day

Like every previous left-wing pseudo-war (LBJ's "war on poverty"), the Conservative's "war on drugs" has been a complete debacle, has cost billions of dollars without realizing a single one of its objectives, and has accomplished little more than increasing the size and scope of federal power. There's nothing conservative about the war on drugs. read more | digg story Related Story: Troops coming to border war - By Patrick J. Buchanan