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The Threat Just Inside Our Door

hypocritexposer

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National Security: The Defense Department warns that the cartels making Mexico a war zone are operating easily here too. And a secret U.S. report leaked in Mexico warns of even worse. So why isn't anyone talking about it?

To hear Janet Napolitano tell it, as she did March 25 at El Paso's Bridge of the Americas, security at the U.S.-Mexican border "is better now than it ever has been." The secretary of homeland security has since denounced those warning of Mexico's war spilling into the U.S. as "simply inaccurate" and dismissed warnings from state leaders from Texas to California as nothing but bids to score "political points."

But it's Napolitano who's playing politics, as evidenced by statements she's made that stand in contrast to what the rest of the government says and knows.

On Tuesday, William F. Wechler, deputy assistant secretary of defense, told a Senate armed services subcommittee on emerging global threats that "all of your constituencies are under threat."

"It is important to recognize," Wechler testified, "that when we discuss the transnational nature of this threat, this includes criminal activities that take place outside as well as within the United States.

"The drug trade is inherently associated with creating instability" and is "often a localized funding source for insurgent and criminal groups."

As for Mexico's cartels, he said they operate in Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit. Amazingly enough, that was an understatement.

According to an internal Justice Department report leaked to Mexico's El Universal this week and available only in Spanish, Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have affiliates in at least 1,286 U.S. cities, with 143 reporting directly to cartel leaders.

Translating from the El Universal report, InsightCrime.com said the Sinaloa Cartel, run by Mexico's biggest kingpin, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, operates in 75 U.S. cities.

The Zetas, a separate organization known for beheadings, operate in 37. Then there's the Gulf Cartel operating in 37 cities, the Juarez Cartel in 33, the Beltran-Leyva Organization in 30, La Familia in 27 and the Tijuana cartel in 21.

That would explain why Phoenix has seen beheadings, Las Vegas has seen child kidnappings, Los Angeles has seen freeway shootings and both El Paso and Brownsville, Texas, have seen the murder of American college students.

No such news, however, has been forthcoming from the U.S. press, and Napolitano dismisses as politics warnings from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who last year notified President Obama of "a dire threat massing on our border."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=569220&p=1
 

Steve

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Mexican gangs are not limited to cities. over the last few years we have seen alot of drug busts, and they keep getting bigger and more people with hispanic names and gang tats keep showing up on the list of those arrested.

and the rapes and other crimes seem to be escalating as well..
 

Tam

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Napolitano is a twit she would not know the truth if it ran right over top of her. According to her the system worked prefectly during the Christmas day bomber's very close call. :roll:

If she says anything more investigation will more than likely prove otherwise. :roll:
 
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