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发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 14, 2012 By Steve Young
Mexico’s drug cartels have been battling each other in a furious, violent,
and bloody war that has been going on for the past decade. After a lull in
the fighting during the late 1990s, the violence has steadily worsened since
2000.
The violence is at its worst right along Mexico’s northern border with the
United States where drug cartels are at war in efforts to try to secure
control to safe routes to the U.S. The increased level of violence and
lawlessness even pressed our own State Department in recently declaring that
parts of Mexico are not a safe travel destination for Americans.
While the many news stories of increased violence have been main topics of
discussions among the media, the one story that came out of Mexico over the
weekend should be most unsettling and disturbing to anyone valuing security
of our nation. Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday
dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey
(Mexico’s ninth largest city with over 1.1 million inhabitants) to the U.S
. border in what appeared to be the latest blow in an escalating war of
intimidation among drug gangs. (see AP story)
The Mexican government’s instability in its war against the drug cartels,
especially so close to our southern border, is nothing short of a clear and
present danger to the security of our nation.
President Obama and open borders advocates can poke fun at legislators and
citizens’ groups who demand border security and enforcement of immigration
laws, and DHS secretary Janet Napolitano can go on TV and claim that the
border has never been so secure, but we know otherwise. The fact is that
according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) less than half of
the 2,000 miles separating the U.S. and Mexico is “operationally controlled
” by the Border Patrol, and only 129 miles are under “full control.”
It’s time to get serious about securing our borders before it’s too late. | P*********0
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