Staples and Generals Call Out Feds on Border Security
The former head of the U.S. Armed Forces Southern Command said Monday that if the United States does not provide more support to Mexico, that country's next presidential administration may have no choice but to make a deal with cartel leaders.
“The situation on the border has gotten worse, it’s going to get worse in the coming years,” said retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, a four-star general who also served as President Bill Clinton’s Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “We are facing a Mexican election in which the next administration ...
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John Longoria via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What does Barry know about border security? Jobs = border crossing.
Roy Ortega via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What world are those folks living in? I live on the border and security on the U.S. side is well under control thanks to unprecedented cooperation between local, state and federal agencies. What are they talking about?
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Make a deal with the cartels?? SERIOUSLY??? This Prez seems to look at the facts & thinks "how can I make this worse" & that's his plan...
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Merryl says "This Prez seems to look at the facts & thinks "how can I make this worse" & that's his plan..."
Really? You got that, from this article. Fail comperhension? Amazing!
John Cobarruvias via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is news? Where have you been over the last 30 years? Where was flathead staples (really, the guy has a flathead like he slept on a flat rock) when his buddy bush was in office?
Jon Roland
This problem didn't just develop recently, and it is not just about the narcotrafficantes trying to seize control of land in border counties. They are also trying to compromise officials along transshipment corridors and hubs all the way to the cities of this country. I have been warning about it for years. It was discussed in an article in 1999 by lawyer Joseph Delaney:
"... the proportion of judges who are dishonest, who are on the take, who harbor prejudices against parties or counsel, is far greater than the lay public realizes. ... Corruption is rampant in courts at every level throughout the country. It is equally rampant among prosecutors and law enforcement people. ... The primary corrupting influence is the drug business. ... the dope interests own contemporary justice. ... There is no greater shock than to find that even with both law and the facts in your favor your constitutional rights are worthless because you can't get the crooked regime to enforce them."
Just because U.S. citizens aren't seeing overt violence on our side of the border to themselves yet doesn't mean the corruption is not becoming entrenched or will not be a problem even for them in the future. The cartels are trying to turn the U.S. into Mexico, with its endemic corruption at all levels of society.
Wally Parnel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Agreed John, we, the citizens of Texas created this mess, by electin Bush/Perry types into office in the first place. Ridiculous gun laws fueled this mess, and still, nothing is being done except talk talk killing killing. Its amazing the amount of money being made by gun shops, gun manufacturing, gun smuggling, and murder. Semiautomatic(easily made automatic) weapons are doing what they are made for........murdering women, children, police, etc.When are the votes going to get serious about stopping this?
gypsy314 ne
Man here we go again taking on other country's problems. Mexico has never had any thing good to say about America. They are always complaining we are the devil to there illegal immigrates that are draining our system. I say let Mexico fix there own problems and pull there citizens back to there own country and go protest in the streets of Mexico. Never know maybe the protesting will be a good start in Mexico since they have practice here.
Ken Trout
Mexico needs to protect its own citizens. They receive more than enough money from the ILLEGAL ALIENS submitting money back to their families.
America DOES NOT need to give Mexico any more money! Use that money to build our border fences and to put more boots on the ground (our troops from Iraq and Afghan),
Mexico can take the money from the corrupt politicians and the rich and use it to take on the cartel and protect Mexico's citizens.
NO MORE MONEY FROM AMERICA!!!!
Anthony Martinez
For folks like Staples, simply seeing a brown person in their neighborhood is a form of "spillover violence." We all know that's what's going on here.
By the way, for a much better written story on the same subject, read from the border community willing to speak truth to power: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18984201?source=most_viewed
What I absolutely love about Republicans is that they always know how to rationalize a lie. They've turned it into an art form, really.
gypsy314 ne
A. Martinez wake the hell up look were your dictator has gotten you. He is nothing but a lie and all you liberals. Sooner we replace you folks the better this country will be. I here China will take you in.
Jon Roland
See DOJ: ‘Mexican-Based Trafficking Organizations Control Access to the U.S.–Mexico Border’ at http://cnsnews.com/news/article/doj-mexican-based-trafficking-organizations-control-access-us-mexico-border
Joe Blow
America needs to end the drug war to end the violence! We all ready have the war on Terror. The drug war is another war that America will never win. If America keep fighting it they can't say the won, nor can they say they lost. Just another war to make us broke and the elites rich till the country falls apart and ceases to exist.
Jon Roland
We might have prevented the violence if the drug war had been ended 40 years ago, but now that the gangs are organized, they are making even more money from extortion, kidnapping, and selling illegal products of other kinds. Decriminalizing narcotics would cut their revenue, but they would continue, just as the Mafia did when Prohibition was ended. They have discovered they can displace the regular institutions of government, collecting "taxes" and even providing "services". The cartels are on their way to becoming the government of Mexico, and if we don't take action, they may become the government of the U.S. as well.