MEXICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT COMPETING WITH DRUG CARTELS
By
Michael Cutler
June 26, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
The
news article "Man
accused in border agent's death said freed in Mexico" provides
graphic evidence of why it is all but impossible for the United States
to enter into a working relationship with the officials of the Mexican
government.
The notorious Zetas are members of Mexican law enforcement and the military
who benefited from receiving training and supplies enable them to combat
narcotics trafficking from our government who put their tactical training
to use by working for the very same drug cartels they were supposed
to combat! Today the Zetas are actually competing with the drug cartels
for control of the lucrative drug trade. This competition is, in large
measure, responsible for the extreme escalation in violence in Mexico
and especially along the US / Mexican border. Since Mexican President
Calderón took office, more than 4,000 people have been killed
in Mexico as a result of that violence that has been spilling across
our border with Mexico.
Last year, President Bush and Mexican President Calderón created
the Merida Initiative, a program intended to bolster Mexico’s
crackdown on drug and criminal rings. Under this program our governments
would purchase equipment and provide training in the U.S. to help Mexican
law enforcement intercept trafficked drugs, arms, cash, and persons.
This plan emphasizes training to strengthen judicial systems, law enforcement,
and witness protection programs. The initiative would also incorporate
technology to improve and secure communications systems to better collect
information.
This raises the extremely serious question as to how our government
will prevent a repeat of the disaster that resulted in the creation
of the Zetas. Throwing money and training at a corrupt government will
undoubtedly run the risk of further undermining our efforts that are
designed to combat corruption and violence if the money and training
is funneled into those whose ultimate goal is to learn our tactics,
steal the weapons and other equipment and benefit from our intelligence
for nefarious purposes.
I fear that providing money and training to the Mexican authorities
may be comparable to providing "protection money" to Tony
Soprano and his cohorts!
That a judge would release the alleged killer of a United States Border
Patrol agent is an outrage that is emblematic of the challenges we face
in dealing with a corrupt government. The release of the murderer of
our Border Patrol agent, however, will probably go all but unnoticed
by our politicians who have established an agenda of doing whatever
it takes to entice ever more Mexican citizens and citizens of other
countries to enter our country in violation of law to provide cheap
labor for those who make the deep-pocketed campaign contributions.
You really have to wonder how any Border Patrol agent goes to work each
day when you consider the drastic increase in violence along the Mexican
Border and the fact that Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean have
already had more than a year of their lives stolen from them by their
unjust prosecution for protecting a border that apparently our politicians
and the politicians of Mexico want left wide open!
Today I listened to Senator Barack Obama talk about the need to provide
universal health care and improved education for our children. The senator
has advocated legalizing all of the illegal aliens in our country and
placing them on the path to United States citizenship.
Because there is no way of knowing who these millions of aliens are,
we have no way of knowing their true identities, their true nationalities
or their criminal histories or their potential affiliation with criminal
or terrorist organizations. We also don't know how, where or when they
entered the United States. This means that given the situation along
our borders, should our nation be insane to the point of creating the
sort of amnesty program advocated by both Senators Obama and McCain,
there would be no way to turn anyone away who shows up at an immigration
office seeking to participate in such a program.
Back in the early 1980's when Senator Ted Kennedy advocated the disastrous
amnesty program of 1986 he said that this "one time program"
would involve some 1.1 million aliens. In point of fact, nearly 4 million
illegal aliens availed themselves of the opportunity to participate
in the program including a number of terrorists. It has been suggested
that there were two reasons that nearly four times as many aliens participated
in the program than had been originally estimated. First of all, there
may have been an undercounting of the number of aliens who were present
in the United States in violation of law. More significantly, however,
was the fact that many illegal aliens simply entered the United States
long after the deadline for being eligible for participation and there
was no way of investigating the four million applications.
Today it is estimated that from 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens
live in the United States. If history repeats itself, then it should
be anticipated that if our politicians ram an amnesty program down our
throats, that some 40 million illegal aliens will show up on our doorstep
seeking United States citizenship!
We won't know anything about them other than what they tell us about
themselves!
Senator's stated goal of providing education and health care for our
people is a worthwhile goal, however, how many illegal aliens would
such a program entice to run our borders and take advantage of such
an opportunity?
How much would this ultimately cost our nation?
Meanwhile criminals and terrorists would, no doubt, also avail themselves
of what they would have to see as an irresistible opportunity to acquire
lawful status in our country under an assumed identity. The much vaunted
"security check" will simply require that each alien applicant's
name and fingerprints be run through a database. Fictitious names would,
obviously, disclose no relating record and any alien who had managed
to not get arrested in our country would be approved through this fatally
flawed system.
Meanwhile, alien smugglers such as Jesus Navarro Montes, the murder
suspect in the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar,
have to be emboldened by the apparent ease with which Navarro Montes
was able to slime his way out of the "criminal justice" system
of Mexico. At the same time, how must our Border Patrol agents feel
about doing their jobs?
Our government is quick to tout the lower number of Border Patrol apprehensions
as evidence that our nation's efforts to secure the border are more
effective. Perhaps they are, but I have to wonder how many agents are
simply "looking the other way" to avoid deadly confrontations
where if they don't get killed or badly injured, they may find themselves
being maliciously prosecuted?
Don't get me wrong, I have high respect for the valiant Border Patrol
agents who go in harm's way each and every day to secure our borders
and protect us- I am just disturbed by the many politicians who don't
respect those agents, their dangerous mission or even our nation's borders,
for that matter!
Our nation is bleeding red and green! More lives are lost to criminal
aliens in our country each year than were lost in the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001. Meanwhile tens of billions of dollars are wired
from the United States to countries all over the world by their citizens
who have violated our immigration laws and often other criminal statutes
as well. The money they send home is money that is lost to our economy
and money that is not being earned by our citizens and lawful resident
aliens.
All too many politicians are not even willing to discuss these issues in meaningful, honest terms. It has been said, "Nero fiddled while Rome burned!" I hereby suggest that We the People hold an awards ceremony each year to cite those politicians who are worthy of the "Nero Award!" I would further suggest that it consist of a trophy in the configuration of a fiddle!
These issues are not about partisanship. I don't believe that anyone joins a political party out of a desire to enter into a suicide pact! The issues of border security and the creation of an immigration system that possesses meaningful integrity are neither Conservative issues nor are they Liberal issues, these are AMERICAN issues!
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We
the People must make it our business to become involved in the debate
and force those who allege to represent us to understand what we demand
of them and our government!
Until now, this has been the job all too many Americans have not been
willing to do- but this must change if our nation and our citizens are
to survive!
© 2008 - Michael Cutler - All Rights Reserved
