“Mexican drug cartels, South Asian heroin-trafficking clans, and traditional crime families from Asia and the former Soviet-bloc countries are continuing threats, Ogden said.”
THROUGH OUR BORDERS, WHICH THE LA RAZA DEMS HAVE VOWED TO KEEP OPEN AND UNDEFENDED, THE MEXICAN DRUGSTERS AND GANGS HAVE POURED IN. NOW MEXICAN GANGS ARE IN MOST CITIES IN CALIFORNIA, AND HAVE SPREAD OVER MOST THE COUNTRY.
LAST WEEK OBAMA REMOVED 400 BORDER PATROL GUARDS FROM THE U.S. NARCOmex BORDER.
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Global stance against organized crime is urged at Interpol conference
Deputy U.S. Atty. Gen. David Ogden says intelligence agencies need to cooperate better to combat crime syndicates, which are increasingly teaming up with terrorist networks.
By Josh Meyer
October 13, 2009
Reporting from Washington
An aggressive global response is needed to counter organized crime syndicates, which are increasingly teaming up with terrorist networks and drug traffickers, U.S. and international law enforcement officials said Monday at a conference in Singapore.
Deputy U.S. Atty. Gen. David Ogden and some of his counterparts, speaking at the 78th general assembly of the global police agency Interpol, acknowledged that they needed to cooperate better on many fronts.
Of particular interest, they said, are emerging money-laundering pipelines that are enabling crime syndicates to flourish in terrorist hot spots such as Pakistan and Afghanistan and other strategic locations, including Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Ogden told delegates that they needed to act more forcefully to combat transnational organized crime groups whose proceeds now comprise up to 15% of the global gross domestic product.
In his speech and in a recent interview with The Times, Ogden said the criminal groups' newfound economic clout had enabled some to neutralize and co-opt a wide array of political, judicial and law enforcement institutions, especially in countries destabilized by conflict or economic depression.
Mexican drug cartels, South Asian heroin-trafficking clans, and traditional crime families from Asia and the former Soviet-bloc countries are continuing threats, Ogden said.
He told the delegates that "criminal organizations can and do use their economic power to target individual public officials, public institutions and even entire countries to look for new victims and new markets. We are now witnessing in many parts of the world what U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy almost a half-century ago presciently condemned in my own country as the 'private government of organized crime.' "
Ogden added that the lack of coordinated response by law enforcement agencies had allowed the crime syndicates to become stronger, better-equipped and able to forge closer ties with one another and with terrorist groups and corrupt government officials.
"Encumbered in many ways, law enforcement has not been as quick to adapt to globalization, and criminals are well aware of this fact," Ogden said.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, speaking at the conference Monday, said his country had experienced first-hand the dangerous synergy among Al Qaeda, radical Islamic militants and organized crime and drug-trafficking groups.
"Terrorists have no boundaries, no religion," he said, according to the Associated Press. "This is the time we have to sit together and put our heads together. The cooperation needs to be even more effective."
Interpol, which is based in Lyon, France, has been struggling since its inception in 1923 to coordinate global crime-fighting efforts.
Ogden and other delegates urged their colleagues to work more closely with the international agency.
Ogden and other delegates also warned that law enforcement agencies needed to boost intelligence sharing and support the passage of strong laws to combat money laundering and to make it easier to seize criminal assets.
They said law enforcement agencies must stop feuding over turf and needed to weed out corrupt officials so there could be greater trust among agencies.
In his interview with The Times, Ogden said he was trying to forge closer cooperation among at least nine U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, in part through the creation of a new International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center.
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FBI DIRECTOR: GANGS 2006
"The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - street gang is following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia. MS-13, has a significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford said.
"The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford, director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force."
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INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually
53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes".
47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens
66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.
BIRTH STATISTICS 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens.
97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers
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