OBAMA THE ACTOR EXPRESSES…. “outrage”…. Then opens the borders wider for more illegals!
“President Obama expressed outrage Sunday over the broad-daylight massacre in Juarez of a pregnant American U.S. consular employee and her husband, which left their 1-year-old baby wailing in the back of their car.”
AP BOMBSHELL: “US DRUG WAR HAS MET NONE OF ITS GOALS”
By TONY NEWMAN
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE NETWORK
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• $49 billion for law enforcement along America's borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.
The Associated Press has just dropped a bombshell on America's longest running war and the headline says it all: "The US Drug War has Met None of its Goals".
The extensive piece reviews the last 40 years, starting with President Nixon's official launch of the War on Drugs all the way to President Obama's annual strategy released this week.
I have been the director of media relations at the Drug Policy Alliance for ten years and this is one of the hardest hitting indictments against the drug war I've ever seen. And because the story comes from the Associated Press, it will run in hundreds of papers around the world, reaching tens of millions of people.
The piece packs a punch from the start: "After 40 years, the United States' War on Drugs has cost $1 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence more brutal and widespread."
Using Freedom of Information Act requests, archival records, federal budgets, and interviews with leaders and analysts, the AP tracked where that money went -- and found that the U.S. repeatedly increased budgets for programs that did nothing to stop the flow of drugs. The AP article states that in 40 years taxpayers spent more than:
• $20 billion to fight the drug gangs in their home countries. In Colombia, for example, the United States spent more than6 billion, while coca cultivation increased and trafficking moved to Mexico - and the violence along with it.
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• $33 billion in marketing "Just Say No"-style messages to America's youth and other prevention programs. High school students report the same rates of illegal drug use as they did in 1970, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug overdoses have "risen steadily" since the early 1970s to more than 20,000 last year.
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• $49 billion for law enforcement along America's borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.
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• $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.
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• $450 billion to lock those people up in federal prisons alone. Last year, half of all federal prisoners in the U.S. were serving sentences for drug offenses.
Former Drug Czar John Walters sounds personally insulted by the argument that the war on drugs has been a failure. "To say that all the things that have been done in the war on drugs haven't made any difference is ridiculous," Walters said."It destroys everything we've done. It's saying all the people involved in law enforecment, treatment and prevention have been wasting their time. It's saying all these people's work is misguided."
Yes, Mr. Walters, the tanks, bullets, prison bars and "reefer madness" have been misguided. Prohibition didn't work with alcohol in the '30s, it didn't work in our 40-year War on Drugs, and it never will.
It is time for an exit strategy from this failed War on Drugs. Let's make sure that it doesn't take another 40 years, millions more lives ruined, and billions of wasted tax dollars before we accept the obvious solution -- ending prohibition. It's up to us - as people who care about science, compassion, health, and human rights -- to make sure that the time comes as soon as possible.
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Mexico's Drug War Hits Home
Posted 03/15/2010 07:17 PM ET
A Mexican policewoman carries an injured American baby who survived a machine-gun attack that killed the child's parents in Juarez on Saturday. The... View Enlarged Image
Drug War: The killings of a U.S. consular official and two others in Juarez Saturday are a reminder that Mexico's war is our war, too. If targeting Americans is next, then the U.S. must get tougher.
President Obama expressed outrage Sunday over the broad-daylight massacre in Juarez of a pregnant American U.S. consular employee and her husband, which left their 1-year-old baby wailing in the back of their car. Within 10 minutes, a second attack by machine-gun-toting thugs killed the husband of another U.S. consular employee and injured his two children, ages 4 and 7, traveling in a separate car. All were returning from the same child's birthday party.
Killings like this in the border city near El Paso are so numerous the State Department cautions against assuming it was a targeted hit — "although we are not discounting anything," said spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet.
The death toll in the Mexican drug war has hit 19,000 now, with Juarez the worst-hit. Over the weekend, 50 people were killed elsewhere in Mexico.
"It's part of the violence that's a huge problem in the area," said Luoma-Overstreet. "These hit close to home."
But these killings raise very ugly possibilities. Given the victims' ties to the American government, it's possible Americans are now being singled out. There's a scary logic here: The U.S. contributes $1.6 billion in equipment and training through the Merida Initiative to help Mexico fight cartels, and these barbarians want it pulled.
Last March, U.S. agents caught Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Shorty Guzman on his cell phone ordering his smugglers to "use weapons to defend their loads" against U.S. lawmen on the other side of the border. Attacks on U.S. lawmen were up 25% in 2009, a sign he was serious.
The fact that U.S. helicopters, training and intelligence have forced the Mexican drug cartels to shift routes, fight each other more viciously, and cut out middleman in their dealings with suppliers — the FARC terrorists of Colombia — suggest a reason for the consular killings.
Like wolves, traffickers grow less afraid with exposure.
If so, the U.S. must recondition them to a state of fear. That won't be accomplished by pulling consular personnel out, as was ordered over the weekend. The U.S. will have to start acting as if it's at war — just as the cartels do.
First, border security must stiffen. If Mexican traffickers are getting guns from the U.S., then where's the border fence? According to the latest report, the electronic fence won't be finished until 2017 due to environmental
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon started his crackdown on drug cartels and corrupt law enforcement two years ago, more than 4,000 people have been killed. The death toll among law
enforcement has topped 500. Kidnappings and violence are spreading across the border, and now the AP reports Mexican cartels have green-lighted hits against targets in the U.S. We’ll talk to Phoenix police about becoming the kidnapping capital of the nation and the rapid increase in other crimes linked to Mexico the city is coping with.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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EVEN AS THE MEX DRUG CARTELS POUR OVER OUR BORDERS, OBAMA HAS TAKEN HUNDREDS MORE GUARD OFF SINCE SEPT 2009! AND THE OBAMA DECLARES “BORDER SECURITY” IS THE HALLMARK OF HIS PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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FAIRUS.org
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
FAIR CHARACTERIZES THE OBAMA, AND LA RAZA DEMS PLAN FOR AMNESTY AS FOLLOWS:
That's why, throughout 2009 FAIR has been tracking every move the administration and Congress has made to undermine our immigration laws, reward illegal aliens and burden taxpayers.
• Foot-dragging on proven methods of immigration law enforcement including border structures and E-Verify.
• Appointment of several illegal alien advocates to important administration posts.
• Watering down of the 287(g) program to limit local law in their own jurisdictions.
• Health care reform that mandates a “public option” for newly-arrived legal immigrants as well as illegal aliens.
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