ONLY ILLEGALS HAVE MORE CONTEMPT THAN BARACK OBAMA FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, OUR BORDERS and LAWS
OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS
AS HE’S SABOTAGED OUR OWN BORDERS TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS.
WHILE IN OFFICE, ILLEGALS HAVE POURED OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS,
WELFARE, AND VOTING BOOTHS TO VOTE FOR MORE LA RAZA SUPREMACY.
3,400 Border Patrol Agents on the Chopping Block
In
an amazing untold story reflecting President Obama's doubletalk on immigration,
during Tuesday's town hall-style debate with Mitt Romney he claimed
responsibility for putting more Border Patrol agents on our border than ever
before. What he did not say is that come January 2, 2013, the president's
failure of leadership could result in 3,400 Border Patrol agents losing their
jobs. Also on the chopping block are 3,400 Customs and Border Protection
inspectors, 932 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, and
802 ICE deportation and removal officers.
We now learn that budget sequestration — which will slash the federal budget by 9.4 percent in 2013 for discretionary defense appropriations and by 8.2 percent in 2013 for discretionary nondefense appropriations — is actually worse than thought. A law passed 14 months ago required another 1.9 percent reduction in 2013 if the Congressional Super Committee failed to come to agreement on a budget, which is exactly what happened.
October 18, 2012
Janice Kephart
Center for Immigration Studies
Why didn't we know just how bad the cuts would be? Apparently when the Obama administration submitted its report to Congress, it "forgot" the extra 1.9 percent. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently told Congress the amount now will be $60.6 billion rather than the already debilitating $50 billion cuts previously expected. OMB reported exactly where the cuts would be and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, quickly made its key aspects public in a pleading "dear colleague" letter to fellow members of Congress, asking for cooperation to solve the pending budget disaster.
While the White House is reported to be asking other Democrats and those affected in the defense sector to stay "mum" regarding the cuts until after the election, the fact is that keeping quiet likely will not induce the president to divert from campaigning to force a budget compromise on Congress and further economic collapse on Americans.
To make an obvious point even more obvious, sequestration will enhance and underscore Obama's open border policies. Border agents are already operating in the wake of failed southwest border security policies that have left both civilians and U.S. immigration agents dead on both sides of the border and placed hundreds of guns in drug lords' hands in and out of the United States. President Obama failed to acknowledge either issue in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney.
Rep. Dicks' letter presents alarming concerns. Below are the key excerpts from the 15-page letter explaining current sequestration requirements and what they mean for immigration and border security. Note that only border agents dealing with enforcement are cut; no U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel are included because the agency is almost entirely funded by fees paid by immigrants, businesses, etc. USCIS is responsible for implementing President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) administrative amnesty and is necessary to process applications from those illegal aliens seeking to take advantage of the program.[INDENT]October 9, 2012
Dear Colleague:
My purpose here is to illustrate the consequences of an automatic, across-the-board, uniform percentage reduction prescribed by the Budget Control Act (BCA). This letter will examine the impact of sequestration on the whole range of Federal responsibilities and, I hope, help make the case for Congress to act responsibly by agreeing to a more sensible approach to deficit reduction.
First, let us remember the purpose of sequestration. In an effort to reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion, the BCA captured the initial $1.2 trillion in cuts almost entirely by capping discretionary appropriations over the ten years from FY 2012 to FY 2021. To get the second installment of $1.2 trillion, Congress established the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Concerned, however, that the Congressional Super Committee might require additional motivation to agree on a balanced deficit reduction plan, Republicans and Democrats agreed to sequestration. Sequestration is not so much a back-up plan as an inducement for all sides to reach a compromise. Clearly, any thoughtful, deliberate agreement will be an improvement over the mechanical and indiscriminate nature of sequestration cuts. So the BCA provided plenty of time, more than one full year between the due date for the Joint Committee to propose its recommendations and the imposition of sequestration, to enable Congress and the President to try again.
To be clear: If sequestration takes effect, it is only because it failed to motivate Congressional action as intended. The across-the-board cuts take effect only because the Joint Select Committee failed, and only if, in the ensuing year, Congress and the President fail to reach agreement on a more sensible deficit reduction plan. [emphasis added]
The Sequestration Transparency Act (STA) directed OMB to report on how the Administration interprets the law related to implementing sequestration. On September 14, OMB submitted its report estimating percentage cuts for defense and nondefense appropriations based on assumptions set in the STA:
A reduction of 9.4 percent in 2013 for
discretionary defense (function 050) appropriations for each non-exempt
itemWe now learn that budget sequestration — which will slash the federal budget by 9.4 percent in 2013 for discretionary defense appropriations and by 8.2 percent in 2013 for discretionary nondefense appropriations — is actually worse than thought. A law passed 14 months ago required another 1.9 percent reduction in 2013 if the Congressional Super Committee failed to come to agreement on a budget, which is exactly what happened.
October 18, 2012
Janice Kephart
Center for Immigration Studies
Why didn't we know just how bad the cuts would be? Apparently when the Obama administration submitted its report to Congress, it "forgot" the extra 1.9 percent. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently told Congress the amount now will be $60.6 billion rather than the already debilitating $50 billion cuts previously expected. OMB reported exactly where the cuts would be and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, quickly made its key aspects public in a pleading "dear colleague" letter to fellow members of Congress, asking for cooperation to solve the pending budget disaster.
While the White House is reported to be asking other Democrats and those affected in the defense sector to stay "mum" regarding the cuts until after the election, the fact is that keeping quiet likely will not induce the president to divert from campaigning to force a budget compromise on Congress and further economic collapse on Americans.
To make an obvious point even more obvious, sequestration will enhance and underscore Obama's open border policies. Border agents are already operating in the wake of failed southwest border security policies that have left both civilians and U.S. immigration agents dead on both sides of the border and placed hundreds of guns in drug lords' hands in and out of the United States. President Obama failed to acknowledge either issue in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney.
Rep. Dicks' letter presents alarming concerns. Below are the key excerpts from the 15-page letter explaining current sequestration requirements and what they mean for immigration and border security. Note that only border agents dealing with enforcement are cut; no U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel are included because the agency is almost entirely funded by fees paid by immigrants, businesses, etc. USCIS is responsible for implementing President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) administrative amnesty and is necessary to process applications from those illegal aliens seeking to take advantage of the program.[INDENT]October 9, 2012
Dear Colleague:
My purpose here is to illustrate the consequences of an automatic, across-the-board, uniform percentage reduction prescribed by the Budget Control Act (BCA). This letter will examine the impact of sequestration on the whole range of Federal responsibilities and, I hope, help make the case for Congress to act responsibly by agreeing to a more sensible approach to deficit reduction.
First, let us remember the purpose of sequestration. In an effort to reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion, the BCA captured the initial $1.2 trillion in cuts almost entirely by capping discretionary appropriations over the ten years from FY 2012 to FY 2021. To get the second installment of $1.2 trillion, Congress established the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Concerned, however, that the Congressional Super Committee might require additional motivation to agree on a balanced deficit reduction plan, Republicans and Democrats agreed to sequestration. Sequestration is not so much a back-up plan as an inducement for all sides to reach a compromise. Clearly, any thoughtful, deliberate agreement will be an improvement over the mechanical and indiscriminate nature of sequestration cuts. So the BCA provided plenty of time, more than one full year between the due date for the Joint Committee to propose its recommendations and the imposition of sequestration, to enable Congress and the President to try again.
To be clear: If sequestration takes effect, it is only because it failed to motivate Congressional action as intended. The across-the-board cuts take effect only because the Joint Select Committee failed, and only if, in the ensuing year, Congress and the President fail to reach agreement on a more sensible deficit reduction plan. [emphasis added]
The Sequestration Transparency Act (STA) directed OMB to report on how the Administration interprets the law related to implementing sequestration. On September 14, OMB submitted its report estimating percentage cuts for defense and nondefense appropriations based on assumptions set in the STA:
- A reduction of 8.2 percent in 2013 on discretionary
nondefense appropriations
OMB, in accordance with the STA, looked at only one aspect of sequestration. As another motivation to act, the BCA also set up a second, separate sequestration to enforce the firewall between security and non-security appropriations. Because the Joint Committee failed, a new and lower defense firewall goes into effect, requiring an additional cut in defense spending. Based on levels in the agreed upon continuing resolution for FY 2013, we estimate:
- An additional reduction of 1.9 percent in 2013 only
for discretionary defense (function 050) accounts
...
If Congress fails to replace sequestration with a responsible, long-term deficit reduction plan, Moody's has warned they will downgrade America's credit rating and the Congressional Budget Office notes they will overturn their forecast of steady growth for 2013, predicting another recession with a 9.1 percent unemployment rate. CRS estimates that sequestration alone would result in 1.4 million jobs lost in the same year.
...
Homeland Security Required reductions of budgetary resources for the Department of Homeland Security will roll back significant progress in securing our Nation's borders, increase wait times at our Nation's land ports of entry and airports, impact aviation and maritime safety and security, leave critical infrastructure vulnerable to attacks, hamper disaster response time, and eliminate cyber security infrastructure that has been developed in recent years.
Since the sequester would not be ordered under the BCA until January, federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security would be forced to compensate for the first quarter of spending with even greater budget cuts through the rest of the year.
Over 24,500 jobs could be lost to achieve reduced funding levels including:
- 3,400 Border Patrol agents — a reduction in Border
Patrol agents to below FY 2009 levels, from an anticipated 21,370 agents
to 17,970; a cut of this magnitude would significantly impact progress
along the Southwest Border. DHS would not be able to maintain the minimum
number of 21,370 agents set by P.L. 112-74.
- 3,400 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers
— a reduction in CBP Officers to below FY 2007 on-board levels, from an
anticipated 21,775 Officers to 18,375; this reduction will significantly
increase wait times at our Nation's land ports of entry.
932 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Special Agents – a decrease of this magnitude would significantly impact
efforts to investigate crimes involving counter-proliferation, terrorism,
and transnational threats.
- 802 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operation positions
– These cuts to on-board levels will significantly roll back progress
that has resulted in record-high removals of illegal criminal aliens this
past year.
Where possible, DHS and its Components would attempt to avoid cutting frontline positions. However, as stated by OMB in its report to Congress, "No amount of planning can mitigate the effect of these cuts.
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MIGUEL ANGEL TREVINO
MORALES. THE MEXICAN DRUG LORD TERRORIST FROM
DALLAS, ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA, Hispandering president for OPEN BORDERS.
BARACK OBAMA IS DESPERATE FOR
MEXICO TO INVADE AND OCCUPY. FOR OBAMA, LA RAZA “THE RACE” ARE “CHEAP” LABOR
FOR HIS WALL STREET PAYMASTERS, AND UNREGISTERED VOTERS.
DEMS ARE NOW THE PARTY for
ILLEGALS.
WHILE OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS
TO PROTECT THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS, HE HAS DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED OUR
BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING ON OBAMA’S
OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS:
Ruthless Drug Lord Takes Control of Deadly Cartel
By RANDY KREIDER and MARK SCHONE | ABC
News – 2 hrs 19 mins ago
ABC
News - Ruthless Drug Lord Takes Control of Deadly Cartel (ABC News)
The new head of the
Zetas drug cartel is a former Dallas resident who is scorned as a traitor by
many of his own cartel soldiers and mocked as an ex-"car washer" by
his enemies, but has risen to power thanks to a fearsome reputation for
violence.
"[Miguel Angel
Trevino Morales] is extremely brutal, to the point of sadism," says George
Grayson, an expert on the Zetas. "He is prepared to advance his interest
through unspeakable violence." Grayson's recent book on the cartel, "The Executioner's Men," opens with a scene in which Trevino
Morales slowly beats a female police officer to death, in front of her
colleagues, with a two-by-four.
Trevino Morales, also
known as El 40 or the Monkey, became the uncontested head of the Mexico's most
feared drug cartel when former kingpin Heriberto Lazcano was killed in a
shootout with Mexican Marines on Sunday. Lazcano had been linked to hundreds of
murders, including the massacre of 72 civilians, but Trevino Morales is
allegedly even more bloodthirsty. One of his preferred methods of dealing with
enemies, say authorities, is burning them alive.
Trevino Morales, 41,
was born in Mexico but spent some of his formative years in Dallas, Texas,
where authorities say he had a criminal record as a teenager. He has a dozen
siblings and reportedly still has family in the Dallas area.
According to the
Associated Press, he became a teen go-fer for the Los Tejas gang, which was
powerful in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the Rio Grande
from Laredo, Texas.
Trevino Morales
joined the Zetas soon after their formation. The Zetas began in the late 1990s
as the security wing of the Gulf Cartel. The 14 core members of the Zetas,
including Heriberto Lazcano, all had military backgrounds, and took ranks based
on when they'd joined the group. Lazcano was known as Z-3. By 2004, due to the
death of Z-1 and the arrest of Z-2, Lazcano had become the leader of the Zetas.
Trevino Morales, who
did not have a military background, got the designation 40, with his brother
taking number 42. In 2005, Miguel Trevino Morales became the boss of the Nuevo
Laredo "plaza," or drug territory.
As a newly minted
underboss, Trevino Morales had traditional gangster tastes for fast cars, women
and fancy guns, and reportedly liked to hunt game imported from Africa. He
also, however, developed a developed a particular reputation for brutality in
group already renowned for violence. His favored methods for dispatching
enemies were dismembering them while still alive, or making them into a
"guiso," or stew -- stuffing them in 55-gallon oil drums, adding
gasoline and burning them alive.
By 2009, Trevino
Morales had been named in multiple federal indictments in Texas, D.C. and New
York for alleged crimes ranging from drug trafficking, kidnapping, and money
laundering to ordering a half dozen murders in Laredo, Texas. The DEA offered a
$5 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction, and
accused him of controlling more than 200 operatives and smuggling hundreds of
kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. weekly.
Early the next year,
the Zetas finally split from the Gulf cartel after the Gulf Cartel crossed
Trevino Morales. In January 2010, the Gulf Cartel tortured and killed one of
his close friends. Trevino Morales responded with an ultimatum demanding that
the cartel give up the killer. "Hand over the assassin of my friend,"
demanded Trevino Morales. "If you don't comply, there will be war."
The order was
ignored, and Trevino Morales allegedly began killing members of the Gulf Cartel
en masse. The Zetas, now an independent cartel with Trevino Morales second in
command, were soon battling the Gulf Cartel for control of Northern Mexico, and
winning.
Civil
War Inside the Zetas Drug Cartel
By 2011, however,
there was a schism within the new cartel between Trevino Morales and those
loyal to Heriberto Lazcano. When Zetas boss "El Mamito," Enrique
Rejon Aguilar, was arrested in July, he said that he had been betrayed. Though
he did not name any names, the next month someone uploaded a slickly produced
music video to YouTube that bluntly accused Trevino Morales of being a
"Judas" who was disloyal to Lazcano and had betrayed Mamito and other
Zetas to the authorities.
Addressed to all the
members of "the Mafia," every major drug organization in Mexico by
name, and to the general public, "The True Story of Z 40" uses a
specially written "narcoballad" to detail the alleged offenses of
Trevino Morales against his fellow Zetas, especially leader Heriberto Lazcano.
One of the first
images in the five-minute video is a picture of Judas whispering in the ear of
Jesus. It then shows repeated images of Trevino Morales with the words "El
Judas" under his face, and displays arrest photos of all the Zetas bosses
he has allegedly betrayed, who were "captured because they trusted Z
40." Intended as a warning to Lazcano, it asks "El Lazca" why he
thinks so many of his underlings have been arrested.
The video also mocks
Trevino Morales as a former car washer for Los Tejas, and plasters his face
onto photos of police officers and a shiny-suited pop idol.
Rival groups have
also disparaged Trevino Morales as a car washer. In March, Joaquin Guzman, AKA
El Chapo or Shorty, the head of Mexico's other dominant drug organization, the
Sinaloa Cartel, sent his men into Trevino Morales' territory to murder and
dismember Zetas soldiers. He issued a public challenge to Trevino Morales on
huge banners above the body parts of his victims.
One banner,
accompanied by seven severed heads, accused Trevino Morales of failing to use
his own head, and of being Heriberto Lazcano's jockstrap. "You will always
be a car washer to me," said the banner, which was signed "El
Chapo." Another mocked Trevino Morales as a shoeshine boy, car washer and traitor
who killed innocent people.
In the summer of
2012, Trevino Morales' brother Jose, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in the U.S.
for moneylaundering after allegedly channeling the Zetas's drug money through a
successful horseracing operation. Not long after his arrest, the split within
the Zetas apparently cost 14 lives. The survivor of a mass execution in San
Luis Potosi state in mid-August said that the victims and the killers were
Zetas. Authorities believe the massacre was revenge by Trevino Morales on
"El Taliban," a leader opposed to EL 40's ascent.
By the end of August,
U.S. officials began saying that Trevino Morales seemed to have merged as the
winner in the Zetas' civil war, and had officially taken operational control of
the Zetas in Mexico from Lazcano.
High-ranking Zetas
then began to fall. El Taliban was arrested in late September, "The
Squirrel" just last Saturday. Lazcano, who was attending a baseball game
with two other men, died in a firefight on Sunday.
Grayson speculates
that Trevino Morales may have shared information with U.S. authorities to get
better treatment for his brother Jose, who is in U.S. custody.
Trevino Morales must
now direct the Zetas against the combined strength of the Gulf Cartel, the
Sinaloa Cartel and other players, who have united to drive the Zetas from their
"plazas." Grayson says that with Lazcano's death, El Chapo Guzman of
the Sinaloa cartel will be aided in his primary goal of taking control of Nuevo
Laredo, El 40's home base. Guzman has already dispatched what Grayson calls
"shock troops" to help the Gulf Cartel fight the Zetas.
El Chapo's troops
will be facing younger, less experienced, and less disciplined Zetas plaza
bosses than in the past, says Grayson. But he also notes that the Zetas new
leader, in addition to being more violent than his predecessor, may be more
cautious and wily as well. "El 40," says Grayson, "would never
have been at a baseball game."
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Mexican cartels flood U.S. with cheap meth
Mexican drug cartels
are quietly filling the void in the nation's drug market created by the long
effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities
with exceptionally cheap, extraordinarily potent meth from factory-like
"superlabs."
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS —
Mexican drug cartels
are quietly filling the void in the nation's drug market created by the long
effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities
with exceptionally cheap, extraordinarily potent meth from factory-like
"superlabs."
Although Mexican meth
is not new to the U.S. drug trade, it now accounts for as much as 80 percent of
the meth sold here, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. And it is
as much as 90 percent pure, a level that offers users a faster, more intense
and longer-lasting high.
"These are
sophisticated, high-tech operations in Mexico that are operating with extreme
precision," said Jim Shroba, a DEA agent in St. Louis. "They're
moving it out the door as fast as they can manufacture it."
The cartels are
expanding into the U.S. meth market just as they did with heroin: developing an
inexpensive, highly addictive form of the drug and sending it through the same
pipeline already used to funnel marijuana and cocaine, authorities said.
Seizures of meth
along the Southwest border have more than quadrupled during the last several
years. DEA records reviewed by The Associated Press show that the amount of
seized meth jumped from slightly more than 4,000 pounds in 2007 to more than
16,000 pounds in 2011.
During that same
period, the purity of Mexican meth shot up too, from 39 percent in 2007 to 88
percent by 2011, according to DEA documents. The price fell 69 percent,
tumbling from $290 per pure gram to less than $90.
Mexican meth has a
clearer, glassier appearance than more crudely produced formulas and often
resembles ice fragments, usually with a clear or bluish-white color. It often
has a smell people compare to ammonia, cat urine or even burning plastic.
"You can look at
it and see it has a much more pure look," said Paul Roach, a DEA agent in
Denver.
The rise of Mexican
meth doesn't mean American labs have disappeared. The number of U.S. meth labs
continues to rise even as federal, state and local laws place heavy
restrictions on the purchase of cold and allergy pills containing
pseudoephedrine, a major component in the most common meth recipe.
The crackdowns that
began a decade ago have made it more difficult to prepare large batches, so
many American meth users have turned to a simpler method that uses a 2-liter
soda bottle filled with just enough ingredients to produce a small amount of
the drug for personal use.
But south of the
border, meth is being made on an industrial scale. Sophisticated factories put
out tons of the drug using formulas developed by professional chemists. The
final product often is smuggled into the U.S. taped beneath tractor-trailers or
hidden inside packages of other drugs.
While clandestine
U.S. labs generally supply rural areas, Mexican meth is mostly targeted to
urban and suburban users. Increasingly large quantities are turning up in
dozens of American cities, including Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, St.
Louis and Salt Lake City, according to the DEA.
The marketing format
follows a well-established pattern. By simultaneously increasing the purity and
cutting the price, the cartels get people hooked and create a new customer
base.
"They're
marketing geniuses," said Jack Riley, the agent in charge of the DEA
office in Chicago.
When Illinois
authorities recently confiscated 1,000 pounds of Mexican marijuana, they found
10 pounds of meth hidden among the pot - essentially a free sample for the
distributor to give out to drug users, Riley said.
Until recently, meth
was seldom seen in major urban areas, except in biker gangs and parts of the
gay community, Riley said.
"We've never
really seen it on the street like we've seen cocaine and heroin," Riley
said. He worries that if the estimated 180,000 members of street gangs in
Chicago get involved in meth trafficking, violence could follow.
Like the U.S., Mexico
has tightened laws and regulations on pseudoephedrine, though some labs still
are able to obtain large amounts from China and India. To fill the void, cartel
chemists have turned to an old recipe known as P2P that first appeared in the
1960s and 1970s in some parts of the western U.S.
That recipe uses the
organic compound phenylacetone. Because of its use in meth, the U.S. government
made it a controlled substance in 1980, essentially stopping that form of meth
in the U.S. But in Mexico, the cartels can get phenylacetone from other
countries, DEA experts said.
In the third quarter
of 2011, 85 percent of lab samples taken from U.S. meth seizures came from the
P2P process - up from 50 percent a little more than a year earlier, DEA
spokesman Rusty Payne said.
Federal agents say
the influx of meth from Mexico illustrates the difficulty of waging a two-front
war on the drug in neighboring countries. When one source of the drug is dealt
a setback, other suppliers step in to satisfy relentless demand.
Considering the
relatively untapped market of bigger American cities, the rise of Mexican meth
is not surprising, said Illinois State University criminologist Ralph Weisheit,
a meth expert.
"It's something
that was inevitable," Weisheit said. "This wasn't hard to
predict."
American authorities
are not the only ones taking notice. The sharp spike in meth activity also is
evident from the other side of the border. Seizures of labs and chemicals have
increased nearly 1,000 percent in the past two years.
Last year, Mexican
authorities made two major busts in the quiet central state of Queretaro,
seizing nearly 500 tons of precursor chemicals and 3.4 tons of pure meth with a
street value of more than $100 million. In Sinaloa, investigators found a
sophisticated underground lab equipped with an elevator and ventilation systems
as well as cooking and sleeping facilities. The facility was reachable only by
a nearly 100-foot tunnel with its opening concealed under a tractor shed.
And in February,
soldiers in western Mexico made a historic seizure: 15 tons of pure
methamphetamine, a haul that could have supplied 13 million doses worth more
than $4 billion.
The meth problem is
spilling into other parts of Latin America too. In December and January,
Mexican authorities seized nearly 900 tons of precursor chemicals at Mexican
ports, almost all of it bound for Guatemala, which seized about 1,600 tons of
meth precursors in 2011 - four times the 400 tons seized there a year earlier.
For now, cocaine
remains far and away the cartels' most profitable drug. The RAND Corp.
estimates the annual street value of cocaine is about $30 billion, heroin about
$20 billion and meth about $5 billion.
But cocaine is
getting more expensive and less pure. According to the DEA, the price per pure
gram of cocaine rose 59 percent from 2007 through September 2011. At the same
time, the purity level dropped 25 percent.
Cocaine also
typically comes from Colombia, meaning Mexican cartels serve as middle men who
compete against each other to smuggle it into the U.S. That marginalizes their
profits.
Because
methamphetamine is a synthetic drug the cartels can make for themselves, the
profit potential is enormous.
"It's not
plant-based," Weisheit said. "It can be completely produced in
Mexico. It's very compact, and that makes it easy to smuggle."
---
Associated Press
writers Mark Stevenson in Mexico City and Christopher Sherman in McAllen,
Texas, contributed to this report.
*
Obama
Justice Department Laundered Millions of Dollars in Dirty, Bloody Mexican
Cartel Profits
By
Katie Pavlich
12/4/2011
In
the latest U.S.-Mexico Obama Justice Department corruption saga, the New York
Times is reporting
Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agents have been laundering millions
of dollars in Mexican Cartel profits in an effort to "catch the big
fish," just as they tried to do by allowing thousands of guns to walk
during Operation
Fast and Furious.
Undercover American narcotics agents have
laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of
Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according
to current and former federal law enforcement officials.
The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are.
They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
The officials said that while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years. The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime. As it launders drug money, the agency often allows cartels to continue their operations over months or even years before making seizures or arrests.
The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are.
They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
The officials said that while the D.E.A. conducted such operations in other countries, it began doing so in Mexico only in the past few years. The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, and blur the line between surveillance and facilitating crime. As it launders drug money, the agency often allows cartels to continue their operations over months or even years before making seizures or arrests.
At what point do operations like Fast and Furious
and this DEA case stop being government operations and become full blown
criminal enterprises? Not only has the Obama Justice Department given
these cartels thousands of high powered weapons they use to murder
people, but have also aided in getting them the cash they need to carry
out operations.
Another former agency official, who asked not to be identified speaking publicly about delicate operations, said, “My rule was that if we are going to launder money, we better show results. Otherwise, the D.E.A. could wind up being the largest money launderer in the business, and that money results in violence and deaths.”
Those are precisely the kinds of concerns members of Congress have raised about a gun-smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious,
Katie
Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
the News Editor at Townhall.com. Follow her on Twitter @katiepavlich.
*
MEXICAN DRUG LORDS NOW
SEND THEIR WOMEN OVER OUR BORDERS TO GIVE BIRTH TO ANCHOR BABIES = 18 YEARS OF
WELFARE… THERE IS NO END IN SIGHT OF MEXICAN LOOTING!
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“Through love of having
children, we are going to take over.”
AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN
BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
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