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Homeland Security Subcommittee Reveals Depth of Mexican Drug Gang Threat The Senate Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs held a hearing last week to document the severity of the terror that Mexican drug cartels are bringing to American soil. The hearing, entitled "Exploring Drug Gangs' Ever-Evolving Tactics to Penetrate the Border and the Federal Government's Ability to Stop Them," comes on the heels of the brutal slaying of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata, reportedly carried out by Mexican drug cartel members. (See FAIR Legislative Update <http://www.fairus.org/site/News2/88750984?page=NewsArticle&id=23883&securit y=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1012> , Feb. 22, 2011) The Chairman of the Subcommittee, Senator Mark Pryor (R- AR), began the hearing by expressing condolences on the loss of Agent Zapata. He discussed the importance of the hearing's quest to address methods gangs are using to access America's southwestern border to transit drugs and people, given that "few threats [are] as deadly and menacing as drug gangs, particularly Mexican drug gangs." Chairman Pryor described as particularly troubling the drug cartels' use of trucks to traffic drugs across the U.S. Border. The Senator pointed out cases of Mexican drug couriers camouflaging their illegal goods by making their trucks look like Wal-Mart big rigs and Fed-Ex vans to easily courier their contraband within the U.S. Although Pryor at this time did not raise the issue of the Obama Administration's renewed effort to allow Mexican long-haul trucks access to American highways, he has expressed grave concerns about the cross-border trucking program. (See FAIR Legislative Update <http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=23931&security=1601&ne ws_iv_ctrl=1721> , Mar. 7, 2011; Press Release <http://pryor.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=8 1eaf315-7008-4f6e-ad81-b9633d4fde85&ContentType_id=bc7e67ca-fd50-428e-8894-0 c7779e63f05&Group_id=4e517d92-ad06-494e-99ed-467ccc96c653> , Mar. 18, 2011) Meanwhile, Senator John Ensign (R-NV) stressed that the impact that Mexican drug cartels have on America is not confined to the Southwest border region. The Senator pointed out that according to the National Drug Intelligence Center, Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) are the only DTOs active in every region of the United States. "Just as ominous," he said, "the Mexican DTOs have expanded their relationship with street and prison gangs in the United States and have increased their distribution of illegal drugs into more rural and suburban areas." The Subcommittee hearing made evident that open borders are an invitation to drug cartel activity and impact every state in America. As Senator Ensign stated, "drug and alien smugglers will literally stop at nothing" to gain entry to America and collect their profits. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
