More Gun Battles in Mexico: Soldiers Kill 30 Drug Cartel Members Near US Border, Texas Requests Used MC-12 Aircraft for Border Protection
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 3, 2010
With violence escalating near the Texas-Mexico border, TX lawmakers are requesting that MC-12 surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, which will no longer be used by the government following US withdrawal from Iraq, be given to them for border security
The violence and bloodshed in Mexico near the US border is increasing. Two shootouts this week between Mexican police and members of drug cartels have left 30 people dead near the US border.
Let me repeat: Near the US border.
Reminder of this jaw-droppingly stupid and clueless quote from our dim-witted DHS czarina Janet “Incompetano” Napolitano:
“I say this again as someone who has walked that border,” she said. “I’ve ridden that border. I’ve flown it. I’ve driven it. I know that border I think as well as anyone, and I will tell you it is as secure now as it has ever been.”
Yes, we all can see just how safe the border is, Czarina JaNo. Perhaps you would like to live near the southern US border to prove how safe it is?
No, I didn’t think so.
It is believed that the dead drug gang members belonged to Los Zetas, a violent criminal organization in Mexico comprised of highly trained killers who are involved in international illegal drug trade and other organized crime activities.
Members of the Texas House have formally requested that one or two MC-12 manned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft units that were used in the war in Iraq be transferred to Texas for use on the border by the Texas Air National Guard.
From KTAR News, Mexico: Soldiers kill 30 in troubled border state:
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of the biggest battlegrounds in the country’s drug war, authorities said Friday.
Twenty-five of the suspects were killed Thursday during a raid on a building in Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas state. The other five were killed Friday in neighboring Nuevo Leon state, during a shootout on a highway leading to the border, the Mexican Defense Department said in a statement.
All 30 gunmen were believed to belong to the Zetas gang- the group suspected of killing 72 migrants nearly two weeks ago in what could be Mexico’s biggest cartel massacre to date.
Violence along Mexico’s northeastern border with Texas has reached warlike proportions amid fighting between security forces and two feuding drug gangs- the Zetas and the Gulf cartel, former allies who split this year and started a vicious battle for trafficking routes in the area.
One of two survivors of the massacre last month- an Ecuadorean- said the killers identified themselves as Zetas and gunned down the migrants because they refused to work for the gang.
A military aircraft flying over Ciudad Mier on Thursday spotted several gunmen in front of a building, the Defense Department statement said. When ground troops moved in, gunmen opened fire, starting a gunbattle in which 25 suspected cartel members died and two soldiers were wounded.
Authorities rescued three people believed to be kidnapping victims in the raid, according to the statement. The military said troops seized 25 rifles, four grenades, 4,200 rounds of ammunition and 23 vehicles.
Earlier, a military spokesman said the gunmen were believed to be on a property controlled by the Zetas.
The second shootout erupted Friday morning outside the town of Juarez in Nuevo Leon, on a highway leading to McAllen, Texas.
Ciudad Mier, Mexico... location of this week's first drug cartel shootout near Texas border
Nuevo Leon, Mexico... location of this week's second drug cartel shootout near Texas border
Monterrey, Mexico... one of the leading 'kidnapping for income' cities in the country
From TodayOnline, Clashes between soldiers, gunmen in northern Mexico leave 30 suspected cartel members dead:
The Mexican Defense Department said in a statement that 25 of the suspects were killed Thursday during a raid on a building in Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas state. The other five were killed Friday in neighboring Nuevo Leon state, during a shootout on a highway leading to the border.
Since our war with Iraq is over and the surge was deemed successful, this next story appears to have real merit to help the Texas Air National Guard in securing its southern border and will keep a few used (expensive but already paid for) surveillance aircraft from being stored in an aircraft graveyard or scrapped. IF Team Obama gets off its collective, complacent fat buttocks and approves the request.
Reported by The Texas Tribune, Lawmakers Make a Request for More Air Surveillance:
President Obama’s announcement this week that the U.S. ended its combat mission in Iraq has state lawmakers wondering if the equipment used there couldn’t be put to good use in Texas.
Eighteen Democrats from the Texas House have attached their names to a formal request that one or two MC-12 manned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft units be transferred to Texas for use on the border by the Texas Air National Guard.
“The level of violence and bloodshed on the Mexican side of the border is tragic. Texas does not have the resources needed to address this public safety and humanitarian crisis,” the request says. The surveillance platform has the capability to act as a “virtual wall and a force multiplier to assist in interdiction operations,” it goes on to explain.
The request was dated Wednesday, the same day the federal government deployed an unmanned aerial Predator drone from Corpus Christi to conduct surveillance flights along the Texas-Mexico border.
State Rep. Allen Vaught, D-Dallas, a decorated Iraq war veteran and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Border Security, Health and School-Centered Emergencies, stressed that the request for the transfer of the MC-12s is an attempt to engage Washington in a serious conversation about secure borders rather than hurling the heated rhetoric currently applied by some office holders or seekers.
As I wrote in a previous post, a violent gun battle in Juarez was waged a few weeks ago, forcing streets in El Paso, Texas to be closed down.
Juarez – El Paso Border Drug Cartel Gun Battle
A story that went virtually unreported by the liberal mainstream media in April… evacuating US college students from Monterrey as the body counts increase:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The University of Texas at Austin, citing the raging violence in northern Mexico, is ordering its foreign exchange students in Monterrey to return home.
The Daily Texan newspaper reported this week that UT Executive Vice-President and Provost Steven Leslie issued the recall order on March 23. The order only applies to students enrolled at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. UT officials cited a U.S. State Department travel advisory issued March 14 warning about violence along the border and in Monterrey, which is about 280 miles south of San Antonio.
Additional related reading:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Another Lawsuit Against Arizona’s SB1070 Illegal Immigration Bill Bites the Desert Dust – Tucson Police Officer’s Suit Thrown Out and Illegal Immigration: Obama Claims Crime Is Down at Mexico Border… WRONG, Mr. President and Deep in the Heart of Texas: Obama Attacks Bush in Bush’s Home State, Dems Avoid POTUS, Gov. Perry Greets President with Letter on TX Border Security Problems (video) and Latino Indignation: Dr. Alvarez Fires Back at Sen. Reid for His Insult to Hispanics, Suggesting That Latinos Are Stupid (video) and Harry Reid, Keepin’ It Classy, Keepin’ It Racist: Now Dingy Harry’s Denigrating Hispanic Republicans, Rubio Slams Him (video) and Palin Lands It: “Jan Brewer Has the Cajones the President Doesn’t Have to Secure Our Borders,” Plus Contradictions in Judge Bolton’s SB 1070 Ruling (video) and AZ SB1070 Update: Most Illegal Alien Protesters Yesterday Were Out-of-State Union Members, 68% of Americans Want Mexico Border Fence (video) and As Promised, Illegal Aliens & Supporters Storm Downtown Phoenix Jail, Dozens Arrested — Illegal Alien Protests Across Country and Rancher Krentz’ Widow Speaks Out on Her Husband’s Murder & Illegal Immigration… Left-wing Media Bias Against Arizona, 10-to-1 Slant Pro-Illegal Aliens (video)
KFOX News: Gun Battle Breaks Out in Juarez Near Border
Mcnorman’s Weblog: The Border…Safest Evah!
Michelle Malkin: Open-borders bridges into America and HSINO: The $600 million Homeland Security In Name Only bill and Another deadly catch-and-release nightmare
On My Watch – The Writings of SamHenry: Obama – HELP! We’re Losing Jobs, Yes but Hell, We’re Losing Arizona to Cartels
Gateway Pundit: The Drug Culture In Mexico Spawns Its Own Language Called Narco-Speak and Retired Border Security Agents Join ICE and Border Agents In No Confidence Vote of Obama Administration and For the First Time Mexican Border Gunbattle Closes Street in El Paso and Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Abandoning Border Because It’s Too Dangerous (Video) and Harry Reid Busted: Attacks Sharron Angle Over Her Birthright Stand – Something He Proposed in 1993 and Border Agents Vote “No Confidence” In ICE Leadership! and Despite Media Assistance… Obama Approval Number Slips to New Low and Obama Travels to Texas for Fundraisers… Democrats Flee and Border Crime Is Down? Don’t You Believe It! and No Help In Sight: Texas Ranchers Forced To Hire “Gate Keepers” and Awful. Obama Attacks Americans – Says Those Who Support AZ Law Are “Anti-Immigrant” (Video)
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Border Sheriff’s website – they need our support
Nice Deb: Janet Napolitano Tells Reporters Security Along Border Is Actually Improving and ICE Draft Memo Directs Local Police To Stop Enforcing Immigration Laws and AZ Sheriff: “Our own government has become our enemy”
A Charging Elephant: Feds moving to dismiss some deportation Cases
Are you Freaking Stupid?: Good News: Since Feds Won’t Do Their Constitutional Duty And Protect Our Borders, Arizona Protects Their Own.
Conservative Pup: Mexican Drug War On Our Doorstep
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Napolitano: It’ll Be a Couple of Months Before We Make Our August 1st Deadline for Border Troops
The Texas Tribune: Perry Calls Troops to Border a “Fraud” After Visit With Obama
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