Homeland Insecurity -- "Iraq" on Our Borders
Americans To Be Targeted?
from American Patrol Report
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- July 11
Dobbs: The concern about the spread of Mexican drug cartel violence to our side of the border, law enforcement officers and experts on security and terrorism say Mexico's drug wars are now a grave threat to this country and to American citizens. Those experts comparing violence along our border with Mexico to the violence in Iraq.
Wian: ...One former State Department counterterrorism official says Mexican drug cartels are now recruiting in the United States.
Fred Burton: What you have a symbiotic relationship between the cartels who have cords of money they can pay cash for mercenary training, specialized tactical training, so they'll take the street gang members from the United States, for example, MS-13, bring them into border training camps and train them in tactical kind of operations. Very similar to what we're seeing in Iraq, and in many cases what's taking place.
Wian: Lou, what Fred Burton was saying there is that in many cases, along the border with Mexico, conditions are actually worse than in Iraq. He also talked about many local law enforcement officers say that in many cases they're outgunned by these gang bangers trained by the paramilitary drug cartel operatives in Mexico.
We had a statement from the Phoenix Police Department. They say they have so far not encountered very many members of the Mexican military or former law enforcement officers from Mexico but they say it will be no surprise when we run across those who have had prior military or law enforcement training.
From local police to the border patrol, law enforcement officials are warning their officers to be prepared for heavily armed cartel operators on U.S. soil.
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