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The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement
The drug cartels extend their corrupting influence northward.
Beheadings and amputations. Iraqi-style brutality, bribery, extortion, kidnapping, and murder. More than 7,200 dead—almost double last year’s tally—in shoot-outs between federales and often better-armed drug cartels. This is modern Mexico, whose president, Felipe Calderón, has been struggling since 2006 to wrest his country from the grip of four powerful cartels and their estimated 100,000 foot soldiers.
But chillingly, there are signs that one of the worst features of Mexico’s war on drugs—law enforcement officials on the take from drug lords—is becoming an American problem as well. Most press accounts focus on the drug-related violence that has migrated north into the United States. Far less widely reported is the infiltration and corruption of American law enforcement, according to Robert Killebrew, a retired U.S. Army colonel and senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security. “This is a national security problem that does not yet have a name,” he wrote last fall in The National Strategy Forum Review. The drug lords, he tells me, are seeking to “hollow out our institutions, just as they have in Mexico.”
Corruption indictments and convictions linked to drug-trafficking organizations, known in police parlance as DTOs, are popping up in FBI press releases with disturbing frequency. In April, for instance, the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas announced that Sergio Lopez Hernandez, a 40-year-old Customs and Border Protection inspector, had been convicted of drug trafficking, alien smuggling, and bribery. Hernandez pleaded guilty to accepting over $150,000 in bribes and to conspiring to sell cocaine and bring illegal aliens into the country.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:46 am
WHY IS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN WHY? IF AMERICAN VOTERS GOT THERE VOICE AND VOTE COUNTED? WE WOULD HAVE A REAL BORDER FENCE AND WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ENFORCEING AMERICAS LAWS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? THINK ABOUT THIS HOMELAND SECURITY NOT MEXICOS BUT U.S.A, FEDS( AMERICAN)A.C.L.U.( MEXICOS AMERICA DONT HAVE ONE)LARAZA ( MEXICO OR ATZLAN NON AMERICAN) L.U.L.A.C. ( AGAIN MEXICO PROPAGANIST) M.E.C.H.A. ( AGAIN MEXICO PROPAGANISTS) CHICANO PORLA CASA(MEXICO INTEREST ONLY)FREINDLY HOUSE ( MEXICO ORIENTED NOT AMERICAN) SO WHY IS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN WITH MAINLY AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY?MANY MANY MORE COMPLETELY FOR MEXICO AND AMNESTY FEEDERS OUT THERE? WHEN DO WE REAL AMERICANS GET OUR VOICES AND VOTES COUNTED TO MEAN SOMETHING? AN AMERICAN>>THINK>THINK>
October 29th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
We the people do not have a government, PERIOD!!! When you hire someone and they fail to meet their obligations, YOU SIMPLY FIRE THEM ON THE SPOT!!! These maggotts on the hill are employees of the corporate giants who profit from illegal parasitic immigration. Words did not build this country, blood and guts did and that is what is going to save her! EARN AGAIN WHAT YOUR FOREFATHERS LEFT YOU OR IT WILL NOT BE YOURS!!! Oh, did I mention, WE HAVE NO GOVERNMENT!!!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
JUST READ U.S.A. GAVE MEXICO 1 .5 BILLION DOLLARS?? TO SUPPORT MEXICOS DRUG WAR AND TRAIN MEXICAN POLICE HOW TO BE HONEST? FUNNY AMERICAN LEGAL VOTEING CITIZENS WANTS A REAL BORDER FENCE INSTALLED? HEY WANT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OUT OF AMERICA NOW? WHY IS IT WE AMERICANS TAXPAYERS DARN NEAR SUPPORT MEXICO IN MEXICO AND IN U.S.A.?WHY IS THIS THE U.S.A. MEXICOS BABYSITTER MY MY MY NOW I KNOW. AN AMERICAN>THANKS>