America's Third War: Texas Strikes Back....Pa. strikes out..
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:50 pm
America's Third War: Texas Strikes Back
“I never thought that we’d be in this paramilitary type of engagement. It's a war on the border," said Captain Stacy Holland with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Holland leads a fleet of 16 state-of-the-art helicopters that make up the aviation assets used by the Texas DPS to fight Mexican drug cartels.
In recent years, the cartels have become bolder and more ruthless.
They cross the border with AK-47s on their backs, wearing military camouflage. They recruit in prisons and schools on the American side. Spotters sit in duck blinds along the Rio Grande and call out the positions of the U.S. Border Patrol.
To combat the cartels, the Texas Department of Public Safety is launching a counterinsurgency.
Tactical strike teams send field intelligence they gather to Austin to a joint operation intelligence center, or JOIC in military terminology.
“It certainly is a war in a sense that we’re doing what we can to protect Texans and the rest of the nation from clearly a threat that has emerged over the last several years,” said Former FBI prosecutor Steve McCraw, who runs the undeclared "war."
And now that there is added pressure on the cartels, the drug runners are employing new techniques, known as a splash down. When the heat is on, they attempt to return to Mexico with the drugs, often times in broad daylight. And because the Texas law enforcement’s authority ends at the border -- in this case the river -- they even have time to put on their life jackets.
“The cartels may be ruthless, they may be vicious, they may be cowardly ... but they’re not stupid,” said McCraw. “They’ll adapt their tactics and recently they’ve adapted their tactics to utilize smaller loads, cross with rafts, stolen vehicles on our side.”
President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have recently said the Mexican border is more secure now than it has been in 20 years, but some along this border strongly disagree.
"To suggest the southwest border is secure is ridiculous," said Holland.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/18/am ... z15fRbY3tm
The Pa. solution is to "bum rush" immigration reform laws using "lame duck" representatives to circumvent (yet again, like health care) the will of the American people.
If this is done? What will happen? The answer is simple.....The Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California borders will look like the "Oklahoma Land Rush" in the last century....Guaranteed.
Tens of thousands will come, as fast as they can run.... You fuckers better think real careful about the consequences of your actions....There are no jobs in the four states mentioned. You will totally overwhelm all the social services in the four states. You will fill every jail with them. Then the rest of the "hungry hoard" will be headed your direction, to do the same to you.....
You damn well better understand that to pass any kind of "reform" to legalize these people will result in the economic destruction of this country..... You "socialists" can argue that this is not a "Third War"? Know this, if you pass this type of legislation? You will sure as shit, start the "Third War". It will be one, that cannot be won.
Old Pudfark sez: " Cartels....coming to your theater soon.... "
“I never thought that we’d be in this paramilitary type of engagement. It's a war on the border," said Captain Stacy Holland with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Holland leads a fleet of 16 state-of-the-art helicopters that make up the aviation assets used by the Texas DPS to fight Mexican drug cartels.
In recent years, the cartels have become bolder and more ruthless.
They cross the border with AK-47s on their backs, wearing military camouflage. They recruit in prisons and schools on the American side. Spotters sit in duck blinds along the Rio Grande and call out the positions of the U.S. Border Patrol.
To combat the cartels, the Texas Department of Public Safety is launching a counterinsurgency.
Tactical strike teams send field intelligence they gather to Austin to a joint operation intelligence center, or JOIC in military terminology.
“It certainly is a war in a sense that we’re doing what we can to protect Texans and the rest of the nation from clearly a threat that has emerged over the last several years,” said Former FBI prosecutor Steve McCraw, who runs the undeclared "war."
And now that there is added pressure on the cartels, the drug runners are employing new techniques, known as a splash down. When the heat is on, they attempt to return to Mexico with the drugs, often times in broad daylight. And because the Texas law enforcement’s authority ends at the border -- in this case the river -- they even have time to put on their life jackets.
“The cartels may be ruthless, they may be vicious, they may be cowardly ... but they’re not stupid,” said McCraw. “They’ll adapt their tactics and recently they’ve adapted their tactics to utilize smaller loads, cross with rafts, stolen vehicles on our side.”
President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have recently said the Mexican border is more secure now than it has been in 20 years, but some along this border strongly disagree.
"To suggest the southwest border is secure is ridiculous," said Holland.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/18/am ... z15fRbY3tm
The Pa. solution is to "bum rush" immigration reform laws using "lame duck" representatives to circumvent (yet again, like health care) the will of the American people.
If this is done? What will happen? The answer is simple.....The Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California borders will look like the "Oklahoma Land Rush" in the last century....Guaranteed.
Tens of thousands will come, as fast as they can run.... You fuckers better think real careful about the consequences of your actions....There are no jobs in the four states mentioned. You will totally overwhelm all the social services in the four states. You will fill every jail with them. Then the rest of the "hungry hoard" will be headed your direction, to do the same to you.....
You damn well better understand that to pass any kind of "reform" to legalize these people will result in the economic destruction of this country..... You "socialists" can argue that this is not a "Third War"? Know this, if you pass this type of legislation? You will sure as shit, start the "Third War". It will be one, that cannot be won.
Old Pudfark sez: " Cartels....coming to your theater soon.... "
