Hezbollah Uses Mexican Drug Routes to Enter U.S.
BY: NCViking
Can we secure the Mexican border already!? What is it going to take, another 9/11?
Extreme poverty, corruption and violence have refugees pouring into our country from Mexico for over 20 years. Now that country is in utter chaos at our border and our enemies know this. Until we address the dangers of this and stop playing politics, we may be in for some pain.
I have blogged about the implosion of Mexico several times and have stated that the media and government needs to wake up to this. Some in the media have finally begun informing us about the Columbia-like war waging between the Mexican government and drug cartels. Now finally one outlet actually get’s it; read this from the Washington Times. If this can’t further wake up the government and the public to this danger, I don’t know what will.
EXCLUSIVE:
Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America’s tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.
Hezbollah relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
“They work together,” said Mr. Braun. “They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected.
“They’ll leverage those relationships to their benefit, to smuggle contraband and humans into the U.S.; in fact, they already are [smuggling].”
A U.S. official with knowledge of U.S. law enforcement operations in Latin America said, “we noted the same trends as Mr. Braun” and that Hezbollah has used Mexican transit routes to smuggle contraband and people into the U.S.
Two U.S. law enforcement officers, familiar with counterterrorism operations in the U.S. and Latin America, said that “it was no surprise” that Hezbollah members have entered the U.S. border through drug cartel transit routes.
“The Mexican cartels have no loyalty to anyone,” one of the officials told The Washington Times. “They will willingly or unknowingly aid other nefarious groups into the U.S. through the routes they control. It has already happened. That’s why the border is such a serious national security issue.”
One U.S. counterterrorism official said that while “there’s reason to believe that [Hezbollah members] have looked at the southern border to enter the U.S. … to date their success has been extremely limited.”
However, another U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed that the U.S. is watching closely the links between Hezbollah and drug cartels and said it is “not a good picture.”
A senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of ongoing operations in Latin America, warned that al Qaeda also could use trafficking routes to infiltrate operatives into the U.S.
Does anyone feel comfortable with a nuke-seeking Iran or al Qaeda having smuggling tentacles in U.S. cities? Maybe we can ‘talk‘ to them and ask them to stop. After all, it’s not a Global War on Terror anyway.
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You are just an alamist and hatemongerer.
Am I a hate monger if I tell you you fly is down? An alarmist? Our border is a real chink in the armor. Maybe hezbollah wasn’t even aware till they read this blog. Shut up and zip up
Proud… you are not a hate monger… Viking is! Plus, I was kidding with him as I agree with his write up. The standard, knee-jerk reaction from some people when one talks about the Mexican border are cries of “racist” and “anti-immigrant“. We are neither and recognize the hole in the border.
In reflection, what is the answer? A wall like Germany had, or China has ?I can see where a wall would be viewed by the rest of the world as wrong, and tend to agree. Enough men to watch the length of this border would be far too costly. Could it be monitored via satellite? One person could monitor many miles with the eye in the sky (I imagine there is a live version of google earth). I think the only real solution is zen like, become one with Mexico, as we seem to be doing any way. Yet it will need to be done methodically, not as we are currently doing. It just may work,
For decades in the past, different areas of the continent, settled by Americans, applied to join the US. The needed to meet certain conditions set by the government, and then they joined. Could that happen again? Probably not. Do I for foresee a north american union? No. Too many people are paranoid about that possibility. To me, as long as we are the dominant culture (I do believe in American Exceptionalism), then I am all for other chunks of land becoming the next state. How about Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands? Maybe … yeah… probably not.
Deploying the National Guard in force. This is what they are really for: protecting the homeland.
Every time I hear “protecting the homeland” or “homeland” at all I think of Orwell and the horrible TV drama “Amerika” from the 1980’s. I don’t know why, but I just do.
Americans pushing south and west “settled” occupied lands. They wanted protection and asked for statehood to get Federal help.(colonial capitalists?)
Mexicans are now pushing north into lands they still think of as theirs, stole from them by the USA. They are corrupting our system as any of their children born here are vote bearing citizens, able to get elected into our government. It makes me smile at times as they will get their lands back without firing a shot if they are patient and persist.
Our Empirical Capitalist ideals gained us Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and other small Islands we no longer have a use for. When I was in Puerto Rico I spoke with several residents regarding statehood. The general consensus was why should they, they get all the benefits and none of the responsibilities.(this was during a clean up effort by FEMA after Hurricane George)
I beg you and all others believing in Exceptionalism to consider; all the powers beaten into submission believed in the same.I am referring to Greek and Roman empires, Japanese, Third Reich, etc.
The National Guard is currently deployed, and I am sure they would find Coming home to watch our border a vacation. And I agree THAT is their intended mission.
Every time I hear “protect the homeland” I think of how American Indians dropped the ball.
Allowing those who care to smoke weed to grow it for personal consumption, would slow the traffic of same across our southern borders, and make a huge dent in the money train going south. in turn this would reduce the number of guns they need and could afford. The DEA could stop breaking down doors, instead knock and ask to see permit to grow and inspect crop for compliance.
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