TEXAS FIRES UP THE BORDER WAR!!!

America's Third War: Texas Strikes Back
By Jennifer Griffin

Published November 18, 2010
FoxNews.com

“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.


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Macroecomomics..

This was bound to happen.

US (in spite of the constant hammering that we are bad off economically)is way better off than most of our South American neighbors.

It will get worse cause people from over the world are trying to escape from the 'violence' over there.

Those that live of off violence are trying to destroy us because 'Freedom' is a quantum concept and crosses borders quicker than an illegal.

Those that catch the 'dream' come so they can make it real... (and with them comes the predators that have been 'traditionally', living off of them)

i live about 5 miles from the border. the school that i will be transferring to here soon is literally across the street from the mexican border. it actually closes fairly regularly when there are gun fights going on in matamoros. but having said that, in my experience i do not find that my life here is any more unsafe than it was up in iowa. i don't dare cross into mexico though. i don't think this drug war is going anywhere anytime soon. one cartel needs to take over. these groups are fighting for power, and once someone takes control, i think the violence will let off.