Internal DHS Memo: Border Walls Are Most Effective Way to Stop Illegal Immigration [More]
Of course they know that. That’s why they’re doing everything in their power to keep it from being built.
[Via Michael G]
Tag: Mexico
Speaking of Vital American Interests…
US warship shoots down drones fired from Houthi-held Yemen in Red Sea [More]
But Lloyd said…
You know what would make us safer?
No?
We’re the Only Ones Chronic and Habitual Enough
“The Justice Department will do everything in its power to find and hold accountable the gun traffickers who are arming the cartels.” [More]
Good one! And they’re headline whoring for the same reasons.
Why does Sir Wilfrid’s cross-examination of Frau Helm come to mind…?
None Dare Call It Treason
Thompson, Goldman, Castro Introduce Bill to Disarm Cartels by Stopping Trafficking of American Guns Across Southern Border [More]
So they want to disarm Americans while cartels through their puppets continue to amass military-grade weapons and military-age men pour over the border Democrats want open for their superhighway to citizenship…
Still want to pretend it’s not germane to the “single issue,” “gun rights leaders”?
[Via Jess]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
Gang Members Disguised as Migrants Enter Open U.S. Border [More]
Thompson, Goldman, and Castro are counting on it.
[Via Michael G]
Project Implementwalker
Armed residents guard streets in Mexico’s hurricane-hit Acapulco. [More]
With “machetes and baseball bats”…?
Lemme guess: Lax American gardening supply and sporting goods laws…?
I’ll bet no properties owned by these guys are being attacked.
Say… what’s to stop the looters from coming over here? And becoming Democrats…?
Reports of Gun Smuggling to Mexico Recalls Fast and Furious Gunwalking Plot
The intent here appears to be to once more blame “lax American gun laws” for Mexican cartel carnage and to assist in the deception… [More]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Tyrants without Borders
Why would it be her job, as president of Mexico, to secure the rights of Mexicans (male and female) in the United States? [More]
Since when do communists do anything but infiltrate and subvert?
Gunwalker 2.0
ATF Employee Caught Gun Running to Mexico [More]
This is the topic I was thinking of writing up in detail.
I do have a quibble:
The Mexican Government makes the bold claim that 70% of all guns used in crimes were smuggled into Mexico from the United States.
That used to be the claim the antis all made, but they started at “95 to 100 percent.” Now the DSM is more properly qualifying things by saying:
Nearly 70% of TRACED [emphasis added] firearms used to commit crimes and seized in Mexico come from the United States, according to ATF.
So instead of being a flat-out lie, it’s now an insidious lie of omission, because they don’t then inform:
No specific numbers on how many of those guns “recovered in Mexico and traced back to the United States” were, in fact, military purchases, but the State Department cables indicate a portion of the fewer than 12 percent of the traceable weapons actually came from the United States in gun shop/individual type purchases. Remember, that’s not 12 percent of the tens of thousands of weapons recovered – it’s only 12 percent of the weapons recovered that were traceable. It’s nowhere near the 12 percent figure that has been misquoted and used as evidence of the United State’s “horrific” problem of illegal gun sales.
Now, tell us more about the drunks…
More Reactionary Hysteria by MAGA Xenophobes
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I wish these people would have consulted with Alex and Cato before getting everybody’s bowels in an uproar…
[Via WiscoDave]
We’re the Only Ones Gunwalking Enough
A former investigator with the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is accused of trafficking weapons to Mexico while he was an employee of the bureau in 2017, according to a letter sent to the ATF Director this week by US Senator Charles Grassley. [More]
Jeez, another letter…?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
I went to Grassley’s “News Releases” page and didn’t see the letter. I asked him for a copy:
Anybody have a link?
I started an AmmoLand article on this but then found another writer was working on it. I’ll wait for that one to see if there’s anything substantive I can add.
[Via gbob]
Gunwalker 2.0
Federal prosecutors have charged seven with conspiring to smuggle more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and high-powered weapons into Mexico. [More]
Would it be considered bad form to ask where they’re from and whether border control might work better than gun control?
[Via Jess]
And That’s Just the Ones They Caught
Biden Border Crisis Endangering Us All: 659 Known Terrorists Captured at the Border This Year Alone [More]
Who you gonna believe? CBP data or Alex and Cato?
[Via Michael G]
Related UPDATE
The Writing Is on the Wall: America Likely to Be Hit Because of the Invasion From Mexico [More]
And Democrat cities are most at risk…
[Via bondmen]
Grassley to ATF: Explain Focus on Gun Owners Instead of Cartel Trafficking
If that sounds familiar, it’s the premise on which Operation Fast and Furious, which Grassley opened his letter to Dettelbach with, was founded. [More]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Brawl in the Handout Line
Mexico’s President Obrador blasts US aid for Ukraine — advocates for more Latin America funding [More]
What kind of gratitude is that after “Ukraine’s Global Voice” called Mexico’s invaders “thousands of largely peaceful migrants”? (Citing Republicans Against Trump as an authority to heed doesn’t win Kyiv any points either…)
We ought to be charging Mexico for every illegal they send our way.
[Via Steve T]
Embrace the Diversity!
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
CBS News is running a special investigation into the smuggling of firearms to Mexico. US government officials estimate that the cartels are smuggling 2,000 firearms a day across the Mexican border. The way it works is that the cartels alerts buyers in the US who are not prohibited persons of their needs, they transfer the guns to brokers, and then the guns go to smugglers who take the firearms across the border to the cartels. Buyers are reported to be spread across all 50 states. [More]
Why did I suddenly think “Ecclesiastes”?
John Richardson does a great job bringing us up to speed and putting things in perspective with the overlooked history, something the DSM will not do.
We’re the Only Ones Exporting Enough
Texas Police Cadet Imprisoned for Supplying Mexican Cartel with .50 Caliber Ammo [More]
I guess Pedro hadn’t gotten to the “Refusing consent to searches” and “Refusing to talk to the police” parts of his training.
This is so sketchy there has to be a lot more to what clued them in, and I’m thinking “informant” and “low-hanging fruit.”
[Via bondmen]
Leaving the American Sector
Submitted for Your Approval
How US Gun Laws Affect the Rest of America [Watch]
I just don’t have an extra 42 minutes in the course of a given day to watch a video so I’m posting this link without seeing this yet.
That it’s by Vice and one of the major premises appears to be U.S. guns are the prime source for Mexico’s problems makes me wonder if it will be worth my time later.
And that said, once in a while they don’t do too badly.
If any of you want to brave it, feel free to comment.
[Via 1Gat]
The Golden Ticket
Juárez, Darwin José García of the southern Mexican state of Veracruz initially told police he was migrant attempting to cross into the U.S. But the man later told reporters he was practicing a sport on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande… [More]
Sport. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
[Via Jess]
