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Title: Mexican Gangs Maintain Permanent Lookout Bases in Hills of Arizona
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/2 ... s-permanent-lookouts-parkland/
Published: Jun 22, 2010
Author: Adam Housley
Post Date: 2010-06-22 17:49:08 by Horse
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Views: 155
Comments: 6
Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials, federal agents tell Fox News. The scouts are supplied by drivers who bring them food, water, batteries for radios -- all the items they need to stay in the wilderness for a long time. “To say that this area is out of control is an understatement," said an agent who patrols the area and asked not to be named. "We (federal border agents), as well as the Pima County Sheriff Office and the Bureau of Land Management, can attest to that.” Much of the drug traffic originates in the Menagers Dam area, the Vekol Valley, Stanfield and around the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. It even follows a natural gas pipeline that runs from Mexico into Arizona. In these areas, which are south and west of Tucson, sources said there are “cartel scouts galore” watching the movements of federal, state and local law enforcement, from the border all the way up to Interstate 8. “Every night we’re getting beaten like a pinata at a birthday party by drug, alien smugglers," a second federal agent told Fox News by e-mail. "The danger is out there, with all the weapons being found coming northbound…. someone needs to know about this!” The agents blame part of their plight on new policies from Washington, claiming it has put a majority of the U.S. agents on the border itself. One agent compared it to a short-yardage defense in football, explaining that once the smugglers and drug-runners break through the front line, they're home free. “We are unable to work any traffic, because they have us forward deployed," the agent said. "We are unable to work the traffic coming out of the mountains. That traffic usually carries weapons and dope, too, again always using stolen vehicles.” The Department of Homeland Security denies it has ordered any major change in operations or any sort of change in forward deployment. “The Department of Homeland Security has dedicated unprecedented manpower, technology and infrastructure resources to the Southwest border over the course of the past 16 months," DHS spokesman Matt Chandler said. "Deployment of CBP/Border Patrol and ICE personnel to various locations throughout the Southwest border is based on actionable intelligence and operational need, not which elected official can yell the loudest.” While agents in the area agree that southwest Arizona has been a trouble spot for more than a decade, many believe Washington and politicians “who come here for one-day visit” aren’t seeing the big picture. They say the area has never been controlled and has suddenly gotten worse, with the cartels maintaining a strong presence on U.S. soil. More than ever, agents on the front lines are wearing tactical gear, including helmets, to protect themselves. “More than 4,000 of these agents are deployed in Arizona," Chandler says. "The strategy to secure our nation’s borders is based on a 'defense in depth' philosophy, including the use of interior checkpoints, like the one on FR 85 outside Ajo, to interdict threats attempting to move from the border into the interior of our nation.” Without placing direct fault on anyone, multiple agents told Fox that the situation is more dangerous for them than ever now that the cartels have such a strong position on the American side of the border. They say morale is down among many who patrol the desolate area, and they worry that the situation won't change until an agent gets killed.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Arizona has the balls to do this, so I say two words: Air Strike
"The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished.... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be." - Lao Tzu, 6th century BC
Arizona Game and Fish Department officials report that a Yuma man has pleaded guilty to the December 2009 poaching of a bighorn sheep ram near Yuma, Ariz., and has also received civil sanctions from the Arizona Game and Fish Commission. Angel Garcia Perez, 30, of Yuma, pleaded guilty in Yuma County Justice Court in January to the misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of a bighorn sheep ram and received a fine of $617.00. Additionally, during a civil hearing at its May meeting, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission revoked Perez’s hunting, fishing and trapping privileges for five years and assessed him $8,000 for the loss of the ram. Arizona is part of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, which means that Perez’s hunting, fishing and trapping privileges will be revoked in all the member compact states, which includes most of the western United States. Game and Fish officials said a second suspect, Gonzalo Guillen Bravo, 19, of Yuma, has also been charged with unlawful possession of the bighorn sheep ram and currently has a warrant out for his arrest for failure to appear. The department received a tip in December through its Operation Game Thief hotline, a silent witness line the public can use to report wildlife violations confidentially. The bighorn sheep was killed during the closed season in the Laguna Mountain range located in the Gila Valley near Yuma. Officers from the Game and Fish Region 4 (Yuma) office quickly investigated the case and obtained a search warrant on Perez’s residence. Officers found several evidentiary items, including bighorn sheep meat, a sheep hide, a sheep head, and the weapons used in the offense, and they subsequently cited the two suspects. Officer Richard Myers, the investigator for the Yuma office, commended the public for its support in this case. “Without the public’s help and watchful eye, we would have never solved this case,” said Myers. “With limited manpower and officers, the public’s assistance is a must to combat poaching and other wildlife law violations that occur here in Arizona.” Myers added, “Poachers aren’t hunters, and the public should not confuse the two. Poachers steal from everyone because wildlife is managed in the public trust for all citizens to enjoy.” It's just a coincidence, it means nothing, whatever you do DON'T worry about the wildlife in southern Arizona, the mexicon invaders would never break any game laws.....
_________________________________________________________________________ Strike Air-strike NOW ! Fuck Mexico ... if the feds won't do there job we'll have to do it. It's time to fire the FED GOV. Remember the Alamo will defer to REMEMBER THE OBAMA
YOU only count when it's census or TAX time" ... don't you find it ironic that the census bureau says they rely upon the Constitution for their authority and pays their help in UNCONSTITUTIONAL FRNs ... bend over and lick the hand that beats you !
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
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U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
#2. To: Horse (#0)
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Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: SonOfLiberty (#1)
Air
#4. To: SonOfLiberty, Horse, *Escape From ElPee* (#1)
#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#4)
#6. To: Eric Stratton (#5)
If these were white Americans peacefully protesting, then the FedGov would get involved and there'd be hell to pay.
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