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DHS official affirms Mexican cartel violence has spilled over [TX]
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Homeland Security official affirms Mexican drug cartel violence has spilled over into Texas
02/24/2009 - El Paso Times

More On Juaraz Violence

AUSTIN -- Violence from Mexican drug cartels has spilled over into Texas,
state Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw said Monday.

"Yes, absolutely it has occurred; there's no question about it," McCraw
said after a hearing before the House Committee on Border and International Affairs.

McCraw answered lawmakers' questions about Gov. Rick Perry's request for
another $135 million for border security operations on the same day Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott asked lawmakers for a new tool to help bring
down transnational gangs that threaten border communities.

During the border committee meeting, state Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso,
asked McCraw whether some incidents that have been reported in the El
Paso area would be considered elements of spillover violence from Mexican
drug cartels.

Moody asked, among other things, if threats against American citizens, individuals
seeking treatment at U.S. hospital for injuries sustained in Juárez and Mexican
nationals seeking asylum would be evidence of spillover.

McCraw said yes.

"Anything that involves cartel activity that impacts Texans on this side of the border
is, by definition, spillover violence," he said after the meeting.

McCraw told lawmakers, though, that Texas has a contingency plan to deal
with large-scale violence and that local, state and federal agencies are
working to prevent that from happening.

Earlier Monday, state Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, and state Rep. Aaron Peña,
D-Edinburg, filed a bill they said they hoped would make doing business in Texas
harder for drug cartels.

Along with Abbott, the legislators urged their colleagues to approve a bill that
would give the attorney general expanded authority to seize guns, drugs and cash
that are the lifeblood of human and drug smugglers.

"This bill is going to give us the ability to put these kinds of criminals out of
business by taking the very thing they are trying to make," Abbott said.

Though such seizures can currently be made in criminal cases, the legislation would
allow the attorney general to pursue seizures in civil court, where the burden of
proof is less stringent, Abbott said.

Williams said the measure would help ensure that violence from the cartels stays
south of the Rio Grande.

"The body count is stacking up along the border," he said, "and we don't want this
to spill over into our state anymore."

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GT's note: Officials confirm violence has spilled over, so their plan to combat it is to increase the power of the attorney general...


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Re: DHS official affirms Mexican cartel violence has spilled over [TX] [Re: Green_T]
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damn that really gets my goat

it will cost the lives of politicians' family members before anything serious gets done.
there's too much money being made from the drug trade, on the US side; of course it doesn't help that the legal system defies all fundamentals of ethics and logic. it's the primary revenue generator in this case ("the war on drugs")


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Re: DHS official affirms Mexican cartel violence has spilled over [TX] [Re: piracetam]
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They can make all the bills they want but that isn't going to stop the violence or drug production. The only bill that could have a chance at stopping this nonsense is a bill for legalization of all drugs.


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Re: DHS official affirms Mexican cartel violence has spilled over [TX] [Re: libertyshroom]
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Fuckkkkkkk, im 35-40 miles from the boarder:paranoid:


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Re: DHS official affirms Mexican cartel violence has spilled over [TX] [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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They need to do a lot more than passing some bullshit bills. Lets get some momentum on helping these people rather than persecuting and killing them. We can help everyone else, but our neighbors it seems.

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