Mexico’s President decries the border agents using force. The real question is why hasn’t he demilitarized the border. His troops invade our nation regularly and are helping the drug mob. SO either Fox is the front man for the Drug Mafia or he isn’t even in control of his country. Either way he has no right to speak about America until he gets his house in order.
[Mexidata.info] Among the many problems on the U.S.-Mexican border is that of reported Mexican military incursions onto the United States side of the border. These incidents raise disturbing questions about U.S.-Mexican relations and the two nations’ wars on the drug cartels.
The evidence indicates that elements of the Mexican military are aiding drug smugglers on the border.
Such incursions have been reported for years by U.S. law enforcement officers and Mexican illegal aliens.
Both governments would prefer not to acknowledge the problem. When pressured, the United States downplays it, while Mexican officials deny the incidents, or attribute them to accidental crossings or drug smugglers dressed as Mexican soldiers.
Much of the U.S.-Mexican border is unguarded, trackless desert. So it’s not surprising that from time to time a Mexican army vehicle or patrol might take a wrong turn and wind up north of the border.
Doubtless there have been some accidental crossings. But they wouldn’t account for the bulk of the incidents, especially considering the reported behavior of these soldiers, which is sometimes aggressive.
As for the “smugglers disguised as soldiers” argument, there may be some cases of that too. But if that were the principal explanation, it could imply that (a) the Mexican Army can’t secure its material stores; or (b) it can’t control the border area, which is hardly reassuring.
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security document in 2006 reported 216 such incursions from 1996-2006. There may be many more.
To begin with, why are there so many Mexican soldiers on the border anyway? Is the border being militarized?
If the United States put a Boy Scout with a water gun on the border, Mexican politicians would decry the “militarization of the border.”
Nevertheless, the Mexican side of the border is already militarized.
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