By Rick Jervis,
USA TODAY
The U.S. will soon send a large contingent of federal agents to its southern border to help stem the recent violence in northern Mexico, the nation's Homeland Security chief said Thursday. "Every American has a stake in this," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a phone interview with USA TODAY. "Violence on the border easily seeps into our communities. It also creates a fear in border communities that the rule of law doesn't apply anymore, and that's just unacceptable."
The new initiative will mobilize more border-enforcement teams, multiply the number of intelligence analysts working on the border, and step up searches of cars going into Mexico from the USA, Napolitano said. She said she won't reveal the number of extra agents or how much money will be spent until a formal announcement is made in coming weeks.
The push will come within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, the two main federal agencies responsible for patrolling the USA's 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
Napolitano said the increase in agents is in response to violence by drug cartels, including assassinations of police, kidnappings and beheadings, that has roiled through Mexican border towns in the past year, killing more than 6,000 people.
The new initiative will mobilize more border-enforcement teams, multiply the number of intelligence analysts working on the border, and step up searches of cars going into Mexico from the USA, Napolitano said. She said she won't reveal the number of extra agents or how much money will be spent until a formal announcement is made in coming weeks.
The push will come within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, the two main federal agencies responsible for patrolling the USA's 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
Napolitano said the increase in agents is in response to violence by drug cartels, including assassinations of police, kidnappings and beheadings, that has roiled through Mexican border towns in the past year, killing more than 6,000 people.
2 comments:
I hope she is not just playing with words and no action since she seems to be a supporter of illegals. I have had enough of just mouth and no action how about you. She has complained that she doesn't want work place enforcement and has criticized ICE for doing their jobs.
The recent beheadings in Mexico make me wonder if there isn't some sort of major Muslim recruitment campaign going on.
Post a Comment