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nostalgia9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Red it's coming and the government knows it
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This isn't receiving much national attention:
Texas crafts plan for Mexico collapse
Texas officials are working on a plan to respond to a potential collapse of the Mexican government and the specter of thousands fleeing north in fear for their lives after recent reports indicated the country could be on the verge of chaos.
"You hope for the best, plan for the worst," Katherine Cesinger, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, said last week. "At this point, we've got a contingency plan that's in development."
Late last year the U.S. Department of Defense issued a report that listed Pakistan and Mexico as countries that could rapidly collapse. The report came after similar alarms sounded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey.
"I think their fears are well-grounded," Texas Home land Security Director Steve McCraw told lawmakers recently at a border security briefing.
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11655113?source=most...-
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orndorffter9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Would it help if we sent emails to Obama? we have everything we need on his site a box to emai him, swithboard phone number Obamas Phone number and a nother one I forget what that one is for, like I said below, They need someone like Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Get all the men you can and blast them suckers away.
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nostalgia9 months, 2 weeks ago
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"Would it help if we sent emails to Obama?"
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Obama isn't going to do anything about this
He gets briefings on what is going on. The FBI and Homeland Security KNOW what is going on
When people along the border even DARE to hold illegals and call the Border patrol they get sued
Mixed verdict for rancher in migrant case
Roger Barnett of Arizona must pay $73,000 to four immigrants after holding them at gunpoint, a jury finds, but he's cleared of violating their civil rights.
A federal jury this week found that an Arizona rancher who has complained about illegal immigrants trespassing and trashing his border property has to pay four women $73,000 after he detained them and other migrants at gunpoint.
In a verdict Tuesday afternoon, the jury in Tucson found that Roger Barnett did not violate the women's civil rights but was liable for four claims of assault and infliction of emotional distress.
Barnett is well-known in southeastern Arizona, which has been a hot spot for illegal border crossings since the late 1990s. Immigrant rights groups have long called him a vigilante; supporters say he is simply defending his land. He and many other ranchers complain about vehicles tearing through their property and groups of immigrants that they say tear up their water tanks and leave debris.
Barnett has said that he has reported thousands of illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-...-
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nostalgia9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Obama is also aware of this report:
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Pakistan, Mexico and U.S. nightmares
What do Pakistan and Mexico have in common? They figure in the nightmares of U.S. military planners trying to peer into the future and identify the next big threats.
The two countries are mentioned in the same breath in a just-published study by the United States Joint Forces Command, whose jobs include providing an annual look into the future to prevent the U.S. military from being caught off guard by unexpected developments.
“In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico,” says the study - Joint Operating Environment 2008 - in a chapter on “weak and failing states.” Such states, it says, usually pose chronic, long-term problems that can be managed over time.
But the little-studied phenomenon of “rapid collapse,” according to the study, “usually comes as a surprise, has a rapid onset, and poses acute problems.” Think Yugoslavia and its 1990 disintegration into a chaotic tangle of warring nationalities and bloodshed on a horrific scale.
Mexico’s mention beside Pakistan in a study by an organization as weighty as the Joint Forces Command (which controls almost all conventional forces based in the continental U.S.) speaks volumes about growing concern over what’s happening south of the U.S. border.
Vicious and widening violence pitting drug cartels against each other and against the Mexican state have left more than 8,000 Mexicans dead over the past two years. Kidnappings have become a routine part of Mexican daily life. Common crime is widespread. Pervasive corruption has hollowed out the state.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/07/p...
Nothing is going to be done on a Federal level until it's too late
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