Mexico: All talk, still no walk

Yesterday, President Obama had a meeting with President Felipe Calderon of Mexico to discuss that country's growing drug cartel violence and the issues on the U.S. border. The problem is not going away anytime soon.

Since 2006, President Calderon has attempted to crack down on drug cartel violence throughout Mexico and it is apparent that he is loosing. Over the last four and a half years, some 30,000 people in Mexico have been killed in drug cartel related violence, and the Mexican Military and Police Force have been largely outnumbered.

Stories of drug cartel violence continues to escalate. In various cities across Mexico, the mutilated remains of people are showing up all over the streets.

Now, the violence is pouring onto U.S. soil, and the U.S., by the way, happens to be a primary financier and buyer of drugs, not to mention a supplier of weapons to Mexican drug cartel organizations. 

In Phoenix, the city happens to be the second "kidnapping" capitol of the world thanks to criminal illegal aliens.
Back in October, a married couple on Falcon Lake, Texas which also lies on Mexico's border, were ambushed by drug cartel members. The husband was killed and the wife was able to get away. A Mexican police commander investigating the case was decapitated and his head later turned up at a Mexican Army base.

That same month in Chandler, Arizona, an illegal alien was arrested for beheading a man who had an association with drug smuggling.

And, more recently, a U.S. ICE Agent was ambushed and killed on a Mexican highway.

It is arguably the worst that Mexico and the U.S. has ever seen.

Despite all of this, President Calderon and President Obama continue to just talk about the drug cartel violence in Mexico, the gang members and the illegal alien population in the United States. Yet both of them continue to offer no solution to stop and prevent Mexico's drug cartel problems from continuing, nor expressing any solution to our own country's border security.

Honestly, it does not take rocket science. Secure the border, work on a rational and humane solution on our illegal immigration problem and work jointly with Mexico to remove the drug cartels.

But unfortunately, our Congress and this Administration, just like every Administration in the last twenty years, still cannot figure it out.

How pathetic.