Mass graves uncovered in Mexico

Well it is apparent that the Mexico drug cartel violence isn’t ending anytime soon. The Mexican military is largely outnumbered and over 35,000 people have been killed since 2006 when President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels throughout his country.

Now, the violence is becoming so bad, that cartel members in certain cities are simply murdering people just for the shill thrill of trying to obtain power. It used to be that cartels would target wealthy people. Now they're even targeting poverty stricken families who don't even have the money to pay ransom demands by some of these ruthless members.

The cartel organizations are known for mutilating, shooting and beheading citizens and tourists, but in the latest episode of the Mexican military and police force investigating the cartels resulted in uncovering mass graves where nearly 200 people and is now being called the worst discovery since the crackdowns began in 2006.

Based on the investigation, the people that were found in the graves were passengers on a migrant worker bus headed to the United States where they were ambushed by drug cartel members, pulled off the bus and beaten to death with a sledgehammer.

Imagine. You’re riding on the bus with a group of people; then the bus abruptly stops and gets ambushed by a few drug cartel members and you have to watch the person that was sitting next to you get his or her head bashed in, with the grave reality that you will be next.

This is really becoming a serious problem. While the so called “peaceful international community” of the United Nations imposes sanctions on Libya, our own President and Congress does nothing about sealing our borders with Mexico. People are being slaughtered on the streets of Mexico every other day. No sanctions there? How ironic.

This Congress has the fiduciary duty to uphold the Constitution and establish law and the President is to enforce those laws. Our American rule of law has been quite clear. If you are an illegal alien in this country, you simply don’t belong here. Both parties in Congress and President Obama, like President Bush, have done nothing to enforce those laws that already exist.

President Obama recently spoke at one of his preliminary re-election campaigns basically implying that it really doesn’t matter where you come from, we’re all Americans. It is patently absurd. I don’t know about the rest of the idiots in the Federal Government who are too lazy to do their jobs, but I don’t want to be living in a society infested with ruthless and violent drug cartel members.

If you think that these passengers on a migrant bus who were brutally murdered by drug cartel members can’t happen in America, think again. The cartel presence already exists in dozens of U.S. cities and is rapidly spreading like a fatal cancer.

Honestly, how many more innocent people need to be murdered just to make this President happy?

U.S. drones allowed in Mexico

If you have not already heard, our nation's borders have been unsecured for many years and the United States has dealt with constant bombardment of criminal illegal aliens from Mexico.

Furthermore, the drug cartel violence throughout Mexico has continued to escalate. I reported in previous blog posts here on Independent Word, that the Mexican Military and Police Force are loosing the battle against the cartels. Since 2006 when President Calderon declared war, more than 35,000 people have been killed. I also came to the conclusion that sometime down the road, the United States would have to join Mexico if they ever expected to wipe the drug business out completely.

Well today, Mexico announced that U.S. drones would be permitted to fly over parts of the country adjacent to the U.S. and Mexico border in hopes to gather intelligence on drug traffickers. Now, critics are already jumping on this calling intervention from the U.S. unnecessary. Mexican Senator Luis Villareal said that "U.S. involvement violates trust and undermines national sovereignty." 

The truth of the matter here is that Mexico's inability to stop drug cartel violence and its largely outnumbered military would have only called for more intervention from the United States. Still, there are several questions. Drug cartels are a multi-billion dollar business.  It has been years dealing with a constant broken borders system and hundreds of billions of dollars spent over the years which go to what? Paying off politicians or giving kick-backs? Many of them covered in blood money? Why in the hell has it taken the United States so long to get the hint that something needs to be done to disband the drug cartels, close the border, reduce the crime wave and stop illegal immigration?

Nothing has been done. President Obama continues to play around with the idea that the borders need to remain open to welcome immigrants and it plays a crucial part in the ridiculous North American Free Trade Agreement and the Security and Prosperity Partnership that President Bush put together during his reign.

Security? Really? The CIA has verified for years that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups from the Middle East also have a presence in Mexico and are just as much of a threat to this country's national security as the drug cartels, but I digress...

Now, it appears that when the United States decides to try and work with Mexico on gathering intelligence on drug cartels, Mexico snaps back saying "we don't need you're help!"

From the looks of it Mexico, you're going to need all the help you can possibly get. How many more innocent people on either side of the border need to get killed?

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.

Arizona countersues Federal Government over immigration bill

The State of Arizona has decided to sue the United States Government for failing to secure the State's border with Mexico and failing to enforce the laws that are already Federal Statutes.

This day has been coming for quite some time, as the Obama Administration, much like the Bush Administration, continuously embarrassed themselves by filing a law-suit against Arizona after the State passed SB1070 which would allow for more protective measures to secure the border with Mexico, deport illegal aliens and allow police officers to profile those that are not suppose to be in the country without proper paperwork.

Governor Jan Brewer decided to move forward on filing a counter suit against the United States Government, because "the federal government failed to protect the citizens of Arizona." And she has a good point.

While the Obama Administration continued to waste the taxpayers time and money for allowing a ridiculous law-suit to be filed in the first place since everyone in Washington D.C. has been lazy on enforcing immigration policy for many years, Arizona has been riddled with skyrocketing costs for the incarceration of criminals from Mexico, crime and Phoenix becoming the second 'kidnapping capital of the world'.

Despite the fact that a U.S. District Judge barred a specific requirement concerning police officers asking illegal aliens their immigration status, Governor Brewer remains optimistic and is determined to see Arizona win at the end of the day.

Isn't it just hypocritical of the Obama Administration to make outrageous remarks that the Arizona Law is Unconstitutional because illegal aliens don't have the documentation they're required to have, yet the Health Care Law he passed last year, requires everyone to have documentation on their insurance status?


The contradictions of this Administration is breath taking, and perhaps President Obama should shut up and get with the program and finally do something meaningful, as well as humane when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration. For one, you can start by getting rid of every single dirt bag drug dealer and gang-banger in the country and deport them back to their home country. Secondly, those that are living in this country and are contributing to our economy, allow them a rational and effective path to citizenship. Third, leave Arizona alone and realize that U.S. Congress, as well as yourself and former President Bush have failed to enforce immigration laws that are already on the Federal Government's books; and finally, address the ever-growing drug violence in Mexico and begin a strategic alliance with President Calderon on how to defeat the drug trafficking throughout our Southern neighbors... before it ultimately spills over into our territory.


For reasons like this, is exactly why Arizona passed this law in the first place.

Is Mexico collapsing, due to growing drug cartel violence?

In case people have not already noticed, there is basically a civil war going on with our southern neighbors in Mexico. The war itself is between the Mexican Government and Military, combating the escalating drug cartels throughout the entire country.

CBS News had a stunning report from November 12^th, which indicated in 2010 alone, there were more than 10,000 drug related deaths, and a total of 28,000 deaths since 2006.

Yet despite this, President Felipe Calderon seems to remain somewhat optimistic and looks to the Mexican Military as the last remaining effort to stop the drug violence in all of the nation’s 18 states.

Personally, I would question President Calderon’s optimism, as it seems a majority of citizens in Mexico and even here in the United States are leaning towards the grim possibility that Mexico will be unable to win this war, at least on its own. If this is the case, the question whether or not the leaders behind the cartels and with the hundreds of millions of dollars they profit, have the ability to one day overthrow the Mexican government? Some critics may say it is unlikely, but the Mexican Government, its military and its police force have thus far, have been limited to combat this huge problem.

Speaking of which, the cartels have been targeting a number of the nation’s police force and members of its government. In October of this year, a Mexican police commander who was investigating the death of an American tourist on Falcon Lake which is shared on the border with Texas and Mexico was murdered, and his decapitated head was found in a suitcase delivered outside of a Mexican army base.

President Calderon has been outspoken with his criticism of the United States, saying that our nation is responsible for financing the cartels and empowering its members with weapons. But how many of those members based here in the United States are actually in the country illegally?

I find President Calderon’s criticism in somewhat of a catch 22 scenario. There is no question that criminals in the United States have been involved with the Mexican drug cartels, and have most likely have helped finance and supply weapons to its members. But keep in mind that this is the same Mexican President that spoke in a joint session in Congress back in the Spring of this year, criticizing Arizona’s immigration law which was passed to get a handle on the growing violence in that border state.

So how can President Calderon criticize the United States, while at the same time, criticize Arizona earlier this year for trying to get a handle on the situation? It is quite hypocritical in some regard, and it should still be pointed out clearly that Mexico’s immigration law is much stricter than the United States federal immigration law. The reason as to why Mexico is unable to enforce those laws, is because of the drug cartel problem.

It was after President Obama took office in January, 2009 that he vowed to partner with Mexico in the war on drug cartel violence, and even Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a Congressional hearing in February of 2009, “Mexico has issues of violence that are a different degree and level than we have ever seen before.”

After nearly eight years under President Bush of States like Arizona and Texas asking the Federal Government for National Guard and Military enforcements, and now two years under President Obama, virtually little has been done to secure and protect our nation’s borders from the drug violence in Mexico. The logical way that seems key to solving the problem, is simply close the U.S.-Mexican border, and then develop a compromise and resolution between Presidents Obama and Calderon and the U.S. Congress, deploy the Military efforts in both countries to combat the drug war internally in Mexico.

Still, nearly every single day, there seems to be another report of drug cartel related violence and murders, and the increase of this violence continues. More deaths, more tragedy, more violence and more of a developing threat to the Mexican Government.

The real question remains, is the United States going to finally close the borders entirely, and perhaps lend a helping hand to Mexico to contain its ever growing drug cartel problem? Or leave the borders wide open for the violence to continue to spread into our country, while at the same time, Mexico’s resources in combating the cartels, collapses?