The situation in Mexico has serious consequences for our Rights, and even our lives here in AZ and all along the Mexican border. We cannot emphasize enough how much it is in our interest to have a free, safe and prosperous Mexico as our neighbor. Many of us have family, friends there and they are our neighbor.

We strongly support the Human Rights of the Mexican people to be able to defend themselves. That means the Mexican people should once again have the rights and resources to possess, bear and use modern and effective firearms. As over 70 years of corrupt federal government and it's attending gun control have shown, the bumper sticker is so true. "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Mexico is a textbook example of the failures of gun control. While some very limited firearms are permitted on paper, and in practice, the real effect has been to disarm the good people of Mexico.
That was done by the very corrupt political party that ran a country rich in natural resources and people, into the ground to prevent a revolution, not to "control crime" as was the pretense.

As the archived reports will show, the defenseless people of Mexico have suffered way too much. They deserve much better. We need to help.

Given the gravity of the ongoing drug war in Mexico our neighbor to the south, ASR&PA has been working to monitor the border situation and it's many effects on our state and our members:

Including drug and human trafficking, with related issues of murders, kidnappings, home invasions, extortion, destruction of wildlife habitat, illegal immigration, white slavery, money laundering, expenses of incarceration and medical treatments, the list goes on and on. Also de facto cession of areas of the state to the DTO's; fugitives, cash, firearms and ammunition running south. Most of these issues could be significantly reduced by simply securing the border.

To get it out of the way, ASR&PA does support legal immigration, trade, and travel between our countries. Especially so that we and our Mexican neighbors can once again freely and safely travel to our neighboring countries for competition, training, hunting and just enjoy good company.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

AZMEX UPDATE 23-2-11

AZMEX UPDATE   23 FEB 2011   Another day on the border, or many miles north.

Note:  a very informative local study of smuggling ops in AZ well worth the time to read.

 Part 2

Part 3

Note:  more new videos at:      http://secureborderintel.org/       This time miles north of border.


Pinal County drug bust nets 102 arrests, 3,200 pounds of pot
by Lauren Featherstone - Feb. 23, 2011 09:01 AM
The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office reported Wednesday morning the arrest of 102 suspects and the seizure of 3,200 pounds of marijuana after a four-day operation in the Vekol Valley and Silver Bell Mountain areas.

The multi-agency operation, which targeted drug and human trafficking, began Feb. 16th and ended Saturday. In addition to the arrests and seizure, agencies recovered seven stolen vehicles and confiscated 12 firearms.

The marijuana is worth $2.5 million.

In December, state police and other agencies raided the Vekol Valley and recovered 3,000 pounds of marijuana and took 49 people into custody.  Vekol Valley is halfway between Casa Grande and Gila Bend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Note:  usually a tactical move.

Bomb threat closes border for nearly 2 hours
February 22, 2011 4:46 PM
FROM STAFF REPORTS

A bomb threat closed the border at San Luis, Ariz., for about two hours Monday night, according U.S. Customs and Border Protection.  The border was reopened shortly after 10 p.m. after Cocopah tribal police bomb-sniffing dogs found no bomb at the U.S. Port of Entry at San Luis, said CBP Supervisory Officer Teresa Small.

The bomb threat was called in about 8:10 p.m. to the U.S. port, Small said.



Accused Zeta had US training, report says
By Diana Washington Valdez \ El Paso Times
Posted: 02/23/2011 02:26:40 AM MST

A retired Mexican army officer and Zetas cartel member accused of plotting to kill a Mexican law official had received U.S. military training, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable.

The cable, "Setting the Record Straight on Zetas and U.S. Military Training," came from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and was provided by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks.

"Separate sensitive collateral reporting indicates that Rogelio Lopez Villafana, a former Mexican infantry lieutenant who retired from the Mexican elite special forces, was forcibly recruited into Los Zetas," the cable classified secret said.  "Lopez was later arrested and implicated in a plan to assassinate the former Deputy Attorney General for Legal and International Affairs, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, in January 2008."

The cable said Lopez received counter-narcotics operations training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and retired from the Mexican army in 2007.

Vasconcelos had collaborated with U.S. officials in El Paso on previous investigations of the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel. He was a prosecutor who also investigated the women's murders and cartel-related kidnappings in Juárez. He died in a 2008 plane crash in Mexico City that also killed another Mexican official.

The U.S. Embassy's electronic database, which dates back only to 1996, indicated that the U.S. government trained nearly 5,000 Mexican military members, including 422 elite special forces soldiers.  "Critics of U.S. military training and conspiracy theorists have long speculated that members of the notoriously violent cartel Los Zetas once received U.S.-funded special forces training," the cable said. "Since we cannot know the name of every Mexican soldier who has joined Los Zetas, we cannot irrefutably reject this possibility."

The Zetas, who are fighting the Gulf cartel for control of drug-trafficking lanes in eastern Mexico, are suspects in the Feb. 15 shooting attack that killed one ICE agent and wounded another in Mexico.

Diana Washington Valdez may be reached at dvaldez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6140.


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