US marshals give $10K in goods to help Mexican cops
By Brady McCombs
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.01.2009
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The U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday handed over $10,000 worth of new police equipment to Mexican police.
The marshals in Arizona obtained the equipment — which included bulletproof vests, boots, handcuffs, uniforms, flashlights, gear bags and gloves — through a U.S. State Department grant program that sets aside money to help agencies that work along the border, said Luis Noriega, the Mexico investigative liaison for the U.S. Marshals Service in Arizona.
The recipients of the donation, the Sonoran investigative police (known in Mexico as Policia Estatal Investigadora, or PEI) and Mexico's Immigration Institute (known in Mexico as Instituto Nacional de Migración, or INM), work closely with the Marshals to find fugitives in Mexico.
The grant application came in part due to the escalating drug-cartel fueled violence that Mexican police are battling but also due to their cooperation over the years, Noriega said.
"This is our way to say thank you," Noriega said.
The donation was delivered Wednesday at the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse in Tucson.
The equipment will allow officers, especially those making checks on buses and trains, to work more efficiently, said Alejandro Salas Dominguez, an official with Mexico's Immigration Institute in Sonora.
"They are of excellent quality," Salas said in Spanish.
Both immigration and the Sonoran investigative police will give the equipment to officers working close to the U.S-Mexico border. For the investigative police, that means the officers investigating the drug-cartel- related killings will be the beneficiary, said Manuel Angel Barrios Macario, the director of the Sonoran investigative police.
"It is a really big help," Barrios said in Spanish.
Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or bmccombs@azstarne
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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.
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.
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