Mexican President Felipe Calderon (click here for video - thank you) speaks to the "Early Show" anchors about the drug war, labor and immigration, and the ongoing partnership between Mexico and the U.S.
April 28, 2013
By Mollie Reilly
December 21, 2011
August 29, 2014
August 24, 2014
September 16, 2014
So let me get this right.
April 28, 2013
By Mollie Reilly
...Former President George W. Bush (click here) rejected a request from former Mexican President Felipe Calderon to use armed drones to curb the growing influence of drug cartels, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
In a story examining the United States' role in the intelligence war against Mexico's drug cartels, the Post's Dana Priest detail show Calderon reached out to Bush for help ahead of his 2006 inauguration. Bush agreed to commit U.S. resources to help with the growing problem, launching the $1.9 billion Merida Initiative to combat the violence resulting from the drug trade.
However, Bush reportedly drew the line at providing Calderon with armed drones to carry out strikes on the cartels....
December 21, 2011
By William Booth
In the dead of night, (click here) from a trailer humming with surveillance monitors, a pilot for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was remotely flying a Predator drone more than 1,000 miles away.
From an altitude of 15,000 feet, over the desert ranchlands of Arizona, the drone’s all-seeing eyeball swiveled and powerful night-vision infrared cameras zeroed in on a pickup truck rattling along a washboard road.
“Hey, where’s that guy going?” the mission controller asked the drone’s camera operator, who toggled his joystick, glued to the monitors like a teenager with a Christmas morning Xbox....
August 29, 2014
By Elisa Foley
WASHINGTON -- National Guard troops (click here) deployed to the border in Texas are visiting a food bank because they can't afford food and gas ahead of their Sept. 5 payday, according to a report Friday by local station Action 4 News and a state senator.
Action 4 News reported that a Rio Grande Valley food bank had been contacted about 50 Texas National Guard troops who needed assistance. The troops are reimbursed for their meals, but pay for them upfront, stretching the finances of some troops who were called to southern Texas earlier this month to address an increase in unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally.
State Rep. René O. Oliveira, a Democrat, called the situation "heartbreaking," and offered to buy meals for troops serving near his district in Brownsville, Texas.
"These brave men and women have apparently been sent on a mission without accommodating for their most basic needs," he said in a statement. "We need to find immediate solutions for these hungry soldiers."...
August 24, 2014
By Jeremy Schwartz
...According to spokeswoman (click here) Lt. Col. Joanne MacGregor, a “proactive” family assistance coordinator “contacted the Rio Grande Valley food bank to see what resources were potentially available.”
The Guard said it had identified 50 service members who, because of their early August start date, weren’t going to be paid until Sept. 5.
None of those 50 troops have notified leaders that they had used the food bank, officials said.
According to the Guard, troops receive one meal while on duty, plus a $32 per diem food reimbursement that is included in their paychecks....
September 16, 2014
By Brieanna Lee
...The Perryman Group, (click here) an economic analysis firm based in Waco, Texas, studied past deployments of National Guard troops along the southern Texas border to project the potential economic impact of the 1,000 troops Perry ordered there in July. For each year the National Guard troops remain along the border, the group said, businesses in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley would lose $541.9 million in gross product and 7,830 jobs. On a wider scale, the state of Texas would lose 8,680 jobs and $650 million in gross product per year....
So let me get this right.
Fox (click here) has a new way to scare its old white audience: Not just drug mules but terrorists are coming up from Mexico.
It is anyone guess as to how much money US has been spent on Southern Border security, but, there are IS/IS/L militants coming across the border like water through a sieve.
....Richard: You referred in your opening statement to the cost of the fence. (click here)
Jacobs: It is impossible to pin down exactly, but there are some estimates. In a 2007 study the non-partisan Congressional Research Office pegged the bill to construct and maintain (for 25 years) a 700 mile fence to be $49 billion. This is the same type of double fences contemplated in today’s bill. That was six years ago…..materials and labor prices have increased and then there is my “law of government”……..things always take longer and cost more, usually much more, than they tell us. So what’s the cost today….you pick a number....
There are young people in the USA because of President Obama's protection of the dreamers that have traveled to the southern fence to visit with their relatives. But, the relatives can't get across the into the USA. There are innumerable Border Patrol and National Guard at this point, but, terrorists are able to cross the border.
There is a Mexican President intent on ending the drug cartels terrorizing reign over his country with the assistance of the USA and yet there are many border crossings. There are tunnels closed and semi-submarines spotted by the US Coast Guard.
Yet absolutely nothing has stopped the very tricky IS/IS/L. Wow. FOX offers no concrete evidence except the speculation of the new substitute for the celebrity Joe Arpaio, in Sheriff Gary Painter.
If Sheriff Painter wants to be invited to speak at fund raisers as his pier Arpaio he is going to have to do better than that. He needs to catch one. I would think a lawman would know that, but, in the Land of FOX nothing matters except the defaming of the USA to bring terror to it's viewers. Yes, defaming the USA. I can't imagine a media service that defames the USA in more anti-American rants than FOX. This is just one example.
Besides all the government services at work at the southern border of the USA, the Rio Grande has been receiving nothing but rain. This begins today on September 16, 2014. If you don't believe me than look it up yourself.
With chronic rain at the Rio Grande I would not expect anyone crossing anytime soon. Do the American people ever think for themselves? Ever?
Currently the Rio Grande is nearing flood stage.
The current level of the Rio Grande is 8.7 feet with a flow rate of about 5 KCFS (Thousands of Cubic Feet Per Second). Sheriff Painter should attempt to swim the Rio Grande from one bank to another and demonstrate exactly where and how anyone made it across. At least it would be some PROOF to the possibility.
....Richard: You referred in your opening statement to the cost of the fence. (click here)
Jacobs: It is impossible to pin down exactly, but there are some estimates. In a 2007 study the non-partisan Congressional Research Office pegged the bill to construct and maintain (for 25 years) a 700 mile fence to be $49 billion. This is the same type of double fences contemplated in today’s bill. That was six years ago…..materials and labor prices have increased and then there is my “law of government”……..things always take longer and cost more, usually much more, than they tell us. So what’s the cost today….you pick a number....
There are young people in the USA because of President Obama's protection of the dreamers that have traveled to the southern fence to visit with their relatives. But, the relatives can't get across the into the USA. There are innumerable Border Patrol and National Guard at this point, but, terrorists are able to cross the border.
There is a Mexican President intent on ending the drug cartels terrorizing reign over his country with the assistance of the USA and yet there are many border crossings. There are tunnels closed and semi-submarines spotted by the US Coast Guard.
Yet absolutely nothing has stopped the very tricky IS/IS/L. Wow. FOX offers no concrete evidence except the speculation of the new substitute for the celebrity Joe Arpaio, in Sheriff Gary Painter.
If Sheriff Painter wants to be invited to speak at fund raisers as his pier Arpaio he is going to have to do better than that. He needs to catch one. I would think a lawman would know that, but, in the Land of FOX nothing matters except the defaming of the USA to bring terror to it's viewers. Yes, defaming the USA. I can't imagine a media service that defames the USA in more anti-American rants than FOX. This is just one example.
Besides all the government services at work at the southern border of the USA, the Rio Grande has been receiving nothing but rain. This begins today on September 16, 2014. If you don't believe me than look it up yourself. With chronic rain at the Rio Grande I would not expect anyone crossing anytime soon. Do the American people ever think for themselves? Ever?
Currently the Rio Grande is nearing flood stage. The current level of the Rio Grande is 8.7 feet with a flow rate of about 5 KCFS (Thousands of Cubic Feet Per Second). Sheriff Painter should attempt to swim the Rio Grande from one bank to another and demonstrate exactly where and how anyone made it across. At least it would be some PROOF to the possibility.
