Judicial Watch, the public interest group created to investigate and prosecute suspects in government corruption cases, recently released a secret a Department of Homeland Security and US Border Patrol report titled, “Mexican Government Incidents: 2006 Fiscal Year Report.”

The report describes 29 confirmed incidents that occurred in 2006 along the US-Mexican border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement personnel, 17 of which involved armed Mexican government agents. Among the incidents cited:

EL PASO – FORT HANCOCK STATION – At 2 P.M. on January 3, 2006, Troopers attempted to apprehend three vehicles believed to be smuggling contraband on I-10…As the vehicles approached the border, troopers stated that a Mexican Military Humvee armed with a .50
caliber weapon and several soldiers were seen assisting smugglers return to Mexico…Officers then noticed several armed subjects dressed in fatigue type clothing unload the contraband into the Humvee. Thesesubjects set fire to the stalled vehicle before leaving the area.

TUCSON NOGALES STATION – On June 2, 2006, a Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Nogales, Arizona station encountered two Mexican Police Officers that had illegally entered into the U.S. one mile west of the Mariposa Port of Entry…the Mexican Police Officers ran back into Mexico when ordered [by Border Patrol] to remain for questioning.

That’s just two of the 29 confirmed attacks and intrusions of Mexican police and military into our sovereign territory. In reality there have been many more. Mexican military have gone well into Texas and Arizona on smuggling missions.

TIJUANA, Mexico, Jan 26 (Reuters) – A key hitman for Mexico’s Arellano Felix
drug cartel was arrested on Saturday in this crime-ridden border city, in another coup for President Felipe Calderon’s clampdown on traffickers.

After an anonymous tip-off, soldiers stormed a house and arrested Alfredo Araujo Avila, also known as Popeye, considered one of the most dangerous hitmen of the Arellano Felix cartel, Tijuana’s military chief Gen. German Redondo told reporters.

That promised $1.5 Billion aid package to Mexico, tied to them controlling their border, is having some obvious effect. It makes for good headlines but how long this effort lasts and how far it goes is questionable. Mexico has a very poor performance record.

There are strong signs that Bush has given up on his NAFTA plans to make Mexico, the U.S. and Canada into a copy of the European Union, which is bringing so much misery to Europe with its resulting unchecked immigration, since he has signed a law requiring 700 miles of fence be built along the Mexican border and the Department of Homeland Security is trying to build 370 miles of fence by the end of the year. At least, let’s hope he has.

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