underwear bombing. they will try any means to get into this country to commit an act of terrorism. the drug organizations in mexico we know are just as committed. they re using more violence than ever. so those are different threats than the border 35 troll of 2012 faces than the border patrol of 2004 faced. that is what this document reflects. to stop the resolving door policy as it is called, sending migrants back to mexico only to have them try again. i use example of mexico, but as you point out it could be people coming from all over the world. what specifically in this document does it seem the plan is for stopping that? sure you have a much higher percentage of people crossing who are trying multiple times because they re not being successful the first time and people who may have jobs or family here they may be criminal aliens. so the difference again today, versus 2004, we actually have a lot more detention capacity because of the lower numbers about
11,333 men and women and children kidnapped on their way into the united states. they re used for narco-terrorists to have more members in their drug organizations. they kidnap them, threaten their life, and say now you work for me. imagine the ones that got through. one of the questions that kept coming to us on twitter yesterday was who are these guys. did they get the people who were behind these trucks, and what happens now? yeah. we ve talked about this a lot. one of the huge problems that president felipe calderon has been dealing with is the institutional corruption that exists in the legislative, not as much but certainly in the judicial areas of mexico. impunity is a big problem. and the calderon has been battling this issue along with the drug cartels. if you get caught in mexico, if you have money, odds are you probably won t number jail for long. what these groups that have unlimited resources have been able to do is buy themselves to,
arrested the two u.s. citizens for alien smuggling and they would not confirm reports they confiscate additional military uniforms, the staff sergeant s shoulder stripes and more velcro name tags and i spoke with the marine corps and homeland security officials and both say this is a dangerous development that suggests that drug organizations, really stepped up their game, martha, and could gain entry to sensitive locations and, obviously, more successfully, move product and people. we don t know where these guys were headed. it is being looked at by the naval investigative service and they ll look at where they obtained the uniforms, an inside job, from the marine base or potentially on the internet. you can buy the uniforms and in this case they had desert fatigues and some woodland fatigues and it says how far these guys will go not just stealing an i.d. or social security card but posing as
of murders in juarez, what do you think ? i think mexico is a war zone, too. it s shocking to see there are more murders in that area than the entire country of afghanistan even though we know that in mexico, many of the murders and killings are localized to certain border towns. when you look at this map, though, i don t know if you can see it. you know this. juarez is right on the border of texas. for goodness sakes, these murders are happening right in our backyard and you say we re naive to believe these drug cartels aren t operating right here at home, too. that s absolutely right. in fact, yesterday, ice announced the arrests of more than 760 gang members most of whom were connected to mexican drug organizations. so they are operating all throughout the united states. absolutely, the violence is not is horrific in the u.s. yet but we would be naive to think it couldn t happen here. you say that the cartels are watching the united states government and the mexican govern
no small transaction. 1800 heat seeking missiles were sold to venezuela in 2009. biggest such transfer of missiles in the world in the past five years. the obvious danger is we are concerned that there is a significant risk that weapons could be deverted to the farc rebel group be in columbia and they get help from hugo chavez. that is not the only concern where the missiles end up. we fear they could be sold or traded to drug organizations including those in mexico which are actively seeking to acquire weapons for use against the government sources. that is a nightmare scenaro. if the cartel gets the missiles they could hold the mexican government hostage. there were intense diplomatic