the border. we know a number of the children who were caught at the border last summer, the unaccompanied minor crisis, they were fleeing from extreme danger in central america. we also know that criminal networks called coyotes were helping them make their way through mexico. now, the u.s. is now teaming up with mexico and other central american countries to really dismantle these criminal networks and to make it so these coyote networks are not preying on families and extorting them for thousands of dollars in order to insure safe passage to the u.s. meanwhile, the state department is also trying to infuse resources into the actual countries where the root cause created this entire border crisis. so really, this is a strategy of border security beyond further than where the u.s. and mexico natural boundary lies. some of those, many of those coyotes on the border have to deal with the zetas and other drug cartels that have their operation on the mexican side of the border. nobody
should seal, but under seal. zapata and another agent were leaving the city when the zetas cartel ambushed their vehicle. zapata actually cracked the window. agents found 83 shell casings from assault rifles. now, yesterday the attorney general identified the 12 other men extradited to the u.s., a bombmaker and several high-level drug traffickers including edgar valdez. he s a dual citizen born and raised in texas. he headed the enforcement arm of the beltran cartel. nicknamed the ken doll by his football coach because of his light skin and green eyes, police say he is responsible for 150 fatalities, many of whom he tortured or beheaded while videotaping their death. mexico also extradited
this point, law enforcement and fbi task force, dps, would have in some way, have brought them all down. but they haven t been. and i take a sort of more modest tempered view of who the bandidos are. there are plenty of criminals in the bandidos. there are certain chapters that engage in a kind of minor crime. they you know run prostitution rings. they shake down strip joints. they deal methamphetamine. but these are not like the cartels on our border who are driving tons of drugs across the border into the united states. these are not guys, like the zetas that will cut you up in pieces and bury you in a shallow grave if you look at them the wrong way. they re basically guys that like the open road. they re drawn together in this perplexing fellowship of loyalists. one of the things that just
monterrey. he proudly said he killed over 2,000 people as well as him. it was very well known. his brother before him miguel angel morales was leading the cartel until july 2013 when mexican authorities arrest him. you re from the monterrey area covered that area incredibly industrial and beautiful area. talk to me about how the zetas have affected that part of the country. it s big and not the part of the country but the entire north borders involving some 11 states. they picked pedro garcia a city close to monterrey where a lot of people can live because they can camouflage. it s very common to see a lot of people driving expensive cars followed by suvs, convoys with bodyguards so it was the perfect, perfect place for them
it is an air conditioning repairman who is an small time crook who turns to a mexican drug cartel to make this happen? that is the pulp version there. mr. big is 29-year-old guy on probation for attempting to steal air conditioning units and possessing a fake florida identification. he contracts these cuban america traffickers to traverse the caribbean with drugs or stolen boats or human cargo. those traffickers, in turn, have to pay a tax what they call a rite of passage to the zetas, the mexican cartel to trespass on their turf. have the zetas still owed any