Former Border Patrol Officers: US Politicians Protecting Mexican Drug Cartels

Article author: 
Paul Scicchitano
Article publisher: 
Newsmax
Article date: 
8 August 2013
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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Several former Border Patrol Officers warned in an open letter that some American politicians are protecting the activities of Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S.

“We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling, distribution and sale of illegal drugs,” the former officers wrote, according to Breitbart.com. “Organized crime on this scale we are speaking about cannot exist without political protection.”...

The former officers, writing on behalf of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, said that members of “these vicious transnational crime syndicates” are well established in more than 2,000 American cities and their numbers are increasing...

“Congress must abandon their focus on rewarding illegal behavior for millions of persons by the grant of amnesty in favor of protecting American citizens who suffer daily at the hands of these seasoned criminals,” they wrote. “To do otherwise makes a mockery of our laws, and encourages countless millions more from around the globe to do the same. Transnational organized crime nationwide has flourished under these conditions.”