News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Mexico leaning on drug gang activity

Military efforts, extraditions cited

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 13, 2007

TIJUANA – Military operations in Mexican states such as Baja California are sending a strong message to organized crime – but it's too early to gauge their success.

Several academic and political experts who spoke at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte yesterday during a conference about border security came to that conclusion as they considered how politics, immigration and drugs are affecting binational discussions.

Since Mexican President Felipe Calderón was sworn in to office in December, more drug traffickers have been extradited to the United States and platoons of soldiers have been assigned to drug-trafficking hot spots like Tijuana.

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