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.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Operation to stop flow of firearms to Mexico

By Chris Roberts / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 01/17/2008 12:21:14 AM MST

Taking aim at smugglers supplying weapons to Mexican drug cartels, federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced they are strengthening efforts to identify people and routes involved in the illegal trade.

Michael J. Sullivan, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, traveled from Washington, D.C., to announce that the bureau will spend more than $10 million annually to add 35 special agents and 15 investigators to its Southwest border operations. In the past two years, the bureau has dedicated about 100 agents and 25 investigators to the region, officials said.

"Drug trafficking organizations have made life on the border increasingly dangerous," Sullivan said during a news conference at the

El Paso Intelligence Center, known as EPIC. "We've done a lot over the last couple of years, but clearly this public safety threat requires that we do more."

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