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Mexico Rules Out Joint Border Patrols With U.S.

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Rosalba O’Brien, Reuters, March 30, 2009

Mexico will cooperate with the United States in sharing intelligence to fight drug trafficking but does not plan joint patrols with U.S. forces, President Felipe Calderon said Monday.

“We do have to work together but that does not imply the joint participation in military operations or even a joint participation of law enforcement agents,” Calderon said at a press conference during a state visit to London.

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The United States has stepped up security on the border with Mexico after new President Barack Obama put Mexico’s drug war high on his agenda.

Crushing the drug cartels, who arm themselves with smuggled U.S. weapons and leave slain rivals in public streets, has become the biggest test of Calderon’s presidency as the bloodshed rattles investors and tourists.

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(Posted on March 31, 2009)

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1 — hugo wrote at 5:47 PM on March 31:

I thought this is why we had a military and the CIA. To keep foreign invaders out.

2 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:12 PM on March 31:

Why should the Mexican government patrol its own northern border when the ATF will do that for free? That’s all they’re going to do, they admitted, check for cash and guns going N to S, not illegal aliens going S to N.

3 — Svigor wrote at 7:59 PM on March 31:

They have the nerve to criticize us for the guns they say flow over our border into Mexico, but they refuse to lift a finger to stop the millions of idiocratic/demographic bombs they’ve been sending over the border into our territory for decades.

Some countries peg their currency to the dollar.

At the VERY LEAST, we should start pegging our immigration policy vis-a-vis Mexico to Mexico’s immigration policy vis-a-vis us (or even better, Guatemala’s).

4 — Soprano Fan wrote at 8:01 AM on April 1:

Most Americans are not buying into Mexico’s lies that 90% of the guns used by the drug cartels are coming from the USA. Most of the cartel’s guns are from Central and South America.

5 — Nick wrote at 4:12 PM on April 1:

Let’s review

* The U.S. has double-digit unemployment in certain areas

* The U.S. economy is in shambles

* Mexico is on the verge of collapse

* But yet we are not guarding our borders

Insanity, total insanity

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