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By Michael Webster: Investigative reporter May 26, 2008 14:00 m PDT

As America wages its war against drugs and terror with costs to the community in billions crime syndicates here in the U.S. have joined with Mexican drug cartels, the threat to U.S. interests a sign of emerging international crime becomes more serious every day.
Groups like the Sinaloa, Juarez, Tijuana, Gulf Cartel, has been virtually taken over law enforcement and Mexican government officials in their host country and are dangerous and important international players, the realization of their criminal activities across borders and threatening the stability and U.S. interests. In other words are a major threat to the security of this nation.
further evidence of this growing threat comes from the powerful Mexican cartels, which accounts for up to 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States and is increasingly able to operate above the law, buying or even kill government officials, who must work with the U.S. law enforcement to combat crime.
What’s worse, the cartels have formed alliances with American street gangs, giving these drug cartels a deep in American life and through the alliance with our gangs that gives them control over most of the trade to $ 300 U.S. 500 000 000 000 U.S. dollar drug, the largest in the world.
These posters have become a global company with international scope of the crime of illegal franchises spanning the world.
The ability of these Mexican drug cartels to operate with total disregard for the law on both sides of the border – trafficking in drugs, weapons, human beings, terrorism, prostitution and money laundering now threatens to destabilize the economy U.S. and our way of life, especially in poor areas and in our projects and neighborhoods.
The corruption of our government officials and the purchase of legitimate businesses and undermine American society, these criminals threaten to feedback what little progress as a nation has done to minorities and members of gangs to the poor children of America, and now in Mexico, could avoid the reform indefinitely.
Federal authorities indicated that Mexican drug cartels are responsible for border violence by cement ties with street and prison gangs like El Paso Barrio Azteca on the U.S. side of the border. Azteca like many other U.S. drug gangs to detail they get from Mexican cartels and their gangs. One of the most dangerous. Mexican gangs also run their own distribution network in the U.S., and produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. They have even passed this Colombians several times to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and Afghanistan, even.
Often, these bands of the same work as cartel surrogates or performers on the U.S. side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas are known as “Los Zetas have hired members of various gangs at different times, including, El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13, and gunmen Hermanos Latinos to further their criminal efforts. Dangerous Mexican Cartel Gangs
The list of crimes of new international criminal organizations is long. They traffic in drugs, persons and chemicals, biological and nuclear material. They make billions of dollars in fraud against banks, businesses and governments. They destroy lives, undermine economies and reduce confidence in the political and economic reforms, and widespread corruption and violence. In summary, we have become a threat to international security.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Caucus to Fight Drug Trafficking in the Senate, in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, based in Washington, said: “Clearly we need to develop a new foreign policy to address these criminal groups – to put them out of business and in jail. ”
But what we really need is a national defense policy to stop the flow of illegal trade in our country unabated.
In a speech to the UN, President Clinton acknowledged the growing threat posed by international criminal groups such as Mexican drug cartels, and called for greater efforts to combat these organizations. So we’ve known this problem for a long time.
A ranking House Republican has requested a hearing on the basis of recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the U.S. are working with Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorist networks abroad.
Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House terrorism Foreign and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document – first reported by the Washington Times – highlights the vulnerability of the nation is when fighting the war against drugs and terrorism.
Senator Grassley also said that “These efforts must achieve several goals: dismantle the major criminal groups, stiffen penalties for the exercise of international crime, and promote international cooperation to counter the actions of criminal elements.”
U.S. politicians must take concrete steps to address the challenges of today’s Mass, in reference to these Mexican drug cartels. We as Americans must protect our borders and keep these dangerous elements in this country. We must strengthen intelligence capabilities against groups and their leaders.
We work with countries to Mexico, others to strengthen their judicial systems and police.
We must improve our ability to control the flow of money to prevent criminal organizations from abusing the United States, Mexico, the international financial and banking systems. And we must raise awareness among Americans of the great threat they pose and signals to create a united front to bring them to justice.
The scandals of political corruption in Mexico, the blatant lack of scruples of the Mexican drug cartels and U.S. streets awash with drugs to meet the demand of billions of dollars – all are the product of unscrupulous criminal organizations willing to trample on human life and dignity in their haste to get ill-gotten gains.
Such as Mexico, Colombia and other countries that the U.S. should start dealing with the fact that we are facing a new threat policy of an international criminal activity. But we see the impact of international crime on our streets every day in the life wasted and drug violence tearing our cities apart.
Soon if America does not have much action in the current carnage on the type of Mexican kidnappings for ransom, murders and beheadings underworld style drug cartels are becoming common in the United States.
As the most powerful nation on earth, the United States have an obligation to lead the world in the manufacture of a strong and internationally. Just as the first President Bush to form a coalition to counter the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, it is also necessary that the new president takes office on January 9 that must begin working with Congress and law enforcement to challenge the threat posed new crime by international cartels that are right on our southern border.
The Cold War is over “, but America still has enemies in the world. Emerging international crime cartels are simply the latest. The U.S. can not afford to ignore this problem, but must begin to shape a tough policy to respond to foreign and stand is taken against criminal groups here at home.
More than 1,500 people were killed in Mexico this year, according to news from Mexico. Most of the killings took place in states that are centers of drug trafficking and organized crime. In one day last week, alone, Mexico recorded 40 executions. These murders are the most violent episodes believed ordered by Mexican cartels with some of the victims were U.S. citizens.
Penny Starr Senior Staff Writer CNSNews. com reports that a report by the U.S. State Department on “unnatural deaths” of U.S. citizens abroad, says that 126 Americans were victims of homicides or “executions” in Mexico between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2007. A total of 667 Americans died in Mexico by “non-natural causes during that period. See the report on the” natural death ”
The State Department says the report “is based solely on cases reported by American citizens to our posts abroad,” leaving open the question of how complete or accurate it is.
Many of the reported killings took place beyond the southern border of the United States. Twenty-nine took place in the city of Tijuana, south of San Diego, California.
The two deaths described in the State Department report as “executions” both occurred in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, U.S. border. One of those executions was reported to have occurred January 21, 2007 in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. See statement
The report notes in particular the violence in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, stating that: “Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped and / or murdered in Tijuana in 2007.” See travel alert