The Other War

Source: Dallasnews

Drug and smuggling gangs controlling Mexican border territory are proving an increasingly violent and sophisticated threat to Texas border law enforcement, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzales told a state Senate committee Wednesday.

“The weapons we possess are like water guns compared to what they have,” Gonzales said. “They’re trying to scare us away from the border.”

Gonzales, representing the Texas Border Sheriffs’ Coalition, was one of more than a dozen witnesses testifying before the Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security. The panel was in South Texas for a hearing on border security and funding for sheriffs along the border.

Gonzales said federal efforts to protect the U.S. side of the border have failed, allowing foreign criminals to infiltrate Texas counties — in some cases just to commit violent crimes before slipping back into Mexico.

“Many murders committed in Laredo were committed by Mexican gang members,” he said. “(Improvised Explosive Devices) seized in Laredo, we think were being brought to Mexico to be used against us.”

What do you call it again, when a an armed group of individuals crosses a national border for the purposes of violence and crime?

It'll come to me.

H/T beyond borders blog

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