THE WAR NO ONE TALKS ABOUT

DHS "Unconscionable"

Drug Lords Fight Over Remaining Routes

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"You wonder if this outcome would have been different, had there been a fence in that area."
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- January 21

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Wian: Aguilar is the 16th border patrol agent killed in the line of duty since 2000. Also nearly 1,000 agents were assaulted last year alone as Mexican drug cartel violence continues to spill over the border -- Lou.

Dobbs: Well it is unconscionable what the Department of Homeland security is doing to our border patrol agents. They're leaving them basically naked against the onslaught of illegal alien smugglers, drug smugglers on our border. How in the world, and I've got to ask this, Casey, how in the world with other agents there, were there not efforts and successful efforts to stop those two vehicles re-entering Mexico?

Wian: The border patrol is not giving any details about the pursuit that happened leading up to this tragic event while the investigation continues, but it does bring up a lot of issues.

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Los Angeles Times

Agent's death highlights attacks on Border Patrol

The off-road enthusiasts were revving their dune buggies and all-terrain vehicles Saturday morning when a brown Hummer suddenly cut into the campground. The man at the wheel, a suspected drug smuggler, was heading to Mexico, fast. -- U.S. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar, the only person in the way, threw a spike strip in front of the car...

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Washington Times

U.S. faces 'grave threat' in drug fight

Mexican military efforts to crush heavily armed drug-smuggling operations in five cities along the U.S.-Mexico border pose a "grave threat" to U.S. authorities and a half-million Americans in the area, according to former U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service officials.

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Jim Kouri, CPP -- Family Security Foundation

Threat from violent MS-13 gang continues to escalate

They've severed the fingers of their rivals with machetes... brutally murdered suspected informants, including a 17-year-old pregnant federal witness... attacked and threatened law enforcement officers... committed a string of rapes, assaults, break-ins, auto thefts, extortions, and frauds across the U.S...