U.S. Sting on Mexican Drug Cartels which Lead to over 300 Arrests; Covered-Up by Mainstreams Media and Washington Politicians, Most Arrestees were Criminals Illegal Aliens:By Marc Chamot
"BIG Fallout for having an unsecured border."
About five days ago, we just had the largest sting and drug bust of Mexican drug dealers in America's history, and once again this went unnoticed by most of the national mainstream mediums, the Barack Obama White House, and congress, because of the leftist and pro-open border supporters of illegal aliens.
As soon as “criminal illegal aliens” were known to be the members of “La Familia,” Mexico’s most dangerous and violent drug cartel, they were the majority of those arrested for dealing drugs in some of America’s biggest cities. The Media and Washington politicians went into a silent mode.
Not only that, some of these criminal illegal aliens were armed to the teeth.
This is shameful, and this is why the mainstream media is being overtaken by the Internet. Folks don’t trust the media and their politicians to give truthful accounts on everything that goes on in this country anymore.
It’s the normal M.O. of these leftists and pro-open border supporters of illegal aliens, they want to cover up any adverse publicity that will hurt their causes to achieve amnesty and other pro-illegal alien’s perks.
They tried to silence the story, because this story proves and shows that Washington politicians have totally FAILED in enforcing our southern borders and PROTECTING AMERICANS from Mexican criminal elements and their drug cartels.
Largest U.S. sting on drug cartel leads to more than 300 arrests
OKLAHOMA CITY An upstart Mexican drug operation whose tentacles extend from coast to coast and deep into America’s heartland was the target of a massive federal strike this week that netted the arrests of more than 300 people.
Dozens of raids in 19 states, including Missouri, sought to cripple La Familia, which has emerged as the biggest supplier of methamphetamine to the United States and, increasingly, a peddler of cocaine, marijuana and other drugs.
Perhaps more than any other cartel, La Familia projects a Robin Hood image. The Drug Enforcement Administration said the group is “philosophically opposed to the sale of methamphetamine to Mexicans, and instead supports its export to the United States for consumption by Americans.”
Mexican police say the gang uses religion and family morals to recruit. Gang members have hung banners in towns saying they do not tolerate drug use, or attacks on women or children.
One of the gang’s alleged recruiters, detained last spring, ran drug rehabilitation centers, helping addicts recover and then forcing them to work for the gang or be killed, according to Mexico Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna.
La Familia is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the handful of other Mexican gangs that control the flow of drugs into the United States, fueled by Colombian cocaine suppliers. The Sinaloa, Juarez, Gulf and Tijuana cartels have roots that go back many years, even decades.
But La Familia is known as unusually violent, even by Mexico’s standards.
After the arrest of one of its leaders in July in Mexico, the cartel launched an offensive against federal forces, killing 18 police officers and two soldiers over a weekend. In the worst attack, 12 federal agents were slain and their tortured bodies piled along a roadside as a warning for all to see.
“They are one of the most violent, if not the most violent, cartel in Mexico right now,” said Michael Braun, who retired as the DEA’s chief of operations last year.
La Familia operates methamphetamine “superlabs” in Mexico that produce up to 100 pounds of the drug in eight hours, a sharp contrast to small-time labs in the United States that have supplied American addicts, Braun said.
The organization was founded in 2004 and really took off in 2006, Braun said.
“The sheer level and depravity of violence that this cartel has exhibited far exceeds what we unfortunately have become accustomed to from other cartels, (and) the toxic reach of its operations extends to nearly every state within our own country,” Attorney General Eric Holder said at a news conference.
But Holder and other officials also conceded that like a handful of other cartels, La Familia has become too powerful, too entrenched within the political and economic fabric of Mexico — and too popular with Mexico’s citizens — for the arrests to deal the cartel a death blow.
Senior drug officials said Mexico was cooperating but that La Familia’s leaders were too well-insulated to go after, protected not only by their own private army but also by corrupt police and politicians.
“It’s a full-blown military operation to go in and get them,” said one, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of U.S.-Mexico counternarcotics relations.
A Mexican counternarcotics official agreed, saying his country has thrown thousands of troops and police at La Familia.
“They rarely spend two or three nights in the same place, and when they do, they live in these very fortified compounds,” said the official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It is even more difficult for us because they buy not only information but they buy protection from the very guys that are supposed to get them.”
The arrests were made Wednesday and Thursday in 38 cities, with major distribution rings the focus in Dallas, Atlanta and Seattle. No raids were conducted in the Kansas City area.
None of those arrested in the United States was a major figure in the upper echelons of the organization, law enforcement officials said. But authorities said the sheer number of arrests would seriously disrupt the cartel’s distribution system.
In addition, Holder said, the authorities have seized more than $32 million in U.S. currency, 2,700 pounds of methamphetamine, 4,400 pounds of cocaine, 16,000 pounds of marijuana and 29 pounds of heroin. More arrests are expected.
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune contributed to this report.
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