DHS Alerted AZ Sheriffs That Mexican Drug Cartel Was Sending Assassins Into Arizona Valley, Then Did No More Than Set Up Signs To Warn Travelers Away

(CNSNews.com) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Arizona law enforcement officials in May that Mexican drug cartels were deploying assassins to kill bandits highjacking their drug loads in the Vekol Valley, 70 miles inside Arizona. Then the federal government set up signs in the region to warn American citizens away from this area of U.S. sovereign territory.  That local law enforcement would be left to confront agents of a foreign cartel coming across the international border of the United States to carry out a deadly drug war on U.S. soil is further evidence that the federal government is not doing its duty to secure the border, said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.

“This is confirmed intelligence that Mexican drug cartels are now working in concert to protect their drug loads in the United States, literally, to send well-armed, military trained--even with ballistic vests--up to my county,” Babeu told CNSNews.com.

“This clearly is no longer a public safety issue,” he said. “This is a national security issue. The violence is bleeding into America and we must stop it.”

The DHS sent an e-mail on May 13, 2010 to several law enforcement agencies warning that Mexican drug cartels were deploying “sicarios” (assassins) into the western part of Pinal County, Ariz., to “take out” bandits that were robbing drug smugglers who had entered the United States from Mexico through the Arizona desert.

The e-mail was sent on May 13, 2010, and made public this Friday, Oct. 15, after local media in Arizona obtained the e-mail and questioned local law enforcement about it.

Babeu said that until now the e-mail was kept private because it was considered “law enforcement sensitive.” But Babeu, a critic of the Obama administration’s handling of immigration and border security issues, said he released it today because it constitutes further evidence that the government is not protecting Americans from the threats posed by a porous border.

“This is unacceptable for our federal government not to secure the border and not to respond to these threats,” Babeu told CNSNews.com. “How has it become in America [that] local sheriffs and law enforcement have to go up onto hillsides and pull people out of caves and take lookouts and scouts, who have binoculars, and night vision, and communication devices which are encrypted and rolling – they said so, right in the memo.”

The May 13 e-mail reads, in part: “We just received information from a proven credible confidential source who reported that last weekend, a meeting was held in Puerto Penasco in which every smuggling organization who utilized the Vekol Valley was told to attend. This included rival groups within the Guzman cartel.

“It was decided that the cartel would send a group of fifteen, very well equipped and armed sicarios complete with bullet proof vests, into the Vekol Valley” the e-mail continues. “The Cartel has a map of where the most bandit activity has been occurring. The group will walk into the valley taking four days to get into LPOP positions and communicate back to Penasco. Penasco will then send groups of simulated backpackers carrying empty boxes covered with burlap into the Vekol Valley to draw out the bandits. Once the bandits have been identified, the sicarios will take out the bandits.”

“Incidentally” the e-mail continues,” the night of the Vekol Valley shooting, we received information from a source who reported that the scouts in the valley (the Cartel has 23 scout locations with rolling encryption) were reporting that bandits had shot two sheriff’s deputies and the area was covered with cops.”

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Congressman Introduces Bill to Force Obama to Deploy at Least 10,000 National Guardsmen at Mexican Border

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ted Poe (R.-Texas), who served for 30 years as a Texas prosecutor and judge before being elected to Congress, introduced legislation last week designed to force President Barack Obama to deploy a minimum of 10,000 National Guard troops at the U.S. Mexico border for the specific purpose of patrolling the border and intercepting aliens and smugglers attempting to cross illegally into the United States.

The legislation would allow the president to deploy more than 10,000 National Guardsmen, but not fewer. “The president could put more than that, but he must put 10,000,” Poe told CNSNews.com.“The uniqueness of this is they would be paid by the federal government, because everybody says it is the responsibility of the federal government to protect the border. So the federal government will use the resources it already has to pay for those 10,000 National Guard troops, but they will be supervised by the governors of the four states on the border.”

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Arizona's Govenor Brewer: 'We Want Our Borders Secure'

The challenge to a federal district court’s temporary injunction against parts of Arizona’s tough new immigration law should succeed, says Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who’s leading the charge to overturn the ruling. “I feel confident we’re on the right track,” she told Newsmax.TV. “I believe the law is constitutional, and we’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.” Brewer is encouraged by the support her effort has received from citizens around the country, both verbally and financially. Thanks to donations made by ordinary citizens through keepazsafe.com, the legal fund to fight the ruling has $3.7 million, she says.“We want our borders secure, and we want to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. I can’t say enough about the citizens throughout America who have come and supported us.”

The federal government has given Arizona little help in securing its borders, Brewer says. “They’ve done a pretty good job securing the borders in California and Texas, but in Arizona, they’ve just left us wide open,” she said. This article is made available to our readers Courtesy of NewsMax.Com to read the entire article and see the video with Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer please Click Here

House Republicans Pledge to ‘Establish Operational Control of Border,’ But Say Nothing about Border Fence, Worksite Enforcement or Amnesty

(CNSNews.com) - The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representative released “A Pledge to America” today, laying out agenda items they plan to pursue if they take control of Congress, that commits the party to “establishing operational control of the border” but makes no mention of border fencing, enforcing immigration laws at the worksites of employers who hire illegal aliens or whether the party under any circumstances would grant any form of amnesty to foreign nationals currently living in the United States illegally. By contrast, the 2008 Republican Platform, approved by the delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention, committed the Republican Party to completing a border fence, enforcing immigration laws at the worksite and opposing an amnesty. This story made available to our readers Courtsey of CNSNews.Com to read the entire article please Click Here

Sanchez ‘Can’t Answer in 30 Seconds’ Whether She’s Committed to Securing Border against Drugs

(CNSNews.com) - When asked whether she was committed to securing the U.S.-Mexico border against drug trafficking and other crimes and when Congress could accomplish this goal, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) did not say but remarked that it was a question that could not be answered in 30 seconds. On Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Sánchez, who lives in a state with a large illegal immigrant population, the following: “Are you committed to securing the southwest border against the influx of illegal drugs, human smuggling, and other border-related problems and, if so, when can we expect Congress to get that done?”(CNSNews.com) - When asked whether she was committed to securing the U.S.-Mexico border against drug trafficking and other crimes and when Congress could accomplish this goal, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) did not say but remarked that it was a question that could not be answered in 30 seconds. On Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Sánchez, who lives in a state with a large illegal immigrant population, the following: “Are you committed to securing the southwest border against the influx of illegal drugs, human smuggling, and other border-related problems and, if so, when can we expect Congress to get that done?” This article was made available to our readers courtsey of CNSNews.Com to read the entire article please Click Here

Sheriff's Challenge to President Obama

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County Arizona, is issuing an invtation to President Barack Obama: If the president will come and spend a half hour with Babeu in Arizona, the sheriff says, he will convince the president he can succeed in securing the border and thus make himself a hero who transcends partisan politics. Babeu's southern Arizona county, while not contiguous with the border, has been designated by the Justice Department as part of a High Intensity Drug Trafficing region that is a major route for drug and alien smugglers bringing narcotics and illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico. Babeu has joined with Sheriff Larry Dever of neighboring Cochise County, Arizona which does sit on the border as well as with Arizona's two senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, in endorsing a ten point plan for securing the border. Noting that President Obama has visited Afghanistan to assess the security situation there, CNSNews asked Babeu in a videotaped interview whether ne would like the president to visit with him in Arizona so he can have the opportunity to persuade the president that his plan to secure the border will work. " If the president gave me a half hour I am confident that I could convince him and show him the way that he can personally secure the border, and he would be the hero of everybody that truly transcends bipartisan politics and secures that border." said Babeu. "I believe that if a leader truly wanted to do that we have the means and the resources necessary to secure our border and to protect America once and for all, and then we can get to the point in the future, only after the border is secure, that there is some type discussion about what to do with the approximate 13 million people who are here illegally." The ten point border security plan backed by Sheriffs Babeu and Dever and Senators McCain and Kyl includes provisions to complete 700 miles of double and triple layerd dorder fencing, significantly increase the number of drone survelliance aircraft patrolling the border and deploy 3,000 National Guardsmen to the Arizona sector of the Mexico until the Govennor of Arizona in conjunction with local law enforcement officials certifies that the border is secure. In addition to serving as sheriff of Pinal County Arizona, Babeu has served 18 years in the Army National Guard, where he is now a Major. Babeu did a tour in Iraq, and also commanded Task Force Yuma a group of 700 Army and Air National Guard troops who worked with the Border Patrol on securing the US-Mexico border in Arizona.