An obama Administration Success!!

[392cobra]

Spot-checks at Mexican border turn up relatively little cash and few guns
The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/LM Otero

NOGALES, Ariz. — President Barack Obama promised this spring to help Mexico fight its drug cartels by slowing the flow of cash and weapons from the United States.

And this is what the effort looks like.

For the past five weeks, hundreds of agents participating in a $95 million outbound inspection program have been stepping into southbound traffic lanes, stopping suspicious-looking cars and trucks.

The Associated Press fanned out to the busiest crossings along the Mexican border — San Diego, Nogales, El Paso and Laredo — to see how effective the inspections are.

According to the CBP, between March 12 and April 30 officers seized or arrested:

Fifty-one pieces of ammunition, weapons parts and guns, a minuscule fraction of the 2,000 weapons the Mexican government estimates are smuggled south every day.

$12 million in cash, less than 0.1 percent of the $17 billion to $39 billion the U.S. Justice Department says is illegally sent to Mexico from the U.S. annually.

Without providing any numbers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told attendees at the Border Trade Alliance International Conference on April 21 that just a few weeks into the intensified outbound inspections, she was amazed at how much had already been seized.

"It’s unbelievable," she said. "So the notion that there wasn’t a river of cash and a flood of guns going into Mexico is a myth. I mean, there was. We want to stop that river."


I don't know who is stupider, the Mexican gov't who claims over 700,000 guns per year are smuggled in from the US, or our very own obama administration that thinks "Fifty-one pieces of ammunition, weapons parts and guns" (not even 51 weapons, mind you. My guess is 2 handguns, 4 magazines, and 45 rounds of ammo) in 45 days constitute a "flood of guns". Or maybe they know it's not a "flood" and they're just telling another typical obama administration lie.

Read the entire article here: http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1382503.html

[petek]

Obviously they are better at hiding the guns and cash than we are in finding the hidden guns and cash.






Right.

[SPF2245]

What is really funny is last time I went to Mexico, the security at our hotel was holding Cetme HK-91 clones and factory supplied Colts from the Gov't. Most of the cartels get their guns south of their border...not north, which is a major known fact. So, they get what...51 pieces of ammo, what the hell is that? Is that 51 individual rounds (big deal) or did they take 17 bullets apart and count the bullet, case and primer???? Notice they don't say how many guns they got? I'd bet I've booked more firearms in a week then they did in a month and a half!!!! Can someone please tell me how this is even worth our time let alone the money spent?

[Great Asp]

Did you notice that you are using a small "o" in Obama?



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