M3 Report from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers:

Why Truce with Mexico Criminals Is Just Not Practical; Sinaloa Cartel Operatives Arrested in Utah

Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:28 PM PDT

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican, Central and South American and U.S. on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you do so in its entirety and credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

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**Asterisk denotes death involving a police officer or a member of the military serving in that capacity.

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN

A nine year state police officer has been arrested for his involvement in the attack on the Casino Royale, in which over 60 people died.

CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA

A federal employee with the Federal Electricity Commission was shot and killed Friday morning.
TORREON, COAHUILA

It was a bloody Thursday in Torreon, with a total of eleven killed. In two separate incidents, burning vehicles led to the discovery of the homicides. More than one was beheaded and either left in the street or in one of the cars.

REYNOSA, TAMAULIPAS

Two bodies were found in a vehicle along the highway to Monterrey. One was Eloy García Lerma, an active agent of the Bureau of the Ministerial Police. The other man was Samuel Flores Borrego, better known as El Metro Three and / or M3, in charge of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas for the Gulf Cartel. He was also a police agent some years ago, and the partner of Eloy, and they had remained friends.

TEPIC, NAYARIT

At about 4 pm Friday afternoon, a man was hung from a bridge in plain view of dozens of witnesses. He had been tortured and shot multiple times. A narco message was left with a warning to women and taxi driver ‘hawks’, which are cartel lookouts.

HIDALGO

The state police announced in a press conference that 31 Zetas had been arrested. Of the 31 arrested, 14 were police officers for various municipal departments throughout the state. The officers admitted to being paid 8,000 pesos a month (about US$641) to provide protection.

ACAPULCO, GUERRERO

On Saturday, several gunmen came to a well known fish market near the port, entered and opened fire on customers and merchants like. Two men and a woman were killed, and three were injured, one a 14 year girl.

ZAPOPAN, JALISCO

Gunmen were in the process of cutting the head off a man when he jumped up and ran outside. One of the gunmen shot and killed him, and then they all fled. Inside the house, police found pools of blood, torture utensils and the tool with which they tried to saw off his head. A vehicle at the scene was also seized.

ACAPULCO, GUERRERO

On Friday, three banners were hung around the city. They appeared to be from citizens and asked President Calderon for help to end the “wave of violence that is sweeping our beautiful harbor and the nightlife of it, upon which the livelihoods of thousands of families” depends. It was signed by Acapulco United Families.

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN

Federal police captured three Zetas that worked for the arrested leader ‘El Chihuas’ that took part in the casino attack. When arrested, the three were driving a stolen vehicle, had a firearm, radio equipment, phones, and other things. PHOTO

CIUDAD VICTORIA, TAMAULIPAS

The Zetas butchered two men, and left them on the sidewalk in the heart of the city. The body parts were in black plastic trash bags. A narcomessage was left, signed by the Zetas, saying the men were part of the Gulf cartel. With the message was a flower pot.

GARCIA, NUEVO LEÓN

Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, Mayor of Garcia, has begun a program aimed at citizens who are in possession of a weapon to learn how to use it.

CADAREYTA, NUEVO LEÓN

A Mexican army patrol spotted a vehicle, and as they approached, the four men inside opened fire. A chase ensued, and resulted in a shootout and four bad guys dead. Seized inside the car were rifles, handguns, magazines, cartridges, powder cocaine, crack cocaine, torture boards, tactical equipment, among other things.

SAN PABLO MOCHOBAMPO, SINALOA

The Mexican military engaged in a shootout with gunmen, and captured 3 of them. They also found a narcolab with nine rifles, one handgun, five grenades, 69 magazines, a thousand 700 cartridges, 40 kilograms of cocaine, 5.5 liters of liquid cocaine, 500 milliliters of liquid methamphetamine, 9 kilograms of marijuana, chemicals, five vehicles, and other things.

TORREON, COAHUILA

Shortly after 8 pm Sunday, municipal police and gunmen engaged in a shootout when the gunmen opened fire. As a result six people died: 3 bad guys, two innocents painting nearby, and an arrested man inside the patrol car.

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Juárez police coordinator killed driving to work* 

This is the 49th municipal officer killed since last October.Narcomessages were left with his body.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18805049?source=pkg

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Narco Armored Vehicle Threats and Countermeasures

http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/mexican-cartel-tactical-note-3-0

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Calderon: Mexico will have clean cops, federal attorneys by end of presidential term

http://www.startribune.com/world/129089823.html

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Female journalists beaten to death in Mexico City

http://tinyurl.com/3ta6evm

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Why a Truce with Mexico Criminals Is Just Not Practical

http://tinyurl.com/452qjz9

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FARC leader captured, 13 guerillas killed: Santos

(Santos is Colombia’s President.)

http://tinyurl.com/3g9tdsh

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‘Chapo’ Guzman in Bolivia?

http://tinyurl.com/43a9bvf

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Mexico detains state cop in deadly casino arson

http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_18812268

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Mexico Massacre Suspects: We Only Wanted to Scare Casino Owners

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=421057&CategoryId=10718

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Mexican officials report slaying of high-ranking Gulf Cartel leader

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/cartel-54401-leader-mexican.html

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Mexico: 16 cops, 15 others helped Zetas drug gang

http://tinyurl.com/4ydnz5j

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Mexico Criminal Gangs Are Rational Actors

http://tinyurl.com/3dcaxcy

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Mexican journalist’s political asylum case could be start of new trend

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18808771?source=pkg

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Brazil wildfires rage in 17 protected reserves

http://tinyurl.com/3flox6e

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Colombian Police Seize 2 Tons of Cocaine

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=421554&CategoryId=12393

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Brazil denies terrorists operate within borders

http://tinyurl.com/3r42fq6

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Mexico City’s once crazy, crowded markets languish

http://tinyurl.com/3e5wmw7

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Relocate or Die: Mexican Entrepreneurs Migrate to the Interior Fleeing Violence, Insecurity

http://tinyurl.com/3jecdtp

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Domestic News – United States

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U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter August 25-August 31

http://tinyurl.com/3nw79fq

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Arizonans question CBP commissioner’s rosy view of border

http://tinyurl.com/3ukrvoc

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Mexican military flies over South Texas

Chopper program is 2-way deal. History of cooperation dates to 1987 work.

http://tinyurl.com/437v4p9

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Border towns struggle with post-9/11 security measures

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1048571

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Evidence Suggests Cover-Up in ATF Scandal, as More Guns Appear at Crime Scenes

http://tinyurl.com/3cs3new

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ATF Gunwalker: Who at the White House knew?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20101042-10391695.html

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E-Mails Show Three Officials Were Informed of Gun Inquiry

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/us/03guns.html?_r=1

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CBS nails ATF coverup attempt on guns found at Brian Terry’s murder scene

http://tinyurl.com/3gozboj

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Local ATF agent says resignations aren’t enough

http://www.kvoa.com/news/local-atf-agent-says-resignations-aren-t-enough/

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TEXAS

U.S. Border Patrol Agents at RGV Seize More than $12.3 Million Worth of Narcotics

8200 lbs pot and 180 lbs cocaine

http://tinyurl.com/3sd2f5h

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Suspected Sinaloa Operatives Arrested in Utah

http://tinyurl.com/3r3pvga

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Illegal Workers Used Tax Credit to Pocket $4.2 Billion, Audit Shows

http://tinyurl.com/3pakjqc

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Ontario man held in New Mexico drug bust

(The driver is a Canadian citizen from Ontario.)

http://tinyurl.com/3k3q7tr

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Former Arizona Army National Guard Member Charged with Participating in Bribery and Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/September/11-crm-1130.html

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Medicare fugitives being tracked beyond U.S. borders

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011109020437

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So-called “Dreamers” show how they really feel about this country (w/video)
Good read

http://tinyurl.com/4453d5h

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New Jersey family searches for lost relative

http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mcallen-54426-new-relative.html

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CONNECTICUTT

Illegal Aliens deface War Memorial…… again

http://youtu.be/zk15u2ySRlw

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The Washington Post  reported back in August that President Obama is trying to hatch a new plan for the federal government to keep a major role in the home mortgage business.

On mortgage rates, Obama wants proposal for how government can keep big role

President Obama has directed a small team of advisers to develop a proposal that would keep the government playing a major role in the nation’s mortgage market, extending a federal loan subsidy for most home buyers, according to people familiar with the matter.

More…..

COMMENTARY:

As Albert Einstein observed, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

Here we go again…..

THE UPSIDE:

OK….the basic idea of providing low interest long term loans so people can own homes is a wonderful idea.

A big portion of our economy has been driven by home construction and home ownership going back to just after the end of WW II.

But like a lot of things federal, what started out as a good idea ended up  turning to dog vomit when people starting gaming the system.

One of the reason for the housing bubble that nearly crashed our economy was the idea that everyone ought to be able to own a home even if they really couldn’t afford it.

The whole “sub prime” mortgage business and federal policy was driven by the goal of expanding home ownership beyond where it could not support itself.

The first thing the feds are going to have to do is adopt a realistic level of what can be sustained in home ownership.

Maybe 30% of the population is not going to be able to own their own home…especially in light of the chronic unemployment. Don’t try to push home ownership where it is not feasible.

The second problem was the creation of “derivatives” whereby people could bundle up flakey mortgages and sell them off to unwitting investors.

This greatly expanded the pool of money to loan to home buyers and pushed a lot of people into homes because mortgage brokers and bankers wanted more and more commissions.

There may need to be a secondary market for home loans….which is one option for a fed role…but there have to be really tight rules about loan origination, qualification and appraisals. That whole system collapsed in the rush to write more mortgages and states don’t do a particularly good job regulating mortgage bankers and appraisers.

HUD FHA have all these standards for the actual home condition…and there is an opportunity for some interesting stuff with regards to new homes….rethinking whether or not a federally insured home loan for a house requires the house to have a garage versus maybe solar energy. I remember fussing with FHA over a requirement for landscaping trees in Tucson….trying to get them to quit demanding mulberry trees and accepting xeriscape instead.

A really important thing for the feds to do is not put the full faith and credit of US taxpayers behind home loans. That was a plank into the treasury the last time around.

One problem the feds will face is a lot of people have had their credit wrecked in the recession.

 One idea is maybe a lease-purchase option where someone could lease a home, and if they make their payments on time for 3 years and repair their credit rating, then they would be eligible to exercise the option and purchase the home under the federal program. A program like this existed in California but got wiped out when sub prime loans started being made to people with no docs and no downpayment. No wonder everything went into the toilet.

Another element that ought to be considered is a combination home purchase loan and upgrade financing for existing housing…to retrofit existing housing with more energy efficiency like insulation and new windows…and maybe add a solar component.

It is going to take a while for the home building industry to recover…and it is essential to our economy that this sector does recover.

THE DOWNSIDE:

Next time around Washington has got to not force social policy into the mix, and Washington has got to keep the Wall Street pirates from ripping everyone off.

I think the first step of a new federal role in the home mortgage business is for the Obama Administration to single out the top 30 bad guys in all the mortgage fraud and charge them with massive federal crimes sufficient to lock their sorry butts up for life.

Lets perp walk some bankers, the Countrywide Bandits, some Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac co-conspirators, a few bond rating agency bosses, and other rascals.

The message has got to be clear that not only will us taxpayers not bail you asses out if you create a fraudulkent bubble, we will demand and get your asses thrown in jail.

Every banking and mortgage office should come complete not with pictures of hundred dollar bills or the Federal Reserve, but a photo of a maximum security federal prison.

And as part of a new mortgage system, mortgage fraud ought to be a capital offense.

I’ll bet whatever Obama comes up with will end up being more of the same old opportunity to scam the system and stick it to us taxpayers.

See also Mark Evans commentary Hey Obama, it’s about homes, stupid

Michael Letcher, Tucson City Manager, resigned effective August 2012.

That’s right…his resignation is effective one year from now.

If that is not an excellent example of what has been wrong with the city of Tucson, if the Mayor and Council accept this resignation on those outrageous terms than you all really will understand what’s wrong with Tucson’s city government.

Tucson government basics: The city has 6 council members and a mayor. The mayor runs meeting and votes only to break a tie.

The Tucson charter puts the city council in charge of city policy…and implementing city policy is put in the hands of a city manager. The city council hires and fire the city manager who serves at the will of the city council majority.

Basically the city council is supposed to tell the city manager what the council wants done, and leave the administration of that up to the city manager and city staff.

However, in the 1980s  the city manager’s office usurped the policy role of the city council because Tucson’s elected officials were so busy mired in trivial pursuits, they wouldn’t understand “policy” if it ran them over on the street.

The policy options of the city council were manipulated by the city manager’s office. Elected city officials were never given all options, nor any kind of realistic views of the pros and cons of all possible policy options.

This is how the city ended up pissing away $230 million on Rio Nuevo with virtually nothing to show for it.

This is how the city’s ParkWise program has ended up as another scandal.

This is how the city can’t avoid feeding oleanders to its giraffes.

There is no one at the top of the pyramid saying this is what needs to be done and this better be done right or we’ll fire your ass.

Letcher has no civil service protection. At best he gets a few month severance pay if the council terminates him immediately. They should.

Between now and January the city can be run with an acting city manager until the election sort things out.

It is time for a sea change at city hall…which will only come if Republicans get two more council seats and the mayor’s chair. Three Democrats and three Republicans puts Rick Grinnell, if he is the next mayor, as the deciding vote.

Or, Tucson can continue to work really hard being a third class city run by Democrats who could care less what happens in Tucson east of Alvernon.
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Letcher notes in his resignmation email:

Unfortunately, I cannot change the current political and media climate in this community that focus more on blame than resolution. I know now that I can only go so far in changing the organizational climate of the city that has not seen consistent City Management since Joel Valdez.

Yep….and I worked for Joel Valdez 1974 to 1978 and here’s what Mr. Letcher is missing…..remember there was a police fire strike, and a recall over water rates in that time frame?

But Lew Murphy held solid as Mayor and Joel Valdez held solid as city manager.

Why was that”?

First Murphy had a vision for Tucson and knew his way around  even though the council majority shifted radically.He could get things done even if his majority Democrats fought. Muprhy was the last leader Mayor Tucson has had. He made it his point to know everything Valdez was up to and supported Joel to the ends of the earth.

When the majority Democrats drove the city off the cliff with their screwed up water rate hikes Valdez reconstructed the process by which city water rates were figured out…taking away the staff control over the process and putting more community input into the decision.

The city busted the police fire strike.

Ever since then Tucson has had a series of weak minded liberal mayors who pandered to all sorts of fringe issue communities and let the city continue to wrap itself in a spiderweb nightmare of regiulatory bullcrap. The staff took over the city.

Valdez ran the city for the benefit of the people…and even if he couldn’t count to four, he did what was right.

Since then city managers have pandered for votes from  officer holders with no vision of the entire city. These office holders have been too easly dazzled with statistics and expensive out-of-town consultants. City management in Tucson has become a medicine show act.

Anoither thing Valdezx diud that subsequent managers did not…Joel had a Deputyt city manager named Bill Ealy who ran all the infrastructure side of the city…public works, water…and Joel oversaw the services side of the city. There were not a lot of assistant managers.

Ealy was also Joel’s Enforcer. People feared Ealy. Screw up in a department and he’d have the department head in his office in a second, and if that department head didn’t fix the situation, he or she was gone.

Now when something screws up down the ranks there will be a study commission that will wander around until the offending staffer leaves town for a better job somewhere else.

Tucson needs a city manager who has an ax in the corner of his or her  office and who will be able to use it without some city council member throwing a snit fit.

 See also:

No lame duck city managers; fire Letcher, hire new manager in January

 Text of Tucson city manager Mike Letcher’s resignation email to staff

Press Release from US Customs and Border Protection September 6, 2011:
 

Significant Week Sonoita Border Patrol Station Seizes

More Than 3,000 Pounds of Marijuana

TUCSON, Ariz. – Sonoita Station Border Patrol agents seized approximately 3,250 pounds of marijuana valued at more than $1,625,500 in five separate incidents since Sunday.

A Border Patrol canine team was tracking footprints of a group of possible illegal aliens Sunday when the service canine alerted to the presence of narcotics. An immediate search of the area revealed six bundles of marijuana abandoned on the trail. The bundles had a combined weight of just less than 279 pounds and valued at $139,000.

In another incident Sunday, agents responded to a detection sensor and found five bundles of abandoned marijuana weighing more than 218 pounds. The bundles were estimated to be worth approximately $109,000.

Agents stopped two vehicles Tuesday traveling in tandem and with false vehicle license plates. The female driver of the first vehicle, a U.S.citizen, was detained when agents discovered a false compartment in the vehicle containing 53 packages of marijuana weighing more than 312 pounds and valued at $156,000. Concurrently, agents stopped the second vehicle and apprehended two male passengers who admitted to working with the female driver of the first vehicle. The three subjects are being criminally prosecuted. 

Wednesday afternoon, an agent encountered an abandoned pickup truck with 75 bundles of marijuana weighing 1,840 pounds and valued at $920,000. 

In another incident Wednesday, Sonoita agents stopped a suspicious vehicle with modifications indicative of narcotics smuggling. Agents interviewed the driver, a Mexican citizen with a Permanent Resident Card, who gave agents permission to search his vehicle. After a Border Patrol canine team alerted to the presence of narcotics, agents discovered 60 packages of marijuana in a concealed compartment. The packages had a combined weight of almost 282 pounds and with a value of $140,500. The driver is being held for prosecution.

 

In each incident, agents transported the marijuana and vehicles to the Sonoita Station for processing.

According to Michael Hyatt, Patrol Agent in Charge of the Sonoita Station, the Tucson Sector deploys a combination of technology, infrastructure, and agents to effectively patrol the border, deter smuggling activity and interdict smugglers.  Specialty units, such as canine teams,” he said, “continue to assist agents in the field while old-fashioned tracking skills continue to be a valuable component in the Border Patrol’s arsenal of tools and techniques. The men and women of the Sonoita Border Patrol Station are taking our enforcement efforts to the next level.”

Since launching the Southwest Border Initiative in March 2009, the Department of Homeland Security has made significant investments toward establishing a secure and safe border environment to improve the quality of life throughoutArizonacommunities.

Customs and Border Protection welcomes assistance from the community.  To report suspicious activity to the Border Patrol by calling 1-877-872-7435 toll free. All calls will be answered and remain anonymous.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

The Washington Post reported that undocumented workers got $4.2 billion in tax credits last year.

Undocumented workers got billions from IRS in tax credits, audit finds

The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.

Although undocumented workers are not eligible for federal benefits, the report released Thursday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concludes that federal law is ambiguous on whether these workers qualify for a tax break based on earned income called the additional child tax credit.

More…

Here’s FoxNews on the story:

Illegal Workers Used Tax Credit to Pocket $4.2 Billion, Audit Shows

Talk about a tax loophole. 

Undocumented workers collected $4.2 billion in a certain tax credit last year, up from less than $1 billion five years ago, according to a new audit. 

The report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration looked only at a tax benefit known as the Additional Child Tax Credit, a refundable credit meant for working families. The audit found that as a result of vague U.S. law — as well as an expansion of the tax credit in stimulus legislation and other measures — the number of illegal workers collecting the money has skyrocketed.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/undocumented-workers-pocketed-42-billion-in-tax-credits-audit-shows/#ixzz1XBZgZuaz

COMMENTARY: So the illegal alien gets a tax id number because he does not have a Social Security number, files a tax return, and gets the child credit paid.

Someohow I cannot believe for a second this is some kind of accident…illegal aliens are gettng some pretty sophisticated help in getting taxpayer id numbers and gaming the system for the tax credit.

It is a crime in this country to aid and abet illegal entry…thus if you pick up an llegal alien and give him a ride you can go to jail.

How about the crime of aiding and abetting tax fraud and illegal residency?

M3 Report from National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers:

Mexican Cartels Running Rampant; U.S. Intercepts Chemicals En Route to Mexico

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 12:20 AM PDT

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
Visit our website:http://www.nafbpo.org

Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican, Central and South American and U.S. on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you do so in its entirety and credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

To subscribe, click here

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Please click here to read NAFBPO’s
PROPOSAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION
ENFORCEMENT AND REFORM
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The M3 Report seeks to provide information which it’s readers finds useful and interesting. With that in mind, please consider leaving Comments at the end of each post. Readers can also e-mail us at:

 

CAUTION

There are graphic photographs that accompany some articles in the body of this report. It is not our intention to sensationalize. We include these photos in order to give to you, the American public, a clearer understanding of the seriousness of the situation in Mexico and Central America.

Blog Del Narco (http://www.blogdelnarco.com/)

**Asterisk denotes death involving a police officer or a member of the military serving in that capacity.

ACAPULCO, GUERRERO*

A Federal Police officer, identified as Fernando Ibarra Hernandez, was ambushed by gunmen On the Bicentennial Bridge in Acapulco. He was in his own vehicle, with a companion, who was injured.

VILLAHERMOSA, TABASCO

Mexican Marines arrived at a home to search it and were fired on, returning it and capturing 12 Zetas. The Zetas had just arrived there after being in Veracruz.

ACAPULCO, GUERRERO

New narco graves have been found in Acapulco. Two dogs were responsible, when locals saw them digging. At least two graves have been found, but there’s no estimate on the number of bodies.

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN

Authorities have located what is called a narco cocina or kitchen at a dairy farm near here. The remains of at least 8 people have been found, along with rifles, torture tools, barrels in which victims were ‘cooked’ with acid. The search for more bodies continues.

MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN

Authorities are searching for the owner of the Casino Royale which was attacked, and know he has left the country. Rocha Raul Cantu not only owns the attacked Casino Royale, but 7 others in the state. He owns others in Miami Beach and elsewhere in the world. Experts say each one requires an investment of 7-10 million dollars.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, TAMAULIPAS

Three men were butchered into pieces, and then set on fire along with their car. Some remains were charred.

SAN FERNANDO, TAMAULIPAS

Federal police on patrol stopped a suspicious vehicle. When weapons were discovered, the subjects admitted to being Zetas Seized were weapons, ammo, and other things.

ZIHUATANEJO, GUERRERO

Two women were dismembered and their remains we dumped in bags. An anonymous call alerted authorities.

SALTILLO, COAHUILA

On Tuesday there was a chase and intense shootout. The result was six bad guys dead, four people injured including a young couple traveling with their 2 yr old daughter. Five bad guys were arrested and seized was an AK-47, another nine guns, five handguns, a shotgun, cartridges, magazines, two bulletproof vests and eight vehicles.

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Report: Hezbollah opens base in Cuba

Hezbollah has been active in South America for quite some time now, primarily in Paraguay, Brazil and Venezuela, the report notes.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4116628,00.html

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Mexican public warming to US military aid in drug war?

http://tinyurl.com/3h3j5qa

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Suspect says Mexico casino fire set over unpaid extortion money

http://tinyurl.com/3awt8u3

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Videos tie mayor’s brother to Mexico fire bombing

http://tinyurl.com/4y6zc82

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Cartels now extorting teachers, killing school children in Mexico

http://tinyurl.com/43m5kq3

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Mexico gov opens corruption probe in deadly fire

http://tinyurl.com/3kchlcu

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Sinaloa Cartel Becomes King of Mexico Meth Production

http://tinyurl.com/3r86ngw

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Network Trafficking Illicit Substances in Submersible’s Is Dismantled

http://tinyurl.com/3pkrv36

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BRAZIL

Sao Paulo Car Theft Feeds Drug Trade

http://tinyurl.com/3gbjd9c

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CFK, Mujica reactivate train service connecting Argentina, Uruguay

(After 30 years of no service)

http://tinyurl.com/3tqkg2j

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Ecuador seeks to buy back a half million bottles of contaminated alcohol after 48 deaths

http://tinyurl.com/442hsbh

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Colombia Declares War on Timber Trafficking Mafia

http://tinyurl.com/3owknkp

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Colombia Registers 61,604 Disappeared 

http://tinyurl.com/3o7r2f5

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Colombia Cartel Laundered European Profits Through Ecuador

http://tinyurl.com/3lhtm7g

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Mexican Cartels Running Rampant

http://tinyurl.com/3p5ynm4

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2 Mexican journalists found slain

http://tinyurl.com/3ssv9a6

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Domestic News – United States

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Why Lowering US Drug Demand is No Panacea for Mexico Violence

http://tinyurl.com/3p7frrb

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Family: Mexican Gunmen Shot Into U.S.

http://www.ktsm.com/news/family-mexican-gunmen-shot-into-us

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Unusual smuggling tunnel found near California-Mexico border

http://tinyurl.com/3kyhooq

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ATF Director Melson reassigned to DOJ amid “Fast & Furious” scandal

http://tinyurl.com/4x3kczq

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After ouster of ATF head, where does Fast and Furious probe go now?

http://tinyurl.com/45ytqg2

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Feds Looking Into Flight School Catering to Mexican Nationals

http://tinyurl.com/3bckn77

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Obama’s Immigration Directive to Face Congressional Hearings

http://tinyurl.com/3bxxubs

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Records Show Obama Administration Began to Implement Provisions of the DREAM Act Rejected by Congress; DHS Official: “And we wonder why ppl [people] FOIA us.”

http://tinyurl.com/3kawhfz

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LOS ANGELES

U.S. Border Protection Intercepts 520 Pounds of Chemicals En Route to Mexico

http://tinyurl.com/3n78nyz

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Arizona Sheriff Sergeant Son, 20, Killed by Drunk Illegal Alien

http://tinyurl.com/3v8yrcy

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Refugees and Asylees in the United States

http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=851

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Texas bans tire-puncture devices used by drug runners

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/31/texas.drug.technology/

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CALIFORNIA

Illegal Immigration by Sea Is a Dangerous Journey

http://malibu.patch.com/articles/illegal-immigration-by-sea-is-a-dangerous-journey

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CALIFORNIA

State moves to limit cities’ ability to impound cars

http://tinyurl.com/434esp5

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Feds seize illicit cash from border vehicle searches

http://tinyurl.com/3z79ebl

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Human smuggler in AZ gets 55-month sentence in federal prison

http://tinyurl.com/3ezpc74

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OREGON

Police: Zupan’s founder dies following hit-and-run wreck

(It took a check with the county jail to find out that there is an ICE hold on him.)

http://tinyurl.com/43l9o4z

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More M3 Reports:

M3 Report: Drug gangs control half of Mexico

M3 Report: Sinaloa cartel makes big move into meth

M3 Report: NAFBPO calls for New Immigration Policy to be Rescinded

 M3 Report: Police Chief Finished Off in Ambulance

M3 Report: Incomplete Tunnel Found Near Border in Tijuana

M3 Report: Drug Cartels Using Social Media to Track Victims

M3 Report: More Police Slain in Mexico

M3 Report: Half a Million Troops Could Seal the Southwest Border, Says Border Protection Chief

M3 Report: Mexico is now without federal prosecutors

M3 Report: US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government

M3 Report: Smuggled Women and Guns

M3 Report: Job of defending border complicated

M3 Report: Los Zetas May Attempt to Overthrow Mexican Government in 2012

M3 Report:GRIM STATISTICS: Ciudad Juarez homicide total for July: 150. Year to date total: 1, 264

This Press Release from, Center for Biological Dioversity dated September 2, 2011 makes it absolutely clear where CBD’s priorities are…

Border Patrol Plan to Triple Base Size on Arizona-Mexico Border Puts Endangered Wildlife, Fragile Lands at Risk

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity today criticized a new environmental analysis by the Department of Homeland Security that fails to adequately assess the effects of its border-security and enforcement activities along the U.S.-Mexico border, including tripling the size of its base in the desert. In comments submitted to the Department, the group called on Homeland Security to produce a thorough, realistic analysis of the impacts of its activities on the fragile and diverse landscapes of the border region, home to a range of threatened and endangered species.

“In its slipshod analysis of the impacts of tripling the size of its forward operating base near Organ Pipe National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Homeland Security seems to condone ongoing damage to these precious public lands and their wildlife,” said the Center’s Cyndi Tuell. “For imperiled species like Sonoran pronghorns, this lip-service study is a death knell.”

Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta lie adjacent to each other along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and have been significantly hurt by off-road vehicle use in recent years — much of the damage has been the result of Border Patrol vehicles riding roughshod over wilderness areas.

“For an agency devoted to securing the border, the Border Patrol does an awful lot of off-road driving 15 to 20 miles north of the border, through extremely sensitive habitat for a range of species,” said Tuell. “Sonoran pronghorn are especially vulnerable to this kind of disruption, which can stop them from raising their fawns or getting enough to eat.”

Surveys and satellite data show that nearly 8,000 miles — and some estimate up to 20,000 miles — of illegal, “wildcat” roads now exist on the Cabeza Prieta, some of which were created by illegal cross-border vehicle activity, but an increasing percentage of which have resulted from misguided enforcement strategies.

“A memo of understanding between Homeland Security and the Department of the Interior was signed to create protocols for border-security activities on our precious public lands,” said Tuell. “In many places it works well, but on Organ Pipe and Cabeza Prieta, Homeland Security routinely ignores it.”

“The Department of Homeland Security should focus its enforcement efforts closer to the border to prevent damage to America’s public lands before it encroaches so far into the United States,” said Tuell. “And it needs to work more closely with land managers on the ground in these areas to reduce the damage caused by their activities.”

COMMENTARY: The border will never be secure against illegal entry and drug smuggling as long as portions of the border are widen open.

The reason these areas are wide open is because of federal land managers who put protecting lizards ahead of national security, and radical environmental groups like CBD who fight everything in the name of protecting endangered species.

I think it is time the federal government looks into where CBD gets its donations.

If I were in charge of the Mexican drug cartel I’d be giving money to outfits like CBD which fight securing the border. Groups like CBD consciously or unconsciously are aiding and abetting the Mexican drug cartels.

The people of America have got to stop this nonsense of debating border security versus proptecting the environment along the border. The drug smugglers and illegal aliens do not care about our environment and are destroying it. This must be stopped.

Environmental laws must be subordinated to national security in the area adjacent to our land borders so the Border Patrol can secure the border at the border.

Did you know it is a misdeamnor to illegally enter the country, but a felony to run over an endangered species lizard?

And those who want immigration law reform…it ought to be clear that is not going to happen until the border is secured.

Do not buy Janet Napoltiano’s claim the border is secured. We can show you exactly where it is not secure…the zone where illegal aliens killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry west of Nogales. There is a wilderness area and national forest land along this stretch of the border that has virtually no Border Patrol access due toi environmental priorities.

Until the Border Patrol can gain access to the border, finish the fence, put in more roads, and saturate the border zone with agents, the border is not secure…and thus no immigration law reform.

Immigration reform advocates…your cause is being destroyed by groups like the Center for Biological Diversity.

More….

Jaguars versus the border fence

What is the difference between a drug smuggler and a deer?

Battle lines drawn–protect the environment? or protect national security?

Groups Call for Passage of Republican Legislation to Enhance Border Security on Federal Lands

Ranchers support improving Border Patrol access to federal lands

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers support new legislation to improve Border Patrol access to federal lands

Federal land managers under the gun of the Endangered Species Act responsible for destruction of over 300,000 acres of border wild lands

Dept of Interior responds to claims it is hampering border security

Forest Service responds to claims it is hampering border security

Environmental lawyer trashes effort to improve Border Patrol access on federal lands

Federal land managers under the gun of the Endangered Species Act responsible for destruction of over 300,000 acres of border wild lands

More on how federal land managers compromise border security

GAO confirms federal environmental laws and federal land managers hinder securing our border

Republicans Introduce Bill to Secure Border on Federal Lands, Protect Environment

More on “politically correct fire stories”

Many in S. Ariz. fire zone blame border crossers

Chiricahua Mountains … another “sky island” turned to ash

Border security versus the environment 

 Wilderness Areas on the border? What a great idea if you are a cartel drug smuggler

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions…burning down our wildlands

Republicans Introduce Bill to Secure Border on Federal Lands, Protect Environment

Border security versus the environment

More on the envionmental litigation factory war on America….

Center for Biological Diversity — a multi-million dollar environmental litigation factory

Army of Western Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation to Combat Frivolous Lawsuits on Taxpayer Dime

Extreme environmental groups hurt environmental cause

Center for Biological Diversity seeks to destroy Fort Huachuca to save the San Pedro River

White House reveals plan to streamline Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act series of articles:

Endangered Species Act…it ain’t what you think it is — Part 1

Endangered Species Act — Part 2– this land is not your land

Endangered Species Act – Part 3 – Never swat a fly

Background info on Endangered Species Act:

Endangered Species Act — an Introduction

Endangered Species Act — Which Animals and Plants are “Threatened” or “Endangered”?

Endangered Species Act — Section 7 Consultation

Endangered Species Act — USF&W Introduction and Key Sections

Endangered Species Act — Definition of ”Harm” and “Take”

Endangered Species Act–Listing and Critical Habitat

Endangered Species Act–Habitat Conservation Plans

America at a crossroads….protect endangered species or protect the American people?

Press Release from Federal Housing Finance Authority September 2, 2011:

FHFA Sues 17 Firms to Recover Losses to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Washington, DC

– The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), today filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, certain of their officers and various unaffiliated lead underwriters. The suits allege violations of federal securities laws and common law in the sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) to the Enterprises.

Complaints have been filed against the following lead defendants, in alphabetical order:

1. Ally Financial Inc. f/k/a GMAC, LLC

2. Bank of America Corporation

3. Barclays Bank PLC

4. Citigroup, Inc.

5. Countrywide Financial Corporation

6. Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc.

7. Deutsche Bank AG

8. First Horizon National Corporation

9. General Electric Company

10. Goldman Sachs & Co.

11. HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.

12. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

13. Merrill Lynch & Co. / First Franklin Financial Corp.

14. Morgan Stanley

15. Nomura Holding America Inc.

16. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

17. Société Générale

These complaints were filed in federal or state court in New York or the federal court in Connecticut. The complaints seek damages and civil penalties under the Securities Act of 1933, similar in content to the complaint FHFA filed against UBS Americas, Inc. on July 27, 2011. In addition, each complaint seeks compensatory damages for negligent misrepresentation. Certain complaints also allege state securities law violations or common law fraud.

As conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, FHFA is charged with preserving and conserving these companies’ assets and does so on behalf of taxpayers. The complaints filed today reflect FHFA’s conclusion that some portion of the losses that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac incurred on private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) are attributable to misrepresentations and other improper actions by the firms and individuals named in these filings. Based on our review, FHFA alleges that the loans had different and more risky characteristics than the descriptions contained in the marketing and sales materials provided to the Enterprises for those securities.

FHFA filed the complaints under the broad authority granted to it by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The U.S. legal system provides for addressing such alleged misrepresentations through the nation’s securities laws and traditional common law. FHFA is following those legal remedies in filing these complaints and seeks to recover on losses to the Enterprises that are the legal responsibilities of others.

Discussions regarding these matters have taken place with several of the firms receiving complaints and, where constructive, they will continue.

Link to FHFA filings in PLS cases

FHFA Filings in PLS Cases, September 2, 2011:

1. Ally Financial Inc. f/k/a GMAC, LLC
2. Bank of America Corporation
3. Barclays Bank PLC 
4. Citigroup, Inc.
5. Countrywide Financial Corporation 
6. Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc.
7. Deutsche Bank AG 
8. First Horizon National Corporation
9. General Electric Company 
10. Goldman Sachs & Co.
11. HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.
12. JPMorgan Chase & Co. 
13. Merrill Lynch & Co. / First Franklin Financial Corp.
14. Morgan Stanley 
15. Nomura Holding America Inc.
16. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC 
17. Société Générale

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COMMENTARY:

Want to bet that all these banks will be runninbg as fast as they can to settle these claims and never let this case see the light of day in front of a judge and jury?