WHAT?!? Mexico's military crossed our border???

[sbell111]

This story barely deserves a shrug.

 

[eliza61]

This story barely deserves a shrug.

Which is pretty much why it was hardly even a story. The only article I could find was a blurb from the San Antonio news.

 

[Silent1CB]

Maybe USA should buy Mexico military some GPS units.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Unbelievable so frustrated... why do people pretend it isn't a big deal? What is the end-game? Very strange.

 

[EMom]

I wonder if they did have express permission FROM AN ORGANIZATION THAT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO GRANT SUCH PERMISSION.

Friends or not, according to the UN this is not allowed unless it goes through the appropriate channels... somehow I doubt it. We can't have people circumventing laws and rules set up for our protection regardless of why. Doesn't anyone else think the idea that we need another government to come in and save us from a drug dealer is alarming. I mean we are at war with entire countries overseas yet right here in the 50 we need Mexico to save us from one guy that's too much for us.... are they serious? What is going on, I have questions and I want answers... and I want them yesterday.

The Mexican government is completely useless at exercising any sort of control over the drug cartels. For that matter, their police forces and military are so frequently infiltrated by the cartels that if I saw a "Mexican Navy" helicopter hovering over my house, I wouldn't be terribly confident it even WAS the Mexican Navy and not hijacked/stolen instead. People are getting murdered by the cartels in double digits on a daily basis in Mexican border towns. The country is out of control. I can't tell you how many well-to-do Mexicans I know who had fled to the US because they are simply too afraid to live in Mexico anymore.

Americans are kidding themselves if they believe that sort of violence is not going to spill over into our country, because it already has. And since the Mexican government is helpless against the cartels on their own soil, I certainly don't want them on our soil (or air space) attempting to succeed at what they can't even do in Mexico. No, let the US watch its side and they can watch theirs.

How ridiculous that Mexican navy planes can fly into our air space and scare the crap out of Americans in their pathetic, futile attempt to deal with the cartels, but when our border partol agents shoot a Mexican drug smuggler in the rear end, they wind up in prison for protecting US citizens.

Puh-leeze. It's not as if they crossed the Rio Grande without noticing. And I doubt they had permission to do it. But the US government does not have what it takes to stand up to Mexico, although WHY is beyond me. They will swear the Mexican Navy had the okay to do this, even if they did not.

 

[JMD]

Mexico has military helicopters?

 

[PixieDust32]

I bet you don't have any issues with US DEA agents going over the border into Mexico, eh?

and OP, it's helpful when you post a link to such articles, so we don't have google search for the story. Thanks in advance for future postings of links.

They' ll get kill and no one would know anything, that's how it works in Mexico

 

[PixieDust32]

Hmmm ... If the Mexican Navy had permission to fly over US soil I have no problem with it. Things are very dangerous in Mexico right now with all the fighting between gangs. That article also goes on to say the members of the Gulf Cartel (and others) have been trying to infiltrate the Customs and Border Protection agency and THAT scares me a whole lot more than a helicopter (presumably) chasing someone over the border.

I bet that's why! It has something to do with drugs of course. Mexico is a narco state right now, and it would not get any better because the government is so corrupted.

 

[PixieDust32]

Mexico has military helicopters?

Of course they do. The have a military army,Navy,etc. They're using the military to fight the narcos.

 

[saradela]

Mexico has military helicopters?

Yes, we have....not as many as we want.... and yes there is a lot corruption, in Tijuana and in the Border line and the Cartels are around there, and yesterday I read at the newspaper that the USA addmited that corruption has penetrade the American border. I think that what worries me must, are not the Cartels, because the violence right now is among them for the control of the territory to be able to cross drugs ( and of course in the way, they harm people sometime kiddnaping in big cities of wealthy people, to pay to other Cartels the drugs or money that has been taking away by the Mexican Police), but What I am scared of, is Al Queda......yesterday I saw in History Channel all the things they do, or thinking on doing.....oh my god!!, I belive that is scary, and belive me, as your neighbors we dont want to be Mexico, the place where they find a way to get in.....what happens to you, will happen to us.......same boat.......but I dont want to take away your sleep.....so dont mind me........

 

[LuvOrlando]

But, but, but... how come no-one in charge has had a press conference to tell me what is going on? I am so sick and tired of the news dictating what I should think is relevant or not. These days the news is more like watching a scripted play than real life. It seems to go like this: WE, by that I mean The Royal We, would like you to think about this, this and this... but will pretend this and this do not really exist.

As a citizen I am embarrassed by our flaccid response to incursions. How is it that an entire airport like Newark is shut down when someone walks the wrong way but we have actual border invasions by military personnel and that's ignored????????

To quote Bugs, "What a bunch of Maroons"

I have lost all respect and hold pretty much everyone with a voice in contempt at the moment.

 

[DawnCt1]

The Mexican government is completely useless at exercising any sort of control over the drug cartels. For that matter, their police forces and military are so frequently infiltrated by the cartels that if I saw a "Mexican Navy" helicopter hovering over my house, I wouldn't be terribly confident it even WAS the Mexican Navy and not hijacked/stolen instead. People are getting murdered by the cartels in double digits on a daily basis in Mexican border towns. The country is out of control. I can't tell you how many well-to-do Mexicans I know who had fled to the US because they are simply too afraid to live in Mexico anymore.

Americans are kidding themselves if they believe that sort of violence is not going to spill over into our country, because it already has. And since the Mexican government is helpless against the cartels on their own soil, I certainly don't want them on our soil (or air space) attempting to succeed at what they can't even do in Mexico. No, let the US watch its side and they can watch theirs.

How ridiculous that Mexican navy planes can fly into our air space and scare the crap out of Americans in their pathetic, futile attempt to deal with the cartels, but when our border partol agents shoot a Mexican drug smuggler in the rear end, they wind up in prison for protecting US citizens.

Puh-leeze. It's not as if they crossed the Rio Grande without noticing. And I doubt they had permission to do it. But the US government does not have what it takes to stand up to Mexico, although WHY is beyond me. They will swear the Mexican Navy had the okay to do this, even if they did not.

Very well said. I for one do not understand the "who cares" attitude.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Reminds me of that "First they came" poem from WW2.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Perhaps Mexico has been taking lessons from the U.S.'s treatment of the Afghan/Pakistani border?

 

[DawnCt1]

Perhaps Mexico has been taking lessons from the U.S.'s treatment of the Afghan/Pakistani border?

Oh puleeze! We have the cooperation and the participation of the Pakistani government. They don't like terrorists anymore than we do.

 

[Art 1]

Perhaps Mexico has been taking lessons from the U.S.'s treatment of the Afghan/Pakistani border?

Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnnnnn.

 

[Scornelius]

I'm sure they were just making a delivery of authentic mexican beef to San Angel Inn.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Oh puleeze! We have the cooperation and the participation of the Pakistani government. They don't like terrorists anymore than we do.

And perhaps the Mexican government has support from the US in trying to control the 'war' it is fighting next to the US border? I assume the US doesn't like drug dealers any more than Mexico does.

Just because the posters on this message board are unaware of agreements between Mexico and the U.S., it doesn't mean they don't exist.

 

[DawnCt1]

And perhaps the Mexican government has support from the US in trying to control the 'war' it is fighting next to the US border? I assume the US doesn't like drug dealers any more than Mexico does.

Just because the posters on this message board are unaware of agreements between Mexico and the U.S., it doesn't mean they don't exist.

If there was an agreement, we would know about it. It would be touted as "the United States and Mexico cooperate in war on drugs at the border". Surely the border agents would know about it so that they don't repel the Mexican soldiers. We have an unfortunate history if turning our backs on the wrong doing of our neighbors to the south, who have no problem sending their citizens here to prop up their failing government.

 

[Boxley]

If there was an agreement, we would know about it. It would be touted as "the United States and Mexico cooperate in war on drugs at the border". Surely the border agents would know about it so that they don't repel the Mexican soldiers. We have an unfortunate history if turning our backs on the wrong doing of our neighbors to the south, who have no problem sending their citizens here to prop up their failing government.

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