If you follow my blog you know I have been watching this situation. It's good to see that this has not gone un-noticed by the media, and that it was brought up during his (Obama’s) news conference last night. Hopefully this gets better before it gets worse. This could end up as an all out war that going to spill across the border?
Full story here:
Obama to beef up Mexico border policy - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama on Tuesday vowed to invest the resources needed to address the threat posed by drug traffickers in Mexico.
A police convoy moves in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last month, across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.
"We are going to continue to monitor the situation, and if the steps we have taken do not get the job done, then we will do more," he told reporters Tuesday night.
He praised the efforts of Mexican President Felipe Calderon to counter drug cartels, which "have gotten completely out of hand," but said the United States must take further steps, such as ensuring that illegal guns and cash do not flow from north of the Rio Grande to the cartels in Mexico.
"That's what makes them so dangerous," he said.
Obama's remarks came hours after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the United States is sending hundreds of federal agents and crime-fighting equipment to the border.
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