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Feds keeping border patrol in the dark on border gang threat.(INSIDER REPORT)
"Border Patrol agents say few had knowledge of a warning that violent gang members are being paid to target them, and that they are ill-equipped to deal with such a threat," according to a report by Sara A. Carter in the Daily Bulletin of Ontario, California, on January 30. Carter, who has done some outstanding reporting on border and immigration issues, revealed that "according to a confidential Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Daily Bulletin ..., Mexican human and drug smugglers plan to bring members of the international Mara Salvatrucha street gang across the border and pay them to kill U.S. Border Patrol agents."
The Mara Salvatrucha (otherwise known as MS-13) is a very violent Salvadoran-based crime syndicate, with an estimated 15,000-20,000 gang members in more than 30 U.S. states. The Daily Bulletin quoted an anonymous Border Patrol agent who said: "Here's proof that we're being targeted, and many agents didn't even know about it. I think it's just a matter of time before agents are gunned down and killed. Our government is abandoning us and in some ways abandoning the American people."
The memo referred to by the Daily Bulletin is a two-page "Officer Safety Alert" ...
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- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) September 7, 2007 700+ words
...Byline: David McLemore DALLAS _ The Border Patrol runs glossy Web videos and ads during...private agents to temporarily augment the Border Patrol's mission along the Mexican border...said spokeswoman Shea Snider. Border Patrol officials say that they don't need...
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