Designate Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations: ‘If Decapitating Police Officers Is Not Terrorism, What Is?’ Sheriff Says
Washington (CNSNews.com) – The federal government should designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law, according to the Republican sheriff of an Arizona county near the U.S.-Mexico border. But a Democratic judge in Texas disagrees, saying such a designation would achieve little. Instead, said the judge, attention should be focused on illegal drug consumption by Americans.

In fiscal year 2010, the Department of Homeland Security apprehended at least 663 individuals from countries with ties to terrorism attempting to cross the southwest border into the U.S.

Mexican Drug Cartels Using American Kids for Operations ‘Not Something New,’ Arizona Mayor Says
(CNSNews.com) – Arturo Garino, the Democratic mayor of Nogales, Ariz., says there’s nothing new about Mexican drug smugglers using U.S. juveniles for their operations. It’s been happening since he was a deputy back in the 1980s, Garino told CNSNews.com.
(the lies) “To call it out of control, no it’s not,” Garino said. “It’s not out of control. It’s not a war zone. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s a war zone.”
(the lies) “There has been virtually no spillover effects from what’s happening in Mexico in the United States,” Rosenberg said, calling the cases of kidnappings in Texas “isolated incidents.”
(the lies) “There is not systemic evidence whatsoever that there’s been any kind of spillover into the United States,” Rosenberg said.
Garino did not mention a Feb. 9, 2011 letter he drafted and recruited with two other Arizona mayors that asked Sheriff Babeu to “not cultivate a culture of fear” and claimed Babeu’s remarks were “hurting the economies of border cities.”
The letter was obtained by the Arizona Daily Star, which reported on it on Feb. 14.

(the truth) “The threat from an unsecured border is real, where 241,000 illegals were apprehended last year by the border patrol and an additional 400,000 got away just in Arizona alone,” Babeu wrote in his letter. “These are failing grades by anyone’s score card.”