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Today’s Washington Times has a frightening article about the utter chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Congress has just released a report on the matter here. 

All the more reason for real, and meaningful border security policy.    

     Law-enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border are outgunned and outmanned by drug smugglers armed with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, bazookas, improvised explosive devices and state-of-the-art communications and tracking systems, a congressional report said yesterday.
    ”While the United States has taken positive steps to secure its borders, much more is needed to combat an increasingly powerful, sophisticated, organized and violent criminal network, which seeks to move illegal contraband … into our country for profit,” said the House Homeland Security management, integration and oversight subcommittee report.
    The 39-page report said drug-trafficking organizations and alien-smuggling networks are “proliferating and strengthening their control” of key corridors along the nation’s Southwest; that Mexican drug cartels wield “substantial control” over the U.S.-Mexico border; and that criminal organizations and networks are “highly sophisticated and organized.”
    It also found that drug-trafficking cartels, alien-smuggling networks and U.S.-based street gangs, including MS-13, are increasingly coordinating with one another to achieve their objectives, and that federal, state and local law-enforcement report “new and ever-increasing levels of ruthlessness and violence” associated with the gangs.

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