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Baht Dog
10-21-2011, 19:16
Having read Airbornelawyer's sticky that states that posts relating to Mexico are acceptable here, I shall proceed with this rather disturbing thread. I was unable to find this story elsewhere on the site via the search function so hopefully it's not duplicating something. Obviously, this should surprise no one. They do this to their own citizens, even more so to US citizens. But it's another indicator of push, movement and relentless brazenness.



Mexican Drug Cartels Recruiting Texas children


SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas law enforcement officials say several Mexican drug cartels are luring youngsters as young as 11 to work in their smuggling operations.



Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told Reuters the drug gangs have a chilling name for the young Texans lured into their operations.


"They call them 'the expendables,'" he said.


McCraw said his investigators have evidence six Mexican drug gangs -- including the violent Zetas -- have "command and control centers" in Texas actively recruiting children for their operations, attracting them with what appears to be "easy money" for doing simple tasks.


"Cartels would pay kids $50 just for them to move a vehicle from one position to another position, which allows the cartel to keep it under surveillance to see if law enforcement has it under surveillance," he said.


"Of course, once you're hooked up with them, there's consequences."


McCraw said 25 minors have been arrested in one Texas border county alone in the past year for running drugs, acting as lookouts, or doing other work for organized Mexican drug gangs. The cartels are now fanning out, he said, and have operations in all major Texas cities.


This month, "we made an arrest of a 12-year-old boy who was in a stolen pickup truck with 800 pounds of marijuana," he said. "So they do recruit our kids."


McCraw says the state of Texas is joining a program initiated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection called "Operation Detour," in which law enforcement officers meet with children and their parents in schools and at community centers to warn them about the dangers of what appears to be the easy money the Mexican drug gangs offer.


Law enforcement officers say children are less likely to be suspects than adults, are easily manipulated by relatively small sums of money, and face less severe penalties than adults if arrested.


Last month, Texas officials released a report indicating Mexico-based drug gangs are intent on creating a "sanitary zone" on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, and are "intimidating landowners" in south Texas into allowing them to use their property as "permanent bases" for drug smuggling activity.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/17/us-cartels-children-idUSTRE79G4UX20111017

mojaveman
10-21-2011, 19:39
Evil but a clever tactic. Hire auxiliaries who are citizens of the country you want to operate in then when they are compromised your hands remain clean. They also face lesser penalities because they are juveniles.

Baht Dog
10-21-2011, 19:57
Evil but a clever tactic. .


Ain't it though? :( Some of these kids as young as 11. They already have trained young teens, around 14 or so from one source - as butchers and killers. I mean seriously, one of these teens was "trained" and made to hack up bodies into pieces.


One could easily be faced with having to waste a young kid in certain circumstances. And that ain't good for the mind. War is hell, everywhere.


I have seen one verified and real Cartel video of two guys bound, sitting against a wall. Then a dude with a mask on comes in and takes one dudes head off with a CHAINSAW - while alive and watching the saw bar coming. He actually died pretty quick.

Anyone else seen that one? I don't advise it. Some things the mind is not meant to see.

He slumps over, spurting blood on the other dude who then starts to get his head sawed off AQ style with a dull knife. Seems like it took about a minute and he suffered.

Now, car bombs increasing down in Mexico, etc. They are copying everything and even expanding on it. That old Aztec ghost coming back to haunt. Even skinning people alive now. In the ME, it's one thing but Mexico is going down that road fast. Already there.


I am convinced nothing will fix it and it only gets worse from here.

Debbie Downer of The Day.