There is an old saying, “Good fences make good neighbors” and that assertion has proven to be fact on the U.S./Mexican border. Because we lack a fence we are seeing our neighbor’s bad behavior spilling over our border and affecting us in our own lives. 41 Mexicans were killed on Monday in Mexico and because we have no fence the incident is being described as a threat to our security. Well, duh.
It has evidently become our concern that that Mexican Zetas, which are ex-Mexican military special forces that received enhanced training in the United States, are now vying for control of the Mexican drug cartels that they started out as private armies for. And today we have to wonder if some of those people shot in Mexico were not killed using guns sold to the Zetas by our ATF, of which said sales were sanctioned by our government from the President down.
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