DEA sweep targets cartels in response to agent's slaying in Mexico

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MEXICO CITY - Thousands of U.S. agents and local police officers arrested and interrogated suspected associates of Mexican drug cartels across the United States on Thursday in response to the killing of a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in Mexico last week.

Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration launched the operation Wednesday after the Mexican military announced the arrest of eight suspects in the death of Jaime Zapata, a special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who was killed in a roadside ambush. Zapata was buried in Texas on Tuesday.

DEA officials said the sweep netted more than 100 suspects - most of them low-level - in Atlanta, Oakland, St. Louis, Denver, Detroit, San Antonio, San Diego, Chicago and New Jersey, as well as in Colombia, Brazil and Central America. The DEA said officers in the United States have confiscated $8 million in cash, more than 100 weapons and 200 pounds of cocaine.

The DEA action, widely reported Thursday in Mexico, is intended to send a strong message to Mexican mafias that U.S. agents are off-limits, officials said.

"We're doing what we always do. But a message was sent. We want to make sure the traffickers understand that we're going to unite to go after them," said Derek Maltz, special agent in charge of the DEA's special operations division.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022407392.html
 
Tenchi said:
But innocent civilians are somehow fine to kill?

Assbags.
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i though the same thing. Ive always wondered what would happen when American civilians and the like started getting involved. How fucking hypocritical over 36,000 deaths in Mexico and ONE agent gets killed so they make this pointless sweep.

And how is this what they usually do? I thought the standard procedure was to try and get to the guys at the top really quietly without making a bunch of small time busts because of how POINTLESS small time busts are. This seems exactly the opposite. What happens when another agent from the other side of the boarder gets killed? are they going to overstuff the already full and underfunded jails with small time traffickers? or just deport them to Mexico to continue there crime there?

I fucking hate how either stupid, corrupt, or both American politicians run, not only their country, but also the rest of the world.
 
if there's a government shutdown, does the DEA continue to operate? I know the military continues, but what of the cops?

I think the FBI continues, and I'm sure the FDA gets shut down, but what about the DEA? ICE? ATF? DOJ?
 
"a US agent was killed today... so were going to use this to justify stealing a bunch of money and drugs from around the Gulf."

"then we're going to use that money to buy us some vacation time, and we're going to use those drugs during those vacations."
 
qwe said:
"a US agent was killed today... so were going to use this to justify stealing a bunch of money and drugs from around the Gulf."

"then we're going to use that money to buy us some vacation time, and we're going to use those drugs during those vacations."
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Hell, id take that job.
 
"The DEA action, widely reported Thursday in Mexico, is intended to send a strong message to Mexican mafias that U.S. agents are off-limits, officials said."
I hope they're careful here, if they really intend to send these folks strong messages, well, I can see things getting very ugly.
(OTOH, I guess there's always been a major clash on the horizon, just doubted it would be anytime soon. This could easily become tit-for-tat and, if it does, things're gonna get way worse before they get better...)
 
the thing that pisses me off is that our government has been ignoring this for years

we will spend millions and send people to the middle east, but something at our back porch, well fuck it


the whole situation is going to explode, if it hasn't already happened(violence has already spilled over the border)
 
DEA officials said the sweep netted more than 100 suspects - most of them low-level - in Atlanta, Oakland, St. Louis, Denver, Detroit, San Antonio, San Diego, Chicago and New Jersey, as well as in Colombia, Brazil and Central America. The DEA said officers in the United States have confiscated $8 million in cash, more than 100 weapons and 200 pounds of cocaine.
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Looks like they went after a bunch of small fish... :\

Go figure, the big fish were all notified of the coming sweep.. That's what always happens.
 
235360287471352662 said:
if there's a government shutdown, does.....I think the FBI continues, and I'm sure the FDA gets shut down, but what about the DEA? ICE? ATF? DOJ?
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Gov shutdown of what sort? Regardless of sort, I imagine it'll be a clusterfark of agencies vying for power/belonging. Surely some merge of ATF/DEA/ICE could be appropriate, but I don't see anyone giving up/sharing power/$ that could've stayed at one office.

qwe said:
"then we're going to use that money to buy us some vacation time, and we're going to use those drugs during those vacations."
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That'd be the plan, but if (IF? unless the cartels see this as small/brush it off, there will be a response - then ours - then theirs - etc), IF this gets a response from the cartels similar to how they typically operate when gov-agencies are their adversary, then nobody's going on vacation for a bit :/
(reminded of the scene in TROY when Hector slits Achilles' cousin's throat - "I don't think anybody's sailing home now")

I'm wondering how 'relevant' these players were to the cartels, part of me hopes they see it as nothing and ignore it, but given their history I'm predicting they're already working on/have started their "response" message...
 
bingalpaws said:
Gov shutdown of what sort? Regardless of sort, I imagine it'll be a clusterfark of agencies vying for power/belonging. Surely some merge of ATF/DEA/ICE could be appropriate, but I don't see anyone giving up/sharing power/$ that could've stayed at one office.
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there's a dispute in congress about the budget. they may not be able to pass a new one. the entire Federal Government may close either early next month or at some time in the coming year. if this happens, the military would continue to exist but stuff like post offices and many government agencies (like the FDA) would cease to operate.
 
Wow, was oblivious to *any* issue, and I used to mod CEP here....sad, for shame...
(haven't been around anyone who gives a shit, lol, and internet time has sucked!)

I'm actually gg read into that but, based on the fact that I'm not seeing people going nuts in public yet, I'm doubting there's really much fear of the gov shutting down. The world has seen crazier shit tho.
 
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