Mexico trying harder to catch smuggled US guns

[one...two...tree 2,762]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Try to bring a refrigerator into Mexico in the back of your pickup, and you are almost certain to get stopped by Mexican customs officials.

Stick a couple of AK-47 rifles in your trunk, and chances are you'll whiz right through.

Now Mexico is owning up to its leaky border as it launches a new program to monitor vehicles entering the country. The goal is to weigh and photograph southbound cars and trucks, in hopes of snaring more gun smugglers.

As the Obama administration promises a crackdown on the illegal U.S. weapons trade that supplies the drug cartels, Mexico is acknowledging shortcomings on its side of the 2,000-mile border.

"Security concerns require a customs overhaul," Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz, who oversees border checkpoints as director of Mexico's tax collection agency, said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. "Today, passenger vehicles really enter without being inspected."

Mexico checks only 10 percent of the 230,000 vehicles that cross the border each day, according to the federal Attorney General's Office.

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[웃 910]

All you have to do to smuggle whatever you want (yourself if your wanted, nuclear bombs, weapons, drugs, etc.) is walk across the bridge at any border crossing from the US to Mexico. The Mexican government does not check one single person and it is free to walk across.

I walked across like it was no big deal at the El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico border and I have confirmed with one other person that crossing into Tijuana is not any different.

This was my experience crossing from El Paso, Texas into Mexico:

I got dropped off by a US taxi at the bridge. I stepped out of the taxi with my blue duffel bag and back pack. There was a white immigration SUV (USA) on the El Paso side about 50 yards from the bridge. I headed on the right side of the bridge and walked for about 4 minutes over a river. There were no Mexican immigration officials and no police. I popped out on the other side and like that I was in Mexico. As a matter of fact, before getting on the bridge I was looking for the building where I would be thoroughly inspected/harassed/questioned. I saw what looked to be the inspection building and I entered it voluntarily. I asked where do I check in and the people looked at me like I was retarded. So I walked out the building, got onto the bridge and walked across and into Mexico. I could have had a WMD in my duffel bag and gotten into Mexico, it was a joke.

This picture will give you an idea of how absurd it is:

PS: When returning from Juarez back into the United States I was forced to enter a building (no way around it) before gaining access to the bridge. Inside the building I was met by immigration officers, an x-ray machine, a metal detector, and of course, interrogation.

[Danno 1,228]

why would anyone risk going through a check point anyway?

With miles and miles of unfenced areas, why not haul the guns down to a deserted area near the boarder, meet your conection, you give him the guns he gives you the dope and you head back home.

We don't want to seal off the border, Mexico doesn't want up to seal off the border yet we both want to cry about the results of having an open border next to a 3rd world country.

I would suggest their drugs coming north have lead to the deaths of a lot more of our people than our handful of guns going south cost theirs.

Edited April 2, 2009 by Danno

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

why would anyone risk going through a check point anyway?

With miles and miles of unfenced areas, why not haul the guns down to a deserted area near the boarder, meet your conection, you give him the guns he gives you the dope and you head back home.

We don't want to seal off the border, Mexico doesn't want up to seal off the border yet we both want to cry about the results of having an open border next to a 3rd world country.

I would suggest their drugs coming north have lead to the deaths of a lot more of our people than our handful of guns going south cost theirs.

It's all carefully orchestrated misdirection again. The same tunnels they use to smuggle drugs into the country are used to smuggle guns and cash back into Mexico.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/re...un-violence.pdf

[natty bumppo 297]

why would anyone risk going through a check point anyway?

With miles and miles of unfenced areas, why not haul the guns down to a deserted area near the boarder, meet your conection, you give him the guns he gives you the dope and you head back home.

We don't want to seal off the border, Mexico doesn't want up to seal off the border yet we both want to cry about the results of having an open border next to a 3rd world country.

I would suggest their drugs coming north have lead to the deaths of a lot more of our people than our handful of guns going south cost theirs.

It's all carefully orchestrated misdirection again. The same tunnels they use to smuggle drugs into the country are used to smuggle guns and cash back into Mexico.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/re...un-violence.pdf

Brady ... such a non-biased source ....