The FBI through a recently-issued bulletin is warning law enforcement that Los Zetas has launched a recruitment drive and may ramp up its violence across the United States as reported by Jerry Seper for The Washington Times:
The FBI intelligence bulletin quotes what it describes as “corroborated collaborative” sources “with excellent access” to show that Los Zetas has increased its effort to recruit and contract with U.S. gangs for daily drug trafficking activities in the United States. The bulletin says the FBI had “moderate confidence” that Los Zetas likely will pose a higher national security threat to the U.S., based on “demonstrated capabilities for violence, their recent killings of U.S. citizens, increased kidnappings of U.S. citizens on both sides of the border, and their continued participation in the U.S. drug trade.”
Surely the FBI is mistaken, After all, Barack Obama and his security chief Janet Napolitano repeatedly claim that the border is secure and there is no spillover violence from Mexico into the U.S. by the drug cartels. Of course, the Obama Administration’s cynical denial of the long reach of the drug cartels into this country has become as absurd as J. Edgar Hoover’s insistence decades ago that there was no such thing as the Mafia.
Further reading that may be of interest:
Immigration Reform Bill Protects Organized Crime Groups And Dirty Public Officials
President Obama Cedes Border To Drug Cartels
Filed under: Mexican Drug Cartels, Organized Crime, Street Gangs Tagged: Drug Trafficking, Los Zetas
