As Mexican Army Battles Narco-Cartels, Cartels Threaten US Law Enforcement

by Anthony L. Kimery

Cartels have ordered operatives in the US to directly engage US law enforcement who get in their way

As Mexican President Felipe Calderon struggles to regain control of the escalating narco-cartel violence that has at the very least plunged his nation’s northernmost states into blood soaked chaos and this week forced him to send more than 10,000 military troops and federal law enforcement into Ciudad Juarez, the Obama administration is having to come to grips with the magnitude of the threat that Mexico’s widespread crisis poses to US security.

In Homeland Security Today’s groundbreaking January cover story, “Savage Struggle on the Border,” written in mid-October during an on the ground investigation of Mexico’s cartel-fueled societal deterioration, it was noted that the Mexican cartels’ warring was beginning to reach across the border into the US.

In the wake of increasingly effective, strengthened Border Patrol enforcement and federal, state and local law enforcement operations to bust up Mexican cartel operations in the United States, US counter-narcotics and counterterrorism officials and law enforcement told HSToday.us this week that intelligence – some gleaned in cooperation with Mexico’s intelligence services – indicates that Mexico’s two dominant cartels have ordered its operatives in the US to directly engage US law enforcement officers who get in their way.....