A highly trusted former deputy attorney general, who later became Mexico’s drug czar and was embraced by Washington until his death, is accused in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration report of taking bribes from one of Mexico’s oldest narcotics trafficking cartels.

Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, killed in November in a mysterious plane crash over Mexico City, is among three senior federal law-enforcement officials named in an April 21-page DEA briefing on organized crime and drug trafficking south of the border.

Vasconcelos was never charged with a crime. The other two are being prosecuted by Mexico.

The report, prepared as a primer on drug cartels, does not say when, or how much money was allegedly taken by Vasconcelos, who spearheaded counternarcotics efforts for President Felipe Calderon and had similar duties as deputy attorney general over fighting organized crime for Calderon’s predecessor, Vicente Fox.

He is alleged to have been snared by the Beltran Leyva organization, which the DEA report says is known to use bribery and assassinations to ensure its share of Mexico’s drug trade, and go “toe to toe” with larger syndicates.

When contacted Wednesday, DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney, said the agency could neither refute nor offer a source for the highly charged allegation, which appears in the report as fact. The information was included without being fully vetted for release, Courtney said.

The Calderon administration declined comment.

Sadly, this flag is draped over the coffins of too many honest Mexican soldiers while corrupt Mexican Government Officials get rich

PLease got to http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6423131.html fo he rest of the story

FaceFwd.com Comments: It should come as no surprise that the reason the Drug/Border war continues is that the government supports it. Should the Drug Cartels be shut down, there would be no retirement program for government employees

 A Mexican border town has “declared war” on the United States, vowing to clog the U.S. court system with illegal immigrants, because, city officials say, the U.S. Border Patrol is dumping in their town Mexican nationals caught crossing the border illegally.

Officials from Agua Prieta, a Mexican city of about 130,000, are also claiming that the U.S. government has repeatedly neglected to inform them about new waves of immigrants before they are routed there from points in the U.S. after capture.

Consequently, Agua Prieta leaders are teaching Mexican nationals how to cross into the U.S. and stay there, by instructing them to request a court hearing — a tactic sure to clog the judicial system with possibly thousands of illegal immigrants who want their day in court.

See the rest of this great article at:  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15378     Article by Jon E. Dougherty is a Missouri-based writer and the author of “Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border.”
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Face Fwd Comments:
Part of me finds this article pretty funny in that a Mexican town doesn’t want the illegals in their town just dropped off there either.  I don’t blame them.  If I were a government official there, I would not want the crime and the overwhelmed city/state services these illegals bring with them either.  However, the problem is not that we are dumping the illegals on this city…. The problem is that Mexico is not doing anything to help us stop the flow of their country’s poor and discriminated against into our country.  By the way, flip through Spanish televisor next chance you get and see if any of the people on television look like the people crossing the border. You’ll understand the discriminated comment.  The people coming across the border are not the same people we see on Mexican television or as they are often touted as the norm for political reasons.  The people swimming rivers to get here are those citizens of Mexico with little or no European heritage…. the poor and discriminated against.

We still believe that the greatest economic crisis is not the banking or the manufacturing industry problems.  We can figure that out given enough time.  The biggest financial problem facing America right now is the millions of Illegals that have come into this country from south of the border.  If our government officials have their way and grant amnesty we will never recover and our “American Way” will be lost forever. 

The small Mexican town of Agua Prieta is a microcosm of what we face permanently if we are not careful.  The people coming into this country illegally over the Mexico border are not here to give, they are here to take.  Not only are our hospitals, schools and jails being drug (no pun) down with people at the expense of our families and tax dollars, countless millions of dollars from our economy are leaving this country via wire transfer weekly. 

How do we handle it?  Remember that wall?….Build it now, build it deep and build it long.  We have laws now.  That is why these people that are illegally crossing our borders are called illegals.  They are breaking the law.  It seems to me that the costly option is to hunt them down after they are here.  Wouldn’t it be cheaper to stop them before they get here?  Oh and how about stopping wire transfers to Mexico?

From USA Today
By William M. Welch

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, particularly in big states such as California where undocumented workers are heavily represented in construction, experts on both sides of the issue say.
Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs, or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create.They fault Congress for failing to require that employers certify legal immigration status of workers before hiring by using a Department of Homeland Security program called E-Verify. The program allows employers to check the validity of Social Security numbers provided by new hires. It is available to employers on a voluntary basis.

“They could have deterred this, but they chose not to,” said Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies.

He said a federal requirement that employers use E-Verify would have reduced, if not eliminated, the hiring of immigrants in this country illegally.
An advocacy group for immigrants, illegal and legal, did not disagree with the 300,000 estimate. Camarota says the estimate is based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and other independent findings that 15% of all construction workers in the USA are either illegal immigrants or lack the status of legal immigrant authorized to work.
But Jorge-Mario Cabrera, director of education for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said it is impossible to predict with certainty because it is unknown how many jobless immigrant construction workers may leave the U.S., frustrated by the economic recession, before the new spending produces jobs.
He questioned the Center for Immigration Studies’ motives.

“Those are fear tactics. … ‘The immigrants are here to take your job,’ ” Cabrera said. “I think that we really should be focusing on economic progress for all.”

The center is a Washington policy organization that, its website says, “Seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted.” Cabrera says his group believes unauthorized immigrants working in this country contribute to the economy.
A similar hiring estimate was produced in a report in February by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote, “Without specific mechanisms to ensure that workers are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants authorized to work, it is likely that 15% of these workers, or 300,000, would be illegal immigrants.”

The version of the stimulus bill passed by the House of Representatives included a provision requiring employers to check immigration status with the E-Verify system before hiring. The Senate did not include such a provision, and it was not in the version sent to President Obama. The Obama administration has delayed until at least May 21 a Bush administration executive order requiring federal contractors to use the E-Verify system in hiring. It had been scheduled to take effect in January. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed suit seeking to block the requirement, joined by the Associated Builders and Contractors and other business organizations.

The business groups and immigrant advocacy groups argue that the E-Verify database is riddled with errors that could result in millions of workers being wrongly identified as not authorized for work. They say requiring its use before hiring would impose a cost burden on employers and open them to lawsuits.
Camarota said illegal immigrants working in construction are concentrated in California, Arizona and Texas along the border with Mexico, as well as Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia

Face Forward Says:
I hate to say I told you so, but what the heck, “I Told You So”.  When I said that many of the people that will benefit from the spending bill will not be the ones paying for I was only half right.  It looks like many of the people that will benefit from it will be one of the groups that helped cause it.

It makes me sick to may stomach everytime I hear about the positive financial impact Illegal Aliens (IA) have on our economy.  Check with my insurance company that had to pay for two of my damaged cars while I had to cough up the deductible.  They were both in wrecks (not our fault) by IA’s.  Neither had insurance.  Positive impact, who paid for that?

About three o’clock in the morning 2 weeks ago my wife had to take our 3 year old foster daughter to the emergency room.  She had to wait about 1 hour while the people working the desk had to deal with a family of (assumed) IA’s who could not speak English trying to get their child (who appeared to have a cold) some kind of treatment.  I don’t blame the parents.  I blame the politicians that taught them the emergency roon is the family doctor for them.  Positive Impact, who paid for that?