Obama Considers Plan to Secure the Southern Border… OF MEXICO

You’ll be happy to know Obama is finally taking border security seriously. Unfortunately, he’s not worried about America’s border. It’s Mexico’s southern border which has drawn the attention of the Obama administration.

The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Obama Administration Considers Plan to Bolster Mexico’s Southern Border

Obama administration and Mexican government officials recently discussed creating a three-tier security system designed to protect Mexico’s southern border from drug and human traffickers, according to U.S. officials.

The border control plan calls for U.S. funding and technical support of three security lines extending more than 100 miles north of Mexico’s border with Guatemala and Belize. The border security system would use sensors and intelligence-gathering to counter human trafficking and drug running from the region, a major source of illegal immigration into the United States.

According to the officials who discussed the U.S.-Mexican talks on condition of anonymity, the Mexican government proposed setting up three security cordons using electronic sensors and other security measures along the southern Mexican border, along a line some 20 miles from the southern border, and along a third security line about 140 miles from the southern Mexican territorial line.

The plan would be funded in part through the Merida Initiative, a U.S.-led anti-drug trafficking program that has involved nearly $2 billion in U.S. funds.

Border security was a major topic during the visit to Mexico last month by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Thomas Winkowski, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Alan Bersin.

Napolitano made no mention of the southern border protection plan after her visit.

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“The United States and Mexico have taken unprecedented steps in recent years to deepen our cooperation along our shared border,” she said in a July 23 statement.

During the visit, Napolitano signed an agreement on border security communications aimed at improving responses to border violence. In April, another agreement was signed to improve U.S. Border Patrol and Mexican Federal Police law enforcement coordination along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Why does this administration always seem to put the concerns of others before American interests?

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