Boarder inspections not finding guns going into Mexico

[ericire12]

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/116595.php

For the past five weeks, hundreds of agents participating in a newly intensified $95 million outbound inspection program have been stepping into southbound traffic lanes, stopping suspicious-looking cars and trucks.

The Associated Press fanned out to the busiest crossings along the Mexican border - San Diego, Nogales, El Paso and Laredo - to see how effective the inspections are.

The findings? Wads of U.S. currency headed for Mexico, wedged into car doors, stuffed under mattresses, taped onto torsos, were sniffed out by dogs, seized by agents and locked away for possible investigations. No guns were found as the reporters watched; they rarely are.

According to CBP, between March 12 and April 30 officers seized:

• Fifty-one pieces of ammunition, weapons parts and guns, a minuscule fraction of the 2,000 weapons the Mexican government estimates are smuggled south every day.

• $12 million in cash, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the $17 billion to $39 billion the U.S. Justice Department estimates is illegally sent to Mexico from the U.S. annually, but more than the $10 million seized in outbound checks in 2008.

• Sixty-one people on charges involving weapons or currency offenses and on outstanding warrants.

[deepwater]

you mean we were lied to? or were we misinformed for political reasons?
this hust doesn't surprise me at all. remember, Mexico does random inspections according to a machine that has two lights, red and green. as you pass it either turns red and you go to the inspection station, or green and you pass. also, they have inspection stations further from the border, usually about 50 miles or so, so those that have been able to bypass the border get checked before they can head into the interior of the country. fairly closely regulated from the north. I've driven to Veracruz from Texas and to Guaymas from San Diego and every time needed to get a permit to travel to the interior, including two thorough inspections. not just looking for guns though, anything that may not have been taxed when crossing, plus other contraband.
I cannot believe that with these regulations and the obviously very honest cops in Mex that any large quantity of guns make it into the country. (note some sarcasm in that last).

just my $.02
Darrin

[tt11758]

Gee, THERE's a massive fricking surprise!!

[philw]

Gee, THERE's a massive fricking surprise!!

yea   who would of thought that 

[TAB]

Only a fool or some one that bough off the crossing gurads would try to take guns into mexico by  boarder crossings.

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[mudman]

Dosen't make any diffrence at all it was a LIE  from the begining,seem to be waiting for the next crisis to save those poor MESKINS
from those evil drug dealers & right wing extremist vetern gun smugglers & NRA members. Notice that nappy headed  HO  from HS has'nt showed up on TV much maybe somebody said duck and she listened.