Mexican Cartel War: Don't Mess With Texas

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Mexican Cartel War: Don't Mess With Texas

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“I never thought that we’d be in this paramilitary type of engagement. It's a war on the border," said Captain Stacy Holland with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Holland leads a fleet of 16 state-of-the-art helicopters that make up the aviation assets used by the Texas DPS to fight Mexican drug cartels.

In recent years, the cartels have become bolder and more ruthless.

They cross the border with AK-47s on their backs, wearing military camouflage. They recruit in prisons and schools on the American side. Spotters sit in duck blinds along the Rio Grande and call out the positions of the U.S. Border Patrol.

To combat the cartels, the Texas Department of Public Safety is launching a counterinsurgency.





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Re: Mexican Cartel War: Don't Mess With Texas

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Zonk 1/75 wrote:"Mexican border is more secure now than it has been in 20 years" :roll:
Yup. the cartels have that sucker locked up tight.
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The phrase, "Don't Mess With Texas", was a clean up Texas highways
campaign of the 80s. Sorry, Texas, youre just not that rough and tough.
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Re: Mexican Cartel War: Don't Mess With Texas

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Just send a few Hellfires that way when a select few are moving across and I feel like we would see a decrease in people coming across!
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Hell give me my 60mm back, with a couple of hundred HE rounds, I'll give 'em a reason to stay on their side of the river. :mrgreen:
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Re: Mexican Cartel War: Don't Mess With Texas

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merlyn wrote:The phrase, "Don't Mess With Texas", was a clean up Texas highways
campaign of the 80s. Sorry, Texas, youre just not that rough and tough.
How about...

Texas... now Shut the Fuck UP!
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