Via StockBoardAsset.com,
Dramatic video has surfaced on liveleak.com of an intense firefight between a Mexican military unit and Cartel Del Golfo CDG members in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The video starts out with Government troops rolling up to an intersection only to be met with a hellacious firefight.
Last night the Washington Post dumped it's latest 'bombshell' White House leaks in the form of full transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from back in January...which, in Trump years, feels like it was about 20 years ago (we covered it here: Trump Phone Call Transcripts Leaked: "New Hampshire Is A Drug Infested Den").
Having seemingly just been handed a stinging defeat on Obamacare, the Trump administration is desperate to deliver some 'wins' for the people who voted him into office. After all, he did promise voters "so much winning that you'll get tired of winning."
As the New York Times points out today, one such win could come in the form of recent advances on the construction of that "physically imposing" yet "aesthetically pleasing" border wall that was a cornerstone of Trump's campaign last year.
Authored by Michael Snyder via The American Dream blog,
Did you know that Mexico is the second deadliest nation on the entire planet? The drug war down there continues to spiral completely out of control, and often the violence spills over to our own side of the border. Thanks to President Trump, security along the border is improving, but we still have a long, long way to go. Ultimately what we need is a physical barrier, because large numbers of illegal immigrants continue to pour through the soft spots in our border security.
Content originally published at iBankCoin.com
A sharp dropoff in the number of illegal border crossers coming into the United States from Mexico is "nothing short of miraculous," National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told C-SPAN on Monday.
As far as the Trump administration's efforts on immigration, this is something they campaigned heavily on.