A Mexican marine stands guard along the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana
Law enforcement agencies in American cities close to the border with Mexico — including San Diego in California, and El Paso in Texas — are “gearing up” for street confrontations with the drug gangs, which are armed with rockets and grenades and have brought death and chaos south of the border.
Mexican cartels are already established in 230 American cities. The gangs have
been blamed for killings as far afield as Anchorate, Alaska, and Atlanta,
Georgia, as well as 366 kidnappings in Phoenix, Arizona, last year alone.
Van Bethea, the operations director for the Steele Foundation, an American
private security company that has protected foreign businessmen in Mexico as
well as Iraq, said the two countries were now comparable in terms of the
potential danger.
clipped from: www.telegraph.co.uk 