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Mexico's business leaders have appealed to the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers just yards from the American border to help stem the rampant violence of the country's drug cartels. The request from business groups in the border city of Ciudad Juarez raises the prospect of the sight of blue-helmeted soldiers more familiar in the setting of an African war zone patrolling the US border. It follows the failure of thousands of Mexican soldiers and special forces police to bring the bloodshed in the region under control. More than 8,500 Mexican troops have been sent into the city since February in a high profile operation to restore order that met with initial success. But the violence has returned and almost 2,000 people have been killed there so far this year, their tortured bodies often dumped in the streets, in a city of 1.5 million people. Miss Maynez suggested the US could also contribute to the solution, adding that Americans might be forced to intervene to protect their own interests. "We know that sooner or later, the violence will spill over into our sister city of El Paso, Texas," she said.
National Park Service Putting Holes in Border SecurityDocuments obtained by Rep. Rob Bishop and shared with The Washington Times show National Park Service staffers have tried to stop the U.S. Border Patrol from placing some towers associated with the virtual fence, known as the Secure Border Initiative or SBInet, on wilderness lands in parks along the border. The documents also show the Interior Department has charged the Homeland Security Department $10 million over the past two years as a "mitigation" penalty to pay for damage to public lands that agencies say has been caused by Border Patrol agents chasing illegal immigrants. Mr. Bishop and Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, tried to free up the Border Patrol earlier this year, with each managing to pass amendments on different bills that gave the Border Patrol more leeway to circumvent environmental rules if border security required it. But Democrats defended the move on the House floor, saying the environmental laws must be obeyed. Interior provided him with one figure - $811,000 since 2006, which it said had gone specifically to rehabilitate territory for the endangered Sonoran pronghorn. But Homeland Security says it has paid out $9,823,813 since September 2007 alone, including $200,000 over the course of 16 months to have a single Interior Department employee on site to provide "subject matter expertise."
It follows the failure of thousands of Mexican soldiers and special forces police to bring the bloodshed in the region under control.
Senior military officers, staff officers and military observers serving on United Nations missions are directly employed by the UN—usually on secondment from their national armed forces. Peacekeeping troops, popularly known as Blue Helmets, participate in UN peacekeeping under terms that are carefully negotiated by their Governments and remain under the overall authority of those Governments while serving under UN operational command. The authority to deploy peacekeepers remains with the Government that volunteered them, as does responsibility for pay, disciplinary and personnel matters.
And what do they expect the UN to do?
Send a strongly worded letter condemning the cartel leaders.
Get slaughtered en-mass ?
