Biggest Bust Ever against Mexican Drug Cartels; Violence on Border Unprecedented

"Violence on Border Reaches Unprecedented Levels"

PHOENIX - Calling Mexican drug trafficking organizations "a national security threat," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Wednesday that Federal authorities had mounted their biggest assault against one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. (See NY Times article below.)

More than 750 people nationwide have been arrested, tons of cocaine and marijuana have been seized and the distribution of drugs has been disrupted through a series of raids and arrests as part of an investigation begun under the Bush administration 21 months ago, Mr. Holder said.

Conducting Talk Show interviews on this topic is Minuteman Civil Defense Corps founder Chris Simcox. During your interview Chris gives the latest updates form this huge bust, as well as sharing insights and details regarding the smuggling of human beings and drugs across our borders by crime cartels in Mexico who are vying for control of the brutal, lucrative trade.

Meanwhile, cartel violence has reached unprecedented levels along the U.S.-Mexico border and is fostering a pandemic of home invasions, kidnappings and murders throughout the United States of America, according to Simcox.

"President Obama inherited three wars, the most critical right here at home along our southern and northern national boundaries. Our southern border presents a full-blown national security crisis, and a serious domestic threat to public safety, that has affected every community within a day's drive of the Mexico line. Mr. Obama better not tell the imperiled American people we don't have enough money or manpower, or it is not a priority, to secure our borders. And John McCain should be drawing up battle plans to protect U.S. citizens by sending the U.S. Marines to the border instead of quibbling over the cost of a single helicopter named Marine One," said Simcox.

Simcox continued, "Time for stop-gap measures or waiting for other nations to mend their ways has run out. Mexico's president Calderon and his government will also need much more than a half billion of our tax dollars (Meridia Plan) to battle international terrorist organizations that control almost every city throughout Mexico. Our National Guard and Marines must be deployed to protect American interests, including lives and property, along our border."

The same international smuggling operations shooting it out at the border have active organized criminal cells in over 195 U.S. cities, according to a recent Department of Justice report.

Minutemen stationed along the border from Texas to California and Washington to New York State continued to report an egregious lack of U.S. border security and high vulnerability to incursion, facilitated by criminal networks of outposts dotting the high ground along the entire border. Minuteman volunteers have scoured the trails and have identified drug cartel and smuggler's outposts at high elevations all along the border in California and Arizona.

It will take an immediate deployment of 8,000 National Guard and special ops personnel to contain the extremely violent and terroristic international crime organizations that control the mountainous passages of the U.S./Mexico border.

For over 7 years, Chris Simcox and his Minuteman organization have been at the forefront of helping secure the United States borders and coastal boundaries against the unlawful entry of individuals, contraband and even foreign military in an all-volunteer effort to protect law-abiding American citizens, and uphold the rule of law.

Chris Simcox has long argued publicly against the policies advocated by renowned so-called border security tough guys who grandstand on feeble proposals and media-driven border security "initiatives." That list of the feeble and the failed is topped by Senator John McCain and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, recently appointed as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. The frightening reality is that drug and human smuggling is unquestionably one of the most pressing security issues facing our nation, and its effects have been devastating to the well-being of American citizens in countless communities across the country.

More than 8,000 individuals were killed in Mexico due to drug related violence in the last two years alone; the Mexican drug cartels reportedly supply illegal drugs to their gang member affiliates in at least 230 U.S. cities; and 240 cartel-related kidnappings occurred last year alone in Phoenix, Arizona. The statistics of crisis do not lie. Chris Simcox is readily available for news media interviews to discuss his organization's approach to securing our United States borders and coastal boundaries, to halt the continuing onslaught against America by the vicious international drug cartels.

MINUTEMAN NATIONAL SPOKESPERSONS:

ABOUT CHRIS SIMCOX...

Chris Simcox is the founder and president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a nationwide grassroots organization with border watch patrols along the northern and southern United States borders. Simcox earned a bachelor's degree in human development and education from L.A.'s Pacific Oaks College. He taught in a public high school for one year and in private school - kindergarten through third grade - for over a decade. His interest in education lingers. "I am passionate about fixing our broken education system in this country - as much as I am about broken border security," Chris said. Chris has been featured on hundreds of radio and television talk shows nationally, as well as featured in scores of newspaper articles.

ABOUT CARMEN MERCER...

Carmen Mercer is Vice President of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. She is a 52-year old legal immigrant from Germany and a proud citizen of the United States of America since 1999. Ms. Mercer is also part of the "Granny Brigade", grandmothers and mothers who have joined together to protect their children from drugs, disease, violence etc. coming through our borders. Carmen was a founding member of The Minuteman Corps, established in October 2005. When she's not standing watch on the border, Carmen operates a restaurant in Tombstone, Arizona, which she has owned for 12 years. Carmen first met Minuteman founder Chris Simcox in 2002 when they worked together to form a neighborhood watch group, in response to what President Bush called upon U.S. citizens to do in response to 9/11, being "vigilant and to report any suspicious activity." Little did President Bush know just how far and how quickly people like Carmen were to take that challenge.

ABOUT AL GARZA...

Al Garza is National Executive Director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC). He previously served as Texas state director for MCDC before being promoted to second in command. He is a 5th generation descendent of LEGAL immigrants. He was born in Texas and moved with his family at age 12 to California where he finished his education. After graduating high school in 1965, he volunteered for service in Vietnam with the Marines. Al was honorably discharged after four years of service with the rank of Sergeant. His family has a long history of serving in the U.S. military. Al spent the rest of his career as a licensed private investigator, is now retired living in Southern Arizona and is a popular guest on many radio and television Talk Shows.

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