Ignoring Fast and Furious While Challenging State Immigration Laws: Pure Insanity

While the White House widens challenges to states’ immigration policies:

The Obama administration is escalating its crackdown on tough immigration laws, with lawyers reviewing four new state statutes to determine whether the federal government will take the extraordinary step of challenging the measures in court.

. . . the Feds sold guns to drug gangs—that is, BATF may have bought some of the guns themselves, and resold them to the drug cartels:

[T]he Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently ordered one of its own agents to purchase firearms with taxpayer money, and sell them directly to a Mexican drug cartel.

. . . to the tune of $1.25 million dollars, spent on 2,000 weapons that in turn went to the Sinaloa cartel, according to the New York Post.

Considering how the drug war is developing in Mexico, then, it’s hardly surprising to read that paramilitary groups are now entering the scene: The Mata Zetas [Zeta killers].

But are the Mata Zetas vigilantes, or rival drug gang(s)?

The mysterious group appears to be part of the New Generation drug cartel, which operates in the northwestern state of Jalisco, according to an earlier video that showed some three dozen hooded men brandishing automatic rifles as a spokesman vowed to wipe out the Zetas in Veracruz. In that video, the spokesman lauded the work of the Mexican armed forces against the Zetas, and urged citizens to give information on their location to the military.

They wouldn’t be the first–

In the recent past, other cartels, most notably La Familia (based in the state of Michoacán) have tried to use the Zetas’ reputation for brutality as a way of rallying popular support and gaining new adherents to fight them. La Familia recently suffered a major split after the group made peace with the Zetas.

Which leads Moe Lane to wonder:

If Mata Zetas is from a narco-terrorist cartel, then did we sell that group the guns? And if we did, did we do it deliberately?

I don’t have enough information on where the 2,000 guns went–other than the fact that they went to Mexico.

What’s clear, however, is that a special prosecutor should be investigating Fast and Furious, instead of having the Federal government fighting the states over immigration law, especially when the President blames lack of funds for the ATF’s incompetence.

Meanwhile, the ATF’s Fast and Furious guns are now turning up in El Paso.

Cross-posted at Fausta’s blog.

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