Mercenaries Protect Drugs Flowing Into the U.S.

On August 1, the Washington Times reported on a group of Mexican mercenaries known as the Zetas. These military deserters graphically highlight why the illegal immigration situation in America is so dangerous.

First, authorities say this group controls the border town of Nuevo Laredo, which sends more than 6,000 trucks daily into Texas—roughly 40 percent of Mexico’s exports. The group killed that city’s police chief the day he took office and then fired a shot at his successor too, killing the new chief’s bodyguard instead. President Vicente Fox has sent hundreds of troops to the city to restore order, but those efforts were in place even before the above-mentioned killings.

The Zetas are described as commando types, dressed in black and using high-powered weapons and hand-held radios.

The Times reported 196 assaults on Border Patrol agents since October 1 on the Arizona-Mexico border alone, including 24 shootings, calling that area “the busiest alien- and drug-trafficking corridor in the country.”

The leaders of the Zetas originally belonged to “an elite anti-drug paratroop and intelligence battalion known as the Special Air Mobile Force Group.” In 1991, they deserted the group, lured by the easy money to be made in drug trafficking.

The Zetas have expanded into the U.S.—they are believed to have followers in Texas, Arizona, California and Florida. As though that weren’t enough, the Zetas offer a $50,000 bounty for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers.

God gave a dire warning to our peoples concerning foreign immigrants (the Bible uses the word strangers). He said that if the children of Israel were to rebel against His laws—to turn away from His commandments and embrace the practices of the heathen—they would suffer terribly (Deuteronomy 28:15-19).

The curses included a prophecy about the stranger within Israel: “The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever” (verses 43-46).

When we see these types of problems right at the border, we are seeing one aspect of the problems God warned about in that prophecy. Unless America repents, the problems caused by the “stranger within thy gates” will continue to multiply.