Video: Sheriff- “Chunks of this Country Under Control of Armed Foreign Thugs”

This video reports on the violent drug war and its impact on Americans living in border states.

One rancher complains of the near-constant flow of drug traffickers on foot and in vehicles across his land. They regularly punch holes through the US border fence, trespass on his land, and threaten violence.

A local sheriff says that the federal government has essentially ceded areas of the United States to the drug lords. Former drug czar Barry McCaffrey agrees, suggesting that the border is increasingly lawless in the southern states.

Of course, the Obama administration denies all this.

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