Dodge the bullets and don't exaggerate the violence!

  You may have heard that Janet Napolitano has explained that the situation is completely normal on the US/Mexico border from Bloomberg. Note that the administration blames Republicans for whatever mess they are willing to admit exists:

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it has been in years, resulting in less violence and illegal immigration, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

U.S. border communities are not “out of control or overrun with violence,” she said today in a speech at the University of Texas at El Paso. “Illegal immigration is decreasing. Deportations are increasing. Crime rates are dropping.”

  Yet, oddly, reports indicate otherwise. This is in NORTH Texas.
  The many unoccupied houses that sit empty around the country are easy to acquire, thus providing perfect "grow houses" and distribution centers for Mexican drug cartels and US drug dealers. This report is from a local CBS station, describing the threat and the people running the operations:

“They were degreed. They were professionals,” says Adamcik as he describes the group that was running this operation. He says they even sent their “employees” to business schools. “The people they put underneath them, they actually sent them to a conference, a motivational conference like you would a legitimate business to make money.” 

Investigators say the leader of the domestic operation lived in a penthouse above Mockingbird station in Dallas. They arrested the group without any problems, but the undercover drug investigator tells us that is not always the case- particularly with the Mexican cartel. He says he’s been in many armed confrontations

  Watch this video to learn that these things are happening in ordinary neighborhoods, including Bush's neighborhood:

  In Southern Texas, a different story is emerging. Authorities are mystified by the appearance of hundreds of Indian refugees who travel a route through Guatemala/Mexico to cross illegally into Texas. 
  This story in the LA Times reveals that most of these illegal immigrants are not only not deported, but they are interviewed and then released because they are claiming persecution. Eventually they obtain asylum. Read the article here, which says that some illegals just melt away into the crowd. The LA Times:

Not all show up, however. "That's why I won't take their cases anymore," said Cathy Potter, a local immigration attorney who helped about 20 Indians get freed on bond last year. "It undermines my credibility. I don't want anything to do with this."

It is not clear how many Indians have been granted asylum or deported; immigration officials did not fulfill requests for that information. Judges and attorneys appear to be toughening up, however. Bond amounts have risen sharply in recent months, and attorneys say asylum claims are increasingly being rejected

  One intelligence professional describes the border situation at her blog Border Violence Analysis this way, unlike Big Sis, who "urges officials to stop exaggerating violence on US side of the border": 

"I think 'war' is the only term that can be used right now because anything else that comes closer to being accurate is way too politically sensitive. I believe that drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) in Mexico have gone way beyond organized crime, and should be considered as hybrids between a mafia, insurgency, and terrorist group based solely on the tactics they're using. In that perspective, then you definitely have a war on your hands because the cartels - while not wanting to take direct control of the state apparatus - want to control it enough through intimidation of state institutions to allow them to operate as a parallel society, in effect. 

  Some US workers have been targeted by drug cartels.  
  Beheadings are becoming more common, yet some in the MSM mock these reports. 
  The Department of Homeland Security, which has recently announced an increase in agents in Afghanistan, has experienced a loss of confidence from ICE agents, who object to the procedures and policies of a department that seems to lack focus on the real issues but instead thinks global warming is more a threat than border violence. 
  But that's nothing new. NASA thinks global warming is their mission, as does the EPA, the military,  the U.S. Energy Information Administration, NOAA and whatever other agency uses "manipulated data" to determine that global warming should be a primary focus of the US government.
  Apparently the only "authorities" who know anything about border violence are this administration's "authorities." 
  Apparently local authorities, who obviously know nothing of the real situation on the border, know nothing about violence.
  Watching from afar, it's difficult to know what's true and what's not but an objective observer would certainly put more stock in those who live in the area rather than those who jet in for a day and proclaim the area violence free.