I live about 10 miles from the entrance to PINS.
















 

Way too many ti fight. Just bail

What does PINS mean?

Padre Island National Seashore.

Sorry but what is the ruckus? I don't have cable and didn't see anything on Fox News. I have family in the Valley.....

Vigilante groups shooting it out with the cartels and federal es.

 

There was  a show not too long ago about just sucha situation.

The Mexican government collapsed at some pont and millions of Mexcan nationals were streaming north into the US
to avoid the ensuing anarchy or seeking politcal asylum.
It would be a nightmare for the US to handle.

In some parts now the way the cartels are operating it's not that much to  think that it could not happen.
In one area the residents basially had enough of being terrorized for years by the cartels picked up weapons and shoot it out
with them daily. They are loosely organized and now have assorted military style weapons.
The Federales came in and demanded they give the weapons up and go home and have shot/killed civilians in the process.

In the past few weeks the Federales have also been arresting/disarming alot of Mexican law enforcement in major cities along the border recently for collaborating with the cartels.

I think I would help them as much as I could.. Its not their fault. They just want to survive like everyone else.

I doubt we will see such a thing here though.

ETA: They patrol PINS all the time these days. But I still dont feel safe camping down there anymore without a few people with me.

Mexico legalizes vigilante groups in Michoacan

WoW. .that is a big change of policy from where they were last week. The vigilantes were fired upon by Federales.
But I did read this in the article:



This is going to be an issue with these people who for years have been terrorized by these drug cartels. They will not be disarmed and I cant blame them.

"If" it did ever happen there would be millions of people and they would descend on a town/city like locust.
They would help themselves, to whaever they needed...or whatever they wanted Mob mentallity..prevails

Millions of illegals are not going to walk over a hundred miles up the beach when they can catch a ride in the back of a pickup  traveling  Hwy 77 or 281.

Not to mention that whole. "how to get across the multiple ship channels" thing.

Plumbata, I have personally seen them doing up PINS, and given them water and something to eat...amd if the Cubans can cross 90 miles of the Gulf of Mexico, I don't think a few ship channels are going to be much of a barrier.