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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 06:29 PM
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“US, Mexico work together to fight drug cartels”
Source: Houston Chronicle, Texas

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met privately for several hours with Medina-Mora, Interior Minister Fernando Gomez-Mont and Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna.

The officials hammered out an agreement that might be signed when U.S. President Barack Obama visits Mexican President Felipe Calderon later this month.

Holder said the U.S. is not seeking to change any of its gun laws as part of the effort to curb weapons smuggling.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6356341.html



Earlier Holder and HRC said Obama wanted to renew the Assault Weapons Ban

Apparently Obama got the message when two Dem senators and 65 Dem congresspersons wrote Holder and told him they opposed renewing the AWB.
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