Leave it up to the American government to demand a private business put valuable personnel in harm's way...
Union Pacific is failing in its responsibility to stop Mexican drug cartels from hiding narcotics on U.S-bound trains, according to a Justice Department lawsuit that railroad officials say places unrealistic demands on their business.
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“Union Pacific cannot send its personnel into Mexico to locate drugs, because they would not be allowed to carry arms or use K-9 teams, would have no legal authority and would be forced to turn over drugs to unreliable authorities in Mexico. Union Pacific employees would be subject to arrest in Mexico and would be unarmed in the face of vicious drug gangs,” said Donna Kush, spokeswoman for the Omaha, Neb.-based railroad.
One could also say it's more fallout from the Mexican government's refusal to police its own government. After all, whose fault is it the authorities are unreliable there? Either way this is just disgusting. It's bad enough that the feds are trying to infringe on the rights of the American people because Mexico doesn't take care of its business, but now this? What do they expect Union Pacific's people to do when they find those drugs? Or when one of those drug traffickers sticks a fully automatic weapon (courtesy of the Mexican military) in one of their inspectors' faces? Honestly, I'd think Union Pacific was doing everything they could to stop the traffickers from putting drugs on those trains; but at any rate, if the feds are going to demand more of Union Pacific here, they ought to be decent enough to put federal agents on those trains or at the border to inspect them. I guess Obama and his team think that money was better-spent buying votes.
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