Claim: Photographs show a cache of weapons confiscated from a site on the Arizona border.
Example:[Collected via e-mail, August 2010]
Just received an e-mail reporting that a huge arsenal was just located on the Arizona border along with many grenades, rocket launchers, hand guns, large SUVs full of weapons etc.
This seizure was five days ago. Located on the Arizona border!
Exactly where did you hear about it in OUR media ????? Thank God for the border patrol that this did not come over the border. There is one "graphic picture" but it tells the story Let's quit trying to decide who is violating our federal laws "to make a better life" — and ENFORCE the laws across the board on EVERYONE violating them - Nothing discriminatory about that amigos !!!!!!!
Origins: As indicated by the Spanish-language captions on some of these photos (and confirmed in a television news report and an article by the Mexican news agency Acencia Reforma), the pictures displayed above document a weapons cache which included more than 130 rifles, grenades, grenade launchers, machine guns, rocket launchers, and hundreds of cartridges (as well as a dozen trucks containing "military and police accessories") that was seized by the Mexican army in May 2010 during a raid on a makeshift camp used by a drug-smuggling crime ring in Higueras.
As a correspondent from Monterrey, Mexico told us in reference to these images:
Higueras is a small town in Nuevo Leon, about 400 miles from Monterrey. As you all know there is a drug war going on between the two main cartels, with them fighting each other and the Mexican Army fighting both of them. The Higueras raid was one of the biggest seizures of firearms in recent years, including about 50,000 usable assault rifle cartridges and around 500 rifles, mostly AR-15s and AK-47s, as well as grenade launchers, hand grenades, uniforms, emblems, and four stolen trucks.
The war is bloody and heavy. The cartels don't have more than 1,000 guys, 2000 at the very most, but as they are armed LIKE THIS. It is a war that will cost many lives, but Mexican authorities don't want to admit this is a guerrilla-style war, and history has taught us how much it takes to bring down an enemy that hits hard and hides.
Despite what is stated in the text that accompanies these photographs, the pictured weapons were not seized anywhere near the Arizona border. The raid took place in Higueras, which is in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León, and that state has no border in common with Arizona. Nuevo León is completely within the country of Mexico save for a 9-mile strip along its northern border adjacent to Texas, and Higueras is well south of that border, which puts the site of the raid several hundred miles southeast of the Arizona-Mexico border.
