As if there isn’t enough urgency to confront the horrific crime problem along the Mexican border, this week undercover law enforcement officials uncovered a ring of warlords….making duplicates of U.S. Marine uniforms.

“Mexican marines say they have found a clandestine workshop in northern Mexico where presumed drug traffickers made copies of military uniforms.

Watch the story from local TV affiliate Channel 5 in Rio Grande, Texas:

http://www.krgv.com/news/mexico-finds-cartels-making-fake-military-uniforms/

The navy says hundreds of camouflage pants, shirts and vests were found at the workshop in the northern border city of Piedras Negras., across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.

The uniforms are part of an effort by criminal gangs to damage the reputation of the marine corps, the navy said Thursday.

Drug gangs in Mexico have also used fake military uniforms to set up road blocks and carry out kidnappings.

Marines acting on an anonymous tip also found sewing machines and other supplies when they raided the workshop Monday.

In related raids, marines found drugs, guns and money at other locations in Piedras Negras.”

Also discovered this week?  A phony UPS van smuggling in immigrants at the California/Mexico border.

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, May 26, 2012