Mexican Drug War Drives 3,000 Families Into U.S.
(Glenn Beck)
I give the horrific crimes that are going on at our own border and inside Mexico “moral equivalency” to the evil Islamic jihad that we are dealing with. Both are equally evil.
MEXICO CITY — Mounting drug-related violence and 800 murders so far this year have driven some 3,000 families from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into the United States, a border expert said Friday.
Officials reported 10 new deaths in the Mexican border city Friday, and five others elsewhere in Chihuahua state.
Most of the families seeking safety across the border were middle-class, said Antonio Payan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in El Paso, the US city adjacent to Juarez.
The mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Jose Reyes Ferriz, said he “knew that some families had left to live in El Paso out of fear of the city’s violence,” but said that he had no figures.
Ciudad Juarez is the battleground in the power struggle between the Sinaloa and the Juarez drug cartels.
In escalating violence, the city of some 1.5 million has registered some 800 homicides so far this year.
Experts said the figure was triple that of the whole of last year.
Bank and car robberies, extortion, kidnappings and protection rackets were also on the increase in Juarez, according to the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego.
An increase in kidnappings in the business community was another reason for the relocations, with at least 38 reported this year.
Most of those who left and moved to the United States had dual nationality or children born there, Payan said.
Violence throughout Chihuahua state left 15 dead Friday, officials said.
Ten people died overnight in separate incidents in Ciudad Juarez, local police said, and an armed commando attacked and killed four males, including three youths, on a basketball court in the town of Casas Grandes.
One man died of bullet wounds in a hospital in a nearby municipality, police said.
Federal authorities have deployed more than 36,000 soldiers across the country, including 2,500 in Ciudad Juarez, in an effort to combat drug trafficking and related violence, but some 2,000 people have been killed in Mexico so far this year.
(AFP)
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So were these people attempting to escape a little at a time?
August 16th, 2008 at 7:20 pmThe first thing that came to mind was Hockey
August 16th, 2008 at 7:33 pmThose are cops’ heads …
August 16th, 2008 at 8:13 pmTHAT’S FUCKED UP!!!
Time to start putting bounties on the heads of the fuckers doing this shit!
August 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pmCan we please shut down the borders NOW, Governor Schwarzeninny?
August 16th, 2008 at 11:52 pmFor those of us that live down here near them this is almost a daily event. Though we haven’t seen any beheadings in phoenix yet we do see drug cartel executions (bodies with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the back of the head) quite a bit, there has been instances of up to 7 people found this way all together.
And it’s not just rival drug mobsters that are found this way but also innocent civilians that must have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s why neither my wife or I travel unarmed anymore around our city because you just never know whats going to happen next, but for the most part once they see that were both armed they just chose to leave us be.
I’m sure that here soon this is all going to erupt into crappy little street war right here in good old USA.
August 17th, 2008 at 4:08 am