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| 2010-04-01 |
| ..Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Tuesday. While local law enforcement officials and the federal government argue that no significant incidents of "spillover violence" -- a term they say should include "deliberate, planned attacks by the cartels" -- have occurred thus far in Texas, McCraw disagreed. One of the fiercest battles between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas took place in the city of Mante Mexico on Sunday morning. A Tamaulipas rancher who has property in Mante confirmed that SUV's with loudspeakers warned the public to stay indoors just before the battle and said he counted more than 30 bodies lying on the street and at least six charred SUV's with bullet holes and bodies inside. "I can't believe this is happening here," he said. "I don't have the luxury of moving. I have all of my assets here. I sent my wife and kids with my suegros but I have to keep working my land." It could not be confirmed with Mexican officials if any of the inmates Who escaped from the Matamoros prison last Thursday took part in any of the weekend firefights or if they rejoined with either of the two sides in the struggle. 50 former prison employees are now themselves incarcerated for aiding in escapes. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday ordered National Guard soldiers to patrol the state's border with Mexico after the killing of a rancher in Arizona. Soldiers will be assisting the U.S. Border Patrol by setting up surveillance in counter-drug efforts in the desert along the border, said a spokesman for the state's National Guard. What appeared to be a Mexican military helicopter was spotted hovering over U.S. territory Sunday afternoon, said Zapata County TX Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez. The incident -- at least the second reported this month -- occurred Sunday afternoon over RV parks on the southwest outskirts of Zapata, a small town about 100 miles northwest of McAllen near the Rio Grande, the sheriff said. Tuesday dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #10 There are over 106,000,000 people in Mexico. By Cook County rules, that would account for about 250,000,000 new Democrat voters. |
| Posted by: rwv 2010-04-01 23:27 |
| #9 No more mexification of the US Agreed. A thousand percent. Mexico is a thorn in our side if you please. |
| Posted by: Richelieu 2010-04-01 20:50 |
| #8 Couldn't be much worse than what's brewing now. Oh yes it could. When W. Germany unified with the basket-case economy of E. Germany, it took on an economic albatross that dragged it into a decade-long stagnation. Mexico's a _lot_ poorer than E. Germany, and its oil reserves aren't that huge. In any case, the oil is monopolized by a corrupt, extremely inefficient corporatist structure comprising politicians, a massive union, and an entire panoply of social welfare organizations that taken together is a state unto itself. Try unwinding THAT statist monster. Better to take a chapter from Jack Pershing, and halt low-end unskilled immigration, period. No more mexification of the US. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-04-01 20:43 |
| #7 Well we are just about done in Iraq and Mexico does have oil.... Logistics would be simpler, as well as the cultural issues. Since one poll showed 60% of Mexicans wanted to move to the US perhaps we should just move the border. Call it a territory for a couple of decades until the place is fixed up and rule of law starts to set in. Then let them decide if they want independence or if they'll take on English as a language. Couldn't be much worse than what's brewing now. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-04-01 19:51 |
| #6 Very well, TR. But it couldn't hurt. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-04-01 15:14 |
| #5 Seceding isn't necessary. When the federal government doesn't handle a responsibility in a manner satisfactory to the state most impacted, the state should simply step up to the plate. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-04-01 14:35 |
| #4 That border falls under specific responsibility of the federal government. They are so busy playing nanny asshat meddelers to do their specified tasks. The US federal government must handle this with serious manner or the states there should look at sceeding. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-04-01 13:10 |
| #3 There needs to be some kind of coalition of citizens from California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona that patrol the border and assist federal and state law enforcement that are assigned to the border. They can call it, I don't know, the Minutemen or something like that. The people would surely support a group of average Americans that help keep out as many criminals coming over the border from Mexico as they can (sarcasm). Either way, D.C. doesn't give two shits about the Western United States. It will have to be a self-starter kind of mission. (was in Downtown L.A. museums yesterday... for every Mexican adult there was a quintuplet of children following with at least two of them in strollers). Seriously, it's getting really old already. |
| Posted by: Jack Thrinetle4718 2010-04-01 11:58 |
| #2 The states will have to do what the federal government won't. Mexico is a failed drug state. Time to treat it as such. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-04-01 10:10 |
| #1 Time to institute Pershing's measures again. Its a shame we don't have a President who has the security of the nation in mind. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-04-01 08:41 |