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4 Americans who traveled into Matamoros, Mexico, missing in possible kidnapping: FBI
Fox ^ | 2/6/2023 | Richard

Posted on 03/06/2023 5:08:10 PM PST by Phoenix8

Four Americans who drove across the U.S.-Mexico border from Texas were fired upon, held at gunpoint and possibly kidnapped, according to the FBI.

Special Agent Oliver Rich, who is in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio Division, announced Sunday that the bureau is seeking public assistance to locate four U.S. citizens who were last seen in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

They have been missing since Friday, March 3.

That day, "four Americans crossed into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. Shortly after crossing into Mexico, unidentified gunmen fired upon the passengers in the vehicle. All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men," the FBI said in a statement

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TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: crime; mexico
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What can be done to reduce this violent crime rate near the border ?

Democrat/leftist response: Open border, no immigration quotas, create more jobs in Mexico.

1 posted on 03/06/2023 5:08:10 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

Matamoros? Anyone remember that name?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Mark_Kilroy


2 posted on 03/06/2023 5:15:25 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Phoenix8

https://twitter.com/davidwolf777/status/1631812544682917888?s=46&t=AAoTMd5DftKA556DNp1idA

Looks like four bleks from NC, three don’t appear to be in the land of the living any longer.


3 posted on 03/06/2023 5:21:02 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope

Looks like they kept the woman alive.


4 posted on 03/06/2023 5:24:26 PM PST by mware ( )
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To: Beowulf9

I think I mentally blocked that out of self defense of my sanity.

But yes now I remember, the worst of the worst.


5 posted on 03/06/2023 5:25:18 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

If we had a real President, he would be giving the cartel a 24-hour ultimatum. Return our citizens alive and well, or your hideouts will be bombed into smithereens.
No reward money, just an ultimatum.


6 posted on 03/06/2023 5:40:36 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Phoenix8

Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.

Hard to be feared when you project nothing but weakness.


7 posted on 03/06/2023 5:43:18 PM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: Phoenix8

I’m going to guess these “Americans” were there to visit their entire family. Not really “Americans per-say.” but transplants with split loyalties.
Why any actual American would take their lives and put them in the hands of the cartels is beyond me.


8 posted on 03/06/2023 5:48:30 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: End Times Sentinel

I’m guessing they went there to get drugs and crossed the wrong hombres. That hairdo screams “I don’t belong here”.


9 posted on 03/06/2023 6:00:04 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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Boo hop. I will never step into an uncivilized, backwards, shite-hole country where you can’t drink the tap water.


10 posted on 03/06/2023 6:01:58 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: VTenigma

Saw a report somewhere that they were there for cosmetic surgery.


11 posted on 03/06/2023 6:02:23 PM PST by Texan
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MANY years ago I’d park in Laredo and walk across the border to buy silver jewelry and Mexican vanilla. All you had to worry about were the beggar children. Boy have things changed.


12 posted on 03/06/2023 6:05:28 PM PST by Texan
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To: Texan

Wow,a shame.


13 posted on 03/06/2023 6:20:50 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Phoenix8

America needs to kidnap four wets and use them for trading material with the Mexicans.


14 posted on 03/06/2023 6:39:33 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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A-10 Warthogs disguised as Red Chinese Spy balloons.


15 posted on 03/06/2023 6:41:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("I may be a white boy but I'm not stupid". - FJB at Black "History" event. Tell 'em Jo Jo!)
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Send Seal Team 6 in there to say Ola.


16 posted on 03/06/2023 7:49:15 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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“beggar children”

My sister is a virgin...


17 posted on 03/06/2023 7:50:11 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Texan

Sounds like they’re all dead to me. Doesn’t look good/


18 posted on 03/06/2023 7:51:10 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Phoenix8
Here's what it will take to win my vote:

1. Declare fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

2. Categorize drug cartels as terrorists, just like Isis.

Of course, the Mexican Presidente would need to be told, stay out of our way.

Would have been awesome if, on the 187th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, Governor Abbott would have made that declaration.

19 posted on 03/06/2023 7:56:42 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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I saw this on ABC News tonight. They gave the 4 names, 3 of them sounding very ghettoish. The mother of the woman involved said that she went to Mexico for “cosmetic surgery”. My guess is to have her butt made bigger.


20 posted on 03/06/2023 8:10:15 PM PST by euram (allALL)
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