Posted on 12/03/2007 2:51:27 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Border Violence
Prompted by a series of attacks along the Mexico-Texas border, Mexican federal police and army troops were sent this past week to five border towns in Tamaulipas state -- Matamoros, Rio Bravo, Reynosa, Ciudad Miguel Aleman and Ciudad Mier. In one attack, on Nov. 29, a group of heavily armed men aboard several vehicles killed six men as they were walking out of a business in Rio Bravo, just across the border from Weslaco, Texas. The apparent target of the attack was former Rio Bravo mayor Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldua, who was killed along with two federal agents assigned as his bodyguards, a customs official and two other men. The assailants reportedly pulled up just as the men were leaving an afternoon meeting and began firing assault rifles and hurling grenades.
Perhaps what is most remarkable about this incident is the fact that it is so unremarkable. The cartel war in Mexico is now routinely bringing such violent incidents within just a few miles of the United States. Following the attack on the former Rio Bravo mayor, three people were killed in a shooting at a hotel in the town of Matamoros, a few miles east of Rio Bravo and just across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Among the victims was a popular local singer who occasionally sang songs about the cartels. The singer was wounded when she was shot by at least one gunman in her hotel room; a man and a woman in the same room were found dead when police arrived. Although the singer survived the initial attack, she later died when she was reportedly shot multiple times at a hospital where she was being treated.
These border incidents come in the context of an increased tempo of attacks in northeastern Mexico, especially in Monterrey,....
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Wow getting as bad as Philadelphia down there.
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Unfortunately, they have crossed over into the US with their violence. More police officers have been killed this year.....so far.....than in any year since the 1970's. They stole my son's new truck in Albuquerque and when a deputy stopped them in another city, they shot him. Fortunately, he made a full recovery, and my son got his truck back. The men who they arrested were illegals from a drug cartel/crime family in Mexico.
Illegals have NO respect for US laws!! Why should they when that sorry bunch of traitors in DC gives them a pass? They need to be tried and hanged. Ask me if they're ever going to get my guns. NOT as long as I'm still alive. This will eventually turn into urban warfare. Just like it is in Mexico, but by that time it will be too late to reverse the damage. America is going down! Thanks to the traitors in DC who reap tons of cash to benefit them and their families while they screw Americans!
Since it is so close to the border, it will cross over and these shooting wars will happen inside Texas. Hopefully if/when that happens, a bunch of people will wake up to all the problems and want something done.
“Prompted by a series of attacks along the Mexico-Texas border, Mexican federal police and army troops were sent this past week to five border towns in Tamaulipas state...”
Heh. Sending the snakes into the hen house.
Only the most rabid anti-American now can deny there is no problem with border security/illegal alienism...and we have people in this govt that wants the US to merge w Mexico
Makes me nervous when Mexico sends troops to the US border. You wonder if it really is the drug cartels they are going after...or helping
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