I just checked with the wife. They usually come across at Brownsville. I am not thinking tht it is any better there. Am I right?
I don’t know about Brownsville but it seems that there’s violence all along the border. Neuvo Laredo seems to be the major hotspot for it though.
Mexico Security Memo: Dec. 3, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934159/posts
Stratfor ^ | December 03, 2007
Posted on 12/03/2007 4:51:27 PM CST 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,....