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Mexican drug cartels post help-wanted ads
UPI ^ | April 4, 2008

Posted on 04/05/2008 6:46:45 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

EL PASO, Texas - Mexican Consulate officials in El Paso, Texas, said Mexican drug cartels have been posting help-wanted ads in Juarez, Mexico, newspapers.

The officials said publications including P.M., El Diario de Juarez and El Norte have been printing vague help-wanted ads that are designed to trick young people into smuggling drugs over the border into the United States, the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News reported Friday.

Mexican Consulate spokeswoman Socorro Cordova said the issue came to the attention of officials nine months ago when the family of a driver stopped at the U.S. border showed the ad to Mexican officials.

A Juarez woman who identified herself as Martha said her daughter was duped by one of the ads into accepting a job with a junkyard company that required her to drive twice a week to El Paso. Martha said her daughter was met at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.

"It was like they sent them a fax or something," she said. "Officers came out of everywhere and they let the other cars pass. This is what they are doing. They are tricking kids."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: corruption; drugcartel; drugcartels; eldiariodejuarez; elnorte; elpaso; juarez; mexico; pm; texas; wod

1 posted on 04/05/2008 6:46:45 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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To: Ultimatum; Sterco; expatguy; Paige; Tennessee_Bob; cspackler; ECM; STOCKHRSE; ...

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.


2 posted on 04/05/2008 6:47:33 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (US Constitution Article 4 Section 4..shall protect each of them against Invasion...domestic Violence)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Diverting resources with bait fish.......money crop is elsewhere !


3 posted on 04/05/2008 6:52:52 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.©)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Been looking for a career change … might check this out. /s


4 posted on 04/05/2008 7:09:34 PM PDT by doc1019 (God is in control ... not Global Warming.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

If I had a toy and a car...


5 posted on 04/05/2008 7:27:35 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Clever diversionary tactic; tie up the cops and then drive right on by with the real junk.


6 posted on 04/05/2008 7:34:09 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Mexican drug cartels have been posting help-wanted ads in Juarez, Mexico, newspapers.

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"Sit down jefe, relax. This is a chort interview. We won't keep you long. Did you bring your resume?"

7 posted on 04/05/2008 7:36:32 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: wastedyears

This is the same old method of crossing the bridge with small amounts and stashing them in a “safehouse” until they get a tractor trailer load to run the inland checkpoints.
These people knew exactly what they were doing.

The good part: Things must be getting tight on the border.

The bad part: NAFTA and the SUPER CORRIDOR will do away with this minor inconvenience.


8 posted on 04/05/2008 8:12:40 PM PDT by joe__8_pack
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To: SwinneySwitch
Al Quiada is duping kids too. Recruiting American citizens who have travel docs and “want to help CHANGE the world”.

Who says there isn't a world wide terrorist association?

9 posted on 04/06/2008 11:10:18 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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