Posted on 02/11/2009 2:04:46 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.
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Senate dropped E-Verify from stimulus bill The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass looked deep into the stimulus bill and found something not too many others have noticed: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-11-feb11,0,657719.column Snip: With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama’s near trillion-dollar spending bill, it’s what is being cut out that’s receiving too little attention. And once Americans realize it, they won’t be happy. What’s been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants. Democrats in the House voted for the E-Verify component. But when the great porkulus package reached the Senate, Democrats there dropped it. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) wanted E-Verify in the stimulus bill, which led him to comment, “It’s another example of why people distrust Congress.” Via: http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/senate-dropped-e-verify-from-stimulus.html BTW, Obama’s friend Luis Gutierrez D-Chicago has been pushing amnesty again under the radar. Hispanic Congressional Caucus Starts Petition Urging Obama to Enact Amnesty Obama’s getting on his buds to destoy this country by throwing every socialist plan over, under, through the radar to destroy this country. All this has been planned by someone holding his strings for a long time. http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=43038
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Seems to me that building the fence and enforcing immigration laws would solve both terrorist concerns and kidnappings, as well as violence, drug trafficing, arms trafficing, etc.
Build the fence!!
kidnapping ransoms are probably in the porkulus bill ,too.
I wonder how they will do in Washington, DC.
Maybe we can pay them to take a few RINOS and Dems South for a prolonged visit. The Dems won't let us fight 'em, so we will have to join 'em.
Put that money in Porkulus.
This is a little strange because I live in the Phoenix area and haven’t heard a word about this. I think I’ve heard of a case or two where a Hispanic child was kidnapped, but 370? Nope.
Refusing to secure the border is just more of that Economic Anti-Americanism....too many support illegal alien amnesty, NAFTA, and have MexicoPhilia to secure the border and prevent this stuff from happening
The number is deceptive, because of the way drop houses work.
Illegals pay half up front to be taken across the border to Phoenix, where they stay in a drop house until someone comes up with the other half of the money. While they are under armed guard, 25-30 people may technically be “kidnapped”.
The coyotes who take them across and hold them are a vicious lot, and face severe penalties if caught. So often they will keep demanding more money to release some of the illegals as well.
Every now and then, one of the illegals gets away, and tells the police, who bust the drop house. Bingo. 25-30 “kidnapping” charges against the coyotes.
Sanctuary city. Illegals rule.
I agree. I live in Bullhead City, but our local news is out of Phoenix and I think we would have noticed this number...
A drop house with 30 illegals can be counted as 30 kidnappings, when they are held against their will until their payments are made.
CBS just did another spot on Mexico tonight. Bloody bodies and all.
It’s getting hard to ignore isn’t it?
“Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone.”
370 kidnappings in Phoenix alone....that’s more than I’d heard before. Next only to Mexico City. More beheadings and journalists killed than in Iraq. Well, HELLO, third world!
We knew it was coming, but it’s coming sooner than we thought, isn’t it?
” Seems to me that building the fence and enforcing immigration laws would solve both terrorist concerns and kidnappings, as well as violence, drug trafficing, arms trafficing, etc.
Build the fence!! “
No, no, we don’t have the money for that! That’s what the libs kept saying to stall it.
Mexican annexation of SW USA bump for later.........
It's going viral here in Texas.
“Retiring CIA chief Michael Hayden said last week that Mexico’s drug violence was possibly a greater problem than Iraq for President-elect Barack Obama. The U.S. Justice Department also says Mexican gangs are one of the biggest threats to the United States.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN19371958
More than 200 Americans killed in Mexico since ‘04
© 2009 The Associated Press
Feb. 8, 2009, 11:33AM http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6252764.html
HOUSTON — More than 200 American citizens have been killed since 2004 in Mexico’s escalating wave of violence, amounting to the highest number of unnatural deaths in any foreign country outside military combat zones, according to the U.S. State Department.
The deaths included a 22-year-old Houston man and his 16-year-old friend who were hauled out of a minivan and shot execution style. They also included a 65-year-old nurse from Brownsville found floating in the Rio Grande after visiting a Mexican beauty salon and a retiree stabbed to death while camping on a Baja beach, reported the Houston Chronicle in a story published Sunday, which examined hundreds of records related to the deaths.
Only about 20 percent of homicides in Mexico result in arrests, the Chronicle found in its analysis of data from the Citizens’ Safety Institute. The Mexico City-based nonprofit surveys prosecutors across Mexico.
Records from the prosecutor in Baja California Norte, home to Tijuana, show none of the cases from 2004 to 2006 have been closed. More than 90 Americans have been killed in the state south of San Diego since 2003.
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