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.
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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