Posted on 03/14/2010 8:31:57 PM PDT by Nachum
LA UNIÓN, Mexico — Gunmen believed to be linked to drug traffickers shot a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband to death in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, leaving their baby wailing in the back seat of their car, the authorities said Sunday. The gunmen also killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children.
The shootings took place minutes apart and appeared to be the first deadly attacks on American officials and their families by Mexico’s powerful drug organizations, provoking an angry reaction from the White House. They came during a particularly bloody weekend when nearly 50 people were killed nationwide in drug-gang violence, including attacks in Acapulco as American college students began arriving for spring break.
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Ping
“See how long the cartels can last with no illegals going out, no tourists coming in, and no money or drugs moving through the border checkpoints”
Nothing short of this will end the mess we’ve allowed to take hold because of Mexico. It didn’t have to come to this.
Mexico is none of our business except to keep it on THEIR side of the border.
It just seems like sheer bloody slaughter for its own sake. Any particular reason why this couple was targeted or were they just going for any handy consular employee?
“It just seems like sheer bloody slaughter for its own sake. Any particular reason why this couple was targeted or were they just going for any handy consular employee?”
They were targeted and their movements known. Information like that likely came through the consulate, or their home, perhaps ‘domestic’ help. Don’t think consular employees can’t be bought off, too. The cartels are recruiting from all our government ranks.
Ex-federal official facing immigration charges
[snip]“In the past two years, there have been 400 public corruption cases involving federal, state and local law enforcement agents originating from the Southwest border region, Kevin Perkins, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations, told the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on preparedness.
James Tomsheck, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner, told the panel the drug cartels operating in Mexico are making a concerted effort to infiltrate CBP, and the agency is responding with more screening of job applicants with polygraph tests and background investigations. Corruption cases were opened last year on 576 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents.”
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If the USA still had all its marbles, this would be interpreted as an act of war. Not even the Medellin cartel dared to screw around with US diplomatic personnel, and if I were president, I would be giving the Mexican govt. a choice — they deal with the problem, permanently, or I send a few SEALS to get wet with these savages. Unfortunately, Obama is too busy pushing his “health care reform” to be bothered.
The descent of Mexico into a failed narco state marked by increased violence and brutality, which has already spilled over into the U.S., has enormous implications for immigration, legal and illegal. With over 11 million Mexican-born residents in the U.S. plus their U.S- born relatives, there are strong familial ties to Mexico, which would attract Mexicans fleeing a disintegrating state seeking asylum and safety in the U.S. And the pressure on our porous, unsecured southern border would increase dramatically.
Currently, the Border Patrol apprehends more than half a million people annually trying to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico and hundreds of thousands more illegal aliens are successful in gaining entry. There is no way the U.S. could stop a tidal wave of Mexicans seeking asylum in this country and it would be even more difficult to remove them.
There has been a confluence of interests between drugs, illegal immigration, and terrorism. The systems for moving terrorists illegally across the border have become increasingly sophisticated, with Mexican drug kingpins now playing a major facilitating role using the same routes and methods to bring in illegal aliens and drugs. In view of the carnage that the 19 terrorists created on 9/11, the virtual certainty that our government has allowed substantial numbers of terrorists and their supporters to enter our country illegally is an outrage.
These people were killed because and only because they are Americans. Whether anyone at the WHite House or State Dept wants to acknowledge it, in these murders, the US was attacked. The US must respond.
(what parents in their right mind would allow their child to go to Mexico on Spring Break?)
War was declared on the US; the SOB's can't be ignored any longer. imo
Too bad Obama hates America.
So, did Clinton call on “both sides” to exercise restraint?
It's hard to imagine any reason other than lucrative corruption opportunities, why any remotely sane person would sign up for these jobs. They get paid like ordinary civil servants, are in extreme danger most of the time, and aren't allowed to do what really needs to be done to fix the problem.
I would not be a bit surprised to see this spill over on our soil and very soon. If you have a college teenager that is planning a Mexico trip for spring break, please urge them to go somewhere else. I cannot tell you how dangerous it could be for those who decide to go.
This afternoon there was at least a three hour wait just to go though a US Border Patrol check point. They are usually located about 10 miles from the nearest border city. On Sunday the folks that work in the US during the week go back to where their job is located. Friday nights and holidays they head back home to Mexico. What a mess.
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