Posted on 03/29/2010 11:41:23 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) - When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic. And when three tough-looking Mexican men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans.
Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700, about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, epicenter of that country's bloody drug war. Mexican families fleeing the violence have moved here or just sent their children, and authorities and residents say gangsters have followed them across the Rio Grande to apply terrifying, though so far subtle, intimidation.
The message: We know where you are.
At schools in Fort Hancock and nearby Texas towns, new security measures and counseling for young children of murdered parents have become a troubling part of the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
I wouldn’t complain if the Sheriff gathered a posse to make these characters’ first vists their last visits.
It's virtually impossible to find a "Mexican drug war on American soil" story anywhere on the nightly news, or on the front page of America's major newspapers.
Take ABCNews.com for example. There is not a single story on the rash of Mexican-drug violence near the border, although there are dozens to choose from. But, ABCNews has space (and time) devoted to Jennifer Aniston and her former "Friends" co-stars - a show that went off the air almost 6 years ago.
Bienvenidos a Amexica.
What if hundreds of thousands of patriots badgered the alphabet news agencies to show stories like this (also badgering their sponsors)?
More like malvenidos.
Si senor, es la pura verdad.
They would hit the delete button thousands of times.
It’s simple economics. Like it or not, viewers will flock to the latest story on Brad and Angie or Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, but the viewers don’t really give a damn about the situation in Mexico.
I honestly don't believe it would make any difference whatsoever. When ABC hired Amanpour to replace Stephenopolous, it said - at least to me - that they don't care about profits, ratings or the interests of their viewers. They're just concerned about peddling a political narrative.
Why hasn’t our Army been called it to take care of this?
All of this would go away if drugs were legal.../s
Question:
Could Soros and the Leftwing nuts trying to take over our government be fomenting violence in Mexico so they will flee to the US and be granted amnesty?
Our federal government is complicit in this, their “war on drugs” is a farce. They have too much power and money to lose if drug running is ever severly curtailed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they oppose a border fence as much as they do more for the ability to get drugs across the border than for illegal migration. I honestly believe they would rather condemn millions of our country’s citizens to drug addiction, the legal system and incarceration than ending drug use. I utterly despise them.
“What if hundreds of thousands of patriots badgered the alphabet news agencies to show stories like this (also badgering their sponsors)?”
That’s what I’ve been doing all morning.
First, obviously these people’s family are involved in the drug trade or thugs wouldn’t be trying to kill them.
Second, Bush prosecuted two border patrol agents for trying to kill one of these bastards.
Third, Rick Perry wants a super highway from the border through Texas so they’ll have a better drug route.
If we’d close the borders the kids wouldn’t be in our schools and the thugs wouldn’t be going to basketball games.
The army isn’t supposed to be used against citizens. That’s the way it used to be anyway.
Maybe the thugs going to the basketball game thought their friends Obama and Graham and McCain were playing a game of “horse”.
We should have had a divorce and a fence for Mexico years ago. But GWBush loved the place to death. His extendened family loved their Mexican slaves their gardeners, cleaners, cooks, housekeepers and nannies. I’ll bet the entire clan adores Mexican food. If we had serious border enforcement the narcotics traffic would have been 10% of what it is today and the drug dealers would not be so rich and influential today.
Our lack of enforcement made Mexico into today’s narco-state
You people just know know the half of it. Talk to my aunt and uncle in Laredo, Texas. Their story of illegal aliens (YES. ILLEGAL ALIENS. They are not ‘immigrants’. They are not ‘guest workers’) will make your blood boil
They’ll tell you about having their home and outside buildings broken into by illegal aliens.
They’ll tell you about having guard dogs and livestock killed by illegal aliens.
They’ll tell you about being afraid every time their teenaged daughters leave the house. (will they be kidnapped and sold as sex slaves to a drug cartel?)
They’ll tell you about being reprimanded by the local sheriff about firing back at an illegal alien caught stealing on their property.
They’ll tell you about a neighbor rancher who found a rotting corpse left behind on his property by an illegal pack leader.
They’ll tell you about cut fences and vandalism
They’ll tell you about the trail of filth they have to clean up weekly on their property- bottles, cans, clothes, paper, dirty diapers and human excretement.
It’s enough to make your blood boil. These are decent, hardworking people who have owned this ranch for generation- and they are considering selling out and moving for their own safety. The law won’t do sh*t about it.
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