Posted on 04/30/2010 10:38:43 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MCALLEN - State law enforcement officials say spillover violence is happening.
The state defines spillover as anything that includes violence or crime with a cartel connection.
The Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steve McCraw says some of the violence can be measured because it goes unreported.
"From our definition it's very simple. The state of Texas defines spillover violence as Mexican cartel related violence that occurs in Texas. We include aggravated assault, extortion, kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder," says McCraw.
The federal government has a different definition for spillover violence. It defines it as violence as a deliberate or planned attack by cartels or their US counterparts.
All this information could be “misguided”.....
not like they’d actually DO anything about it except whine, might be accused of being meanies, like ARizona!
There ought to be a law against illegality in Texas.
Maybe Gov Perry will change his mind and decide that the AZ law ‘is right’ for Texas afterall. Things that make you go HMMMMMM
On another note: is anyone else experiencing problems with the ‘Activity’ Tab? I usually leave it up but when I click on it it says “your query returned no results” and the page is blank. Never had that happen before.
Do you think we could use some border security?
But Governor Rick Perry says that the Arizona immigration law “isn’t right for Texas.”
OK,then,pass one that is right for Texas.
“The state defines spillover as anything that includes violence or crime with a cartel connection. “
Not the state of California!....our cup ‘spillith over’..
Last summer, rural residents of Siskiyou Country...800 miles from the border, heard groups of ‘spanish speaking’ people walking up and down the roads in the middle of the night, patrolling. The various cartels are here fighting each other over LAND...our national forests, to grow their weed.
They’re armed. We are told not to go into the forests.
It’s here, all over the country.
Can’t do anything about it for fear of offending the border jumpers. All the people leaving AZ will be headed to TX.
Ping!
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