Coming to a city near you, killers, rapists, terrorists. The new immigrant society. (let's not forget the prayer blankets found in the desert...
On the Border, the Dead, Detained, and Disappeared
Commentary, Victor Clark-Alfaro,
Pacific News Service, Apr 20, 2004
Editor's Note: For decades one human rights observer has monitored the Mexico-U.S. border region, and finds the border body count is rising today in ways it never did before. Not only are deaths more brutal and numerous, the writer says, news of them is so habitual that border Mexicans seem unaffected by their most graphic details.
TIJUANA, Mexico--Seen from here, the number of deaths along Mexico's northern border with the United States in the last decade is entering an unusual dimension. Together with the dead, thousands of their surviving family members have become direct victims of the violence in what has become an astonishingly frightening Mexican border society. Even the way the hapless die is becoming more brutal.
---More than 411 women have been murdered and more than 500 disappeared among what is known today as "The Dead Women of Juarez," cases of mostly young, pretty women often found mutilated in the desert around Ciudad Juarez and elsewhere in the state of Chihuahua.
---More than 600 persons have been kidnapped and then disappeared, and more than 2,000 executed as a result of organized crime vendettas in northern Mexican states.
---More than 2,800 undocumented Mexican migrants have died trying to cross the U.S. border, often on the United States side.
Seen as a whole, the count of bodies is entwined with organized crime, authorities involved in crime, corruption and government impunity.
There have been many hypotheses about why so many women have died in Juarez, for instance, from the participation of police, drug traffickers, and serial killers to delinquents linked to satanic cults. What is certain is that the deaths remain unsolved and the dead continue to appear.
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http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=3e18ee3cfaba5263de5c0f5b4842af50More on Project 7
Woman with ties to militias arrested on weapons conspiracy charges
Associated Press
KALISPELL (AP) - A woman authorities say had ties to a militia group that was plotting to kill public officials in the Flathead Valley was arrested near Atlanta over the weekend on federal firearms charges, a federal agent said Monday.
Tracy Brockway, 34, was arrested without incident in Gordon County on Saturday morning, said Ken Bray, resident agent in charge of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Brockway is one of five people charged in a federal indictment with weapons conspiracy charges stemming from their alleged involvement in a group called Project 7. Bray said Brockway was expected to appear before a federal magistrate Monday and likely would be returned to Montana.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/17/build/state/75-militiaplot.inc