Chertoff-the-Barbarian: “Bring these fine criminals into America, now.
Watch as we will give each of them: full Amnesty and the vote."
Posted on 11/23/2007 9:37:57 AM PST by AuntB
Time to start vacationing in Baghdad. It seems to be safer than most parts of Mexico.
Chertoff-the-Barbarian: “Bring these fine criminals into America, now.
Watch as we will give each of them: full Amnesty and the vote."
This is going to continue - and become much much worse. Americans have no business in Mexico.....except perhaps for the Marines ;’}
I quit going to Mexico years ago. Too much risk and the odds aren’t worth risking yourself or loved ones.
These are smart people. They realize that the assailants probably were the police. No sense being victimized twice. Cut your losses, don't go back there.
We were robbed at gunpoint on the beach at San Blas nearly 35 years ago - by the cops - with soldiers backing up the robbers from a few yards away, holding Thompson submachine guns. Haven’t been back.
I have an engineer friend who has a heart of gold. He refurbished about 15 computers and made arrangements with a church in Baja California to donate the computers for a computer lab for the underprivileged. He and a friend loaded the computers in his friend's van and headed south.
They got as far as the border. At the custom's check, they told the Mex. govt. agents what they were going to do. The Mexican authorities confiscated the computers and the friend's van, kept them a couple of hours then let them go, without computers or van.
I would not be too surprised if the Mexican police and criminals in these robery cases are one and the same.
he was lucky!
Right you are. Mexico is only second to Iraq for beheadings. And I believe it passed Iraq last year in killings of journalists. About 50 Americans were kidnapped last year in Mexico, that we know of.
Last year 2 young USA women were kidnapped in Nuevo Loredo. The Mexican authorities kept saying they were 'working on it'. Later one of the fathers went to the police station and found his daughter's car in the impound yard.
I traveled through Mexico in 1976 on our way to El Salvador. All I heard from locals in the towns was to be careful of banditos. They warned NOT to stop for anyone in the country side. Many road side robberies and murders .
It sounds like nothing has changed.
These attacks seem to be the equivalent of a Mexican hissy fit...we’re not going to put up with illegal immigrants...well then this is what we’ll have to deal with South of the Border.
When liberals want to use "anecdotal incidents" they make them into Hollywood movies.("Redacted")
I went south of TJ ... once.
1. BUILD THE FREAKIN’ WALL!
2. Stop ALL tourist travel to Mexico.
3. Withhold payment of foreign aid dollars or oil purchase payments to compensate victims.
Liberals use broad definitions to condemn conservatives, we should not stoop to that level.
We were treated much better entering Mexico through Guadalajara than we were treated coming back through Atlanta. The most dangerous part of our trip was driving in the mountains trying to keep up with others. Speed limits there were actually low limits (I think).
We are going back permanently next year. Great climate, low prices and some of the friendliest people we have met. The Mexicans in Mexico are not the Wal-Mart variety we see up here.
Point taken, but the only way to stop it is with ACTION, preferably that which stings the Mexican elites who look the other way from the atrocities.
While I agree generally with what you say, you shouldn’t be surprised if kidnapping and such also come to Chapala soon. Mexico was once as you describe everywhere. Fairly safe. The war on drugs has changed all that, It has made organized crime the most powerful force in the country, and it is just a matter of time before the gangsters discover how profitable it can be to kidnap expats. I have been to Lake Chapala, San Miguel de Allende, Curenavaca and a few other favorites of expats. Sad to say, but the good old days may be over for these areas.
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