The Mariachi!
Posted on 08/18/2008 6:36:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A massacre at a drug rehab center last week helped push the number of homicides in the Mexican border city of Juarez to more than 800 this year as rival drug gangs battle for turf.
On Wednesday a commando-style group fired a barrage of more than 60 rounds during a religious service at the drug rehab center, killing eight and wounding five. Five other people were killed elsewhere in the city on that day.
More than 100 people have been killed so far in August in the war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels, which broke out in January, the El Paso Times reports.
The homicide rate in Juarez, a city of nearly 2 million that is just across the border from El Paso, Tex., now stands at about 3.5 murders a day.
“If you wanted to see what terrorism is like, you are looking at it full-fledged over there,” El Paso police Chief Greg Allen told The Times.
“People are getting killed in broad daylight in front of everyone.”
Allen said the threat of drug violence spilling across the border into El Paso is slight. The city has had 12 homicides this year.
But the U.S. government is bringing Mexican casualties from the conflict to hospitals north of the border and paying for medical treatment. El Paso’s Thomason Hospital has treated 28 victims of the Mexican drug war this year, at a cost to taxpayers of about $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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No wonder so many Mexicans are trying to leave that cesspool. Can the U.S. do anything to stop the violence? Can anyone?
I’m looking at Juarez through my hotel window. No way am I going near that town while I’m out here.
It’ll stop when one of the drug cartels wins. Not until then.
800 murders and it’s only August...who’s the mayor of Juarez, David Dinkins?
Ending the War on Drugs by both the Feds and the states would deprive the gangs of income from our massive drug market.
The Mariachi!
The Mexican Government is one of the drug gangs. The border war is happening, in part, to cover the Mexican Government’s involvement.
Isn’t murdering these people against the Geneva Convention or “unconstitutional” or something?
Prohibition has always had a lot of violence associated with it.
The Mexican government is certainly corrupt. The recent problems in Juarez, though, are because of fighting between two separate drug cartels. The government is a third element.
No, you're thinking of putting panties on the head or lengthy questioning methods. Murder is A-OK by Geneva.
I believe the MexGov could easily end the drug war. Closing the border would be a great first step. Their failure to intervene in a positive way makes them complicit. I also think that the MexGov military presence makes it very easy to seize drugs and/or money from the other parties. Not to mention the ease with which they can operate within the USA should that be necessary.
All very good points.
Seems like every time the Mexicans get somebody decent in government or law enforcement they end up dead.
Why in the world would drug cartels observe the niceties of armed conflict? Not to mention they're non-uniformed combatants (except for the Mexican army, where applicable), so the Geneva conventions don't apply.
Its urban warfare.
They should set up a cordon at night, evacuate the neighborhoods where these posses hang out, and go in and irradicate them.
But of course, that is not politically correct.
BTW, look for the same in a City near you in America. It won't be long either, with illegal aliens coming in and bringing their posses with them. It will only be a few years before places like El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, will suffer the same dynamic.
Thank goodness the Border Patrol and Minutemen are slowing them down. But they can't keep them out with their present numbers and restricted authority.
Juarez is a staging ground for their US entry.
That is one reason it is important turf and why they are fighting over it.
I forgot to add, "sarc/off." Sorry.
Since January, more than 1,300 people have been killed in execution-style hits or gunned down in fire fights, which often rage for hours in broad daylight and turn residential neighbourhoods into war zones. If the trend continues, 2008 will top last year's toll of 2,500 deaths in drug-related killings.You don't hear so much about Americans at the Border. Too bad.
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says Think about it. A man or woman killed in Iraq or Iran in the line of duty is a hero. But what is an American killed at home by an illegal alien because the government has failed in its sworn duty to guard the borders. This is a pact between the sovereign and the person has paid taxes and loyalty. The answer is to that question is pretty awful. And it bodes ill for the republic.
But is it true?
Yes, according Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.When you start digging into the numbers the only ones that can be sourced with the feds are the number of American murdered in 2005: 16692
I have seen federal numbers for illegals held in jail ranging from 19.3% to 27% of the federal prison population.
Here's a sampling of USA cities wanted for murder. What you'll see is that in big USA cities like LA or NYC most of the murderers are Hispanic. Unknown are the % of illegals. In smaller cities the FBI will post the nationalities of the murderers. About 25% of the most wanted are illegals wanted for murder. This number agrees with the percentage of illegals incarcerated in federal prisons. +-25%Pictures of top 10 most wanted in LA. Up until recent stories about crime in LA posted by the LA Times--the pictures included the nationality of the murderers. They were all foreign nationals and mostly Mexican.
Wanted for Murder in New York City.
Chicago wanted for Murder
Philadelphia wanted for murder
San Francisco wanted for Murder
New Orleans wanted for Murder
Pictures of suspects wanted for murder in Washington DC
FBI USA 10 most wanted. (two of 10 are Mexican nationals) Around 40% of the FBI's wanted for murder are Mexican Nationals
There are currently no exact numbers on the number of Americans killed by illegals. Part of the reason is that the government deliberately obscures the number. I talked on the phone with the head of statistics for the US Bureau of Prisons. He said his office wasn't allowed to publish the number of illegal alien murderers. Rather they were forced to put legal and non legal residents in the same category. He said further that most of illegals in the federal prisons were in for drug related charges. Most of the illegals in jail for murder were in the state prisons. I talked to ICE. They put out detailed numbers on illegal child molestors. However, they put out nothing on illegal murderers.
Part of the reason for the silence on the matter is that there is evidence to suggest that most Americans--but by no means all -- being killed by illegals are black--as is the suggestion in this LA Times Article. Also this article from the LA Times. And here. This makes intuitive sense. We see stories regularly of drug gang killings in Mexico but we don't see those same stories in the USA. The reason we don't see those stories is not because its not happening. Rather we don't see the stories about illegals killing blacks because that kind of story is terribly politically incorrect. The populations being displaced in downtown sanctuary cities especially are American blacks. That means that their criminal elements would be pushed aside by Mexican gangs as well. That's also the story that the wanted for murder posters in all the major cities seems to suggest.
Why isn't there an outcry in the black community? Beats me.
Nevertheless, the pattern of non reporting is starting to break. Discovery Channel has a series called Gangland that mentions ethnic cleasing of blacks by Mexican gangs. One woman in San Francisco who had her family killed by an illegal is even demanding the city to drop its sanctuary city status.
Reported Foreign Nationals on Death Row in the U.S.
To look at other USA cities go here http://stlouis.fbi.gov/ and replace stlouis with the city you want.
All that said the true number of criminal aliens is far higher than is revealed by criminal aliens in prisons. Most are simply waived through the courts.DHS Secretary Chertoff, has been quoted as warning that two million people in this country illegally have committed serious crimes. If you check the links you'll notice that its McCain who cites Chertoff. See also here and here Here is more info from Judicial Watch.
However the number of illegals on death row is far lower. Sadly, so many small towns and villages across America have sent their warriors off to war half way across the world only to see communities fill up with illegal aliens.
Sadly, the Mexican gov’t is horribly corrupt, always has been.
And perhaps, always will be.
Wow, you have indeed described demographic warfare in the USA!
And the feds are quiet about it because they do not want to stir up Hispanic Nationalism in the USA , until after the election? Who cares, they are in Obam's pocket so far, one more strike against the Messiah, BTW.
Too many aristocrats have Mexican nannies in their kitchens. MccAin has not touched the issue so far, and when he has, its been on the side of illegals. He needs to see strength in opposing them.
These facts need revealing in the due course of this election cycle.
Thus the pings to my very capable and honorable FRiends.This dynamic may well decide the election.
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