Thousands of Federales Hit Juarez

Mail Foriegn Service ^ | March, 3, 2009 | staff

[KTM rider]

Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city.

Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend.

The city - just across from El Paso in Texas - has been ravaged by drug gangs. Just this month 250 people were killed there by hitmen fighting for lucrative smuggling routes.

[Clemenza]

I know. Wally World in my rather affluent town is dominated by folks speaking (Guatemalan and Mexican) Spanish, Urdu, Polish, Portuguese, and Ebonics.

[Richard Kimball]

Two social workers are walking down the street. They see a man who has been mugged and beaten up, and is laying on the sidewalk barely conscious. One social worker says to the other “Someone needs to help the poor man that did that to him.”

[samtheman]

Actually, its our DUMB GOVERNMENT that needs to wake up and DO ITS JOB enforcing immigration laws!

We don't have a dumb government anymore. We now have an evil government.

Our dumb government was voted out in 2006 and 2008.

[KTM rider]

BS, BS and BS, thank you for your opinion though, now go back to DU

[KTM rider]

dollars flowing out like a raging tide, never to return is mostly why there is a worldwide economic crisis today, I think it is you who needs a lesson in economics 101, clemenza, your arguments sound like a La Raza textbook

[ConservativeMind]

There are many private bankers in Miami and New York who would disagree with your sentiment.

I'm trained as much as they are with my degrees. I don't care about people who are happy with illegal activity. Legally-made money, being transferred, is fine with me.

Your prior comment was ignorant, in that you said monies going out of the country are not counted in our money supply, supposedly reducing out inflation. Out money supply is the aggregate of our dollars wherever they are in the world. Inflation is not impacted by dollars outside of the country but with the total number of dollars in circulation against the total demand. Print a ton more, you deflate the value of the dollar. However, if everyone overseas burnt their dollar bills, THAT would help us. I don't see that happening, Clemenza.

Those dollars are much better earned by legal Americans who are properly taxed and properly held accountable before the law.

It doesn't take a ‘knuckle-draggin’ Republican to understand these things, but strangely, it is lost on you, Clemenza.

Oh, and I am for free trade. That is a legal way to have dollars flow for legitimate goods and services.

[KTM rider]

Yes it happened to a friend of mine at Rosarito Beach, Baja in 1976, The federales came to fine (rob) a large group of us friends after midnite for “illegal camping” I gave them my $25 I kept in easy reach, he was grumbling and said no so they shot him in the stomach, it hit his spine and now he is a quad who counsels the newly paralyzed. we rushed him all the way to san diego and we ran through the border crossing breaking the stick, the US border patrol gave chase, pulled us over and then led us to the emergency room

[TKDietz]

“Those dollars are much better earned by legal Americans who are properly taxed and properly held accountable before the law.”

I agree. That's one of the reasons I think it's time to regulate the production and sales of marijuana, so that tax paying law abiding citizens will earn all those billions of dollars. As it is, marijuana is the cash cow for Mexican drug trafficking organizations. It's what is providing them with most of their money, about 62% of their gross receipts from drugs bound for the U.S. Take that away from them and they will be smaller, less powerful and far less of a threat in Mexico and here. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html