Posted on 04/13/2009 7:43:47 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
PHOENIX, AZ (KTRK) -- With the growing violence along the border and in parts of Arizona, the secretary of Homeland Security says it's only a matter of time before we start seeing an increase in violence in our area.
It's happening far from the border, but it is border crime. The victims are mostly from Mexico. Many here illegally, most linked to crime sometime in their past. But with kidnappings coming on average more than once a day, Phoenix is fighting back, hoping to stop the spree before it spreads to other cities.
We went to Phoenix to cover this border crime. And with kidnappings happening more than once per day, Phoenix is fighting back.
In a west Phoenix neighborhood, the kind where kids constantly play out front, Maria Fatigone had no idea what her own neighbors were doing.
"We would see women with baby carriers," she said.
Whatever image her neighbors tried to project, it was a mirage, as Maria found out when police pulled up.
"There was blood on the walls. There was blood on the floor. There was blood on the carpet," said Maria. "It's like death in there."
Inside her neighbor's house, a kidnapping victim, in this case a human smuggler , had been tied up, tortured, burned, sodomized and cut by a rival coyote. The victim's family found out he was being held in excruciating calls begging them to deliver $55,000 ransom.
It's a horrific case, but as in most of these cases, the victim was connected to the smuggling trade. The victim in a different case was not at all. In March of last year, a 13-year-old girl was playing basketball in front of a home when two cars pulled up. Both of them had police lights, the victim said....
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Stay tuned. More to come.
Don’t know about Houston, but it’s happening in Laredo already.
Don’t worry, Zero and Hitlery, will make them all legal and your new neighbors.
The rest of the article explains that so far this is mostly criminal against criminal crime - coming from Mexico.
The same patterned happened in Mexico 10-years ago - it spreads to ordinary citizens over time. Phoenix police are frighting Mexican crime already.
A cartel guy inside the restaurant mistook him for someone else and ordered the hit.
Here's a link: http://www.click2houston.com/news/19146315/detail.html">
BUILD THE FENCE NOW!
Was going to say we don’t have any illegals here, just wildlife. ;)
I had read that part of the story and maybe I should of said don’t let this become a personal crime you have the right to carry a firearm in AZ.
Ping!
What don’t you get? They are, mostly (so far), illegal aliens being held hostage by the armed Mexican criminals who are doing the human smuggling.
That’s all we need.
“Heading” to Houston? LOL! DHS- on the ball, as usual. /s/
It's been established by DHS that the real threat in this country is "right-wing radicals" (heavily composed of military veterans) who are mad as hell, against abortion, furious about government encroachment on liberties and are crazy pro-2nd Amendment nuts who are foolishly suspicious of our government and are threatening to take our country back from the fascists, er, social reformers now in power.
Ease up on the poor cartels, will ya? They're only trying to make a living - just like the Somali pirates. The real danger lies elsewhere!
Ciudad Houston?
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