Posted on 07/18/2010 5:30:25 PM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Tecate, Mexico — The bedraggled immigrants were picking their way through the boulders and scrub when a group of heavily armed men descended on them just short of the California- Mexico border. They corralled them in a cave and pointed their guns on the 10 men and one woman.
These lawless badlands in the hills east of Tijuana have long teemed with bandits and rapists, but these criminals demanded only phone numbers. They started calling the immigrants' loved ones in Pomona, San Diego and Bakersfield: Send us money or we'll shoot, they said.
The days-long kidnapping ordeal in May illustrates a growing trend as roaming gangs of well-organized, heavily armed gunmen turn their sights on illegal immigrants, making a treacherous journey ever more dangerous for people trekking north.
In the spree of kidnappings, which began about two years ago, gunmen hold people captive until family members in the U.S. send wire transfers of up to $5,000 to accounts in Mexico. Some immigrants are beaten; several have been killed, including a pair of brothers from Mexico City. Many straggle across the border and turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Others end up in migrant shelters in Tijuana, too frightened to report the cases to Mexican police.
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The arrests provided authorities with a rare glimpse into criminal networks whose reach stretches from the border to cities across the U.S. and Mexico. The gang was allegedly run by a career criminal from Nayarit and included a former Mexican army soldier. They admitted kidnapping more than 100 immigrants over 18 months, holding them in remote caves, makeshift camp and ranches.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The border fence parallels the toll road east of Tijuana that runs to Tecate. Officials say crossers are recruited in Mexico and guided into the hands of gunmen who demand ransom and sometimes beat them. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / July 10, 2007)
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RINOs like McCain, Grahma-nesty, Crist, Jeb Bush, Connie Mack 3, Rubio, Rick, Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn support this.
RINOs like McCain, Grahma-nesty, Crist, Jeb Bush, Connie Mack 3, Rubio, Rick, Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn support this.
RINOs like McCain, Grahma-nesty, Crist, Jeb Bush, Connie Mack 3, Rubio, Rick, Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn support this.
RINOs like McCain, Grahma-nesty, Crist, Jeb Bush, Connie Mack 3, Rubio, Rick, Perry, Kay Bailey and Cornyn support this.
You can say that again.
There's been a lot of repetitive posts going on the last six months.
Dementia, or too much alcohol? :)
These are despicable, reprehensible acts. I sure would like to know—and I’m sure most here would like to know as well—which American policy makers support these actions and allow them to occur.
You know what I find sad about this? We are pretty much all thinking the same thing about what to do regarding this invasion.
And yet we are powerless to either say something or do something out of fear the Communists in government will call us racist and/or lock us up.
Speak for yourself: I’m telling anyone who will listen.
I only stop when I hear the words `restraining order’ ....
You're right. Not only that (I re-read the article to be sure) it is the ONLY paragraph in the story where "immigrant" is preceded by the world "illegal."
And
Organized-crime bosses in Tijuana, squeezed by a drug war, demanded higher payoffs, while U.S. authorities, adding fencing and staffing on the border, were making it more difficult to get immigrants through.
With a smuggling infrastructure already in place, it was easy and profitable for criminals to switch to kidnapping. Federal authorities in the U.S. immediately noticed the dangerous trend. Many immigrants began showing up at the border, seeking medical attention instead of eluding agents.
“They’re traumatized,” said Robert C. Rodgers, a supervisor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego, which investigates smuggling groups in the area. “They jump the fence into the U.S. looking for help.”
The story is biased. They make “traditional human smuggling” sound like it’s some sort of folk art that’s been made commercially profitable for sale to tourists, and the U.S. defense of its own border as some sort of unacceptable impediment to that.
At 4:15 minutes on this video two illegals aliens describe what happens in a drop house in Arizona:
Arizona’s Broken Border Part 1/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enaJRObBh3I
yup...plus dismembering, prostitution, drugs and murder.
got a friend moving out of Seagoville TX because too many illegals..first came a welfare office then a walmart..couple years later the entire town is over run..ILlegals are running US citizens out of Dequeen Ark..nobody reporting it.
really .... heads on a stake is the only thing these bad boys understand....
All of them, in the belief that a little collateral damage like this (and a few dead American ranchers) is a small price to pay to keep the safety valve open and stave off a Communist revolution in Mexico - not for any love of freedom, but because such a revolution might inconvenience those very wealthy families who rule Mexico and own more than a few US Senators...
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