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Mexican drug cartels make Phoenix #2 in world for kidnappings
hotair.com ^ | Feb. 12, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/12/2009 10:14:11 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

According to ABC News, the use of kidnapping by Mexican drug cartels for ransom and revenge has spread beyond the Rio Grande and into Arizona — and the federal government has done nothing to stop it. Phoenix has become the second-worst city in the world for kidnappings, right behind Mexico City, with brutal dismemberments for those abductees who do not get ransomed quickly enough:

In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.

“We’re in the eye of the storm,” Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico’s drug cartels that have expanded business across the border. “If it doesn’t stop here, if we’re not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the nation,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; defundthecartels; drugcartels; drugwarconsequences; kidnappings; mccainsfault; mexico; organizedcrime; phoenix; terrorism; wod
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Are Anglo Americans being kidnapped?

If so vigilance committees can work wonders.

21 posted on 02/12/2009 10:34:36 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: rabscuttle385

Please! Phoenix has a problem because our police chief coddles illegals. Phoenix was a sanctuary city and the politicians are slowing beginning to understand that the people are fed up. I’m convinced the chief and mayor are on the take the way they turn their heads.


22 posted on 02/12/2009 10:39:16 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Paging John McCain,, Janet Napolitano..


23 posted on 02/12/2009 10:40:30 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Our Federal government is truly useless. Our idiot members of Congress are trying to figure out a way to turn these people into voters.


24 posted on 02/12/2009 10:49:14 AM PST by popdonnelly (I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Federal government could make jobs by hiring and heavily arming Border Patrol and other law enforcement employees, and sending them to Arizona.


25 posted on 02/12/2009 10:50:53 AM PST by popdonnelly (I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
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To: rabscuttle385

“Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists”

Yes, they’re trying to get the terrorists out of Guantanamo.


26 posted on 02/12/2009 10:52:17 AM PST by popdonnelly (I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
And who is governor of that state? Wasn’t she appointed to be in charge of immigration or something?

That would be Janet Napolitano, your new Head of Homeland Security. Do you feel secure now?

27 posted on 02/12/2009 11:22:43 AM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...

Ping!


28 posted on 02/12/2009 11:24:19 AM PST by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSalutesYou.mil ~)
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To: txnativegop

JD Hayworth is hinting that he might run for Senate against McCain in 2010. He has had a popular talk show on KFYI ever since Harry Mitchell defeated him and took his seat in the House of Representatives. I would certainly vote for JD over John, but it’s hard to tell whether he would win.


29 posted on 02/12/2009 11:34:12 AM PST by Tarantulas ( Illegal immigration - the trojan horse that's treated like a sacred cow)
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To: Semper911

Gee I hope she and her family stays as safe as the rest of us.

I don’t drug people care who they go after, so she must be getting
paid real good


30 posted on 02/12/2009 12:08:58 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: popdonnelly; AuntB; HiJinx; All
"The Federal government could make jobs by hiring and heavily arming Border Patrol and other law enforcement employees, and sending them to Arizona."

I hope you are kidding.......who would want to be a 'Border Patrol Agent', after what happened to Ramos and Compean? If anyone would take the job - it would be to watch the clock tick by, and collect a paycheck.

31 posted on 02/12/2009 12:31:44 PM PST by yorkie (Grandmas are antique little girls)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
...has spread beyond the Rio Grande....

Should say "beyond the US-Mexico border." The ABC article does not mention the Rio Grande, (called Rio Bravo on the Mexico side) which is the border only for Texas-Mexico, and then goes north into New Mexico.

32 posted on 02/12/2009 12:56:09 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (I want to "Buy American" but the only things for sale made in the USA are politicians)
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To: rabscuttle385; fieldmarshaldj

Frightening. Second only to Mexico City?


33 posted on 02/12/2009 2:12:29 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: South40
They’re only coming here to kidnap and murder people Americans won’t kidnap and murder.

Being the sick puppy that I am, I laughed at this. I'm just doing the job that a normal American won't do...

34 posted on 02/12/2009 3:02:01 PM PST by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I just read today that McCain is running for the senate again!


35 posted on 02/12/2009 6:45:20 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Yes, Butch was. We now have Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican.


36 posted on 02/12/2009 6:45:56 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Tarantulas

Let’s hope J.D. runs. I will not vote for McCain.


37 posted on 02/12/2009 6:46:52 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: hsmomx3

John McLame can follow the three stooges (Specter, Snowe, Collins) out the door. They are useless waste of air.


38 posted on 02/12/2009 6:54:38 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: LibertarianLiz

“I know this is really a positive; but, we helped Columbia clean out their drug cartels -— we were successful. This is a victory; but, those drug cartels did not just disappear. They just moved — to Mexico...”

Actually they still have cartels in Colombia. What the Colombians have done is just let the Mexicans take over most of the distribution of their cocaine. The Colombian cartels still control production. They have people growing coca for them in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. They produce the cocaine and sell it to the Mexicans who distribute it within this country. They lay low and stay out of the public eye, but Colombian cocaine production is about as high as ever. Cocaine is relatively cheap and pure now and as easily available as it ever was. We were a lot less successful than you might think.


39 posted on 02/12/2009 8:20:57 PM PST by SmallGovRepub
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To: rabscuttle385

Well put, Rabsy. Libs are all for diverse, integrated communities... they just don’t want to live in them, themselves.


40 posted on 02/12/2009 10:25:28 PM PST by Mogwai (You say "far right" like that's a bad thing!)
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