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CHANDLER, Ariz. — Authorities have determined a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel, in a gruesome example of drug cartel violence spilling over the border. The cartel found out Cota-Monroy had actually stolen the drugs and hired men to kidnap and kill him in Nogales, Mexico. But Cota-Monroy was able to talk his way out of being killed, saying he'd pay back the money and use his house for collateral, the report says. But the house wasn't Cota-Monroy's and he fled to the Phoenix area, leading...

ALBION — Before her husband was brought into Town Court here Thursday afternoon to answer a charge that he murdered her sister last month, Kimberly Cardenas told reporters, "I want to jump on him and strangle him." She wasn't kidding. After Carlos A. Cardenas was taken out of court following a two-minute arraignment, Kimberly Cardenas bolted from the chamber, ran out of Town Hall and sprinted to confront her husband as sheriff's deputies led him away. Officers and friends restrained Kimberly Cardenas as she screamed at her husband, who told investigators that he stashed his sister-in-law's body in his basement...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose former tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels.

NUEVO LAREDO— The city's newest police chief was killed late Wednesday night when unknown assailants blocked off a downtown street shortly after he had left police headquarters and machine-gunned his vehicle. Manuel Farfan Carriola, a retired Mexican Army general, had been outspoken about fighting crime in his city, especially drug traffickers who are fighting for control of lucrative illegal trading routes. He was named to the position when the new mayor, Benjamin Galvan Gomez, took office on Jan. 1. Farfan Carriola was usually accompanied by several bodyguards and a personal assistant. Early reports indicated that some of those men may...

On January 25, an American photographer narrowly escaped death when he was ambushed by cartel members and led the henchmen on a high-speed chase to the International Border Zone, just south of Nogales, Arizona. Matthew Besinger, a Los Angeles-based photographer was working on a photograph book about the Sonoran desert when he was ambushed by four young men. His vehicle suffered significant damage during his daring escape which ended at the U.S./Mexico border near Nogales. Nogales Department of Homeland Security spokesman, Juan Osorio confirmed an incident took place regarding Besinger, but would not comment on the details. The Tucson Sector...

The family of a Pharr man is in mourning after their loved one was killed south of the border in Reynosa. The El Universal newspaper is reporting that 35-year-old Ricardo Hugarin Garcia was killed over the weekend. El Universal reported that Garcia went missing on Thursday, December 30th. The newspaper reported that Garcia's body was found in Reynosa's Colonia Francisco Villa on Sunday. El Universal reported that Garcia's body was found in a bag. He had been strangled with a chord that was still tied around his neck. The Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (PGJE) told El Universal that Garcia lived...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the northeast along the U.S. border, the government said Wednesday. The goal of "Coordinated Operation Northeast" is to reinforce government authority in the two states most heavily affected by a surge in violence following a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, federal police spokesman Alejandro Poire said. The new effort also aims to keep the two cartels from regrouping after the takedown of key leaders, he said. But in a media briefing with...

Historically, the structural and class bases of anti-Jewish feeling in Europe were inextricably linked with the ruling classes and the forces of reaction. The Catholic church propagated anti-Semitism as a matter of religious ideology as well as expediency. Landed aristocracy created the class of Jewish moneylenders, and then allied themselves with the peasants against their Jewish creditors. Reactionary regimes like the Tsarist Regime in Russia used the Jews as scapegoats for the ills of their society. [snip] Much literature and philosophy of the 19th century, especially socialist and communist literature, was permeated with anti-Semitism. Proudhon and Fourier were notorious anti-Semites....

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen stormed two neighboring homes and massacred 13 young people at a birthday party in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments. Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class Ciudad Juarez neighborhood late Friday and opened fire on about four dozen partygoers gathered for a 15-year-old boy's birthday party.

DIVERSITY vs. E PLURIBUS UNUM Diversity. What a pleasant sounding word. I see colorful posters bearing the word placed in prominence around the office where I work. I often see the word applied in noble motto: “Strength in Diversity” or “Celebrate Diversity”. What a lovely sentiment. What could be wrong with that? I am a German American, whose original German-born ancestor arrived in the United States of America in 1853 following the death of his first wife. I’m quite sure his life in Germany was shattered. He came to America destitute, with small children in tow. He remarried an Ohio...

During a presentation by IDF soldiers at the University of Michigan a bunch of muslim and marxist students protested by disrespectfully walking out. This is a good example of what is happening on our college campuses. Remember that socialists hated Jews from the very beginning. All you need to do is look at their anti-semitic Jew-hating quotes. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2606505/posts I for one am sick of this behavior. When will these students show respect to soldiers who are risking their lives to protect THEM from islamofascism and terrorism?

SAN DIEGO -- When a major Mexican drug cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S. authorities tapped into their cellphones - then listened, watched and waited. Their surveillance effort captured more than 50,000 calls over six months, conversations that reached deep into Mexico and helped build a sprawling case against 43 suspects - including Mexican police and top officials - allegedly linked to a savage trafficking ring known as the Fernando Sanchez Organization...But U.S. law enforcement officials say the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how aggressively it moved to...

The wife of a man allegedly killed by pirates on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border will return to FBI offices today to resume a marathon session of questions from Mexican authorities. Tiffany Hartley, wife of David Hartley, who is missing after the jet ski incident Sept. 30 on Falcon Lake, endured eight hours of questioning by Mexican investigators Friday. She has said she refused a request to come to Mexico for further questioning, out of fear of a possible arrest. "I just don't think that's a wise decision," Hartley told "Good Morning America." "I think they do believe...

Private health insurance in the U.S. will be dead in three years, U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn said Tuesday. "There will be no insurance industry left in three years," Coburn told the Republican Women's Club of Tulsa County. "That is by design. You’re going to make insurance unaffordable for everyone -- which is what they want. Because if there’s no private insurance left, what’s left? Government-centered, government-run, single-payer health care.” Coburn apparently based his prediction on reported hikes in private insurance premiums, increases he attributed to the new law. Some insurers say they have raised premiums because of new mandates, including...

The severed head of the lead Mexican investigator in the Falcon Lake case was delivered Tuesday in a suitcase to the Mexican military, Texas Rep. Aaron Pena told CNN. However, a spokesman for the attorney general of Tamaulipas state in Mexico said he had not heard the report. David Michael Hartley went missing September 30.

Mexican drug cartels are like a malignant cancer that keeps on spreading. Mexico has spent billions of dollars on its drug war to combat the power and influence of the cartels, but when you look at the statistics it seems as if little progress has been made. Considering the dramatic impact cartels have on the United Sates, America should consider if securing our border is as important to our national security as is the war we are fighting in Afghanistan. Mexico’s war on drugs has been ongoing since 2006, but the problem keeps getting bigger each year. So does the...

In recent months, labor organizations representing federal immigration agents have been among the most outspoken challengers of Obama’s enforcement campaign. In June, the American Federation of Government Employees’ National Council 118, which represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, issued a no-confidence vote for ICE Director John Morton, claiming he is promoting amnesty instead of enforcement because most ICE officers are unable to make immigration-related arrests on the streets, leading to “amnesty by policy.” The National Border Patrol Council adopted a similar no-confidence resolution targeting Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar. Brandon Judd, union vice president and president of Local 2544 in...

He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture — he was sodomized, burned and whipped. All punishment, the police said Friday, for being gay. There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23 years old and calling themselves the Latin King Goonies, the police said. Before setting upon their 30-year-old victim, they had...

President Obama's Refusal To Protect Our Borders Has Cost An American Boater's LifeMexican drug smugglers have become emboldened by the Obama Administration allowing them to operate with impunity. A Colorado couple was boating on jet skis on a large lake formed by the Rio Grande down stream from Laredo, when the husband was shot through the head and thrown from his jet ski. His wife couldn't pull him unto her jet ski and had to abandon him in a hail of gunfire. Search teams prowled the US side of the 60 mile lake but were unable to locate the...

The Battle of Juarez is showing signs that the good guys are not prevailing. The Juarez newspaper, El Diario de Juarez, has cried uncle in its mixed stance of reporting the progress of the war. In the front page editorial that appeared recently, the editor waved the white flag and asked the cartels publicly what they want from him. The murder of a photographer and another reporter in the recent past are hitting far too close to home for him to continue to be a brave purveyor of the truth. In a city ravaged by nearly 7,000 deaths since 2006...

An insight into how liberals and conservatives differ not just in politics but also ways of thinking.

Border: Remember when al-Qaida targeted tribal leaders and local officials to assert power in the Iraq War? Today, the story repeats itself on our own doorstep. But incredibly, the Beltway crowd doesn't seem to care. Mexico's war against drug and alien-smuggling cartels grows ever more similar to the horrors of Afghanistan and Iraq. Beheadings, stonings, car bombs and terrorist attacks speak to a lust for power every bit as implacable as that of the Afghanistan's Taliban or the insurgents of Iraq. The cartels may seem to be just a police problem, but Mexico's own officials know better: President Felipe Calderon...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Some 230,000 people have left Ciudad Juarez, a border city that has become Mexico’s murder capital, in the past three years as the death toll from a gang war topped 7,000, a non-governmental organization said in a new report. About 124,000 people, or 53.9 percent of the total, have sought safe haven in El Paso, Texas, which is just across the border, the Ciudad Juarez Citizens Security and Coexistence Observatory said. The rest have returned to their hometowns, mainly in Durango, Coahuila and Veracruz states, to get away from the drug-related violence. “Action should be taken...

HENDERSON -- Drugs, guns, prostitutes and fraudulent Social Security and immigration green cards are believed to have been sold and traded by a Rusk County family with connections to a violent Mexican Cartel. A sizeable force of federal and state law enforcement raided a Rusk County family compound Wednesday morning after two years of investigations by multiple agencies into the Hernandez family's alleged illegal activities. Dallas Region FBI Spokesperson Mark White said there was a sizeable number of agents and other officers involved in the "no knock" warrant due to the multiple buildings and multiple families on the tract of...

(RTTNews) - A prominent newspaper in Mexico's border city of Ciudad Juarez has published an editorial requesting guidelines on media publishing from drug cartels operating in the city after one of its employees was shot dead by suspected drug operatives last week. The unprecedented editorial carried by the El Diario de Juarez newspaper on its front page on Sunday was prompted by the killing of Luis Carlos Santiago, 21-year-old photographer working for the paper, last week. Santiago and a co-worker was shot by unidentified gunmen in Ciudad Juarez on 17 September when they were sitting inside a parked car outside a...

EL PASO, Texas -- It's a grizzly Ciudad Juarez murder with a startling El Paso connection. Mexican authorities discovered a severed head on top of the trunk of an abandoned blue Hyundai Wednesday afternoon. That car, which was stolen two weeks ago in Juarez, has Texas license plates and is registered to two people who live in El Paso. ABC-7 spoke with the car owner's daughter at the family's home. They did not want to be identified. "They left us without a car just to kill somebody," she said. The daughter said she had gone to Juarez with her mother...

Trading Standards officers have claimed that the supermarket has broken 2003 regulations, which prohibit manufacturers and retailers from using excess packaging. The officers said a beef roasting joint from its Taste the Difference range was the offending item. Up until now there have only been five cases brought under this legislation, all against very small companies. Sainsbury's is the first supermarket to be prosecuted and faces a fine of between about £500 and £3,000. The case, being brought by trading standards at Lincolnshire County Council, comes amid growing concern over damage to the environment caused by excessive packaging. Chocolate manufacturers...

Maria 'Chata' Leon, mother of 13 kids, ruled over a criminal empire with connections to a human smuggling ring...Leon, the then-44-year-old mother of 13 children, and the much-feared head of a drug-dealing dynasty, was stuck in the border town of Mexicali. It was one of her children, Danny "Clever" Leon, who, wielding an AK-47, had died in the 2008 shoot-out with police, and now she wanted to attend his funeral in the United States. Eventually, she would get her way right in front of LAPD gang officers. As politicians on all sides of the political spectrum argue about illegal immigration,...

Drug-trade violence in Mexico that has left more than 28,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands more terrorized during the past four years has made an imprint on Mexican expatriates living in the Rogue Valley. "People are scared so they want to leave the country to find another place to live more freely and not be scared to go out." "When people get together, they're telling each other they are scared and hope nothing happens to their family members," Perez said through an interpreter. "The cartels have more power than the government," she said. "Everyone knows the drug cartels have...

Muslims making a spectacle of desecrating the American flag.

FRONTON - A man says a bullet from a gunbattle in Mexico hit one of his trees. "My friend was right here beside me. We could hear everything happening on the other side," said Julio Guerra of Fronton. Guerra listened to two hours of gunbattle. While it was happening in a different country, it was within a couple miles of his bedroom window. "I'm not scared," said Guerra. The Guerras have lived in Fronton for many years. He's grown accustomed to the noise on the other side of the river. "Me and my wife have been living here a long...

The bodies of the four young men were discovered early on Sunday, hung upside down by their feet from a bridge near a wealthy area of Cuernavaca, a leafy city about an hour outside Mexico City, where many of the nation's elite own homes. The victims' genitals, index fingers and heads had been cut off, according to a statement from the attorney general's office in Morelos state, which includes Cuernavaca. Their heads and genitals were found nearby, along with a handmade sign, the statement said. "This will happen to everyone that helps the traitor Edgar Valdes," the placard read, referring...

Phoenix police were called out to a fight Wednesday morning, and ended up finding a lot of weapons and drugs. Officers said they arrived at a home near 4100 North 27th Street and found 100 pounds of pot and blood stains but no people. That home led detectives to two other West Valley homes where they found another 700 pounds of marijuana, 49 AK-47s and 6 bins full of ammunition. Officers arrested four men on drug and weapons charges. Both areas have Mexican enclaves. A desert area in West Phoenix has long been a body dumping ground for drug gang...

MISSION – Reynosa cannot guarantee the safety of its visitors amid recent fighting between the military and drug smuggling groups, an official from the Mexican city said Thursday. “We don’t have the access or the resources,” Armando Zertuche Zuani, Reynosa’s secretary of economic development and employment, said in Spanish. “(Mexican President Felipe) Calderón put us in a war for which the citizens were not trained to respond. We are prepared to respond to flooding or hurricane emergencies but not a war.” Zertuche Zuani’s statements came during the Mission Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Summit 2010, in which he touted Reynosa’s economic...

Peru is set to overtake Colombia as the world's top producer of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine. Peru's production has nearly doubled in the last decade, according to UN data. This year, it grew by about a 6.8 per cent, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says. Curbing this figure will depend on the government's policies. Al Jazeera's Craig Mauro reports from Piura town in Peru.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say that police in Ciudad Juarez have captured five alleged drug gang members suspected in the killings of two federal officers, including one whose body was hacked to pieces. One of the suspects is also believed to have acted as a lookout in the July 15 car-bomb attack on police that killed an officer and two other people, Luis Cardenas Palomino, regional security chief for the federal police, said Friday. He described the five men as members of the La Linea gang, which works for the Juarez drug cartel. He alleged they killed two federal...

El Cercado is a sleepy village in the foothills of the Sierra Madre. It is situated about half an hour's drive south of Monterrey, Mexico's third largest city. ... Four years ago I was lucky enough to spend a little time in El Cercado. My aunt Blanca and uncle Juan invited my mother and me to stay in their weekend retreat - a spacious old ranch, crammed with family bric-a-brac, with a terrace running the length of the house. We would sit in rocking chairs listening to the birds and contemplating the view. Each morning, before the sun was too...

The kidnappings, beatings, and murders that mark the drug-related violence of Mexican border cities like Tijuana and Juarez have increasingly spilled over the border. Emerging from the port of entry’s administrative offices into a sunny San Diego morning, Special Agent Dean Giboney spoke in fluent Spanish with the man whose temporary U.S. visa he had just helped renew. The man was smiling, happy to be out of Mexico, even though he understood that being on U.S. soil was no guarantee of safety from the Tijuana drug cartel that has put a price on his head. The kidnappings, beatings, and murders...

TAUMALIPAS, MEXICO - Fifteen bodies have been discovered on a highway between Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria. Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of 13 men and two women early this morning near the town of San German. The victims were found tortured and executed with their hands bound behind their backs with plastic zip ties. The letter "Z" was painted on all their shirts.

AUSTIN - The Mexican military seized improvised explosive devices just miles from the Valley. The IEDs (or roadside bombs) are the same weapons terrorists use in the Middle East. The homemade explosives can be sophisticated or crude. They're often deadly. They've killed troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. CHANNEL 5 NEWS learned the weapons are also in the hands of the drug cartels in Mexico. On March 30, more than 50 cartel members attacked the Mexican military in Matamoros and Reynosa. Eighteen people died. Soldiers seized 50 rifles, 60 hand grenades, and eight IEDs. "The seizure of the IEDs is definitely...

As America fights two wars overseas -- another one is raging, much closer to home. Mexico's drug war is every bit as violent. On Friday 43 people were indicted in San Diego for murder and kidnapping, including a Mexican government official. Outside Monterrey, Mexico, 23 bodies were found Thursday at a dump site used by drug gangs Mexico's drug war takes a dramatic and frightening turn. For the first time, drug gangsters used a car bomb as a weapon. The wounded man was a decoy dressed in a uniform to lure police to the bomb. An officer, a paramedic and...

ROMA — Texas Department of Public Safety officials didn’t know Jose Arturo Santa Cruz Cruz was a suspect in a recent slaying when they arrested him. DPS took the Mexican national into custody Sunday on a charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon and then handed the man over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, said Roma police Capt. Francisco Garcia. It wasn’t until Monday morning that investigators in Roma were able to put the pieces together and identify Cruz as the prime suspect in a fatal shooting that occurred last week. Cruz, 21, allegedly shot Lauro Gonzalez several times...

BOSTON — Immigrant advocates are rallying fellow activists to protest Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer during her scheduled visit this weekend for the National Governors Association meeting in Boston. The Washington, D.C.-based ANSWER Coalition and others are putting out pamphlets, sending e-mails and making preparations to bring in protesters by bus to express their opposition to Arizona's controversial immigration law, recently signed by Brewer. The law, scheduled to take effect July 29, requires police to question people about their immigration status while enforcing other laws if there's reason to suspect someone is in the country illegally. But the law is facing...

Admitted thieves are going free, while an elderly Wheat Ridge man is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars, all, he says, for trying to defend his property and his life. 82-year-old Robert Wallace said in February that he looked out his window and saw two men hooking his flatbed trailer up to their pickup. He yelled at them to stop, but they sped away, stealing his trailer. He told police he fired two shots at the pickup. Minutes later, police say 32-year-old Damacio Torres dropped 28-year-old Alvaro Cardona off at a hospital emergency room...

The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The recent global day against the imminent stoning of Sakine Mohammadi-Ashtiani in Iran for adultery is an example of the outrage sparked by the brutality associated with sharia law's penal code. What of its civil code though – which the Muslim Council of Britain's Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra describes as "small aspects" that concern "marriage, divorce, inheritance, custody of children"? According to human rights campaigner Gita Sahgal, "there is active support for sharia laws precisely because it is limited to denying women rights in the family. No hands are being cut off, so there can't be a problem …" Now a...

LOS ANGELES – Negotiators in a labor dispute between shippers and clerical workers met for several hours Sunday despite the Independence Day holiday, but a strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach showed no signs of ending on its fourth day. John Fageaux Jr., president of the International Longshore Warehouse Union local that represents about 900 clerical workers, said that during four hours of morning talks his side offered an agreement with no new money, only guarantees that jobs would not be outsourced. "The union proposed zero increases on the wages and zero increases on the pensions...

A new video has surfaced of Barack Obama’s ex-mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from 2009 showing him praise the socialist magazine Monthly Review while speaking at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Within this video, he expresses his affection for Marxism and socialism. Even going as far to say that America is “the land of the greed and home of the slave.”

The southern border of the USA is no longer something that we can ignore or use as a political tool. Successive presidents have failed to control this border for one reason or another, but the escalation of drug cartel violence on the southern side of the border is making the issue of illegal immigration almost an afterthought. It seems that if something doesn't change, we could be looking at an all-out war with Mexican drug cartels. Police Chief Jeff Kirkham of the border town Nogales, Arizona, told Tucson Channel 9 (ABC) news that he has received threats that the Mexican...