http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mexico/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:44:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286189/posts The TERRY ANDERSON SHOW.. Articulating the Popular Rage! Sundays - 12-1 AM EDT, 11-12 PM CDT, 10-11 PM MDT, 9-10 PM PDT KRLA - 870 AM - Los Angeles -- KDWN - 720 - Las Vegas -- KFNX - 1100 - Phoenix "Stupid People of America !!! If You Ain't Mad, You Ain't Payin' Attention!" Call-In Number - (866) 870-5752 Don't miss Terry's July 5th show... When Terry will say ... "Geraldo says 'the immigration debate has demonized an entire race of people'. THAT'S THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK !!!!!" Plus: Can you guess WHO the most Horriblest Clown... TheterryAndersonShow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286189/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284528/posts > The Desert Eagle pistol can "blow a hole the size of a Mack truck through a person," said Leigh Winchester, regional chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. > Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284528/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:48:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284849/posts Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes Friday, July 03, 2009 * Print * MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one of whom went by the name "La Parkita" — or "Little Death" — and wore a skeleton costume in the ring. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284849/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:46:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278842/posts Note: The following text is a quote: June 24, 2009 46 street gang members and associates arrested in New Jersey-wide operation ICE works with local law enforcement agencies to make arrests NEWARK, N.J. - Forty-six gang members and associates were arrested as a result of a statewide public safety initiative in New Jersey led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Investigation in Newark. The operation ended June 20. Each of those arrested were targeted for their membership, participation or association with violent street gangs. The success of the operation dubbed "Community Shield" was the result of an... ICE.gov - News Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278842/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281240/posts A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security over the military's role in domestic affairs, according to officials in both departments. The debate has engaged a pair of powerful personalities, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, in what their subordinates describe as a turf fight over which agency should direct the use of troops to assist in the fight against Mexican cartels and which one should pay for them. At issue is a proposal... Wash Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281240/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:00:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282816/posts WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282816/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:38:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283228/posts ~ EXCERPT ~ In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day? The house is worth $35,000. A screen dangles by a wall-unit air conditioner. Porch swing slats are smashed, the smattering of grass is flattened by cars and burned yellow by sun. >>> snip <<< Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods and asking people about suspicious purchases as well as seeking explanations as to how their guns ended up... Houston Chronic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283228/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:51:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282858/posts BOGOTA – The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States. "Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking," its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol. "We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it," he added. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne in... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282858/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:31:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282531/posts The older brother of the man who allegedly shot and killed an undercover Houston police officer last week is wanted in a gang-related slaying last year of a South Carolina man, authorities said. Juan Pedroza Carrillo, 40, was one of three men linked to the November 2 fatal shooting of Jorge Alberto Vindel Ramos, 51, in Lexington County, S.C., authorities said. Ramos was shot in the head and chest with a .380 semi-automatic pistol as he was working on his car outside his home, officials said. While the motive for the killing remains under investigation, federal immigration officials confirmed that... HOUSTON CHRONICLE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282531/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281829/posts MISSION - Six suspects faced felony charges Friday in connection with the firing of a single gunshot at the windshield of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent's car. The agent, who police said was "in the wrong place at the wrong time," told officers he noticed at least one vehicle had followed him late Tuesday night from northern Hidalgo County to Mission, police said. Sitting in the backseat of the agent's vehicle was his young daughter, who was going to visit her grandmother. Two men who were following the agent in a pickup confronted him and fired a single round... The Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281829/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:07:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280286/posts Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 25, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AFTER MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION State Dining Room 3:17 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We have just finished what I consider to be a very productive meeting on one of the most critical issues that I think this nation faces, and that is an immigration system that is broken and needs fixing. We have members of Congress from both chambers, from parties, who have participated in... WHITEHOUSE.GOV - Remarks by the President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280286/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:16:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279553/posts Policeman's killer, suspected accomplices appear to be illegal immigrants The gunman who fatally shot a Houston police officer in the back before being gunned down by another officer during an undercover sting late Tuesday is believed to have been an illegal immigrant from Mexico, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Robert Rutt, agent in charge of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement office of criminal investigations in Houston, confirmed that Houston police had asked for assistance in determining the immigration status of the gunman shot to death in a drug store parking lot after officer Henry Canales, 42, was fatally wounded.... HOUSTON CHRONICLE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279553/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279367/posts Mexico vowed to keep looking for a mysterious island that could extend its offshore oil claims after university researchers said they couldn't find it. "The island doesn't exist" in the area where it was shown on maps, a National Autonomous University of Mexico study concluded after conducting studies with underwater sensing devices and aerial reconnaissance in the area. "Isla Bermeja" appeared on maps from the 1700s as a speck of land off the northwest coast of the Yucatan peninsula. A group of Mexican legislators hoped the island would help their decade-long effort to fend off what they describe as U.S.... San Diego Union-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279367/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278948/posts Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human. But they emphasized that there was no way to prove their theory and only sketchy data underpinning it. There is no evidence that this new virus, which combines Eurasian and North American genes, has ever circulated in North American pigs, while there is tantalizing evidence that a closely related “sister virus” has circulated in Asia. American breeding pigs, possibly carrying... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278948/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278696/posts MEXICO CITY — Mexico vowed to keep looking for a mysterious island that could extend its offshore oil claims after university researchers said they couldn't find it. "The island doesn't exist" in the area where it was shown on maps, a National Autonomous University of Mexico study concluded after conducting studies with underwater sensing devices and aerial reconnaissance in the area. "Isla Bermeja" appeared on maps from the 1700s as a speck of land off the northwest coast of the Yucatan peninsula. A group of Mexican legislators hoped the island would help their decade-long effort to fend off what they... Los Angeles Times/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278696/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:15:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278634/posts Three Mexican men accused of holding 12 undocumented immigrants against their will have been charged with alien smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle aliens into the U.S., according to court documents. U.S. Magistrate Felix Recio on Tuesday ordered that Leonardo Juarez Torres, Abel Martinez-Rendon and Santiago Cisneros Diaz, all Mexican nationals, be held without bond until a detention hearing Friday morning. The immigrants, 10 Mexican men and two Salvadoran women, were being held in a house at 1936 Woodway Drive, said Brownsville police spokesman Sgt. Jimmy Manrrique. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating several leads to identify other individuals possibly... The Brownsville Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278634/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:43:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277553/posts WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors cited problems with evidence Monday when they asked a judge to drop charges against a Chinese-Mexican businessman accused of importing large amounts of methamphetamines to the United States. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan lambasted prosecutors at a hearing on the request to dismiss the indictment against Zhenli Ye Gon, saying, "I'm not pleased at all with anything I've heard from the United States government." When Ye Gon was arrested in 2007 in Wheaton, Md., authorities said they had seized more than $205 million in U.S. drug profits from his Mexico City mansion. The U.S. Drug Enforcement... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277553/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277079/posts The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms. Jacob Sullum | July 2009 Print Edition During his April visit to Mexico, President Barack Obama suggested that Americans are partly to blame for the appalling violence associated with the illegal drug trade there. “The demand for these drugs in the United States is what’s helping keep these cartels in business,” he said. “This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States.” Obama is right that the U.S. is largely responsible for the carnage in Mexico, which claimed more than 6,000 lives last year.... July 2009 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277079/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:14:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276507/posts 60 Minutes just three minutes ago pushed the blatant lie of 90% of the drug cartel's machine guns come from the U.S. citizens. It is complete with pictures of M-60 belt fed GP machine guns, hand grenades, etc etc. Not a peep on the origin of the select fire weapons coming from Mexican army defectors and the huge increase of State Department approval of sales of those very same M16's to Mexico. Just the usual pack of lies, it our fault `cause American are evil enough to actually but the dope THEY smuggle into the U.S. I included the link... 60 Minutes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276507/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:45:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275815/posts The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report this week entitled, "Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges." Among other things, the report asserts that Mexican officials consider illicit firearms the number one crime problem affecting their country's security; that about 87 percent of firearms seized in Mexico and traced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) in the last five years originated in the United States; and that these firearms are increasingly more powerful and lethal, including "high-caliber and high-powered" AK-47 and AR-15 type semi-automatic rifles. The... NRAILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275815/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:51:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275765/posts Over 90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S., New GAO Report Finds That's the headline from the Violence Policy Center press release. It is a premeditated lie. True, the qualifier "traced by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over the last three years" is admitted in the body of the release, but even that doesn't tell a reader the number of guns withheld by Mexican authorities--or whether the ones submitted have been randomly selected or cherry-picked. Headlines are important. Often times while scanning through news, that is all that will be noticed or retained.... gun rights examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275765/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:09:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275737/posts When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin were in prison on drug charges. Now that he's running for governor of Colima state, a banner appeared in the capital city mocking Anguiano's family ties by linking him to the Zetas, a gang of drug hit men: "Welcome to Colima! Soon to be territory of our boss of bosses, Mario Anguiano Moreno. The Zetas support you, and we are with you until death." The drug war is playing in Mexico elections like never before. Usually a taboo subject... Yahoo AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275737/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275184/posts MEXICO CITY — When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin were in prison on drug charges. Now that he's running for governor of Colima state, a banner appeared in the capital city mocking Anguiano's family ties by linking him to the Zetas, a gang of drug hit men: "Welcome to Colima! Soon to be territory of our boss of bosses, Mario Anguiano Moreno. The Zetas support you, and we are with you until death." The drug war is playing in Mexico elections like never before. Usually... AP on San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275184/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274952/posts Mexico Drug Charges Against 7 Mayors, 20 Officials By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 19, 2009 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico levied organized crime and drug charges Thursday against seven mayors, the former state attorney general and 19 other officials in the western state of Michoacan for allegedly aiding a drug cartel. Three other mayors detained in raids across the state May 26 have not been charged, but will continue to be held pending investigations, officials said. The seven mayors are the largest group of Mexican elected officials arrested on drug charges in recent memory. They and the other suspects... NYTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274952/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273827/posts MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to regenerate body parts will one day help human amputees. reuters. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273827/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:30:52 GMT