Border Tightened After Cartel Threats

Police Say Warring Mexican Drug Gangs May Pursue Targets In U.S.

(AP)  Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.

Law enforcement officials would not discuss specific security measures being taken at the ports of entry, along the border or in the city of El Paso.

"We received credible information that drug cartels in Mexico have given permission to hit targets on the U.S. side of the border," El Paso police spokesman Officer Chris Mears said.

Authorities learned of the threat last week.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Officer Rick Lopez said: "CBP is on heightened alert ever since we became aware of the threats in Mexico."

U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said officials "are reinforcing the importance of vigilance."

Drug cartel violence has claimed thousands of lives in Mexico this year. Nearly 800 people have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, a hardscrabble city of about 1.3 million people across the Rio Grande from El Paso.

The cartels, battling one another and the Mexican government for supremacy and control of lucrative drug and human smuggling routes, have become brazen in their attacks in recent months.

In Juarez this month, masked gunmen stormed a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and killed eight people. Days later, Red Cross workers stopped treating gunshot victims for several hours after receiving death threats over Red Cross radios. The Red Cross had already stopped responding to emergency calls after 10 p.m. because of security concerns.

Law enforcement officials this year in New Mexico and Texas said they had received a purported cartel hit list identifying 15 to 20 potential targets in those states. Mears said the latest threat contained no specific targets.

The deadly wave of shootings and a rise in kidnappings for ransom in Mexico has prompted some of its citizens, including police officers and a prosecutor, to seek asylum in the U.S.

While the ongoing cartel war has been largely contained in Mexico, more than two dozen gunshot victims have been taken for medical treatment in El Paso, prompting security lockdowns at the county hospital.

Lopez said agents working at the ports, where those gunshot victims have been taken before coming into the U.S., are taking extra security precautions. Ambulances transporting gunshot victims are already being escorted by local law enforcement to the hospital, he said.

[chrome12-2009]

Why hasn''t the border always been secure??

[chrome12-2009]

Why hasn''t the border always been secure??

[honestabe8]

Prohibition is what gives these guys money and power. If we want prohibition, crime is the natural end result. Far from making us safer, it is putting us in more danger.

[hwy71so]

And y''all didn''t want Duncan Hunter for president.

And y''all want our 2nd Amendment rights revoked.

America used to be strong, now it seems the whining weenies (liberals) are becoming dominant. If y''all put that Obama in the white house, you deserve what you''ll get!

[bhappy2-2]

The border should have been sealed about 20,000,000 ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS ago. Place ARMED GUARDS along the border, issue orders to shoot to kill and then kill anything larger than a mouse that comes across the border.

[voidmaster-2009]

I will give it a look. Thanks.

It%u2019s a shame, the truth in what you say, that most of the sheep must be told what to think. A real shame.

Got to go, people. Once again, it has been fun. ;-)

[voidmaster-2009]

What''s its title?

[voidmaster-2009]

My approach to anarchy is a bit more difficult to label than the varieties warned against in schools. For me, it%u2019s a matter of walking my own path, ignoring the laws and doing as I see fit irrespective of who may be yelling from behind me, %u201CHey you can%u2019t do that!%u201D

It is a lot less stressful this way.

[voidmaster-2009]

The Amero? Haven%u2019t heard of that one yet. May I assume you speak of a borderless Americas? If so, it would be nice to see, but a bit utopian at this point, I fear. There are too many interests of too many people all too willing to kill.

[voidmaster-2009]

Incidentally, as an anarchist, I do not participate in the dog-and-pony show every four years.

[voidmaster-2009]

VoidMaster,
youre obviously sh.it,ting in your pants from the change which will eventually follow a shift in demographics,
its not all that bad,
where i live there are signs in spanish Korean chinese, and it is an awesome display of cultures,
what good is it if everything gets sterilised?
we eventually end up with leave it to beaver reruns,
borring...

Posted by six-seis-six
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I could care less about any shift in demographics. And a dramatic change in culture is very much what the U. S. needs -- desperately. But no culture should rightly be taken as a whole.

Pick and choose%u2026 take and keep the parts that are good. Throw out the rest. The problem is, most people are so caught up in the trap of tradition that the notion of dropping some part of %u201Chow they grew up%u201D seems almost blasphemous.

By the way, I%u2019m with you on Leave it to Beaver reruns. They%u2019re not only boring, they just plain suck.

[voidmaster-2009]

Do you know what culture is fool?

Posted by penskeone
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Yes idiot, do you? And I understand that there is much rich history to be enjoyed by all cultures. But just as in the U. S. there are parts of all cultures that should be trashed.

So tell me, how is the Mexican government sucking the life out of the rich Mexican culture?

By the way, it should have been %u201C%u2026 culture is[,] fool?%u201D (Just some proper English there.) And no, that%u2019s not a jab at Mexicans or at Spanish. Most Norte Americanas write like the illiterates they are.

[penskeone]

I don%u2019t even have a problem with the illegal crossings. Just leave behind the culture. It obviously is not working for you.


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Posted by VoidMaster


Do you know what culture is fool?

[penskeone]

Government corruption is a result of culture. While perhaps of a different type or with different results, there is government corruption in the U. S. That too is the result of what the U. S. culture allows or expects. The U. S. culture is just not AS dysfunctional -- yet.


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Posted by VoidMaster

Not necessarily, The Mexican Culture is a real rich culture with a great history. The Mexican Government is eating up the Mexican Culture.

[voidmaster-2009]

I don%u2019t even have a problem with the illegal crossings. Just leave behind the culture. It obviously is not working for you.

[slim1h2o]

slim1h2o , i guess i dont understand your point,
Most Mexicans i know come here for $$$$$
and work, then leave once theyve made a little money,
and start businesses.

Posted by six-seis-six at 04:52 PM : Aug 26, 2008

Not sure what point you are refering to, but I have no problems with people coming here to better themseleves, LEGALLY, and trying to assimulate into the American culture. And not to the detrement to the American people.

And that''s always been my point.

[slim1h2o]

It is easy to understand why so many Mexicans want into America -- it is to escape the culture they have in Mexico. What I do not understand is, why then to they insist on bringing that same culture with them into the U. S. Obviously they know it is a dysfunctional way of life.

Posted by VoidMaster at 04:35 PM : Aug 26, 2008

Very well said!

[voidmaster-2009]

Mexicans don''''t want to abandon their culture. They want to escape their corrupt government.

Posted by penskeone
***
Government corruption is a result of culture. While perhaps of a different type or with different results, there is government corruption in the U. S. That too is the result of what the U. S. culture allows or expects. The U. S. culture is just not AS dysfunctional -- yet.

[penskeone]

slim1h2o , i guess i dont understand your point,
Most Mexicans i know come here for $$$$$
and work, then leave once theyve made a little money,
and start businesses.


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Posted by six-seis-six


Not True,

Most mexicans come here to make a better living and provide for their families!

[trrrorislam3]

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