Re: Illegal Aliens Bring Latin American Lawlessness and Violence to U.S.

> It's time to throw these criminal illegal aliens out of the country
> for good.  La Raza == Kidnappings, extortion, violence and corrupt
> government. Instead of going after good Americans like Roger Barnett
> and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, we need to go to the root of the problem which
> is La Raza -- the Spanish speaking invaders from Latin America.
> PHOENIX — Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a
> home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.
> Armed kidnappers snatch victims from cars and even a local shopping
> mall across the Phoenix valley for ransom, turning the sun-baked city
> into the "kidnap capital" of the United States.
> Violence of this kind is common in Mexico where drug cartel abductions
> and executions are a daily feature of a raging drug war that claimed
> 6,000 lives south of the border last year.
> But U.S. authorities now fear that violent crime is beginning to bleed
> over the porous Mexico border and take hold here.
> "The fight in Mexico is about domination of the smuggling corridors
> and those corridors don't stop at the border," Arizona Attorney
> General Terry Goddard said.
> Execution style murders, violent home invasions, and a spiraling
> kidnap rate in Phoenix -- where police reported an average of one
> abduction a day last year linked to Mexican crime -- are not the only
> examples along the border.
> In southern California, police have investigated cases of Americans
> abducted by armed groups tied to the Tijuana drug trade. One involved
> a businesswoman and her teenage daughter snatched in San Diego last
> year and held to ransom south of the border.
> In south Texas, a live hand grenade traced back to a Mexican cartel
> stash was tossed onto the pool table of a bar frequented by off-duty
> police officers in January. The pin was left in it and the assailant
> fled.
> COPING WITH SPILLOVER
> Mexican traffickers have always been violent, but the death toll has
> soared since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and
> sent tens of thousands of troops to fight the country's powerful
> cocaine cartels.
> Soldiers have fought pitched battles with drug gangs in several
> Mexican towns and overwhelmed police officers have fled municipal
> forces the length of the border. In many cases, police officers have
> been paid off by the drug gangs or even joined them.
> In a sign of an increasingly desperate struggle to rein in the
> violence, Calderon this week ordered 5,000 more troops and federal
> police to Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
> The cartels have killed 250 people in Ciudad Juarez in the past month,
> forced the police chief to resign, and shut down the airport with bomb
> threats.
> The struggle by outgunned Mexican authorities to contain the violence
> was highlighted for Arizona state police last November, when Mexican
> police officers pinned down in a raging gun battle in Nogales, Sonora,
> reached out to them with an urgent request for more bullets.
> While U.S. authorities stress they have not seen anything like the
> kind of street battles and horrific beheadings that are now common in
> Mexico, they are already taking action to curb was has become known as
> "overspill".
> Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he wants 1,000 troops to guard the border.
> The state's Attorney General Greg Abbott is backing legislation to
> crack down on money laundering and human, drug and weapons trafficking
> through the state by the warring Gulf and Sinaloa cartels.
> Lawmakers in Arizona heard testimony on border violence last week from
> police and prosecutors, who are seeking more robust measures to seize
> smugglers' assets, as well as cracking down harder on gunrunning to
> Mexico.
> PLANNING FOR THE WORST
> Washington has stepped up support for Calderon, pledging to give
> Mexico helicopters, surveillance aircraft, inspection equipment and
> police training under a $1.4 billion plan to beat the cartels in
> Mexico and Central America.
> Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano -- a former Arizona
> governor -- told a Congressional hearing last week she was focused on
> curbing the southbound traffic in guns that are being used to arm the
> violent cartels.
> In a measure of that commitment, a Phoenix gun dealer goes on trial
> next week on charges he sold hundreds of weapons, including AK-47
> assault rifles, to smugglers knowing they would send them to a
> powerful cartel in Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast.
> As the spiraling drug violence shakes Mexican cities and towns along
> the U.S. border, U.S. Senate lawmakers announced last week they would
> hold two hearings to assess the ability of U.S. security forces to
> deal with the rise in crime on the U.S. side.
> Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the homeland security
> governmental affairs committee, said the panel would assess border
> security programs already in place and review whether federal, state
> and local authorities are ready to respond to any serious spillover of
> the Mexican drugs war.
> For the sheriff of Hidalgo County, in south Texas, where the live
> grenade was thrown into a bar in Pharr, possibly by street gang
> members armed by a Mexican cartel, that renewed attention to the war
> on his doorstep can only be welcome.
> "It's the first time we've had a hand grenade attack," Guadalupe
> Trevino told Reuters. "I believe there's more out there that we need
> to find."
> (Additional reporting by Ed Stoddard in Dallas and Randall Mikkelsen
> in Washington; Editing by Kieran Murray)
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> wrote:
>> It's time to throw these criminal illegal aliens out of the country
>> for good. La Raza == Kidnappings, extortion, violence and corrupt
>> government. Instead of going after good Americans like Roger Barnett
>> and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, we need to go to the root of the problem
>> which is La Raza -- the Spanish speaking invaders from Latin America.
>>
>> PHOENIX — Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a
>> home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.
>>
>> Armed kidnappers snatch victims from cars and even a local shopping
>> mall across the Phoenix valley for ransom, turning the sun-baked city
>> into the "kidnap capital" of the United States.
>>
>> Violence of this kind is common in Mexico where drug cartel
>> abductions and executions are a daily feature of a raging drug war
>> that claimed 6,000 lives south of the border last year.
>>
>> But U.S. authorities now fear that violent crime is beginning to
>> bleed over the porous Mexico border and take hold here.
>>
>> "The fight in Mexico is about domination of the smuggling corridors
>> and those corridors don't stop at the border," Arizona Attorney
>> General Terry Goddard said.
>>
>> Execution style murders, violent home invasions, and a spiraling
>> kidnap rate in Phoenix -- where police reported an average of one
>> abduction a day last year linked to Mexican crime -- are not the only
>> examples along the border.
>>
>> In southern California, police have investigated cases of Americans
>> abducted by armed groups tied to the Tijuana drug trade. One involved
>> a businesswoman and her teenage daughter snatched in San Diego last
>> year and held to ransom south of the border.
>>
>> In south Texas, a live hand grenade traced back to a Mexican cartel
>> stash was tossed onto the pool table of a bar frequented by off-duty
>> police officers in January. The pin was left in it and the assailant
>> fled.
>>
>> COPING WITH SPILLOVER
>>
>> Mexican traffickers have always been violent, but the death toll has
>> soared since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and
>> sent tens of thousands of troops to fight the country's powerful
>> cocaine cartels.
>>
>> Soldiers have fought pitched battles with drug gangs in several
>> Mexican towns and overwhelmed police officers have fled municipal
>> forces the length of the border. In many cases, police officers have
>> been paid off by the drug gangs or even joined them.
>>
>> In a sign of an increasingly desperate struggle to rein in the
>> violence, Calderon this week ordered 5,000 more troops and federal
>> police to Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
>>
>> The cartels have killed 250 people in Ciudad Juarez in the past
>> month, forced the police chief to resign, and shut down the airport
>> with bomb threats.
>>
>> The struggle by outgunned Mexican authorities to contain the violence
>> was highlighted for Arizona state police last November, when Mexican
>> police officers pinned down in a raging gun battle in Nogales,
>> Sonora, reached out to them with an urgent request for more bullets.
>>
>> While U.S. authorities stress they have not seen anything like the
>> kind of street battles and horrific beheadings that are now common in
>> Mexico, they are already taking action to curb was has become known
>> as "overspill".
>>
>> Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he wants 1,000 troops to guard the border.
>> The state's Attorney General Greg Abbott is backing legislation to
>> crack down on money laundering and human, drug and weapons
>> trafficking through the state by the warring Gulf and Sinaloa
>> cartels.
>>
>> Lawmakers in Arizona heard testimony on border violence last week
>> from police and prosecutors, who are seeking more robust measures to
>> seize smugglers' assets, as well as cracking down harder on
>> gunrunning to Mexico.
>>
>> PLANNING FOR THE WORST
>>
>> Washington has stepped up support for Calderon, pledging to give
>> Mexico helicopters, surveillance aircraft, inspection equipment and
>> police training under a $1.4 billion plan to beat the cartels in
>> Mexico and Central America.
>>
>> Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano -- a former Arizona
>> governor -- told a Congressional hearing last week she was focused on
>> curbing the southbound traffic in guns that are being used to arm the
>> violent cartels.
>>
>> In a measure of that commitment, a Phoenix gun dealer goes on trial
>> next week on charges he sold hundreds of weapons, including AK-47
>> assault rifles, to smugglers knowing they would send them to a
>> powerful cartel in Sinaloa state on Mexico's Pacific coast.
>>
>> As the spiraling drug violence shakes Mexican cities and towns along
>> the U.S. border, U.S. Senate lawmakers announced last week they would
>> hold two hearings to assess the ability of U.S. security forces to
>> deal with the rise in crime on the U.S. side.
>>
>> Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the homeland security
>> governmental affairs committee, said the panel would assess border
>> security programs already in place and review whether federal, state
>> and local authorities are ready to respond to any serious spillover
>> of the Mexican drugs war.
>>
>> For the sheriff of Hidalgo County, in south Texas, where the live
>> grenade was thrown into a bar in Pharr, possibly by street gang
>> members armed by a Mexican cartel, that renewed attention to the war
>> on his doorstep can only be welcome.
>>
>> "It's the first time we've had a hand grenade attack," Guadalupe
>> Trevino told Reuters. "I believe there's more out there that we need
>> to find."
>>
>> (Additional reporting by Ed Stoddard in Dallas and Randall Mikkelsen
>> in Washington; Editing by Kieran Murray)
>>
>> © 2009 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. Reuters content is the
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>> Thomson Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in
>> content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. "Reuters" and
>> the Reuters Logo are trademarks of Thomson Reuters and its affiliated
>> companies. For additional information on other Reuters media services
>> please visithttp://about.reuters.com/media/ .

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