It could be a very bloody week south of the border" if a note saying that there will "now be a 138 bodies in the street" is carried out in even more massacres, executions and murders in Mexico.
Incidents of mass violence in the Mexican drug war have escalated in the last few days, including:
- Gunmen storming a birthday party and opening fire to kill fourteen, ages 11 to 14.
- Gunmen stormed a rehab center and killed 13 people execution style
Following is a transcript of Tiffany Hartley's plea for President Obama to to crack down on the violence in America's backyard. In this Fox News subtitled, " Time to Take on Mexican Drug Cartels? Wife of missing American tells President Obama to stand against drug lords." :
Shepard Smith: The woman who claims Mexican pirates shot her husband on a border lake says this could be a turning point in the war on drugs. Tiffany Hartley says the president should use her husband's death to change policy and take a tougher stance on Mexican drug cartels.
In fact, she told the Denver Post newspaper "He should wake up and look at what's gong on in our backyard."
Tiffany Hartley: Right now, I obviously want to work on David's story because he is the story about what happened down there and getting the story out about the border. But ultimately I'm talking to people in congress. I don't want David's death to go in vain; but, I also want people in America to realize that this is a big issue.
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"In fact, she told the Denver Post newspaper "He should wake up and look at what's gong on in our backyard."
it's not OUR backyard, it's the neighbor's backyard
You are insane!
I LIVE in TEXAS. AND THIS PROBLEM IS in OUR BACKYARD!!
The "NEIGHBORS" are HERE!!
You are the insane one. I live in texas too, in fact on the border. The "neighbors" are NOT here. The shootings are going on in mexico. Obama is not the president of mexico! Where in texas are you from? Amarillo? You can't see crap from Amarillo!
30 million of the "NEIGHBORS" are here ILLEGALLY!
we were talking about drug cartels...try to keep up!
Mrae is right.
It's not like we're talking about a vast river which separates TX and Mexico, nor any other state that borders MX....
These people , these drug lords are savages. They need to be exterminated, one by one.
Where are our green berets when you need them? Snipers are very very good at offing these types of folks.
I say we go in and begin eliminating them, one by one.
Sick bastar*s.....
Amy
The US special forces are capable of getting rid of this "problem" if we give them enough time and support. And stay out of their hair whilst they do it.
These slime balls murder children... they need to be wiped off the face of the Earth. Period.
Amy
Where is "kick some azz" oloudmouth? "Powdering"
his nose before the next bussed in, scripted photo op?
YOU BETCHA!!
are you all conservative morons? It's mexicans killing mexicans in mexico!!!!!!!
Obama is NOT the president of mexico!!! He cannot throw the military at mexicans in mexico killing mexicans!!!!
Bunch of morons! Sheeeesh!
MORONIC is NOT realizing that over 200 AMERICANS have been killed in Mexico (directly attributable
to Mexico's own war on drugs)
"More lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in Juarez alone, just a few blocks from the United States of America, than have been lost in the war in Afghanistan. Over the past couple of years, more than 2,400 people in Juarez alone have been killed because of the drug cartel war, more than 5,000 across the country of Mexico. It is more dangerous to walk the streets of Juarez a few blocks from El Paso than it is to walk the streets of Baghdad."(excerpted/http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/oct/05/greg-abbott/attor...)
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NOT in our backyard huh?
Among his other disgusting attributes, obama is an incompetent COWARD. PERIOD!
"...It is more dangerous to walk the streets of Juarez a few blocks from El Paso than it is to walk the streets of Baghdad...."
what the hell are you on about? we live in America, not Juarez Mexico! El Paso is the second safest city in the country! GOOGLE IT! That is a problem in MEXICO! Obama is NOT the president of MEXICO!!! If Americans are being killed in Mexico, do what the rest of us Americans are doind and STAY OUT OF MEXICO!!!!!!! What the hell do you want Obama to do? Invade mexico???? is that what you expect? That would be the best thing mexico could hope for. The mexican authorities could sit back and watch American soldiers die instead of them fighting the drug cartels. Is THAT what you're really demanding?
But let's tell the truth. You could care crap about drug cartels and the people dying in Juarez...you are being a weasel and using a red herring to close te borders to the laborers...you are scum for the dirty tricks of quoting drug cartel kills in Juarez to justify the denial of fruit picking jobs to the only people willing to do the work...DRUG CARTELS WITH MACHINEGUNS HAVE ZERO TO DO WITH LETTUCE PICKERS AND YOU KNOW IT!!!!!
Talk about drug cartels or talk about illegal aliens, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING!!! Drug cartels can buy and sell you, they care nothing of coming over here where the law is going to come down on them harsher.
anonymous...
You must be the moron, as Mrae pointed out, this problem does indeed affect us, Ummm that was kind of the WHOLE point of the article, or did you even read it?
Stupid...
Amy
How many more Americans need to die before something in really done??
Øbama keeps pandering and appeasing our enemies at the detriment and cost of American lives.
Gee, isn't that an impeachable offense?
No, remember Deni, WE are the enemy according to this idiot presidente of ours....
Amy
Hi Amy!
You are absolutely correct ~ such a despicable and deplorable display from a "leader" of all people, which he is NOT.
His days are numbered, his own party is turning on him, and his crimes will come to light..........I am waiting patiently for the celebration.
Americans are being KILLED in border cities, in their own country, not Mexico!
do you EVER watch the news anonymous?
I mean EVER?
What planet are you on, while you're smoking that crack?
folks that live in border cities, where Mexico is only steps away, are being caught in the CROSSFIRE
And, yes, they ARE coming here, chasing people they wish to harm, into American cities when mexicans flee the drug cartels.
Geesh, are you this naive? I mean what the hell?
lol, and you know this how? Show me the people IN AMERICA being caught in this imaginary crossfire...you know nothing of this...Juarez may be one of the deadliest cities in mexico, but right across the river is el paso texas and it's the SECOND SAFEST CITY IN AMERICA!
God you're stupid. Read this. The drug cartels DO affect the United States, only a total IMBECILE would believe they don't. What is the matter with you idiots? Do you lack simple 3rd grade logic skills? You truly believe that the US is impervious to this drug war that goes on, so close to home, and in fact in other American cities across the country? Chicago, LA, NYC, Detroit, etc...
Ya you're right... this isn't any big deal. You people are moronic.
According to the DEA it's only a matter of time.....
If it's not a huge deal, then why is this article highlighting Obummer joining forces against these cartels? Hmmm? He's not doing enough, because what really needs to happen is the sealing of our borders so that these pieces of SHYTE cannot enter our country at all!
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From CNN
Stakes rise as drug war threatens to cross border
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May 18, 2009|By Ann O'Neill CNN
* U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are joining forces against the cartels.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are joining forces against the cartels.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, a 54-year-old drug cartel leader whose nickname means "Shorty," is the most wanted man in Mexico. He's also one of the most wanted men in the United States.
For five years, the State Department has kept a $5 million bounty on his head, calling Guzman a threat to U.S. security.
Guzman, who leads the Sinaloa cartel, is a key player in the bloody turf battles being fought along the border.
He recently upped the stakes, ordering his associates to use lethal force to protect their loads in contested drug trafficking corridors, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The cartel's tentacles and those of its chief rival, the Gulf cartel, already reach across the border and into metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; and Charlotte, North Carolina, Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Joseph Arabit told a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee in March.
"No other country in the world has a greater impact on the drug situation in the United States than Mexico does," said Arabit, who heads the DEA's office in this year's border hot spot, El Paso, Texas. See where Mexican cartels are in the U.S.
A December 2008 report by the Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center revealed that Mexican drug traffickers can be found in more than 230 U.S. cities.
So far, the U.S. has largely been spared the violence seen in Mexico, where the cartels' running gunbattles with police, the military and each other claimed about 6,500 lives last year. It was a sharp spike from the 2,600 deaths attributed to cartel violence in 2007.
Once again, drug war casualties are mounting on the Mexican side at a record pace in 2009 -- more than 1,000 during the first three months of the year, Arabit said.
The violence that has spilled over into the U.S. has been restricted to the players in the drug trade -- trafficker-on-trafficker, DEA agents say. But law enforcement officials and analysts who spoke with CNN agree that it is only a matter of time before innocent people on the U.S. side get caught in the cartel crossfire.
"It's coming. I guarantee, it's coming," said Michael Sanders, a DEA spokesman in Washington.
NOTICE the last three paragraphs????
You're right, this is no big deal....... keep on dreaming.
Idiota....
Amy
More... Americans shot to death while in near the border of El Paso Tx....
So because they were 15 feet across the border.....at a child's birthday party.... they're not victims? You people are freaking Sick in the head.
These people were shot in front of their infant daughter....
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More deaths in Ciudad Juarez, a place where you just shouldn’t go for vacation. This time, it involves 3 people connected to the U.S. Consulate who were returning from a kid’s birthday party. They were shot to death in their cars. Two of the dead – an American couple – had a baby in the back seat (fortunately, the baby was unharmed). The three victims were killed in broad daylight near the city’s border with El Paso, Texas.
This story is notable because it’s the first time the drug gangs have attacked U.S. diplomatic personnel. The dead couple were identified as Lesley A. Enriquez, 35, an employee of the consulate, and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, 34. Redelfs was a detention officer with the El Paso County Jail. The third person killed was identified as the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate. He was traveling with two children, both of whom were injured.
No motives found. It is believe to be an attack by either the Aztecs or the Linea gangs.
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NOW you brainless tards..... if you truly believe that it's not an inevitability that folks in El Paso, "the safest city in the US NOT" will be hit or murdered or somehow caught up in this crossfire? You're delusional and stupid....
Amy
News flash! According to this fool posting on here, the Americans murdered while in Juarez, just over the border, were meaningless because they were shot over there, rather than in El Paso!
Good to know!
I'm sure they "left" their citizenship back in TX when they drove over the border that day and were brutally murdered, leaving their infant daughter an orphan.....
YOU are the clueless one "Walrus"
Your big FAT ego-maniacal head is getting in the way of you being able to "think" and reason.
Amy
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