BORDER & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISSUES: It is Uncle Sam’s fault
[NEVER A DULL MOMENT IN THE LIFE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT IT. ~ Michael J. Bruning]
From: gcafarelli@ccd-usa.com
To: gcafarelli@ccd-usa.com
Subject: BORDER & ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISSUES: It is Uncle Sam’s fault
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:22:11 -0700
Since I’ve moved to Arizona I learned that one of the certainties of the Mexican culture is the all of Mexico’s problems are the fault of the United States.
Note President Calderon’s spin on the slaughter of 72 people (mainly from Central and South America, I believe) by a Mexican gang in Mexico.
Mexico Lashes Out at U.S. Immigration Practices
Published September 10, 2010 | FoxNews.com
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview Friday that last month’s massacre of 72 migrants doesn’t undermine Mexico’s moral authority to demand better treatment for its own migrants.
“Of course we have the moral authority, because Mexican officials are not shooting Central American youths at the border, but U.S. agents are shooting Mexican migrants,” Calderon said in an interview with the Spanish-language Univision network.
“If we are talking about responsibility, at the root of this, in the case of immigration, is the lack of immigration legislation in the United States that would recognize this phenomenon,” Calderon said.
The massacred migrants, most from Central America, were attempting to cross Mexico to reach the U.S. border when they were kidnapped by what is believed to be a group of gunmen from Mexico’s Zeta drug cartel, according to a man who survived the massacre.
In a joint meeting with Calderon, President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador said that the home nations of migrants bear some of the responsibility for immigration problems.
“In part, the greatest responsibility lies with our governments, the Salvadoran government, for not having generated the employment conditions, the welfare conditions, that doesn’t leave our migrants any choice but to look for other opportunities in the United States and Canada.”
Thirteen Salvadorans were among the dead identified so far in the massacre in late August.
Funes also said, however, that he doesn’t blame Mexico’s government for the massacre, and called for a joint effort to fight drug cartels.
“We have come to have a conversation with the president of Mexico, not to condemn him or criticize him,” Funes said. “Rather the opposite, to show him our support and offer our help in this fight.”
Funes said the two countries formed a high-level working group to develop joint strategies for combating the drug gangs.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
But then we have this event. How will President Calderon spin this to blame the US?
25 people killed in Mexican border city, 85 escape from border prison
Published September 10, 2010 | Associated Press
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. Farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped Friday in Mexico’s biggest jail break in recent memory.
Despite the violence, President Felipe Calderon hotly disputed a statement this week by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying Mexico resembled Colombia two decades ago.
“These kind of comments like the ones made by Secretary of State Clinton … so careless, so lacking in seriousness, are very painful for Mexico, because they damage Mexico’s image terribly,” Calderon told the Spanish-language network Univision.
“I think the main thing we have in common with Colombia is that both of our countries suffer from U.S. drug consumption,” Calderon said. “We are both victims of the enormous American consumption of drugs, and now the sales of weapons.”
The toll in Thursday’s attacks in Ciudad Juarez included 15 people killed when attackers stormed four homes in three hours, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office of Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located.
In the worst of those attacks, gunmen burst into a house and killed two young men — then killed four others for being witnesses.
Sandoval said it was the highest single-day murder toll in the city across from El Paso, Texas, since March 2008. He did not give more details of how many died back then, or say what day.
Two graffiti message appeared in Ciudad Juarez threatening Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the fugitive head of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
“You are killing our sons. You already did, and now we are going to kill your families,” one sign read.
In the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, 85 inmates — 66 of whom were convicted or on trial for federal charges like weapons possession or drugs — scaled the Reynosa prison’s 20-foot (6-meter) walls using ladders, said the Tamaulipas state public safety secretary, Jose Garza Garcia.
Garza Garcia said 44 prison guards and employees were under investigation. Two were missing.
“The guards evidently helped in the escape,” he said. So far this year a total of 201 inmates have escaped from prisons in Tamaulipas.
Friday’s escape was the largest single mass prison breakout in recent years. In 2009, armed assailants believed to be working for the Zetas drug gang broke 53 inmates out of a prison in the northern state of Zacatecas while guards stood by and did nothing to stop them.
Ciudad Juarez, with a population of 1.3 million, has become one of the world’s most dangerous cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.
Violence has continued unabated despite the deployment of thousands of soldiers to the city this year. Federal police, including a special investigative unit, later took over security in the city as part of a new strategy announced by President Felipe Calderon.
More than 2,100 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, putting the city on pace to surpass its previous high of 2,700, set last year.
Daily homicide tolls routinely reach double digits in Juarez; 24 people were killed Aug. 15.
Also Friday, Sandoval confirmed that a U.S. resident kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez last month was found dead.
Saul de la Rosa, 27, was abducted along with two other people when he crossed into Ciudad Juarez on Aug. 28. All three bodies were found Sept. 2, and Sandoval said documents found on De la Rosa indicated he was a U.S. resident.
Elsewhere in Mexico, at least five people were killed in the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero, where various cartels are also fighting for territory, state police reported. One body was found floating in the ocean in a beach town just north of the resort city of Acapulco, his hands and feet bound.
In central Morelos state, a prison riot left one inmate dead and eight wounded. Guerrero and Morelos state have both been battlegrounds for control the Beltran Leyva cartel since its leader, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed in a December shootout with Marines.
One of the alleged kingpins fighting for control of Morelos, U.S.-born Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal, was captured Aug. 30 by federal police, but different accounts of how he was caught have since emerged.
The Mexican government has said the arrest was the result of a 1½-year investigation and a carefully planned raid involving agents specially trained abroad.
But a copy of the booking report obtained by The Associated Press and other media outlets Thursday indicates the officers who arrested him did not initially know who they had caught. The officers’ report says they detained Valdez after chasing him in a suspicious three-vehicle convoy for several miles.
On Friday, Valdez’s U.S. lawyer, Kent Schaffer, told The Associated Press that Mexican authorities lured Valdez to a business 10 miles from his ranch by having a detained associate call and ask to meet him. He said Valdez drove to the place, got out of the car and found himself surrounded.
Schaffer said Valdez told him the associate was forced to make the call at gunpoint.
“He wasn’t pulled over for traffic. He wasn’t chased at all,” Schaffer said. “From what I understand, an associate of Mr. Valdez was ordered at gunpoint to send him a message telling him to come meet.”
A federal police spokesman, who was not authorized by department rules to be quoted by name, said an associate of Valdez’s apparently did call Valdez just before he was caught, but said that happened while police were tailing the associate’s car in Mexico City.
When the associate noticed the police, he opened fire and was killed in the ensuing gunbattle near a major shopping center, the spokesman said.
Also Friday, Mexico’s attorney general said video tapes distributed by authorities showing Valdez giving a rambling account of his drug dealings are considered “interviews,” and could not be formally submitted as evidence because his lawyer was not present. Attorney General Arturo Chavez said that in formal statements with his lawyer present, Valdez did not admit to the activities he acknowledged on the tapes.
Schaffer also said he filed an official request with the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City asking that the U.S. government request Valdez be deported to face trial in the United States, where he faces charges in three states for allegedly trucking in tons of cocaine.
A Mexican judge last week ordered Valdez held for 40 days while prosecutors here decide whether to formally file organized crime and other charges. Mexican authorities have said deportation is a possibility but have made no decision.
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Associated Press writers Alexandra Olson and E. Eduardo Castillo contributed to this report.
Or this one here which reports on a frightening new trend—-car bombings (a technique some people believe was brought to Mexico by middle eastern terrorists—a fact denied by the Mexican government)?
Mexican police neutralize car bomb in border city
AP – A crime scene investigator points his flashlight at a body in
front of a home in the northern border …
Sep 11, 6:54 pm ET
MEXICO CITY – Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
A phone tip around midnight led authorities to a dead body in a car in a shopping center parking lot, the federal Public Safety Department said in a statement. In a second car, police found the bomb.
Agents deactivated the device and removed most of the explosive material to analyze it before safely detonating the vehicle, the department said. There were no injuries.
Juarez is the same city where drug traffickers staged the first successful car bombing in Mexico, killing three people in July.
There have been three other vehicle explosions in recent weeks in Ciudad Victoria, capital of the border state of Tamaulipas.
Ciudad, across from El Paso, Texas, has been one of the cities most affected by Mexico’s drug violence. More than 2,100 people have been murdered there so far this year — putting it on pace to surpass its previous high of 2,700, set last year.
Across the country, more than 28,000 people have been killed since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against the cartels soon after taking office.
In the central state of Morelos, police discovered nine bodies in clandestine graves Saturday in the same area where four more were recently found.
The Public Safety Department said in a separate statement that all 13 victims were believed to have been killed on the orders of U.S.-born Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez Villarreal, one of the alleged kingpins fighting for control of Morelos.
Valdez was captured Aug. 30 by federal police.
(This version CORRECTS that all 13 bodies found in Morelos are believed tied to La Barbie.)
The real issue here is the tremendous disconnect between what Mexican politicians say and the truth.
Harold
