Drug Cartels & Traffickers Prompt 500 More Federal Agents @ The Border


	Drug Cartels & Traffickers Prompt 500 More Federal Agents @ The Border

merrie

3-25-2009 7:54 PM

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phoenix abductions/ransoms, kidnappings, shootings, rapes and banditry, drug cartels & traffickers, 500 more federal agents to the border

merrie says:

Phoenix is clearly seeing the worst of the spillover. Investigators here suspect some of the kidnappings have led to killings in which bound and bullet-riddled bodies have been dumped in the desert.

In the kidnapping of the motorist earlier this month, the victim managed to escape from the house before any ransom was paid. Investigators suspect he was mixed up in drug- or immigrant-smuggling because his captors believed he could get his hands on $30,000 in cash.

David Denlinger, chief of criminal investigations for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, likened the cartels to the tire business.

"You don't have a manufacturer of a tire that's the one putting it on your car at the end," Denlinger said. "So what you see up here in the interior is not your formal cartel. That's pretty much ended once they passed it through the United States."

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3-25-2009 9:58 PM

n2sooners

I blame the fence. If we would just tear down the fences, put out more watering stations, and maybe some nice paved roads then I'm sure everything would be just fine....

3-25-2009 11:26 PM

merrie

. . . . as Pelosi so sagely stated, undocumented workers (illegal aliens) are patriot and it's un-American to remove them from our workplaces!

3-26-2009 9:28 AM

dl211

Like everything else - Mexico's problem is caused by the US. What stupid people like Hillary, Obama and Congress say to appear politically correct.
We have more laws than we need to completely stop the flow of drugs into and all money and weapons out of this country along the Mexican border. Bush didn't care to, Obama and Congress don't want to piss off future dem voters so they do nothing. Hillary blames the US' appetite for illegal drugs instead of our desire not to enforce immigration and export laws, very convient for all concerned except the public at large.

Obama' reactionary display of sending 500 more agents only happeded after concern from citizens mounted and amounts to on...

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