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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
(THE FIGURE FOR MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS IS NOW CALCULATED TO BE MORE THAN ONE MILLION. ACCORDING TO THE F.B.I. THE MEX DRUG CARTEL OPERATES OUT OF 233 CITIES)
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
“Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers, who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years.”
latimes.com
3 people, 2 of them Americans, are killed in drug-related shootings in Mexico
A U.S. Consulate worker and his wife, as well as another consulate employee, are dead, officials say. Also, 13 people are slain in Acapulco just as spring break brings an influx of visitors.
By Tracy Wilkinson
1:08 PM PDT, March 14, 2010
Reporting from Mexico City
Three people associated with the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez have been killed in drive-by shootings, U.S. officials said Sunday. Two of the dead were U.S. citizens, and the third was the Mexican spouse of a consulate employee.
(READ BELOW IF YOU BUY INTO OBAMA’S “OUTRAGE” ABOUT LIKE HIS OUTRAGE AT WHAT HIS BANKSTER DONORS HAVE DONE TO US!)
President Obama expressed outrage at the slayings in a statement from the White House.
In response to escalating violence, the State Department told employees they could send family members and other dependents home to the U.S. from six northern Mexico cities where Washington maintains consulates.
The three who were killed Saturday, in broad daylight in the middle of the city, are the latest casualties in Mexico's raging drug war, which has claimed thousands of lives in recent years. Ciudad Juárez, located at a critical entry point of drugs into the U.S., is the deadliest city in the country as gangs battle for control of smuggling routes, turf and market share.
The victims of the shootings were an American employee of the U.S. Consulate and her American husband. The couple's infant daughter was with them but was unharmed. The third fatality, in a separate shooting, was the Mexican husband of a Mexican national employed by the consulate. His two children were with him and were injured, Mexican authorities said. The victims' names were not immediately released.
The White House said Obama "shares in the outrage of the Mexican people at the murders of thousands in Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in Mexico."
He said the U.S. would "continue to work with Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his government to break the power of the drug-trafficking organizations that operate in Mexico and far too often target and kill innocent people. This is a responsibility we must shoulder together."
The Mexican government also said it was "profoundly sorrowed" by the slayings but pledged to press ahead with its military-led offensive against drug cartels.
Also Saturday, at least 13 people were killed, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors had begun arriving for spring break.
Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said.
The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m.
Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers, who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years.
The government is especially sensitive to reports of drug-war violence in tourist destinations such as Acapulco and Cancun. But no region is immune. Guerrero state is one of Mexico's most violent: Its position on the Pacific coast makes it a prime transit route for smuggling narcotics to the U.S. and coveted turf for warring cartels.
In June, as Acapulco was putting its hopes on a recovering tourist industry, 18 gunmen and soldiers were killed in battles one weekend in one of the city's seaside neighborhoods.
News channels have been showing video of young U.S., Canadian and European tourists already frolicking on the beaches of Acapulco, as if to say "maybe this year" and convey a sense of normality. And this weekend is a holiday; thousands of Mexican tourists were headed to Acapulco to take advantage of a three-day weekend marking the birthday of 19th century President Benito Juarez.
Heriberto Salinas Altes, head of public security for Guerrero, said authorities were expecting an increase in violence because of newly exploded power struggles among drug gangs.
"We wish to say that security for visitors [to Acapulco] as well as for people who live here is guaranteed," Salinas told La Jornada newspaper.
More than 18,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Calderón deployed the army to battle cartels in December 2006.
MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
THE STATE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE WARNING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN OUR OWN BORDERS!
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS .
IN CALIFORNIA ALONE THERE HAVE BEEN 2,000 AMERICANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS THAT FLED BACK OVER THE BORDER TO AVOID PROSECUTION.
AND YET AT THIS VERY MOMENT, OBAMA AND THE LA RAZA DEMS ARE WORKING FOR AMNESTY FOR 38 MILLION MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS!
State Department warns of Mexico violence threat
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is authorizing U.S. government employees at six U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug-related violence.
The department says the family members are authorized to leave until April 12. The six consulates are in the border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros.
The department said in a statement Sunday that recent violent attacks have led the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City to advise American citizens to delay unnecessary travel to parts of the Mexican states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua.
Also Sunday, a U.S. official said three people affiliated with the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez were killed in a drive-by shooting.
Two American citizens and a spouse of a Mexican employee were killed Saturday afternoon, said the official who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
The White House says President Obama is outraged by the news.
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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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“Ciudad Juárez, located at a critical entry point of drugs into the U.S., is the deadliest city in the country as gangs battle for control of smuggling routes, turf and market share.”
Lou Dobbs Tonight
(THE FIGURE FOR MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS IS NOW CALCULATED TO BE MORE THAN ONE MILLION. ACCORDING TO THE F.B.I. THE MEX DRUG CARTEL OPERATES OUT OF 233 CITIES)
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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