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[Alpha Mare]

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pinboy3niner  (652 posts)      Sun May-02-10 04:37 PM
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Arizona Republic: Violence is not up on Arizona border
 Local law enforcement officers dispute claims by Sen. John McCain and others that border violence is increasing. It's just politics, they say. This lengthy article is well worth the read.
Violence is not up on Arizona
border
Mexico crime flares, but here, only flickers

by Dennis Wagner - May. 2, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
 MORE:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/...

Pinhead, you ignorant dummy-
Nogales is a 'pass-through' city; get it?

In fact, violent-crime data suggest that violence from Mexico leapfrogs the border to smuggling hubs and destinations, where cartel members do take part in murders, home invasions and kidnappings.
In Phoenix and Tucson, cartel-related violence is hardly new.

In 1996, for example, Valley law-enforcement agents estimated that 40 percent of all homicides in Maricopa County were a result of conflicts involving Mexican narcotics organizations, mostly from Sinaloa state. A decade later, the Attorney General's Office exposed a $2 billion human-smuggling business based in metro Phoenix, where criminals often assaulted illegal aliens while holding them for payment of smuggling fees. More recently, cartel-related home invasions and abductions put Phoenix among the world leaders in kidnappings.

From the same article you quoted.

From 2007 to 2009, the
five Southwest Border districts increased their felony caseloads by 8,218 felony cases – a 42%
increase. Felony immigration cases rose by 6,966 cases – a 59.14% increase.  In 2007,
the 5 Southwest Border districts filed 32.7% of the nation’s federal felony cases (19,370/59,228).
In 2009, the Southwest Border districts filed 40.65% of the nation’s federal felony cases
(27,588/67,864).

The violence along the Southwest border comes primarily from a limited number of
large, sophisticated and vicious criminal organizations. Indeed, the Department’s National Drug
Intelligence Center has identified the Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) as the
greatest organized crime threat facing the United States today.
Similarly, the Southwest Border U.S. Attorneys are seeing drug- and non-drug-related
kidnappings tied to transnational organized crime.
In the Southern District of California, a multi-agency Cross-Border Kidnapping Task
Force responds to the problem of people being kidnapped in the United States, transported into
Mexico, and held for ransom.Of the total number of kidnapping victims since 2007, 32 were U.S. citizens or legal
residents. Since early 2007, approximately 22 Chula Vista, California residents, including U.S.
citizens, resident aliens, and foreign nationals who commute back and forth across the border,
have been kidnapped in the Tijuana area; half of them were killed.
The recent murder of Southern Arizona rancher Robert Krentz is a tragic example of
cross-border violence.

DENNIS K. BURKE
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE
APRIL 20, 2010

And then there's the AZ DPS-http://www.azdps.gov/Media/News/    Plenty of drugs, human smuggling, even an attempted kidnapping; that's just this year.

One more thing you don't know-

FBI: Kidnappings spike in Texas-Mexico border town

McALLEN, Texas — Kidnappings in this Texas border community nearly quadrupled last fiscal year compared to 2008, and most were connected to the drug trade, the local FBI chief told state lawmakers Thursday.

Forty-two people were kidnapped in the McAllen area between October 2008 and September 2009, compared with just 11 the year before. Sixteen are still missing, and many kidnappings likely went unreported, said John Johnson, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's office in McAllen.

"Fiscal '09 was off the charts," Johnson said during a legislative hearing aimed at evaluating Texas' border security.
Murders and kidnappings linked to the drug trade have been reported in several border communities in Texas, while some agencies have been stretched by routine drug smuggling, local and state law enforcement told lawmakers.

But perhaps the most surprising testimony came from Patricia Martinez, a drug counselor from nearby Pharr who said her 20-year-old son and his father were kidnapped in May 2009 while having dinner at a restaurant in Reynosa, Mexico.

She hasn't heard from either her son or her ex-husband since. Both are U.S. citizens, and her son — whom she said was an excellent student with no ties to drugs — lived with her in Pharr.

She said the crimes often go unreported because victims' families fear that kidnappers will kill their victims if they are reported to authorities.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6982710.html

Why don't you come on down here, pinhead, and see for yourself?

[JohnnyReb]

Why don't you come on down here, pinhead, and see for yourself?

That would mean that pinhead would have to get off his fat, flat ass.

[The Village Idiot]

Narco kidnapping has boomed in Arizona

The University of Texas has pulled students and staff from Mexico.

[Tantal]

We used to go into the border towns to party all the time when I was in college. Now, I won't go south of San Antonio.

[jukin]

If you take out kidnapping, murder, assault, breaking & entering, and rape, crime has actually gone down in Arizona....just like in SanFran.

[GOBUCKS]

Except for the rare instances where law enforcement officers are attacked, the murders and kidnappings involving drug gangs are public services.

[JohnnyReb]

Of 8,000 drunk driving cases, about 2,000 were illegal aliens, with some repeaters using more than one name.....of 11 drunk driving caused deaths, 6 were caused by drunk illegal alliens. And more than half of those caught driving without a license were illegal alliens....as per radio show [Terra Sir-va-cious(sp)] from Charlotte NC..

Mod to add:

Locally....last week a dude that has served time for drug dealing, been deported three times (that's 3 times) was tried in court and given 7 years in prison and ordered deported again upon completion of time. He cut an illegal alliens womans thoart 3" deep, stabbed her several times and slashed her arms and hands to ribbons. She lived.(We, you, us....paid for her long hospital stay and she and her 2 kids are still here).

[Tucker]

We used to go into the border towns to party all the time when I was in college. Now, I won't go south of San Antonio.

I use to go to Nogales every other week end when I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca. It was a shit hole then. Although I did get some nice switchblades.  

[BlueStateSaint]

I use to go to Nogales every other week end when I was stationed in Ft. Huachuca. It was a shit hole then. Although I did get some nice switchblades.  

When I was stationed at Bliss, I went to Juarez once, and that was a month before I left the Army.

[The Village Idiot]

Here is another May Day pic from the Malkin site today: