21 killed in Mexican gang shootout near US border
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 12:53am
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The Associated Press
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.
The fire fight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border, near the city of Nogales, that is considered a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.
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I grew up if the SV area so I know how bad the illegals and their problems
are! The part that really gets me madder then a cornered rattle snake is that
these issues are NOT making it to the rest of the country. I am not sure why,
the passing of the new law made it every where, but for those who don’t live
in Az or any where near the boarder really don’t think that there are as many
illegals crossing as there is or that there is a real concern for our rights
and safety while living in our country where we are citizens pay our taxes
and follow the laws. I proudly defend Arizona, and this new law and will for
as long as the law is needed! But we have to some how show the rest of the
country that we are not racist or Nazis have no idea what it is like living
near the boarders or are housing illegals. THIS AND ARTICLES LIKE THIS NEED
TO BE SENT AND READ ALL OVER THE COUNTRY IF WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW BIG
THE ISSUE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REALLY IS!!!!!
Guns are banned in Mexico!! So what do you have to say about that? I am
keeping my guns thank you very much. So far in the 100 years or so that our
family guns have been around not one person has been killed with them. A few
animals maybe. I feel better knowing that if someone attempts to do harm to a
family member or guest in my home. That I can protect them yes, with guns! I
am too weak to do it in hand to hand combat.
Guns did not save anyones lives in this incident. It is clear and obvious
that guns do NOT save lives they only take them. This is just another shining
example why all guns need to be banned.
The intelligent have a good idea of what the death toll would have been
without the victims’ use of ARMED resistance.
This isn’t occurring near our border! Janet says there isn’t a problem, quit
saying there is!!
The article said it occured 20 miles from our border. Thats only about 10
minutes away! In El Paso they had bullets from across the border hit City
Hall! Tell it to the police officer who was shot in the Casa Grande area a
month or so ago! Wait until your property values go down because nobody will
want to live here, then we will hear you crying! Read this blog
(http://narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-07-05T0...)
you will be shocked by how hateful and brutal the drug traffikers are! They
will be here soon I promise you that, they are fighting over drug corridors,
the corridors don’t stop at the border! Make sure you put the link in google
to translate to english.
That shooting was too close to our side of the border. What will happened if
an American citizen is shot and killed on our side of the border. The same
thing that happened to the rancher who was shot and killed when the tracks
led back South to the border?
I’m so sad that this is happening I love this area of Sonora. The US needs a
reasonable worker policy. A good policy will allow people to come, to work,
and to return home. If there were a registry of open jobs, and workers could
come in through US Customs, be checked out and such, the human smuggling
operations would soon disappear, we’d have the workers we need, and illegal
immigration would be minimal.
You do realize that “most” of the immigrants that come illegally are doing so
because they can’t get threw the “reasonble worker” program we have.. or will
ever have… at least if we are lucky, because they have criminal
backgrounds, invovling drugs, violence and sex crimes? We need to seal the
freakin’ border and control what comes across.
“reasonable worker program”? LOL You obviously are completely clueless on
immigration law but wondering where this phase came from.