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    Fort Bliss officials say soldiers can't visit Juarez

    EL PASO, Texas -- Fort Bliss officials say that they've temporarily discontinued issuing passes to soldiers who want to travel across the border to Juarez because of increasing violence there.

    "This is only for a short term until things settle down and there's no perceived danger to any soldier or anyone going to Juarez," Fort Bliss spokeswoman Jean Offutt said Saturday. "I think it's just based on the events that are going on in Juarez at this time."

    Offutt said the disruption for military personnel who are now restricted from entering Juarez to visit family or travel may only be temporary. The decision will be reviewed in two weeks.

    She said that Fort Bliss has on occasion temporarily prohibited soldiers from crossing into Juarez.

    "For a short time, it would be to the advantage to the soldier to protect him and put this into effect," Offutt said.

    Juarez already has recorded more than 30 homicides since the beginning of the year.

    Earlier this week, a Mexican police commander who was shot several times in an ambush was put under heavy police protection in an El Paso hospital.

    Cmdr. Fernando Lozano Sandoval, of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency, was shot Monday night in the Mexican city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. He was one of three police officials shot in Juarez over two days, and the only one to survive.

    Information from: El Paso Times, http://www.elpasotimes.com


    Hmm...why would US Soldiers be going to Juarez to vist family ?
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    military personnel who are now restricted from entering Juarez to visit family
    Family?
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    pistov..... my question too
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    How ironic. We will not let our soldiers go to Juarez because it's too dangerous, yet we will allow the same people causing the violence in Juarez to walk across our border uncontested at anytime. Once here, we have groups who will lobby for their so called "rights" to be in this country.

    I guess our government has been listing to the OBL for so long they actually think the illegal invader sudddenly becomes a upstanding, law abidding citizen once they enter our country illegally.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NoBueno
    How ironic. We will not let our soldiers go to Juarez because it's too dangerous, yet we will allow the same people causing the violence in Juarez to walk across our border uncontested at anytime. Once here, we have groups who will lobby for their so called "rights" to be in this country.

    I guess our government has been listing to the OBL for so long they actually think the illegal invader sudddenly becomes a upstanding, law abidding citizen once they enter our country illegally.

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    OMG, you nailed that one! What a hoot! We tell our military it is too dangerous to go there yet the gov refuses to protect US citizens from these thugs. In a few more years the border will be like Iraq.

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    Yes indeed, you nailed it!! What is going on???

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    First of all, let me tell you that people who come to El Paso want to visit Mexico. There is nothing wrong with that. There is a tourist trolley that runs pretty much every hour on the hour during the day. It is perfectly legal.

    The soldiers aren't Mexicans visiting relatives (at least not the majority of them.) They are young men and women who want to see what Mexico is like. Again, there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

    Second, at the moment, the city of Juarez is under Mexican Military Rule because of gangland activity with the drug cartel. That is the reaosn the soldiers can't go there. And we could well wind up at war with Mexico thanks to our stupid government's lack of concern about the wide open borders before the summer is out. This is getting very serious now.
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    Lots of people who live in El Paso have family that still live across the river in Juarez

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    Yes, they do. And lots of them go there to visit legally and return legally. But that has nothing to do with why the soldiers can't go to Juarez. The mexican military controls the city at present becasue of the drug cartel. Our soldiers would be targets and war would break out.

    I am not sure how they are going to keep the soldiers from going if they go in civilian clothes and leave their military ID behind but I guess we will find out.

    I just love the way the article plays down the danger. Even tourists are cautioned against going to Juarez during the daytime because if they wander into the wrong part of the city, they could find themselves caught up in the crossfire.
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    My wife and I were in El Paso on business three weeks ago. We crossed the border and went into Downtown Juarez at my urging as I had never been there.

    We took a cab downtown and were dropped off. after about ten minutes of walking around, my wife turns to me and says, " I do not feel comfortable here at all. Lets get out of here." FYI - My wife is a Mexican from Mexico City.

    When we got into the cab I told her I was feeling the same way. Put it this way, Ciudad Juarez makes Tijuana look like a country club. There are some scary people in Juarez and I could not even imagine being in that city during daylight hours, let alone after dark.

    I have traveled all over Mexico and have never felt as uneasy and uncomfortable anywhere in that country as I did in Juarez that day.
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