Thread: Mexico's Drug Cartels: Is Canada Next?

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Mexico’s drug cartels: Is Canada next?
Jun 7, 2010 by Katie Engelhart

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When councilman Beto O’Rourke looks out the 10th-floor window of the El Paso, Texas, city hall, he sees a fence: “a big, ugly, Berlin-style fence. It’s disgusting.â€

I met someone a third generation Polish American several years ago traveling while we were going from Springfield, Massachusetts to Omaha, Nebraska who had been involved in smuggling Poles from Windsor to Detroit in a flower truck. He had been caught and given a cease and desist order with a probationary sentence which included going back to college. He started off discussing a seige that had taken place in which his friends in Des Moines had been surrounded by Serbians armed with automatic rifles while they were barrickaded in a house with 22 rifles. The police came to the rescue and disappointment of the people inside as the Serbians could not aim and the people inside were members of a target shooting club.