Thread: Huckabee even has Mexico confused

Monday, 14 January 2008

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El Universal News (Mexico City) 1/14/08, Huckabeee Changes His Mind on Illegal Immigrants
(note: the following item is an extract from an article originated by the paper itself about U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Portions are quoted directly. The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers takes no position on this issue.)

headline: "Huckabee changes his tune on immigrants"

subheadline: "In a short period of time he goes from defending them, as governor of Arkansas, to reviling them."

El Universal states there was a time when the presidential candidate pronounced himself against round-ups and that the paper has a copy of a letter dated Nov. 15, 2006, that Huckabee sent to H. Lee Scott Jr., president and chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., inviting him to participate in a "very historic initiative between the state of Arkansas and Mexico"; he was referring to the opening of a Mexican Consulate in Arkansas, an event to which then Mexican President Vicente Fox had agreed to in acknowledgement of "the growing hispanic population in our state."

Huckabee's initiative was criticized because in the letter he invited "prominent corporate leaders of our state to unite to support the Consulate in Arkansas. We hope to obtain the support of corporate leaders to pay for a part of the mortgage" for a period of three years. At the beginning of the fourth year, the Mexican government would assume the remaining debt, according to the letter.

"In November 2005 Governor Huckabee defended the right of children of illegal immigrants to have school scholarships."

La Jornada and Milenio (both from Mexico City) 1/14/08

30 "Zeta" hired killers of the Gulf drug cartel were arrested yesterday in joint operations carried out in two different localities in Mexico.
22 of the arrests took place in San Pedro de la Colonias, a town not far northeast of Torreon, Coahuila; five of them turned out to be local policemen including one who is a supervisor. Also seized at that place : five sub-machineguns, each with clips, a 7.62 cal. assault rifle with a 30 cartridge clip, a 12 ga. shotgun and a 20 round loader, a 30-30 carbine, 27 other loaders, a .38 revolver, 23 hand radio sets & 17 celulars. There were also 28.5 kgs. of marihuana.
The other eight persons linked to the Gulf cartel were apprehended in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.
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Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 1/14/08

Three executions took place in Chiapas over the weekend, two of them on the border with Guatemala. Of those two, one is believed to have been a policeman; he was found face down, with his hands tied behind his back and his feet also tied. He'd been shot in the head several times and a tag board was left on his body. The message on the tag board: "This is going to happen to all those who open their mouths."
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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yuc.) 1/14/08

update: the Cancun shootout reported yesterday also resulted in the finding of 1,650 rounds of ammo: 530 cal. 7.62X39mm. for AK47; 989 cal. .223 for AR15; 56 cal. 5.56 (note: not all calibers are listed)
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Diario de Juarez (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 1/14/08

(note: the paper noted that this item was entered into its site at 9:57 p.m., Jan. 13)
Two more murders in Juarez yesterday bring the murder tally up to 18 in 13 days.

(note: the same paper noted that this other item was entered into its site at 8:37 a.m., Jan. 14)
Four riddled to death by gang gunfire confrontation in Juarez.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 1/14/08

Two black plastic bags on the sidewalk in the "Venustiano Carranza" section of Mexico City attracted the attention of a dog who had just been taken outside a house. Inside each bag: a human head, each of a man approximately 30 years of age.
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-end of report-
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And Mexico promotes an open border..............

Build the fence fast.

Love the "Family values"......