Thread: Illegals on the Way as Drug Lords Take Over Whole towns

March 30, 2010
New Wave of Illegals on the Way as Drug Lords Take Over Whole Towns Near Unguarded Border
Posted by Van Helsing at March 30, 2010 9:42 AM

It looks like Comrade Obama will soon have a whole lot more illegal aliens to transform into welfare-dependent Democrat voters with the upcoming amnesty push.

Members of a drug cartel apparently intent on controlling a Mexican border town are threatening to kill residents or torch their homes, forcing some of the residents to flee into Texas to seek asylum, according to law enforcement authorities.
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said the residents have been told "to vacate or they're going to start killing them and burning their houses down."
Residents from El Porvenir have been arriving at the U.S. port of entry at Fort Hancock, along a desolate stretch of the border about 50 miles southeast of El Paso, over the past week and a half, authorities say. West said more than 30 have requested political asylum.
Most won't bother with political asylum. Our rulers are about to wave a wand and make them all into American citizens anyway.

Soon the drug lords will be demanding that everyone vacate El Paso. But by then El Paso will have finished its transformation into a Mexican barrio, so the media will have an excuse not to pay much attention.

The federal government could start attending to its most fundamental responsibility by defending the border from invasion. But our Homeland Security chief can't see any point. After all, if you build a 50-foot wall, they'll bring an 51-foot ladder. Besides, it better suits the liberal agenda to crack down on conservatives instead.

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Here is a longer story from the San Antonio Express-News

FORT HANCOCK — When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic.

And when three tough-looking men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans.

Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700 about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juárez, epicenter of Mexico's bloody drug war.

Mexican families fleeing the violence have moved to Fort Hancock or just sent their children, and authorities and residents say gangsters have followed them across the Rio Grande to apply terrifying, though so far subtle, intimidation.

The message: We know where you are.

At schools in Fort Hancock and nearby towns, new security measures and counseling for young children of murdered parents have become a troubling part of the day.

“I have friends with fathers who've been annihilated,â€

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Fear now a way of life in border towns

12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Paul J. Weber, The Associated Press

FORT HANCOCK, Texas – Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700, about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, epicenter of that country's bloody drug war.



School enrollment in Fort Hancock, Texas, which is about 50 miles from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has been growing as more people flee the drug gang violence. Mexican families fleeing the violence have moved here or just sent their children, and authorities and residents say gangsters have followed them across the Rio Grande to apply terrifying, though so far subtle, intimidation.

At schools in Fort Hancock and nearby Texas towns, new security measures and counseling for young children of murdered parents have become a troubling part of the day.

"I have friends with fathers who've been annihilated," said Israel Morales, a junior at Fort Hancock High School. "They just hug you and start crying. It just traumatizes you."

Mexican drug gangs have not fired a single shot in Fort Hancock, and no one has disappeared. But as drug violence continues unabated in and around Ciudad Juárez, residents of Texas border towns fear it will spread their way.

"There's been incidents of school buses followed, and threats to some of the students and threats to some of the staff," said Hudspeth County Sheriff's Lt. Robert Wilson. "It's caused us to really go on high alert."


Full of nerves

Three men walked into the Fort Hancock High School gymnasium last month during a basketball game, setting off worries they were drug cartel members sent to deliver a message. Parent Maria Aguilar said a panic swept through the gym and subsided only once they left.

Wilson said a suspicious car was noticed following a packed school bus earlier this year. Rumors that the car belonged to cartel members never were validated, but after other suspicious cars were spotted, the department began following buses.

"We don't know if it was to find out where a student of a certain person he was looking for gets off, or to find out where he was living," Wilson said. "We're not sure what the motivation was. But the rumor and concern was great enough."

Schools have installed security cameras and hired an armed off-duty sheriff's deputy to patrol its three campuses.

Fort Hancock is a town of run-down homes and a single diner. Fathers of many students work as farmhands in the surrounding alfalfa and cotton fields, but most are jobless.

Aguilar said her fourth-grade daughter shares playground stories of "how so-and-so got killed in Mexico this weekend," and once asked whether a classmate's mother would be next.

One Fort Hancock High student picked up for truancy told a judge he was too scared to go to class after witnessing a murder in Mexico. Police say his mother and grandfather were tortured with ice picks last week in El Pornevir, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande. The two remained in an El Paso hospital Monday while the student was in protective custody, Hudspeth County Constable J.E. Sierra said.

School administrators say dozens of students also have relatives who were killed or tortured in drug violence.

"A lot of time your family is involved," said Modesta Morales, Israel's mother. "Some of the killings that happen, it's not because of the people that were killed, it's because they're trying to reach someone. If they can't find that someone, they're going to get their brothers, their sisters, their nephews, their fathers."


Teachers on watch

Ten miles down the road in Fabens, fliers in the teacher's lounges ask faculty to watch for a gunman wanted for four killings in Ciudad Juárez. He's the father of two boys at the middle school.

Paul Vranish, superintendent of the Tornillo school district outside El Paso, estimates about 10 percent of his 300 students have lost a close family member in Mexico's drug war. One Tornillo High School student was gunned down in Mexico at the start of the school year while racing back to the border, Vranish said.

U.S. authorities say they have seen a recent uptick in asylum claims at the port of entry in Fort Hancock, and schools are enrolling more students. At least seven new students enrolled in Fort Hancock schools in one week in March, an increase that would normally take a year or two. Texas public schools educate children regardless of immigration status.

"They told us themselves, there's more coming," said Sierra, who now doubles as Fort Hancock's school officer. "They're being threatened to either leave now or suffer the consequences."

Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed 17,900 lives since President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug gangs in December 2006. In Ciudad Juárez, more than 2,300 were killed last year.

Paul J. Weber,


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