Thread: Mexico confronts surging violence

Mexico confronts surging violence
By OMAN NEVAREZ, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 3 minutes ago


HERMOSILLO, Mexico - Police chased the remnants of a criminal assault force through mountains near the Arizona border on Thursday after kidnappings and gunbattles that left at least 22 people dead.

Federal police helicopters and ground forces searched the Sierra Madre for fleeing gunmen on Thursday while state police moved in to replace terrified local officers who abandoned the town of Cananea, 20 miles south of the U.S. border.

Officials said Thursday that Mexican army troops had joined the fight Wednesday after a powerful drug cartel sent the assailants into town.

Armed with assault rifles and riding in 10 to 15 vehicles, they pulled four lightly armed city police officers out of police cars and executed them in a roadside park.

The invasion of Cananea — a town that helped spark the 1910 Mexican Revolution when U.S. forces crossed the border to help put down a miners' strike — showed the brashness and power of Mexico's ruthless organized crime gangs.

The first outside authorities to arrive in Cananea on Wednesday found an eerie no man's land where local law enforcement had melted away.

"When the state police arrived, there was not a single municipal police officer," Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours said, noting he previously asked for a federal investigation of the Cananea police force, apparently to determine whether it was infiltrated by Mexico's Pacific Coast drug gangs.

"We had to take over the command. There wasn't anyone there. They had all left."

Five kidnapped city police were found dead and two residents were killed. State and federal police and soldiers rescued four civilians, including two children, as the battle broke out.

Federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna blamed a turf battle between the Gulf and Pacific drug gangs.

"An armed command first abducted a police patrol, then went out on the streets of Cananea ... abducting policemen," Garcia Luna told reporters. "It is a group linked to the Gulf cartel, waging a turf battle with the Pacific people, for control of this territory."

He praised Sonora state officials for their "efficient" response.

The gunmen tried to hole up in mountainous terrain around the town of Arizpe, about 50 miles to the south. But police and soldiers followed the assailants, and killed 15 in an hours-long shootout, Bours said.

While President Felipe Calderon has dispatched thousands of army troops to fight the cartels, critics say troops trained for battle should not be acting as police officers.

The official National Human Rights Commission said Tuesday there was credible evidence that some of the newly deployed troops committed rapes, illegal searches and other abuses.

"Soldiers are not trained to carry out police work," said Jose Luis Soberanes, president of the rights commission. "If you make them do it, they go overboard and we see these type of cases."
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near the Arizona border, near the Arizona border , and MR kennedy and Prisdenta Bush how many slip across the border to the saftey of USAofMexico

Now, now, COI,

You know that we want all" the good hearted people, with strong family values, who want to come here to do the work that AMERICANS won't do".........................

This is what we have to look forward to if this bill passes

Originally Posted by curiouspat

Now, now, COI,

You know that we want all" the good hearted people, with strong family values, who want to come here to do the work that AMERICANS won't do".........................

thats right all those good harted MS13 and their groupies.

Originally Posted by lsmith1338

This is what we have to look forward to if this bill passes

and thats only the begining.

Ismith,

They are already here!!!!!!

25 murders a day, plus all the other crime by illegal aliens in the USA! Think of my story...the gang that created havoc in my life!

They are already here!!!!!!

Has sold America out, the American citizen out, and spit on the grave of every American that has fought and died for this great country.

I wish our founding Fathers could come back for one day.....the only thing that would be left,would be a huge puddle of scum.

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This can only get even worse than what we are seeing now, then comes the beheadings and kidnappings nevermind the murders that we are seeing now. We are on a slippery slope here.