EL PASO, TX — Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has seen a lot of blood in recent years, more than 6,000 people have been killed since late 2007 as a result of the war between two powerful drug cartels fighting to control the city and its border.
Since March 2008, Ciudad Juarez has been militarized by the Mexican Army. Mexican President Felipe Calderon along with the governor of Chihuahua ordered a deployment of 7,000 troops to help end the violence. But the military presence has done little to stop it.
DRUGS, DRUGS, AND MORE DRUGS
According to Louie Gilot, a former reporter for El Paso Times, the goal of the cartels is to win the Juarez Plaza and gain control over drug trafficking in the El Paso-Juarez ports of entry. Drugs are smuggled in semis, cars, pick up trucks, etc. Only about 3 percent of the drug shipments are caught by border patrol, the other 93 percent make it to the US drug markets.
"They send the decoys first," says Gilot, "then while they spend 3 hours taking apart that car, the other drug shipments go right through."
Elvia Hernandez is with the LULAC chapter of El Paso, Texas. She blames the violence in Juarez to the demand for drugs in the US.
"Something has to happen. And whose fault is it? The United States because of supply and demand! We have the demand for the drugs here, well that's not not gonna step them," Hernandez said.
rest at http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/03/29/people-living-in-the-us-mexico-border-filled-with-fear/
So if the drugs and thugs enter the United States through the land ports of entry, what kind of waste is it to increase Border Patrol and National Guard forces BETWEEN the ports of entry. That's national defense for the television cameras, not for protecting America.
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