Diana Washington Valdez, El Paso Times, February 24, 2009
Police are investigating threats against Juárez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, who moved his family to El Paso for safety, El Paso police Detective Carlos Carrillo said Monday.
“We received information that the Juárez mayor lives in El Paso, and that possibly they were going to come to El Paso to get him,” Carrillo said. “He has not asked us for our help, but it’s our duty to protect any resident of our city who may be under threat.”
Juárez police said written threats against Reyes Ferriz and his family were left in different parts of Juárez after the police chief, Roberto Orduña Cruz, resigned Friday. The threats were written on the kind of banners and posters that the Juárez drug cartel has used to send messages to police and others.
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Both the Juárez mayor and Chihuahua governor belong to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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Juárez city official Guillermo Dowell said the violence in Juárez and Chihuahua state is comparable to what occurred in Ireland and Iraq, “where people were killed not because of what they did or failed to do, but to plant terror in a city and its authorities.”
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(Posted on February 25, 2009)
Comments
So, he fled to El Paso, Mexico to flee the violence of Juarez, Mexico. That would be like escaping violent crime in Detroit by moving to Chicago.
Don’t be surprised if you read in the news that this same mayor has been the victim of drug gangs in El Paso.
If he offends the gangs, I doubt that they will back off from getting to him just because he’s in the US.
Many in El Paso are on cartel payroll.
Well, at least we could argue he’s not taking jobs away from any Americans.
I’ve predicted so often that this continuing sucking up to Mexico, by the traitorous elites of this nation, is going to be this nations downfall. It is Americans who will soon be fleeing their unsafe areas, some already are, due to Mexican corruption and the Democratic and Republican Parties treasonous leadership.
I was watching the NBC TV news and it looks like the BHO Administration and Mexican government are opening an integrated attack on the Second Amendment via the so-called War on Drugs. They had on a BATF official who was agreeing with the Mexican government that America was responsible for the mayhem done by Mexican drug dealers in Mexico and in the US because we were allowing the purchase of firearms at gun shows! So it looks like the Obama Administration not only is pushing for an amnesty for all the illegal aliens, they are pushing for private gun sales at gun shows to eventually tracked.
Tell me again why we want anything to do with Mexico…oh, by the way your change expert Obama will sign any law accepting more illegals into this country and legalizing the current crop of illegals.
Is this great or what? We are a third world nation as of right now and it’s getting worse.
The great race to the bottom, we’re right up there with the leaders.
I’m totally blown away by this! When I watch the news on tv or internet or whatever,I feel like I’m in the twilight zone or something. Mexican mayor flees to Texas,and we allow it?, Illegals with home loans? Free health care and free schools for illegals and poor blacks? Millions of dollars for black colleges? Gov.run programs are basicly buying homes in good neighborhoods that bankrupt whites lost to the backs and giving them to poor blacks with 0% loans? The UN might be telling us how to raise our children? The list is getting longer every day! This is crazy? What the hell is going on? This once great nation is caught in a rapid downward spiral. I’m serious about this people! We are in deep trouble! We Americans better wake up soon or we’re done. The liberal idiots in DC are out of control.I fear for our people and our children. I really do! Teach your children well. God help us all.
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Isn’t that typical lib? These Mexican gang types acquire American guns in violation of American law (probably numerous Federal and state laws), then they sneak them across the border from Aztlan into Mexico in violation of Mexican laws. So the great idea of the Obamaites is to pass another law.
The most obvious solution would be a comprehensive border security solution. And by comprehensive, I mean triple fencing, 100,000 votes AND the 101st Airborne, comprehensively. That would virtually bring gun smuggling from north to south to a halt. And if there’s the political will to do this, then there will also be the political will to deport a large enough fraction of Mexican illegals, such that it’ll compel the rest to self-deport. That way, most of miscreant Mexico won’t be able to access our legal gun market to begin with.
But Mexico doesn’t want this solution, because it would also mean that it wouldn’t be easy for people to move from south to north illicitly; this kind of migration is quasi-countenanced by the Mexican “government,” so that the Carlos Slim-style plutos/kleptos can rule Mexico forever w/o the threat of a Chavez/Castro type rebel rising up. Even though their failure to do so might have that effect anyway, not from leftists, but from drug gangs.
They can’t have it both ways, but knowing what kind of quisling government we have, we’ll certainly try to let them have it both ways.
On the other hand, Glenn Spencer over at American Patrol speculates that the drug violence is worst in parts of Mexico near the “border” with Aztlan that happen to have some semblance of border security, fencing and otherwise. His theory is that while the illicit guns are already in Mexico, the real border security near Juarez and Tijuana mean that it’s not so easy for miscreants to flow back and forth between countries. That forces them to remain in Mexico, where they inevitably mingle and then battle with rivals.
If he offends the gangs, I doubt that they will back off from getting to him just because he’s in the US.
Many in El Paso are on cartel payroll.
Here we are back on the cartel and their pay again. Anyone yet know what the cartels are paying former soldiers and what the benefits are?
—When I watch the news on tv or internet or whatever,I feel like I’m in the twilight zone or something.
I feel like this a lot also, that we are living in an insane asylum. After all, we are being literally invaded by illegal aliens and what does our government do? Gives them free welfare, free health care and many other free benefits. It’s just crazy.
Also, I remember the first time I found out that Americans living near the border had illegal aliens regularly trespassing onto their private property, committing theft, vandalism and even in some cases killing their dogs and the U.S. government does nothing. It was incredible to me and it is still incredible to me.
Of course, I realize that our borders are being left open deliberately and the massive third-world immigration that all majority-white, first-world countries are undergoing cannot possibly be a coincidence but I still sometimes feel like the most bizarre things keep happening in this country and it’s treated by government and media as all perfectly normal.