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Adriana Alvarado / AP
A group of Mexican federal police stand in front of the prison in Piedras Negras, Mexico, late Monday.
MEXICO CITY -- More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a Mexican prison on the border with the United States in one of the biggest jailbreaks the country's beleaguered penal system has suffered in recent years.
Homero Ramos, attorney general of the northern state of Coahuila, said 132 inmates of the Cereso prison in the city of Piedras Negras had escaped through the tunnel in an old carpentry workshop, then cut the wire surrounding the complex.
Corrupt prison officials may have helped the inmates escape, said Jorge Luis Moran, chief of public security in Coahuila, adding that U.S. authorities had been alerted to help capture the fugitives if they try to cross the border.
Eighty-six of the escaped prisoners were serving sentences or pending trials for federal crimes, including drug trafficking, the Zocala newspaper reported. The rest faced state charges, it said.
Many challenges for incoming president
The jailbreak is a reminder of the challenges that await Enrique Pena Nieto, the incoming president, who has pledged to reduce crime in the country after six years of increased gang-related violence under President Felipe Calderon.
Many of Mexico's prisons are overcrowded and struggle to counter the influence of criminal gangs that can use their financial muscle to corrupt those in charge.
Ramos said that the state government of Coahuila was offering a reward of $15,700 for information leading to the capture of each fugitive.
Mexico's drug war: No end in sight
The Piedras Negras complex housed a total of 734 inmates, and the tunnel through which the prisoners escaped was about four feet wide, 9 1/2 feet deep and 23 feet long, Ramos said.
Piedras Negras is about 150 miles southewest of San Antonio, Texas.
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Mass breakouts
There have been numerous mass breakouts in the last few years from Mexico's penal system, and prison officials are frequently accused of complicity with drug cartels.
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At the end of 2010, more than 140 inmates escaped a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. This February, at least 44 people died in a fight between rival gangs at an overcrowded prison in northern Mexico.
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Pena Nieto has pledged to reform the prisons, though experts say he will struggle to make an impact unless he combines this with root-and-branch reform of the justice system.
Pena Nieto, 46, of the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, will take office in December. The party was widely accused of corruption during its long rule between 1929 and 2000, and he has promised to break with that checkered past.
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Gang violence
Northern Mexico has been hit particularly hard by violence stemming from brutal turf wars between drug gangs that have overshadowed Calderon's conservative administration.
Calderon has used the military to try and crack down on the gangs, and has captured or killed many of the top drug lords.
President: Mexico gang-related deaths fall by 15 percent in 2012
But his efforts have come at a price.
Mexico's drug war is also part of a drug culture with roots in music, movies and even religion
Gang-related violence has surged on Calderon's watch, and fighting between cartels and their clashes with security forces have claimed more than 55,000 lives over the past six years.
Last week the Mexican Navy captured one of the biggest kingpins active near the U.S.-Mexican border, the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Jorge Costilla, known as "El Coss."
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Analysts forecast this would lead to an increase in criminal activity in northern Mexico as rival gangs fought for control of lucrative smuggling routes in the area.
Reuters and WOAI.com contributed to this report.
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Mexico is a wothless country.They can't stop anything because everyone is corrupt. The people they get to watch the bad guys are bad guys. Fine if they keep it to themselves but they are sending it here.Everyone would be better off if mexico just broke off and floated away.
The problem is that they pay the guards at their prisons so little that it is easy for the cartels to bribe the guards to look the other way. The entire justice system in Mexico if rife with corruption. It is a case of how much justice you can afford as it is relatively easy to bribe local law enforcement officials to look the other way when it comes to criminal activity and give advanced warning of any pending enforcement actions. Even the federal officials are not all clean and many of them are on the payrolls of the various drug cartels, giving them advanced warning of planned raids.
News like this makes me so happy I moved away from the border. I wonder if they were allowed to go to that Mexican "theme park" that simulates a border crossing while they were in prison to help them during their "escape".
They heard about the DREAM that OBAMA is giving all the criminals from Mexico. Squat in the US long enough and you'll have "diplomatic immunity" from American laws.
REMEMBER: It's Hispanic Heritage Month.....KISS A SNAKE!
Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
A $2 dollar whore will do the same things a $200 dollar "escort" will do.
It's not always about money.
I think the average WW2 soldier got $2 dollars a day to save the world.
That's awesome how the federales in the photo are all hanging out in front of the prison, like the inmates are going to come back because they got lost or hungry, or whatever.
Corrupt prison officials may have helped the inmates escape, said Jorge Luis Moran, chief of public security in Coahuila, adding that U.S. authorities had been alerted to help capture the fugitives if they try to cross the border. Eighty-six of the escaped prisoners were serving sentences or pending trials for federal crimes, including drug trafficking
Mexico is getting out of hand I say since their government aint doing much to stop all this crime and the most dangerous people are escaping prisons, I say call in OUR guards, and if all else fails give the women and children 24 hours and just nuke the whole country that will surely stop alot of the problems coming into the US.. Harsh yes but what are we to do at this point that country is being destroyed and now all the criminals will come and take over here as well?????????
I don't know why the US doesn't go in there and do what we did with Iraq? They are more of a threat to us since they are next to us. Oh I forgot, Eric Holder is to busy selling them guns to kill our Border Patrol agents.
Why not just use our entire nuclear arsenal on ourselves since that would solve our immigration problem too?
We just keep hearing about this sort of stuff and how little the Mexican
government can do to stop this sort of behavior.. First of all you people are
all brainwashed in thinking they are broke, Mexico is #2 in oil imports to the
US, massive manufacturing facilities, Jobs we have lost that have gone south.. I think like the 3rd largest army in the world and yet they can’t seem to build simple secure prisons or police their own border? Come on! WTF? We have cable shows like Border wars where we spend billions on impotent federal agency’s that trample Americans civil rights and yet congress can’t even hold these country’s accountable for their turning their heads and looking the other way while the drug cartels are make billions and destroying Americans lives and murder people in the streets of their own country.. Whatever happened to good old days when country’s that allowed this sort of behavior had trade sanctions placed on them until they cleaned it up.. The reason they don’t fix it is because of just plain corruption..sure theres a war going at the border and no one wants to fix it because of the money everyone profiteering from it! if they fixed it, 10's of thousands would be out of work over night!
Freedom-2484892, Very good idea. But unfortunately, no one in power has the balls to do what needs to be done about the mexican problem. These illegals are a dangerous, invading criminal force not unlike any other third world invasion. If any other country,such as Russia, Iraq, Iran, etc. were to cross into and invade our country with weapons and drugs and protesting and violating our laws, there would be a war. An actual, all out war. But its only Mexico. Their just looking for work and a better life. No threat here....
Hummmmmmmmmmmmmm .. I guess they are now employable as "Miners!"
I'm sure I've seen a couple of them wandering the streets of Minnesota someone should check it out..
At the end of the tunnel you were given a Green card an EBT card and a ballot.
Dame808
While they ARE selling drugs here, and those sales generate their own violence, if a "market" for those drugs didn't exist, there would be less violence.
We are our own worst enemy in that regard. All I hear is "What's a little pot? It's better than drinking. I've never heard of a pot head going on a shooting rampage or anything." That is actually the problem. Every joint that gets rolled, every bag sold contributes to the Cartels bottom line. And any disruption to that bottom line is highly frowned on by the suppliers.
To those who believe a little bit of pot never hurt anyone only needs to look at the carnage in Mexico and our inner cities to see the fallacy of that belief. Every joint they smoke DOES IN FACT contribute to the killings.
Obama? Ya because Bush was very quick to deport illegal immigrants that were his buddies maids and slave labor at their jobs right.. lol Anybody that thinks this is a republican/democrat issue is beyond stupid.
Anyone want to bet many or most of them are headed to America? Thanks to Hussein Obama it's safer for them to come here!
The worst part about this story is the failure to mention they did not call the utilities locator before they began digging. CALL BEFORE YOU DIG PEOPLE!
Of course it's safer here,
They may end up in America but they will probably just buy 500 guns for the Cartels and go back to Mexico.
all the sleezy americans farmers will meet them at the border. They don't want to pay hard working americans when they can use these people instead.
take slugs off welfare and make them work on the farms for a living wage,
"They may end up in America but they will probably just buy 500 guns for the Cartels and go back to Mexico."
Yes, and Eric Holder can make sure they get those guns.
No one can corrupt you without your permission.
Mexican guards: "We don't get paid enough."
Nazi guards at Auschwitz: "We were only following orders."
What did they do with the dirt?
Andy Dufrain tunneled out of prison with pockets full of dirt; this was easy by comparison.
Great --- more foreign criminals that will become part of a despicable amnesty and rewards-and-special-treatment for lawbreaking agenda!
I guess if all your prisoners are outside the jail that is where your guards should be. Also I thought in Mexico that "jailbreak" is the same as "parole"?
XD,you are a moron! President Bush did NOT give the wet backs a free pass into this country like your stupid buddy Obammy! You F##kin demos need to do some fact checking before running off at the co*ksucker! Just because your towel head Obammy boy says it doesn't make it true!
Even though people are able to cross the border anyway, I find it hard to believe these prisoners are going to walk in the desert during summer and having no supplies for more than 150 miles to enter the US.
No problem for them. When they get to L.A. they will be given food stamps, welfare, and driver licenses, not to mention shielding from ICE.
Obama says, Welcome to America.
Try living among the "new" immigrant mexicans and see how desolate and depressed looking your neighborhoods become, crime goes up, gang violence goes up, murder rate goes up, social services are used up, then your police force gets reduced because of state cuts and puts everyone at risk. Yes I lived that for 6 years and finally got out of the hood. My once nice blue collar town was starting to look like a mexican war zone. In less than 3 years we had a 47% rise in mexican and hispanic immigrants move in and take over the town. They'll be coming for your town soon.
We spend 500 billion a year chasing Muslim fanatics in faraway lands while we have a failed state next door and a very porous border leaking criminals in and out. Illegal aliens kill more Americans every year than Muslim terrorists managed to kill up to date - still, we keep spending money on pointless foreign wars like the idiots we are.
It is not just a problem in the cities, Ophelia. I live in a poor rural county in the Southeast and illegal alien criminals are the vast majority in our county jail. the Federal government has failed us miserably when it comes to protecting this country's borders. We spend more on the defense than the rest of the world combined and we still can't secure our borders - that is a true outrage. I have no clue why Americans tolerate the crooks who pretend to be their political representatives.
Piedras Negras is, in fact, about 150 miles from San Antonio, but San Antonio is WAY away from the border. PN is a border town, right across from Eagle Pass, so don't think anyone is going to walk more than 10 miles before they're breaking into YOUR house.
Don't know why they mentioned San Antonio, other than to be typically MSNBC misleading.
oh Mexico, why do we not help you with our drones, our 1.5 billions our President loves to send in "Get Well" cards to his buddies in the ME...its beyond me why we turn a blind eye to you, our very neighbor. I am sorry we don't acknowledge your struggles and insist on helping those who want to murder us and not help you...i do not get it...if anyone needs our help it is our sister country.
I think Hillary should send them Chick-letts
^^i mean if they send them chick-letts they can say Obama put an entire country back to work with millions of jobs
If Arizona had finished that fence? Oh underground... smile :-)
I would appreciate it if you would stop with all the negativity about Mexico!
Mexico is a beautiful country and they are struggling just as much as we are so don't state something you really don't know about. It isn't the FIRST jailbreak Mexico has had and believe me the walls they keep these gang members/cartels are not well made. They will most likely be rounded up and put in better facilities but this take some time for these cartels are quite clever.
Mexico needs the Three Amigos, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short. They capture ONE kingpin and 132 more escape....sheesh.
Obama will be standing at the border with a WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES sign and thank them for their vote in the upcoming election.
jeeper, they dug a hole and put the dirt in that hole.
Oh well...here comes 132 more mouths to feed
and clothe....and educate...and send to college
Viva La Raza! (mariachi music plays in background)
Expect these thugs soon, at a border state near you.
And of course, head to the gun range--and practice your target shooting--these aren't nice people coming over.
Sure seems like the only true thing these people of Mexico know how to do well is dig tunnels under our borders or out of prisons and to store there weapons and drugs until needed.
Maybe Mexico should start using concrete for there prison floors instead of dirt.
I think I'l just start calling them Meximoles.
Re: Sirlafalot...LOL!
I am still laughing!!
So many right answers. Mexico is 100% corrupt and anti U.S.A. Every foreigner who enters Mexico has a big target painted on their back. The guards and the head of the jail took bribes. Many if not most of the escapees are now in the U.S.
Watch the crime rate soar.
There should be required a permit to visit Mexico. As Cuba, Iran and North Korea are on the list of countries that U.S. citizens cannot visit, Mexico should be put on that list.
Hurry up and build that 30 foot wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. We have the technology to defend our borders, but the politicians are getting the money to drag their feet.
Corruption does not only exist in Mexico.
Do all you racists even TRY to educate yourselves about the situation in Mexico before you mindlessly blame Obama for all of Mexico's violence and corruption, and our immigration problems? Here are the FACTS: on average, 50% more illegals have been deported during Obama's administration per month than during the Bush administration, primarily those with a criminal record, who make up a small minority of illegals in the U.S. As much as you'd like to think that most illegals are criminals, it's a figment of your racist imagination. The vast majority of illegals are decent, hard working people who support and practice family values, unlike the phony "Christian" right who promote racism and discrimination, hardly family values. Obama's administration and Eric Holder had NOTHING to do with the "fast and furious" program to sell guns to illegals. The program was started under Bush and had ended by the time Holder even became aware of its existence. Anyway, Mexicans don't need the government to sell them guns...there are dozens of backwoods gun shops in Texas and Arizona who will gladly sell them the most powerful firepower they want...your sacred 2nd amendment at work, right? And building higher walls and beefing up border security isn't the answer either. If you reduce the demand for jobs in the U.S., I'll bet you'll reduce the number of Mexicans crossing the border. And who creates the demand? Greedy corporate and small business owners who would much rather break the law and hire illegals for slave wages, rather than provide AMERICANS a decent wage for the back breaking work done by illegals. My guess is, if you picked fruit all day, worked in a meat packing plant, cleaned rooms in hotels, installed new roofing, or moved rocks around all day doing landscaping work, you would expect a livable wage, at least more than minimum wage, which is a poverty wage and what most scumbag employers pay immigrants. Why is there no outcry to come down on these employers who knowingly break the law by hiring illegals and paying them minimum wage, when they should be hiring AMERICANS? Is it because you racists would rather talk sh*t about the Mexicans instead of the worms who hire them so they can pay them sh*t wages?
Well since some people think it's offensive to ask for a picture ID, I'm sure these 132 new voters will feel right @ home here in the United States. Romney for President/ 2012. Build the Wall.
Exactly! Seems logical to me too.
As long as they don't get into this country, I really don't care what happens to the escapees.
I'm hoping someone will neuter them, so they can't make more.
Where do you think they are going to wind up here of course to run their trades and contaminate our children with drugs!
to late they are already here.......................
Maria, while I agree with you to a degree, there are A LOT of adults doing drugs as well. It's not just kids.
It's Americas fault that the drugs are coming in. Because America buys them. If there was no demand, the drugs wouldn't sell.
I have no tolerance for druggies. They do this to themselves. If they would just kill themselves with the stuff and not hurt anyone else in the process I wouldn't give a damn. But they do hurt others. They hurt their families and friends. They rob from their families and neighbors to support their habit.
If you want to blame anyone for the drugs coming into this country, look at your brother or sister. Look at your spouse, or child. Look in the mirror. That's where all the blame lies.
Janine,your family must be a real piece of work! "Look at your brother,sister,and yourself"? Wow I would RUN not walk away from a $hithole family like that! O wait you was saying everybody elses family is like that not yours,ok I got it everybody is wrong not you!
dezhawaii, you can pretty much be guaranteed they WILL end up in the USA. Our borders are wide open to receive these poor, misdirected Mexicans who want nothing more than a simple life working the fields - and to sap our tax dollars via government benefits that no USA citizen can qualify for. Oh yeah, they might end up cutting the heads off of some people if they interfere with their drug trafficking too, but that's the price you pay to be the Beacon of Hope for the poor foreigners.
Not ALL drugs come from Mexico, in case you're too stupid or ignorant to realize that. The drug companies in this country are just as guilty. Anyone can grow pot, which, by the way, is an indigenous plant For the mentally challenged, which most of you seem to be, that means it's ALWAYS grown here. Meth can be cooked anywhere. Coke isn't produced in Mexico. Heroin isn't produced in Mexico. In 40 plus yrs, the DEA hasn't even slowed anything down, let alone stop it. Sure we still spend billions of dollars trying, but there's just as much corruption in the DEA as anywhere else. And as hard as it is for you mental midgets to understand,mostly Republicscum, not evey Mexican came here under Obamas watch. Most of the drug runners in Florida are Cuban, but hey, once they set foot on land, they're free. Sorry about your luck, but you can't blame everything on Obama, or Mexico.
How many of you watched the video and looked at the slide show????? This the culture, the people, the mindset, tHE lifestyle that these mexicans want to bring over the border to America. This is what they want all of our towns, cities etc..to look like, to be like...Far to many area's of our country have already been invaded and taken over by this element. The video of the children just drives home the point that this is what the children grow up seeing and living and this is exactly what they become!!!!!!! Do you want your kids sitting side by side in American classroom with kids raised this way that will absolutely perpetuate this life?????? IF you don't have a problem with this I'd say you have to be just plain LOCO!!!!!!
WE MUST START DEMANDING THAT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BE STOPPED AT ONCE!!!!!! WE HAVE TO START DEPORTING EVERY SINGLE DAMNED ILLEGAL WE CAN AND NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO DAMNED LATE!!!!! WE DON'T NEED THESE PEOPLE TO PICK FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. WE HAVE PRISONS FULL OF ELIGBLE CANDIDATES FOR THAT ALREADY IF AMERICANS WON'T DO IT!!!!!
WRITE, CALL, EMAIL, STOP BY AND VISIT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR LEADERS IN YOUR STATES AND START DEMANDING ACTION NOW!!!!!!!! IT'S UP TO US TO MAKE OUR LEADERS LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE SCOURGE FROM THE SOUTH WILL BE A BIG PART OF DESTROYING OUR NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's about damn time the media start showing the true picture of what life is like in Mexico and showing us the harsh reality. Their government needs to step up, stop being corrupt damn cowards and do something!!!! WE need to pull our troops out of foreing countries and man the borders down south NOW!!!!!!!
I wish Pena Nieto the best in his efforts. Meanwhile, what a mess to deal with. I really feel awful for the children. From my understanding, what real chance for a decent safe and happy future will they have with so much corruption, the poor examples and lack of real opportunities? How will they escape such a violent and perpetual cycle of poverty, fear and the drugs in their way of life? If even the barest semblance of justice doesn't exist, it is like a house of cards falling in slow motion on flooding waters.
Yes, and all courtesy of citizens of the United States. US dollars,sent by drug buyers, corrupt the officials. The Mexican government should wake up and stop fighting the "norte"Americans unslakeable thirst for drugs, and help to service it. Mexico's big mistake was choosing the loosing side in a war on drugs that had nothing to do with it. The ever growing avalanche of cash from the US junkie will, and does make it nearly impossible for an uncorrupted official to exist in the country. The root of the problem is the American junkie and anyone that buys dope out of Mexico, they have already undermined what was once a decent neighbor.
You are so full of it!!!! Did you watch the video or the slideshow??? Do you ever read any news articles or watch documentaires, news reports etc.. These people live and perpetuate this life every single day. There are NO dirty, nasty AMericanos forcing them into this lifestyle and behavior!!!!!!!!!! The vast majority of Americans do not use drugs!!!!! Those americans that use medical marijuana do NOT buy it from mexican drug dealers!!!!! Grow tfu and understand that it's not America's fault that they are sick, twisted, murdering, raping criminals!!!!!! America is NOT the only country there damn drugs go to either. Stop believing every stupid pro-hispanic bit of crap you see!!!!!!
Seem to remember another massive escaping from Mexico's prison(s) late 2010 or early 2011. Is this actually an escape or are they so overcrowded they just don't give a damn?
The tunnel was just for appearances - the "guards" let them out, either because they received bribes/threats, or because they are cartel members.
Mexico cannot stop the drug cartels, USA cannot stop the organized criminals that transport and sell drugs, and USA has no will to stop the biggest problem - the drug users who feed money into the system.
Well considering we share the same contient we need to try and get along. They could allow muslims in their country to set up shop over there to come and destroy us.
they are not allowed to receive a absentee ballots in prison as yet, so they must escape to be here to vote. no ID necessary.
corupt to the bone in mexico
dont these peeps understand their corruption like in the usa is destroying countries
what kind of prison can be so defective? do they keep prisoners in a chicken coop?
the prisons are so over crowded that the prisoners pretty much run the prison guards usually never go into the cell blocks
It's amasing how Mexicans can crawl around in those tiny tunnels while wearing those huge hats.
haha needed a good laugh this morning thank you
NOTHERNIL: Always nice to hear from a fan!
More voters for Obama!
News Flash: Mexicans in Mexico can't vote for Obama, illegal immigrants in America can't vote and actually couldn't care less about our politics and have no interest in voting since it doesn't affect them.
If you need anymore info I am here to help!
REALLY..no interest in our politics?? If obama keeps granting amnesty to blocks of illegal 800,000 at a time...that doesn't interest you if you are an illegal looking for free entitlements??
On it- thanks- yeah theres alot of real ignorant people on this post today. We need to be more concerned about letting the muslims over here. We are staping their pass-ports like the world is coming to and end. They have no reason to want to come here. Except to harm us. Everybody is worried bout a few Mexicans. When was the last time a Mexican shot up a crowd of people over here or bombed a building? Thats what I thought,
A few mexicans?? Where do you live?
Seewhat I mean188:
I guess you haven't been on the Texas border lately. It is like a war zone down here. I don't see any Muslim's having gun battles in the streets, just Los Zetas drug cartel.
Exactly Tx_Tuff... Now...not even on our borders, but in Houston, the amount of crimes committed by illegals...and with little or no punishment
No they just do 9-11 things when we have an idiot for president. By the way Bush II let more Muslims in than Obama let Mexicans in!
The Mexicans are having there gun battles in the streets because everyone can walk across and buy as many guns as they want, and not forget the bullets on the way out. I don't know why Republicans are more concerned about an illegal Mexican voting than buying guns. You would think stopping gun sales would be a good start to preventing gun battles.
Does everyone remember what Napolitano said less than a year ago? "Our border has never been safter". How's that working out now Janet?
Mexico does not need to look for them. After all they know that President Obama has a home for them in the United States now. And he will take care of them by giving them an education and free money and health care. Why would any of Obama supporters would be upset at this move?
LOL until you live in a sanctuary state and have to live among all these criminal mexican immigrants, you don't know much at all. One reason I moved out of my state was because of the rising crime, murders, even the appearance of our once nice towns started changing, some of them look like a war zone. Our state was cutting our town's police forces left and right, just leaving us to our own demise. If you don't or haven't lived among them, then your opinion on illegals coming into this country really doesn't count.
Exactly Ophelia, I live in an I-5 corridor town in Oregon. Every year more and more are coming to our city. As they move into neighborhoods, Americans move out. Crimes go's up, property values go down, the look of the neighborhoods deteriorate into slumming looking crap. It's just a matter of time before more cities and towns become this way. Unlesss....we start doing something about it. Demand that your representatives in government start doing something about ALL illegal immigration!!!!!!
In order to vote in the United States one must be a Citizen.
you have to be on drugs, or mentally challenged - perhaps both - to make such a statement
ever hear of La Raza, or Democracia USA? Did you watch the Democratic National Convention to hear the speech by the illegal immigrant?
we have been successfully invaded by foreigners without them having to declare war or fire a shot
QUESTION:Why doesn't Mexico guard it's side of the border?
ANSWER: There's nothing in Mexico worth stealing.
We couldn't catch the 20 million illegals that are here now. Catching these guys would be like looking for a needle in a stack of needles!
Well, they are bound for the sanctuary cities in US.
more like sanctuary states except arisona were there are in trouble for enforcing the federal law. wtf?
all i'm asking is to enforce the law
Well that explains obamma's bump in the polls!
132 new voters, and 264 more votes for obamma.
Guess they didn't get word that Obama has deported more criminal aliens than Bush?
Does that include the 800 thousand he granted immunity to? Grab your check book...you are paying for them!
800,000? The Romney told me it was 800 million, I think you got your numbers wrong.
On it...you are correct.
There were nearly 2 million illegal aliens who could qualify for the provisional part of the amnesty because they were in high school, in college or had already graduated from college. But only about 800,000 were expected to actually end up as college graduates and qualify for the permanent amnesty. Because the new Obama amnesty would not require college graduation, the 800,000 figure is no longer valid. All 2 million would qualify. In addition, the Obama amnesty would not require a person to even go to college which would add hundreds of thousands more illegal aliens to the beneficiary list.
And if Romney told you 800 million...we have a problem. What is the population of the US anyway?
Seems like it is about 300 million. Not counting the "non-voting" illegals
Romney's math is a lot like Bush II knowledge, too fuzzy.
Illegals voting isn't a problem according to all state voting boards, never has been. Otherwise we would have done something about a long time ago when Bush II was letting all of the illegal Mexicans come across.
Remember those children that Congress wants to support through the Dream Act came across not in Obama's time in office but Bush II's.
No sir. I am referring to the illegals who just 2 weeks stood on Texas and California streets holding signs saying "we are here illegally and have no fear"!! That is an inherent problem. I opine that voter fraud is not nearly the threat that their continued cumbersome burden on our economy is.
"Romney's math is a lot like Bush II knowledge, too fuzzy." Can you expound? maybe tell me where you were under the impression that there 800 million illegals here??
Romney had the math right....he just failed to give a time frame. What he meant to say is that at the rate illegals are coming across the border in ten years there will be 800million of them. (give or take 5 years)
Tonyinwyo- Wrong!! they are not US Citizen.
that doesn't seem to stop them from coming here and leeching off the US taxpayer
besides, give them nine months and they'll have a nice new Anchor Baby to guarantee them permanent status
Hahahaha...stupid gringos! We don't need no stinkin' citizenship papers!
Viva la Raza!
Its like Rio Lobo, Rio Bravo, and Eldorado rolled into one down there...Send in the bounties.
I bet the president won't give a damn about these criminals. He's as corrupt as he ever be...
Does this surprise me NOT really because this has happened before and our borders are NOT protected at all so again this doesn't surprise me.
There are so many other prisoners that have crossed the border why not a little more and sadly that is a fact.
we have a failed state on our southern border but the geniuses in washington put our treasure and troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Doesn't matter...They would not put our troops on the border. It might piss off Liberals and the illegal vote...
And violate the Constitution! But don't let a little thing like that bother you.
Illegal immigrants don't and can't vote! They couldn't care less about our politics.
perople on here are ignorant as hell. Illegals can't vote. Worry about the muslims coming here and the mosques going up left and right. Deport the Asians too while we are at it. Why do we let them here. Worried about a few Mexicans? We killed for all those southern states they use to inhabit. They have a claim to this land more so then most of you people on here. Check your roots. Did you fly over here? Did your mom jump ship to get here. look at yourself before you judge others.
Seriously? Is that your argument? So do we need to go transplant all of the cities that the Roman Empire conquered? That is an absurd argument. We have borders for a reason. I am married to someone who is second generation Mexican. Her family traveled here LEGALY. Diversity makes the entire country stronger. Paying for ILLEGALS does not.
I did not know the Constitution prohibited us from protecting our sovereignty..
Can you tell us what Amendment says that?
@onit-you are living in a lala land full of false security. If we don't stop criminal elements from all countries entering into and living in America we will cease to exist as the America that we know and love.
I'd love to know where in our constitution it says we cannot protect our borders from invaders????? That is exactly what these illegals are...invaders!!!! Using our resources while citizens go without...changing our culture...committing crime...destroying our neighborhoods!!!!!!!
No problem, Obama will welcome them with open arms and give them a drivers licence, welfare, social security etc. Life will be good for them.
Obama wins in November:
Just imagine what this country will be like in 2016.... *sigh*
Oh stop woth the Obama crap stop pointing fingers because you people are racist! It was the immigrants who got him into the presidency, and what the hell did he do for them NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He didnt legalize them, give them licenses nothing...as he promised...all he mainly did was help some kids in college get visas to stay because they can become something.
You are the RACIST... "you people"?
That is not all he mainly did...Those kids and their Parents and their 14 Relatives with stay... and if they do go to college, we will be paying for it.
That's right..he didn't do anything "Good" that he promised...
MARIA-2088183
So Maria, you're openly admitting that it was the ILLEGAL ALIENS that got Obama elected? Thank you for admitting what no one else would.
...and the IRS will give each one of them $15k-$20k for their twenty "dependent children" credits, who are actually nieces and nephews (or just names) back in Mexico. No need to verify.
XD When he was running for president it was mentioned that most of his votes were from immigrants, my thing is immigrants aren’t even allowed to vote so how could this be? And he did mention that the minority voted for him and he would help them. I am not saying anything wrong, all I am saying is the majority of immigrants are good hard working people and get paid very little for their hard labor, we all have somewhere down our family trees had a family member who immigrated her. My father came in the 60's and just because he was an immigrant from Europe does not mean he is bad, he along with the million before and after came for a better life from poverty. He worked very hard two jobs all his life to give us what he did today...he bought us his family from rags to riches...and I applaud him for that it wasn’t easy. Everyone seems to be racist by saying because they are immigrants they are bad...no they are not! Its sad and yes I do believe if they are breaking the law then yes of course like any criminal they should e punished but we cant allow the ones who are bad outweigh the ones who just are trying to make a living to help their families back home. So many had it easy here born with silver spoons in their mouths, they cant ever imagine what its like growing up in a third world country...never...my eyes have seen the pain, sorrow and tears have flown....I guess you cant change peoples minds but I wish people would just open their hearts instead of their mouths when it comes to certain things that’s all.
Well said Maria.
Maria.....Mexicans are less than 2% of the world's population and yet look at how many Mexicans are in the US today.
Seems like Mexicans don't want any other people to immigrate to the US.
Now who are the racists?
I wonder about who they lock up in Mexico. We know how corrupt the government is down there. They take bribes, its the way they do business. Wal Mart was down there paying bribes all over Mexican government, (have you heard anymore about that?) The police want bribes to not write tickets. So on and so on. Its a entire country built on crooked politics and politicos willing to sell the government. I know for a fact they lock up many people that try to fight their system. They lock up people who try to Unionize the American Corporation factories down there. That is a great testement to American Corporations is it not. To see innocent people go to prison to keep them from messing with their profits. The drug dealers walk openly and carry military type weapons on the street down there and the cops don't even look at them because they are either too scared or paid off. I would tend to think it is more the honest people in prison in Mexico.
What you don't recognize is that Mexico is the prison. The entire country.
You only need a 5 foot fence.
And since Mexicans like to dig, put that fence UNDERGROUND!
Why don't we electrify the border fence so those little dirty wetbacks can't come in. I'm so tired of this crap it makes me sick and this sicko prez of ours is as corrupt as the mexican officials. eric Holder needs to be held accountabe for his role in Fast and Furious. He knows who ordered it and so do we, the POTUS did. we aren't stupid but the liberas sure are.
You better worry about the muslims coming here with their stamped pass-ports. These people aren't setting off bombs trying to harm us. Is their a new mosques in your city? Just wait won't be long. Lock and load.
We have to be worrying about both muslims and mexicans!!!!
Of course it's near the border. Escape and sneak into the good 'ol U S of A. Why we don't have an electrified fence here is beyond me.
They do have an electronic very high fence. I seen it on the reality show about the borders...and people have been killed on these fences...
Doubt that, Maria. It's not PC with our administration. In fact, border patrol were given strict orders to not shoot unless they're shot at first...even if a crime is being committed.
Having a fence will not stop anyone. Their are tunnels in border states, where putting up a fence means nothing. Majority of people in US here illegally are people that were granted permission (examples: visiting relatives, going to college) and decided not to return. You have to fix the broken system and building a fence is just a waste of money and time.
If the fences were to be electrified then the Mexicans would be plugging in all there houses to get free electricity! Just what we need..
But I like the idea of a fence with a commercial sized bug zapper rigged to it. Sure would be fun to watch come sundown..
It's a big problem, but you can help.
Don't buy Mexican drugs.
It would help more if you don't buy or use any drugs!!!
Exactly! They do not print greenbacks in Mexico, our junkies send them there to work their 'magic'.
And don't sell Mexicans guns to take back across the border to the Cartels.
Yes! This starts with getting Obama out of office so that Eric Holder can be fired/prosecuted for "Fast & Furious".
Or American cars made in Mexico!
I've already stocked up on precious metal. 9mm, 5.56, 7.62, 12 ga., it never hurts to have a little extra lead around for those special moments.
i like the taurus judge for a carry pistol. shoots 4 45 cal or 4 410 shotgun very good personal protection up close and personal i like the 410
Great choice..... especially if you walk around in the brush where those pesky rattle snakes like to sun themselves. The .410 is best for that. No need to worry about good aim, just roughly aim in the right direction. If you don't practice it, learn point and shoot techniques. Great in those situations.
same here with the borders wide open and a muslam president, it's only a matter of time when all hell breaks loose in the United States, Our soldiers over seas, America is ripe for attack............................
Where have you been? We had an idiot for a president and did get attacked — 9-11. I guess you forgot about that. Ever think Bush II was responsible for the worst attack on American soil and the 2nd worst economical downfall in America and you want to vote another Bush II in. What do you want the total destruction of America.
Even though Obama isn't a Muslim anymore than Bush II was I will take a smart Muslim over an idiot any day!
It is obvious that bush didn't do us any favors. But blaming him for 9-11??? really? Who was it that had Usama Bin Laden in his sights...multiple times? OH yeah..Clinton. By the way..I would take Clinton back in a heartbeat over the incredibly inept obama
The sights you are talking about were those of unarmed drones.
Clinton was the man and still is! That is why Obama is using him so much in his campaign. I believe if Gore used him we never would have had bush II.
Ok...not sure about the unarmed drones. It is widely accepted that we several opportunities to take him out before Bush stepped in office.
i would suggest building rifle towers every 500 yards. Place heavily armed snipers in the Towers 24 hours a day. That would be alot of good jobs. Shoot on site anyone who attempts to cross the border. Clean up crew every 24 hours to pick up the failed crossers and dump them back across the border. problem solved and we have alot of new jobs.
Why not turn the snipers around, make them mobile, give them the "license" to eliminate the real and present threat to national security, junkies that ship cash to Mexico? Less messy (legally) to eliminate your own rubbish than someone elses perceived rubbish.
Truthhurts...such a viable common sense option...so...it clearly has no place here or in our policy-makers heads.
Muslims are the real threat, not a few farm hands looking for work. What about the sleezy Americans farmers that wont hire citizens? They should be hanged. Don't balme the field workers. No work for them then they have reason to keep coming.
I don't directly oppose what you say Seewhat....but come one. Are you really thinking that there are just a "few farm hands looking for work" That is truly laughable.
Seewhat apparently did not watch the video or view the slideshow. Obviously does NOT listen to he news reports watch and documetaires etc.. Just sits with head in the sand babbling the PC crap!!!!
Better yet just use an automated a 50 cal on a video feed hooked up to the internet, Most people would think its just a new game and once they started playing they would be hooked. Just need to hire someone to keep the guns loaded and serviced.
And , once again this is a very good reason to bring our troops home and put them at the borders.
Oh yea, we all know the U.S. soldier is so highly paid that a bribe by a cartel or smuggler would be out of the question. The cartels' biggest problem would be trying to keep track of what was sold out by which soldier.
they have never been highly paid....yet 99 percent find the HONOR to do the right thing and put their life on the the line anyway. If thats all the FAITH you have in our military, then its time you don a uniform or move to mexico.
Attn: Menoseeno, Freedom-2484892, TonyinWyo, Mark_DW, M6X3 and Leona-599573
I can't figure out if you work for fixed news, the failing mitt/ryan campaign or are just plain stupid. Smart money is on all three (just to cover the bets). You take a story of national concern, that has serious implications for the hard working American men and women working in that region (who put their very lives on the line trying their best to protect the American people) and pervert it into cheap politcal attacks on President Obama. I've seen on the news how the mitt/ryan campaign is in shambles, but really? Your posts are nothing more than hateful tripe of the desperate tea party despots.
SP,
Every word you just shared can be applied to you since you did not once address the story, just yourone sidded politics as in true liberal fashion.
Lazarus
Oh, yeah? If you go to sleep on a park bench in Chicago, don't be suprized if you wake up with a Mexican flag planted in your Iwo Jima.
larry-5534379,
The comment in response to the story would be: You take a story of national concern, that has serious implications for the hard working American men and women working in that region (who put their very lives on the line trying their best to protect the American people). Since the people I listed and called out on their ever loving fixed news/mitt-ryan promo posting (typically in the fashion of not really pertaining to the story so much as bashing President Obama or anyone who contradicts the almighty political right) might be perceived as a little different than that of more of the same. But since that is the best you could come up with for a response, along with whatever Menoseeno posted, just goes to prove my second posting. After reading many of the posts, what I find is disturbing. No substance on the real implications of the article, just a lot of hateful low brow politicking.