This article describes how foreign criminals are invading the United States and threatening our citizens and our sovereignty.
MODERATOR'S NOTE: Or maybe it describes the negative consequences of U.S. drug policy. You never miss an opportunity to promote xenophobia, do you Jon? ---Sasan http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23killers.html?_r=1&hp <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23killers.html?_r=1&hp> June 23, 2009 War Without Borders Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. LAREDO, Tex. --- When he was finally caught, Rosalio Reta told detectives here that he had felt a thrill each time he killed. It was like being Superman or James Bond, he said. "I like what I do," he told the police in a videotaped confession. "I don't deny it." Mr. Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous assassins of the Gulf Cartel, law enforcement officials say. He was one of a group of American teenagers from the impoverished streets of Laredo who was lured into the drug wars across the Rio Grande in Mexico with promises of high pay, fancy cars and sexy women. After a short apprenticeship, the young men lived in an expensive house in Texas, available to kill whenever called on. The Gulf Cartel was engaged in a turf war with the Sinaloa Cartel over the Interstate 35 corridor, the north-south highway that connects Laredo to Dallas and beyond, and is, according to law enforcement officials, one of the most important arteries for drug smuggling in the Americas. More ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23killers.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Constitution Society 2900 W Anderson Ln C-200-322, Austin, TX 78757 512/299-5001 www.constitution.org [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
