Friday, March 03, 2006

Border Violence Increases


Members of Congress are being told that violence along the border with Mexico has become far more common than in the past. Armed thugs paid to smuggle drugs and/or illegal immigrants into the United States are not surrendering when stopped by law enforcement officers — but are opening fire.

“We anticipate that we will be in a fight, a very violent confrontation, in every interdiction effort, with running gun battles down public roadways,” Cochise County, Ariz., Sheriff Larry Dever told a Senate committee.

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