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Drug gangs drive off cops, terrorize US border town
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by mtippett | February 17, 2009 at 02:26 pm
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It's amazing to think that this can happen 80 miles south of Texas.
VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico – For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.No town knows this better than Villa Ahumada, where the entire police force quit after 70 cartel hit men roared through last spring, killing the police chief, two officers and three townspeople.
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at 22:54 on February 17th, 2009
It is so amazing the neurotic presidents cannot bring themselves to guard our border. Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama are all Free Traders and want the border open.
It is a sign of how sick we are that the most elementary kind of defense against evil without is a damn TABOO to them.
at 11:07 on February 21st, 2009
I feel sad for the town...what pretty scenery it is around this area where such violence occurred.