Obama: Troop move to Mexican border under consideration

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"We're going to examine whether and if National Guard deployments would make sense and under what circumstances they would make sense," Obama said during an interview with journalists for regional papers, including a McClatchy reporter.

"I don't have a particular tipping point in mind," he said. "I think it's unacceptable if you've got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing U.S. citizens."

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Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., chair of a key subcommittee on border security, will hold a hearing Thursday on Mexican border violence.

"Last week Mexico sent an additional 3,200 soldiers to the border," Sanchez said in a prepared opening statement for the hearing, "increasing the total number of Mexican soldiers combating drug cartels to more than 45,000."

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"It should be noted that over 200 U.S. citizens have been killed in this drug war, either because they were involved in the cartels or were innocent bystanders," she said. "With those concerns in mind, it is essential that the Department of Homeland Security, along with other relevant departments, continue to pursue a contingency plan to address 'spillover' violence along our border."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/63800.html

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Either ease up on drug prohibition or turn our southern border into a fortress. Seems simple.

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Either ease up on drug prohibition or turn our southern border into a fortress. Seems simple.

Yep.

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Mexico drug lord on Forbes rich list with $1 billion

Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:54pm EDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, blamed for thousands of deaths in a drug war, has made it onto the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune.

Guzman, who is just 5 feet tall, escaped from prison in 2001 to set off a wave of killings across Mexico in an attempt to dominate the country's highly lucrative drug trade into the United States.

"He is not available for interviews," Luisa Kroll, senior editor of Forbes, said Wednesday. "But his financial situation is doing quite well."

Forbes placed Guzman at 701 on its list, tied with dozens of others worldwide with riches of some $1 billion.

Guzman, 51, who officials believe changes his cell phone every day to avoid being tracked, is often compared to the late Colombian kingpin Pablo Escobar, whom Forbes has said amassed a fortune of $3 billion before he was killed by police in 1993.

The Mexican smuggler is "basically one of the biggest providers of cocaine to the United States," Kroll said. The magazine based its tally of his fortune on estimates from drug-trade analysts and U.S. government data.

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About 90 percent of all cocaine consumed in the United States comes through Mexico. It also is a major source of heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana in the United States.

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"I don't have a particular tipping point in mind," he said. "I think it's unacceptable if you've got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing U.S. citizens.

Ya think?

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Students warned about spring break travels to Mexico

University officials warned students of the dangers traveling to Mexico this spring break, causing some to cancel their trips.

The U.S. State Department and universities across the country are warning college students heading to Mexico for spring break of an extreme increase in drug-related murders and chaos south of the border.

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In response to the State Department’s warning, many universities are urging their students not to follow through with their spring break plans in Mexico.

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UW-Madison Health Services has even sent an e-mail to students encouraging a safe Spring Break and telling students to “do their homework before traveling to Mexico.”

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“I have been checking the news, researching on the Internet and listening to all of my peers,” Chelsea Perzov, a UW-Madison sophomore who is traveling to Acapulco, Mexico Saturday said. “I am trying my best to stay informed and remain aware of the dangers in Mexico.”

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“We’re going to travel in large groups at all times, never get in cabs alone and we will of course not be engaging in any types of business with the local Mexicans,” said Emily Bader, a UW sophomore traveling to Acapulco this break.

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I went on a cruise last summer to Mexico for Spring Break and it was great and totally touristy! I can understand the concern. My Sister is getting married this weekend before her spring break and instead of taking a honeymoon to Mexico which is the typical cheapest coming from Texas they are going to the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic. Number one place in the world of adult AIDS. Good thing they'll be newlyweds and hopefully just into being with each other.

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Obama says no mas to Mexican trucks!

By his signing today of the $410 billion bill which, will keep the federal government in business until September 30, 2009, President Barack Obama ... ended ... the "cross-border trucking program," which would have eventually allowed almost all Mexican trucks and drivers full access to U.S. highways, was one of the most contentious issues to arise out of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Before 2007, Mexican trucks had been limited to a narrow zone, about 25 miles, north of the border, where they transferred their cargo to American big rigs.

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The safety of the Mexican trucks, their drivers' training and record-keeping, questions about their insurance coverage and many other factors had the Teamsters and other unions and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle opposing the program since its inception as a demonstration project under Bush.

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That project wasn't going to work anyways because all the states have to sign on the agreement to allow the super highway to be built in there states and several states were in opposition of it leaving holes in their grand highway plans.

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Legalize marijuana and decriminalize cocaine.

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Students warned about spring break travels to Mexico

University officials warned students of the dangers traveling to Mexico this spring break, causing some to cancel their trips.

The U.S. State Department and universities across the country are warning college students heading to Mexico for spring break of an extreme increase in drug-related murders and chaos south of the border.

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In response to the State Department’s warning, many universities are urging their students not to follow through with their spring break plans in Mexico.

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UW-Madison Health Services has even sent an e-mail to students encouraging a safe Spring Break and telling students to “do their homework before traveling to Mexico.”

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“I have been checking the news, researching on the Internet and listening to all of my peers,” Chelsea Perzov, a UW-Madison sophomore who is traveling to Acapulco, Mexico Saturday said. “I am trying my best to stay informed and remain aware of the dangers in Mexico.”

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“We’re going to travel in large groups at all times, never get in cabs alone and we will of course not be engaging in any types of business with the local Mexicans,” said Emily Bader, a UW sophomore traveling to Acapulco this break.

yea.. go to the fukcin hellholes of places.. and they won't be nice.. stay in the nicebeaches, and it's all fun

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AJ, why do you hate Mexicans?

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owned lol

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AJ, why do you hate Mexicans?

One word... Pedro

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Legalize marijuana and decriminalize cocaine.

and that's supposed to make people happy, with the government controlling it?

just look at cigs - they are controlled by the feds - and the price on a carton just went up $12.

i wonder how that would go over with the weed smokers.