Burning Atlanta

Not that I'm happy to see people hurt or killed, except dope and human smugglers, and other assorted scum. When they get hurt or killed it just breaks my heart....NOT! But this is a sign that enforcement is working. Also, as an unintended consequence, word gets out that it's more expensive, more dangerous and they're more likely to get caught and guess what happens? They'll be even fewer trying to risk it. EXCELLENT!!!!

Now, if these weak-kneed, candy-ass, traitorous politicians will just keep it up, with NO amnesty/Guest Worker plans, etc.. we might get somewhere.

Border Wars

"The coyotes," she continued, referring to smugglers, "absolutely love our border policies. Now, no one can cross without a coyote, and they charge ($2,000, $3,000 or) $4,000, and (the policies) have created this tremendous profit making industry."

ICE's Pena counted about 65 cases between April 2005 and July 2006 in which smugglers fought over illegal immigrants through extortion, hostage taking, or "rip-offs" of rivals' loads of illegal immigrants. The killings of migrants became a political embarrassment for Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano earlier this month when she visited Mexico, where officials called for an "exhaustive investigation" into the assaults on migrants.

Among the high-profile incidents cited by authorities are the fatal shooting of three apparent illegal immigrants traveling in a vehicle with about 17 others through Ironwood Forest, where gunmen tried to intercept it.

An update I found today. More Wars!!!

ALTAR, Mexico - For nearly a decade this village on the edge of the Sonoran Desert has been a supermarket for smugglers and the smuggled. Migrants choose from an array of packages offered by coyotes and pick up day packs and anti-dehydration potions for the trek north.

Now drug smugglers want their route. And to drive home their point, they've burned nearly two-dozen vehicles of van drivers in the last two months, and left migrants shoeless in the sands of the Sonora.

Isaac Catalan would love a job in construction in the Carolinas, he says. But the Arizona border is now "tapado por la mafia," closed by the mafia, says Catalan who tried to cross three times and lost more than $3,000 in the attempts.

Drivers in battered vans complain that business is off 20 percent to 50 percent because of the drug violence.

Excellent!!! More fear equals fewer crosseros.