Mexican Cartel War Crosses Border 4 AMERICANS DEAD

[Shane S.]

There has been very little reported on the escalating violence as it spills over our border. Falcon Lake was getting no attention until a man was murdered, yet local police and sheriffs had been asking for help. A man was beheaded in the same manor as what several of the Cartels do, yet nary a word. This brings us to reports today. 4 Americans were murdered on the border and there is not hardly anything being reported on this.

I am not going to go into detail on what all is happening on the border, what needs to be done or what people have been saying about it. I am just going to say that Americans are dying and there is not a damn thing being done about it.

You can read the story here.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/01/mexico-americans-killed-separate-attacks-border-city/?test=latestnews

Four Americans Killed in Separate Attacks in Border City, Mexican Authorities Say

Nov. 1: A police officer stands guard by seized marijuana at the Baja California state police headquarters in Tijuana, Mexico.

Published November 01, 2010 Associated Press

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of CiudadJuarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.

Chihuahua state prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killedSunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a groupstanding outside a house.

On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridgefrom El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to deathalong with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11 a.m.,Sandoval said.

Sandoval said authorities also identified a 24-year-old woman killed Friday inside a tortilla shop as LorenaIzaguirre, a U.S. citizen and El Paso resident. A Mexican man was alsofound dead in the store.

Sandoval did not provide any information about possible motive in any of the slayings.

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed three of the killings but did not haveany information about Izaguirre. He said officials had been in touchwith the victims' families but offered no other details.

Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's deadliest cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drugcartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in the city,which is across the border from El Paso.

Elsewhere in Mexico, three city police officers were gunned down early Monday in a drive-by shooting as theypatrolled the heart of Acapulco's upscale tourist district, authoritiessaid.

Another officer was wounded, according to a statement from the Public Safety Department in southern Guerrero state,where Acapulco is located.

The officers were patrolling the Puerto Marques area around 1 a.m. when they were ambushed by suspects shootingassault rifles from inside a car, police said.

Violence continues to escalate in the Pacific resort city, days after Mayor Jose Luis Avila Sanchez warnedpeople to stay indoors after dark. Ten other people were killed betweenSunday and Monday around the area. Authorities also were trying todetermine whether a burned corpse found in a car was the body of aCanadian businessman who disappeared last week.

Meanwhile, the remains of seven people were found Sunday in a mass grave in Nogales, on the Arizona border. MayorJose Angel Hernandez said a family walking near the site noticed whatappeared to be part of a body sticking up in a riverbed. Officersrecovered six bodies and a severed head in the grave. A seventh headlessbody was found nearby.

In the border city of Tijuana, state police seized more than 14 tons of marijuana in two vehicles at a house in thesame neighborhood where gunmen killed 13 people at a drug rehab center10 days ago.