Brave Mexican Women Leave For US

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"Valles called her husband and told him to grab their 1-year-old son. She got her two sisters on the phone, and then her parents. Within half an hour, the entire family was mobilized.
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the family held its collective breath for the 20 or so miles it took to arrive at the shared border with Texas.
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Many of the gun smugglers the ATF sought may have been informants for the FBI and the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Melson said. The ATF was kept in the dark about the smugglers’ connection to other law enforcement agencies, he testified.
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In the past four years, there were 34,612 drug-related killings in Mexico, according to government figures. Last year was the bloodiest on record — 15,273 people were killed in drug-related violence.
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Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, was murdered in broad daylight on the steps of a Chihuahua government building on Dec. 16, 2010. Escobedo was pressing the local government to pursue the murder of her daughter, Rubi, killed a year earlier, allegedly by a member of the Zeta gang."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/life_inside_the_asylum_dUWi0c0QjC6Gv8rK0VB5oI

Life inside the asylum
Bloody drug cartels, an ATF sting gone bad and a 21-year-old sheriff begging for protection threaten to spark a war on the Mexican border
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:37 AM, July 17, 2011
Posted: 8:32 PM, July 16, 2011