Drug Lords Lay Down the Line for Soldiers and Police in Mexico

From "Yahoo News":

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
Sun May 18, 2:09 PM ET

"CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die.

"The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico's acting federal police chief...

"..."It's almost like a military fight," said Jayson Ahern, the deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "I don't think that generally the American public has any sense of the level of violence that occurs on the border."

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Ok - this is our BORDER and there are now, officially NO POLICE IN MEXICO WTF? And all the soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan and none dealing with this issue because...why?

Viva la North American Union my ass.