Carnage on the Border

Barack Obama characterizes Arizona’s attempts to protect their citizen’s lives and property as “irresponsible and misguided.”  Somebody needs to get him a copy of the morning paper. 

The following is from an AP story from today’s Dallas Morning News. 

“Nogales, the main city in the region, which shares a border with the Arizona city of the same name, has had 131 murders so far this year, nearly surpassing 135 for all of 2009, according to a tally by the newspaper Diario de Sonora. That includes two heads found Thursday stuffed side by side between the bars of a cemetery fence.”

“The carnage still pales compared to other Mexican border cities, most notably Ciudad Juarez, which lies across from El Paso, Texas, which had 2,600 murders last year. But the increase shows that some small cattle-grazing towns near Nogales are now in the grip of drug traffickers who terrorize residents.”

"This began like a cancer in the finger and now it is spreading to other parts of the body," he (a border town resident) said. "There comes a time when the government has absolutely no control."  Read the entire article here.