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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Anyone Notice The War Next Door? On Monday, another small-town Mexican mayor, Gustavo Sanchez of Tancitaro, was shot dead by cartels for firing corrupt officials. It was the fifth murder of a mayor in five weeks. Since Aug. 18, Mayor Prisciliano Rodriguez of Doctor Gonzales near the Texas border, Mayor Alexander Lopez of El Naranjo near southern Texas, Mayor Marco Antonio Leal Garcia of Hidalgo in Tamaulipas state, and Mayor Edelmiro Carazos of Santiago were all killed by the criminal cartels. Another mayor-elect, Ricardo Solis of Gran Morelos, was shot in the head and chest by cartels on Sept. 24 but is still clinging to life. Six other mayors have been killed this year. In Juarez, across the river from El Paso, Texas, the death toll since 2006 tops 6,000, while deaths in the entire country have surpassed 29,000. The latest outrage was the murder of a 6-year-old girl. She was murdered as she slept in her bed Monday, shot point-blank in the face by a cartel gunman. Over 230,000 residents of Juarez, population 1.3 million, have fled for their lives from cartels, a citizens group reported last week, with 54% of them gone to El Paso. Last week, the U.S. granted the first threatened Mexican journalist asylum from Juarez. Some 25 to 30 journalists have been killed since 2006, and the biggest Juarez newspaper, El Diario, wrote a front-page editorial on Sept. 19 to the cartels begging them to stop — asking pathetically, "What do you want from us?" The Mexican government reported that at least 11 mayors of Mexican towns have moved to the U.S. out of fear for their safety, six from the state of Tamaulipas across the Texas border. Three years ago, about 50 Mexicans under threat from cartels were recommended for asylum. This year it's 176 — and rising. Maybe the saddest sign of the state of this trouble is the fact that more Mexicans celebrated their country's bicentennial this year in El Paso and Los Angeles than in Juarez. The U.S. cannot ignore this war forever. Unfortunately, while there have been stirrings out of Washington about increasing support for Mexico, there has so far been no action. Why the U.S. continues to put this threat to U.S. security and Mexico's stability on the back burner is hard to understand. But if we don't help Mexico soon, we may find out Mexico's war has become ours, too.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
It's being fanned by those who want the Indio population to cross the border and further inundate the United States.
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