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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico’s Police MEXICO CITY — Gunmen assassinated the acting chief of Mexico’s federal police early on Thursday morning in the most brazen attack so far in the year-and-a-half-old struggle between the government and organized crime gangs. The Mexican police have been under constant attack since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2007 and started an offensive against drug cartels that had corrupted the municipal police forces and local officials in several towns along the border with the United States and on both coasts. Since then, Mr. Calderón has sent thousands of federal agents and troops into those areas to establish law and order, provoking retaliation from drug cartels that have killed about 200 officers, among them at least 30 federal agents. The acting chief, Edgar Millán Gómez, was ambushed by several men wearing rubber gloves and carrying weapons as he entered his apartment building in the Guerrero neighborhood of Mexico City with two bodyguards at 2:30 a.m. He was hit eight times in the chest and once in a hand. He died a few hours later at Metropolitan Hospital. Commander Millán was the highest ranking official to be killed since Mr. Calderón’s campaign against drug dealers began. Intelligence officials said it was highly likely that he was killed in retribution for the arrest on Jan. 21 of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, one of the leaders of a cartel based in Sinaloa State. “It was in response to his role in the arrest,” said one intelligence officer, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release classified information. “It’s the worst casualty we have suffered so far.” Commander Millán, 41, had served for the last year as the federal police official in charge of the antidrug operations throughout the country. A month ago, he was promoted to become the acting chief of the entire force. His death was the 10th assassination of a federal police official in the last two months. Last week, gunmen also shot and killed the head of the organized crime division in the public security ministry, Roberto Velasco Bravo. One of Commander Millán’s bodyguards, though wounded, managed to wrestle an attacker to the ground and arrest him. The man, Alejandro Ramírez Báez, 34, carried a pistol with a silencer, the police said. Shells from an assault rifle were also found at the scene. The police said Mr. Ramírez had a criminal record, having been convicted twice for stealing cars. It remained unclear who, if anyone, had hired him as an assassin, they said. Commander Millán started his career in Mexico’s intelligence service and switched in 2001 to the newly formed Federal Agency of Investigation, where he rose quickly to become the chief of the kidnapping division. He dismantled several notorious kidnapping rings and managed the successful release of Rubén Omar Romano, a professional soccer coach.
Poster Comment: Mexico has several organized crime cartels. They have one group called the Zetas which was formed from the 90,000 men released from the Mexican army for ties to drug gangs. The Zetas are a professional assassins and work for the Gulf cartel. Go to YouTube and type in the word Zetas. You will be amazed at how proud they are of the assassinations they have committed. In 1994 a cardinal of the Catholic church was asassinated at the Guadalajara airport. Two rival gangs each sent a message to the people of Mexico and America. The two gangs each sent 2 men. The 4 assassins shot the cardinal a total of over 40 times with 45 caliber bullets. Two of the assassins were late for their plane but the plane was held for them. They calmly walked over to their waiting plane and boared a flight to Tijuana. They were never stopped and questioned by authorities. This is your future if you vote for congressmen, senators and presidential candidates who vow to pass Amnesty for Illegal aliens because we are a nation of immigrants.
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I think most Americans are busy with their lives trying to make ends meet, raise kids etc., and don't believe it could happen here. The truth is that this sort of people exist and this type of thing happens all of the time. We're sure to get our turn in the barrel.
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