We're hearing the U.S. Department of Transportation will officially propose opening the border to trucks from the Mexican war zone in a few weeks. You'd think they'd have second thoughts after the discovery of 59 bodies from a hijacked bus in Mexico. But no.
The Associated Press has the story, "Mexican gunmen tap bus passengers in mass killing"
The buses crawled to a halt to obey roadblocks manned by armed men, who boarded like military or police doing an inspection. One by one, they tapped certain passengers, all men, mostly young, to get off: "You. You. You."
Relatives and travel companions watched in horror as the buses pulled away without them, Tamaulipas officials quoted surviving bus passengers as saying. Less than two weeks later, security forces following reports of abducted passengers in violent Tamaulipas state bordering Texas stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies.We just love this tidbit:
The United States' top drug enforcer said in Mexico a day earlier that the violence means authorities are winning.So, this is what winning looks like:
Despite an estimated 1,000 soldiers in Tamaulipas, criminals have become so brazen they apparently kidnapped dozens of passengers in a stretch of open desert that locals say lay between two military checkpoints.Get ready to let the government know exactly what you think about opening our border to trucks from a war zone.
