The new chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, a city just across the border from Laredo, Texas, was chief for approximately 9 hours before he was gunned down by masked gunmen yesterday. Apparently the job went unfilled for some period of time prior to Alejandro Dominguez taking it, and will probably go unfilled for a while longer now. Dominguez said prior to taking the job that he wasn't afraid of anything, despite the history of the position. Bravado, that has come to a violent end.
So, let's recap. We should be allowing the people who allow this sort of action, and PARTICIPATE in this sort of action, to cross our borders unfettered and to consume our social services without uttering a word in argument?
I think not. It's things like this, where the government can't even police their own streets, that continue to make Mexico the 3rd world backwater country that it is. This isn't anything the US has done to Mexico, it's done it to itself.
Recently the US ambassador to Mexico came under some intense pressure from Mexican officials after issuing a travel warning to Americans who wish to go to Mexico because they said it wasn't necessary. While I agree that there are some plenty violent areas in the US, we tend to warn tourists to stay the hell out of Watts, or Compton, Cabrini Green, some areas of Miami, or any of the other areas that people shouldn't be in who don't want trouble. The warning was intended to make sure our citizens know that Mexico is indeed a 3rd world backwater, sphincter-nation that should clean up their own act prior to telling the US what we should do with our borders.
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