http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14302784p-15175038c.html
What's REALLY going on, here? LOLOL
2006-08-20
07:37:59
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gokart121
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Politics & Government
➔ Immigration
Sorry, the first time I accessed it no problem, but now it's got a registration flag on it. Curiouser and curiouser, this immigration issue...anyway, long and short of it reports that drug trade and illegal immigration are alive and well...don't know why they put it behind registration, though...
2006-08-20
07:52:34 ·
update #1
Amendment: I got to it fine from Google...
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas -- At a Circle K convenience store in this desolate border town, where drugs and illicit earnings flow back and forth almost freely, a man parks his black Ford pickup with tinted windows and begins hawking a live zebra.
The animal, bleeding and abused, usually is found on the African Serengeti. But in this poor town in one of the poorest counties in the United States, the asking price is $6,000 cash -- no questions asked.
Welcome to the U.S.-Mexico border, where just about anything can and does happen. The zebra salesman is a grim reminder of the Wild West atmosphere that prevails along much of the 2,000-mile border, where drugs, aliens and money are smuggled 24-7.
Before the arrest Monday of Javier Arellano-Felix, the alleged leader of Mexico's ruthless Tijuana drug cartel, the national debate over illegal immigrants crossing the border drove the drug war off the front pages.....(story continues)
2006-08-20
07:54:55 ·
update #2