With troubles like this at the border, why do you think towns like Laredo and El Paso oppose the border fence?

Question

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/16772540.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_americas

"Hours after the troops arrived in Nuevo Laredo, Horacio Garza, a federal congressman and two-time mayor of the city, was shot as he and his driver headed toward the airport Monday evening. The driver was killed. Garza received bullet wounds to the neck, shoulder and leg.

In 3 ½ years of intense cartel violence, more than 600 people reportedly have been killed in Nuevo Laredo.

Hundreds of Mexicans have been kidnapped or have disappeared from the area in recent years. At least 63 Americans have been kidnapped, according to Laredo's Missing, an organization set up by family members to pressure authorities on both sides of the border to find their loved ones. Many of the Americans were later released, but at least 20 remain missing."

Note they say this is due to competition for drug routes into the US. That means they are regularly coming here.

Thoughts?

Compare that to this reluctance by Laredo to have a border fence.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/mexico/stories/MYSA022207.08B.ChertoffVisit.1191fb1.html

Answer 1

Corruption on the US side? (Corruption on the Mex side is a given).

OR, maybe they don't want to hinder the border commerce.

Answer 2

we need the border fence. what i would like to know is what is our president doing or going to do about this? he was gun ho on sending our troops to Iraq. why does he not have our service people on the border bringing down the drug cartels? this whole thing with mexico invading the united states makes me think we're still in early western. at least i can say from the history i read on the cow ranchers those folks had ballz to defend their land from illegal trespassers. id bush does not do something soon, i do feel we american citizens will be at war with the drug pushers coming out of mexico.

Answer 3

Amazing as it seems, we Americans are destroying our own country by not protecting our border. What happens in Laredo needs to be handle in Laredo. Build the fence and put armed guards on them. For ever drug runner that is killed trying to cross the border give the officer $1,000 bonus.

Answer 4

Because Laredo wants the business that Neuvo Laredo people will bring. They believe that they are all one big city with families spread out on both sides and a fence would only hurt them and business.

Answer 5

nicely El Paso will lose it quite is artwork tension in the event that they build a fence... have confidence me, the Gov't will nevertheless use that highway by using fact Texas is a factor of the U. S., not it quite is very own us of a regardless of what Texans say.

Answer 6

carpet bomb the mexican side of the border for 800 miles into mexico..and do it with noxious chemicals that leave scars and impotence, infertility, and mongoloidism....then the ones who still make it acroos get dumped 200 miles out to see with a can of shark bait as their life preserver....anyone who makes it into america after that might be a good worker and well take them...on a probationary basis...

Answer 7

while everyone is busy with bush and his bull $hit the cartels are taking over Calif and Texas...i think they would be glad to get the fence there'but like in tijuana they probably already have caves and tunnels that someone and there crones have built...

Answer 8

Because these towns are so infested with mexicans that they might as well be part of mexico.

Answer 9

those towns are mostly hispanic