From the El Paso Times: Hundreds of thousands of people from violence-torn Juárez are abandoning their homes, closing their businesses and moving elsewhere.
Although reliable numbers are hard to come by, El Paso police and real estate agents, and Juárez demographers, detect an increase in refugees from Mexico living in El Paso...On the other side of the border, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen said that, in the past two years, 30,000 people have moved to El Paso after fleeing Juárez. The county's population is about 750,000.
Allen was attempting to justify the purchase of 1,100 M4 rifles by saying his department needed to be ready for a possible spillover of violence from Juárez. He said he arrived at the 30,000 figure through comments he heard at intelligence brief-ings.
Sergio Ramirez, a real estate agent in El Paso, deals with clients who have come to Juárez in the past few years. He said most Mexicans fleeing Juárez are looking for rental homes and apartments. http://www.elpasotimes.com/juarez/ci_14452215
I am very sympathetic to the people of Juarez, as I know several people who live there. But this drug problem also shows that people are fleeing Juarez to the U.S. and if they can get to El Paso, they can move anywhere in the U.S.
So, from what I can see, the Obama administration is sitting still, twiddling their thumbs while Juarez shoots, burns and dies and cities across the border are the ones who will suffer. And then the problem will swim upstream to cities like Las Vegas, big cities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. But when local politicians, like Sheriff Joe of Maricopa County, AZ. try and do something, they get investigated and harassed.
Again, I have sympathy for the good people of Juarez and I wish they could move out and just leave the thugs to battle it out. But that is not reality and it should not be a U.S. problem, but it is. We need more reinforcements on the border, more help for the El Paso and other city's police departments and something more than a catch and release program by ICE.
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