Yesterday Big Journalism reported on a story that doesn't seem to have gotten too much coverage in the mainstream media. The El Paso City Hall was hit by seven bullets believed to have been fired by one or more AK-47s from across the border. No one was hurt, but needless to say the experience was somewhat unnerving. This is the first time since the drug war began in Juarez in 2008 that the gun fire has come across the border in El Paso.
The story also reports:
"Similar cross-border shootings have occurred in other cities. Last September, the University of Texas at Brownsville was closed for a weekend after a building and a parked car on campus were hit by bullets fired during a shootout across the border in Matamoros, Mexico."
Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott has sent a letter to President Obama asking for immediate and effective action to secure the border. It is becoming very obvious that border security needs to be a higher priority than immigration reform. Granting amnesty to all illegals will not stop the drug war in Mexico, and it will not lessen the danger to American citizens.
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