Comments on: Laredo Texas and Nuevo Laredo Mexico - Worse than Baghdad?

By: livinginlaredo

livinginlaredo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:01:45 +0000

I live in Laredo right now.
I have yet to meet anyone who is afraid to leave their homes. I actually live in a fairly affluent yuppie neighborhood, where the biggest problem is stray cats.
I also work for the newspaper in Laredo. As far as I can tell, we’re not three hours away from the city, nor are the multiple television stations that represent the area.
Nuevo Laredo might be a different story, but I have travelled there, had fun there and met some good people there.
As for Flores being the sheriff of Laredo, he’s not. He’s the sheriff of Webb County. I don’t know if he was the one that told y’all that there are no media outlets within three hours of the city, but he has a personal grudge against us because he did not like the way we covered his election campaign.
I have written in Laredo for months now, and I have covered murders and drug deals gone wrong, and, so far, no angry Zetas have showed up at my house asking for blood. The worst problem in Laredo is the fact that, because it’s a small town, the government has a lot of incest; the best contracts always get awarded to family and friends. That’s about it. Yes, there’s crime here, and some of it is pretty nasty, but I lived in Philadelphia, too, and a friend of mine got her head smashed in with a tire iron there. The perpetrator, my friends, was white.
This story is sensationalism. It is a problem with online journalism on both the left and the right these days. Fact-checking has gone out the window. If you want to print this kind of nonsense, at least print Flores’ right title: Webb County Sheriff, NOT Laredo Sheriff.

By: Maritza

Maritza — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:57:30 +0000

Im on my way there tomorrow. Now Im am scared!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:29:52 +0000

I have to rush for work… This is an undeclaired War.
The government will not do the right thing. We must act and the time is NOW!

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:02:13 +0000

This article is blowing things WAY out of proportion.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Kidnapping-Americans-in-Nuevo-Laredo,–Mexico&id=58416

By: chris

chris — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:46:19 +0000

the world was made by god who are these people to put borders on land that is not theirs from the first this country has more than 2 million mexican immigrants and thats not including the illegal immigrants in this country you hear mexican language anywhere you go an thers a mexican in every neighborhood and everyday i see out my house a illegal immigrabt crossing the border its unstoppable. were doomed anyway

By: BeenThereDoneThat

BeenThereDoneThat — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:47:33 +0000

Well for one if stupid people would allow Border Patrol agents to perform their jobs then perhaps they can start to lessen the severity of this problem. When BP agents cannot fire back when fired upon, cannot pursue, and have all these restrictions on how they do their job, what do you expect? I personally walking across a bridge into Mexico viewed illegal aliens swimming across the river below me.

A BP agent once told me that this problem will not be resolved until gunships are flying up and down the river as if it were a war zone in our own backyard.

By: nitwit

nitwit — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:04:10 +0000

Wow, so many of you who write are completely illiterate. Did any of you attend school anywhere and actually learn English? But as for the story, I am outraged that there is no media coverage of this, and that there is no attempt to stop the rapes and kidnapping or the drugs through enforcement of law and order. Thank God for Glenn Beck. He’s the one who alerted me to this through his television show. We need to elect a president who has promised to secure the borders and then go from there. We will become another Mexico if we don’t.

By: lln..

lln.. — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:05:34 +0000

Ok well i used to live in laredo and yes it is bad…. but sweety come on not as bad as baghdad. There u are exaggerating to the max. It couldnt be compare to baghdad. The drug thing you say like its only mexicans doing the drugs. What about da white crack heads or the black pot heads… how come u dont write about that. why dont u write bout all da good things they’ve done instead of trashing they’re culture, not all mexicans are alike and its messed up how ur judging a whole group of ppl for ones mistake …dats not fair !!!
ok n wat if they dont get hired are u gona do the dirty work
are u gona be a janitor and clean after other ppls shit… no rite !! i bet u wont u know wat mexicans are jus cumin to get a better life and educate their children they’re not coming here to harm ppl. see sumtimes i do wish dat mexicans would stop cumin over jus so i get at laugh at seeing u ppl break ur backs and do wat we have to do jus to have a decent living. id wish to see u guys work as hard as we do… dis counrty is based on ppl imigrating over here … ppl imigrated to this land for a free life and a better living .. who are you to take that away from them !!

By: Marylin

Marylin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:19:23 +0000

I am visiting this site by accident but am glad I found it.I hope something is done to penalize the companies hiring illegals.I hate to hear the media say how america needs them to fill jobs .Yet,in the last month or so I have applied at 60 different places and haven’t been able to get a job.The killer was when I went to a temporary agency and applied for a third shift because I don’t have a babysitter.The person at the office kept insisting that I work first shift.As I spoke to this person another person walked in asking for a third shift and was assigned a company right away later I heard someone say they couldn’t send me because I am a U.S. citizen and they send people without proper documentation to third shift asssignments because ICE doesn’t usually do raids @ night.So,believe it or not it’s easier for an illigal to get employed than a U.S.citizen because they don’t demand rights or cause problems for the company.I have put alot of reports into ICE with accurate information to NO success it’s like if they can’t do their job EVEN with help.Now,crime they come here carrying their flags around and yelling how proud they are to be mexicans(which in Mexico is a crime to use the flag in that matter).Now,I have a visited Mexico on different occasions and have had many problems with people down there.My 14yr. old son was brutally beat up by a 24yr.old man that was high on cocaine and alcohol.Yet,even though there was witnesses and my son was able to identify his aggressor the authorities did nothing.My son suffered a fractured skull and still suffers consequences due to this aggression.And last year on a visit to Mexico my son was pulled over and the officer tried taking my sons wallet when my son refused to let him take it then he dragged my son to jail and was trying to put my son with abunch of drunks in a cell mind you my son was only 15yrsl old.I reported it and nothing was done.They actually laugh and will tell you straight in your face that they hate AMERICANS.They told me that WE think that WE (Americans)are better than them(mexicans).So,where are our rights were is our protection,where is our government and where are the law suits just like they do to us?

By: T1000

T1000 — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:31:46 +0000

The bottom line is that is that yes their is a problem and half of those people that were kidnapped were in one way invloved with drug trafficking. Unlike Bagdad there are no car bombs blowing up and yes admin Mexico has a corruption probelm but it is all about drugs because the US is the highest comsumer of drugs and nobody is adressing that problem it all about supply and demand apprently you did not learned that in economics you seem ignore that problem typical of you people that don’t even live here as for Flores he has has his own agenda he cries like a little girl for everything but he can’t do his job he wants more money more of everything the bottom line gets yours asses down her and see the reality. As for illegal immigaration I don’t agree with it and the problem is those that still hire them and don;t think that that that wall is going to stop it as long is their is someone on the US that will hire them.