o'illegal's vote pandering result - (sin photo) Migrants killed for refusing to be assassins, teen says

To: president@whitehouse.gov ; (_Report an enemy of the State to the White House Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010

Subject: o'illegal's vote pandering result - (photo) Migrants killed for refusing to be assassins, teen says

"At a border near you!" ... Meanwhile, back-in-the-jungle, o'who? mocks Arizona's immigration controls before the U.N. and orders release of many detainees now being held or investigated for deportation!  Ask yourself, "How does a lax immigration policy and inadequate border enforcement help to prevent tragedies like the one below.  And, does dangling "amnesty" further entice such atrocities?  Encouraging the flow of illegals into the United States and offering hopes of amnesty is a disservice to illegal aliens already in the U.S. and to would be immigrants be they illegal or otherwise.  Some of the blame for these crimes lays at the one in D.C. with 'feet of clay.'" -- rfh

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Migrants killed for refusing to be assassins, teen says
article source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38867434/ns/world_news-americas

Ecuadorian who survived says Zetas gang offered them $2,000 a month

Telemundo - In a photo from Telemundo [shown on MSNBC's web page], the bodies of some of the 72 people killed at a ranch in Mexico are seen shortly after the discovery.  msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated 8/26/2010 3:50:26 PM ET

MEXICO CITY — The sole survivor in the massacre of 72 illegal immigrants headed to the U.S. has said a notorious drug gang gunned them all down after they refused to work as assassins, according to a source at the prosecutor's office for the state of Tamaulipas quoted in Mexican media.

      The teen — an Ecuadorian who escaped and stumbled wounded to a military checkpoint on a highway — told authorities that his captors had identified themselves as Zetas, a drug gang whose control of parts of the northern state of Tamaulipas is so brutal and complete that even many Mexicans avoid traveling its highways.

      The 19-year-old staggered to the checkpoint with a bullet wound in his neck and face, saying he had played dead to escape from Zetas gunmen at a ranch in San Fernando, just 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.

      He told investigators that Zetas gunmen intercepted the migrants as they moved toward the border, then took them blindfolded to the ranch where they were told to hand over cash, the source said.

      The migrants had little cash, the teen reportedly said, and the gunmen then told them they could work as Zetas assassins and get paid $2,000 a month. It was not clear if they were supposed to work in the United States.

      When the migrants refused, the gunmen opened fire, the source described the teen as saying.

      While the teen's name had been reported earlier, msnbc.com has decided to remove it given concerns he could be targeted.

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