• Two dead, two alive after Americans kidnapped in Mexico

    From Jade Helm@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 7 16:34:01 2023
    XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.survival

    The Biden Administration, including DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,
    want to fundamentally transform America into a violent, crime ridden,
    corrupt narco-terrorist shit hole like Shitexico.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64878721

    By Madeline Halpert & Will Grant, Mexico correspondent
    BBC News
    Two of the four Americans kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico last week are
    dead and two are alive and now safe in the US, Mexican officials said.

    Four US citizens were kidnapped by armed men on 3 March while driving
    into the city of Matamoros in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas,
    Mexico, across the border from Texas.

    They had travelled there for cosmetic surgery, relatives told US media.

    One man, named only as José "N", 24, from Tamaulipas, has been arrested.

    Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said: "We offer our deepest condolences to
    the friends and families of those who were killed in these attacks."

    The two surviving victims were delivered to the US on Tuesday in
    co-operation with the US consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Attorney
    General Irving Barrios Mojica said in a tweet.

    A Mexican official told Reuters that two men had been found dead, while
    a man and a woman were safe and in the hands of authorities.

    The bodies of those killed have been recovered and are being
    repatriated, US officials said.

    "We are very sorry that this happened in our country and we send our condolences to the families of the victims, friends, and the United
    States government, and we will continue doing our work to guarantee
    peace and tranquillity," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.

    The Americans were named as Latavia "Tay" McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Eric
    James Williams and Zindell Brown, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reported.

    The four were driving through Matamoros - a city of 500,000 located
    directly across the border from the Texas town of Brownsville - in a
    white minivan with North Carolina licence plates when unidentified
    gunmen opened fire, the FBI said this week.

    Video shows them being loaded into a pickup truck by heavily armed men.
    One is manhandled onto the vehicle while others appear to be unconscious
    and are dragged to the truck.

    A Mexican woman, believed to be a 33-year-old bystander, was killed in
    last Friday's incident.

    At a news conference later on Tuesday, Mexican officials confirmed the 24-year-old man had been arrested and that the four Americans were
    discovered at a wooden house outside Matamoros.

    The victims had been transferred to various locations between the
    kidnapping on Friday and their discovery on Tuesday, the officials,
    including Mr Barrios Mojica, said.

    nvestigators think the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest organised crime
    groups in Mexico, is responsible for the attack, a US law enforcement
    source told CBS.

    It is still unclear whether the Americans were ambushed, mistaken for
    competing drug traffickers, or were caught in cross-fire between warring factions.

    US State Department officials said on Tuesday that the investigation is
    still in the early stages.

    Ms McGee was said to be travelling to the Mexican border town to have a
    tummy tuck, a cosmetic surgery procedure to remove abdominal fat.

    Her mother Barbara Burgess told ABC News that she had asked her daughter
    not to go, but her daughter had reassured her she would be safe.

    The FBI had offered a $50,000 (£42,000) reward for the return of the Americans.

    [Doesn't that set a bad precedent of rewarding kidnappers for kidnapping Americans?]

    Matamoros is in Tamaulipas state, one of six Mexican states that the US
    State Department advises travellers not to visit because of "crime and kidnapping".

    Medical tourism is common, particularly among people living in US border states.

    But Matamoros is one of the most dangerous cities in the country, as
    drug cartels control large swathes of the state of Tamaulipas and can
    hold more power than local law enforcement.


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    You voted for student loan forgiveness. You got $9.00 eggs and World War 3.

    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Jade Helm on Wed Mar 8 01:19:55 2023
    XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.survival

    On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:34:01 -0700, Jade Helm wrote:

    It is still unclear whether the Americans were ambushed, mistaken for competing drug traffickers, or were caught in cross-fire between warring factions.


    Yeah, okay... Damn, I'm getting cynical.

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  • From Jade Helm@21:1/5 to rbowman on Tue Mar 7 21:55:09 2023
    XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.survival

    On 3/7/2023 6:19 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:34:01 -0700, Jade Helm wrote:

    It is still unclear whether the Americans were ambushed, mistaken for
    competing drug traffickers, or were caught in cross-fire between warring
    factions.


    Yeah, okay... Damn, I'm getting cynical.

    Mexico is a narco-terrorist shit hole country. Only the mainstream
    media in the U.S. and the State Department would be scratching their
    heads and wondering whether "Americans" were mistaken for competing drug traffickers. Perhaps some new discipline called "Mexican Studies" can
    be created at American universities where such esoteric questions can be pondered by affirmative action students, including diversity and equity professors who can ponder such questions as they work toward another
    useless degree.


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    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

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