Why is Fox News trying to scare young tourists away from Mexico?
By David Neiwert Wednesday Mar 04, 2009 12:00pm
What exactly is up with Fox News' fetish about warning kids to stay away from Mexico?
Bill O'Reilly pushed this story last night, and his vision of the scene in Mexico, with a bunch of tough Tony Montana-style drug lords hanging out in every smoky den, was about what you'd expect from the author of Those_Who_Trespass. Which is to say, largely bereft of reality. His guest -- who clearly knows her way around these scenes far better than BillO -- was incredulous: "Where do you get this stuff?" she asks at one point.
Well, he's probably getting at least some of it from his own Fox News operation. Indeed, between Glenn Beck's kookoo for Cocoa Puffs ranting episodes warning of a looming apocalypse coming our way from south of the border, and the rest of the Fox team's reportage on events there, the cable channel is becoming one big running ad: "Mexico is Scary!!! Stay Away!!! Stay Away!!!"
Here are just some of the stories that have run at Fox in the past few weeks:
Students Warned About Spring Break Travel to Mexico
U.S. State Department Issues Travel Alert for Mexico
Colleges warn students about Mexico travel
College Students' Spring Break Hopes Dashed by Mexico Drug Violence
U.S. Says Threat of Mexican Drug Cartels Approaching 'Crisis Proportions'
If Violence Escalates in Mexico, Texas Officials Plan to Be Ready
Will Mexico Bring Down the U.S.?
What Happens to the U.S. if Mexico Collapses?
Mexican Drug Cartels Armed to the Hilt, Threatening National Security
Mexico is a big country. It is also a lovely country. The only place that's currently unsafe is the border region right now. Stay away from border towns, and don't go looking for drugs, and you'll be fine.
In fact, it's grotesquely irresponsible to smear and damage the tourism business for the rest of Mexico because of those problems. You'd think Fox News was trying to hurt them or something.
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I was always brought up to be scared of going to Mexico.
Surely I wasn't the only one...
to be afraid of sex but I still went there. Not as often as I would have liked, but then I have my memories. Sigh.
:-)
(this smile is for Jo)
My parents never said, be afraid of Mexico, but I admit, I somehow had a bad impression anyway (which I know is silly.) Media??? Yup, probaly.
Strange that only the Tex/Mex border is an O'Reilly lovin' hotbed of violence.
Here in California and Arizona, we've freely crossed the border, vacationed and interacted with the Mexican citizens for over a decade. The Arizona/California border and desert area is crawling with tourists -including thousands of local seniors and Canadians.
Ever hear of one of them being harmed?
Mexicans have crime in their cities just like we do. Take murder happy Houston (Canadian description) for example, their crime rate has skyrocketed to the number two city with the highest murder rate in the nation.
Maybe Bill-o better put put an immemdiate advisory for Houston too??
Actually, the spike in murders since 2005 in Houston has been blamed on "the Katrina effect" (where the victims, offenders, or both came from areas affected by Katrina).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,223319,00...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208339,00...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189554,00...
A faux new piece about blaming the black hurricane transplants for Houston's increasing crime rate is completely unrelated to the maniac warning students not to hit the Mexican beaches.
Fox is blaming blacks and Bill is blaming the Mexicans for all the trouble at ONLY the Texas border...Come ON!
You may want to find other sources besides Fox to fact check Fox and Texas propaganda:
"A look at the raw data on violent crimes shows that the number of violent crimes peaks in the two months
preceding Katrina so the influx of people from New Orleans actually helped lower the crime rate for the Houston area."
(http://www.ser.tcu.edu/2008-RN/SER_RN-2008-La...)
and,
"But it was not as if those numbers soared to unprecedented levels. Rather, they virtually equaled statistics recorded two years earlier — well before Hurricane Katrina struck."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hurricane...
...which is one of the most idyllic areas you could ever be. I am thrilled to know that we will be having far less right-wing tourists visiting our slice of paradise!
I'm incredibly jealous. By the way, I was just reading about this place this morning; have you ever been to Socorro Island? Do tourists go there? I'd imagine its expensive.
Great screen name, BTW.
Never heard of it (and I've lived here for 5 years.)
It's an island about 4-600 miles off of mainland.
I watched hurricane Linda blast that place with winds over 220.
There's a military installation on it. I never heard anything else about it after Linda smashed it.
Oh, I got your screen name. 4 way?
No one ever 'gets' my screen name!
They are screaming that the cartels are using us guns, then the next BillO rant is about "far left loons" trying to take away our guns...
YouTube: Pt. 1 British PM Addresses Congress 3/4/09
Just watched all 4 parts.
Amazing man and such good news about Ted Kennedy!
I was singularly impressed by Brown's call to impose global banking rules AND his reliance on "our many faiths'" call to care for the least among us, invoking both the Sermon on the Mount and the parable of the Good Samaritan.
And the Knighting of Sir Edward Kennedy was sweet indeed!
for longer than you think. Check it out.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/el-paso-mar...
I would think that Fox Noise would be doing the opposite and encouraging the trips to Mexico -- the chance of missing white girls in a foreign country = ratings bonanza
I'm not trying to insult the U.S. (i'm from Canada) but I think a large part of (mainly the cities) are absolute sewers but I don't label the whole country that way there's still a lot of places i'd like to see. BillO is a jackass.
..a couple years ago. We were stopped in Bucerias by the Federales at about 4:00 am. A little spooky but we got by. We had gone looking for an ATM as there was none in the village we were staying in. The first one we found had been vandalized and wasn't working, the second one we found had been yanked out of the wall it was installed in and the third one was in a bank with an armed guard standing by!
I just had a friend tell me about Cancun. She said things were a little sketchy there as well. This coming from someone who has been going there for quite some time.
Still, it was beautiful where we were and the people couldn't have been friendlier.
4chan has been posting a butt ton of these grotesque pics lately of butchered drug lords hanging off of swingsets in parks and grade school playgrounds in Mexico City.
I don't know how much of it is sensationalism and how much of it is legitimate. but I do know that the cocaine trade has been hit pretty hard by the economy, and so has law enforcement. so I know there's a war for control of the drug trade right about now.
not a big fan of Billo, obviously, but I think its safe to say that Mexico City is a little more dangerous place to visit right about now than, oh, say, Lake Tahoe.
I laughed out loud when Bill said he would send his kids to Daytona Beach rather than any place in Mexico.
The title of my post could cover blog entries for that crap outfit for the entirety of its existence, though it would still only scratch the surface of their shenanigans, I suppose.
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I was brought up to be fascinated and scared of Tijuana:
"Don't drive your pick up truck there! The cops will take it and make you walk back to the US!!!"
Oooo! Skerry!
It's other networks too.
I haven't seen a news story, but it's on the tickers...
is its neighbour to the north. They supply the guns and customers for the drug runners.
Most of Mexico is full of pretty strong family-oriented catholics. Plus their food is freaking awesome, and they make tequila.
Me gusta Mexico, quiero comprar una casa en Mexico algun dia!
There are serious gang wars going on in Toronto and Vancouver - lots of shootings on the streets in broad daylight. Also kids in Toronto showing up at school with guns. This in a country with tight gun control.
The black market trade in handguns over the US border is uncontrolled.
All my life, I've never even seen a (real, live) gun, never mind touched one, or owned one (and still now, today.) Since I've been in Korea, this has all erupted. (I came here in 1997). Guns are unheard of in Canada, or WHERE!!! That's very sad indeed. Our cities have always been so very very safe.
So when my dad starts talking about how dangerous Mexico is I just laugh at him.
it's the corrupt Mexican govt.
We're a CLOSE second though.
n/t
Down along the pacific coast, around Colima...mas mejor...
Not a big fan of hurricanes and looking for a more Mexican flavor...plus I am worried about the oceans becoming infested with deadly box jellyfish.
I am not scared of being stung, per se, but I have this phobia of jello.
... at age 8, 1971. Man it was pretty bad, me and my brother were crying.
"Why is Fox News trying to scare ___________ ?"
because that is what fox news does, they peddle fear... this is too easy, there must be something i am missing...
Can't help but wonder if Rupert Murdoch wants to drive down the price of oceanfront land in Mexico, so he can pick it up cheap.
If I wasn't in Africa I would be making the grand tour from Matamoros through Nuevo Laredo and on to the ultimate party place... TiaJuana!!! And all because Fox said "no". Fox news and their ilk are just paid flunkies of the illicite markets South of the border. And I challenge Bill-O or Colbert to prove me wrong. Please
I live in NM and used to go to the border a lot. Juarez, the capital of the legendary/mythical "donkey show" was always my town. Always had great restaurants and hotels that were comfortable and elegant for a budget price (anyone remember Sylvia's before it burned down?) A liter of Cuervo could be taken home for $2.10 plus maybe 50 cents in border taxes.
Nowadays these drug wars are being fought right there in the streets. I'm not getting this from Fox, I hear stuff from people that live or still dare to hang near there.
Reason REASON!! WEE Dont neeed no stinking REASON!! You don't think it has anything to do with skin color do you?? naah I dint tink so
prohibition, which is the font of the troubles he and others at FAUX Noise are peeing and moaning about?
That's the source for the 9K Mex dead since Presidente Calderron took Warshington's addled advice and began turning the DrugWar into a 'real war' (a wet-dream which the DrugWarriors have had for years). The cartellistas didn't roll over and wet themselves like Washington and Mexico City expected, but came back with guns blazing. And this is the result. Why not talk about that?
us to visit sunny Venezuela instead? or Cuba ( as soon as it's legal), or maybe Nicaragua to show our support for Ortega?
No?
Canadians go to Cuba all the time. I'd love to see Havana and visit some of their beaches.
and would be a lot safer than in Honduras, or Salvador.
I'm only 200 miles away for chrissakes!
That screwy Glenn Beck is the real scary thing. I would not want to be in a room with him. He creeps me out just seeing his face on a television or computer screen. I'd rather take my chances in Mexico
I guess, it may help the internal economy if we keep the rich kids within our own country. I don't believe anything O'riely says, tho.
The same happened when Canada was labelled as having a "SARS epidemic". It was a few cases, immeciately quaeantined in the hospital, and no one else got sick. Tens of billions of dollars where lost in revenue.
Canada was popular (and still is) for filming movies and conventions, because of our lower dollar. They all got cancelled.
How about bird flu in SE Asia? I went: nothing to worry about!!! I even ate chicken everywhere.
FEAR, RUN, HIDE!!!
It was lovely.
Most tourists aren't going to the "bad" areas. Cancun (ie, Spring Break Central) was fine when we went through on our way to Cozumel. Yeah, you have to be alert, but dammit lazyasses, you should be on your guard when you're traveling anyway! And not guarded like "OMG don't make eye contact with anyone because everyone is out to rob you," just common sense crap like not taking gypsy cabs and making sure you don't have all your money in one place and such.
to not look like an easy mark.
...that's easier said than done. Marks can be determined by their age and race, and just by virtue of the fact that you're an American tourist in a touristy area can make you look "like an easy mark."
It really DOES come down to common sense.
crack-towns before, and never had a problem, I held my head up high and looked people in the eye and smiled, and kept on trucking.
That obviously can't work everywhere, but in my little slice of the world, it did me ok...
Reduced U.S. tourism = Mexico's economy negatively affected = more illegal immigration to U.S.
Why would Fox want more illegal immigration to the U.S.? For starters, to highlight this pet issue of the right, which has fallen off the radar screen since the 2008 GOP Presidential primary. Remember Tom Tancredo?
Does Faux own the State Department now? That's where the alert originated.
PV is great. Acapulco is more risky. Not sure about the latest from Cancun. Anybody been there lately?
The State Dept. issues alerts for other countries all the time. That is a poor excuse, rather than a reasonable explanation, of why Fox is devoting so much coverage to this.
We were in Cancun/Cozumel. Not a problem.
My understanding is that Mexico City and the borders is where the worst of it is.
And yeah, the State Dept. DOES make these alerts all the time. And Mexico hasn't warranted a "Travel Warning," it's just an "Alert." And even then the State Dept is basically saying "hey, Millions of people visit Mexico safely every year. We just want you to be aware that violence has increased and here's some information." It's not substantially more alarming than say, the section on driving in Turkey.
I love going to Mexico, but surely it is not just a Fox News bias to be a bit concerned about going to Cancun (which is not a border town!) when the Cancun police chief was just arrested for the kidnapping, torture and murder of the chief drug official.
at the Estación de ferrocarril, and on the trains (and busses, too) in Mexico when I was going there a lot, in the '70s.
It's always been dicey.
It is good if you speak a bit of spanish, better if you speak more.
Stay out of Juarez!
a victim of the IMF/World bank. But now they have fantastic bus service!!!
Soldiers armed with automatic weapons? I saw them in the train stations all over Europe 10 years ago, probably saw a few during my last trip to France but glossed over them. It's pretty commonplace outside of the US to see that sort of stuff in public transit.
The cartels send drugs and people north.
The bring back automatic weapons and military hardware purchased in the USofA.
Legalize It!
not far from the border.
I love Mexico.
But places including Nogales and Agua Prieta (border cities) have become a little more than a little dangerous.
I would not drive from the U.S. to Puerto Penasco.
..very friendly, well the ones I met, and they were better armed than the Federales.
That has people from all over the world living here, some are wealthy and travel the world on their yachts, some are poor students on internships, or just workin class schlubs like myself.
Just last night, I was at the pub, discussing this very thing, with someone from Mexico, (amongst other gringoids like me), who is a dive master on one of the scuba boats here.
He says, even HE wouldn't go into certain parts of Mexico if you paid him.
Mexico IS a dangerous place. Every country has it's share of "off limits" areas...Mexico seems to have more than it's share right now.
But that can change...I remember parts in America that were off limits, that are totally safe now.
The only beach I have been robbed at was not in Mexico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic or any of the other "developing" countries with great beaches that I have been able to visit.
Nope, it was in Hawaii.
Crime happens everywhere.
Bad people are everywhere, and much to the dismay of BOR, they're not all Mexicans!
I always have to asky myself that when I watch the news. Mexico has a booming healthcare industry. More and more Americans are going there for affordable surgury or dental work. A lot of people don't realize this; but, not all advertisements take place during commercial announcements in between the show. The most effective advertisements are cleaverly concealed within news stories. This is the sad state of American Journalism. The news is often not news. The news is often a series of advertisements. My bet is that the American Healthcare Industry is trying to scare people away from Mexico.
- they're not seeking health care unless you consider 1$ shots to be "medicine". Where would those students go instead . . FLA?
Yeah, a whole lot of them come to florida and also to the bahamas
for sure.
Come on down to the Keys!
Just PLEASE, take a friggin cab, don't rent a car and drive slow in the fast lane like the old farts from Canada and New York do...GAH!
;)
Are there some good bargains in Key West right now when in comes to hotels and such? Maybe not now but I bet after easter when the snow birds go home there will be. My husband and I are thinking about going down there this summer. We haven't been to the keys in several years.
and stuff...
I have a couple of friends that own a B&B in Islamorada, (I'll see them soon, I'll get rates for ya) it's no key west, but key west is only a couple of hours away, and it is such a gorgeous drive too...I made the trip in early January...went to a state park on the way...you forget how damn beautiful the keys are when ya live here.
The last couple of times we were down there we stayed on Big Pine and went into Key West for like a over night thing. But this time, we may stay in Key West. I'll welcome any info you have. :)
I'll see what I can round up for ya!
What is O'reilly's key demographics. He dominates the 65 to dead demographic. He's not scaring drunk college students away. They don't watch his show. The only people watching his show are older people. If they think Mexico is not safe; they will not go. They may be using young hot sexy people to market this fear; but, they are not the target audience. This is clearly a marketting campaign targetted against the elderly for going to Mexico for surguries or pharma products.
is likely exactly what's goin on.
That the American Healthcare Industry would do ANYTHING of the sort!?
Why, they are only looking out for OUR best interests after all! };p>
Good point, several people I know go to Mexico for their medications and surgeries, because it is more affordable. One childhood friend of mine had her broken wrist taken care almost totally in Mexico because it was cheaper at the time to go to TJ instead of staying here in Cali for that.
How about his children not being allowed to spend any time in his house because he's a sexual pervert.
There is a town north of me and in that town you would be insane to be on the street after dark. It isn't at all unusual for the cops to find a body on the side of the road come morning. If you drive down the eastern coast of Florida from Ga. to Miami, you will probably pass through that town. I guess if I wanted to scare someone, I would just tell them not to come to Florida.
You're a shareholder. Other than that, they don't care and they'll bill your doctor just for the hell of it.
are circulating around San Diego that some surfers, and some tourists were robbed by thugs dressed as police. 50% of Baja's revenue comes from tourism. A couple of bad incidents have really slowed people from going there and thus the economy is suffering severely.
The violence is really confined to small areas relatively speaking. BOR is just spewing more hate and fear.
he got a terrible dose of the clap and crabs on top of that.
Jeeze, Bill, stay away from those places!
I have lived in a small town south of Guadalajara for almost two years. We do not have gang problems. We do not have murders and rampant crime. Ajijic is a quiet laid back gringo friendly town on Mexico's largest lake. It pisses me off that the New York Times runs a "Mexico bad" article nearly every weekend. I am not surprised that FOX is equally dishonest about the problems in Mexico. Come visit. Come for the tequila, stay for the sun.....
Thank you for the invite, Lee. What time would you like us to be there? Do you have plenty of good food and tequila stocked up? We could probably rent a bus to bring us all down there. I hope you have several guest rooms. We'll try not to party so much that your neighbors complain. :)
But I hear Chapala is less Mexican, so I'm thinking Ajijic. Or San Juan Cosala?
What are the good areas to live in? I'm not looking for a big fancy gated community, just a clean and safe place where I can watch TV and sit out on the porch and watch the world go by.
Chapala is almost exclusively Mexican; Ajijic is considerably gringo (American/Canadian). All the areas I've been to have been perfectly livable.
and I seriously miss it, especially the perfect weather.
It's better if the narrow-minded bigots stay away, no?
Typical Billo: brings on a guest expert who doesn't agree with him and Blowhard bill jabbers loudly over anything she says. Hey Billo, I just spent two weeks in Mexico and never felt unsafe for a moment. But then again, I haven't been to every Mexican resort like you have!
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Falafel Town?
With his travel companion, Andrea Mackris.
I figure it's because there are leftist guerrillas getting active in the country. And liberalism = socialism = the end of the world. And we need to protect our kids from liberalism.
Not that I see the world that way, just trying to get into their head a little.
Did he really say "I've been to every single resort in Mexico..."?!
I wish his guest had called him on that particular bit of bloviation.
They just want it all to themselves. And greedy too. At knock down prices
mexico is full of brown people! they're not like billo! billo is askeered of them. they look funny. they dress funny. they even *gasp* talk funny. they're not like us. they must be evil. every last one of them.
bah. screw his paranoid crapola. i've been to mexico plenty of times. it's a great, fun, place with a rich culture. i'm glad they're our neighbor.
He OWNS a place in Baja...
And I'll tell you what.
You won't find me anywhere near the border towns.
A couple of hrs south of them and everything should be ok.
But, you gotta stay on your toes.
Strange things happen down there.
Hey misskitty, how are ya feelin? Howz yer medical status?
I hope yer feelin well.
I wish I was there right now. Work is startin to slow down a bit.
If I take a serious hit for work, I'll have no choice but to go there.
It's paid for in full. Which is ok with me. I get to surf.
But getting past the first 2-3 hrs of the northern part is kinda dicey.
I don't stop for the first 4-5 hrs once I cross the border. Once I get past Ensenada and get out in the country it gets a bit more relaxing.
But like I said, I've seen a lot of strange things all along the Baja peninsula. So, It's not like it's a completely relaxing trip.
But then again, I don't go into Salinas at night either. Or any other major city for that matter. But things have gotten out of hand in the border towns. It's down right crazy.
Racism?
MONEY. The chamber of commerce probably are trying to push the kids into spending it in the U.S.
So, we gotta make all other sunny places seem dangerous.
There is no warning as of yet about Canada.
The border area between Arizona and Mexico is a very dangerous place right now. The problems spill over into Arizona, at least as far as Phoenix. Though actual killings are so far confined to those in the business of transporting drugs and illegal entrants, if it continues it will probably spill over to the general populace as it already has done in Mexico. One place to get snapshots of what is going on in Mexico is at BorderReporter.com.
I live on the Gulf, have taught hundreds of kids who come and go to Mexico constantly, without a smidge of trouble. They are Mexican-Americans, true, but I know Americans who have also gone there for years and years for vacations without a hitch.
One of my dearest friend's mother, who is getting up there, bought a winter place there, and NOT in an uber-rich area........she loves it, has great neighbors, and feels safer there than her home her in dorksville, usa.
What ever O'asshole says, it's pretty smart to do just the opposite.
NOW, could you start putting up posts that don't involve neo-con theatrics, please. It's as if they've hijacked this site......and i love this site. Get the fuck on topic, and get the fuck off this media blitz of repukeish asshats.....enough.
[Couple things, the first one being, you should be able to edit your post. If you click the edit button, it will open your comment and you can change it. Two is, this site is call 'Crooks and Liars.' As long as neo-con theatrics involve 1) crooks, and/or 2) liars, we ARE on topic. :) Sitemonitor]
America's top military officer heads to Mexico this week to offer help to a government battling powerful drug cartels, amid alarm in Washington over escalating violence across the border.
With the death toll at 5,300 last year and Mexican cartels armed with automatic weapons and billions in cash, the crisis has become a full-blown national security concern for the United States.
Why would "Billy the Dirtbag" not want to go to Mexico? I'm guessing he could get some serious quantity discounts on Loofahs.
This guy is a sociopath, straight up. Why on earth would anyone (especially a woman) go on his show when they know they're just going to get slapped around? And what does it say about any entity or individual that would hire him to do anything?
I know Limp-Dick is always terrified when crossing the border to get his stash of DRUGS, but why or who is O'Lielly so bedwetting scared of and why?
when you can go here.
http://www.virtual-oceanside.com/surf_cam.asp
O'reilly is an idiot!
He should get out of the US as fast as possible, we have drugs and crime in this country too! Get outta here fast Bill O, it's dangerous!!
:rollseyes:
True story.
And besides 3 loud drunk American teens at a pizza hut one night, everything else was perfect.
and anything the Great Bloviator can do to keep his right-wing, nut-job viewers away from here is great by me. (P.S. With the peso now hovering at around 15 to the U.S. dollar, food, medical care, household help, utilities and just about anything else denominated in pesos is running 50% less than it was a year ago.)
yup.
just ran a piece on this topic this past Sunday. Very interesting. Seems like the normal vacation spots are fine, but I would avoid the cities (after watching that).
We have a house in San Felipe in Baja along with many, many others from the U.S., about 3000. These fear mongers are ruining the potential for us to rent or sell our houses. I have just one question, when was the last time you read about Mexicans cruising through their neighborhoods and shooting their own children. It is safer than safe in 99% of Mexico, would we only be able to say the same thing about the U.S.
...Wait, so let's examine this little juicy bit of information.
Bill O'Reilly warns against traveling to Mexico.
Tourism in Mexico declines because of this and these other Fox News stories.
More workers become unemployed, potentially turn to crime or immigration.
Criminals keep showing up on Fox News, Immigrants try to get into the US to find a better life.
Bill O'Reilly warns against traveling to Mexico because of crime and froths at the mouth over illegal immigrants, who came here because they had no jobs back home.
.....*head explodes*
Damned if you do, f***ed if you don't.
Just got back from Playa Del Carmen and traveling around the Yucatan. Yes, we saw some soldiers with weapons near the airport, and ... nothing else. restaurants, beaches and attractions like Tulum and the pyramid at Coba were packed with people having a great time. no problems at airports or on the roads. we were oblivious to the so-called danger until we got back to the States and started watching the news.
swimming in a pool and swimming a mile off shore. There is danger everywhere but the life guards are a little further away when you cross the border. My wife is from Mexico and visits regularly but I cringe everytime she goes there. Not because of preconcieved notions that I have but because of what she knows of her own country.
Crime in just the border towns ? Sorry S n L cannot go along with this one . If you follow what's going on in Mexico it involves the entire country , even Cancun , absolute madness . Would not catch me down there these days , not a chance . It's not just O'reilly spouting his usual nonsense , US government agencies too are warning spring breakers to avoid and that it's not safe . The crime and violence is spreading North to the states , kidnappings and crime in Arizona is on the rise , it's not a good situation according to my cousin living in Gilbert which is just outside of Phoenix .
Billo has been to every resort in Mexico, so no way would I send my daughter there, obviously not safe, not with Loffa man running around.
First I want to say none of you people have a clue about Mexico or living with a 3rd world country as your backyard. I live in San Diego and yeah it's no big deal overall for the locals because we know what is up. You have no idea how easy it is for a the cartels to cross the border and kidnap or kill someone and then just run and hide back in Mexico. You have no idea about the U.S. born Mexicans that are anti-U.S.A., yes they are here but they are not part of this country. The standards here have dropped soo much. Wal-marts are the best here. Have you ever crossed the San Diego/Mexico border and smelled that smell? That smell that let's you know you just crossed into a true 3rd world country and you left all your rights and freedoms at the border. I go to down there once in a while but always with a friend who can speak spanish and I mean really good spanish not that highschool junk that gets you beat up. I know Mexicans that won't go there. The killing are real, the corruption is real on both sides of the border and all is grossly under reported. If all you think Mexico is resorts then your a fool but to be fair it's not all bad but you better watch your back and understand your a check waiting to be cashed when you go down there. Guns, they don't get their guns from us. It's bigger then that try international underground groups. The only guns from the U.S are the ones we sold to the Mexican Army that soldiers defecting to the cartels took with them(stole). So when your watching that chump from CNN with the crooked nose that thinking he knows all about Iraq and is now going to bring you the inside story on Mexico just remember he don't know SHIT and neither do you or you kids who spent a couple years here while enrolled at SDSU. Only the people who live in border cities and actually cross the border know the truth.
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