| | |  Americas & Beyond | August 2008 
Southern Border Tightened on Drug Cartel Warning
 Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press
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| | A U.S. Border Patrol truck patrols at the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas January 25, 2008. U.S. border police arrested a member of the U.S. Air National Guard driving four Mexican illegal immigrants in a car in southern Arizona, authorities said on Monday. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters) | | |
El Paso, Texas – Officials along the southern U.S. border say they are beefing up security after learning that warring Mexican cartels have approved sending hit men into the United States.
Police and federal agents told The Associated Press about the warnings Monday. Officer Chris Mears of the El Paso police in Texas says authorities learned of the threat last week.
Officials say the cartels have given their hit men permission to cross the border to kill their targets.
Cartel violence has killed thousands of people in Mexico this year. Nearly 800 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. |
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