M3 Report 10/23/08

Life on the border…

Courtesy: National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers/ http:www.nafbpo.org

The M3 report translates a nice bit of writing about life on the border from La Prensa, in Mexico City. Read it after the jump. But, with news of the arrest of Jesus Zambada Garcia, the brother one of Mexico’s most notorious narco kingpin suspects, Ismael Zambada, comes some hefty weaponry/jewelry, as posted by the M3 report. The little vignette and the usual carnage round-up after the jump.

Check out that bullet-blasting bling:

Jesus Zambada Garcia and some friends?

La Prensa (Mexico City) 10/23/08 – part of nationwide “o.e.m.” newspaper group -

(Note: the Tia Juana River, usually dry, crosses the border from S.E. to N.W. just to the west of the border crossing point between Tijuana, Baja Calif., and San Ysidro (San Diego), Calif. , said to be the world’s busiest; the wide and shallow river bed provides an open area rife with law enforcement problems. The following is a full translation of a feature article describing some of the goings-on in there)

“Zacatecan migrants, lost souls who roam the banks of the Tijuana River.”

The United States is on the other side of the yellow stripe painted on the concrete bed of the Tijuana River, a dry river. On the north of the line, United States Border Patrol Agents who patrol in dazzling white colored light trucks keep a permanent watch. To the south of the line, the lost souls spend the night in vigil, in front of the glare of the stadium lights which protect the American Dream.
On the Mexican side of the border fence, the principal Tijuana drainage canal collects a gallery of deportees and vagabonds, of smugglers and drug addicts removed from the opposite side. The majority are undocumented individuals who were returned to Mexico after serving jail sentences to the north. According to United States law, they are “criminal aliens.” Within that group there are restaurant workers who were arrested for being drunk as well as seasoned criminals, freed after several years in jail.
“Most of us are here because they kicked us out of there” says Juan Saucedo, 29, who shares a Coco Krispies cereal box with other residents of the area. He is known as “Zacatecas”, the name of the Mexican state which he abandoned at 14 years of age to head toward Long Beach, California.