I wish that the people who write these stories would consider the statement from many years ago from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan:
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
It is also interesting that the clamor for MORE SPENDING on border security, regardless of the facts that show constant increases in border security spending since 2004 and a steady decrease in violent incidents on the US side of the border, come from the same right-wing citizens and politicians who berate the democratic administration for government spending…
And, even the “facts” provided on the violence in Juarez seem disconnected from reality:
“Juarez has seen well over 2,000 people killed each year in the drug war, he said. In 2009, that figure peaked at 2,754 murders, according to El Diario, the city’s major newspaper. The number of murders in Juarez fell to 2,086 last year, a 24 percent drop.”
Apparently the 3,622 people killed in Juarez in 2010 (by far the most violent year ever in the border city since the Mexican Revolution) don’t count. And the story repeats the old “50,000” number for those killed in Mexican violence. And not a shred of evidence is provided on any people killed on the US side of the border. But, if you would really like to escape reality (without taking drugs), take a look at the readers’ comments on this story… molly
Frontera List 
It is a boarder with the United States. That makes people on and around the boarder the United States concern. It does not matter which side of our boarder the murders and massacres happen on. There is only a line to stop from crossing not stop people from dying. We are not at war with Mexico So the US is defiantly part of the Mexican border no matter how you look at it. I mean whose rights are we protecting when thousands and thousands are being killed? Every drug runner caught within fifty miles of our boarder on both sides should always be considered armed and dangerous and an accomplice to murder and Mayhem.