Housekeeping Note: Rantburg's This Week in Guns column is officially one year old. Tempus Fugit.
No question that media will start pushing out antigun propaganda at an increased rate as time goes on. Anna Marie Cox, a particularly noxious leftist gave a preview of the basic strategy: shame.
In her article for the UK Guardian, she posits that gun control measures will fail until hearts and minds are changed. She notes that gun owners are a very small voting block, so not enough people are there to shame into giving up their Gawd given rights, so the next best set, their neighbors will be prevailed on to shame gun owners into giving up their guns.
Her article relies heavily on data supplied by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown antigun group.
Another journalist who apparently not only relies on data from Bloomberg, but also has Bloomberg as a public relations client is Daily Beast's Cliff Schecter.
Both Schecter and Cox have arrived on the national and international scene by slaving in the left's farm league, developing their arguments in such publications as Alternet and The Nation. Somewhere and somehow along the way you'd think they might have gotten the memo that you should disclose your businesses dealings if it impacts your writing.
Cliff Schecter and Daily Beast did not, instead simply deciding to act as a journalist with balanced coverage of an issue, deliberately hiding his conflict of interest. I can't comment on the state of American journalism, simply because I don't poke my nose into something so noxiously bad, it is easy to see how it got that way.
Cliff: don't forget that twenty on the nightstand.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for rifle ammunition were mixed, while prices for pistol ammunition were generally lower. Prices for used rifles were mixed, while prices for used pistols were generally lower.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Reloads, RNL, .30 per round (From last week: Unchanged )
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, RNFP, steel cased, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .23 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, Steel cased, FMJ, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, Store Brand, FMJ, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged )
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: SWVA, RWS, FMJ, .39 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 Rounds: Ammo2U, Geco, FML, .38 per round (From Last Week: -.02 Each )
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Lee's Mags, Tulammo, steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: -.03 Each )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Barnaul, steel cased, .41 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,080 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel case, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 box limit): O.D. Green Supply, CCI Blazer, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds: Trop Gun Shop, Federal Champion, .10 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $609 Last Week Avg: $619 (-)
California (209, 204): Del-ton AR-15: $650 (Same Gun)
Texas (309, 314): Mixed Build): $575 (!)
Pennsylvania (149, 154): Palmetto State Armory: $620 (Same Gun)
Virgina (205, 210): Bravo Company USA: $650
Florida (413, 413): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $550 (Same Gun)
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,140 Last Week Avg: $1,100 (+)
California (43, 43): Iron Ridge Arms: $1,100 (Same Gun)
Texas (54, 60): DPMS Oracle: $900 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (23, 23): Bushmaster: $1,200
Virginia (41, 38): Mixed Build: $1,300 (Same Gun)
Florida (75, 76): Smith & Wesson M&P 10: $1,200
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $520 Last Week Avg: $505 (+)
California (41, 43): Saiga: $475 (!)
Texas (62, 54): Romak: $625 (Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (51, 57): Saiga: $500 (Prolly Same Gun)
Virginia (73, 80): CAI Vz 2008 : $500
Florida (125, 125): CAI Vz 2008: $500
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,000 Last Week Avg: $1,134 (-)
California (0): None Available
Texas (0): None Available
Pennsylvania (0, 1): None Available
Virginia (1, 1): Romak PSL: $1,200
Florida (7, 7): Romak PSL: $800 (Same Gun) (!)
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $422 Last Week Avg: $417 (+)
California (151, 152): Rock Island Armory: $460 (Same Gun)
Texas (215, 212): Tisas: $400 (Prolly Same Gun)
Pennsylvania (185, 190): Rock Island Armory (Nickel Plated): $400
Virginia (185, 180):American Tactical Imports: $400
Florida (380, 385): Rock Island Armory: $450
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $446 Last Week Avg: $427(+)
California (153, 150): Glock 17 : $450 (Same Gun)
Texas (333, 328): Glock 26: $435
Pennsylvania (209, 203): Glock 17: $450
Virginia (227, 235): Glock 26: $450
Florida (452, 492): Glock 19 : $445
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $410 Last Week Avg: $410 ()
California (94, 102): Sig Sauer SP2022: $425
Texas (148, 144): Sig Sauer SP2022: $400
Pennsylvania (118, 117): Glock 22: $375 (!)
Virginia (126, 120): Smith & Wesson M&P 40: $400
Florida (231, 237): Glock 27: $450 (Same Gun)
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Jobs and opportunity await them under the new regime. It's simply a preparatory 'down-sizing' effort don't you see. The old tribal ways will win out, you'll see.
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Britain and Australia, despite doing away with firearms, still have firearm deaths. One can only presume some of these deaths are with illegally obtained guns at the hands of thugs. It is naive to think that a country will not be faced with tyranny, criminality or terrorism either from without or from within. Doing away with firearms in a country is the dream of tyrants--in this case leftists. Nothing like committing national suicide. During WWII, both the Germans and Japanese were reluctant to take on the U.S. on U.S. soil because of the many firearms owned by citizens.
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Yup, P2k - and I'm a proud member of that armed force (as are many others here). :-D
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From the link at #6:
‘What kind of monster smiles after killing something?’ they say about the woman posing with a tranquilized rhino, but not about the woman giggling while an abortionist executes her baby.
That's pretty much the same point I was trying to make last week when I went off on a rant about cigarettes. These gun control advocates are blatantly hypocritical. If you want to outlaw guns as a public health issue, how can you ignore tobacco and abortion? How can you ignore all the gang and drug related murders in places like Chicago? Are these not far more pressing public health issues?
But I'm afraid the public health angle is just a smokescreen to conceal their fear of citizens who are ready, willing and able to defend themselves.
I personally never even wanted a gun until all these gun control freaks started coming out of the woodwork.
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Thing, in your link they talk about the fear of christian fundamentalist. They fear christian fundamentalist with guns? YOU BET THEY DO! And for good reason. America was liberated from British rule and the European continent was liberated twice by christian fundamentalist with guns. We are a very dangerous bunch of people. We are not afraid to pick up arms when we feel we absolutely must. Make no mistake, we are the most lethal group of individuals on this planet and when we are pissed off we will not stop until we have attained victory. This scares the living crap out of the far left socialist/fascists that want human sheep.
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Abu, if you want to talk about a public health issue, how about cars? They kill something like 40-50k/year.
Of course, as someone said, trying to reduce gun violence by making it harder for citizens to legally buy guns is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it almost impossible for anyone to get a driver's license.
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You know who's even a smaller voting block than gun owners? Gays. Yet the politicians dance and bend over and spread 'em when the gays come around.
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[Al Ahram] South Sudanese rebel militia chief Peter Gadet and government infantry commander Santino Deng on Friday were hit by an EU travel ban and asset freeze for atrocities and obstructing the peace.
Gadet, who has also been sanctioned by the US, is accused of leading an attack on the town of Bentiu in May that broke a ceasefire and left 200 civilians dead.
Deng led the offensive to retake Bentiu from rebel forces in a battle that aid groups have described as particularly ruthless.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... sanctions follow six months of fighting between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those backing his rival and former deputy Riek Machar.
More than 1.5 million people have been displaced and at least 10,000 people killed in the world's newest country amid what the EU said were "appalling human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations and crimes against humanity".
EU diplomats announced the sanctions earlier but had refused to divulge the identities of the two military leaders before they took effect on Friday.
An existing arms embargo against South Sudan will remain in place.
The EU warned further sanctions were on the table if progress stalled in the coming weeks.
The EU said it was "unacceptable" that a ceasefire agreement signed January 23 and renewed May 9 continued to be breached.
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..it'll take some judges to have family members here getting TB and other contiguous disease to alter their social behavior in supporting unrestricted border violations rather than sound public health policies.
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About communications and medicine in West Africa:
Liberia has about the same land area as Tennessee. In that land area there are seventeen different languages and 31 Ethnic groups. Liberia doesn't have the infrastructure or budget to produce health materials in all 17 languages; and outsiders don't always get the local variants of the languages right. Even if the health materials are correct and in the right language, not that many people can read them.
Village A is three miles downriver from Village B. The two villages can speak enough of each others' languages to trade. Getting to either village by road is nearly impossible in the rainy season, because both villages are several hours' hike off the main road, via jungle trails. Travel between villages by dugout canoe or raft isn't too hard, if you know which creeks are the right ones. In a rainforest, landmarks and waterways change quickly, so you have to know how to get around.
Village A has a radio that sort of works when the generator isn't broken down. Village B doesn't have radio access. It is, however, two hours closer to the main road, so news sometimes comes through by word of mouth when someone comes there.
Maybe last week's or last month's newspaper makes it into the village once in a while; and maybe one or two people can read it.
Several families in Village B have relatives in Village C, which is about ten miles upriver. Somebody paddles downstream bringing word that a relative has died. The families go upriver for the funeral. Part of the funeral involves washing the dead body. Nobody has any bleach; probably haven't even heard of it. And nobody knows much about this weird fever that Auntie had; they just know that she bled a lot and suffered.
Now some people in Western clothing paddle upriver to villages A and B. They tell people that if somebody starts bleeding and showing other symptoms of this disease, to notify somebody in the board of health, and to isolate the person and not touch them. This doesn't make any sense to the locals. Not touch someone who is sick? Besides, Uncle Momo says that he recognizes one guy, and that guy's brother in law was arrested for using body parts in magic two years ago. How do we know that these people are telling the truth? Maybe they just want body parts to make medicine.
So what do you do? You're so far out in the sticks that you can't transport somebody to a hospital. You don't have enough consistent access to communications to know anything about the organizations that these people in Kwee clothes claim to represent. Frankly, these people are telling you to do something that is so foreign to your culture that you don't believe them.
Your suspicions are aroused further when somebody from Village C comes to tell you that three more relatives got sick, and these people in suits that covered their whole bodies took their relatives away in a truck, and then said the relatives died and nobody can come bury them. This is obviously some plot to use relatives' suffering for making magic. So you don't report these illnesses, and you hide the sick when word gets out.
And the disease kills and kills.
And it's around the corner from some people I care about; people who are working really hard to ease suffering and prevent disease against all odds.
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Very useful information, mom. Thank you. It's really hard to imagine life without modern conveniences like cell phones, newspapers, and nearly universal literacy.
[An Nahar] Ukraine's military on Friday reported losing 23 servicemen in festivities across the separatist east that threatened to shatter slim Western hopes of a truce in Europe's deadliest conflict in decades.
The defense ministry said the toll included 19 troops who died in a hail of rockets fired from a truck-mounted Grad rocket launcher system -- a type of weapon both Kiev and Washington insist could only have been covertly supplied to the rebels by Russia.
The official front man of Ukraine's intensifying eastern assault added that 93 servicemen had sustained "wounds and contusions of varying severity".
"The rebels will pay for the life of every one of our servicemen with tens and hundred of their own," Ukraine's Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko told an emergency security meeting.
"Not a single terrorist will avoid responsibility," he vowed. "Every single one of them will get their just desserts."
Friday's official corpse count is the highest since Poroshenko tore up a brief ceasefire with the rebels on July 1 and relaunched an offensive that managed to dislodge the militias from key eastern strongholds they had held since early April.
The military separately claimed "eliminating" nearly 100 fighters in one of Ukraine's bloodiest days since the start of the crisis last November as anti-government protests spiraled into revolution and a protracted standoff with pro-Russian rebels.
The tide in the eastern uprising turned last weekend when resurgent government forces managed to flush out the separatists from a string of eastern towns and cities that hold historic Russian ties.
Most of the militias have since retreated to Donetsk and the neighboring industrial city of Lugansk -- both capitals of their own "People's Republic" that refuse to recognize Kiev's new West-leaning government and are seeking annexation by Russia.
The conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 550 people and displaced tens of thousands across a rustbelt that had long been the economic engine of the troubled post-Soviet state.
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"The rebels will pay for the life of every one of our servicemen with tens and hundred of their own," Ukraine's Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko told an emergency security meeting.
[Al Ahram] Intense battles raged on Friday around the airport in the main stronghold of pro-Kremlin snuffies as Ukraine's new leader laid out tough terms for a ceasefire demanded by his European allies and Russia.
An AFP team outside Donetsk International Airport -- a gleaming hub shuttered since coming under a bloody rebel attack at the end of May -- saw exchanges of fire and an anti-aircraft missile being shot at a Ukrainian military jet.
"Here we go again. This is just like yesterday," said one vendor from a nearby outdoor market as dozens of people looked nervously up at the cloudy sky.
"Everything is shutting down," said another man in his fifties who was preparing to escape across the border to Russia with his daughters and grandchildren.
"There is nothing to do here. No work -- and it is getting too dangerous," he said.
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[Al Ahram] A young Tunisian suffered life threatening injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Libyan embassy in Berlin on Friday, German police said, adding the man was known to embassy staff and his motivations did not appear to be political.
"A man came to the front of the Libyan embassy with a bottle of lamp oil. The security guards knew this man already, and there have been previous disagreements over his demands for money from the embassy," a police front man said.
The guards called the police, he added, but the young man poured the oil over himself and ignited it. He was taken by helicopter to hospital.
The police front man said that there are often disagreements at the embassy over the compensation payments many people come to collect for injuries suffered during the war in Libya.
"According to our initial investigations it seems there is no political motive for this self-harm, rather it appears to stem from a disagreement over the payments of compensation."
Which is not political? Sheesh...
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[Al Ahram] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... on Friday vowed to press for a new constitution for Turkey if he is elected president in elections on August 10.
"A new constitution on the path to new Turkey will be one of our priorities if elected president... A new constitution means a new future," he told supporters at a rally in Istanbul.
Changing the constitution would allow Erdogan to give greater powers to the presidency, until now a largely ceremonial role.
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Why do you need a new constitution when you simply ignore the one you have, like in America?
[Al Ahram] Police in eastern India have made two arrests over the rape of an 11-year-old girl which was allegedly ordered by a village leader to punish her brother, an officer said Friday.
Police said medical examinations confirmed the girl had been assaulted on Monday with Sherlocks now working to unravel another shocking case of sexual violence in India.
Anurag Gupta, front man for police in the impoverished eastern state of Jharkhand, said the girl's brother was accused of attempting to molest a neighbour in a village in Bokaro district.
When the woman and her husband complained to village elders, one of them suggested that the husband rape either the sister or daughter of the alleged molester as a punishment for him.
"They took her to the jungle and raped her," the mother of the victim told CNN-IBN news channel. "All the villagers came here, stood by and didn't do anything. We were crying, begging for help, but still nobody did anything."
Police front man Gupta said the husband had been placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for the alleged rape in daylight on Monday, along with the village leader for ordering the crime.
The brother has also been detained for the original alleged attempt to molest the husband's wife.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A teenage boy who had been kidnapped for ransom on June 4 was recovered from Moro on Friday after a shootout that led to the arrest of six suspected kidnappers, officials said.
A joint team of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell and the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee carried out the raid in Moro, said CPLC chief Ahmed Chinoy.
He said that Shahbaz Nadeem, 17, a student of a local college, was kidnapped near Safora Chowrangi on June 4 by three gunnies in a Toyota Corolla car. They demanded a ransom of Rs4 million for his safe release.
The victim's family approached the law-enforcers and the CPLC. Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife...... the kidnappers, after negotiations, agreed to take Rs1m as ransom and they asked the victim's father to reach Moro to pay the ransom.
A police team from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... also reached Moro and the law-enforcers along with the local police took positions near the place where the ransom was to be paid to the kidnappers. When the ransom was paid, the police intercepted the kidnappers and an encounter ensued. Six suspects were tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and four of them were maimed and shifted to a local hospital for treatment.
The CPLC chief said that two unhurt suspects led the police to a place in a nearby village where they had kept teenager Shahbaz with a family. He said that this was a fifth kidnapping case resolved in this week and the victims were recovered without payment of any ransom.
Mr Chinoy said total 22 people had been kidnapped in Karachi and 12 of them were recovered without paying any ransom.
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It can be done and, finally, they did it. A virtuous cycle begins.
[Jpost] The shepherds have joined the cooperative with the goal of lowering their collective costs and increasing their profits.
Aiming to revolutionize an industry facing severe financial struggles, Beduin shepherds in Israel have begun to join the world's first ever Beduin agricultural co-operative. Following a year of preparations, the Beersheba-based Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation — Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (AJEEC-NISPED) launched the Mara'i Sheep Breeders Cooperative about a month ago.
Around 10 shepherds from several different Beduin families have joined the cooperative thus far, and more are expected to join soon, according to AJEEC. "In the process of establishing the cooperative we dealt with cultural issues — such as family businesses and tribal identify of the participants, but ultimately the members realized that only together can we save money and that this is the only way in which it is possible to influence and tackle the many issues that they were facing," said Kher Albaz, co-executive director of AJEEC-NISPED.
The shepherds — who are from the Abu Krinat village, located between Dimona and Beersheba — have joined the cooperative with the goal of lowering their collective costs and increasing their profits. As grazing the availability of grazing lands has been reduced, costs of animal feed have increased and taxes have risen, the shepherds have experienced sharp declines in their earnings.
As part of the cooperative program, the shepherds are receiving training from AJEEC-NISPED staff members on professional development and business cooperation skills, the organization said. In addition, the shepherds participate in a two-year training program under veterinarian Dr. Mazen Abu Siam on improving their breeding methods and herd management. Also integral to the program are educational site visits, and laptop computer distribution among the farmers to help them operate their herds, information provided by AJEEC-NISPED said.
Recently, the shepherds also received training from Dame Pauline Green, president of the International Co-operative Alliance. In the future, the Marai'I Sheep Breeders Cooperative is planning to expand as well as open a collaborative dairy and butcher shop, the AJEEC-NISPED information said. The cooperative and the accompanying training programs will enable the shepherds to "work more efficiently" and is just one of several projects AJEEC-NISPED is doing to promote empowerment within Negev Beduin society, Albaz stressed.
"I am sure that this partnership will be a model for livestock raisers and business owners in additional areas in the Negev," he said.
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Tier one level skill: Close Enough
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Roger! Tier two as well for that matter. Take the money DARPA pisses away and keep some Captains on active duty. BTW, doesn't make a fok what you're shooting if you cannot get authorization to squeeze the trigger and engage.
A U.S. effort to discourage immigrants' repeated attempts to enter the country illegally by dropping them back in Mexico hundreds of miles from where they were caught has been sharply scaled back after producing only modest gains. Measured how, I wonder?
U.S. authorities insist that the Alien Transfer Exit Program has contributed to overall achievements in border security and say that the cutbacks reflected a need to shift resources to deal with Central Americans pouring into Texas. They just can't ship 'em back fast enough, so why bother?
The government has flown or bused hundreds of thousands of Mexican men to faraway border cities since February 2008, believing they would give up after being separated from their smugglers. Turns out that's dumb, since they don't pay the smugglers until they get across. Apparently, the smugglers work both sides of the porous border on a daily basis.
But government statistics and interviews with migrants in Mexican shelters suggest that the dislocation is a relatively ineffective deterrent, especially for immigrants with spouses, children and roots in the U.S. So clearly, we need to send back the entire family and set 'em up in a nice 3BR - 2BA close to the Toyota factory, so they can get a job.
After being dropped off, many get on another bus and head right back to where they started. Once there, they reunite with their smugglers for another attempt, taking advantage of a standard practice that they pay only when they cross successfully. Or, we can catch 'em after they paid the smuggler. Or maybe catch the smugglers?
"It's a nuisance. That's all," said Pablo Hernändez, 50, who lingered in the hallway of a shelter in Mexicali, swapping stories with other migrants after the U.S. government took him on a five-hour bus ride from Tucson, Ariz.
Hernändez planned to take a commercial bus to the Mexican town of Altar to reunite with his smuggler, who provided a phone number and said he wouldn't demand his $3,400 fee until Hernändez made it across. Just think if we grant amnesty to all those who did make it across....
Despite overwhelming numbers of Central Americans crossing in Texas, the Border Patrol is making strides by some key measures, including a drop in the percentage of migrants who are arrested entering the country again after being caught.
The recidivism rate for all migrants arrested on the Mexican border fell to 16 percent in the 2013 fiscal year from 17 percent a year earlier, 20 percent in 2011, 24 percent in 2010 and 27 percent in 2009. Hmmmm.... I wonder if that is more closely related to the US economy than border enforcement?
But results for the Alien Transfer Exit Program, or ATEP, were higher: 25 percent last year, up from 24 percent the previous year. Yeah, I'd scrap it, too. Clearly a colossal failure! But read on.
ATEP has barely fared better than "voluntary returns," the term for migrants who are simply turned around without being charged. Immigrants who are criminally prosecuted produce the lowest recidivism rates. Whawuzzat?
Immigrants who are criminally prosecuted produce the lowest recidivism rates. That's what I thought you said!
Abel Delgado, 30, who lived in the Phoenix area for 23 years and was a cook and construction worker before he was deported in 2010, was bused from Tucson after four days of walking through the Arizona desert.
He planned to reunite with his smuggler for another attempt in Arizona after the summer heat, determined to rejoin his wife and daughters, ages 5 and 8.
"If I didn't have family, I'd stay here," he said. So just send his family to him!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Ahram] South Sudanese rebel militia chief Peter Gadet and government infantry commander Santino Deng on Friday were hit by an EU travel ban and asset freeze for atrocities and obstructing the peace. 
