Greg Abbott: Cartel Violence Threatens Texas-Mexico Border
By Edward Lane
Wichita Falls Law Enforcement Examiner
Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott told Greta Van Susteren recently cartel violence was one of the reasons it was necessary for he and Governor Rick Perry to dispatch the National Guard to protect the Texas-Mexico border, according to Fox News. Abbott, the top law enforcement official in Texas and a native of Wichita Falls, made his comments during an interview on Van Susteren’s On The Record Show.
His contention is backed up by the discovery of a human skull on the Vickers Ranch not far from the border, according to a recent article in Bloomburg Business Weekly. Linda Vickers discovered the skull just a few yards from her front door. It is believed cartel members beat her to death and left her to die alone not far from an oil pipeline which runs across the ranch. This is not an isolated incident. The Border Patrol finds a corpse a day on an average over the past 15 years along pipelines running from the Vicksburg Fault to the refineries in Corpus Christi. That the cartels have invaded 75 miles inside the Texas border to commit their executions against rival gang couriers and anyone else who is in the wrong place at the wrong time is alarming.
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