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The Guardian: Drug violence blamed for Mexico's record 29,168 murders in 2017
Homicide rate surpasses that from peak year of country’s drug war in 2011, official figures show.
Mexico recorded more than 29,000 murders in 2017, the highest annual tally in decades, government figures have shown.
The country has struggled with years of violence as the state has battled drug cartels that have increasingly splintered into smaller, more bloodthirsty gangs.
The record 29,168 murders in 2017 is higher than the homicide rate at peak of Mexico’s drug war in 2011, when there were 27,213.
The interior ministry reported the figures on Sunday, which are the highest since comparable records began in 1997.
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Update #1: Mexico posts highest homicide rate in decades (AP)
Update #2: With 25,339 murders in 2017, Mexico suffers record homicide tally (Reuters)
WNU Editor: So much for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's election campaign pledge in 2012 that he was going to cut the murder rate.
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Democrats need to stop pretending that illegal immigration in the US is something to throw their support behind -- even the appearance of appeasing to illegal immigrants by providing amnesty, and a faster/more convenient entry in the US (in comparison to the multi-year and very costly application pathway that legal immigrants take!!).
It is the wrong strategy. Here's why:
Immigrants assimilate very rapidly into the US. Typically within 1-2 generations (at most!). The rest usually becomes imprisoned (typically those who do not assimilate end up doing drugs, selling drugs, commit crimes etc, there is a clear relation between non-assimilation/non-acceptance of the culture and crime).
The democrats strategy is "lets let migrants in faster so they thank us later at the voting booth".
IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
WHY?
Because those who assimilate will, within a short period of time (often less than a few years) see the U.S. as their country, be patriotic about it, and not want illegal immigrants. Especially as they too often hold / compete for low income jobs.
Got it? :)
Now, democrats, please stop being stupid or you'll lose the next election as well. Used to be that Republicans had the insane arguments, but now it's clearly the democrats who have no proper leadership, no plan without alienating half of the country.
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