From: Subject: ARIZONA VIGILANTES: Highway shootings staged to embarrass visiting Mexican President Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:37:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000D_01C7D1F6.59CDFBA0" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01C7D1F6.59CDFBA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.aztlan.net/highwaymurder.htm ARIZONA VIGILANTES: Highway shootings staged to = embarrass visiting Mexican President

ARIZONA VIGILANTES: Highway shootings staged to embarrass visiting = Mexican=20 President

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Phoenix, Arizona - November 5, 2003 - (ACN) In Arizona, things are = not=20 always the way they seem nor the way events are reported by the police = or the=20 press. This is certainly true with the shootings along Interstate 10 = yesterday=20 that left 4 Mexican immigrants dead and 5 others injured. Arizona, = after all,=20 is still the "wild wild west" and home of the most vile and violent=20 anti-Mexican vigilantes west of the Mississippi. The well organized = Arizona=20 vigilantes are now operating with impunity and in most cases under the = umbrella of certain racist and sympathetic law enforcement officials.=20

It is not coincidental that the shooting rampage along the highway = just=20 outside Phoenix involving Mexican immigrants occurred at precisely the = time=20 when President Vicente Fox of Mexico was landing at the Phoenix = Airport for an=20 important meeting with Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to discuss=20 immigration issues. The Arizona vigilantes had been preparing for some = time to=20 conduct protests and actions against the Mexican president during his = visit to=20 Phoenix. One primary aim of the vigilantes has been to bring negative=20 publicity by the US press to the issue of Mexican immigration and the = carnage=20 on Interstate 10 certainly accomplished it. It also made it extremely = awkward=20 for President Vicente Fox to articulate positive proposals on the = immigration=20 issue.=20

The horrific shooting incident on the highway just west of Phoenix = was=20 executed with military precision. A Ford pickup truck and a Ford = Explorer=20 carrying a total of 24 Mexican immigrants were approached from behind = by a=20 Dodge Caravan with four men armed with military style assault rifles. = The=20 unknown assailants drove up alongside the immigrant two vehicle = caravan and=20 opened fire. The driver and three men traveling in the pickup truck = were=20 killed and three were injured. Two people in the Ford Explorer = including a=20 woman were wounded by the gunfire. Eleven other Mexican immigrants who = had=20 been in the pickup truck ran into the desert and were later found = unharmed.=20

As usual, Arizona police authorities were quick to blame the = Mexican=20 "coyotes" or immigrant smugglers for the shootings. This is not the = first time=20 that the killing of Mexican immigrants have been blamed on the so = called=20 "coyotes". Among the most recent cases blamed on the "coyotes" are:=20

* November 1: An undocumented Mexican worker was found dead about = three=20 miles east of Vail, Arizona. The 21-year-old man had been shoved off = an I-10=20 bridge to his death. The authorities blamed "coyotes".=20

* In separate incidents from March 2002 to August 2003, nine = Mexican=20 immigrants were found murdered in the White Tank Mountains outside = Phoenix.=20 The police blamed the "coyotes".=20

* In October 2002, two Mexican immigrants were shot to death near = Red Rock,=20 Arizona as they stood with other immigrants by a cattle pond. The next = day,=20 the police searched a 15-square-mile area and found no sign of the = nine other=20 immigrants. The police, again, blamed the so called "coyotes' for the = two=20 murders.=20

Why was Pinal County Sheriff Roger Vanderpool so quick to blame = yesterday's=20 highway shootings also on the "coyotes" knowing full well that there = are well=20 organized and armed anti-Mexican vigilante groups operating in his = county? Is=20 Sheriff Roger Vanderpool ignorant of the Mexican "hunting" operations = that=20 were planned at a Sierra Vista, Arizona conference on May of 2000 and = that was=20 attended by a host of white supremacist groups and racist anti-Mexican = militias? Is it possible that Sheriff Roger Vanderpool is a = sympathizer of the=20 vigilantes or worst in cahoots with them? Though Sheriff Roger = Vanderpool is=20 reporting that they apprehended four Mexican "coyotes" responsible for = the=20 highway shooting spree, who really are these men? Are they mere = patsies or are=20 they paid agents of anti-Mexican immigration groups?=20

Soon after the Sierra Vista conference, where a proposal to place = military=20 mines along the Arizona/Mexico border was made, scores of Mexican = immigrants=20 have turned up dead in remote regions of the Arizona desert. With this = type of=20 vigilante mentality, it is not unreasonable to believe that = yesterday's=20 murderous operation along Interstate 10 was the work of the vile = vigilantes=20 design to turn American public opinion against Mexican immigration . = It is=20 extremely likely that the operation was carried out directly by the = vigilantes=20 with the cooperation of certain racist law enforcement officials or = they paid=20 some thugs to carry it out.=20

Related La Voz de Aztlan articles:

Anti-Mexican = Vigilante=20 Glenn Spencer Arrested=20

Mexican-American = Groups=20 to "Confront" Border Vigilantes

Anti-Mexican = "Tombstone=20 Vigilante" Arrested=20

SAN DIEGO: = Vigilante=20 thugs sentenced in beating of elderly Mexican workers

Hunting of Mexicans = along=20 US/Mexico Border Escalates - Two Dead

Arizona Vigilantes = Threaten=20 Peace at the Border=20

Vigilantism at the = US/Mexico=20 Border May Spread Northward

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