"Pizzeria owner Jorge Natividad Norman Harrison, 38, originally from California, was among three victims beheaded in an organized-crime hit in Playas de Tijuana in March.
Austin priest Jesse Uresti, 69, was brutally knifed by a trusted employee who later dumped his corpse along a lonely highway in Nuevo Laredo in April.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. David Booher, 26, a medic stationed in New Mexico, received a bullet to the head after he tried to help another man shot by hitmen in a Juarez bar in November.
Preliminary statistics and other sources show 2009 was by far the deadliest year for U.S. citizens in Mexico since the Department of State first began releasing international American homicide statistics in 2002."
Mexico seems to be a violent sh*thole of "Road Warrior" proportions. I really do sympathize with those who want to escape such a living hell and find a normal life. However, I'm not willing to throw open the door and transplant an entire dysfunctional culture into our (relatively) peaceful home.
Ronald Reagan spoke of the universal image of the U.S. of A. as the "Shining city on a hill." All we owe the rest of the world is to "shine;" to provide an example of what is possible if people trust each other and their carefully crafted, and shared, institutions. Those institutions, and that trust, would evaporate in moments if we were to displace our people with the sudden addition of a new population that didn't share our national story, our regard for each other, and our shared hopes and dreams.
We don't hold the door closed because of our disregard for those who want in. We stand firm for our family, friends and neighbors who have earned our trust, respect and gratitude through being by our side, shoulder to shoulder, through the years of this grand experiment we call the American Republic.
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