More immigrants getting killed in Arizona. What is going on?

[ck4829]

Gunmen ambushed nearly two dozen suspected illegal immigrants and smugglers packed into a pickup truck early Friday, killing two people and wounding at least one, authorities said.

The shooting occurred in the Green Valley area about 20 miles south of Tucson, Pima County sheriff's Bureau Chief Richard Kastigar said. People inside the truck described bullets cutting into the rear of the pickup as the driver tried to flee, he said.

A man and a woman were killed, Deputy Dawn Barkman said. One wounded person was hospitalized; authorities said a smuggler believed to have been wounded in the hand has not been caught.

Two or three smugglers had picked up 20 illegal immigrants, including some children, from the Mexican state of Chiapas after they entered the U.S. on foot near Sasabe, Kastigar said.

Though the motive of the shootings was unclear, there have been several similar attacks on illegal immigrants and smugglers in southern Arizona in recent months.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_re_us/migrant_shooting

My personal belief is that fringe RW Nutjobs have participated in at least one of these killings over the months.

The evidence for it is huge:
There is Anti-Immigrant hysteria going on among the fringe right, at least one crazy group might have taken up arms by now
Some of the attackers are said to be white and wear uniforms, more evidence of a RW militia?
The wilderness of Arizona is considered to be a hotbed for RW activity. RW terrorist attacks have been going on in the neck of the woods since 1995.

[liberalnurse]

1. Well then, they need to enter the USA

legally. Jeepers, what a concept. I think of all the innocent US residents who have been killed by the drug mules crossing the border.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. To hell with laws; just shoot everyone you think is a criminal. Right?

Crimeny. :banghead:

[liberalnurse]

5. Crossing the boarder from Mexico to the USA...

illegally....well, then, they assume the risk.

[maveric]

7. How many have been killed by Mexican "Drug Mules"?

I cant recall hearing anything about that and I live near the border in San Diego.

If the jobs werent being "offered" to these people and they werent being lured by business owners who want to exploit them...

Give me a break!

[Warpy]

2. Or it may just be a bunch of punks

full of beer and empty of empathy who are out on a lark and shooting people because everybody hates immigrants and shooting rats at the dump got boring.

Either way, they need to be taken off the street.

And yes, there are too many right wing nutjobs. When I was leaving Boston, it was one reason Tucson lost out to this town in NM.

[havocmom]

3. Not the first time gunfire between coyotes opened up on the highways

Not always the racist ya-hoos. It's often about the MONEY. If you can take some coyote's cargo (humans) away, you can charge the human cargo more fees.

There is a market for humans for sale, too, I believe.

When the only thing that matters is money, NOBODY is safe.

I know people who hunt for meteorites out on the desert. They go well armed because there are others who want to get the $$ for the rocks, but don't want to work to hunt them. They hunt the hunters, lay in ambush and take what they can get by force. Coyotes seem to have adopted the same highwaymen M.O. in many areas.

[ComerPerro]

6. didn't you get the memo? Illegal immigrants are not human, you can do whatever you want to them