Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial
While national attention focuses on President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, another surge much closer to home imperils national interests: the rise in violence along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border by desperate traffickers of drugs and illegal aliens.
Assaults against Border Patrol agents have more than doubled in the past two years. And thugs are using far more sophisticated weapons -- smuggled into Mexico from the United States.
Posted by tyne at March 19, 2007