been killed. the violence shows no signs of slowing. last year there were under 10,000 cartel-related murders. this year is shaping up to be worse. mexican president calderon sent thousands of troops and federal police to the border. hundreds of them have been slaughtered, even more have quit. gun battles rage nearly everyday. while the cartels began murdering and kidnapping each other they soon found profit in targeting civilians and legitimate businessmen. i m a mexican businessman. i was kidnapped in teenage teenage they threatened if my in tijuana. they threatened if my family did not pay they would cut off my ears or fingers. sean: dea stationed in mexico. these people are unpredictable, very bloodthirsty.
we are really at ground zero of this immigration debate. let me show viewers where the people here stand. how many of you support the immigration law, raise your hands? how many oppose it? nationwide, sean, it is almost what we have right here, 51-39. in arizona it is about 70% who support it. why dan? we want to enforce the federal laws and live in a crime-free areas. we don t have a problem with legal immigration. we want people to follow the laws like everybody else in this country. there are so many americans out of jobs, we are letting all these people in taking these jobs. the law is the law enforce the law. illegal and legal residents message stop it at the boarder to not get the traffic through the guns and drugs. if you stop it at the boarder that is the heart of the problem. what is wrong with enforcing the law. 1070 is political ground standing at the expense of mexican and hispanic measures
cases we involve s.w.a.t. teams. rerescue a lot of these victims. we find them bound and goinged. finding handguns, knives, machetes, baseball bats with blood on them. there s a lot of atrocities happening in these houses for the profit. if we don t stop it now it is going to spread. also, let s say those people get involved in a shootout. where do those bullets go? sean: they go everywhere. look at this brazen home invasion caught on camera just outside of tucson, the suspects pounce, piling out of their car with automatic weapons. amazingly, the homeowner has time to grab his own gun and soon bullets are flying in all directions. the suspects bolt and they manage to get away. not before the driver is shot twice. police say his name is jesus
bullets seize. we just made a seizure over 3,500 rounds of ammunition, we think from mexico. sean: sheriff gonzalez hopes the government will grant a request to expand more law enforcement and send additional border patrol agents in. so far no casualties from any of the acts of piracy. also no arrests. the fear is, things will escalate. worst-case scenario number one, somebody is going to get hurt. they will get bolder on that side or this side and they will hurt somebody, kill somebody, kidnap somebody. sean: many people argue that the war next door is not spilling over in the united states. tell that to the more 300 people kidnapped and held for ran some every year in phoenix. [ male announcer ] you re at the age where you don t get thrown by curve balls. this is the age of knowing
over the past months crews of mexican outlaws dressed in black brandishing automatic weapons have been robbing them on their boats at gunpoint. when the bad guys boarded they were looking for drugs and guns and money. sean: falcon lake straddles the international border which falls in the mid of this reservoir. markers in the water separate the united states and mexico. international boundaries marked, extended from the dam all the way to just above where we are standing now. this is marker 11. this is they are not always in a line they kind of zigzag following the original riverbed. some are closer to the shoreline some are closer to the mexican shoreline. right now over my left shoulder or to my left is the river which comes from mexico.