Ricardo Garcia and daughter Angela sit next to an altar adorned with photographs of his older daughter Santa Garcia, in his home in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. He believes his daughter Santa is one of the charred corpses found in a northern Mexico border state on Saturday. The country s Foreign Ministry said it was collecting DNA samples from a dozen relatives to see if there was a match with any of the bodies. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) A dozen state police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the U.S. border late in January, Mexican authorities announced Tuesday.
diminishing scale of the threat while trying to enhance resources. i also think we owe it to the mexicans to not see the problem as there a threat to us or recognize mutual responsibility. every time i look at seizure raids, arce s rates and cash going south are nonsensical. we don t get at a bit of it. when we take pride in seizing $20 million that is a drop in the bucket. to do that, i stood on the bridge of the americas in el paso and you look at the car is going into mexico at night. you don t see any tail lights. they are not slowing down. they are driving by mexican law enforcement going into the country. we would have to establish on our side the most important issue is economic. we do not want mexico is the third biggest trading partner. probably a number 2 on energy. tremendously important to our country. we can t stop traffic at that border. to do that we have to establish new forms of control. how do you look for money going south. we have a problem of guns. i