Mexican traffickers likely to kill in U.S.

Pretty funny how the title says the cartels are "likely to kill in U.S." but then the story starts out "cartels likely will continue to commit revenge Killings "
It goes to show that some people are in denial over the whole situation !
Murder toll by the cartel in Jaurez alone is approaching 1200, the official number is slightly lower around 1000, overall estimates for the whole region of Mexico the murder toll is around 2500,not including the kidnappings, about 700 officially , but considering that Mexico has no control over anything ,they don't know that amount for sure ! and you can put well over half of those onto the murder toll !

EL PASO -- Mexican drug cartels likely will continue to commit revenge killings in the United States in order to protect their interests, said Phil Jordan, retired DEA official and ex-director of the El Paso Intelligence Center.

El Paso law enforcement officials prefer to downplay the prospects of this happening here, but Jordan contends "It's very easy to take a body across the border to Mexico, where you might never find the body again."

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Recently, U.S. federal authorities charged Ricardo Godinez-Calleros with kidnapping a man in El Paso earlier this year over an alleged drug debt and transporting him to Juárez. Godinez-Calleros is being held without bail at the El Paso County Jail.

In another case in Phoenix, several people wearing SWAT-type uniforms and wielding R-15 rifles with Aimpoint sights broke into a Phoenix home and fired numerous rounds, killing a U.S. citizen.

Phoenix police arrested three of about six suspects, two of them undocumented immigrants from Mexico, who allegedly confessed they were hired by a Mexican drug cartel to carry out a hit.

Jordan said he learned from U.S. federal sources that the Sinaloan
drug cartel, which is affiliated with Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, allegedly was behind the attack in Phoenix.

The Phoenix Police Department continues to investigate the slaying.

Mexican authorities said the Sinaloa cartel is battling other factions of the fractured Juárez drug cartel for control of the Juárez-El Paso corridor.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Juárez this year, most of them victims of drug-related violence.