Over 60 U.S. citizens have been kidnapped on the Texas Mexican border why don't we hear about this?

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Hector	honeybee... crimes happen everywhere... throughout a border of almost 1900 miles, where several million people live ¿what can you expect? but do not mistake, crimes happen everywhere, ¿or do you think that you don`t have crimes in Kansas City, or Seattle? ¿do you think that the gangs in USA cities have only mexican members? it is very ingenuous in my country, México, we have a saying, used to express that the motor of every inhuman act is the money: "con dinero baila el perro" (with money dance the dog), so, stop blaming mexican of all the evil on earth, you have a lot of bad guys there too you can see the crime statistics in several sites. I only post one: http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/CrimeCity.asp?state=MO&city=Kansas+City Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Francesca Thomas	the media ONLY prints what the government tells them. and that means nothing bad about the mexicans and nothing bad about the wars. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Dirty D	Cause then we would have to build a fence or send in the troops and it will cause a major international incident Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

SPMOSHER	Race perhaps? "Cross-border abductions of U.S. citizens have been increasing along the U.S.-Mexican border, a trend that is yet another example of the deteriorating security situation along the 2,000-mile frontier. While most of the victims are linked to the drug trade, a number are legitimate businesspeople who are targeted because of their ability to pay ransoms. However, because this trend largely involves Hispanics, kidnappings often go unreported. "Mexico is generally believed to be the leading country for kidnappings in Latin America -- and in the world. Though hard numbers are difficult to come by because of the nature of the crime and the security environment in the country, the nongovernmental organization Mexico United Against Delinquency says that nearly 1,000 people have been reported kidnapped throughout Mexico since 2005, 43 of whom died in captivity. This surpasses the number of cases reported in any other country, including Colombia, which had been the world leader in abductions. The organization also reports that the violence attributed to drug traffickers and kidnappers -- often the same people -- has been crossing the border into towns on the U.S. side, such as Laredo, Texas. "More than 50 cross-border abductions have been reported in Texas' Rio Grande Valley alone over the past two years, and it is believed that many others go unreported. Even on the U.S. side, the victims of such crimes often are abducted in plain sight from a public place. They usually are beaten, shoved in a vehicle and taken across the border, where the beatings continue while the kidnappers contact the victims' friends or relatives to extort ransom money. After the ransom is paid, the victims are usually dumped somewhere and left to find their way home -- though some are never heard from again. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

JUSTME	Can you post some links, please? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

countryboy	Don't sell news papers with that type of news information. It's within the same areas as teenagers doing something outstanding, you on the other hand hear about what they have done bad, not good. It just goes to show just like TSA with the airlines, it's just a big front without answers. If we, the US government is maintaining the borders and they keep indicating, then those 60 citizens should have been seen. It's a hard story to understand, to have that amount of young ladies and no action reported or taken. Gives a better picture of why we have the amount of illegals that we have to accommodate now. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

alberto g	Because our American government don't give a darn about what is happening in our southern border. Our government don't want to make the Mexican government feel bad with this issues that are very important to the American families and citizens. My question is WHY ?? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Grand Old Party	The border patrol agents are also attacked daily. In one year they were attacked 1,000 times. 2/3 of the attacks were with rocks. The other third was mainly fist fighting. Agents have had their bones broken with just rocks. They rarely show this type of factual information on the news. if read the link which I will provide over half the story is about the crying Mexicans and how we have had to launch pepper spray and tear gas over the border. Political Correctness is ruining the country. Congress loves to look past the facts and try and propaganda people into thinking the good is the bad and the bad is the good. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317210,00.html Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Robert J	Because the U.S. has a left wing Liberal Democrat bias on CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN. So is Newsweek and Time and the big newspapers. The Libs want an open border and that is why you haven't heard anything about it. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

I still heart fugin	Easy When I heard about this I looked into it found out some things Most are mexican-american getting kidnapped So there's your answer, but if it was a white blonde girl, it would be all over the news Example: everytime a white girl is missing, the news reports it 24hrs a day You know I'm right Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

peanuthead	There's alot they intentionally leave out in the media. It's as if it's not going to matter if we don't know the full scope of what the problem is. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

stacie387	Because the midea don't want you to know what is really happing in the world. It makes better ratings for them to report on how the poor mexicans are being treated. The people of this country need to open their eyes and start thinking insted of letting the media tell them what to think. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

lttlehrse55	The mainstream left wing media finds stories like this inconvenient and politically incorrect. Sooner or later it will come to armed conflict. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Shadow Knight	Why dont you have some links that prove your statement?! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No