Relative: Mexico Violence Worried Slain Missionary

Relative: Mexico Violence Worried Slain Missionary

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MONTE ALTO, Texas -- A Texas couple who were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of Mexico's most violent areas had been delivering babies and doing missionary work in the country for three decades, and they had come to expect such confrontations, the couple's son said Thursday.

Nancy Davis, 59, was shot in the head Wednesday while her husband, Sam, was trying to speed away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup truck, authorities said. Sam Davis frantically raced to the Pharr International Bridge border checkpoint with his wife bleeding beside hi

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Drug cartell violence strikes again, why haven't we done something about this?? perhaps because our own government makes too much money off them to crack down on them? This is a shame, and you wonder why you have violent militias taking actions into their own hands? The situation is unbelieveable, and we can protect people in Iraq, but cannot even make it safe for our own citizens near our borders, I don't get it.

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My cousin is in the DEA, stationed in Southern Texas. He has a very dangerous job. The media doesn't let out how bad it really is.

These Cartels are armed and trained soldiers.

It is very much a war-zone.

It's only gonna get worse.

I live in El Paso and know people on both sides of the war. It is getting really bad. I know people that moved from Juarez to El Paso just to get away from it and other people that have stayed in or traveled to Juarez and have been killed. The media is just downplaying it all.