Mar 30 2008
Juárez Mayor Pleads For Help President Sends Troops
Juárez Mayor pleads for help. President sends troops. Murders and kidnappings on both sides of the border have significantly increased in recent years. The violence along the U.S.-Mexican border has increased so dramatically that the Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz asked Mexican President Felipe Calderón to send more help as reported in the El Paso Journal. Only thirty federal officers had been sent at that time to Juárez despite repeated requests for more help.
“It’s necessary and urgent to have agents from the federal preventive police to patrol the streets the way that we need to confront this situation,” Reyes Ferriz said in a news conference.