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    The document summarizes the situation along the US-Mexico border, calls for enhanced security through the redistribution of military equipment from Iraq, and outlines the violence plaguing Ciudad Juarez. Specifically, it notes that while the US side is peaceful, violence is out of control in Mexico. It also details a proposal by Congressman Ted Poe to recover 10% of US military equipment from Iraq to bolster border security with drones and night vision goggles. Finally, it provides statistics on crime in Ciudad Juarez which has exploded since 2006.

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    The document summarizes the situation along the US-Mexico border, calls for enhanced security through the redistribution of military equipment from Iraq, and outlines the violence plaguing Ciudad Juarez. Specifically, it notes that while the US side is peaceful, violence is out of control in Mexico. It also details a proposal by Congressman Ted Poe to recover 10% of US military equipment from Iraq to bolster border security with drones and night vision goggles. Finally, it provides statistics on crime in Ciudad Juarez which has exploded since 2006.

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    The document summarizes the situation along the US-Mexico border, calls for enhanced security through the redistribution of military equipment from Iraq, and outlines the violence plaguing Ciudad Juarez. Specifically, it notes that while the US side is peaceful, violence is out of control in Mexico. It also details a proposal by Congressman Ted Poe to recover 10% of US military equipment from Iraq to bolster border security with drones and night vision goggles. Finally, it provides statistics on crime in Ciudad Juarez which has exploded since 2006.

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    On the U.S. side of the border, a sense of peace and prosperity seem to dominate.

    On the Mexico side, a state of almost uncontrollable violence. In the centre is a combined population of about two million people in the grip of drugs and xenophobia.

    Beeng up the border


    Hummers

    IN MINUTES

    News and events visually

    Enhanced security
    Last week, Republican Congressman Ted Poe led a bill (the Send Equipment for National Defense Act) to recover 10% of military equipment used in Iraq. It would then be utilized in the U.S. to beef up border security. In the coming months, the U.S. is planning a massive return of equipment. More than 1.5 million items were shipped last year.

    What Poe wants:


    Drones (unmanned aerial vehicles)
    The American people have invested billions of dollars in equipment used to secure Iraq; now its time to use that equipment to secure the United States ... sending this equipment to the southern border would give Americans a return on their investment by enhancing our national security.
    Representative Ted Poe of Houston

    Control impossible

    U.S.
    Ciudad Juarez El Paso, Texas

    The major battles of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1911 were in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

    Night-vision goggles

    Mexico
    Border

    U.S. TEXAS MEXICO

    El Paso
    50 000 pulation: 6 Po
    anic) (80% Hisp

    km Area: 650

    Hispanics accounted for two-thirds of population growth in the U.S. in the previous 10 years. They now account for 38% of the population in Texas. Of the thousands of asylum applications by Mexicans last year, only 49 were accepted.

    Ciudad Juarez

    : 1,310,000 Population 2 m Area: 188 k

    Paso del Norte, main crossing point

    $70 billion
    Annual trade Control impossible
    The crime rate has exploded since Felipe Calderon became president of Mexico in 2006.
    Number of deaths

    Underground economy
    Drug tra cking generates an estimated $6 billion to $36 billion a year in Mexico. Millions of pounds seized
    Marijuana

    5 km
    Methamphetamine

    3.2

    Heroin

    Cocaine

    15,237

    2.2 503
    05 09 05

    1,415
    49.94
    09 05

    37.66
    6.43
    09 05

    7.67
    2,119
    09 2006

    2,275
    2007

    5,207
    2008

    6,598

    2009

    2010
    QMI AGENCY

    Sources: NYTIMES, COURRIER INTERNATIONAL, POE.HOUSE.GOV, OPENSTREETMAP.ORG; RECHERCHE ET INFOGRAPHIE : IDE.F

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