News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Mexican man sentenced to 15 years for dealing in meth, coke and pot, and for having a gun

ARIZONA DAILY STAR

A U.S. district judge sentenced a Mexican man convicted of drug dealing to 15 years in prison Wednesday.

Rodolfo Alonso Cano, 33, of Chihuahua, Mexico, also known as Sam, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, and of being in possession of a firearm, said a press release from the U.S. attorney for Arizona.

Cano admitted that he had been in the country illegally since 1995 and that he had used false Social Security numbers to work.

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