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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, March 15, 2007

Bush broaches U.S. gun smuggling

Chris Hawley
Republic Mexico City Bureau
Mar. 15, 2007 02:00 AM

MERIDA, Mexico - As he traveled through Latin America, President Bush talked about a problem that has long been a taboo subject in his administration: the smuggling of guns from the United States.

Mexico and its neighbors say most of the weapons used by drug traffickers are bought easily in the United States, then taken south of the border. The number of such weapons seized in Mexico tripled from 3,214 in 2002 to 10,579 in 2005, the last full year of statistics, according to the Mexican Department of National Defense.

Bush mentioned gun-running twice during appearances in Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday. Last week, he cited gun smuggling as a reason for relaxing immigration rules.

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