Puerto Palomas Mexico which sits on the Mexican side of the border just a little south of Columbus New Mexico USA used to be a quiet town where a lot of US citizens could just walk across to and save big money on good dental work and prescriptions.

Recently though violence has erupted there  in the form of gun battles in the streets, which is going on in a lot of Mexican border towns. Just in the last few weeks the US customs station had to shut down for an hour or so because of flying bullets! Around the same time Emilio Perez the chief of police in Palomas in fear for his life came to the customs station and asked for sanctuary in the United States.

Also recently, the bodies of two people were found wrapped in blankets and dumped along a road near Palomas, and several other people were seen taken hostage around the same time by heavily armed men, the newspaper El Diario of Juarez, Mexico, reported. (Jaurez is up to it's eyeballs in murders also)

In February two men were gunned down at a gas station near the international checkpoint, officials said.

Ok now back to the top of the story, the part about US citizens going to Palomas for excellent low cost dental work. Mayor Eddie Espinoza of Columbus New Mexico USA visited a dentist in Palomas - only to have his root canal interrupted by two pistol-toting men who came in demanding money. No one was injured.

The Brass Monkey wonders what these open borders advocates are thinking. Do they want the gunfights to move across the border into the USA and a return the the days of the wild wild west? Today though the shootings are about drugs, human smuggling, slavers and kidnappings.

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