U.S./Mexico at the Nation's Doorstep When It Comes to Mexico, U.S. Security Will Have More to Do with That Country's War On Drug Traffickers Than the Immigrants Who Come Here to Work.

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Every gun fired by drug traffickers dealing death in Mexico is one that might as well be aimed at the heart of U.S. well-being.

As the Homeland Security Department has acted as if illegal immigrants doing U.S. jobs represented the dire threat, Mexico bravely has launched a campaign against the drug violence that has claimed more than 8,000 lives since President Felipe Calderon assumed office in December 2006. More than 5,000 have died in 2008 alone.

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U.S./Mexico at the Nation's Doorstep When It Comes to Mexico, U.S. Security Will Have More to Do with That Country's War On Drug Traffickers Than the Immigrants Who Come Here to Work.

It's a fight that the United States cannot allow Mexico to lose. It has pledged $400 million for Mex...

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