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There are families in the RGV that have made their living in the human smuggling trade.....and we're talking grandma and grampa!
Back in the 70's when the Viet Namese moved into the Corpus Christ/Rockport area, they bought small shrimp boats.
They paid no attention to limits or seasons.
If they got caught too often, they moved further offshire into international waters.
Back at home, a 2 or 3 bedroom home may have 20 people living there. Mama San cooked chicken and rice everyday to feed the hoard. Chicken and rice! Cheapest stuff on earth!
The groups pooled their money until they could afford a steel hulled shrimp boat and really "super shrimped", damaging the shrimping industry. TPW finally got them under control, but there's still a lot of them.
I've seen Mexicans do the same thing.
One will rent a rundown, ramshackle hoke in the wall. Twenty live there. They eat a steady diet of chicken and bean tacos that mamacita makes.
They earn $200.00 week mowing yards or digging ditches.
Friday afternoon or Saturday morning at the Western Union office, sending $150 of that to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc, etc, etc.... I've wondered about that. Next door to the Chinese place is a Vietnamese nail place, I've heard the nail guy own the restaurant. And that the staff at the nail place is about the same. Cyclical turnover, always apparently new to America Asians.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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The parents were obviously almost guaranteed to be involved in the drug trade to some degree or another. Regardless of that what a tragedy. I can’t imagine losing a child and compounding that grief with the knowledge that my own actions had played some role in it. It’s something those parents will never be able to get over or move past. I just read the story . Nothing in it even remotely suggests the parents were dirty . The parents were obviously almost guaranteed to be involved in the drug trade to some degree or another. Regardless of that what a tragedy. I can’t imagine losing a child and compounding that grief with the knowledge that my own actions had played some role in it. It’s something those parents will never be able to get over or move past. I just read the story . Nothing in it even remotely suggests the parents were dirty . I seriously doubt they stopped by that particular house for giggles and shiitttss.
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Yep.
If they didn't have a beef at that house,
they thought it was the one where they had a beef.
Can't hold that against a bunch of criminals.
The cops are known to raid the wrong homes,
sometimes killing the innocent owner who fights.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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This was my favorite quote.
"The rounds, almost as soon as they come out of that gun are tumbling, and so when they hit, they hit flat," Salazar explained. That's on par with most boomer fudd's understanding of terminal ballistics. All he needed to add was "foot pounds of energy" lol Your off base, take all your boomer comments and shove them. Snowflake bìtch has entered the discussion
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Yep.
If they didn't have a beef at that house,
they thought it was the one where they had a beef.
Can't hold that against a bunch of criminals.
The cops are known to raid the wrong homes,
sometimes killing the innocent owner who fights. Yep. One of the plants I helped start up in Mexico, Narcos shot up a Christmas party. 5-6 dead. 10-12 hospitalized. Found out after the fact that they had the wrong address. No apologies. No fuqqs given. Why would they act any differently in the U.S. when they screw up?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I just read the story . Nothing in it even remotely suggests the parents were dirty . The news video said the parents “had a pretty good idea” of who was responsible, ergo not a mistaken or random hit. This wasn’t some estranged husband or boyfriend, wasn’t some bullsh&t gang-member teens driving by and shooting at the house with stolen handguns. These guys were two adult males who came prepared and equipped to inflict mass casualties in a short amount of time. Most likely explanation is this was a Cartel hit, in San Antonio, in broad daylight.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Gayghost, Sickermore, Calledumb, psychodog and Houston_2 approve.
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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Ain't Cultural Diversity wonderful??
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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Ain't Cultural Diversity wonderful??
L.W. Too bad the neighbors didn't blow those murderers fulla holes.
Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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