Shootout Drills - Coming soon to our border states?

[chanel]

MEXICO CITY — Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as the violence-torn country sees more urban gunfights between drug gangs.

At least nine shootouts have erupted in school zones since mid-October, three of them in the past month. On June 15, soldiers and gunmen battled for an hour 60 feet from a preschool in the central town of Taxco.

Several Mexican states require "shootout drills" and incorporate them into summer teacher-training courses, which will begin next week. School ends Friday in most of Mexico.

Mexico schools teach lessons in survival - USATODAY.com

Nice....

 

[Bullfighter]

MEXICO CITY — Schools across Mexico are teaching students to dive to the floor and cover their heads as the violence-torn country sees more urban gunfights between drug gangs.

At least nine shootouts have erupted in school zones since mid-October, three of them in the past month. On June 15, soldiers and gunmen battled for an hour 60 feet from a preschool in the central town of Taxco.

Several Mexican states require "shootout drills" and incorporate them into summer teacher-training courses, which will begin next week. School ends Friday in most of Mexico.

Mexico schools teach lessons in survival - USATODAY.com

Nice....

Since the United States is becoming Mexico, shouldn't these survival skills be taught to American children too?

 

[Nate]

It's a sad state of affairs that country is living in and unfortunately, like our federal government, the people in charge are more concerned over their political affilate gains than the people they swore to govern over.

 

[chanel]

AZ now has to teach anti-drug muling in their schools. Sad, sad, sad...

n the past two years, Homeland Security officials have witnessed a disturbing development along the Mexican border: kid smugglers.

The Border Patrol does not keep data on juvenile drug runners caught trying to sneak into Arizona through the desert and mountains. But Customs and Border Protection records show 130 minors were caught attempting to bring drugs through entry ports from Sonora into Arizona during fiscal 2009, an 83 percent increase over the previous year.

The problem escalated last year to a point where federal and local authorities created programs to warn Yuma County students about the dangers and consequences of drug smuggling. The federal campaign includes a presentation by border agents and a video with arrest re-enactments.

Meanwhile, a mock-sentencing program created by the Yuma County Superior Court has been presented at San Luis High School and a local after-school jobs center. Judge Maria Elena Cruz said she has noticed a surge of young smugglers who are stunned when she orders them incarcerated.

Roger Nelson, chief deputy for criminal cases at the Yuma County Attorney's Office, said young smugglers face a strong likelihood of prison time.

Virtually all 17-year-olds are prosecuted as adults, he said, as are many 15- and 16-year-olds. Importation of drugs is a Class 2 felony that carries a presumptive sentence of five years. Shelley Clemens, chief assistant U.S. attorney in Tucson, said a child convicted of delinquency in the federal system may be incarcerated for a maximum of five years, or until age 21.

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