Linda Vickers always thought that the thousand acre cattle and horse ranch she and her husband operate southwest of Corpus Christi was about the most out of the way place in the world. But as she and her husband, who is a large animal veterinarian, flip through photographs of men bearing the tattoos of the "Los Zetas" Mexican drug gang and the vicious Salvadoran prison gang "MS-13" who have been arrested in the front yard of their ranch house, the automatic weapons found stashed in their outbuildings, and the 13 bodies which they have discovered on their ranch just this year, it is clear that the problems of the world have found their way to her doorstep.
"I don't leave the house without a cell phone and a pistol," she told 1200 WOAI news. "This is a threat that we in the United States shouldn't have to live with."
NewsRadio 1200 WOAI, San Antonio: CLICK FOR MORE..""Six of the seven Mexican cartels are operating in Texas," he said, calling cartel leaders and their members 'ruthless and depraved.' "They have command and control facilities in Texas and are working closely with trans-national gangs and prison gangs on both sides of the border.
"These are organized crime entities and they are using terrorist tactics to dominate certain areas of the border into Texas so they can move ton quantities of drugs into Texas. They are also now very active in human smuggling.""
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