Now that Arizona has made it illegal to be an undocumented immigrant in their state, has made it mandatory for law personnel to verify the legal status of anybody they arrest, has asked for police officers to demand anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant to produce papers, the papier mache justifications are being propped up all over the internet.

These are some:

That was a terrible crime, it’s a terrible story. It probably was a drug smuggler, or some such violent criminal.

But I’ve got two questions for you: 1.) what is up with that hair? Wow. 2.) what has that got to do with illegal immigration? They come here to get access to our employers. The cartels and smugglers are only interested in the big money movement of drugs. They’re not taking up residences next to you, getting jobs in local restaurants and then hanging out in the parks with their kids. You don’t seem to know much about the problem you say you’re worried about.

The Al Qaedas are leaving their precious Qurans behind? CIA behaviorists will be intrigued by that. Either that, or the saddlebags on their camels could be cinched a little tighter. Well, at least you’re not just calling the Mexicans ersatz terrorists . . because your Governor beat you to the punch?

Gov. Brewer: ‘Arizona has been under terrorist attacks’ with ‘all of this illegal immigration.’

Hey, Sylvia — forcing your neighbors to produce papers when they bump into police on the streets will end this problem how, exactly?

Hey, Sylvia — forcing your neighbors to produce papers when they bump into police on the streets will end this problem how, exactly?

Hey, Sylvia — forcing your neighbors to produce papers when they bump into police on the streets will end this problem how, exactly?

FINALLY, some overt racism. Thank you, Sylvia.

. . while daubing some wistful tears from your eyes with the nearest corner of Old Glory. How you manage the courage to go on, Sylvia, boo hoo . .

Yes, and what a painful sacrifice it will be for you to hassle, detain and extract bureaucratic paperwork from Latino Americans over the years. Let’s hope they’re as tough as you are.

Mind numbing. When will this end?

Police find 12 tortured bodies in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors said they found the bound, blindfolded and tortured bodies of at least a dozen people Monday on a roadside in the western state of Michoacan, which has become a flash point in Mexico’s war on drugs.

Initial reports indicated that 11 men and one woman were likely killed elsewhere at least a day earlier and dumped near the town of La Huacana, officials in the state attorney general’s office said.

It was one of the largest execution-style slayings since the killing of 24 men whose bodies were found bound with duct tape and shot in the head in September in a rural area west of Mexico City. In August 2008, the decapitated bodies of 12 men were found outside the southern city of Merida.

The officials, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, said the number of victims could increase as police continue investigating the scene.

Also in Michoacan on Monday, the bodies of two men who had been tortured and executed were found near an airport in the state capital, Morelia.

In both cases, the methods used by the killers were those often used by drug cartels to eliminate rival traffickers.

In the Michoacan port of Lazaro Cardenas on Monday, gunmen attacked a hotel where federal police stay, wounding at least one officer, the officials said.

Michoacan, President Felipe Calderon’s home state, is at the center of his drug war and has been wracked by a wave of killings and arrests in recent weeks.

The nastiest, most murderous, decapititating fundamentalist Christians on the planet. Tough-guy James Eldredge should be proud.

Mexican police, soliders killed in multi-city attacks by drug gangs

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — Coordinated attacks in at least seven Mexican cities killed three federal police officers and two soldiers Saturday in what officials are calling an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs.

The attacks were in retribution for the capture early Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, a high-ranking member of the drug gang known as La Familia Michoacana (The Michoacan Family), the state-run Notimex news agency reported.

Medina is known as chief of assassins within the organization and a close confidante of Nazario “El Chayo” Moreno, one of the group’s two top leaders, the Mexican newspaper El Universal reported Saturday.

Men armed with high-powered rifles and grenades launched the attacks in the cities of Morelia, Zitacuaro, Zamora, Lazaro Cardenas, Apatzingan, La Piedad and Huetamo in Michoacan state, Notimex news said, citing federal police authorities.

The three officers were killed in Zitacuaro, police official Eduardo Moran told CNN en Español, while six police officers were reported wounded in Morelia. Two soldiers were killed in Zamora, shot by men in a passing car as they walked to their headquarters.

Michoacan is in west-central Mexico, on the Pacific coast.

The government, the brave officials, federales and policemen of Mexico, the ones who are standing up to the drug cartels, are unbelievably courageous. They should get a hell of a lot more cheers from us than they do, especially when you consider that it’s Americans’ cash that these para-militaries have used to out-arm and out-gun everybody.

Saturday’s attacks came just days after a drug gang in Tijuana declared they were at war with police, threatening to kill five officers every week until Police Chief Julian Leyzaola resigns.

The threat was made in a note found on the windshield of a slain officer’s car, news reports said.

At least three Tijuana officers have been killed since Monday, reports said. Leyzaola, a former army colonel, replaced a police chief removed from office in December after receiving numerous threats.

“Leyzaola has become the poster boy for honest police work, which has put the drug gangs on notice,” Vicente Calderon, a reporter for the Tijuana Press news agency, told CNN affiliate KUSI.

“They believe he is serious, that he means business and is trying to re-establish the rule of law that has been affecting the city and whole state for many years since organized crime established themselves in Baja [California].”

Tijuana, the westernmost city in Mexico, is across the border from San Diego, California. Sixteen police officers have died there in 2009, and officers are now patrolling the city in groups of six, KUSI reported.

Leyzaola is the man, he’s serious.

You know that corruption has been a way of life there when the cartels make political demands about his employment. ‘We want somebody we can bribe.’

via C&L.