THE BORDER REPORT

Not really sure what to make of this warning from the U.S. Consulate offices in Juárez. Does State Department think yesterday was any more dangerous than any other day in this poor city? In short, the U.S. Consul in Juárez received information that cartels were going to start targeting random vehicles with drive-bys and call in fake bomb threats in order to raise chaos amongst the law enforcement agencies. Anybody who thinks that law enforcement in Juárez isn't already at a point beyond its capacity to establish order needs to visit this city. Read the warning here and tell me what you think. The sentence that most surprised me was this one: "The threat of random targeting of vehicles is not expected to continue past today." Great. Sounds to me like the Consul got an anonymous phone call and disseminated this warning as a "just in case." And that's fine to do but if they haven't clearly established that some whack-job is going to start popping random vehicles as they drive across the river then I have to question, why put out the warning? If the cartels wanted to disrupt law enforcement, congratulations, the consulate office just did your job for you.