A soldier gestures as he gives instructions to a resident at a checkpoint in a neighbourhood of the border city of Ciudad Juarez April 20, 2009. A massive security crackdown has reduced killings in Ciudad Juarez, on the U.S. border, but the military occupation is beginning to chafe with residents, threatening support for President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels. Photograph by: Alejandro Bringas, ReutersGangs Deeply Rooted On U.S. Side Of Mexico Border -- Yahoo News/Reuters
MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – Homeowner Cosme Liscano is fed up with the gangs in his neighborhood in this Texas town near the Mexican border.
"This has been going on for three or four years now, they've been selling drugs," Liscano, 55, told Reuters as he stood in front of his house as members of the local gang enforcement unit frisked several suspects.
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