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Right-Wingers Stand By Their Fabricated Mexican Drug Cartel Raid Story

According to anonymously-sourced reports pushed by right-wing blogs last weekend, members of Mexico's notorious Zetas drug gang crossed the border into Texas and, "in what could be deemed an act of war," seized two ranches near the border town of Laredo. The situation was dire, wingers warned, but a government enforced media blackout kept knowledge of the raid from the general public.

Really?

No, not really.

Here's the thing: the "raid" never happened.

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Topics: Drugs, Immigration, Jeff Schwilk, Minuteman Project, Texas

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