CIUDAD JUAREX, Mexico -- Mexico's illegal drug-driven violence epidemic took the lives of three American foreign service workers this past weekend. The three Americans murdered were attached to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez.

In a press statement released by White House officials on Sunday, President Barack Obama reminded Mexicans and Americans of his support for Mexico's government to successfully dismantle the drug trafficking cartels in that country.

The three victims, were not identified by the National Security Council, except that the murder victims are a U.S. citizen employee, her U.S. citizen husband, and the husband of a Mexican citizen employee, according to the statement. On behalf of President Barack Obama, NSC spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement, "The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico."

"He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice."

"This is a responsibility we must shoulder together, particularly in border communities where strong bonds of history, culture, and common interest bind the Mexican and the American people closely together," the statement said.

It's old news that the Mexican government exports Mexico's poorest citizens into the United States for a number of reasons: It relieves them of the responsibility of providing social and healthcare services for them; it provides their country's economy with an influx of US cash when these illegal workers send money they earn in the US back home; and it defuses problems with far-left groups who are usually successful in using the poor to advance their political agenda.

So the Mexican despots give the poor the "bum's rush" out of Mexico: "Here's your sombrero, here's a map, here's a bottle of water, now get out!" And American political leaders such as President Barack Obama are too busy fiddling with the US economy to do anything to protect American citizens.

But there is another benefit to the exportation of Mexicans into the US -- Mexico saves money on its criminal justice system by exporting their criminal population to the United States. Thus, Mexico's crime problem becomes our crime problem; their prison problem becomes our prison problem.

According to Lt. Steve Rogers, a decorated cop and award-winning writer, there are tens of thousands of murderers, rapists, child predators, robbers and drug dealers who are illegally in the United States. One study shows over 200,000 criminal aliens are preying on US citizens.

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, AZ Sector have apprehended 27,834 illegal aliens with criminal records, 74 of which were for homicide. Last fiscal year, the Tucson Sector apprehended 14,506 illegal aliens with criminal records. These figures do not include the thousands of criminal aliens apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or those in other Border Patrol sectors in other states. And it doesn't include the tens of thousands of criminal aliens who are able to escape detection at the border.

Meanwhile our political leaders are trying to scam Americans with phony reform legislation which will actually reward lawbreakers and increase the number of illegals who will flood our borders to partake of the giveaways. For instance, part of one Senate bill will allow illegals to pay instate (lower) college tuition, while citizens will have to pay higher tuition if they live out-of-state.

Congressmen on both sides of the aisle repeatedly display how they can talk out of both sides of their mouths depending on whom they're addressing. For instance in New York, former Senator Hillary Clinton told a cheering crowd that the United States had to protect our borders and deal with illegal immigration. She acknowledged it was a key component of the US homeland security strategy -- to prevent terrorists and weapons, including nuclear weapons, from entering the US.

The former first lady-turned-senator and now Secretary of State, blasted President Bush on border security in a statement posted on her official Senate Web site: "This administration has failed to provide the resources to protect our borders, or a better system to keep track of entrants to this country," she complained, adding, "I welcome the addition of more border security." In the past she has claimed to be "adamantly against illegal immigrants."

But, according to the Washington Times, Clinton and her fellow New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer turned thumbs down on two amendments to a Department of Homeland Security spending bill that would have funded 2,000 new Border Patrol agents and more than 5,000 new detention beds to house illegal aliens.