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been killed. the violence shows no signs of slowing. last year there were under 10,000 cartel-related murders. this year is shaping up to be worse. mexican president calderon sent thousands of troops and federal police to the border. hundreds of them have been slaughtered, even more have quit. gun battles rage nearly everyday. while the cartels began murdering and kidnapping each other they soon found profit in targeting civilians and legitimate businessmen. >> i'm a mexican businessman. i was kidnapped in teenage teenage they threatened if my -- in tijuana. they threatened if my family did not pay they would cut off my ears or fingers. >> sean: dea stationed in mexico. >> these people are unpredictable, very bloodthirsty.
>> we are really at ground zero of this immigration debate. let me show viewers where the people here stand. how many of you support the immigration law, raise your hands? how many oppose it? nationwide, sean, it is almost what we have right here, 51-39. in arizona it is about 70% who support it. why dan? >> we want to enforce the federal laws and live in a crime-free areas. we don't have a problem with legal immigration. we want people to follow the laws like everybody else in this country. >> there are so many americans out of jobs, we are letting all these people in taking these jobs. the law is the law enforce the law. >> illegal and legal residents message stop it at the boarder to not get the traffic through the guns and drugs. if you stop it at the boarder that is the heart of the problem. >> what is wrong with enforcing the law. >> 1070 is political ground standing at the expense of mexican and hispanic measures
cases we involve s.w.a.t. teams. rerescue a lot of these victims. we find them bound and goinged. finding handguns, knives, machetes, baseball bats with blood on them. there's a lot of atrocities happening in these houses for the profit. >> if we don't stop it now it is going to spread. also, let's say those people get involved in a shootout. where do those bullets go? >> sean: they go everywhere. look at this brazen home invasion caught on camera just outside of tucson, the suspects pounce, piling out of their car with automatic weapons. amazingly, the homeowner has time to grab his own gun and soon bullets are flying in all directions. the suspects bolt and they manage to get away. not before the driver is shot twice. police say his name is jesus
bullets seize. we just made a seizure over 3,500 rounds of ammunition, we think from mexico. >> sean: sheriff gonzalez hopes the government will grant a request to expand more law enforcement and send additional border patrol agents in. so far no casualties from any of the acts of piracy. also no arrests. the fear is, things will escalate. >> worst-case scenario number one, somebody is going to get hurt. they will get bolder on that side or this side and they will hurt somebody, kill somebody, kidnap somebody. >> sean: many people argue that the war next door is not spilling over in the united states. tell that to the more 300 people kidnapped and held for ran some every year in phoenix. ♪ [ male announcer ] you're at the age where you don't get thrown by curve balls. ♪ this is the age of knowing
over the past months crews of mexican outlaws dressed in black -- brandishing automatic weapons have been robbing them on their boats at gunpoint. >> when the bad guys boarded they were looking for drugs and guns and money. >> sean: falcon lake straddles the international border which falls in the mid of this reservoir. markers in the water separate the united states and mexico. >> international boundaries marked, extended from the dam all the way to just above where we are standing now. this is marker 11. this is -- they are not always in a line they kind of zigzag following the original riverbed. some are closer to the shoreline some are closer to the mexican shoreline. >> right now over my left shoulder or to my left is the river which comes from mexico.
borders, skweubgly, we are at -- quickly, we are at great risk. >> the syndicates are highly flexible paramilitary organizations. >> sean: from pima county they head north to phoenix. >> we know the drugs in mexico are controlled by the cartels. if it is drugs in phoenix of any quantity of significance it came from mexico >> sean: with drugs comes the violence. in phoenix specialist task forces deal with daily -- daily kidnappings and armed home invasions. >> we have 337 home invasions. >> majority of victims of kidnappings and home invasions are involved drinkly or indirectly with the drug or -- directly or indirectly with the drug or human smuggling business. >> to -- two types of victims, first those coming into the
they will kill at the drop of a hat. very dangerous people. >> sean: as bodies pile up south of border the effect is being health here on our streets. just over the border in pima county, arizona the sheriff's border crime unit wages a daily battle against smugglers. >> we are an interdict shun unit for the drug smuggling, weapons trafficking and/or illicit drug money trafficking. we have another very, very important aspect, which is the aspect of terrorism. -- if the individuals are bringing up loads of humans and drug there is no telling what else is coming up. >> sean: increasingly out-gunned the border patrol has begun to use the same armor as our troops in iraq and afghanistan. >> our big concern is the assault rifles. >> sean: violence is real and stakes high. now the politicians are starting to take notice. >> if we do not secure our
he's instantly gone. >> they found zip ties by the mailbox, duct tape here. >> right now we have not experienced the violence they have in mexico. people beheaded, piles of bodies, people hanging, we have not seen that, at this point. one of our concerns is, the mexican authorities told us 10 to 15 years ago, they looked at this and said this is a criminal versus a criminal. we don't care. we don't take that approach. they did and then it continued until it became legitimate victims. we've drawn a line. we said we will come back there. >> sean: still ahead, politicians say the border is more secure than it has ever been. we'll show you proof it is not secure enough. hidden cameras capture armed drug and human smugglers operating with impunity on ♪ [ male announcer ] an everyday moment can turn romantic anytime.
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and firearms. >> sean: two of the most ruthless and fastest growing transnational gangs are 18th street and ms-13. >> both are two of the largest tpwapbgss in the nation, originated out of this city. >> the gangs have taken control of this area. most of the people here are undocumented so they are scared to call the police, because they fear they may be deported. [ speaking spanish ] >> sean: ms in the 80s among immigrants fleeing a bloody civil war in el salvador. >> they were very used to violence. a lot of street violence was very natural for them. they were able to engage in that regularly. now ms-13 gang members engage in violence readily. they are not afraid to be violent against rivals even their own members who do not follow the rules. >> almost half of our 600 arrests over the last three