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By Miguel Bustillo, Los
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Writer
August 17, 2008
EL PASO -- Lorenzo
de la Torre Torres
was on the cusp of
death.
Drug cartel hit men
had pumped the
deputy police chief
with more than 20
bullets, and
slightly wounded his
boss, after a wild
car chase in Nuevo
Casas Grandes, the
Mexican city the two
were supposed to
protect.
Paramedics airlifted the
officers 130 miles to
Ciudad Juarez. Within
hours, however, hospital
officials wheeled them
into an ambulance, which
sped off to the Bridge
of the Americas over the
concrete-lined stretch
of the Rio Grande that
separates Mexico from
Texas. There, an
American ambulance
picked them up and
whisked them to El
Paso's Thomason
Hospital.
For the next two weeks,
De la Torre was treated
at U.S. taxpayer
expense. El Paso police
and sheriff's deputies
stood guard around the
hospital's perimeter 24
hours a day, wearing
bulletproof vests and
holding semiautomatic
rifles. Hospital
officials closed off all
but one entrance to the
building and sent
visitors through metal
detectors.
It was neither the first
nor last time the
arrival of a gunshot
victim from Mexico has
sparked a lockdown at
the publicly owned
hospital, which is a
prized institution for
El Paso.
The only hospital within
a 280-mile radius to
offer state-of-the-art
trauma care, Thomason
has become an unwilling
treatment center of
choice for law
enforcement officials
and others in the
vicinity wounded in
Mexico's drug turf
battles. The violence
has killed more than
2,000 people this year,
and more than double
that number in the 20
months since President
Felipe Calderon began
deploying 40,000 troops
across the country to
crack down on narcotics
trafficking.
Thomason has treated 28
people wounded on the
other side of the border
this year, spending an
estimated $1 million,
hospital administrators
said. Nineteen were U.S.
citizens or had dual
citizenship, and the
rest had legal
permission to enter the
country.
Most of their identities
have not been made
public. One of the most
recent was a bystander:
a 1-year-old Juarez girl
who was crushed by a
runaway pickup truck
after gunmen killed the
driver in an apparently
drug-related hit.
Because of the security
threat posed by the
wounded Mexican
officers, the hospital
has had to post guards
and limit public access
three times this year.
It has even adopted a
color-coded alert system
similar to that of the
Department of Homeland
Security, letting
workers and visitors
know of the danger posed
by the drug war targets
inside.
The lockdowns have
served as a frightening
reminder that El Paso
may not be immune from
the mayhem consuming
Ciudad Juarez, its more
populous sister city
across the Rio Grande,
where more than 750
people have been killed
this year.
El Paso leaders are
frustrated and angry at
the cost and risks
brought about by their
unexpected guests.
"It seems we don't find
out until they walk in
the hospital door," El
Paso Mayor John Cook
said. "If I, as the
mayor, cross the border,
it takes me a lot longer
than it's taking some of
these wounded folks.
Clearly, some deals have
been made at a higher
level of government, and
we didn't know about
them."
El Paso officials last
month took their worries
to Washington, where
Homeland Security
officials assured them
that there was no
diplomatic deal to bring
the drug war's wounded
to Texas. Still, some El
Paso leaders note that
such transfers do not
seem to be happening
elsewhere on the border.
They want the federal
government to reimburse
their costs.
Mexican officials have
fully repaid the
hospital for only one of
the Mexican officers it
has treated, and made
partial payment for
another. Thomason has
gotten about $314,000
from the patients, their
employers, insurers, and
state and federal
funding, hospital
spokeswoman Margaret
Althoff-Olivas said.
Thomason expects that
most of its costs will
have to be borne by the
state and federal
government, she said.
"If I got shot down
there, do you think I'd
get this kind of an
escort? I'd be lucky to
come back in a garbage
truck," said James
Valenti, the hospital's
chief executive. "We
don't know whether some
of the people being
brought here are bad
guys or good guys. But
the history south of the
border is that these
people [hit men] will go
to the hospital to
finish the job if they
need to. We're not
equipped to deal with
threats like that."
Last year, gunmen
stormed a Tijuana
hospital in search of a
wounded accomplice,
killing two state police
officers.
Thomason administrators
do not want to accept
the patients, but have
no choice under federal
law. About half --
including the Nuevo
Casas Grandes police
chief, who had a hand
wound -- did not need
the Level 1 trauma care
for which the hospital
is known, those
officials say.
The number of injured
with U.S. ties has
surprised some El Paso
officials, who privately
questioned whether some
of the wounded were
working with the U.S.
government to stop drug
trafficking.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents
assisted in escorting
one high-ranking Mexican
police official into the
United States and
provided armed security
for him at Thomason
Hospital, said Roberto
G. Medina, special agent
in charge of ICE's
Office of Investigations
in El Paso.
Medina declined to
elaborate, saying only,
"ICE agents and officers
routinely share
intelligence and
resources with other law
enforcement agencies as
needed. We will continue
working with our
partners to ensure
public safety in and
around El Paso."
The first lockdown occurred after Fernando Lozano Sandoval, commander of the Chihuahua State Investigations Agency, was shot multiple times by gunmen who ambushed his sport utility vehicle Jan. 21 in Ciudad Juarez.
Lozano, who has dual citizenship, was taken to a Mexican hospital and kept under military guard. Two days later, ICE officials helped transfer him to Thomason. El Paso police and sheriff's deputies posted guards outside the hospital around the clock for three weeks.
Six months later, Thomason administrators locked down the hospital again, for the Nuevo Casas Grandes officers. Last month, the hospital was locked down after a Juarez police officer who was shot multiple times July 11 was allowed to cross the border to seek treatment.
Sylvia Zamarripa was visiting her father-in-law during the most recent lockdown and found the show of force disturbing.
"That's why I left Juarez, to get away from things like that," said Zamarripa, 65, who moved to El Paso more than a decade ago. "It looked like Colombia during the reign of Pablo Escobar," she said, referring to the late drug lord.
El Paso County Sheriff Santiago "Jimmy" Apodaca said he did not like having to pay deputies overtime to guard the hospital, but he had to ensure the safety of El Paso, which was named the second-safest city in the U.S. last year in an independent ranking of cities with more than half a million people. Apodaca said he saw little reason to worry that drug war violence would cross the Rio Grande. But he was taking no chances.
"Bordering on Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico and one of the most violent cities anywhere besides Iraq, you're always vigilant," Apodaca said. "But those people [hit men] down there know who they're after, and they know how to get them."
Drug cartels have traditionally assassinated U.S. targets discreetly, if at all, avoiding the type of Wild West gunfight that has become commonplace in Mexican border towns such as Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo.
Still, some law enforcement officials have long worried that the close relationships between cities on the border, and the drug distribution networks on both sides, could bring open violence to Texas cities. An e-mail message circulating in Juarez in June warned of impending violence at three El Paso nightclubs deemed narco hangouts. Similarly, a list obtained by U.S. officials named about 20 people in Texas and New Mexico who were alleged to be targets of the drug cartels.
El Paso County Commissioner Veronica Escobar said she hoped that Thomason stayed out of harm's way. The hospital has prospered while other county hospitals have struggled, she said. Voters last year approved a $120-million bond issue to build a children's hospital at the site.
"There is no doubt that in at least some of these cases folks were fleeing Mexico to be under the safe umbrella of the United States, and I can't blame them for that, but that poses problems we never had to deal with before," she said. "We may be on the front end of a trend here."
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