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Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border
McALLEN, Texas — Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas. A...
Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico
L PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced ...
Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses
hree Mexican men were arrested on federal human-trafficking charges on Wednesday, and 75 Mexicans were detained as illegal immigrants, after three vans in which they were riding tried to run through the border station at San Diego on Tuesday afternoo...
Rio Grande Valley Sheriff’s want nothing to do with 287(g)
“I am considering being a part of it — only on the detention side,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. “I would never do the enforcement. I won’t even help.”...
Bus company ordered to pay $5.2 million in bus crash case
n Hidalgo County jury has entered a $5.2 million judgment against a Mexican bus company it deemed partially responsible for the 2007 deaths of three Edinburg women, their family’s attorney said Monday. Virginia Salinas, 28, and her 71-year-old gran...
Mexico replaces Customs Agents, upgrades border security
exico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties. The shake-up — part of a broader effort to root out cor...
President Calderon signs Mexican Border Fence Bill [VIDEO]
Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes These might be of interest 08/05/2009 — President Obama nixes ineffective border fence (0) 23/09/2008 — More wasteful spending – $400 million reallocated to construct border fence (...
2 Mexican soldiers stopped on U.S. side
Two Mexican soldiers and a security guard were temporarily detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing into United States on Friday at the Paso del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso, a CBP spokesman said. The guard and unif...
El Paso City Council To Debate Legalizing Drugs
Last Tuesday Mayor John Cook vetoed a unanimous city council resolution asking the U.S. Government to have a serious discussion about legalizing narcotics. On Tuesday, city council will have an opportunity to overturn the veto. City Councilman Beto O...
2 Border Patrol agents indicted for Smuggling
Two South Texas Border Patrol agents appeared in federal court Thursday on charges alleging they helped drug traffickers move their product across the U.S.-Mexico border. A grand jury in Houston returned sealed indictments Dec. 1 against Leonel Moral...
New Cross Border Pilot Program to begin Jan. 5, 2009 in Laredo Texas
International truck freight will cross the border in Laredo more efficiently starting Jan. 5 when the World Trade Bridge expands operations to 24 hours a day, five days a week in a six-month U.S.-Mexico pilot test program. The main beneficiaries w...
Jose Compean Resentenced in Federal Court in El Paso
A US District Judge today resentenced Former Border Patrol Agent Jose Alonso Compean to 10 years for his conviction of using a weapon in the commission of a felony, plus two years for assault and other charges. Compean and former agent Ignacio Ramos ...
Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra resigns - Bond denied!
Starr County commissioners this morning, accepted the resignation submitted by Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra over the weekend County Judge Eloy Vera said said the sheriff’s office would for now be under the command of Chief Deputy ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector indicted for smuggling
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry has been indicted in San Antonio for trying to smuggle marijuana and cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint north of Del Rio. Alex Moses Jr., 28, was indicted Wednesda...
Border News Shorts - Dope Falls from 18 wheeler - Border Patrol recruits “Bubbas” in SC and Georgia
Border Patrol recruits “Bubba’s” in South Carolina, Georgia The U.S. Border Patrol brings its hiring blitz South this weekend. The agency recruits in four locations on Saturday in South Carolina and Georgia. Two years ago, President...
Mexico’s 10 percent plan for guns
"What's clear, as we have often told many lawmakers in the U.S. Congress, is that the Second Amendment was not designed to arm criminal groups overseas, as is in fact occurring," Medina said, referring to the amendment in the U.S. Constitution on the...
More wasteful spending - $400 million reallocated to construct border fence
Congress approved a shift of $400 million from technology accounts to construction of the U.S. border fence despite a Customs and Border Protection admission that it cannot be completed by year’s end, officials said Monday. The House Appropriat...
Otero County NM sheriff ordered to halt illegal raids and traffic stops
EL PASO — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning Otero County NM sheriff’s deputies from making unlawful stops, intimidation and other unlawful actions targeting undocumented immigrants in Chaparral NM. The decision w...
Busy Weekend on the border with more than 6500 pounds of pot seized
Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana over the weekend in four separate busts, according to Laredo Sector Border Patrol The most recent seizure occurred Monday at Texas 16 traffic checkpoint. Hebbronville agents observed a w...
Mexico, US find no al-Qaida links since 9/11
Hey people! We all know how the right wing loony toons have been using the terror/fear card to convince Americans of all the “terrorists” crossing the southern border and using that as an excuse to promote their nativist agenda. Some have...
Think a border wall will do it? Think again!
Tunnel Found In Mexicali Two Blocks South Of The Border Police arrested eight men Monday afternoon, who are believed to be involved with digging a tunnel that was headed towards Calexico, Ca. The men were found on a corner house located on 134 Callej...
Nuevo Laredo Municipal Police detained while helping pregnant US citizen
Eight Policemen of the Directorate of Public Safety, (Policia Municipal) were detained last night by US Customs Agents, after giving assistance to an American Citizen who was about to give birth in Nuevo Laredo. Shortly before 2000 hours last night, ...
Mexican Army patrol confiscates 1 ton of Marijuana near Miguel Aleman
Nearly one ton of marijuana was discovered by the Army in a village near Ciudad Miguel Aleman, hidden in a vehicle and in a drainage ditch nearby. Tuesday, the 75th Infantry Battalion was on patrol between Los Angeles and Miguel Aleman, . They foun...
ATF seizes guns bound for Mexico
Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border. The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico fr...
Viagra Vigilantes claim “softer side”!
Vigilantes on U.S. border say they’re compassionate, even save illegal immigrants’ lives The “Viagra Vigilantes” aka The Minutemen want you to know they are humanitarians, and they can be quite persuasive. They say they are not vigil...
Push to free convicted felons Ramos and Compean renewed
An interesting and neutral article regarding the renewed attempts to free convicted felons Ramos and Compean appeared in todays San Antonio Express News The article confirms what I have said all along here about the involvement of Ignacio Ramos’...
Mexican Federal Police Bust Drugs, Guns in Reynosa House
Ninety-five percent chance guns came from U.S. REYNOSA, Mexico - Federal police in Reynosa made a bust at home and now several hundred pounds of drugs and lots of guns are in their custody. An anonymous tip led authorities to the house. No one was ho...
The Rule of Law - But only as it applies to your ideology
The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down it’s ruling yesterday in the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and Justice was affirmed. US Judge Katherine Carbone was foud to have run a fair trial and the verdict hinged on wh...
ICE and the PROTECT ACT - Protecting the children of Mexico and the world
EL PASO — Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents arrested a San Elizario, Texas man on Thursday after he was indicted on sex tourism charges, authorities said. A federal grand jury indicted Gustavo Solis-Martinez, 35, on July 16 for...
Go south for cheap gas?
There has been much talk lately in the news and on the radio and TV shows about Americans heading to Mexico to partake of the cheaper fuels available there. This quote from The Sanctuary gave me a chuckle and went on to explain why the fuels are so m...
