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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 9.25.2011

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Mexico: Woman Decapitated for Blog Post
International Business Times
In Mexico, a missing female journalist was found decapitated in Nuevo Laredo, a city near the Texas border. Marisol Marcia Castaneda, an editor with Nuevo Laredo newspaper Primera Hora, was though to have been murdered by a powerful drug cartel in ...
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International Business Times
Author James Lee Burke is as compelling as ever in his 30th mystery novel
NOLA.com
By Diana Pinckley Hackberry Holland, sheriff of a small county on the Texas-Mexico border and star of "Feast Day of Fools, " is in his mid-70s. The laconic widower can still kick down a locked steel door, however. He also understands the motivations of ...
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NOLA.com
Immigration questions dog Perry after debate
CNN International
Perry opposes the national DREAM Act and said the Texas bill was a state-specific solution that he still "supports greatly." Those remarks, coupled with his opposition to a fence along the 1200-mile US border with Mexico, created an opening for Perry's ...
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Mexican journalist decapitated in border town
Montreal Gazette
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — The decapitated body of a female journalist was found Saturday in northeastern Mexico near the US border, along with a message attributed to an organized crime gang, state prosecutors said. The victim found in the city of Nuevo ...
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Wounded Mexican man charged over border incident
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
San Diego, Sep 24, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- US Customs and Border Protection has filed charges against a Mexican man who was shot and wounded by federal officers after pulling out a fake gun at the busy San Ysidro, California, crossing. ...
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Tiffany Hartley searches for closure, her husband's body
Greeley Tribune
Hartley continues her battle to get her husband David's body back after he was murdered almost a year ago along the US-Mexico border. Tiffany Hartley completes chores at her parents' home in rural La Salle. Hartley continues her battle to get her ...
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EPA offers opportunity to work on industrial border pollution
Examiner.com
But, as the EPA points out in its draft Border 2020 framework, building infrastructure that can handle the population and industry counts and meet environmental standards has thus far not been part of US-Mexico border economics. ...
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NM border to see another drop in apprehensions
Houston Chronicle
RUSSELL CONTERAS, AP ALBUQUERQUE, NM (AP) — The US Customs and Border Protection said the number of illegal immigrant apprehensions along the Mexico-New Mexico border is expected to drop again. Agency spokesman Doug Mosier said the fiscal year ending ...
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Immigration: Leaders push for a new view of Mexico
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
US Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, who is considered a conservative Democrat, said that he agrees with his Republican counterparts on some issues but that US border cities should not suffer because of political rhetoric. "What happens in Mexico is one ...
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Obama Scandal Checklist: Operation Fast And Furious
Wizbang (blog)
Just a few more facts about the case, that no one is disputing: the ATF never even tried to follow the guns past the Mexican border, and no one in Mexico — not ATF agents or even the Mexican government — were told that the US was supplying the ...
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Why Aren't Political Leaders Happy About Less Illegal Entry into the United ...
Forbes
The lack of workable legal visas and the wage differential between the US and Mexico have been the primary drivers of illegal immigration. While there has been an attempt in the House Judiciary Committee to reform the current H-2A agricultural ...
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Political instability may affect Sunland Park growth
El Paso Times
Ortiz said Mexican magnate Pedro Zaragoza was considering donating the land on the Mexican side of the border for the border crossing, provided the US facility was constructed across the border from his property. The proposal was mentioned at a ...
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UPI NewsTrack TopNews
UPI.com
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The headless body of a Mexican newspaper editor was found in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas with a warning note, police said. The state attorney's office said the head of Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, ...
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