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Friday, September 30, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 9.30.2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 9.30.2011

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Perry, Romney Campaigns Clash on 'Hannity'
Fox News
SULLIVAN: We have a 1200-mile border with Mexico and Texas, the federal government has been a disaster at securing that border. Texas has had to step up. Four hundred million dollars, Texas rangers, our law enforcement officers have been shot across ...
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Phil Wilson Selected to Lead Texas Department of Transportation
PR Newswire (press release)
As secretary, Wilson was responsible for elections and acted as the governor's chief liaison on the Texas-Mexico border and issues with Mexico. He has also served as Chairman of the Governor's Competitiveness Council, where Wilson helped identify ways ...
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'Fast and Furious' Guns Turn Up in Texas
FOX 4 News
One gun might have been used to kill a US Border Patrol agent, federal documents said. The guns discovered in Texas were on their way to Mexico, The Los Angeles Times reported. According to ATF emails and a federal court affidavit, El Paso police ...
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Romney web ad stings Perry on immigration
CNN (blog)
Romney's new web video-out on the last fundraising day of the third quarter-takes Perry's words in defense of his policy and couples it with praise of the longest-serving Texas governor given by none other than Mexico's former President Vincente Fox. ...
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MEXICO: Does U.S. deportation program put migrants in harm's way?
Los Angeles Times
In June, dozens of illegal immigrants held at a private detention facility in New Mexico wrote letters to a border activist group pleading for help to avoid being transferred and deported through Texas, which they said would place their lives in danger ...
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Mexican drug cartels violently lash back against web activists
China Post
The site lists official hotline numbers to the police and army to report crimes in the city just across the border from Laredo, Texas. “Keep speaking out,” she wrote last Thursday under the handle “NenaDLaredo” (or Laredo Girl), according to messages ...
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U.S.-Mexico border governors sign crime-fighting pact
Reuters
By Lizbeth Diaz ENSENADA, Mexico (Reuters) - Governors along the US-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to examine how to create shared databases where they can swap DNA and other biometric information on criminals in an effort to curb the flow of guns ...
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US Admits Mexican Cartels Control Parts Of Border
The Moral Liberal
Janet Napolitano spent much of the spring sounding like a broken record ensuring that the US-Mexico border is safe when the reality is that stretches are controlled by drug-trafficking organizations. A new federal report exposing the ugly truth about ...
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Nearly 9000 Mexican illegal migrants repatriated to Mexico from Arizona past 2 ...
Washington Post
US officials say desert temperatures in the Mexico-Arizona border region soar to deadly levels in the summer, and deporting migrants to just across the border only encourages them to try again. About 125000 people have taken part in the repatriation ...
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Guest speaker unravels issues of US-Mexico border and femicide
Guilfordian
Alarcón is a former delegate for the Mexico Solidarity Movement, but is currently on a speaking tour. While at Guilford, she gave two presentations: "Immigration at the US-Mexico Border" and "Femicides in Ciudad Juarez." The issues concerning the ...
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Q & A: Local Author Breaks Down New Book About Mexican Drug War
Riverfront Times (blog)
Longmire's message is simple: "It's not just Mexico's drug war," she says. "It's our drug war too. It affects every corner of the United States, not just the border." The book is timely. Last year there were Mexican cartel operations in 270 US cities; ...
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Riverfront Times (blog)
Mexican blogger left decapitated on bridge
The Ranger
Reporters Without Borders states 80 journalists have been killed for reporting about drug cartels and organized crime in Mexican border cities. However, Fuentes said not all of the journalists were killed in the line of work, but people are often ...
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Texas Border Security - A Strategic Military Assessment - TX Ag Commissioner ...
Texas GOP Vote
At the tactical level of war the cartels seek to gain advantage by exploiting the creases between US federal and state border agencies, and the separation that exists between Mexican and American crime-fighting agencies. Border law enforcement and ...
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Texas GOP Vote
The need for speed: Border trade group calls for major investment at ports of ...
Brownsville Herald
By STEVE CLARK/The Brownsville Herald Trade between Mexico and the United States is humming despite violence infecting the border region, as the northern Mexican manufacturing sector bounces back from the recession on the strength of the automotive and ...
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