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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Texas Mexico Border News - 10.25.2011

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America's Third War: A New Eye on the Border
Fox News
By Kris Gutierrez A new high-tech, low-cost camera system is helping to detect illegal immigrants along the Texas-Mexico border, according to the Department of Public Safety. The new system of cameras is catching undocumented immigrants sneaking across ...
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Bishops visit U.S.-Mexico border
National Catholic Reporter
By Andy Sparke, Catholic News Service EL PASO, Texas -- Thousands of Mexican citizens are fleeing the violence that continues to plague the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. That was the message from college professors, the director of a refuge for ...
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Conservative Latino Leader Quits GOP In Texas
Huffington Post
Garza said he made his decision after Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain proposed building an electrified fence across the US-Mexico border that could kill those crossing illegally. Cain also called for an armed military presence on the ...
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Escopeta hit with fine
Kenai Peninsula Online
The US Departmnt of Homeland Security has fined Escopeta $15 million for Jones Act violations committed while transporting the rig from the Gulf of Mexico to Cook Inlet. By Molly Dischner Escopeta Oil Co.'s exploration efforts in Cook Inlet haven't ...
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Cornyn wants probe of alleged Texas-based gun scheme
Houston Chronicle (blog)
But agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost track of about 1400 weapons, and two of them ended up at the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Cornyn wrote that he also wants to know ...
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Report: US infiltrating Mexican drug cartels
CBS News
Vicente Zambada Niebla, aka "El Vicentillo" (center), one of the leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, is presented to the media at the attorney general's office in Mexico City, March 19, 2009. The DEA denied that Niebla was an informant, and revealed ...
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To Fight Police Corruption, One Mexican State Starts from Scratch
Fox News
In an effort to combat corruption, and to lessen the reach of the powerful Mexican drug cartels, the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon has started an innovative, and unique police force; called the Fuerza Civil. If you plan on taking a hunting or fishing ...
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Despite DPS' warning, Mexican drug cartels haven't recruited HISD students ...
Your Houston News
Despite a recent warning by the Texas Department of Public Safety to parents about Mexican drug cartels' efforts to recruit Texas high school students, schools in Houston ISD so far have seen no such activity, officials said Monday. US Sen. ...
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'El Narco': The Trade Driving Mexico's Drug War
NPR
And those cartels have grown the trade to incredible proportions. In his book, Grillo describes a visit to a Mexican military base that was used to store drugs that had been confiscated from the cartels. As we step inside, a cocktail of mystic toxic ...
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Mexican Drug Cartels Stacked With US Informants
Newser
Vicente Zambada Niebla, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, is presented to the press among other delinquents at the attorney general's office in Mexico City March 19, 2009. (Getty Images)
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US using informants from drug cartels
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Documents from recent court cases have shed light on US law enforcement agencies' recruitment of informants in Mexican drug cartels. A middle-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel and informant to US agents was sentenced ...
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Mexican Army Raids Bulletproofing Auto Shop
ABC News
The local gang has been fighting the Independent Cartel of Acapulco for control of the coast city since the 2010 arrest of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as "La Barbie." He is accused of being a drug capo for the Beltran Leyva cartel Mexican President ...
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TEEN DRUG CARTELS GROWING IN POWER ACROSS MEXICO
Scrape TV
Arrested, "El Gallito" admitted to police that he was indeed the head of a major drug cartel and that he had killed two dealers, women who had crossed him. While youths working in the drug trade are nothing new, the degree of success for El Gallito ...
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Mexico dismantles cartel base
Fox News
Vallecillo – A ranch in this municipality less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the US border served as a hideout and training facility for the brutal Los Zetas drug cartel, Mexican authorities said. The soldiers surrounding the Las Aguilas property ...
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Drug bust seizes five tons of marijuana
WTHR
Because of the huge amount of both drugs and money, investigators are now working on possible ties to a Mexican drug cartel. US Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced Monday the largest drug bust in Marion County history and one of the largest - if not ...
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U.S.-Mexico Border Is Safer, But Not Secure
U.S. News & World Report
He is the former chief of the US Office of Citizenship. One of the federal government's most important responsibilities is to secure the borders of our nation. Today, violence along our southern border has been on the rise as Mexican President Felipe ...
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Bologna smuggler busted at US-Mexico border
CBS News
US Customs and Border Protection said last week that the eight rolls of Mexican bologna were discovered aboard a truck at an El Paso port of entry on Friday. According to officials, officers detected an anomaly in the appearance of a Ford F-150 as it ...
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Getting it Done: How Civil Society Can Help Secure the US-Mexico Border
The Atlantic
It is certainly possible to understand much of what happens along that border in terms of clashing state interests and relative state power. The US has sent troops, spies, and law enforcement agents across the Mexican border many times, ...
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The Atlantic
US Agencies Infiltrating Drug Cartels Across Mexico
New York Times
And the United States, hoping to shore up Mexico's stability and prevent its violence from spilling across the border, has expanded its role in ways unthinkable five years ago, including flying drones in Mexican skies. The efforts have been credited ...
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New York Times
Flying to the US? Get ready to pay $5.50 tax
CTV.ca
"Raising taxes at the border just raises costs on consumers," Fast said in a statement. "Canadian officials have raised concerns about the removal of this exemption at the highest level. We will continue to raise Canada's concerns with US lawmakers. ...
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CTV.ca
Binational health: One example of U.S. and Mexico working together
Examiner.com
As illness is not contained on either side of the two thousand mile US-Mexico border, it is important for these two countries to work together to combat contagious disease. However, Ambassador Wayne argued that binational health programs have also been ...
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Mexico drops US wine tariff
decanter.com
by Panos Kakaviatos US wine exports to Mexico are expected to improve with the ending of a 20% 'retaliatory' tariff. Mexico lifted the tariff after US officials approved a Mexican trucking company's permit to cross the border. According to the US Wine ...
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Should the United States Build a Fence on Its Southern Border?
U.S. News & World Report
The US border with Mexico spans almost 2000 miles from California to Texas, and illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and other security breaches along the border have been issues of growing concern for decades. After 9/11, the call to secure ...
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U.S. News & World Report
On Mexico border, churches counter violence with prayer
BP News
EL PASO, Texas (BP) -- Testimonies from churches along the Mexican border highlight the need for ongoing prayer that God would curb Mexico's drug violence. A 40-day, multi-denominational prayer effort in El Paso, Texas, for the neighboring Mexican city ...
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The Narco Killer's Tale: Confessions of a Justified Sinner
TIME
Grillo outlines both the Mexican and American policy failures that fostered the crisis, which has produced 40000 murders south of the border since 2006. More important, he offers a rare and unsettling look into the lives of ordinary Mexicans and other ...
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