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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Texas Mexico Border News - 10.26.2011

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Border gun dealers fight reports
Politico
The rule specifically targets dealers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and demands owners send information on multiple long guns sales to the government, the AP wrote. The measure was enacted in the wake of the controversial gun-running ...
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Politico
Mexican Trucks Begin Entering Texas
InjuryBoard.com
A new pilot program is set to launch in the United States which will allow trucks from Mexico to enter the country. Previously, truckers from Mexico would drop their cargo at the border, where a domestic truck would pick it up. ...
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Top Morning Stories October 26, 2011
KUT News
By Crystal Chavez, KUT News US Customs and Border Protection will soon have second drone to patrol the Texas-Mexico border. The Associated Press reports the Predator drone is scheduled to arrive in Corpus Christi next week. Officials had announced in ...
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Source: Ex-Gulf cartel boss' nephew arrested in US
Boston.com
By Christopher Sherman AP / October 26, 2011 McALLEN, Texas—A US law enforcement official says a man arrested on federal drug charges in South Texas is believed to be the nephew of the former boss of Mexico's Gulf Cartel. Rafael Cardenas Vela was ...
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VIDEO: State ag commish leads border talks at Crime Stopper conference
Monitor
Texas accounts for 64 percent of the border between the US and Mexico, yet only 41 percent of Border Patrol agents are stationed in the state, Staples said. New Mexico, Arizona and California have an average of 15 agents per post, while Texas has six, ...
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Perry not strong on border control
Nashua Telegraph
In 2001, Rick Perry gave a speech on the Texas-Mexican border that can be read in its entirety on the governor's Web site. • “Mexico and the United States have a shared history and a common future.” • “The Mexican and US sides of the border compose one ...
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Agent gets 2 years for actions during arrest of 15-year-old
Washington Times
But the Internal Affairs Division at US Customs and Border Protection ruled differently nearly a year later and, ultimately, the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas brought charges. The Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council said ...
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Washington Times

Mexico drops tariffs as first Mexican truck roll over US border
TheProduceNews.com
By Joan Murphy | October 26, 2011 WASHINGTON -- The produce industry welcomed news that Mexico formally lifted tariffs that have amounted to more than $900 million of US agricultural products since 2009, settling a costly dispute over a Mexican ...
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Put Iraq veterans to work on the US-Mexico border
Baltimore Sun (blog)
About 40000 US troops will be returning from Iraq this year. Why not put those who can't find jobs on their return to work patrolling our 1969-mile border with Mexico? They might not be able to patrol the entire length. However, they could watch the ...
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Indiana drug seizure reveals Mexican cartels' infiltration in states
Land Line Magazine
By Charlie Morasch, Land Line staff writer Efren Gonzalez-Perez was approached last winter outside a Mexican dentist office near the US-Mexico border, where “everyone knows he is a truck driver.” A man told Gonzalez-Perez to drive his truck to ...
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Education at the border: an example of US-Mexico cooperation
Examiner.com
In addition to providing binational students with transfer documents so that they can attend schools on the opposite side of the border, BMEI also focuses on teaching Mexican and US-American educators to better reach these students. ...
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U.S. border agent jailed for improper arrest of suspected drug smuggler
Washington Times
Border Patrol agents found more than 150 pounds of marijuana at the arrest site. **FILE** An unidentified man in Mexico walks near a footbridge across the Rio Grande connecting the United States and Mexico near Acala, Texas, on Aug. 4, 2010. ...
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Washington Times
US water polo captain Villa at home in Mexico
MiamiHerald.com
By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Not all the gringos in Guadalajara are getting booed at the Pan American Games. One, in fact, is practically a star south of the border. Brenda Villa, the captain of the defending champion US ...
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Mexican army raids bulletproofing auto shop
msnbc.com
Authorities did not say which cartel managed the shop, but it was in the home state of Mexico's most-wanted drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is known as "El Chapo." In border states such as Tamaulipas, soldiers have raided similar bulletproofing auto ...
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2nd drone to patrol Texas-Mexico border
KIII TV3
MCALLEN, Texas (AP) - A second unmanned drone to patrol the Texas-Mexico border for US Customs and Border Protection is scheduled to arrive in Corpus Christi next week. US Reps. Henry Cuellar, Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold of Texas announced the ...
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Mexican Drug Cartels Are Not Terrorists
World Policy Institute (blog)
By Robert Valencia While a few US politicians have long demanded that Mexico's most bloodthirsty drug cartel, the Zetas, be named a terrorist organization, an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the US on American soil by Iranian ...
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World Policy Institute (blog)
DOJ: New Gun Store Rules Necessary to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels
Main Justice
Lawyers from the DOJ said in a federal courtroom in Washington, DC, on Tuesday that the two month old regulation on gun merchants in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas is necessary to prevent guns from being sold to Mexican drug cartels, ...
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4th Minnesotan in prison for connection to notorious Mexican drug cartel
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Saxton, who pleaded guilty, is the fourth Minnesotan now serving time for their drug activities tied to La Familia, one of the newer Mexican drug cartels that is blamed for thousands of killings and even beheadings. Saxton and the other three were ...
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Meth Shipment Tied to Sinaloa and La Familia Mexican Drug Cartels Seized in ...
Seattle Weekly (blog)
Cheryl Bishop, the acting group supervisor for the violent gang task force, says Mexican drug-cartel operatives were not the focus of the White Center operation, but "it just so happens that a number of individuals we came across" had cartel ...
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Official: Nephew of ex-Gulf cartel boss arrested in Texas, facing drug and ...
Washington Post
McALLEN, Texas — A man arrested on federal drug and immigration charges in South Texas is believed to be the nephew of the former boss of Mexico's Gulf Cartel and was a rising player in the drug trafficking network, a US law enforcement official said ...
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Mexican army raids shop that bulletproofs drug cars
Chicago Sun-Times
AP October 25, 2011 10:06PM MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army have found an auto shop used to bulletproof vehicles for drug gangs. Ten people were arrested and soldiers confiscated 10 cars or SUVs that were being bulletproofed, as well as six other ...
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San Juan Police working to thwart auto theft by Mexican Drug Cartels
Torque News
The program is designed not only to protect property, but also to keep stolen vehicles out of the hands of drug cartels south of the border. "They're stealing the cars and using them for violent crimes, and I don't want my personal property being used ...
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Officials aim to halt flow of guns and ammo to Mexican cartels
89.3 KPCC
Officials say most of the arms that eventually find their way into the arms of Mexican drug cartels were sold in the US, and transported south, some along Californian roads. Alejandro Lares Valladares, Chief of Police Liaison in Tijuana, testified at a ...
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89.3 KPCC
Indio man arrested in drug bust; $5M seized
The Desert Sun
Indio — Law enforcement personnel targeting a Mexican cartel arrested an Indio man and seized more than 50 kilos of cocaine worth an estimated $5 million, officials said. Rene Guerrero of Indio and Giovani Flores-Arias of Sinaloa, Mexico were arrested ...
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