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Friday, October 28, 2011

Texas Mexico Border News - 10.28.2011

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Official: Ex-Gulf cartel boss' nephew held in US
Fox News
The Gulf cartel is based in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Its territory is not what it once was, but it holds on to major drug smuggling corridors between Reynosa and Matamoros. Under Cardenas Guillen's leadership, ...
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Cross-Border Keystone XL Pipeline May Change Oil's Landscape
Fox Business
Enbridge, along with Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPD), recently proposed a new pipeline that would run from Cushing to the Gulf of Mexico. "Pipeline operators, perhaps sensing there is money to be made by opening an outlet to refineries in Texas ...
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Texas hospital easing pressure on paralyzed illegal immigrant, family says
CNN
Later, when she told hospital officials she was about to loose their apartment because she could not pay the rent, they offered to pay for his plane ticket to Mexico, she said. "This is a national issue and occurs most frequently in the Border States," ...
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A sorry immigration debate
San Antonio Express
San Antonio's relationship with Mexico is longstanding and a key factor in both the population's make-up through the generations and for the city's rich bicultural heritage and ambiance. Texas shares a 1241-mile border with Mexico and has a whole lot ...
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New Mexican border drone arrives at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Officials announced in July that Texas would get a second drone to patrol its 1254-mile border with Mexico. Along with another planned for Arizona, the drone brings US Customs and Border Protection's total to six on the Southwest border. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
How much evidence of Mexican involvement in 'Wide Receiver' is needed?
Examiner.com
In that case, ATF agents followed the car carrying the guns to the border at Nogales and notified Mexican officials. While that incident certainly can be described as "informing" Mexico, I'm not sure if "coordinating" is an appropriate word, ...
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New Technology Leads To 90% Drop In Apprehensions Of Undocumented Immigrants ...
Huffington Post
A new fence, more agents and updated technology have resulted in a 90 percent drop over a five-year span in the apprehensions of undocumented immigrants along the divide between El Paso, Texas, and Mexico, the US Border Patrol says. ...
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Battle for the Border: Officer Says Cartels Starting to Retaliate on Law ...
KRGV
The Mexican government's crackdown is pushing criminal activity across the border. The money drives the drugs and vice versa. "Pete" claims the desperation is driving the cartels to target police. "Usually the criminal organizations have more money to ...
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Targeting immigrants is a losing strategy for Republican candidates
Bellingham Herald
Michelle Bachmann has called for sealing the US-Mexico border with a double wall. Not to be outdone, Herman Cain has called for an electrified fence backed by military personnel armed with live rounds (though he later said the electrified fence was a ...
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Another drone to be deployed along Texas-Mexico border
Military & Aerospace Electronics
By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times A second predator aircraft system - commonly referred to as drones - will be deployed in support of law enforcement operations along the Texas-Mexico border, officials In Washington, DC announced today. US ...
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Local Border Patrol Agents Seize Marijuana in Off-Checkpoint Searches
KPSP Local 2
The first find came around 3 am, when agents pulled over an 18-year-old United States citizen in the area of the Interstate 8 checkpoint, west of Winterhaven, "after agents observed him driving suspiciously near the US-Mexico Border," Creiglow said. ...
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Film eyes Mexico violence
Texas A&M The Battalion
This story is not abnormal for many Mexican citizens. Living in cities overrun by drug cartels means living in fear. Charlie Minn produced the documentary 8 Murders a Day to create awareness about the violence happening in Mexican border cities. ...
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Mexico Nabs Female Drug Cartel Financial Operator
Fox News
Oct. 27: Carmen del Consuelo Saenz, alleged 'accountant' of the Zetas drug cartel, is presented to the media in Mexico City. (AP Photo/German Garcia)AP Carmen del Consuelo Saenz, fifth from right, alleged 'accountant' of the Zetas drug cartel, ...
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Mexican Cartels switch gears and target Midwest
KFVS
By Holly Brantley - bio | email Are big time Mexican Drug Cartels and marijuana growers targeting the Heartland? Law enforcement officers in Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, and Tennessee say it's possible. On the heels of a number of big busts in the ...
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Treasury designates Mexican drug kingpins
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The US Treasury Department Thursday designated a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant, his two brothers and two companies in Mexico under the Drug Kingpin Act. "Today's action aims to disrupt the ability of Martin Avendano Ojeda's ...
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Mexican Drug War Blog Hit by 'Govt Intervention'
InSight Crime
Mexico's drug conflict has a key propaganda component, and Blog del Narco, as the most visible of the drug violence blogs, played a key role in the cartels' efforts to brand themselves online. At its best, the website was a useful symbol for the power ...
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Clinton: Justice Dept. didn't seek State Dept.'s permission for "gunwalking ...
CBS News
She said the Justice Department did not "request coordination" or give "any kind of notice or heads up" about "Operation Fast and Furious," the ATF operation which put thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The weapons may have been ...
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16 Killed in gangland violence in southern Mexico
Fox News
Chilpancingo – Suspected drug cartel assailants killed 15 men and a woman in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, authorities said. Thursday's attacks occurred in the municipalities of Atoyac de Alvarez, Tecpan de Galeana and General Heliodoro ...
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'El Chapo,' wanted drug lord, grows stronger in Mexico's Sierra Madre
Washington Post
In fifth year of a drug war that has left more than 43000 dead, the founder of Sinaloa cartel — Joaquin Guzman — reigns supreme. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is pictured in the federal prison in the town of Almoyola de Juarez, in Mexico state, on July ...
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What Mexico Can Learn from Counterinsurgency Doctrine
InSight Crime
A new study by the RAND Corporation carefully avoids describing the Mexican drug conflict as an insurgency. But as the report points out, there could be important lessons for Mexico in other cases of armed rebellion across the region. ...
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The Vast Juggalo Conspiracy
Reason Online (blog)
Spencer Ackerman has been spelunking in the bureau's 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, and he found an unexpected detour into the world of Insane Clown Posse fans: Listed in the same breath as street gangs with ties to murderous Mexican drug ...
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