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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 10.29.2011

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Religion leaders see immigration as 'God's call'
Wall Street Journal
AP ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A Unitarian church in New Mexico sends supplies to the border for recent deportees. A coalition of church leaders gathers under a statue of colonial America religious figure Anne Hutchinson at the Massachusetts Statehouse to ...
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Unmanned aircraft to patrol border
Las Cruces Sun-News
It's the first of two funded by the 2009-10 Southwest Border Security Bill Supplemental, according to the agency. The aircraft will "provide critical aerial surveillance for US Border Patrol agents stationed along the Texas-Mexico border," according to ...
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Perry on The Ballot in New Hampshire, But Faces Uphill Battle
Fox News (blog)
Perry blamed the federal government's failure to secure the border with Mexico for why his state was forced to deal with this problem, and assured the man that his top priority as president would be to secure the border "Day one. ...
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Texas adds I-69 to highway roster
Land Line Magazine
Perry proposed a network of tolled superhighways dubbed the Trans-Texas Corridor, which would take I-69 from the southern border with Mexico to Texarkana, AR, and would rebuild the I-35 corridor in a separate phase. Early estimates put truck tolls at ...
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Protecting illegal immigrants to catch criminals
The Republic
People willing to travel thousands of miles from the Texas-Mexico border for low wages satisfied it. But there was a hidden cost to the boom. Austin had hundreds of residents with two, sometimes three, different names. They had purchased stolen IDs ...
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US Drivers Owe Ciudad Juarez $10 Million In Fines
KFOX El Paso
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Miguel Angel Rodriguez had just parked his car when a Ciudad Juarez traffic officer wrote him a ticket and then unscrewed one of his license plates. The truck driver from El Paso, Texas, argued with the officer, but soon gave ...
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Mexican Trucks In US Still Face Political Long Haul
NPR
Nearly two-thirds of the produce consumed in the US and Canada during the winter come through here. These Mexican trucks stop at warehouses near the border to transfer their loads to US trucks. That's the way it's long been done. ...
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Mexican news roundup
TucsonSentinel.com
He said that using paid informants was nothing new on the US-Mexico border, saying that it has been done since the times of Pancho Villa. The bodies of three men were found on the Sonoran side of the border with Chihuahua early Tuesday morning, ...
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Ala. Immigration Battle Recalls Civil Rights Past
ABC News
By PHILLIP RAWLS AP The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own ...
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Bill could help open NM stores to Mexican shoppers
Las Cruces Sun-News
Las Cruces is about 40 miles from the Mexican border. The senators' proposal would expand the allowed travel distance to 75 miles in New Mexico. Mesquite resident Norma Hartell, 23, a Mexican citizen and legal US resident, said her father lives in ...
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Across the border, beyond the law
Chicago Tribune
In the eight years since he returned to this sprawling city where he once lived, Caudel never changed his name or made any effort to conceal his whereabouts from US or Mexican police. "They've never looked for me," he said. ...
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Solar Firms, Bank Power Mexican Hospital
EarthTechling
The NADB is a lending institution created through the North American Free Trade agreement to address environmental issues in the US-Mexico border region, and the bi-national BECC works closely with the bank, focusing on technical, environmental and ...
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Mexican drug cartels strengthen ties with US gangs
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
The federal report said the Mexican border offers gangs criminal opportunities that may not be found in other cities. For example, many gangs, including the Barrio Azteca, have become involved in immigrant smuggling because it is lucrative and less ...
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Mexico intensifies drug-lord search
The Seattle Times
"Chapo moves a kilo of cocaine over the US border practically every 10 minutes, so he doesn't need to extort anyone," national-security expert Raúl Benítez said. Guzmán's dirty work tends to be less newsworthy. The discovery this year of Mexico's ...
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Grupo Mexico Q3 profit jumps on higher copper output
Reuters
Grupo Mexico's massive Cananea mine near the US-Mexico border reopened last year after a court ended a three-year-long strike by the national mining union. The historic pit, where labor unrest in the early 1900s helped spark the 1910 Mexican Revolution ...
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Mexican drug gangs take war to the streets
Al Jazeera
Rival Mexican drug cartel groups are taking their turf wars to the streets of northern Mexico. Residents in the towns of Huejucar, Florencia and Bolanas are getting caught up in the crossfire during street battles between the Zetas and Sinolas gangs. ...
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Every day is 'Day of the Dead' in Mexico drug war
The Associated Press
There were cartels back then, moving South American cocaine and Mexican marijuana north to feed a voracious US appetite for illegal drugs. And, to be sure, there was violence in the 1990s. The archbishop of Guadalajara was assassinated by drug lords in ...
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Small And Isolated, Belize Attracts Drug Traffickers
NPR
A couple of decades ago, Colombian drug cartels dominated smuggling operations into the United States. In recent years, the Mexican cartels have taken over. But Mexico's brutal drug war over the past five years is now pushing some of the drug trade ...
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Mexican drug lord still dodges capture
San Antonio Express
“Of the Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa cartel has the broadest reach into Europe, Australia and Asia,” DEA intelligence chief Rodney Benson said in testimony before Congress this month. Unlike the 1980s Colombian cocaine king Pablo ...
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Guns sent to cartels by Feds are themselves the 'smoking gun'
Examiner.com
In a curious twist to the Gunwalker scandal, or 'Operation Fast and Furious,' sources who have contact with Mexican drug cartels say that the types of guns sent to the cartels by the Feds in the ATF are themselves the 'smoking gun' which indicate ...
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Iranian, Mexican, Thai women win journalism award
BusinessWeek
By MARIA SANMINIATELLI A single mother who was harassed and beaten for reporting on the 2009 Iranian uprising, a Mexican journalist whose work means daily defiance of the drug cartels, and a Thai woman facing 20 years in prison for criticizing the ...
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21 People Die in Series of Shootouts in Mexico
ABC News
Mexican authorities say at least 21 people were killed Friday in three shootouts between soldiers and gunmen and a fight between rival drug gangs. At least 15 deaths occurred in three gunbattles in the western state of Michoacan, said the spokesman for ...
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