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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 10.30.2011

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Border crime can't be categorized as one statistic
Austin American-Statesman
By Christian McDonald and Jeremy Schwartz An in-depth analysis of the latest crime numbers reveals that the 1254-mile Texas-Mexico border defies any single description. "The border is so diverse, you couldn't put the whole border in one bucket," said ...
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Crime rates along Texas border counties
Austin American-Statesman
After state officials commissioned a report that concluded the Texas side of the border with Mexico was a "war zone," The Austin American-Statesman analyzed crime rates in 14 counties over the past five years, finding that both violent crime and total ...
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Perry defends immigration views to New Hampshire conservatives
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry touted his flat tax proposal and defended his positions on immigration, calling security of the US-Mexico border a top priority. Perry made the comments in an exclusive interview with editors of the conservative Union-Leader ...
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Mexico launches new 'trusted shipper' inspection program
Your Houston News
... Nuevo Leon, Mexico, crosses the World Trade Bridge from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico into Laredo, Texas, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. For the first time under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Mexican tractor-trailer has crossed the border ...
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The US military isn't trained to catch illegal immigrants
Baltimore Sun (blog)
I don't think my visionary fellow letter writer who wants homecoming soldiers to police the US- Mexico border has thought things through very clearly ("Put Iraq veterans to work on the US-Mexico border," Oct. 26). Soldiers are trained to kill bad guys, ...
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Senate proposal would waive environmental laws at border
Examiner.com
For example, on mountaintops along the US-Mexico border, including Southern Arizona's Sky Island Archipelago, there exist a rich diversity of different animal species. Many of these, including the ocelot, jaguar, Mexican wolf and mountain lion are ...
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The power of the fronterizos: our interconnected border
Examiner.com
Over the past two decades, the US-Mexico border has experienced a confusing paradox. In 1994, the North American Free Trade Act went into effect, an agreement between the three countries of North America that would bring them closer together in many ...
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Statesman analysis shows that statistics don't back up claims of rising drug ...
Austin American-Statesman
Their report, which relied less on crime statistics than anecdotal evidence, concluded that the Texas side of the border had become a "war zone." But a closer look at crime numbers in border counties since 2006 — the year Mexican violence began to ...
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Austin American-Statesman
THE HOUSE: Trade minister reacts to US border jockeying
CBC.ca
After first re-introducing Buy America provisions in the American Jobs Act, the White House has now decided to revoke a border fee exemption Canada has enjoyed along with Mexico since 1997. As well, Canadians travelling to the US by air and sea will ...
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US Airways Flight Attendant Strangled in Mexico City
ABC News (blog)
More than anything else, THIS (not, “they're stealing our jobs”) is what drives my insistence that we seal our borders because this violence is now spilling over into US, border towns and drug lords have been menacing, threatening,and killing US law ...
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Tariff on US pork lifted by Mexico
Farm and Dairy
The two governments in July signed an agreement resolving the trucking issue, with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) crafting a cross-border trucking program and the Mexican government cutting the retaliatory tariffs by 50 percent. ...
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Alabama Immigration Battle Mirrors Civil Rights Era
Fox News
Sharing a border with Mexico and being flooded with boycotts does not make Arizona the poster state for the challenges of immigration laws in the United States. The four states that followed suit with their own immigration law enforcement aren't either ...
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Honduras becomes Western Hemisphere cocaine hub
Boston.com
Alvarez was accustomed to dropping bombshells, including the claim that fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had visited Honduras' border region next to Guatemala. In March, police under Alvarez's command raided a remote mountain lab in ...
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Immigration issue a minefield in Republican race
Lake Wylie Pilot
“The candidates have all gravitated to talking about securing the border, building that fence (along the US-Mexico border),” Woodard said. “But there hasn't been much talk on the tougher part on what to do with those already here. ...
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Anonymous Takes on Mexican Drug Cartel Los Zetas
TPM
A video address published online in Spanish and English by a self-described member of Anonymous Veracruz, Mexico, accuses Los Zetas, one of the most powerful drug cartels in the country, of kidnapping an unnamed male Anonymous member and holding him ...
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TPM
Every day is 'Day of the Dead' in Mexico drug war
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mexican federal authorities, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told The Associated Press that the Zeta and Sinaloa cartels are now the nation's two dominant drug traffickers. One or the other is present almost everywhere in Mexico, ...
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SINALOA CARTEL AND ZETAS NOW MEXICO'S BIGGEST DRUG GANGS
NewsWithViews.com
By Allan Wall Of the various drug cartels shooting up Mexico, two have come to dominate the scene. These two are the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas. The Sinaloa Cartel is headed up by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is actually on the Forbes magazine ...
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Honduras Becomes New Cocaine Hub
Fox News
Alvarez was accustomed to dropping bombshells, including the claim that fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had visited Honduras' border region next to Guatemala. In March, police under Alvarez's command raided a remote mountain lab in ...
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Mexico creates a police force to combat organized crime
The Costa Rica News
Nuevo León has witnessed an unprecedented wave of violence stemming from an ongoing dispute between drug cartels, which has led to a spike in crime. Monterrey, Mexico – Authorities in the Mexican state of Nuevo León intend to recruit 11000 officers in ...
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The Costa Rica News
For the record: Babeu Q & A on Fast and Furious
Arizona Daily Star (blog)
As an elected official, citizens are my bosses and I will continue to answer their demands for accountability and justice regarding this botched operation which has put dangerous weapons directly into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. ...
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