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Monday, October 03, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 10.3.2011

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Ideas for border abound in race for White House
Houston Chronicle
No. Criminals will innovate," said Claudia San Miguel, director of the criminal justice program at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. Crime statistics so far indicate that the extreme violence of Mexico's drug war has stayed in that country. ...
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Rick Perry Wants to Send the Military into Mexico to Fight Drugs
The Atlantic
"It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy their networks." For starters, it's worth describing in detail the Colombia policy that Perry regards as a ...
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The Atlantic
Army Rescues 11 Captives in Northern Mexico
Fox News
28 that several people were being held hostage in the Riveras del Rancho Grande section of Reynosa, located across the border from McAllen, Texas, the secretariat said. Four women and seven men "of different nationalities" were found at the house, ...
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Fox News
Come On in, the Water's Fine
Newsweek
Another reason Americans fear Mexico is the Mexi-terror peddled by politicians. In Texas, a group of Republicans have kicked off a new border war. “You know those police warning tapes?” Greg Abbott, Texas's attorney general, tells me this spring. ...
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Newsweek
Mexico cops find 7 bodies dumped in resort town of Zihuatanejo
msnbc.com
Tijuana, June 2009: Mexico's drug culture is defined by guns and money, to be sure, but it includes sex, movies, music and even a heavy dose of religion. It also extends across the border into the US Since 2008, photojournalist Shaul Schwarz has been ...
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Study to size up border wall
Monitor
... to discuss the research initiative that is set to involve academia from the University of Texas at Austin, UT-Pan American and Mexico's Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Lerma as well as different organizations focused on the border wall. ...
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Perry Open to Military Intervention in Mexico's Drug War
New York Times (blog)
Rick Perry of Texas said on Saturday that as president, he would consider sending American troops into Mexico to help defeat drug cartels and improve border security. He indicated that any such action would be done “in concert” with the Mexican ...
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New York Times (blog)
Perry: US troops could aid Mexico drugs fight
MWC News
More than 42000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug feuds since President Felipe Calderon took office in 2006. Perry has often called for more National Guard troops to protect the Mexican border and stem the flow of illegal immigration, ...
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Another Family Slain in Mexican Border City
Latin American Herald Tribune
The boy and his parents were riding in their pick-up truck when they were attacked Friday by several armed men in another vehicle on one of the main thoroughfares in Ciudad Juarez, located across the border from El Paso, Texas, a municipal police ...
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Perry and Mexico
Hawaii News Daily
“It may require our military in Mexico,” Perry said in answer to a question about the growing threat of drug violence along the southern border. Perry offered no details, and a spokesman, Robert Black, said afterward that sending troops to Mexico would ...
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Why is Alberta willing to sell its oil for refining?
Troy Media Corporation
CALGARY, AB, Oct. 2, 2011/Troy Media/ – The massed protests against the proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas have the right idea, but the wrong focus, at least on the Canadian side of the border. TransCanada wants the Keystone XL pipeline, ...
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Troy Media Corporation
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011: The Real History Behind Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara
Bleacher Report
In 2000, a rookie from El Paso, Texas started wrestling regularly on the Lucha Libre circuit across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Juarez was a great city for wrestling in the past, both as bloodiest town in the Funk family's West Texas territory ...
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In NH, Perry takes on immigration policy criticism
The Associated Press
He said he vetoed a Texas bill that would have given illegal immigrants driver's licenses, helped pass a bill requiring voter identification at the polls, spent $400 million on security measures to help secure the state's border with Mexico, ...
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The Associated Press
'Border Wars' Examines Drug Violence In El Paso, Juarez
KVIA El Paso
Stein said "Border Wars" wanted to shadow Kocherga and Perez on the job to give viewers a window on escalating drug violence in the Mexican border city. “Juarez is not well understood. How did it get to be this unstable?” Stein said. ...
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Google Map Error Places Parts Of El Paso In Mexico
KVIA El Paso
EL PASO, Texas -- Drivers on the border highways may have crossed the border into Mexico without even knowing it, at least according to Google Maps. ABC-7 received an email from a viewer asking if the popular map site had made a mistake, or if parts of ...
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Memorial held in Loveland for jet skier killed on Falcon Lake
9NEWS.com
LOVELAND - A memorial was held on Friday night a year after a woman lost her husband in an attack on the Texas border with Mexico. Tiffany Hartley, who now lives in La Salle, is still looking for answers after her husband, David, was killed by apparent ...
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New top federal prosecutor for Texas southern district sworn in
Houston Chronicle
By Dane Schiller Houston's Kenneth Magidson was sworn in Friday as the new top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Texas, which reaches from here to the Mexican border. US Attorney Magidson brings 30 years of federal law-enforcement ...
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Mexico Murders Prompt Asylum Pleas
Daily Beast
Still, he said, “I won't shut up,” and vowed to continue his activism on this side of the border by lobbying for a thorough investigation of his relatives' killings. Seeking justice for the murder of relatives in Mexico is a common goal for many of ...
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Daily Beast
Congressmen holding drug cartel hearing
Brenham Banner Press
“Narco-terrorists are operating within miles of the United States-Mexico border, and they are infiltrating US cities.,” said McCaul. “The Congress must be updated and continually evaluate efforts to determine if we are effective in countering this ...
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Operation Fast and Furious Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Reason Online
Guns from Operation Fast and Furious have been recovered not just across northern Mexico, but also in Texas. Those same guns were used to kill not just a US Border Patrol agent, but also the brother of Chihuaha State Prosecutor Patricia Gonzalez and ...
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United States

Guatemalans live in fear again as drug gangs move in
Reuters
Government officials say the families, from Nueva Esperanza less than a mile away from the Mexican border, are on drug gang payrolls and have been chased out of the national park by authorities a total of four times since 2007. ...
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Crossing Over, and Over
New York Times
Mexico's border cities offer a portrait of what that could mean. Nearly 950000 Mexican immigrants have been deported since the start of fiscal 2008. And in Tijuana — a former hub for migrants heading north, which now receives more deportees than ...
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The Drug War in Mexico is a North American Problem
Mexidata.info
According to the US State Department, a stunning 90 percent of cocaine enters the US through the Mexican border. Even more, these cartels also manufacture 80 percent of the crystal meth sold in America, 14 percent of the heroin and a majority of the ...
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The Real US Map, a Country of Regions (Part 3): Colin Woodard
BusinessWeek
Today, this rapidly growing nation spreads from the US- Mexico border for a hundred miles or more in both directions, encompassing south and west Texas, southern California and the Imperial Valley, southern Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of ...
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Rick Perry: Send U.S. troops to Mexico
GlobalPost (blog)
The US of course has spent billions on the drug war, and much of that money has gone to support Mexican security forces and to share intelligence. It has also deployed drones to survey the border. But none of that comes close to what Perry appears to ...
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GlobalPost (blog)
Across borders that divide us
National Catholic Reporter
I went to Mexico to understand the complex forces driving migration and to find out whether the one baptism and Communion shared by Christians everywhere are stronger than the many borders that divide us. I went in search of the face of Jesus, ...
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National Catholic Reporter
Border's daily grind
San Antonio Express
By Lynn Brezosky and Jason Buch US Border Patrol agents Dan Milian, left, and Joel Sievert look for tracks as they patrol the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. US Border Patrol agents Dan Milian, left, and Joel Sievert patrol the ...
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El Paso Featured In 'Border Wars' Episode
KVIA El Paso
Stein said "Border Wars" wanted to shadow Kocherga and Perez on the job to give viewers a window on escalating drug violence in the Mexican border city. “Juarez is not well understood. How did it get to be this unstable?” Stein said. ...
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Cartels in Mexico Hit New Victims: Web-Based Critics
Wall Street Journal
By LAURENCE ILIFF And DAVID LUHNOW MEXICO CITY—Mexican drug cartels have already bullied newspapers and television stations into gagging their coverage of the bloody battle between drug gangs in parts of the country. Now they appear to be taking aim ...
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US makes deported immigrants take the long way home
Stars and Stripes
By Richard Marosi Mexican citizens, who were arrested in Texas by US immigration authorities, rest on a balcony in the Hotel Centenario in downtown Mexicali, Mexico, after being deported across the nearby border with California, on September 20, 2011. ...
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Stars and Stripes
Borderline cruelty: US Border Patrol must end human rights abuses
Press & Sun-Bulletin
A US border patrol vehicle rides along the fence at the US-Mexican border near Naco, Mexico. / ASSOCIATED PRESS I met Manuela at humanitarian group No More Deaths' aid station for deportees in Nogales, Sonora, México. The Border Patrol had picked her ...
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Obama's EPA adds costs for cross-border trucking
Examiner.com
This new approach that the federal government recommends for the trucking industry comes at a crucial time for truckers that cross the US-Mexico border near San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, and Calexico, often spending 15 minutes to hours idling at the border, ...
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Perry: Send US troops to Mexico
BBC News
The US has also deployed National Guard troops to boost border security, and uses pilotless drone aircraft to gather intelligence inside Mexico. Any deployment of US military forces on Mexican territory would almost certainly be unacceptable to the ...
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BBC News
Still anxiousat the border
Toronto Star
US officials are proposing to erect fences along the 49th parallel like this one at the US/Mexico border. (Sept. 7, 2011) The folks at Homeland Security are still anxious, after all these years. When they look north to the border they see a Great White ...
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MEXICO: Written In Blood
Strategy Page
October 1, 2011: The governor of Texas, while campaigning for president, said that in cooperation with the Mexican government, he would consider using US military forces to beef-up border security and fight drug cartels. September 30, 2011: Mexican ...
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2 powerful cartels dominate in Mexico drug war
CBS News
Both the "mega" cartels want to control seaports for shipping drugs from South and Central America, and border towns, for getting the drugs into the United States. Sinaloa has long been based on the country's northwest Pacific coast, with occasional ...
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US relied on CSI for successful humanitarian operation
CharterX
The program has been credited for saving lives as well as reducing organized crime and drug trafficking along the Arizona-Mexico border. “The US government relies on private-sector companies to manage effective flight operations, and that's where we ...
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Nevada's turn; spotlight turns here this month
Forbes
Perry's doesn't support building a fence along the US-Mexico border and he signed a law allowing illegal immigrants to get in-state college tuition rates. This approach on immigration could endear him to the Nevada's largest Hispanic population. ...
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Bisbee woman harasses CBP Agents and gets slapped by YouTube.
Tucson Citizen
By censoring this type of protected speech, YouTube officials not only violated their own guidelines, but they've managed to silence debate around US immigration practices along the US-Mexico border.” According to YouTube, three complaints about the ...
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14 tons of marijuana seized by US Border Patrol
Los Angeles Times
The 35-year-old driver was arrested. The seizure is the latest in a series of enormous marijuana busts along the California-Mexico border. In November, US authorities in San Diego seized 25 tons of marijuana, and two weeks later an additional 20 tons. ...
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Border Patrol tells family of slain teen to remove memorial
Arizona Daily Star
A memorial for Carlos Lamadrid stands long the US-Mexico border fence in Douglas. Lamadrid was shot and killed at the site in March; the Border Patrol says the memorial must be moved so a new fence can go up. The family of a young man shot in the back ...
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Mexican repatriation flight program falls to lowest level ever
KTAR.com
The point of flying those people to Mexico City is to discourage them from trying to turn around and cross the border illegally again. Once they land, they are greeted by Mexican officials and given bus tickets to their hometowns nearby, Picard said. ...
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North American Development Bank Maintains "Aaa" Rating from Moody's
MarketWatch (press release)
NADB is an international financial institution capitalized and governed equally by the United States and Mexico for the purpose of financing infrastructure projects that improve environmental quality in the US-Mexico border region. ...
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Border Binational Health Week kicks off Monday
Yuma Sun
All events held as part of the 11th annual Border Binational Health Week are free and open to the public. Communities all along border are taking part in the annual observance started by the US Mexico Border Commission. In the Yuma area, ...
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Valley Man Says Violence Now on Both Sides of Border
KRGV
He calls both the United States and Mexico home, and he says the violence is now on both sides of the border. CHANNEL 5 NEWS told you about a report two retired generals presented to Texas lawmakers earlier this week. That report says the cartels are ...
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California desert drug bust nets $22.6 million in marijuana
msnbc.com
LOS ANGELES — A record 14 tons of marijuana, valued at over $22.6 million, was seized in the California desert at a checkpoint roughly 60 miles north of the US-Mexico border, federal officials said on Friday. Agents found the marijuana in 1100 bundles ...
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Hollyworld: Mexico's silver-screen drug war
GlobalPost
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — When Tijuana residents saw ski-masked policemen battling Kalashnikov-wielding thugs near the US border, some feared they were caught in another drug shootout and ran for their lives. But after a second glance, residents could see ...
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