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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 10.4.2011

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Perry's Remarks on Mexico Are Praised, Dismissed
Texas Tribune
Perry has often cited what his administration calls a “porous” border as one of the biggest threats to US citizens, much to the dismay of elected and appointed officials on the Texas-Mexico border who say the region is as safe as ever. ...
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Patrol nabs 2 ½ tons of marijuana in South Texas
Austin American-Statesman
The largest seizure came on Friday when agents found more than 600 pounds of the drug on a ranch near Rio Grande City, located about 40 miles northwest of McAllen on the Texas-Mexico border. The marijuana was found in several underground containers on ...
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Jaime Garcia followed an unlikely path
ESPN
More importantly, he had the security to move his younger sister, Ahimee, out of Reynosa -- which like many Mexican border towns has seen a recent increase in violence and drugs -- and into a private school in Texas. Scott Rovak/US Presswire In his ...
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ESPN
Rick Perry, Racism and America's Soul
Huffington Post
Armed white vigilantes ride around in pick-ups hunting Mexicans near the US-Mexico border. Studies show that in 2010, 27.4 percent of blacks and 26.6 percent of Hispanics live in poverty. Almost 10 percent of young black males are imprisoned. ...
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House Republicans to Request Special Counsel to Probe Holder on 'Fast and Furious'
Fox News
"These updates mentioned, not only the name of the operation, but also specific details about guns being trafficked to Mexico," Smith wrote in the letter to Obama. "Allegations that senior Justice Department officials may have intentionally misled ...
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Fox News
Rick Perry As Pro-Immigrant? Not Quite, Students Say
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Maria Fernanda Cabello, a 20-year-old junior at Texas A&M University, moved to Texas from Mexico when she was 12 years old. She and her family came into the country on tourist visas that later expired, and she is now undocumented. ...
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3 siblings plead guilty in South Texas drug case
Houston Chronicle
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Two brothers and a sister who were part of a drug trafficking ring linked to Mexico's Gulf cartel and run by a retired Mexican state police commander have pleaded guilty to federal drug and money laundering charges in McAllen. ...
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United States 

Mexico Will Not Accept US Troops to Fight Drug Cartels
Fox News
NOGALES, AZ - JUNE 22: US Army National Guardsmen scan the US-Mexico border on June 22, 2011 in Nogales, Arizona. The Pentagon recently extended the deployment of some 1200 guardsmen who were deployed last year to assist with border security on the ...
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2 US citizens killed in Mexico
CNN
The attack happened Saturday in front of dozens of witnesses on a busy road in Ciudad Juarez, which is just across the US-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas. Investigators have not determined a motive for the shooting. Juarez is considered a flash point ...
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Locals weigh in on binational environmental plan for the border
Nogales International
The program aims to protect the environment and public health along the US -Mexico border while promoting sustainable development. "I want to make very clear that it's a draft," said Enrique Manzanilla, director of the communities and ecosystems ...
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Mexico uncovers tunnel beneath US border
Montreal Gazette
Mexican troops have discovered an unfinished 300-metre tunnel beneath the US border that would likely have been used to smuggle drugs and people, officials said Friday. Mexican Gen. Alfonso Duarte announced the find, saying the entrance to the tunnel ...
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Documentary Follows Steps of U.S.-Bound Undocumented Immigrants
Fox News
Miami – A documentary on the Discovery en Español channel shows the harsh reality of some of those who try to cross the southern US border from Mexico, telling the tale in particular of the deaths of a group of 72 migrants. "La ruta de la muerte" (The ...
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Judge Fears Cartels Will Use Waters Along Port Mansfield
KRGV
Mexican border violence is now making its presence known in Raymondville. One week ago, a man was shot. Police say a pair of outsiders wanted his SUV. Some think the duo is linked to crime in Mexico. "A crime of this magnitude, the kind of crime that ...
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Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program
Los Angeles Times
But they lost track of more than 2000 weapons, and the Mexican government says some of them have turned up at about 170 crime scenes there. Two were recovered at the scene of a US Border Patrol agent's slaying in Arizona in December. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Addressing Some Misperceptions About Mexican Immigration
New York Times (blog)
“It's that it would be 10, 20 years before they could come across the border, and that's not realistic in terms of their need to eat. The lack of visa availability, especially with visas for low-skilled workers in the US economy, ...
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Primary Status: Romney: US troops to Mexico a 'bad idea'
The Union Leader
Perry in Manchester on Saturday said that reducing the influx of illegal drugs into the US “may require our military in Mexico working in concert with (Mexican authorities) to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy ...
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Border Patrol arrests 7 with criminal pasts
TucsonSentinel.com
On Saturday, agents from the Nogales Station agents apprehended a 26-year-old Mexican man with a conviction for burglary in Washington State, for which he served 74 months in prison. The subject also had from warrant Washington for eluding law ...
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posted by Jeff - 10.4.2011

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