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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 10.6.2011

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2 El Pasoans Killed In Gunfire Attack In Juarez
KFOX El Paso
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Mexican authorities are probing what led gunmen to attack an SUV in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, killing four people, including two US citizens. Those citizens are Pablo Noe Williams, 19, and his mother ...
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Fast and Furious: Texas Rep. Lamar wants answers about Holder's involvement
Alaska Dispatch
But instead the guns ended up in the hands of violent drug-runners, contributing to the deaths of as many as 200 Mexican nationals and, evidently, US border patrol agent Brian Terry, as well as adding to the bloodbath in Mexico's border regions. ...
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Staples stumps for more border security at Irving council meeting
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples spoke to the Irving City Council on Wednesday about the ongoing statewide drought and Texas-Mexico border security in what was billed as an update on state affairs. Staples, who is running for lieutenant ...
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Strawberry Fields a passionate red for your garden
Kansas City Star
Strawberry Fields is a different species, known botanically as Gomphrena haageana, and is native to Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. It comes from an area with sweltering heat and sparse rainfall and will be tough-as-nails in your garden too! ...
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Ag Commissioner Staples takes his border war roadshow to North Texas
The American Independent
By Patrick Michels | 10.06.11 | 12:06 pm Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples briefed the Irving City Council on his plan for securing America's southern border Wednesday night. Though the Dallas suburb is 400 miles from Mexico, and Staples' ...
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Reality vs. idealogy: Is Rick Perry confused on immigration or are we?
OregonLive.com
After a decade under this law, a whopping 1 percent of Texas college students in public institutions are illegal immigrants paying in-state tuition. And that's in a state that not only shares the longest border with Mexico, but where border patrols are ...
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OregonLive.com
Rick Perry walks tightrope on immigration issue
Las Vegas Sun
He's described building a fence along the nation's border with Mexico as preposterous and an idiocy. • He supported a guest worker program for immigrant labor. • He does not support an Arizona-style immigration law for Texas that would require police ...
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Las Vegas Sun
Janet Napolitano Takes on Critics of Immigration
New York Times (blog)
Rick Perry of Texas, who has been attacked by his rivals for being too liberal on some immigration issues, suggested last week that the United States might have to send troops to Mexico to stop violent drug traffickers from coming across the border. ...
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Republicans Say Holder Received at Least 5 Fast and Furious Memos
Fox News
Through Fast and Furious, hundreds of firearms were allowed to walk across the US-Mexico border, some later turning up at bloody crime scenes. The focus has turned lately to what Holder knew and when he knew it. He said under oath in May: "I'm not sure ...
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United States
2 migrants found dead on San Diego coast
Forbes
In June, 10 suspected illegal immigrants were detained in Malibu, roughly 150 miles north of the Mexican border. "It's a very dangerous method to come in," Jimenez said. Smugglers typically try to land boats in poorly lit areas with easy freeway access ...
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Trying to fix ties with Mexico after gun sting
Reuters
By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will have to work to restore frayed ties with Mexico after a bungled operation allowed guns to illegally cross the border to violent Mexican drug cartels, a top US official said on Wednesday. ...
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Border security — or land grab?
Summit County Citizens Voice
Extend the same environmental waiver authority found in the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 exercised by DHS Secretary Chertoff in 2008 to construct US-Mexico border fence. Through that authority, it prevents environmental ...
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All Quiet on the Southern Front
New York Times
He's even said he was open to sending American troops into Mexico to counter the violence. Those of us who actually live along the border know otherwise. El Paso, the largest city along the United States-Mexico border, is also one of the country's ...
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Mitt Romney on Mexico, China and defense
CNN (blog)
By James M. Lindsay, CFR.org Let's build a fence first, and let's have sufficient border patrol agents to protect it. And if the Mexican government wants us to help it with logistics, intelligence, satellite images, I'm sure we can provide the sort of ...
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US experts suggest Colombia help Mexico tackle cartel violence
Colombia Reports
Panellists from US departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security met to review whether current US involvement in Mexico is enough to protect the US-Mexico border, reported UPI.com. One proposal to improve the situation was to encourage the ...
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Obama backs US attorney general amid gun scandal
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama said Thursday he fully supported Attorney General Eric Holder, who has come under scrutiny after a botched operation to track guns smuggled to Mexican drug cartels. "I have complete confidence in Attorney General ...
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msnbc.com
Border vigilante Barnett's conviction upheld by Supreme Court
Examiner.com
This was something Barnett had done many times before, as he spent a great deal of time patrolling his stretch of the US-Mexico border and catching suspected border crossers. However, this particular group fought back. Represented by the Mexican ...
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Canadian Apparel
New York Post
Charney -- who has long pushed for the rights of Mexican workers in the US -- groused that the border between the US and Canada is likewise “an obstruction to justice and an obstruction to commerce.” “I'm an American citizen and a Canadian citizen, ...
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New York Post
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