Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 10.10.2011

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Texas

Libertarian leader says Texas Gov. Rick Perry backed a guest worker program PolitiFact As has presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who has publicly disagreed with Perry's position that building a fence along the entire US-Mexico border doesn't make sense. In response, Perry has cited Texas policies that he says show he is tough on ... See all stories on this topic »

Planning for change FOXSports.com Extending from Colorado along Texas' southwest border and into the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande has long held symbolic value for Americans. Just south of the river, the language becomes more romantic, the food gets spicier, and the temperature hotter ... See all stories on this topic » FOXSports.com

Texas Mexican Mafia Members Sentenced to Lengthy Federal Prison Terms Hispanically Speaking News This investigation, however, is the first to directly target the gang's machinery operating along the Texas-Mexico international border in the cities of Eagle Pass, Del Rio, Crystal City, Carrizo Springs, Uvalde, Sabinal, and Hondo. See all stories on this topic » Hispanically Speaking News

sheriffs unhappy with Perry position on border KTAR.com And the same can be said for Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry. The words of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu regarding Perry's announcement during a recent debate that a fence along the border with Mexico was not the ... See all stories on this topic »

El Pasoans Slain In Mexico Had Visited Prison There KFOX El Paso EL PASO, Texas -- Mexican authorities said two US citizens fatally shot in Ciudad Juarez last week had just picked up a released inmate at a prison when assailants opened fire on their SUV. The Chihuahua state attorney general's office said Friday that ... See all stories on this topic »

Volunteerism key to Hernandez San Angelo Standard Times As the manager of community affairs, Hernandez is the public face of AEP Texas in San Angelo — a service territory that includes 85000 utility customers and stretches all the way to Presidio along the Texas-Mexico border. Hernandez, 48, also holds the ... See all stories on this topic »

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United States

US food supply threatened: Foreign insects, diseases got into US post 9/11 msnbc.com understand the context and the problem we're dealing with. many mexico right now, we're dealing with terrorists. this is a very serious problem. to not build a border or a fence on every part of that border would be, in effect, to yield united states ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

Marines clash with gunmen in Mexican border town Middle East North Africa Financial Network Mexico City, Oct 9, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Marines engaged gunmen in a shootout in a border town in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, but casualty figures are not available, the Navy Secretariat told Efe. The shootout occurred Saturday in ... See all stories on this topic »

Tainted Mexican Papayas Prompt FDA Border Alert Treehugger Mexico currently supplies 65 percent of the papayas consumed in the US An FDA alert instructed border representatives to deny entry to shipments of papayas from Mexico unless importers provide proof of the shipment's safety by a validated laboratory. ... See all stories on this topic » Treehugger

Lack Of Inspectors At Border Crossings Costs Millions Fronteras: The Changing America Desk That's led to long wait times to get into the United States at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border from California to Texas. That translates into lost dollars, with one study putting the cost at millions of dollars per minute. For 18 hours a day, ... See all stories on this topic »

Spike in bullets smuggled across the border to Mexico KOLD-TV A new US Customs and Border Protection study reports over the past five years, seizures of ammunition at Arizona's six ports of entry along the Mexican border have risen dramatically from 760 rounds to more than 95000. That reflects both a stepped-up ... See all stories on this topic »

Subpoena Ashcroft and Gonzales For First Guns-To-Mexican-Cartels Fiasco If ... PR Newswire (press release) Mike McCaul (R-TX) will next week be holding a Homeland Security Operations Subcommittee hearing on the report and the Mexican crime coming to us over the border. And Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) will be conducting a Sen. Judiciary oversight hearing with ... See all stories on this topic »

Number of illegal immgrants caught at the border continues sharp decline KENS 5 TV “It's too much danger,” said Jesus Fuentes as he waited at a border crossing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, which borders the area near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Fuentes buys used cars in US and resells them in Mexico. He has documents to cross back and ... See all stories on this topic »

Group calls for double fence along Mexico News & Observer A new North Carolina-based group has begun an effort to persuade presidential and congressional candidates to sign a pledge to build a double-edged wall along the US-Mexican border by the end of 2013. This week, the group, called Americans for Securing ... See all stories on this topic »

The murder of New Mexico border rancher Larry Link remains unsolved Examiner.com A highlighted report, Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment,demonstrates that Mexican drug cartels are attempting to establish safe havens in the US as a launching point into the rest of the United States. ... See all stories on this topic »

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