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| Peddlers join Mexico's vast number of the missing Houston Chronicle SAN SIMON YEHUALTEPEC, Mexico — The earth seems to have swallowed a traveling band of trinket peddlers - six teenage boys and eight men - who vanished from one of Mexico's bloodiest corners, hard on the South Texas border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico ends tariffs as cross-border trucking resumes Houston Chronicle ... and Mexico signed an agreement on the second cross-border trucking program, allowing carriers from both countries to make deliveries in each other's country beyond the border zone. According to a study issued in March by Texas A&M University, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Former Drug Czar Makes Controversial Statements About Border Security KVIA El Paso The topic was the threat of drug cartel-connected criminals operating in Texas. "People from both sides of the border said they feel intimidated and a senior police official in the city of El Paso, in response to a question from a Mexican national, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Perry links Iran and border security CNN (blog) (CNN) - Rick Perry used his experience as the governor of a border state to try to bolster his foreign policy standing Thursday, saying he had tried for years as governor of Texas to increase security on the US-Mexico border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Lower Medicaid Dispensing Fees May Pressure Pharmacies New York Times On some days, most of his clients can be found waiting on the Medicaid line, a testament to the importance of that federal-state health insurance program in this poor city along the Texas-Mexico border — and to Mr. Martinez's bottom line. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'South Park' Immigration Episode: Butters Inspires Mexicans To Go Back To ... Huffington Post (satire) This week's episode of "South Park" took the boys far away from Colorado, way down to a standoff between Mexican immigrants and border patrol in Texas. How'd they get there? Like usual, it all started with a silly game. This isn't the first time Trey ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The GOP's Immigration Fixation Wall Street Journal Known locally as Little Mexico, the neighborhood, which centers on the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Middlefield Road, looks and feels so pervasively south-of-the-border that if you were led there blindfolded you would think you were in Tijuana or ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cuidad Juarez, Mexico's violent border city, puts on a show to try to sell its ... Washington Post In a recent press conference, officials announced that none of the big-name guests would have to stay in Juarez after dark; they can drive back across the border and sleep in El Paso, Texas, one of the safest cities in the US Even the guest list of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Al Roker talks about his new behind-the-camera adventure KARE The series gives insight into the warfare going on daily along the US border. Laredo, Texas is a small city on the US-Mexico border that is overrun by the sophisticated and large-scale trafficking operations of Mexican drug cartels. ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Mexico To Lift Tariffs On US Goods As Border Opens To Trucks Wall Street Journal The ministry said the move comes in response to the first safety certification of a Mexican trucking company by US authorities under the cross-border program, which was agreed to in July. The certified trucking firm is Transportes Olympic, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican drug cartels recruiting teens, Texas officials say CNN By Nick Valencia, CNN (CNN) -- Mexican cartels are recruiting Texas high school students to "support their drug, human, currency and weapon smuggling operations on both sides of the Texas/Mexico border," the Texas Department of Public Safety said ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico's newest export to US may be water The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mexico ships televisions, cars, sugar and medical equipment to the United States. Soon, it may be sending water north. Western states are looking south of the border for water to fill drinking glasses, flush toilets and sprinkle lawns ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Border Agents Seize Weapons, Ammo at Arizona Border Fox News A Mexican man has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle three assault rifles, two handguns and more than a 1000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico through southern Arizona. Authorities say the 24-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday at the port ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican smugglers tunnel beneath Arizona parking lots Catholic Online Mexican cartels have traditionally used planes, boats and human backpackers to ship narcotics to the US market. Crackdowns in Mexico have fueled a violent, four-year drug war there. A longer border fence and more robust US border patrols, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Officials debate threat of cartels along Texas border Brownsville Herald At least two US congressmen from Texas on Friday disputed a recent report penned by two retired US Army officers that states the area along the Texas-Mexico border has become a war zone because of the ongoing drug cartel violence. US Rep. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Documents Highlight Bush-Era Incident Pre-Dating 'Fast and Furious' ABC News (blog) Newly surfaced emails reveal problems going back to 2007 with the ATF office in Phoenix and guns ”walking” across the US-Mexico border. The emails about the Bush-era problems were given to Congress by the Justice Department as part of the congressional ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Suspect Charged in Killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Extradited from Mexico NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release) Rodríguez-Perez was arrested by Mexican authorities on April 11, 2011, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and was extradited from Mexico on October 13, 2011, escorted by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Steven Seagal hired to control US-Mexico border CNN (blog) The 59-year-old, who's no stranger to law enforcement and is also trained in Aikido, will help control the US-Mexico border, according to the San Antonio Express. The paper reports that Seagal reached out to the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office himself ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mexican Carrier Gets Authority in Cross-Border Pilot Truckinginfo More > The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has more work to do before it can start the pilot program for long-distance trucking across the Mexican border. The Inspector General of the Department of Transportation says the agency has met ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Blood on the Mexican border squeezed by opportunistic GOP Crikey (blog) Even without being misconstrued as an endorsement of unilateral intervention, as they were rather too often misconstrued, Perry's comments touched upon on a raw nerve that is still well exposed south of the border. Since the American-Mexican War, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Violent Juarez Spends Funds On An Image Makeover Fronteras: The Changing America Desk By Mónica Ortiz Uribe CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Business leaders in Ciudad Juarez are fighting to restore the city's tattered image. Nearly four years of drug violence has disrupted daily life in this city along the US-Mexico border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Foreign Policy: Nixing The Iran-Mexico Nexus NPR took it a step further: "It is a real concern when you're talking about 1200 miles of border between the United States and Mexico, that someone would have a plan to invade our country and take control of those border counties," Carter said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Romanticizing the Border Patrol: Why big media flops The NarcoSphere By Brenda Norrell The big media CNN, New York Times and the others, fail at covering the US/Mexico border because they have no reporters who live here, and have lived here year after year. The reporters fly in for a few days, let everyone know what an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| SOUTH PARK 15.09 'The Last Of The Meheecans' Crave Online In Kyle's backyard, a standoff exists between "Mexican immigrants" - aka half the boys playing - and "Texas Border Patrol". Naturally, the Texans' goal - spearheaded by an overzealous Eric Cartman, of course - is to maintain their border while the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Grenade Walking: Catch the Fever Human Events So, as ATF agents looked on, Kingery and the grenade parts crossed the border -- and simply disappeared. Six months later, Kingery allegedly got caught leaving the US for Mexico with 114 disassembled grenades in a tire. One ATF agent told investigators ... See all stories on this topic » |
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