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Monday, October 24, 2011

Texas - US and Mexico Border News - 10.24.2011

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1St Mexican truck enters US interior under pilot program
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
San Diego, Oct 22, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- A Mexican long-haul truck became the first to deliver a shipment to the US interior under a re-launched pilot program, crossing the border between the cities of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas. ...
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Texas Baptists push to eliminate violence along Mexico border
Dallas Baptist Standard
By John Hall, Texas Baptist Communications BROWNSVILLE—As violence rages along parts of the Texas-Mexico border, bands of Baptists are taking a stand. At a training event in Nuevo Laredo, residents along the Texas-Mexico border learn ways to implement ...
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5 Gunned down in Mexican border city
Fox News
Juarez, located just across the border from El Paso, Texas, is Mexico's murder capital, with more than 9000 reported homicides since the start of 2008. Most of the killings are attributed to a vicious territorial battle between the Juarez and Sinaloa ...
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Cross Border Resources Updates Operations; Virtual Investor Conference Scheduled
Sacramento Bee
... headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, focusing on non-operated opportunities with proven operators within the Permian Basin. Cross Border consists of over 800000 gross (approximately 300000 net) mineral and lease acres within the state of New Mexico ...
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BARONE: Congress rethinks high-skilled immigrant policy
North County Times
As for the Republican presidential candidates, most are calling for construction of an ever-higher border fence and opposing anything with a whiff of amnesty. They're attacking Gov. Rick Perry because he opposes the fence in Texas ---- it's hard to ...
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Judge dismisses Arizona lawsuit on immigration
Kansas.com
Jan Brewer's lawsuit that accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce immigration laws or maintain control of her state's border with Mexico. The dismissal by US District Judge Susan Bolton comes in a counter-lawsuit filed by Brewer as part ...
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Senate votes to end 'Fast and Furious' gun program
Houston Chronicle
Emails obtained by The Associated Press show how in a 2007 investigation in Phoenix, ATF agents — depending on Mexican authorities to follow up — let guns "walk" across the border in an effort to identify higher-ups in gun networks. ...
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NPR correspondent talks dangers with drug war
UTA The Shorthorn
Burnett's speech is one in the series “The War Next Door,” covering the narco-drug violence on the Texas, US-Mexico border. Burnett said he covered the Iraqi war and the aftermath of the conflict in Kosovo but never imagined he would cover a war only ...
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IowaPolitics.com: Texas DREAM Act under fire in caucus campaigns
IowaPolitics.com (press release)
Republicans also express universal support for pedestrian fencing along the border, but Perry, who governs 1200 miles of the Texas-Mexico border, has said that is unrealistic. Whenever Perry speaks about the DREAM Act, he follows his comments with a ...
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Northern border agents see southern entrants, too
Wall Street Journal
In a geographical twist, agents attached to the northern border and the 100-mile zone around it have in some instances become de facto southern border agents, frequently arresting people who have entered the country through Texas, New Mexico or Arizona ...
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Cuts Threaten to Close Center for Crop Safety in South Texas
New York Times
By DANNY GUERRA Within 80 miles of Weslaco, there are nine bridges linking the United States and Mexico. Tons of agricultural products move between the countries each day: vegetables from Mexico and cantaloupes from Central America arrive in Texas ...
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HEAT Sticker Aims To Prevent Stolen Vehicles Getting Into Mexico
KRGV
The publicly funded program is a part of the Texas Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority, a project that was formed in 1991 to prevent the transportation of stolen vehicles from Texas into Mexico. San Juan Police Corporal Jose Treviño says ...
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The American dream, in all its decaying beauty
Salon
The first trip I took after that, in 2000, was down to Texas — the US-Mexico border around Laredo. … Back then, I was very influenced by the Germans, making these minimalist photographs of boxes on the landscape. I was looking at trucks, trailers, ...
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Salon
Hamilton, Schwarz bond over bucks and bass
MLB.com
Schwarz and nine family members made the 500-mile trip up from McAllen, Texas, near the Mexico border, where they own hunting ranches and fishing lakes. Hamilton broke away from batting practice Saturday, pushed the foul screen aside and spent several ...
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Bill grants $15.4 million for southbound inspections
Monitor
While some Texas congressional members disagree with a recent report that characterized the Texas-Mexico border as a "war zone," they do agree more needs to be done with southbound inspections at the region's international bridges. ...
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Perry's Best Chance to Become Romney Alternative Rests With Iowa
San Francisco Chronicle
He called proposals for building a fence the entire length of the US-Mexico border "idiocy," and defended the measure he signed that allows Texas high school students lower, in-state tuition rates at state colleges regardless of residency status. ...
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Venable: Engineer or Not, TxDOT Needs a Leader
Texas Insider
As Secretary of State, Wilson was responsible for overseeing & certifying the state's elections, and acted as the governor's chief liaison on the Texas-Mexico border issues with the state's southern neighbor. He has also served as Chairman of the ...
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Texas Insider
'Kissing Bugs' Plague South Texas, Says UT's Bug Philosopher
Dallas Blog (blog)
by Tom McGregor University of Texas at Austin Professor Sahotra Sarkar, who teaches a course on bug philosophy, has issued a pandemic alert that so-called “kissing bugs” from Central and South America are swarming north of the Texas-Mexico border and ...
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United States
Construction Begins on Unmanned Checkpoint at Texas-Mexico Border
Fox News
Construction will begin Monday on an unmanned border checkpoint at Big Bend, a national park in a remote corner of southwest Texas, even as the federal government has been adding agents to patrol other parts of the US-Mexico boundary. ...
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U.S., Mexico to upgrade border quake system
eTaiwan News
APs The US and Mexico will expand an earthquake monitoring system south of the border in the wake of last year's deadly magnitude-7.2 temblor, officials from both countries announced Wednesday. US experts will provide sensors, a computer network and ...
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Mexican Trucks Finally Allowed to Enter US Under NAFTA
ClaimsJournal.com
A bipartisan congressional group — 13 Republicans and 31 Democrats — is working to keep Mexican trucks off US highways. They say Mexican trucks are unsafe, Mexican drivers are not trained to the same standards as US truckers, and opening the US ...
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Frozen U.S. Potato Exports to Mexico now Duty-Free
PotatoPro
The action comes in response to last week's approval of the first Mexico-based carrier by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to participate in the US-Mexico Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program. “We are pleased that US potato exports to Mexico ...
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Slaughter of Horses Goes On, Just Not in US
New York Times
There is a de facto ban on slaughtering horses in the United States for meat. Now they are carved into tartare de cheval or basashi sashimi in Mexico and Canada. That shift is one of the many unintended consequences of a de facto federal ban on horse ...
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New York Times
How to Build a Deadly Electric Border Fence
Mother Jones
Two Saturdays ago, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain floated an idea to dramatically curb illegal immigration: Build an electrified fence along the US-Mexican border that could kill people who try to cross it. The next day, he told NBC's ...
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Mother Jones
Mexican CDLs and Tractor Trailer Safety
InjuryBoard.com
But there's one situation where the US is turning to a foreign country to make sure truck drivers know what they're doing: the “US-Mexico Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program.” This program is a NAFTA initiative aimed at allowing Mexico-based motor ...
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IN DEPTH: Undocumented, uncovered
The Statesman
The biggest thing that makes him different from the majority of USU students is that he crossed over the border from Mexico illegally, with his family. According to a New York Times article, migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled with ...
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Under proposal from NM senators, Mexican nationals could enter deeper into state
The American Independent
By Nicolas Mendoza | 10.24.11 | 9:16 am | More from The New Mexico Independent New Mexico's two US senators want to expand the zone within New Mexico in which Mexican nationals who hold Border Crossing Cards, or “laser cards,” can travel inside. ...
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