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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.20.2011

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Did agents in Texas let guns 'walk' into Mexico?
Houston Chronicle
17, 2011, the day the agency's National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., completed traces on a load of 23 guns seized in a traffic stop in La Pryor, Texas, 46 miles from the US-Mexico border. One of the guns came back to Morrison and two to ...
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Perry asks Republican donors not to write off his candidacy
Houston Chronicle (blog)
The Texas governor made one public appearance to accept an award from the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, where he spoke of the need to secure the US-Mexico border, ripped the Obama administration and Attorney General Eric Holder for an ...
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Documenting the border fence between Mexico and the US
msnbc.com (blog)
Photographer Eric T. White answers questions about the project: Q: How did you decide on the topic of the border fence? A: My family lived in New Mexico when I was very young. I remember going to El Paso, Texas, and crossing the border into Juarez. ...
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"Mala Fama" and Heroism in Juárez
Huffington Post (blog)
Dominic Bracco is a photographer who grew up on the border in Texas and now photographs youth in Juárez, Mexico. He focuses on kids whose lives are constantly in danger -- sadly, the majority of people killed in Juárez are under 30. ...
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A&M sociologist sees shift in immigration trends
Houston Chronicle
Poston says his work, coupled with research from Princeton University's Mexican Migration Project showing a dramatic drop in illegal immigration from Mexico, suggests Chinese immigrants may replace those from south of the border as the go-to workers ...
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Mexican cartel 'boss' faces US charges
Gulf Times
A “plaza boss” for Mexico's deadly Gulf cartel was indicted on drug trafficking charges Friday, nearly a month after his arrest in a Texas border town. Rafael Cardenas Vela, 38, was accused of running the cartel's operations in Mexico's Rio Bravo and ...
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Border security? It's in lack of jobs
Pioneer Press
By Ken Ellingwood MEXICO CITY - North of the US-Mexico border, Republican presidential candidates are talking tough on illegal immigration, with one proposing - perhaps in jest - an electrified fence to deter migrants. But data from both sides of the ...
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Border-Town Factories Give Manufacturers An Edge
NPR
Many are relocating just south of the border to Mexico, prompting business leaders to argue that the US-Mexico border region may be the key to rejuvenating manufacturing in North America. At a factory in an industrial park in Reynosa, Mexico, ...
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Deluge of Safety Deficiencies Plague Trucks Entering U.S. From Mexico
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Learn about the threat posed by Mexican trucks that are not up to code. November 20, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Texas has long served as the gateway of choice into the United States from Mexico. Two thirds of the US-Mexico border is comprised of Texas ...
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2 Mayors, 2 Views on Using War-Zone Equipment Along Border
New York Times
Mr. Salinas has also had to fend off accusations that his city is as violent as its Mexican counterpart, Nuevo Laredo. In fact, data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that El Paso and Laredo are among the safest cities of their respective ...
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Effects of Mexican drug war lasting, far-reaching
Austin American-Statesman
(an) analysis of Mexican government data, the number of Mexicans annually leaving Mexico for the US declined from more than 1 million in 2006 to 404000 in 2010. ... On the US side, declining job opportunities and increased border enforcement may have ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Mexican village serves as purgatory for the deported
OCRegister
The Mexican government offers to recoup up to $380 of the costs associated with deportation, including transportation, lodging and meals as the deportees travel from the border entries where immigration officials drop them off to their hometowns. ...
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Border issues stall art show in Tularosa
Alamogordo Daily News
By Bev Eckman-Onyskow, For the Daily News Robin Lee Makowski, gallery director of Studio 54@70 in Tularosa, was left glum after Mata Ortiz master potter Jerardo Tena was stopped at the US-Mexico border with his pots. TULAROSA -- What happens when a ...
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Baja California economy recovering
Imperial Valley Press
BY ALEJANDRO DAVILA Staff Writer In the third quarter of 2011, Baja California recorded a 5.58 percent unemployment rate, the lowest along the US-Mexico border. And yet there is an issue with unemployment, said Enrique Rovirosa, former president of the ...
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Mexican modernists focus of new SDMA exhibit
SignOnSanDiego.com
... this overlooked genre is relevant to art history and San Diego's border-community identity. Many of the painters in the show were also muralists. To help viewers grasp the energy and sense of community that the Mexican Modernists were working in, ...
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Cartel actiivty likely to rise in New Mexico
Farmington Daily Times
By Leigh Irvin lirvin@daily-times.com BLOOMFIELD — Mexican drug cartels are operating at increased levels within San Juan County, and they steadily are becoming more violent, according to Region II Narcotics Task Force Director Neil Haws. ...
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Cartels blurring the line between violence, politics
Statesman Journal
25, members of the Zetas drug cartel gang attacked a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, and murdered 52 people. It was a particularly gruesome act of mass slaughter, even for a nation that has seen 40000 people killed since the Cartel War began in late ...
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'Border Wars' to shed light on cartels Mexican ties to Brownsville
Houston Chronicle
The TV series documents the duties of authorities in a borderland facing the fallout of cartel drug violence in Mexico. Facing the "Border Wars" camera, CBP spokesman Eddie Perez described his job, calling a relationship with media important because it ...
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Western leaders must back Colombia's courageous stand on drugs
The Guardian
This means politicians such as Obama are either beholden to the prison-industrial complex or on the payroll of cartels. Mexican drug cartels are no doubt thrilled with the clampdown on medical cannabis. If the US government destroys the domestic ...
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$1.85 Million Worth of Cocaine Seized from Men Tied to Mexican Cartel
KTLA
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY (KTLA) -- Two men have been arrested after an undercover narcotics sting revealed they had ties to a Mexican drug cartel operation. State Department of Justice narcotics officers investigating a drug cartel based in Baja ...
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Toys deliver joy to orphans
Alamogordo Daily News
By Elva K. Osterreich, Associate News Editor Two boys at Casa de Libertad orphanage in Juarez, Mexico, are delighted as they spot familiar faces from Fountaingate Children's Home. In Juarez, Mexico, the drug cartel violence has mellowed and life is a ...
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