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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.12.2011

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Changes in missions strategy required, border pastor insists
Dallas Baptist Standard
By Ken Camp, Managing Editor DEL RIO—Rapidly changing conditions along the Texas/ Mexico border demand changes in the way churches from the United States engage in missions in northern Mexico, an Acuña minister insisted. Increased violence along the ...
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Texas Attorney's Needed to Join Department of State's "Hague Convention ...
PR Web (press release)
... of Chasing The Cylcone, and, co-author of 'The World Turned Upside Down' commented, "The State of Texas is a hotbed of international parental child abduction for both reported and unreported cases due to sharing our nation's border with Mexico. ...
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PR Web (press release)
Tonight's debate is Perry's chance to recover … or not
San Antonio Express
But he has stood out from the GOP pack by supporting US military action inside Mexico under certain circumstances, and he has been harshly critical of the efforts of Obama and former President George W. Bush to secure the US-Mexico border. ...
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CBP Officers at Laredo Port of Entry Arrest Man Wanted for Capital Murder
Laredo Sun
US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge apprehended a man wanted on capital murder charges. LAREDO, TEXAS — US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge apprehended a man ...
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FOREIGN POLICY DOSSIER: Rick Perry
National Journal
"It is not safe on that border.” NO OPTIONS OFF THE TABLE WITH MEXICO. Perry said he was open to sending US troops to Mexico to help them battle drug cartels. At a house party in Manchester, NH, Perry likened the situation there to Colombia and said ...
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Review: The Territory, by Tricia Fields
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Tricia Fields makes a strong debut with The Territory, set in a West Texas border town threatened with spillover from Mexico's drug cartel wars. Artemis police chief Josie Gray, a tall, muscled, whippet-thin woman, is fighting not only drug traffic ...
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North American leaders' meeting cancelled after Mexican minister perishes in ...
Vancouver Sun
The Obama administration's decision on Thursday to delay a final ruling on the Keystone XL oilsands pipeline until after the November 2012 presidential election is just the latest in a series of cross-border irritants in the threadbare Canada-US ...
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Border agent's parents lash out against Eric Holder
USA Today
In separate interviews with Fox News, Josephine and Kent Terry blamed Holder and his top aides for their son's death near the US-Mexico border nearly a year ago. Terry was killed by a weapon that was allowed to cross into Mexico as part of the ATF-run ...
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Mexican interior minister killed in helicopter crash
Reuters
Born in Tijuana on Mexico's border with the United States, Blake trained as a lawyer and served as a deputy for his home state of Baja California. He became interior minister in 2010. "There is great sadness, firstly for the loss of a great friend, ...
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Reuters
Motel 6 opens new franchise near US-Mexico border
Bizjournals.com
Del Rio is located southwest of San Antonio near the US-Mexico border. There are 1100 Motel 6 locations in the United States and Canada. The brand is owned by Accor North America in Carrollton, Texas. Receive free daily breaking business news direct to ...
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Mexican, US Students Work on Border Challenges
KUT News
US & Mexican college students are banding together to find answers to border issues. Photo by KUT News By Lucia Duncan, KUT News A two-day workshop this weekend at the University of Texas at Austin is teaming US and Mexican college students together to ...
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Music That Redefines "Mexican-American"
Huffington Post
While music styles from the US and Mexico have flirted, rubbed up and exchanged some, uh, seminal elements across their shared border, few artists have the unique perspective of Lila Downs, who was raised amid the heartlands of both countries. ...
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Torture/Murder a Federal Employee, Receive Verbal Warning
Free Keene
I was arrested at the US/Mexico border in Nogales, AZ by United States Customs and Border Protection for exercising the 5th Amendment. Well, I finally got my “arrest report” from the feds (after 4-5 months of notarizing forms, mailing things back and ...
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Free Keene
Feds: Mexican Cartel Plotted Attack Against US
ABC News
Vicente Zambada's lawyers claim he and other cartel leaders were granted immunity by US agents — and carte blanche to smuggle cocaine over the border — in exchange for intelligence about rival cartels engaged in bloody turf wars in Mexico. ...
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'Furious' excuse-making
New York Post
F&F, of course, was a crackpot scheme hatched by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive by which thousands of firearms were allowed to “walk” across the US-Mexican border and into the hands of the deadly Mexican drug cartels, ...
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Battle for the Border: Cartel Safe Zones
KRGV
RIO GRANDE VALLEY - Two retired generals say the cartels are building safe zones along the Texas Mexico border. They're going to operate on which ever side offers the best security. The more the Mexican government cracks down, the more they'll need to ...
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Parent of slain Border Agent Terry says Eric Holder is 'inhumane'
Examiner.com
2010, her son was killed north of the Arizona-Mexico border while on duty with fellow agents who were going after robbers who target illegal aliens. Agent Terry was killed by weapons by an Obama Administration Fast and Furious program that helped ...
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Missionary killed in Texas had Minidoka County ties
The Voice of Mini Cassia (blog)
The driver of the car fled the scene and later turned himself in to authorities at the Mexico-Texas border. He was identified as Jose Luis Garza Flores, 32, a resident of Mexico. A third companion, Zachary Todd Harris, 19, Huntsville, Alabama, ...
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Mexican Drug Cartel Tries To Silence Internet
NPR
Now, the target is an online chat room, Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, that allows users to comment on the activities of the Zetas and others in the city on the border with Texas. Already, three apparent site users have been slain, and a fourth victim may have ...
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AG on the Firing Line for Gunrunning
American Free Press
On C-Span 2, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, in March 2009, announced that the BATFE was directed to carry out “Project Gunrunner” [what became known as Fast and Furious] on the Mexican border. Also, Holder, in April 2009, mentioned the project in ...
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American Free Press
Feds unveil system for speedier border crossings
Newsday
Click here Feds unveil system for speedier border crossings Published: November 11, 2011 9:54 AM By The Associated Press JUAN CARLOS LLORCA (Associated Press) (AP) -- Federal officials in West Texas demonstrated a pilot program Thursday that aims to ...
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Mission mayor slams feds for refusing money
Brownsville Herald
Hinojosa said the Rio Grande Valley's economic fortunes are closely tied to Mexico and hoped the money would smooth commerce along the border. “We have $7 million from the state, we should be working in building (these) lanes that we need so bad,” ...
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Twitter users want justice after fourth social media murder in Nuevo Laredo
YouTube
Twitter users on both sides of the US/Mexico border are speaking out and asking for protection following the fourth social media murder in Nuevo Laredo.
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Feds unveil system for speedier border crossings
Boston.com
By Juan Carlos Llorca AP / November 11, 2011 EL PASO, Texas—Federal officials in West Texas demonstrated a pilot program Thursday that aims to shorten the time it takes to cross into the US from Mexico. Under the program, which could be expanded ...
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Read of the Week: SBInet and Failed Border Technologies
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
by Shannon K. O'Neil US Border Patrol agent Celso Ramos (R) looks at surveillance camera video from cameras looking at the US - Mexico border May 2, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Courtesy Reuters) The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a detailed ...
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Baker Border Fence Project Awarded National Project Achievement Award from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Baker received the award for Program and Construction Management services on over 500 miles of the United States/Mexico Border Fence. The project involved the vehicle and pedestrian fence along the southwest borders of Texas, New Mexico, ...
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Battle for the Border: Cartel Insider Speaks
KRGV
Daily it was 200-300 kilos." He says the drug lords own the pilots of the Mexican Military choppers too. He says the incursions we've seen into the US Aren't innocent mistakes. "They're coming to drop off merchandise," he says. ...
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128 Pounds of Marijuana Found on Boat Being Towed Near US-Mexico Border
Hispanically Speaking News
US Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry Sunday stopped a man and a woman towing a boat with about 128 pounds of marijuana hidden inside. At about 10:15 pm on Nov. 6, a man and woman arrived at the San Ysidro border ...
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Hispanically Speaking News
Conference to address border issues
UT The Daily Texan
Marco Munoz, IC2 Institute assistant director, said the institute organized the conference in an attempt to solve issues facing people from the USMexico border. “University students from both the US and Mexico are an incredible resource for coming up ...
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UT The Daily Texan


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