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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.16.2011

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MexicoBlog Editorial: Debunking Drug War "Spillover"
NL-Aid
Whether it occurs in Texas, other border states or even further north, whether it involves Mexican cartels or US gangs, it is integrally related to the trans-border drug trade. This drug trade does not have access to civil means of conflict resolution ...
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CBP Officers at the Hidalgo International Bridge Arrest Foreigners Attempting ...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Hidalgo, Texas 'US Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Hidalgo/Reynosa International Bridge intercepted five Mexican nationals attempting to enter the US by allegedly utilizing counterfeit or altered documents or by posing as ...
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Tennessee Gas Pipeline Information
ABC6OnYourSide.com
The pipeline stretches from the Mexican border to Canada. Tapping supply regions in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Appalachia, and Canada, the Tennessee system serves markets across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions, including major metropolitan centers ...
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ABC6OnYourSide.com
Fitch Rates Brownsville, TX Series 2011A GO Rfdg Bonds 'AA-'; Outlook Stable
MarketWatch (press release)
The city's low cost of living has been a driver for economic growth, and a growing healthcare and education sector, including a branch of the University of Texas, contributes stability to the region. Typical for the border area, unemployment rates are ...
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Ceremony Held for First Phase of Interstate 69
Ashley COunty Ledger
... leaders on Wednesday in Drew County to break ground on the Arkansas portion of Interstate 69 – an interstate that will span over 2700 miles from the Canadian border in Michigan to the Mexican border in Texas running through southeastern Arkansas. ...
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Feds use more unmanned aircraft to secure Mexican border
TriValley Central
The Predators, which were being used in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were introduced on the border in 2005, the year before Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on his country's drug gangs and violence along the border exploded. ...
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Union: Show evidence against border agent
Washington Times
By Jerry Seper ** FILE ** A US Border Patrol vehicle sits along the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) The union that represents US Border Patrol agents is challenging an effort by Texas ...
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Washington Times
Border agencies balk on surplus military gear
Houston Chronicle
Michael McCaul, and Henry Cuellar pressed the Pentagon on Tuesday to turn over returning combat equipment from Iraq and Afghanistan to federal and state law enforcement agencies patrolling the US-Mexico border. But the Department of Homeland Security ...
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As America's economy sags, total migration from Mexico nears zero
Public Radio International PRI
A US Border Patrol Agent watches over the border along the beach near San Diego. The down economy and tighter enforcement have lowered net migration from Mexico to practically zero. (Photo by Flickr user Jamie Lantzy, cc-by-sa.) With jobs hard to find, ...
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BACKGROUND: Facts and figures on the Mexican drug war
Monsters and Critics.com
According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, as of 2010 more than 230000 Mexicans had left their homes to escape violence, about half crossing the border to the US. - The drug war is big business. Experts say Mexican drug cartels earn up to 25 billion ...
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US Opens Trusted Traveler Program to Mexicans
Fox News
Mexico City – The United States government announced Tuesday that it is opening to Mexican citizens the trusted traveler program known as Global Entry, which operates via automated kiosks at selected international airports. "Our Customs and Border ...
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A Crime Against Mexico
New York Times
By GERRY HADDEN Last week the Mexican government publicly apologized for not preventing the 2001 murders of three women in Ciudad Juárez, and for botching the subsequent investigations. Jaime Puebla/Associated Press Crosses mark the location where the ...
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Battle for the Border: A Look Inside a Federal Vault
KRGV
Champion is trying his best to stop guns from going south to stop guns sold in the us from being used by drug cartels. One man working to keep mexican criminals from getting the weapons used to kill in the battle for the border.
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Gun laws the real problem, not 'walk-to-Mexico' program
Edmonton Journal
These events did not get any coverage by the American media until two guns that were allowed to "walk," were fired at an American border patrol officer in Arizona and an ATF agent in Northern Mexico. Then everybody worried. According to US federal law ...
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Feds Bust Chicago Cell of Mexican Drug Cartel
NBC Chicago
By Michael Kaplan Federal agents on Tuesday arrested 13 men on federal narcotics charges, including five alleged members of a major Mexican drug cartel responsible for transporting millions of dollars and large quantities of cocaine between Chicago and ...
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Mack Introduces Counter-Insurgency Plan To Combat Mexican Drug Cartels
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Mack stated: "All Americans are threatened by drug trafficking and the violent Mexican drug cartels that operate in over a thousand cities in the United States. The State Department agrees that the activities taking place in Mexico are consistent with ...
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Mexican 'Drug Dealer' Held After 21 Killings
Sky News
A top figure in Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel who was responsible for 21 killings has been arrested by soldiers, officials have said. Juan Gabriel Orozco Favela was allegedly the head of operations for the outlawed group in Morelia, ...
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Sky News
Battle for the Border: Drug Cartels Operating out of Dallas
KRGV
"We've listened, through wire taps, and we know the organizations' commanding control cell are talking to commanding control cells in Mexico - directly to the trafficking cartel heads," says Drug Enforcement Agency Agent James Capra. ...
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Mexican democracy tested by drug lords in politics
The Salinas Californian
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Three major political parties are campaigning in the Mexican president's home state, but it's the groups that aren't on Sunday's ballot that have everyone worried: the drug cartels. In hilly, rural Michoacan, a state known for ...
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Mexican federal prosecutor murdered
Fox News
Mexico's independent National Human Rights Commission says 75 reporters have been killed in the country over the last 11 years. Most of the violence against journalists is thought to come from Mexico's powerful drug cartels and corrupt or abusive ...
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Iran criticizes Saudi UN resolution
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff Manssor Arbabsiar, pictured, has been accused of conspiring to hire hit men from a Mexican drug cartel to bomb a restaurant where the ambassador would have been. United Nations (CNN) -- Iran is sharply criticizing a draft UN ...
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Narcocorridos…the gangster rap of the drug cartels
Examiner.com
More than a dozen such musicians have been murdered in Mexico since 2006. So-called narcocorridos are considered a type of folk music in Mexico and extol the criminal activities of that country's drug cartels. The songs glorifying drug smuggling were ...
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Drug Cartel Case Moves Closer To January Trial
Memphis Daily News
Some, including Craig Petties, the leader of the multi-state drug organization with direct ties to the Sinaloa, Mexico, drug cartel, have already pleaded guilty. The drug organization, rooted in the Gangster Disciples street gang based in the ...
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Police find major drug tunnel under US-Mexico border
FOX43.com
Federal agencies, including the US Border Patrol, the US Drug Enforcement Administration and ICE are to provide further details at a news conference scheduled for 2 pm local time. Mexico is in the grip of brutal drug cartel violence that has claimed ...
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