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Monday, November 21, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.21.2011

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Mexico fights invasion of wild boars from Texas
GlobalPost (blog)
They are ferocious, destroy crops and attack humans, newspapers in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua warn. Mexico's environment department has issued a death sentence on thousands of wild boars that have crossed the border from Texas in recent years ...
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'Messenger angels' spread a message of peace in Mexico
CNN
The young evangelical Christians take a message of peace to intersections and public places in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city across the border from El Paso, Texas. The city with a population of 1.3 million in the state of Chihuahua has had ...
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Depleted Texas Lakes Expose Ghost Towns
Fox News
A century-old church has emerged at Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border on the Rio Grande. Steven Standke and his wife, Carol, drove to the old Bluffton site on a sandy rutted path that GPS devices designate not as a road but the ...
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Fox News
Border War Rumors
truthout
Rick Perry, the Texas gubernatorial goober, is even trying to make it a presidential campaign issue. "It is not safe on that border," he recently wailed to New Hampshire Republicans, suggesting that he might send US troops into Mexico "to kill these ...
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The Brief: Top Texas News for Nov. 21, 2011
Texas Tribune
As Bill Allaway of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association says of Perry, "He makes a decision and he will back it until he can't any longer." The mayors of two major Texas cities along the Mexican border, Laredo and El Paso, have split on a ...
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Desalination a key part of Texas' water future
San Antonio Express
And the Gulf of Mexico offers a virtually unlimited supply. For centuries, Texans had cheaper ways to quench their thirst. But population growth — up 20 percent over the past decade, to 25 million people, and predicted to almost double by 2060 — is ...
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Man Rescued from Storm Drain
NBC San Diego
By R. Stickney A man was discovered trapped in a swollen storm drain left open to help limit flooding near the US-Mexico Border. The 23-year-old Mexican national was pulled from the drain at Dairy Mart Road and Monument Road around 11:30 pm Sunday. ...
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Traffickers, migrants use cell phones along US-Mexico border
Fox News
Authorities arrested eight people making up a family organization involved in the trafficking that had its roots in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. The traffickers alerted immigrants whom they were guiding over little-traveled routes to the ...
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Analysis: Mexico sees life beyond US export market
Reuters
By Dave Graham and Michael O'Boyle MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - For years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, the main road to riches for many Mexican entrepreneurs was across the border. Now they are increasingly likely to cross ...
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Reuters
Let Border Patrol work on fed land
San Antonio Express
The Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies must operate within parameters established by US laws, including those created to protect the environment. By definition, criminals who smuggle drugs or people across the US-Mexico border do not. ...
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Mexico to cull 50000 wild boars from US invasion
AFP
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials have unveiled plans to slaughter some 50000 wild boars that have crossed the border from the United States and now threaten agriculture in Mexico. The Ministry of Environment in Chihauha state said some 1500 hectares ...
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AFP
Why Latin America matters for US national security
CNN International
Herman Cain, who had been surging in polls but is starting to slip, said that he supported a fence along the Mexican border. "When I'm in charge of the fence, we going to have a fence. It's going to be 20 feet high. It's going to have barbed wire on ...
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Mexico Attorney General Wants US Gun Walkers Extradited
American Thinker (blog)
By most accounts Mexican officials were kept in the dark while more and more guns were showing up at crime scenes south of the border. In September, 2011 Attorney General Morales told the Los Angeles Times she heard about the deadly operation through ...
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CBP works to keep traffic moving during upcoming holiday travel season; offers ...
Laredo Sun
CBP's Office of Field Operations and US Border Patrol are offering a number of tips to travelers to expedite the border crossing experience and travel beyond the border zone. CBP will place as many officers as possible in areas where they will be able ...
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Some Mexican drug cartels call NM home
KASA
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Mexican drug cartels are becoming a growing presence in parts of northern New Mexico. In the region, two narcotics task force director recently told Bloomfield city councilors that members of cartels live in the area and recruit ...
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KASA
Mexico's war with itself
Los Angeles Times
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, seen here in Mexico City last month, has employed the military in a war against drug cartels. Complaints of human rights abuses by the military have mounted, and the Supreme Court ruled that cases of alleged abuse by ...
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Los Angeles Times
Mexico's New Interior Minister Will Continue Fight Against Drugs
NTDTV
In his first news conference as Mexico's new interior minister, Alejandro Poire spoke in support of President Felipe Calderon's hard-line stance against drug cartels. Calderon appointed Poire as the country's new interior minister on Thursday, ...
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Former Border Patrol agent speaks of dangers along boundary
Sierra Vista Herald
America's relationship with Mexico is at a point where traffic coming out of the neighbor to the south will create more harm than good unless the federal government stops ignoring the real issue, which is that Mexican drug cartels and gangs do not care ...
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Mountain Town Roundup
Summit Daily News
DENVER — Wayne Alan Reid, the suspected ringleader of a cocaine trafficking ring claimed by federal agents to have ties to Mexican drug cartels, has tentatively settled his case. On Friday, Reid's attorneys filed a notice of disposition in the US ...
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Mexico nun is crusader for rights amid drug violence
Bellingham Herald
... hub and Mexico's wealthiest city that until recent years had escaped the worst of the drug war. But by 2009, the notorious Zetas gang had moved in and was fighting for territory. Gun battles in broad daylight, roadblocks manned by cartel gunmen, ...
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Human Remains Found in Northern Mexico Pit
Fox News
... the city of Durango. They gave no other details. More than 400 bodies have been found in a series of clandestine graves in Tamaulipas and Durango states since April. They are believed to be a result of turf battles between drug cartels.
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California DOJ to gut drug, gang & organized crime task forces
Examiner.com
However, law enforcement officers contend that the proposed cuts from the DOJ task forces would dramatically reduce the multi-agency efforts required to target the transnational gangs that fuel Mexico's war on drugs. Officials conclude by saying, ...
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