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| Mexico Drug Violence Touches Both Sides Of The Border Huffington Post President Felipe Calderon launched an assault on the drug cartels when he took office, utilizing security forces and the Mexican military. The ensuing "Drug War" has led to violent deaths for nearly 50000 people in the past five years, including police ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ATF "Gunwalking" scandal timeline CBS News 2009: In an effort to stem the rising tide of violence caused by Mexican drug cartels, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Phoenix office begins its controversial Operation "Fast and Furious." The idea is to encourage gun ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican Soldiers Find $15M Linked to Sinaloa Cartel Fox News | AP MEXICO CITY – The Mexican army has seized $15.3 million in cash believed to belong to members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Army spokesman Gen. Ricardo Trevilla says soldiers found the money inside a car in a downtown neighborhood of the border city ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| State lawmakers, police look for ties between cartels, local youth KVUE by SHELTON GREEN / KVUE News AUSTIN -- Intelligence released by the Texas Department of Public Safety this summer regarding Mexican drug cartels and their growing impact on local gang members was the impetus behind a community meeting on gangs Monday ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Battle for the Border: Federal Spillover Definition KRGV Cartel-related gang activity is recorded federally, but the government says it doesn't prove Mexico's drug war is here. This is how the DEA defines spillover, "Spillover violence entails deliberate, planned attacks by the cartels on US assets, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| 3 Cops Kidnapped and Killed in Mexico Border Town Fox News The officer's bodies were found an hour later in a residential area of Acuña, which is across the border from Del Rio, Texas. They had been shot and their hands were handcuffed, the police department said. Authorities say the Zetas and the Sinaloa drug ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| South Texas a 'war zone' is a complete misrepresentation of the border KGBT-TV “We might not see it as frequently or as powerful as they do in Mexico but we've seen it in this area.” Those who carry out these violent acts are the same ones, Gonzalez said, who wreak havoc across the border: associates and members of the powerful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Texas couple jailed in New Mexico for allegedly trying to bribe Border Patrol ... The Republic AP LAS CRUCES, NM — A Texas couple has been jailed on charges they tried to bribe a Border Patrol agent into letting them smuggle a family member and cocaine into the country. The US Attorney's Office says FBI agents arrested 25-year-old Debbie Ayala ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Texas Congressman proposes sending Iraq equip to states for border security WOAI HOUSTON, Texas -- The war on drugs has a Texas congressman hoping the Secretary of Defense will use military force along the Texas-Mexico border. Representative Ted Poe of Houston has introduced the "Send Equipment for National Defense Act" to Congress ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Mexican Drug Cartels Are a Growing Force in New Mexico Fox News Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said that Mexico's drug gang violence has become a crime issue in the Lone Star state, and he has sent a request to President Obama to bolster security along the US-Mexican border that runs along ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Connecting US suppliers with Mexican manufacturing Nogales International At least one was making his first-ever trip to Mexico. Taking advantage of the bus's pa system, Austin offered up a primer on the local border economy. Mexican shoppers, armed with visas issued by the US consulate, spend $11 million a day in Arizona, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ex-drug cartel member says Mexico gangs laugh at U.S. border politics Examiner.com For instance, avocados and lime costs imported into the US from Mexico are subject to a drug cartel tax, or “la cota,“ said a former cartel member, who talked with the Examiner, provided we did not reveal his real name. Carlos is a 28-year-old Mexican ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Arizona hunter spots rare US-Mexico borderlands jaguar Reuters In recent years, concern over the well-being of the US jaguar population has intensified as a program to build some 700 miles of security fence along the nearly 2000-mile border with Mexico has gathered pace. Some conservationists feared that the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Border Patrol Agents Present 30 Sex Offenders for Prosecution in FY 2011 Imperial Valley News El Centro, California - In fiscal year 2011, Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Sector arrested and charged over 30 illegal alien sex offenders after they attempted to cross the US-Mexico border illegally. All apprehensions took place at, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Battle for the Border: State Definition of Spillover Violence KRGV "We're gonna have a shameful incident on this US border with Mexico in the coming years if we don't amp up this security on the frontier. It's coming," he says. "I'm concerned about extortion, kidnapping. What they do best in Mexico is starting to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Officials: What's real at the border El Paso Inc. WASHINGTON - The contributions of the US-Mexico border region tend to be overshadowed by the notion of overflowing violence and crime, when in fact cities along the border are among safest in the country. That was the message delivered in the nation's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Guatemalan Police Arrest 2 Suspected Zetas Cartel Members Latin American Herald Tribune GUATEMALA CITY – Two Guatemalans suspected of belonging to Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel were arrested by the National Civilian Police, or PNC, in a city in northeastern Guatemala, Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz said Monday. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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