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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.22.2011

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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US Indicts Mexican Gulf Cartel Head "Commandante 900" Caught Living in US
Latin American Herald Tribune
These weapons were allegedly used by members of the Gulf Cartel, at the direction of Cardenas Vela and other leaders, in their continuing struggle for control of the Mexican drug corridor with their rivals, Los Zetas. Body guards were routinely ...
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Latin American Herald Tribune
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Global Logistics Comment: Government Acquiescence and Inaction on Our Southern ...
Supply Chain Digest
Reciprocity really resulted in special treatment of both US and Mexican drayage carriers along the Texas-Mexico border. There are legal questions, however, about the legal standing of these agreements since first, the State, without the consent of ...
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Supply Chain Digest
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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GAO: Illegal immigrants caused nearly half of border fires
Washington Times
(Associated Press/Arizona Daily Star) Illegal immigrants started nearly 40 percent of human-ignited wildfires along the US-Mexico border between 2006 and 2010, according to a new government report that gives new credence to claims Arizona lawmakers ...
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Washington Times
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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Mexican drug war rages as US focuses on Afghanistan
Washington Examiner
Beheadings, mutilations and assassinations of senior Mexican officials have destabilized Mexico, according to US officials who work on the southern border. The drug routes created by the cartels -- tunnels, porous border terrain and waterway passages ...
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Washington Examiner
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. ...
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