Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.4.2011

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Bill Would Give Border Patrol More Access to Parks Texas Tribune “For years, the federal government has used environmental regulations to block access for our Border Patrol agents to the over 20 million acres of federal land along the US-Mexican Border," the NBPC said in a statement. ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas Attorney General Says Mexico Drug Violence Spilling Over Fox News Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says 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 the state. ... See all stories on this topic »

Kidnapped Man Rescued From Trunk Of Car At Texas Border Crossing KWTX HIDALGO (November 3, 2011)--Police at a South Texas border crossing rescued a bound and gagged man from the trunk of a car headed for Mexico. The incident happened early Tuesday at the Hidalgo border crossing, seven miles south of McAllen. Police Capt. ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexican soldiers rescue 15 Honduran migrants being held for ransom in northern ... Washington Post A statement Wednesday gives no other details of the rescue in Nuevo Laredo, which is across the border from Laredo, Texas. Soldiers and federal police have been increasingly rescuing migrants kidnapped by drug cartels. Authorities say migrants are ... See all stories on this topic »

U.S. Border Patrol obtains second Predator drone Examiner.com The UAS, or drone, will provide critical aerial surveillance for US Border Patrol agents stationed along the Texas-Mexico border. The CBP UAS Program operates Predator-Bs from operation centers in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and Corpus Christi, Texas. ... See all stories on this topic »

Border Battle: Billions spent on security, but drugs, people keep coming 9NEWS.com PROGRESO, Texas - There is no typical day for US Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley. Supervisory Agent Daniel Milian knows a quiet period can quickly become chaotic. "You just don't know what you're going to come across. ... See all stories on this topic »

John Cornyn says probe into Texas-style Fast and Furious heating up Houston Chronicle (blog) Two of the 1400 guns agents lost track of later turned up at the scene of the December 2010 murder of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Cornyn has accused Holder of ignoring his inquiries about whether ATF agents in Texas conducted investigations ... See all stories on this topic »

5 rescued from U.S.-Mexico border pipe UPI.com Border Patrol agents spotted the group entering an abandoned gas line about 11:15 pm near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in Mexico, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The agents found the pipe's United States exit in San Diego using a dog, ... See all stories on this topic »

Fire 1 Mile South Of US Border; Smoke, Ash Reported In Parts Of South Bay KGTV San Diego SAN DIEGO -- Cal Fire officials are continuing to monitor a brush fire that blackened hundreds of acres just south of the US-Mexico border on Wednesday, sending smoke and ash into parts of San Diego County. The fire broke out shortly after 11 am in an ... See all stories on this topic »

Rick Perry Recycles Obama Line On Alligators In A Moat On US-Mexico Border Huffington Post In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Perry defended his view that there should not be a fence across the entire US-Mexico border. "I think the idea of saying, 'Listen, I'm gonna build a double fence, we're going to put alligators ... See all stories on this topic »

Texan warns Obama: Mexican cartels 'spilling over' border Los Angeles Times Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday warning that Mexican cartel violence is increasingly "spilling over" the border and calling for more security. Abbott cited a "deadly shootout" involving "cartel operatives" last weekend in the ... See all stories on this topic »

Amid record deportations from the US, Mexico urges migrants to head home Christian Science Monitor But despite record deportations, many migrants at a shelter in Nogales, Mexico, now consider the US to be home. By Lourdes Medrano, Correspondent / November 3, 2011 Day and night, hundreds of Mexican migrants stream into this border city after being ... See all stories on this topic »

Imagining Pakistan policy on the US-Mexico border Hurriyet Daily News Then consider for a moment the slightly longer frontier between the United States and Mexico established 45 years earlier in 1848. This second border is similar to the first in the cultural commonality on either side. In Texas, California and Arizona, ... See all stories on this topic » Hurriyet Daily News

Mexico cartels extend US reach GlobalPost “The Mexican-based organizations' pre-eminence derives from a competitive advantage based on several factors, including access to and control of smuggling routes across the US Southwest Border and the capacity to produce (or obtain), transport, ... See all stories on this topic »

For local police, border-crossing fugitives become a personal issue Across the ... Chicago Tribune In case after case, a murder suspect had slipped across the US border into Mexico, never to face trial. "We're the ones that get the calls from victims' families," Hayes said. "They look at me with pleading eyes, as someone they trust, ... See all stories on this topic » Chicago Tribune

Billion Dollar Drug Ring Busted on Mexico-Arizona Border International Business Times "Today we have dealt a significant blow to a Mexican criminal enterprise that has been responsible for poisoning our communities," Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said on Monday. Sinaloa, which controls 80 miles of the US-Mexico border, ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

CBP officers arrest woman crawling into U.S. Alpine Avalanche The apprehension was made around 6:20 am Friday after a sharp-eyed border crosser told CBP officers that a woman was crawling northbound on the bridge sidewalk. CBP officers, who stopped the woman as she tried to flee to Mexico, identified her as ... See all stories on this topic »