Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.5.2011

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Tucson Sector arrests at border fall 40 percent last year Tucson Citizen Last year, the number of Border Patrol arrests in the Tucson Sector was more than double the number of arrests in the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector. The Rio Grande Valley Sector, which covers Texas's eastern border with Mexico, ... See all stories on this topic »

DREAM Act Remembered On Day Of The Dead Huffington Post Perez, a petite young woman brought to the US by her parents from Mexico, placed crosses at the altar with the names of young people who died trying to cross the border into the United States. She lit candles in honor of "Dreamers" caught up in ... See all stories on this topic »

Texas attorney general to Obama: Take action to secure U.S.-Mexico border Examiner.com The attorney general of Texas on Wednesday released a letter he sent to US President Barack Obama urging stronger federal action to secure the US-Mexico border following the spillover of Mexican drug gang violence into Texas. ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexican poet aims to take drug war protest to US AFP Sicilia said he wants to lead another caravan, this time from the Mexican border to Washington to demand an end to the drug war. Winner of the 2009 Aguascalientes poetry prize -- Mexico's most prestigious -- Sicilia wrote his last verse this year after ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

Border Battle: Mom of Colorado man killed in Mexico says US to blame 9NEWS.com His family in Aurora wonders if the US government put those weapons in the hands of the killers. Tania Nava, 21, remembers being woken up by the sound of gunmen breaking down the door to their home in the Mexican border city of Juarez. ... See all stories on this topic »

The fence that divides them Toronto Sun (THANE BURNETT/QMI Agency) Grandmother Betty Guckin - who lives east of El Paso and on the Mexican border - stands outside with his loaded gun. (THANE BURNETT/QMI Agency) A homeowner, who lives on an unfenced section of the border with Mexico, ... See all stories on this topic »

8 killed in shooting at Mexican volleyball game Sacramento Bee Officials have not said who was involved, but the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels have been battling since 2008 over control of the city across the border from El Paso, Texas. On Friday, Mexican federal police said they detained the second of three ... See all stories on this topic »

Costs not justified for border-security strategy, GAO says Arizona Daily Star Instead of the one-size-fits-all network of camera and radar towers used in the previous program, SBInet, the new strategy tailors unique plans for different stretches of the geographically diverse, 2000-mile US-Mexico border. ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico's drug problems also felt here in US Yuma Sun In February, US border inspectors increased their searches of vehicles as part of an effort to help the Mexican government fight drug crime in that country. The goal is to stop the flow of weapons and drug trafficking money to the cartels south of the ... See all stories on this topic »

2007 Justice memo mentioned gun-walking probe Atlanta Journal Constitution A briefing paper prepared for Mukasey during the Bush administration in 2007 outlined failed attempts by federal agents to track illicitly purchased guns across the border into Mexico and stressed the need for US and Mexican law enforcement officials ... See all stories on this topic » Atlanta Journal Constitution

Member of Anonymous released by violent Mexican drug cartel after viral video ... New York Daily News The hacktavist collective Anonymous has cancelled Operation Cartel after a member that was allegedly abducted by a Mexican drug cartel was released Thursday, the group's longtime public face announced in an online post. Barrett Brown claimed the ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Mexico arrests 'Barredora drug cartel leader' Aljazeera.com Mexican police have arrested the alleged leader of the La Barredora drug cartel, which is believed to be partly responsible for the recent upswing in abductions and murders in the resort city of Acapulco. Under heavy security, police showed Victor ... See all stories on this topic »

Guatemala's bloody battle with Mexican drug cartels The Independent How else do you react, when the sender (the "Z" who claims to be ranged "contra el mundo, or "against the world") is Los Zetas, a spectacularly brutal Mexican drug cartel currently expanding its operations south through Central America? ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexican mayor's killing sparks fears for elections Sacramento Bee Montejano said an autopsy revealed the mayor had been shot twice with a shotgun, not a preferred weapon of Mexican drug cartels. One of the candidates seeking added protection is running for one of the 113 mayorships up for grabs in the election, ... See all stories on this topic »

Another suspect arrested in Mexico casino massacre Middle East North Africa Financial Network Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 5, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Mexican authorities have arrested a suspected member of the Los Zetas drug cartel in connection with an Aug. 25 arson attack on a Monterrey casino that left 52 people dead. ... See all stories on this topic »

Tragedy thrusts young man into demanding new role Los Angeles Times A drug cartel attack in Mexico cost Adali Gutierrez, 20, of El Monte his parents and left him with a disfigured face and the responsibility of being patriarch to his four younger siblings. Tattoos on the chest of Adali Gutierrez memorialize his parents ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Mexican postman on his city's downward spiral Aljazeera.com Juan Ramon Montes shows us how drug cartels are destroying the city of Ciudad Juarez. Over the past five years, thousands of people in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez have been killed in violence linked to the country's devastating drug war. ... See all stories on this topic »