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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Texas - Mexico Border News - 11.8.2011

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John Cornyn set to grill Holder on Capitol Hill over alleged Texas-based gun ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa — to start a formal investigation of whether ATF ever conducted Texas-based investigations that also involved observing illicit sales of guns that eventually were taken over the border into Mexico. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Mexican Trucks Stay Home After 17-Year Push to Open US Border
BusinessWeek
The company would invest more if the border were opened permanently, he said. “A lot of new prospects have been calling us,” he said. The company plans to ship to Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, ...
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Man wanted for Colorado killing arrested in Texas
Austin American-Statesman
The Las Cruces Sun-News reports 21-year-old Roy Pena of Denver entered the US from Mexico Saturday as a pedestrian. However, Border Patrol officers conducting the inspection found a warrant charging Pena with homicide had been issued Friday in Adams ...
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Battle for the Border: Americans Who Commute to Reynosa Describe Dangers of City
KRGV
REYNOSA, Mexico - It was once a place we all enjoyed and a part of Valley culture, but now the streets of Reynosa are full of crime and fear. There are still Americans who have to travel there for their livelihoods though. "It's best when the sun goes ...
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Texas march says 'Stop executions'
Workers World
Several families traveled from the Rio Grande Valley on the US/Mexico border to support their relatives now on death row under the Texas “Law of Parties.” “My son, Robert Garza, never murdered anyone, yet he and five others were convicted in a capital ...
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Workers World
Member of Barrio Azteca Gang Pleads Guilty in El Paso, Texas, to Racketeering ...
Media Newswire (press release)
The BA is primarily based in West Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and throughout state and federal prisons in the United States and Mexico. The gang has a militaristic command structure and includes captains, lieutenants, sergeants and soldiers – all with the ...
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Cross-Border Trucking Gets Few Takers After U.S., Mexico End 17-Year Spat
Bloomberg
Border delays are down to a few hours from multiple days in years past. US companies including Swift, Con-way Inc. (CNW) and Werner Enterprises Inc. (WERN) deliver to Mexico using Mexican drivers, while many Mexican companies use US partners. ...
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Bloomberg
Mexican organizers say immigration problems don't stop at the border
vtdigger.org
by Greg Guma | November 7, 2011 The US/Mexican border between Sand Diego and Tijuana at Border Field State Park. Photo by April Arreola. “The border is moving,” warned Macrina Cárdenas de Alarcón, a Tijuana-based community activist and educator who ...
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vtdigger.org
Attorney general to face Senate over gun sting
Reuters
He said "Fast and Furious" highlighted that "we are losing the battle to stop the flow of illegal guns to Mexico." The debacle came to light after a US Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed in a shootout with illegal immigrants on the border. ...
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Reuters
Mexican TCO Members Quietly Living Among Us - For Now
HSToday
And that is it is located a few hundred yards from the US-Mexico border and one of the most violent areas in Mexico. As a result, many members of Mexico's transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) spend a considerable amount of time in south Texas. ...
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A border, no fence, in their backyard
The Barrie Examiner
Bette's Texas home -- which the 76-year-old shares with her son, Jay -- backs onto a dusty and hot slice of Mexican border that's along a 20-kilometre gap in the high fence that separates much of this area's US- Mexico border. ...
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The US Canada Mexico Trilateral Summit: North American Integration and the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
This includes negotiations between the US and Canada on a North American Security perimeter deal designed to accelerate the flow of people and goods across the border. In an article from several months back, Robert Pastor, who has been a leading ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
Mexico apologizes for failing to protect women slain in Ciudad Juarez
Washington Post
The Mexican government recognizes “the inconsistencies, errors and negligent acts of public officials in charge of the probes,” he added. Relatives of slain women nearby shouted demands for justice. “We don't want mausoleums, we want investigations ...
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Most waste that enters US is bound for recycling
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Nov 08, 2011 (El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Most hazardous pollutants that cross the United States, Mexican and Canadian borders each year are produced by 24 industry sectors and destined for recycling, ...
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Man wanted for homicide arrested at border crossing
Las Cruces Sun-News
Roy Pena, 21, of Denver entered the US from Mexico just before 6 pm Saturday as a pedestrian. However, CBP officers conducting the inspection found a warrant charging Pena with homicide had been issued Friday in Adams County, Colo. ...
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Battle For The Border: Armored Cars
KRGV
Mexican businessmen have increased Kimball's business by 100% in the last few years. They're armoring their vehicles because they're high on the cartel's target list. They make up 30 percent of the company's clients. The cartels also want vehicles like ...
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Anonymous considers identifying drug cartel supporters despite death threats
AHN | All Headline News
Some members of the computer hacker group Anonymous are saying they plan to publish the names of Mexican drug cartel affiliates despite death threats. Others announced this week they are backing out of the plan, saying the risk of a deadly gangland ...
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Mexican drug gang figure captured
Chicago Sun-Times
BY AP November 7, 2011 10:34PM MEXICO CITY — One of the main operators in a drug cartel war that devastated the border city of Tijuana was captured by federal troops after he opened fire on a car carrying two rivals over the weekend, officials said ...
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Mexican drug cartel coverage life-threatening, campus speaker says
Oklahoma Daily
The conference, “The Price of Silence: The Drug War and Journalism in Mexico,” outlined the troubles Mexican journalists face trying to cover issues involving the drug cartels. Matalon specifically spoke about the self-censoring that is being done by ...
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Oklahoma Daily
US 'losing battle' to stem flow of illegal guns into Mexico – attorney general
The Guardian
Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Obama administration has warned that the US is "losing the battle" to stem the flow of weapons from American guns shops to Mexican drug cartels responsible for tens of thousands of killings. ...
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The Guardian
America's self-defeating 'war on drugs'
The Guardian (blog)
A Mexican drug cartel allegedly kidnapped an Anonymous member, and then, after the loosely organised hackers said they would reveal names of cartel personnel, released him with threats to kill the hacker's family if the names were revealed. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Sex Workers, Plasma TVs, Drugs Found In Mexico Prison
RTT News
It has been alleged in the past that the prison authorities in Mexico have little or no control over the inmates, who are mostly members of drug cartels. Fights between rival cartel members have also broken out in several Mexican prions in recent years ...
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D.E.A. "Commando" Squads Meld Drug War with War on Terror
Reason Online (blog)
The DEA squads' expansion to the Western Hemisphere is the latest evidence of the war on terror seeping into the drug war. Mike Riggs recently reported on some House Republicans' wishes to designate Mexican drug cartels as “Foreign Terrorist ...
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OpCartel Focuses on North Carolina District Attorney
Forbes
In a post here on Saturday, I reported that Barrett Brown, who has been leading what has been called OpCartel, has named Ashville, North Carolina District Attorney Ron Moore as possibly having connections to Mexican drug cartels. ...
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Drug Cartel Suspected in Million Dollar Marijuana Farm in Leon County *Exclusive*
KBTX
While luck seemed to have run dry over the weekend, investigators believe those involved could be affiliated with the Mexican drug cartel. “We're just thankful that the ranch-hand wasn't injured or shot or killed. This is a very rural, secluded area ...
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