...oh wait, I must have been dreaming.
Now that I have your attention... do something about it! Read, talk about, discuss and work toward a solution to the Border issues we face today. I've posted current news stories below.
~Jeff/TOR~
Now that I have your attention... do something about it! Read, talk about, discuss and work toward a solution to the Border issues we face today. I've posted current news stories below.
~Jeff/TOR~
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Contact Congress and STOP THE INVASION!
Contact your State Reps NOW!
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Contact your State Reps NOW!
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| Mexican drug cartels accused of greater aggression against US AHN | All Headline News American law enforcement authorities say they are tracking what appears to be a more aggressive approach toward the United States by Mexican drug cartels. The latest revelations show the powerful Sinaloa cartel was considering a military assault ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico Says Drug Cartel Operator Arrested ABC News Mexican officials say they have arrested a drug dealer who controlled smuggling routes and ran a campaign of murder and intimidation for the Knights Templar drug cartel. The Defense Department says Juan Gabriel Orozco Favela was in charge of smuggling ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican journalists report on drug cartels despite the risks CNN International (CNN) -- Three years after the killing of Mexican journalist Armando Rodriguez, his colleagues said they are more determined than ever to write about the nation's drug cartels despite the risks. "Those who ordered the killing of Armando were wrong ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New Study on Mexico's Drug Cartels and the Global War on Drugs Cato @ Liberty A new policy is needed to stem the violence and consequences of the Mexican drug cartels pervasive power. In a new study released today, Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow, argues that the only lasting, effective strategy for dealing with Mexico's drug ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| United States and Mexico must join forces against drug cartels San Francisco Examiner America can't afford to let our leaders play politics when conditions in Mexico have become so serious. Transnational cartels are now so powerful and dangerous that they pose a real threat to national security on both sides of the border. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Ignore Mexico and We'll All Pay the Price City Watch ZOCALO PUBLIC SQUARE - Last Friday morning, the second most powerful man in Mexico's government, the cabinet member leading the war against the drug cartels, died in a helicopter crash. Mexicans were stunned: Francisco Blake Mora was President Felipe ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Feds say drug cartel leader to face NY charges Wall Street Journal AP GARDEN CITY, NY — A fugitive identified as one of the leaders of the world's most powerful drug cartel, who fled to Mexico after his 2003 arrest, has been returned to New York where he will face federal charges of importing tons of marijuana into ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Texas Law Enforcement Battle 15 Armed Mexicans Crossing Border At Least one ... Texas GOP Vote This is possible spillover Drug Cartel violence. My brother went to the scene to find a blocked off dirt road with dozens of law enforcement vehicles from several different agencies. I called the Starr County Sheriff Department but they could not ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Can Mexico win the war against drugs? Yes Americas Quarterly (blog) No one would argue that the Mexican government should turn its attention away from the drug cartels. However, since the inception of the current strategy, the government has never allowed citizens the legal tools to fight this battle. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Hacker Group 'Anonymous' Takes On Mexican Drug Cartel The Missourian Bloggers and tweeters claiming to belong to the hacker movement "Anonymous" say they plan to expose collaborators of Mexico's bloody Zetas drug cartel, even if some of them seem to have backed away from the plan out of fear. Their debate is playing out ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Texas AG wants President to take action against drug cartel violence in Texas Brownsville Herald Brownsville police linked the September 2010 homicides to the Mexican drug cartels and reported that one of the victims was the younger brother of a former Gulf Cartel member. Three suspects in the double homicide remain at large. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican Drug Lord Makes Forbes 'Most Powerful' List; Mexican President Doesn't Fox News The Sinaloa cartel leader has remained a shadowy figure, despite being ranked as the 937 th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2010. Since his 1993 escape from prison, Guzmán has eluded Mexican authorities by hiding deep in the mountains near ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug investigation leads to 12 arrests in Lubbock area LubbockOnline.com The suspects have connections to the Barrio Aztecas prison gang and Mexican drug cartels, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. By IRIE PRICE A yearlong investigation into heroin trafficking in the Lubbock area has led to 12 arrests in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico mayor slain campaigning for president's kin The Associated Press The Knights Templar gang is fighting the once-dominant La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug cartel that controlled methamphetamine smuggling. At least five mayors have been killed in Mexico this year while more than a dozen were slain in 2010. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Killings of US citizens in Mexico hits eight-year high msnbc.com BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: We have an NBC News exclusive tonight about a frightening trend in the drug war along the border between the US and Mexico . In the state of Texas , state officials are warning parents that Mexican drug cartels are now ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Fast and Furious' flap likely to linger CNN By Matt Smith, CNN Guns seized in Mexico are believed to be part of a botched gun probe that led to drug cartels' receiving weapons. (CNN) -- A botched gun probe that allowed hundreds of weapons to reach Mexico's drug cartels is likely to be a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Texas sheriff labels shootout 'spillover violence' Boston Herald By AP McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas border sheriff who long downplayed claims of Mexican drug violence spilling across the Rio Grande into the United States said Tuesday he always knew it could happen and that his department was prepared. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Think Texas The Cherokeean Herald Despite empty assurances from Washington, communities along the Texas/Mexico border continue to face violence from invading Mexican drug cartels. The report called, “Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment,” offers a powerful perspective ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Cartel chiefs seek haven Houston Chronicle By JASON BUCH, STAFF WRITER Two alleged Gulf Cartel leaders arrested last week in South Texas were most likely hiding out north of the border to avoid the extreme violence caused by warring cartels in Mexico, analysts said. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Feds Make Statistical Strides Curbing Illegal Immigration But States Pass ... SEOLawFirm.com Legal News Center There is a border fence along about 650 miles of the border, according to an Oct. 19 story in the New York Times. That leaves about 1400 unfenced miles to be guarded with agents and technology. [2] Security fencing along the Mexican border can cost as ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Border Battle: Drug cartel shipped millions through Denver 9NEWS.com The tractor goes back to El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. The people who lived here stored the cocaine in the barn until it came time to have someone take it east," Roach said. The drugs usually went east to cities such as New York, Chicago and St. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Justice Official Regrets Not Speaking Up About Federal Anti-Gunrunning Operation Fox News Under Wide Receiver, which ran from 2006 to the end of 2007, the ATF recruited a gun dealer to sell some 450 assault rifles to known straw buyers and then watched as many of those guns crossed the Mexican border. Under Fast and Furious, more than 2000 ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Massive Hit to Mexican Drug Cartel - 76 Arrested in Arizona Gather.com American law enforcement agencies have arrested 76 people in a roundup of a Mexican drug cartel accused of trafficking two million dollars' worth of marijuana across the Arizona desert. The announcement in Phoenix follows 17 months of investigation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican Drug Cartels Invading California Farming Industry (Video) City Watch Watch this video assessment by Mexican Mafia and Gang Specialist Sgt. Richard Valdemar, who retired after more than three decades with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. He describes how the Mexican Drug Cartels are controlling industrial farming of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug cartel shipped millions through Denver 9NEWS.com Agents had also identified a house in El Paso where money was stashed over night on its way to Mexico. They convinced a judge to let them secretly break into the home and install cameras in main areas. The cameras captured drug cartel members ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Longmont Police: Cartel cases in city are 'loose or roundabout' Longmont Daily Times-Call By Pierrette J. Shields Longmont Times-Call LONGMONT -- While Longmont is included in a 2010 federal report that lists more than 1200 cities nationwide with some level of confirmed Mexican drug cartel activity in 2009, Longmont police report that any ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The coming invasion of Mexico's drug wars Minnesota Public Radio Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes readers deep into the heart of the drug world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Complications between Cartels and Catholicism Honduras Weekly With the violence surrounding the drug cartels reaching explosive levels within the last several years in Mexico, the Mexican Catholic Church has been outspoken in its criticism of the violence and the drug trade, but the Catholic Church has found ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drug dealer said he sold to protect family Pueblo Chieftain DENVER — A Mexican national who admitted selling cocaine and marijuana on Pueblo streets claims he did it only because he was scared of a Mexican drug cartel that decapitated his half-brother as coercion. Miguel Salais-Dominguez said last week he ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Dark Side of Legalizing Medical Marijuana: Full Disclosure Network® Video ... MarketWatch (press release) 1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Mexican drug cartels are taking over marijuana farming operations throughout California according to an online video news report released this week by the Full Disclosure Network. The video features former Los Angeles ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Hacker Collective 'Anonymous' Goes After Mexican Drug Cartel TIME Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel. The Zetas are one of the biggest players in Mexico's drug war, which has resulted in about 40000 deaths since 2006. Earlier this month, a YouTube video showed a man in a ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Authorities: Mexican Drug Cartel Suffers "Death Blow;" Billion-Dollar ... Phoenix New Times (blog) Authorities announced this morning the results of "Operation Pipeline Express," a 17-month investigation into a drug trafficking ring that has ties to Mexico's Sinaloan cartel. The operation was a collaborative effort by US Immigration and Customs ... See all stories on this topic » |
| 70 tied to Mexico drug cartel busted in Arizona msnbc.com Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his military campaign against the cartels after he took office in late 2006. Tijuana, June 2009: Mexico's drug culture is defined by ... See all stories on this topic » |
| (In)security: China denies US satellite hacking; threats to UK; Anonymous ... Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog) Hacking group Anonymous appears to be targeting a Mexican drug cartel in a video posted on YouTube. According to the Associated Press, Anonymous has asked the Zetas to release a kidnapped member of the hacktivist group or risk the exposure of ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Drug bust tracks millions of dollars KTAR.com The gun-running operation allegedly lost track of many weapons which were put in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. "We do not talk about the trace results that come from those firearms," Allen said. "That will obviously be the focus of follow-up ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Families of Central American illegal immigrants search for lost relatives in ... AHN | All Headline News They entered Mexico from Guatemala Sunday on a route that will take them through dangerous territory where drug cartel violence is common. They are stopping at homeless shelters, jails and hospitals along the route to ask whether anyone has seen their ... See all stories on this topic » |
| 5 Gunmen die in shootouts with soldiers in western Mexico Fox News Morelia – At least five suspected members of Mexico's Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel died in shootouts over the weekend with soldiers in the western state of Michoacan, the army said. Four men who opened fire with assault rifles on an army ... See all stories on this topic » |
| A Brave Tijuana Woman Wins '2011 Courage in Journalism Award' Mexidata.info Ruthless drug cartels have murdered her editors and repeatedly threatened to kill Adela Navarro Bello, but she refuses to stop writing about Mexico's raging violence. Navarro - an IWMF 2011 Courage in Journalism Award winner - is facing daunting ... See all stories on this topic » |
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