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U.S. releases video in Border Patrol strangling case
Government officials released footage used in the case against a U.S. Border Patrol agent acquitted of charges of excessive force against an undocumented immigrant. Fronteras Desk reported on Friday that the video, released on Thursday following a request by several media outlets, showed the July 2011 encounter between Agent Luis…
Cornyn: Immigrants ‘wearing some form of turban’ crossing Southern border
Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Thursday warned his colleagues in the Senate that people who were “wearing some form of turban” were illegally immigrating into the United States by crossing the Southern border. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider amendments to the bipartisan immigration reform bill, Cornyn…
Border patrol moves focus to Texas to combat Mexican drug cartels
Success in tightening border in Arizona means people- and drug-smuggling gangs increasingly look to remote Texas for route into US US border protection officials are preparing to shift their attentions from Arizona to Texas in a bid to combat the evolving efforts of Mexican gangs to smuggle people and drugs…
Mexican government outraged over Border Patrol shooting of teenager
The Mexican Foreign Ministry condemned the U.S. Border Patrol Thursday over the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy from across the border. “The disproportionate use of lethal force by immigration officials is unacceptable under any circumstances,” the ministry said in a statement. “Cases of this type have provoked the displeasure…
Witnesses contradict Border Patrol’s account of fatal shooting
The U.S. Border Patrol’s account of a fatal shooting in south San Diego, California, has been called into question by witnesses. Authorities said a plainclothes agent shot 32-year-old Valeria Alvarado after she rammed him with her car Friday while he was serving a warrant. “The suspect was armed with a…
U.S. and Mexican relations strain over death involving border patrol
The Mexican government and the FBI are at odds over who was responsible for a death that followed a pair of shootings involving US border patrol agents. Mexican authorities have claimed the death was caused by the border patrol, which it accused of using an unnecessary level of force in…
Border Patrol responds to immigrant abuse claims
WASHINGTON — The US Border Patrol recently ordered an investigation into allegations that its agents were mistreating illegal immigrants entering the United States, said Michael Fisher, the agency’s chief. In the Border Patrol, “We do take all those (allegations) very seriously,” Fisher said Wednesday at a House of Representatives hearing.…
California desert drug bust nets $22.6 mln in marijuana
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A record 14 tons of marijuana, valued at over $22.6 million, was seized in the California desert at a checkpoint roughly 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, federal officials said on Friday. Agents found the marijuana in 1,100 bundles concealed inside a tractor-trailer, marking the…
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