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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…
Slain border patrol agent worked a well-worn drug-smuggling corridor
Slain border patrol agent worked a well-worn drug-smuggling corridor (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) Authorities are still piecing together the events leading to the shooting death Tuesday of a US border patrol agent and the wounding of another in remote southern Arizona. Nicholas Ivie, who had worked for the…
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.…
U.S. extends National Guard stay on Mexico border
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The 1,200 National Guard soldiers deployed to the US border with Mexico last year will remain on their jobs until late September, a US official said Friday. The administration has now “extended the temporary deployment of National Guard personnel… through September 30, 2011,” Department of Homeland Security…
Arizona sues US government over illegal immigrants
PHOENIX, Arizona – Arizona is counter-suing the US government, charging that Washington has failed to protect it from an invasion of illegal immigrants and related violent crime, its governor has said. The lawsuit, which seeks federal compensation, is in response to a federal lawsuit filed by President Barack Obama’s administration…
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