MEXICO CITY (AP) – The Mexican government condemned comments by a top U.S. Defense Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” – remarks the official later apologized for and retracted. The Mexican Interior Department said in a statement late Tuesday that it “categorically rejects” the comments by U.S. Undersecretary [...]
The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have created new squads to help prevent the violence in Juárez from spilling into the El Paso area. Both have been nicknamed the Cross Border Violence squads. The FBI’s official name is Squad 15, while DEA officials said their squad doesn’t have a formal name. Both squads focus [...]
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. — According to Pinal County officials, the border battle has been brewing in their area for years. But recently, they said, it’s come to a head. “We’re saying this has got to stop,” said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeau. * VIDEO: Pinal Sheriff Prepares To Battle Cartels Babeau said sugarcoating the border [...]
L.A.Times U.S. border authorities intercepted two separate maritime smuggling attempts this week, arresting 31 illegal immigrants wading ashore along the San Diego County coast, authorities said. In both cases, the operators of the small, panga-style boats fled back to Mexico in their boats. In the first incident early Monday morning, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested [...]
Reps. Allen West (R-Fla.), David McKinley (R-W.Va.), Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), and Steve Womack (R-Ark.) have cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011 introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). All four Members are serving their first term in Congress and were identified as “True Reformers” during their campaigns. The bill currently has 45 cosponsors and amends [...]
Gov. Rick Perry had the ultimate guest to further his border security message at today’s State of the State: The young woman whose husband was apparently murdered by a band of Mexican pirates wielding assault rifles on Texas’ Falcon Lake. “I feel Gov. Perry is right alongside what I’m fighting for today — that what [...]
PHOENIX (AP) – The U.S. Justice Department denies a claim that two guns sold in purchases sanctioned by federal firearms agents were later used in a shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead near the Arizona-Mexico border. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Ronald Weich says in a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press that [...]
According to Reuters, US border patrol recently picked up two illegal immigrants who used dive scooters to cross from Mexico to California. This has to be the most thrilling personal sea scooter episode since that fight in Thunderball. The two men, 38 and 16 years old, were walking on a beach south of San Diego [...]
The female police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico, has not been seen or heard from since being abducted two days before Christmas. Erika Gandara was a former radio dispatcher for the police department in the town of 9,000, which is just across the U.S. border, one mile from Fabens, Texas. The previous police chief was murdered [...]
San Diego Approximately 40 miles north of the U.S./Mexican border officials nabbed 20 illegal aliens attempting to break into the country via panga boat. California Border Patrol agents greeted the illegals when they arrived on the sand at South Ponto Beach, Carlsbad. Among them were 16 males and four female illegal immigrants including a suspected [...]
© 2011 WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – An Egyptian Islamist terrorist organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood is re-establishing itself amid the political upheaval in Cairo, WND has learned. Both Egyptian and Israeli security officials said the group, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, is being reconstituted at the direction of the Muslim Brotherhood. The officials affirmed Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya serves as [...]
Washington, DC – House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) and Railroads Subcommittee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today expressed extreme reservations regarding the Obama Administration’s plan to spend $53 billion over the next six years on rail infrastructure projects. “This is like giving Bernie Madoff another chance at handling your investment portfolio,” Mica said. [...]
chron.com CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, officials said Monday. The boys were killed at 4:22 p.m. Saturday while looking at cars in a dealership in the city across the [...]
Borderlandbeat.com Charles Bowden, writer and reporter specializing in the subject of narco-traffic and the author of the book “Murder City” interviewed a Mexican hitman over a five day period. These conversations were captured by the Italian director Gianfranco Rosi. The result is the documentary “El Sicario, Room 164” which has been shown in Europe and [...]
(Reuters) – A jury in western New York deliberated for only an hour on Monday before finding a television producer, who ran a cable studio designed to promote understanding of his Muslim culture, guilty of beheading his wife. Muzzammil Hassan used two hunting knives to kill Aasiya Hassan on Feb 12, 2009, six days after [...]
The Telegraph: Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week. Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal. The fact that the [...]
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JERUSALEM (AP) – President Barack Obama’s response to the crisis in Egypt is drawing fierce criticism in Israel, where many view the U.S. leader as a political naif whose pressure on a stalwart ally to hand over power is liable to backfire. Critics – including senior Israeli officials who have shied from saying so publicly [...]
