Oct 7, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: President Obama's new immigration enforcement strategy led to a record number of criminal aliens being deported last year, but removals of other illegal immigrants fell to the lowest rate since 2007, before the Bush administration began a crackdown. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 392,862 aliens in fiscal year 2010, slightly less than a 1 ...
Continue ReadingOct 5, 2010 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Related: American Rancher X Fox News: The wife and mother of an American allegedly shot to death by Mexican pirates on a border lake in Texas are angrily demanding that Mexican authorities allow U.S. investigators to join the search for a body -- and stop questioning whether the attack ever happened. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Search teams ...
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Fox News: Border Patrol agents trying to keep up with the pace of illegal immigration along the southwest border have gotten stuck in a kind of bureaucratic limbo, with a new government report showing federal regulations have stalled projects for months. In one case, it took the Bureau of Land Management almost eight months to issue ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican marines captured 30 suspected Gulf cartel members and seized an arsenal of weapons during two days of raids in a northern border state torn by drug gang battles, officials announced Wednesday. The arrests came as Mexico's government said organized crime-related killings have fallen so far in September compared to previous months. ...
Continue ReadingSep 29, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: A coalition of Mexican mayors has asked the United States to stop deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. to Mexican border cities, saying the deportations are contributing to Mexican border violence. The request was made at a recent San Diego conference in which the mayors of four Mexican ...
Continue ReadingSep 20, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - The largest newspaper in Juarez asked the border city's warring drug cartels Sunday for a truce after the killing last week of its second journalist in less than two years.
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2010 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
SAFE (Secure America Forever) has been overwhelmingly busy, and my latest report is up at Andrew Breitbart's national security site, Big Peace. SAFE operates in three areas: political operations, information operations (journalism, filmmaking, public education) and citizen border patrol, to achieve three goals through the Safe Borders Project: 1. A military solution on the border ...
Continue ReadingSep 12, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel and one of the country's most-wanted fugitives, in a raid Sunday in the central state of Puebla, the government said. The alleged capo known as "El Grande" did not put up any resistance when he was arrested ...
Continue ReadingSep 11, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ANZALDUAS PARK, Texas - The FBI is investigating after armed men shot at border patrol agents on the Rio Grande.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police have carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb in Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas. The federal Public Safety Department says a phone tip around midnight led authorities to a dead body in a car in a shopping center parking lot. In a second car, police found the bomb. A ...
Continue ReadingSep 10, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Wall Street Journal: MONTERREY, Mexico—A surge of violence by drug gangs in this industrial hub is leading to an exodus of wealthy Mexicans as well as scores of U.S. and foreign expatriates, dealing a blow to what has long been one of Latin America's richest and safest cities. The security situation is so alarming in Monterrey, known ...
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Eighty-five prisoners escaped from a jail near the U.S. border on Friday, authorities and media said, the latest prison break underscoring the challenges Mexico faces as it battles powerful drug cartels.
Continue ReadingSep 9, 2010 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: TIJUANA, MEXICO - To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north. "Marijuana arrives in the United States soaked with the blood of Tijuana ...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) – The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago." Hillary Rodham Clinton and other U.S. officials pointed to ...
Continue ReadingSep 8, 2010 2 Comments ›› The Assassin
BBC News: Drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican marines have arrested seven gunmen suspected of participating in the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants, the government announced Wednesday. Four of the suspects were arrested after a Sept. 3 gunbattle with marines, and the other three were captured days later, spokesman Alejandro Poire said at a news conference. Marines ...
Continue ReadingSep 6, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and another person, authorities said Monday. It was at least the second time this year that a family has been caught up in a shooting involving Mexico's military, which has come under intense criticism for ...
Continue ReadingSep 5, 2010 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Some measures on illegal immigration to the United States have improved, but the Obama administration is ignoring violence spilling into the U.S. from Mexico, Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday. The 2008 Republican presidential candidate noted that 28,000 Mexican citizens have been murdered in the drug war in Mexico, with 72 individuals, including 14 women, ...
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Arizona Republic: CORRE COYOTE, Mexico - Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madres. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the drug war that's raging elsewhere in Mexico. The military's retreat has delighted farmers who are sowing and reaping marijuana. Cannabis cultivation in ...
Continue ReadingSep 4, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: MEXICO CITY - A ritual is performed when drug lords are arrested here. They are paraded before the news cameras, often with black eyes and fresh bruises, then stand shackled and grimacing between a pair of masked police.
Continue ReadingSep 4, 2010 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Arizona Republic: MEXICO CITY - The U.S. government punished Mexico on Friday for human-rights abuses in its war against drug cartels, cutting $26 million from an upcoming $175 million aid payment, and demanded that Mexican soldiers be tried in civilian courts. It is the first time the U.S. State Department has withheld funds over human-rights abuses since ...
Continue ReadingSep 3, 2010 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country's drug war, authorities said Friday. Twenty-five of the suspects were killed Thursday during a raid on a building in Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas ...
Continue ReadingSep 3, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Bloodstained footsteps at the entrance of a drug treatment centre in Juárez city, Mexico, after 18 people were killed when gunmen stormed the building. The Guardian: The events which have no name scythe through the valley like invisible reapers. They slice east to west, west to east, a homicidal pendulum. No one sees anything. The pair of ...
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