Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: CHICAGO — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the US border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize ...
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Mar 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL: Former Obama adviser David Axelrod on Sunday said the president saw the issue of immigration reform as a “legacy item,” and was fully committed to pushing lawmakers to pass a bill. Axelrod on NBC’s “Meet the Press” dismissed GOP suggestions that President Obama was not serious about immigration reform and sought to use ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: A California border patrol agent pled guilty Thursday to taking bribes in exchange for letting illegal immigrants into the U.S. According to court records, Hector Rodriguez confessed that from 2010 until his arrest on July 13, 2012 he received bribes such as cash, luxury vehicles and the use of an apartment for allowing ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE/AP: — In a bizarre incident, hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach ...
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Mar 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: According to a new Pew Research poll, a majority of Americans, 55 percent, oppose granting citizenship to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. An even bigger majority, however, 71 percent, believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the country legally. Perhaps most surprisingly, no demographic is more supportive of granting ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW: John McCain, on a visit to the border town of Nogales, Ariz. with colleagues Chuck Schumer, Michael Bennet and Jeff Flake, bore witness, firsthand, to one of the challenges Congress will face as it attempts to craft immigration legislation: securing the border. Standing at the country’s Southern border, McCain tweeted: Just witnessed a ...
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Mar 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: The union representing immigration enforcement officers is urging Senate negotiators to include them in talks on an immigration reform package, complaining that their agents are apparently "not welcome" in the discussions even as business groups and "amnesty" advocates get a seat at the table. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council is speaking ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
The bodies of seven men arranged in chairs are pictured in Uruapan, in the Mexican state of Michoacan, March 23, 2013. The bodies of the seven men were found arranged in chairs on a street early Saturday, local media reported. The men were shot in the head with threat messages nailed to some of their ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., said Monday he won’t stop using the term “illegal immigrant,” when asked at a Phoenix town hall to stop using “the ‘I’ word.” A 25-year old “dreamer” asked McCain to instead use a phrase like “undocumented immigrant,” the Arizona Republic reported today. “Someone who crosses our borders illegally is here ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent union says that he has no confidence that the Obama administration would step up its border control efforts as part of any immigration reform agreement. Chris Crane, ICE officer and National ICE Council president representing 7,000 ICE agents, officers, and employees, expressed concern ...
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Mar 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has granted uniform contracts to VF Imagewear, Inc., an apparel company that relies on manufacturing sites in Mexico for a “significant percentage” of its occupational garments. The latest contract with the company was awarded on Dec. 20, 2012, to make “uniform and insignia items” for the ...
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Mar 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Two masked men of Urapicho village, in Michoacan state, members of a security commission, stand guard in a main entrance. Since last August 15, people from this indigenous village in western Mexico have been blocking access to their community and declared a ‘state of siege’ against organized crime armed groups. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) Excerpted from THE ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS: Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses. These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors. But while the administration prepares to take that step, it continues to pursue ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: During the Senate Budget Committee’s Thursday markup of the Senate budget resolution, Democrats prevented an effort to block funds for the Agriculture Department’s “partnership” with the Mexican government, which is aimed at promoting nutrition assistance programs among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America. In a party-line 12 to 10 ...
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Mar 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: The Obama administration said Thursday it had rearrested and brought back four of the most dangerous immigrants it released from detention last month in the run-up to the budget sequestration. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton testified to Congress that his agency released 10 “level one” offenders, and has gone out ...
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Mar 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE MONITOR: McALLEN — Illegal immigrants have started surrendering to local Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande, convinced they’ll be released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which recently turned hundreds of immigrants loose to save money. In preparation for the sequester — federal spending cuts forced by Congress’ inability to reach a budget ...
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Mar 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE MONITOR: REYNOSA — Fear and panic filled the streets of Reynosa on Sunday night as rival gunmen battled during a three-hour firefight that saw automatic weapons and grenades used. Surprisingly, Mexican authorities were absent for most of the melee. The opening clashes were reported just before 9 p.m. Sunday, when rival factions of the ...
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Mar 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A federal appeals court on Friday said Customs and Border Protection officers cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling that people have an expectation their data are private and that the government must have “reasonable suspicion” before it starts to do any intensive snooping. In ...
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Mar 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Related - Obama Sequester Plan Revealed: Flood Streets Daily With Dangerous, Criminal Illegal Aliens Until GOP Agrees To Tax Increases Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: House investigators learned Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials developed plans to release about 5,000 illegal immigrant detainees, although Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has denied responsibility for the decision. “An internal ...
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Mar 3, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
WallStreetJournal-In medical isolation in South Texas, 100 miles or so from Mexico's border, is a man who embodies one of U.S. health officials' greatest worries: He is the first person to cross and be held in detention while infected with one of the most severe types of drug-resistant tuberculosis known today. Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis has been a ...
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Mar 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Miami Herald: WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned. The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are ...
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Excerpted TPM: WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned. The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than ...
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