News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Fewer cars stolen since police set up at bridges

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Photo by Victor Calzada / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 12/26/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

Stealing cars in a border city can be easy. In minutes, thieves can drive a vehicle across the border and disappear into Mexico.

El Paso police think they have found a way to close that method of escape.

For the past 15 weeks, police posted officers at El Paso's three international bridges for regular southbound checks. While police had conducted such checks in the past, they were sporadic. A $600,000 state grant under Operation Border Star, a border security initiative, allowed police to be a regular presence at the bridges for almost four months. The program ended last week.

Police officials said the program helped the city slightly decrease auto thefts at the end of 2007 compared with the beginning of the year.

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