tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190011862011-12-14T20:04:41.986-07:00Providing 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.missionarymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401393398972037060noreply@blogger.comBlogger33431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19001186.post-30397876175830684992008-08-16T12:42:00.001-07:002008-08-16T12:46:17.197-07:00

The Associated PressCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Officials say gunmen killed eight people at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in this border city.Police say five others were wounded in the Wednesday night attack across the border from El Paso.Police spokesman Cesar Ramirez says the people were listening to a pastor's sermon when the gunmen barged in and opened fire. He says police found 61

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Aug. 15, 2008 10:28 AM Associated Press TUCSON- U.S. Border Patrol agents say they've found the body of a man believed to have been killed by bandits west of Green Valley while he was smuggling marijuana into the country. Agency spokesman Rob Daniels says the agency began looking for the man's body after survivors of the attack reported it

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Friday, August 15, 2008San Diego - Yesterday afternoon, Border Patrol agents in San Ysidro uncovered an alien smuggling scheme that involved a pickup truck replicated to appear to be from a major construction company.The pickup truck was disguised as a vehicle from Kiewit Corporation, a company currently working on a large border construction project.Upon spotting the truck on Dairy Mart Road at

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008Andrade, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Andrade, Calif. port of entry seized nearly $400,000 in cocaine and methamphetamine Tuesday and arrested one person in connection with the failed smuggling attempt.The incident occurred at about 7 a.m. when a 1999 Plymouth Grand Voyager was referred to the secondary inspection area for an intensive

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Monday, August 11, 2008Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the downtown port of entry intercepted six narcotic smuggling attempts in three days last week, officials announced today. Seized drugs had a street value of more than $2 million.CBP officers discovered the narcotics in six vehicles after they entered the U.S. from Mexicali, Mexico. Seven individuals, six

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By Dan Keane ASSOCIATED PRESS 5:31 p.m. August 12, 2008 TIJUANA, Mexico – People have so little confidence in the police here that the army invited citizens to report crimes to soldiers instead. Officers are so mistrusted that federal authorities even took their guns away for a time last year. Now Tijuana is campaigning to regain that trust with an accountability campaign to break the

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Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:34pm EDT By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - American businesswoman Veronica was stepping out of her car in California when two men forced her into the passenger seat at gunpoint, pushed her teenage daughter into the back and drove them into Mexico. Taking advantage of lax Mexican security at the San Diego border, and with U.S. authorities focused mainly on those

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By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times Article Launched: 08/13/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT Related: Find more on the violence in Juárez. EL PASO -- A narco-message was left by the body of a man killed in Juárez on Monday, which finished with a death toll of 15, making it one of the bloodiest days this year. The note was next to Jose Luis Trujillo Ramirez, 24, who was found shot to death soon after 10:

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Squads of immigration agents are going around the country knocking on doors, scouting out street corners for day laborers, stopping cars driven by foreign-looking people and raiding factories in search of undocumented immigrants. It's literally a manhunt that is not only taking a toll on immigrant families but is draining the resources of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. So now

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ALEXANDRA OLSON Published: 08.14.2008 MEXICO CITY - Six federal agents have been arrested on suspicion of passing information to a group of powerful drug lords, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. The agents worked for the anti-drug-trafficking intelligence unit of the Attorney General's office, the spokesman told reporters on condition of anonymity because his office

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PAUL OVERBERG and EMILY BAZAR Published: 08.14.2008 The number of minorities in the United States is growing so briskly that non-Hispanic whites will lose their majority status in 2042, years before demographers had previously projected, according to Census data released today. The population is surging on almost all fronts, the new figures show. There will be 400 million people in the U.S. in

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Aug. 13, 2008 01:21 PMAssociated Press SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday. Edgar Israel Ortega Chavez, 22, was hospitalized with a bullet wound in his right torso after Mexican authorities found him alongside the dry, concrete-lined Tijuana River basin, Tijuana

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Aug. 14, 2008 07:53 AMChicago Tribune SHENANDOAH, Pa. - Under an elliptical moon, the sight of an illegal Mexican immigrant alone with a 15-year-old hometown girl seemed to push the beer-fueled high school football players into deadly violence. "Isn't it a little late for you guys to be out?" one teen reportedly asked Luis Eduardo Ramirez, 25, and the girl as they walked near a park after 11

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by Veronica Sanchez - Aug. 14, 2008 06:09 AM12 News Last week, he promised he's do things differently and he did. Sheriff Joe Arpaio vowed to stop illegal immigrants but this time he went west to the Surprise and El Mirage area. His first ever human smuggling and illegal immigration operation in the west Valley began around 4 p.m. Wednesday. By 5 p.m. Latino activists claimed deputies had

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BY STEPHANIE SANCHEZ, SUN STAFF WRITERAugust 12, 2008 - 5:30PM When crossing the border into the United States, things such as your laptop computer, cell phone or iPod can be temporarily impounded and examined by any federal agent seeking information about drug smuggling, terrorism or national security matters.The policies have actually been in effect for a number of years but were disclosed

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ASSOCIATED PRESS3:23 p.m. August 11, 2008MEXICO CITY – Mexico is establishing five national anti-kidnapping centers and pushing for a cleanup of police forces after authorities were implicated in the deadly abduction of a prominent businessman's son.The Public Safety Department's intelligence coordinator, Luis Cardenas, says the centers will staffed by 300 federal police and open 24 hours a day.

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By Michael GraczykASSOCIATED PRESS12:57 a.m. August 5, 2008HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago.The Mexican-born Medellin, 33, faced lethal injection in a case that has drawn international attention after he raised

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ASSOCIATED PRESS5:01 p.m. August 4, 2008VERACRUZ, Mexico – Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers driving a truck carrying illegal immigrants.Police caught up with the truck near the town of Agua Dulce in southeast Mexico. The town's police chief, Jose Atenedoro, says the smugglers then opened fire on officers, starting a shootout and car chase. The chase ended

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By Arthur H. Rotstein ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:44 a.m. August 6, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. – Federal authorities say four Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona and briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico. Border Patrol spokeswoman Dove Crawford says the incident early Sunday on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, about 85 miles

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By Sandra DibbleUNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER7:29 p.m. August 1, 2008Two Mexican federal police agents found with more $500,000 in cash at a residence in suburban Los Angeles could face up to four years in a U.S. prison, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said yesterday. Carlos Cedano Filippini, 34, a Baja California-based commander with the Agencia Federal de Investigacion, or AFI, was one

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Effort shows ICE's commitment to target transnational gang violence WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working in conjunction with federal, state and local law enforcement partners across the United States, have arrested the 10,000th gang member under operation Community Shield. This ongoing operation started in 2005 to curb gang violence and weed out transnational

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Friday, August 08, 2008 Fort Hancock Texas – Border Patrol agents of the El Paso sector Friday arrested a convicted sexual offender with an extensive criminal history, who had been previously ordered removed from the United States. At approximately 7 a.m., agents assigned to the Fort Hancock Border Patrol Station, on routine patrol, noticed three suspicious subjects near the Fort Hancock

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Friday, August 08, 2008 San Diego – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers had their hands full on Wednesday, August 6, after they seized a total of 720 pounds of marijuana concealed in six vehicles that entered the United States from Mexico at the Otay Mesa, Calif. passenger port of entry. CBP officers became suspicious after a 60-year-old male U.S. citizen driver arrived at the port at

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Friday, August 08, 2008 Tucson, Ariz. — In four different events on Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Arizona entries of Douglas and Nogales stopped $2.3 million in cocaine from being smuggled into the United States, arresting four people in connection with the attempts. The largest seizure happened Monday morning at around 6:30 a.m., when officers at the Douglas

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CBP Officers in N.M. Find Marijuana Hidden in Children’s FurnitureFriday, August 08, 2008 Santa Teresa, N.M. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Santa Teresa port of entry seized 436 pounds of marijuana late Wednesday night. The drugs were concealed in children’s furniture. Two New Mexico residents were taken into custody in connection with the failed smuggling attempt

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico, Calif. downtown port of entry seized nearly half a million dollars in cocaine on Monday and arrested a 22-year-old female Mexican citizen in connection with the failed smuggled attempt. The enforcement action occurred at about 9:30 a.m. when a female driving a silver 2008 BMW 1201 was

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Tucson, Ariz. - Tucson, Ariz. Border Patrol agents seized more a ton of marijuana in two separate incidents in the southwest deserts of Arizona. On Sunday night, Ajo Station agents patrolling State Route 85 near the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range noticed two vehicles traveling through the desert with their headlights off. Agents attempted to intercept the vehicles

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 San Diego – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana in two commercial vehicles/trailers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility in Calif., Friday, August 1, in a three-hour time frame. CBP officers became suspicious when a 32-year-old Mexican citizen driving a tractor without a trailer arrived at the Otay Mesa port of entry at 3:30

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Monday, August 04, 2008 Blythe, Calif. – Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector’s Blythe Station arrested a subject with an outstanding warrant early Saturday morning near Blythe, Calif. About 5:30 a.m., agents performing traffic observation duties on Interstate 10 conducted a traffic stop on a 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier. Upon interview, the driver of the vehicle admitted to being a

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August 7, 2008 - 5:47PM BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER Border Patrol agents in Yuma arrested three illegal aliens with extensive criminal histories and immigration violations in two separate incidents Wednesday. At about 6 p.m., agents discovered a set of footprints leading away from the Colorado River near County 8th Street - "a high-traffic area," said Border Patrol spokesman Ben Vik.

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By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press WriterThu Jul 31, 7:14 PM ET Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues hunting for the source of a salmonella outbreak are rushing to a conclusion about finding the strain at a Mexican pepper farm. The salmonella sample that one U.S. official called "a smoking gun" was taken from a water tank that had not been used for more than

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No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies By Ellen NakashimaWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, August 1, 2008; Page A01 Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. Also, officials

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ICE tells aliens 'Deport yourself' Posted: July 30, 2008 11:00 pm EasternWorldNetDaily Now illegal aliens can get a free ticket home by turning themselves in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement rather than spend time in prisons. The newest government plan to cut back on an ever-increasing population of illegals will be unveiled next week, the San Antonio Express-News reports. ICE

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Border agent spots unlicensed tanker By Tom Mallory UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER July 26, 2008 SAN DIEGO – Forty-nine people being smuggled into the United States were found yesterday packed inside the metal tank of a water truck that a Border Patrol agent noticed near the notorious Smuggler's Gulch. The truck was coming out of a construction area, its driver apparently trying to blend in,

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Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS Male injection drug users deported from the United States to Tijuana have four-fold higher odds of HIV infection compared to those living in Tijuana who were not deported there, according to a study to be presented at the International AIDS Conference on August 5, 2008 in Mexico City. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the

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July 30, 2008 12:15 PM Updated: July 30, 2008 12:26 PM WASHINGTON (KRQE) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said it has linked the recent Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak with irrigation water at a Mexican farm. The outbreak has sickened more than 1,300 people nationwide since April, including more than 100 in New Mexico. The FDA also linked salmonella to a Serrano pepper

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Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:28 AM BST CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican police officer working as a hit man for drug gangs killed one of his police colleagues on Wednesday in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, police said. Francisco Ventura was shot and killed by gunmen in two sport utility vehicles as he drove home early on Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas.

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MIAMI - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation resulted in two alien smugglers indicted for hostage taking. On June 25, 2008, a federal Grand Jury sitting in Miami indicted two Miami Dade residents Niovel Chirino-Alvarez, 33, and Lazaro Martinez-Padron, 21, with charges related to hostage taking and alien smuggling for the purpose of commercial advantage and private

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Street value of drugs found at Orange County apartment estimated at $1m SANTA ANA, Calif. - Three men were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, on narcotics charges, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that resulted in the recovery of approximately 8.6 kilograms of methamphetamine at a Garden Grove apartment. Armando Cerpas Gutierrez, 27, and

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By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times Article Launched: 07/30/2008 12:19:50 AM MDT EL PASO - A Juárez police officer is accused of leading a gang of kidnappers and killers that was captured after a vehicle chase by federal police in Juárez, officials said. Federal police Tuesday arrested municipal police officer Juan Gallegos Acosta and five other men, seized four AR-15 and nine AK-47 rifles and

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By Ramon Bracamontes / El Paso Times Article Launched: 07/30/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT A national report that points to illegal appointments by the U.S. attorney general's office was influenced significantly by a lawsuit filed in 2005 by an El Paso woman who claims she was passed over because she was not politically connected. Guadalupe Gonzalez, an El Paso lawyer and the chief counsel for the

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By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times Article Launched: 07/31/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT EL PASO -- An 11-year-old El Paso boy was killed Monday during a highway robbery on the Durango-Mazatlan road in Mexico. The boy, Rico Armando Bañuelas, was on a family trip to Mazatlan when robbers tried to stop the Volkswagen Jetta he was riding in near a section of mountain road known as "El Espinazo del Diablo,"

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By Brady McCombs ARIZONA DAILY STAR Mexican officials say a concrete barrier constructed by the U.S. Border Patrol in a storm-water tunnel beneath Nogales appears to be on Mexican soil and was the main cause of serious flooding July 12 in Nogales, Sonora. The flooding caused about $8 million in damage in Nogales, Sonora, the officials say. The 5-foot-high wall on the floor of the tunnel in

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Center for Immigration Studies analysis SHERYL KORNMAN Published: 07.31.2008 A report by the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., indicates that illegal immigration is down in the United States this summer by 11 percent compared with the same time last summer. If the trend continues and the decline is sustained, "it would reduce the illegal population by one half in

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The Associated Press Published: 07.30.2008 MEXICO CITY - Half-year figures are expected to show the first sustained decline on record in remittances sent home by Mexicans working abroad, officials said. The downturn in U.S. housing construction and stepped-up immigration raids have made it tougher for migrants to find jobs, and less able to send money home. Mexico's Central Bank is scheduled

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The Associated Press Published: 07.28.2008 DOUGLAS — A U.S. Border Patrol agent required medical treatment after he was pelted with rocks while trying to arrest five illegal immigrants near Douglas. The Border Patrol says as the agent sustained a 5-inch cut on his head Sunday night when he was showered with rocks thrown over the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. The illegal immigrants he

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The Associated Press Published: 07.25.2008 OJINAGA, Mexico - This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street. But then the soldiers themselves turned violent, townspeople say, ransacking homes and even torturing people. The frustration boiled over this week. More

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Monday, July 28, 2008 Alamogordo, N.M. – As a result of a cooperative effort by agents from the Alamogordo Border Patrol Station and the Drug Enforcement Administration, more than 380 pounds of marijuana was seized at a traffic checkpoint on U.S. Highway 54 over the weekend. The incident unfolded when Border Patrol agents received information from DEA about a possible smuggling load that may

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Calexico, Calif. – Border Patrol agents from the El Centro Station recovered several bundles of marijuana from a Budget rental truck parked in a lot near Calexico, Calif., early Saturday morning. At approximately 2 a.m., Border Patrol agents received information from a concerned citizen that the truck was being used for illegal activity. Agents were granted permission to enter the premises.

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Friday, July 25, 2008 Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Calexico east port of entry cargo facility seized more than five tons of marijuana found in a tractor-trailer rig that entered the port at about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, officials announced today. CBP officers found 469 wrapped packages of the narcotic weighing 10,224 pounds and valued at $4.6

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Thursday, July 24, 2008 San Ysidro, Calif. - Three drivers and a passenger were arrested and charged with alien smuggling early Wednesday morning after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry discovered undocumented Mexican citizens concealed within compartments on their vehicles, officials announced today. The three cross-border drivers, two U.S. citizens

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Laredo, Texas – Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Sector made two significant drug seizures in the past 24 hours. "These cases are the result of the agents’ deft application of resources, technology and experience to detect and stop illegal activity that threatens our nation," said Laredo Sector Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Carlos X. Carrillo. The first case

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by Senta Scarborough and Jourdan Rassas - Jul. 29, 2008 02:25 PMThe Arizona Republic Neighbors were surprised to see a parade of police cars and black Suburban's roll down the quiet streets of their west Mesa neighborhood Tuesday afternoon. Mesa police discovered at least 22 people in a suspected illegal immigrant drop house near Dobson Road and Eight Street, near the Mesa Riverview retail

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by Jerry Kammer - Jul. 30, 2008 12:00 AMRepublic Washington Bureau Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon escalated his feud with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday, calling on the national media to come to the Valley and observe the sheriff's crackdown on illegal immigration. Criticizing the sweeps as heavy-handed and abusive, Gordon said he'd like to see a media mobilization comparable to the

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by JJ Hensley - Jul. 30, 2008 12:00 AMThe Arizona Republic The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office apparently looked into and dismissed racial-profiling allegations from an employee in Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's office months before the incident mushroomed into a political spat and a federal lawsuit. According to a report released by the Sheriff's Office Tuesday afternoon, supervisors concluded

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BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector Station arrested a convicted rapist early Monday afternoon near the Andrade port of entry.Agent Ben Vik, Yuma Sector spokesman, said that at about 1:30 p.m., Border Patrol agents working west of the Andrade port observed a lone male individual walking approximately three miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.Upon

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UNION-TRIBUNETIJUANA: Badly hit by declining tourism revenues, Mexico's northern border states are joining forces with Mexico's federal government in a plan to revive the region. Baja California Gov. José Guadalupe Osuna Millán hosted a meeting yesterday at a coastal development in Tijuana attended by Mexican tourism secretary Rodolfo Elizondo Torres and the governors of Sonora, Nuevo Leon and

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Tuesday, 22 July 2008Kwang-Tae Kim - The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea-- Five South Koreans were abducted in a Mexican border city, officials said Tuesday. Gunmen who seized the four men and one woman demanded a $30,000 ransom in return for their freedom, according to an official from the National Intelligence Service. The official did not give further details and asked not to be

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Associated Press - July 21, 2008 2:53 PM ET MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico will no longer jail illegal immigrants detained within its borders. A measure that takes effect Tuesday eliminates jail times for illegal immigrants caught in Mexico. Most are crossing the country from Central America en route to the U.S. Undocumented immigration will now be considered a minor offense, punishable by fines

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By Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times Article Launched: 07/23/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT EL PASO -- Three slayings occurred and a small group of protesters gathered Tuesday, the day Mexican President Felipe Calderón arrived for a visit in Juárez. During his visit, Calderón praised maquiladoras and vowed to strengthen the nation's oil company and the city's security efforts. Calderón helped

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By Stephanie Innes Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.23.2008 Rather than pay a $175 fine, a local aid volunteer is set to go on trial this week for leaving water jugs in the desert for illegal immigrants. Daniel Millis, 29, is expected to go on trial in federal court Friday morning to defend himself against charges that he littered in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge

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DAN KEANE Published: 07.23.2008 TIJUANA, Mexico - It looks like any Southern California traffic jam - except you can buy a cappuccino and a 4-foot statue of Jesus from your car while watching dogs sniff vehicles for drugs. This is the U.S.-Mexico border's most congested crossing, where local residents say already epic lines into San Diego have grown even longer since January, when the U.S.

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Drugs being kept out of U.S. end up in local hands CHRIS HAWLEY Published: 07.23.2008 AGUA PRIETA, Mexico - Carlos Antonio Lopez started using crack at age 11 to kill the pain of his mother's death. "I started with marijuana, but after a while it didn't fill me up anymore," he says. "Then I started on crack. You get obsessed. You can't think about anything else." Now 18, Lopez is in his

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Jul. 22, 2008 04:44 PMWashington Post SAN YSIDRO, Calif. - AIDS rates in the nation's Hispanic community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis. Though Hispanics comprise about 14 percent of the U.S. population, they represented 22 percent of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses tallied by federal officials in 2006. According to a

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July 22, 2008 - 4:08PM FROM STAFF REPORTS Officers at the San Luis, Ariz., port of entry seized more than 440 pounds of marijuana and arrested six people suspected of trying to smuggle the pot into the country in recent days. The total value of the pot was estimated at $719,000, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The names of those arrested were not immediately available. The

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July 22, 2008 - 12:14PM FROM STAFF REPORTS Surveillance cameras used along the Mexico border did their job for the U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday morning, when the technology helped agents nab 93 pounds of marijuana and apprehend three illegal immigrants.The two unrelated busts happened early Tuesday morning near the West Main and Salinity Canal bridges near San Luis, Ariz., according to a

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by Alicia A. Caldwell - Jul. 12, 2008 12:00 AMAssociated Press EL PASO - Dozens of Mexicans - including police officers, businessmen, at least one prosecutor and a journalist - are asking for political asylum in the U.S. in a desperate and probably hopeless bid to escape an unprecedented wave of drug-related killings and kidnappings south of the border. Under U.S. law, fear of crime is not, in

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Man is suspected of killing Yuma Border Patrol agent July 10, 2008 - 6:54PM ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON - The United States did not ask Mexico to arrange for a suspect's extradition in the death of a Border Patrol agent until the man had been freed, a Mexican government spokesman said Thursday.Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said U.S. officials presented Mexican

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BY STEPHANIE SANCHEZ, SUN STAFF WRITER A protest movement that led to a two-hour border blockade at San Luis, Ariz., Wednesday is planned to move to other ports of entry between Arizona and Mexico.Alberto Becerril Garcia, activist leader of the Frente Civico SanLuisino (San Luis Civic Front), said the group will have a public meeting today (Friday) in Sonoyta, Son., at 5 p.m. in Plaza Cesar,

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The Associated Press Published: 07.03.2008 The Western Union Co. said Wednesday it is considering whether to appeal a court ruling on the authority of Arizona prosecutors to seize some money transfers to Mexico. This comes after the Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday knocked down a lower-court decision forbidding Arizona law enforcement from seizing Western Union money transfers and data

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The Associated Press Published: 07.01.2008 MEXICO CITY - Mexico's central bank says remittances from Mexicans working abroad fell 2.6 percent in the first five months of 2008. The bank say remittances were US$9.5 million between January and May, compared to US$9.7 million during the same period last year. In May, they were US$2.2 million, a 3.4 percent drop from the same month last year.

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TRACI CARL Published: 07.01.2008 MEXICO CITY - Videos showing city police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer, dragging another through vomit and jumping on a suspect created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture by lawmen. Two of the videos — broadcast by national television networks and displayed on newspaper Internet sites — showed what Leon

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HAYA EL NASSER Published: 06.30.2008 Births, not immigration, now account for most of the growth in the nation's Hispanic population, a distinct reversal of trends of the past 30 years. The Hispanic baby boom is transforming the demographics of small-town America in a dramatic way. Some rural counties where the population had been shrinking and aging are growing because of Hispanic

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The Associated Press Published: 07.03.2008 MEXICO CITY - Four decapitated bodies were found on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan, blocks away from their severed heads. Three of the beheaded bodies were found inside black, plastic bags on Wednesday, while the fourth was wrapped in a blanket, according to the prosecutor's office in Sinaloa state, where Culiacan is located. Authorities

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HOUSTON - As part of its ongoing enforcement efforts to investigate worksites allegedly hiring illegal aliens, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a federal search warrant today at a Houston used clothing and rag-exporting company. ICE arrested more than 160 Action Rags USA employees for administrative immigration violations. Action Rags USA is an international supplier of

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 El Paso, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers deliver a baby at the Bridge of the Americas international border crossing early Tuesday morning. On July 1, at about 3 a.m. a 23-year-old female El Paso legal permanent resident arrived at the port of entry. While waiting for admissibility status, the female advised CBP officers that she was experiencing

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Busy weekend in Laredo Sector nets tons of narcoticsMonday, June 30, 2008 Laredo, Texas – Border Patrol agents from the Laredo North station made several significant drug seizures at an Arizona checkpoint during the past weekend. The first case occurred on Friday, June 27, when agents working at the checkpoint conducted an immigration inspection of the lone occupant of a 2000 Toyota Camry. As

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Monday, June 30, 2008 Douglas, Ariz. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Douglas, Ariz. port of entry played a pivotal role in finding two individuals wanted by the Los Angeles County sheriff in connection with a homicide involving multiple victims, including two children. At around 4:45 on Saturday afternoon, CBP officers screening people wanting to enter the United

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 Laredo, Texas - Border Patrol agents from the Laredo North station seized 2,917 pounds of marijuana Wednesday night. On June 25, agents manning the checkpoint located on Interstate 35 north of Laredo conducted an immigration inspection on the driver of a tractor trailer. While being inspected, a service canine alerted agents to the trailer, indicating the presence of

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Andrade, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Andrade port of entry seized approximately half a million dollars in cocaine on Monday and arrested one person in connection with the failed smuggled attempt. The enforcement action occurred at about 8:45 p.m., when a 19-year-old Mexican male driving a 1999 Toyota Camry was referred to the secondary

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Tucson, Ariz. — Within the past four days, Border Patrol agents assigned to Tucson Sector rescued over 70 individuals from the high temperatures and rugged terrain of Southern Arizona. The largest of the rescues took place on Sunday afternoon. Agents from the Ajo Station responded to a citizen’s report of possible illegal aliens waiving down traffic on State Route 85.

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Border Patrol commends Mexican Government for significant apprehensionMonday, June 23, 2008 San Diego — Two-and-a-half years of cooperation, communication and intelligence sharing between the Border Patrol and Mexican law enforcement authorities led to the arrest of a well-known leader of a Tijuana alien smuggling organization earlier this month. Jose Luis Naranjo-Ramirez, better known as “El

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July 2, 2008 - 3:52PM BY HOWARD FISCHER, CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES PHOENIX - Arizona voters are likely going to get a chance to do what lawmakers and federal judges have so far rejected: dilute the state's new employer sanctions law. A business-financed group filed about 284,000 signatures this week for its own version of a statute that backers say provides "tough, enforceable, fair" laws.

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By DIONNE WALKER, Associated Press Writer Friday, June 20, 2008 (06-20) 13:32 PDT Richmond, Va. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating whether a Catholic charity violated state and federal law by helping a 16-year-old illegal immigrant who was in the organization's care get an abortion. Workers with Commonwealth Catholic Charities helped the girl travel to and from the procedure in January and

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UNION-TRIBUNE June 23, 2008 TIJUANA: At least one municipal police officer was among dozens of people arrested Saturday night in an organized-crime sweep, Baja California police officials said yesterday. Baja California officers raided a baptism intending to arrest people connected to the Arellano Félix drug cartel. Sixty-two people, including 10 who have ties to the cartel, were arrested,

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UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER June 23, 2008 TIJUANA – Nearly 200 illegal immigrants sent back to Mexico from the United States were falsely arrested by Tijuana municipal police who beat or robbed some of them, according to a study that a human rights group released last week. Victor Clark Alfaro, head of the Binational Center for Human Rights and a longtime observer of Tijuana crime trends,

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Migrants are coming home from U.S. with dollars, ideas and little patience for the old way of doing things. By Jeremy SchwartzMEXICO CITY BUREAUSunday, June 22, 2008 LUVIANOS, Mexico — Seir Benítez left this remote town high in the Sierra Madre mountains 12 years ago in hopes of escaping a harsh life in its dusty fields. He traded dramatic mountain views and grinding poverty for an apartment

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Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:40 AM BST By Ignacio Alvarado CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen have killed the police administrative director in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, the latest high-profile killing in Mexico's drug war, police said on Wednesday. Silvia Molina was shot outside her house on Monday night by suspected drug hitmen, the first public official in Ciudad

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The Associated Press June 22, 2008 Mexican soldiers captured at least 10 suspected members of a Tijuana-based drug cartel in a raid on a child's baptism party in this border city, officials said Sunday. A total of 61 people were arrested in the sweep late Saturday, including the band hired to play the party and three city police officers, Baja California state police spokesman Agustin Perez

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By ALICIA A. CALDWELLAssociated Press for Blanca Angelica Parra, a police officer in Ciudad Juarez until the summer of 1995. "In Juarez when you arrested someone they would threaten you, they were going to kill you and your family," Parra said of life as a police officer in the hardscrabble city across the Rio Grande from El Paso. "But normally that didn't happen." Parra believed the violence

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a specialized unit has discovered 40 drop houses in the past six months, arresting 99 people suspected of human smuggling and nearly 500 possible illegal immigrants in the process. The Illegal Immigration Prevention and Apprehension Co-op Team's chief mission is to target violent crimes associated with human smuggling

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PLAINFIELD, N.J. — A federal lawsuit using a novel method to challenge a landlord's right to rent to illegal immigrants is stoking tensions that have been rising for years in this diverse city of 50,000 south of Newark. A prominent group that opposes illegal immigration sued a Plainfield property management company this month, seeking to set a legal precedent by using

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Controversial project targets 81 border miles near Tucson By Brady McCombs ARIZONA DAILY STAR The Department of Homeland Security is planning to put up 45 surveillance towers and upgrade 12 existing ones to create a virtual fence targeting 81 miles of Arizona's U.S.-Mexican border. Plans revealed in a draft environmental assessment for the "Tucson West" project — the next phase of the

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The Associated Press Published: 06.19.2008 THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Mexico made an emergency appeal to the U.N.'s highest court Thursday to block the execution of its citizens on death row in the United States. Lawyers for the U.S. cautioned, however, that the court's interference could complicate Washington's efforts to save the lives of Mexican convicts condemned to death by state courts.

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CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Published: 06.20.2008 McALLEN, Texas — The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped

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Published: 06.21.2008Associated Press PHOENIX - The governors of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora are expected to sign a deal Saturday aimed at combatting gunrunning and sharing databases of fugitive felons on both sides of the border. The deal to be signed by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours Castelo will make Sonora the first Mexican state to trace

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BLAKE MORLOCK and FERNANDA ECHÁVARRI Published: 06.21.2008 Waits will get longer and Mexican visitors will arrive in fewer numbers until the U.S. improves its seven ports of entry along the Arizona-Mexico border. That's what a University of Arizona study released Friday by the Arizona-Mexico Commission concluded as it showed a drop in the number of people crossing into the U.S. Wait times

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by Senta Scarborough - Jun. 22, 2008 06:30 PM The Arizona Republic Seventeen people, including four suffering severe dehydration, have been taken to local hospitals after they flagged down motorists for help along Arizona 85 near Gila Bend Sunday afternoon, U.S. Border Patrol officials said. A 26-year-old woman and her two children were among the group, said Rob Daniels, a Border Patrol

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Subject was convicted in Rhode Island of child abuse PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Mexican national was sentenced today for illegally reentering the U.S., after an investigation by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Rhode Island. A federal judge today sentenced Gustavo Granados, a citizen of Mexico, to 46 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Yuma, Ariz. – Rapid response and teamwork helped U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Station apprehend one individual and seize two backpacks containing 62 pounds of marijuana. About 3:30 a.m., agents working near the San Luis, Ariz., area encountered three individuals, two of which were carrying large backpacks, running north

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