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.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Gunmen kill 8 at Mexican border city rehab center

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The Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Officials say gunmen killed eight people at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in this bo...

Agents find body of smuggler killed by bandits

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Aug. 15, 2008 10:28 AM Associated Press TUCSON- U.S. Border Patrol agents say the...

Border Patrol Arrests Illegal Aliens in Fake Construction Vehicle

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Friday, August 15, 2008 San Diego - Yesterday afternoon, Border Patrol agents in San Ysidro uncovered an alien smuggling scheme that involv...

Andrade CBP Officers Intercept Narcotics Worth Nearly $400,000

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Andrade, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Andrade, Calif. port of entry seized nearly $...

CBP Thwarts Run of Drug Smuggling Attempts at Calif. Port

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Monday, August 11, 2008 Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the downtown port of entry intercepted six narcoti...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tijuana Police Try to Restore Public Trust

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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...

Mexican drug gang turns to kidnapping in U.S.

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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 C...

Bloody Monday death toll reaches 15 in Juárez violence

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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 -...

Deport yourself plan isn't going to work

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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 dri...

Official: Mexico nabs 6 drug snitches in AG office

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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...

Census: Diversity to reign by 2042

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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-Hispani...

Border agent wounds man near Mexican border

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Aug. 13, 2008 01:21 PM Associated Press SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U....

Immigrant's death splits blue-collar town

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Aug. 14, 2008 07:53 AM Chicago Tribune SHENANDOAH, Pa. - Under an elliptical moon, the sight of an illegal Mexican immigrant alone with ...

Sheriff takes illegal immigration sweeps west

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by Veronica Sanchez - Aug. 14, 2008 06:09 AM 12 News Last week, he promised he's do things differently and he did. Sheriff Joe Arpai...

Disclosed Customs policy says you can be searched for no reason

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BY STEPHANIE SANCHEZ, SUN STAFF WRITER August 12, 2008 - 5:30PM When crossing the border into the United States , things such as your la...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Mexico to establish 5 anti-kidnapping centers

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ASSOCIATED PRESS 3:23 p.m. August 11, 2008 MEXICO CITY – Mexico is establishing five national anti-kidnapping centers and pushing for a clea...

Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty

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By Michael Graczyk ASSOCIATED PRESS 12:57 a.m. August 5, 2008 HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal cou...

Mexican police, migrant smugglers open fire: 2 die

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ASSOCIATED PRESS 5:01 p.m. August 4, 2008 VERACRUZ, Mexico – Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers drivi...

Mexican soldiers enter Arizona, hold agent briefly

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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 crosse...

Mexican agents found with cash could face jail

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By Sandra Dibble UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 7:29 p.m. August 1, 2008 Two Mexican federal police agents found with more $500,000 in cash at a...

ICE takes 10,000th violent gang member off U.S. streets

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Effort shows ICE's commitment to target transnational gang violence WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, worki...

El Paso Border Patrol Agents Arrest Convicted Sex Offender

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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 wi...
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CBP Officers Thwart 6 Marijuana Smuggling Efforts in a Day

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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 ...

CBP Officer in Arizona Thwart 4 Cocaine Smuggling Attempts in a Day

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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 ...

Doll House Has Too Much Grass

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CBP Officers in N.M. Find Marijuana Hidden in Children’s Furniture Friday, August 08, 2008 Santa Teresa , N.M. - U.S. Customs and Borde...

Cocaine Worth Nearly $1.5 Million Dollars Seized at Calexico Port

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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 se...

Border Patrol Foils 2 Drug Smuggling Attempts in Arizona

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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 i...

CBP Officers in Calif. Seize $3 Million Worth of Marijuana in 2 Incidents

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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 commerci...

Agents Arrest Previously Removed Child Molester in California

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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 o...

Three illegal aliens arrested have a combined 69 arrests

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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 ...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Mexico criticizes US salmonella findings

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By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 31, 7:14 PM ET Mexican agriculture officials said Thursday that U.S. colleagues ...

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border

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No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 1, 2008 ; Page A01 Federal agen...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Illegals off the hook?

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ICE tells aliens 'Deport yourself' Posted: July 30, 2008 11:00 pm Eastern WorldNetDaily Now illegal aliens can get a free ti...

49 people found hiding in water truck

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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 sm...

Deportation linked to higher risk of HIV infection in male injection drug users

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Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS Male injection drug users deported from the United States to Tijuana have four-fold higher odds...

Salmonella linked with Mexican farm's irrigation water

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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 ...

Mexican cop killed by colleague working as hit man

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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...

Alien smugglers indicted for hostage taking

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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 ...

Three charged in ICE probe that nets large stash of methamphetamine

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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 ...

Juárez officer, 5 others charged

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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...

El Pasoan's lawsuit altered how immigration judges chosen

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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...
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11-year-old El Paso boy slain in Mexico

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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 Monda...

Mexico ties flooding in Nogales to U.S. Border Patrol-built wall

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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 tun...

Report: Illegal immigration drops markedly this summer

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Center for Immigration Studies analysis SHERYL KORNMAN Published: 07.31.2008 A report by the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies ...

Mexico sees decline in migrant remittances

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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 i...

Border Patrol agent pelted by rocks near Douglas

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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 roc...

Mexican military losing drug war support

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The Associated Press Published: 07.25.2008 OJINAGA, Mexico - This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arri...
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I am a husband and the father of two great kids, Cody, 13, and Alissa, 11. My wife, Erica, and I have been married for 25 years. We have spent all of that time serving in the ministry in one form or another. Erica and I are both originally from Pittsburgh, PA but have lived in Atlanta, GA, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Memphis, TN, Myrtle Beach, SC and now in Mexico. email: cjburgan at juno dot com
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