Navarrette – A two-way street on gunrunning

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:23 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
Navarrette - A two-way street on gunrunning

It’s time for the American people to stop living in a state of denial and get serious about stopping gun shipments into Mexico. Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, has noted that as many as 2,000 weapons enter Mexico from the United States every day – most of them through Texas and Arizona, and many of them purchased legally at gun shows and gun stores. Many of the transactions come in “straw purchases,” where drug traffickers use Americans – including friends and relatives – to buy guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates that 90 ….Read More

Big Rig Turns Into Clown Car

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:06 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
Big Rig Turns Into Clown Car

The Border Patrol says they found 25 illegal immigrants hiding inside a pair of semi trucks. About 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night, Border Patrol agents chased a group of suspected illegal immigrants into a parking lot at the Golden Acorn Casino. Officials said the group got into a cargo trailer via a trap door under the truck. Eventually, 17 people were found inside the trailer, officials said. While conducting surveillance of the parking lot, agents said, eight other illegal immigrants got into the cab a second truck. Both vehicles were stopped just before midnight as they left the parking lot. ….Read More

CSI – Cd. Juarez

Mar 072009
 
 07/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 08:54 on 07/03/2009 Comments Off
CSI - Cd. Juarez

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Death froze his exhausted face. The attackers lashed or punctured nearly every part of his body. Then they cut off the dead man’s head, wrapped it in a plastic grocery bag and dumped it with his body between two tractor-trailers on a city street. As with most murders in Ciudad Juarez, police found no witnesses, no weapons. Only the battered corpse on the steel coroner’s table carries clues to who he was and how he died. “Every organ speaks,” says Dr. Maria Concepcion Molina, who gently removes packing tape from the head of her third decapitated ….Read More

Senate Vote on FY09 Omnibus Spending Bill delayed at least a week!

Mar 052009
 
 05/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:30 on 05/03/2009 1 Response »
Senate Vote on FY09 Omnibus Spending Bill delayed at least a week!

Breaking news from The Washington Times Senate Democrats beat back a series of Republican proposed changes to a $410 billion omnibus spending bill Thursday, but they couldn’t muster enough votes to block more amendments as final consideration was postponed until next week. As such, a new stopgap measure needed to keep government going. The current one expires tomorrow. The House is expected to pass another temporary spending measure Friday, followed by Senate approval, to keep the government running until Tuesday. The House passed the omnibus last week but would have to revisit the legislation if changed by the Senate. But ….Read More

Violating NAFTA is a dangerous move

Mar 052009
 
 05/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:01 on 05/03/2009 1 Response »
Violating NAFTA is a dangerous move

If Congress doesn’t like certain provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it can ask President Barack Obama to renegotiate its terms. In fact on the campaign trail, candidate Obama pledged to do just that. What Congress and the White House shouldn’t do is unilaterally abrogate a trade agreement. Violating treaty obligations cheapens the diplomatic stature of the United States, making it harder to negotiate such agreements. And it encourages retaliation that harms U.S. economic interests. In this case, Congress is reneging on a 15-year-old obligation to open the border to long-haul trucking. The southern border, that is. Canadian ….Read More

Dead-end road – Barring Mexican trucks violates NAFTA

Mar 052009
 
 05/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 15:47 on 05/03/2009 2 Responses »
Dead-end road - Barring Mexican trucks violates NAFTA

 Democrats in Congress seem poised, perhaps with the blessing of the Obama administration, to take trade policy down a dead-end road by effectively barring Mexican trucks from U.S. highways. The Senate is debating a spending bill that would kill a project that encourages cross-border trucking, as required by the North American Free Trade Agreement. The issue of Mexican trucks is the bad penny of U.S. trade policy. It doesn’t go away. This has been a crusade of congressional Democrats since the passage of NAFTA more than 15 years ago. And now that Democrats control both houses of Congress and the ….Read More

Showdown looms over Mexican Truck Program – Will Obama do the right thing?

Mar 052009
 
 05/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 14:57 on 05/03/2009 2 Responses »
Showdown looms over Mexican Truck Program - Will Obama do the right thing?

“This is protectionism. It has nothing to do with the safety or security of American roads,”

Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

Mar 032009
 
 03/03/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:57 on 03/03/2009 Comments Off
Mexican Troops number 3,000 arrive in Cd. Juarez

More than 3,000 Mexican troops arrived during the weekend in Juárez as part of what authorities have described as a frontal assault on crime in the coming weeks.   The new soldiers, which are in addition to the 2,000 already assigned to Joint Operation Chihuahua, were deployed after a meeting last week among high-level Mexican government officials in Juárez. More troops, including intelligence units, are expected to arrive in the next few days, said Enrique Torres, a spokesman for Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began a year ago in the federal government’s battle against drug cartels and rising crime. On Sunday, ….Read More

U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter: February 19 – February 25

Feb 282009
 
 28/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 17:41 on 28/02/2009 Comments Off
U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter: February 19 - February 25

Harlingen Texas – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested by Cameron County Sheriff’s Department deputies after an investigation into allegations that he had a sexual relation with a 14-year-old girl. Francisco Villanueva, 35, was charged Wednesday with soliciting sexual relations with a minor, which is a second-degree felony, and engaging in sexual acts with a minor, a third- degree felony, said Sheriff Omar Lucio. Bond was set on Villanueva at $30,000 for soliciting a minor and $20,000 on the second charge. “The investigation started on Feb. 1 when the mother . . . came in and spoke with our ….Read More

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