US – Mexico Joint effort targets border crime

On 02.19.10, In Border News, ICE & CBP, By PMC

In the 1990s, the Border Patrol worked closely with Grupo Beta, an elite Mexican police unit. After a promising start, the unit faltered under allegations of wrongdoing and functions today as an unarmed humanitarian agency.

In a politically sensitive operation at the Arizona- Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican federal police officers are training together, sharing intelligence and coordinating patrols for the first time.

The goal of the historic partnership: a systematic joint attack on northbound flows of drugs and migrants, and southbound shipments of guns and cash. It is part of a major, unannounced crackdown started in recent months involving hundreds of U.S. and Mexican officers in the border’s busiest smuggling corridor.

The initiative appears likely to expand. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna will sign a declaration Thursday in Mexico City agreeing to replicate the experiment. Eventually, officials say, joint operations borderwide could lead to the creation of a Mexican force serving as a counterpart to the Border Patrol — an agency once regarded with nationalistic aversion in Mexico.
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Immigration Debate: Border Fence Provision Cut From Bill

On 10.17.09, In Border News, By PMC

The border wall along the US Mexico border. America's shame and an insult to our neighbors to the south

The border wall along the US Mexico border. America's shame and an insult to our neighbors to the south

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, says a provision to build more fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border was cut out of a federal spending bill.

The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday the provision, which would have added 300 miles to current border fencing, is no longer part of a $42.8 billion spending bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

On 09.24.09, In Border News, Fear Factor, By PMC
"We don't need the Texas Rangers to come to the border to quell any imaginary disturbance," said Lupe Trevino, vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Southwest Border Task Force.

"We don't need the Texas Rangers to come to the border to quell any imaginary disturbance," said Lupe Trevino, vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Southwest Border Task Force.

McALLEN, Texas — Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.

A couple of shots over their heads from his hunting rifle kept nine of them, all Mexican citizens, in place until Border Patrol agents arrived.

“It has really gotten to be pretty spooky,” said Landry, who has run cattle in the area for 29 years.

Stories like Landry’s seem to bolster Gov. Rick Perry’s recent decision to send elite teams from the state’s top law enforcement agency, the Texas Rangers, to remote borderlands to help them with security and deter a spillover of the gruesome drug-war violence plaguing Mexico. But Landry’s situation never grew violent, and many other ranchers, sheriffs and politicians along Texas’ 1,200 mile border with Mexico found the governor’s announcement puzzling.
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Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

On 09.23.09, In Border News, Narco Wars, By PMC

Victims of the violence in Cd Juarez is more evidence of the failed US and Mexico drug policies. Mexico has decriminalized amounts for personal use while the US continues to turn a blind eye to the problem.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Victims of the violence in Cd Juarez is more evidence of the failed US and Mexico drug policies. Mexico has decriminalized amounts for personal use while the US continues to turn a blind eye to the problem.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

EL PASO, Texas – Academics, journalists and officials said at a conference here that the war on drugs has been a failure in both the United States and Mexico, and that the wave of violence has forced many Mexicans to flee their country and silenced journalists.

“Organized crime has Mexican society on the border very quiet and on its knees,” Alfredo Corchado, a correspondent in Mexico for the Dallas Morning News, said Monday at the Global Public Policy Forum on the U.S. War on Drugs, being hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso.

Luis Astorga, a researcher with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said criminal organizations in the states of Sinaloa and Tamaulipas control drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexican border.

The drug cartels became more brutal when they started employing former soldiers, who introduced paramilitary tactics to lay down the law for rivals, Astorga said.
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Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses

On 09.23.09, In Border News, Headlines, ICE & CBP, By PMC

Officers from Tijuana PD and Federal Police gather on Mexican side of the US-Mexico border after arresting a 17 yo juvenile who fled back into Mexico after the US Border Patrols murderous attempt to stop three vans of human smugglers

Officers from Tijuana PD and Federal Police gather on Mexican side of the US-Mexico border after arresting a 17 yo juvenile who fled back into Mexico after the US Border Patrols murderous attempt to stop three vans of human smugglers

Three Mexican men were arrested on federal human-trafficking charges on Wednesday, and 75 Mexicans were detained as illegal immigrants, after three vans in which they were riding tried to run through the border station at San Diego on Tuesday afternoon, federal immigration and San Diego police officials said.

CBP officers FIRED ACROSS NINE LANES OF TRAFFIC in an attempt to stop the vans at one of the United States busiest land crossing borders that sees and average of 40,000 vehicles a day

Two of the people in the van were injured, one critically and one with non life threatening injuries and were taken to area hospitals.
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