Some truckers plan boycott over Arizona immigration law SB-1070

Apr 242010
 
 24/04/2010  Posted by PMC at 19:35 on 24/04/2010 6 Responses »
Some truckers plan boycott over Arizona immigration law SB-1070

WASHINGTON — Two or three times a week, truck driver Jesus Serrano hauls loads of Mexican-grown produce from warehouses in Nogales, Ariz. , which is just across the U.S.- Mexico border, to distribution centers in Los Angeles . Serrano plans to stop making the trip now that Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a stringent anti-illegal immigration bill into law, however, and he’s recruited other truckers to join him. Serrano, the independent owner-operator of a Los Angeles -based trucking company, said that about 70 drivers based in California and Arizona had agreed to stop moving loads into or out ….Read More

US – Mexico Joint effort targets border crime

Feb 192010
 
 19/02/2010  Posted by PMC at 08:28 on 19/02/2010 Comments Off
US - Mexico Joint effort targets border crime

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 ….Read More

Immigration Debate: Border Fence Provision Cut From Bill

Oct 172009
 
 17/10/2009  Posted by PMC at 23:13 on 17/10/2009 Comments Off
Immigration Debate: Border Fence Provision Cut From Bill

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.

Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

Sep 242009
 
 24/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 14:46 on 24/09/2009 Comments Off
Like the Minutemen, Texas Rangers not welcome at the border

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 ….Read More

Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:54 on 23/09/2009 Comments Off
Drug War a Failure in U.S., Mexico

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 ….Read More

Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses

Sep 232009
 
 23/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:39 on 23/09/2009 1 Response »
Shootout at US-Mexico border and the actors are making excuses

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 ….Read More

Rio Grande Valley Sheriff’s want nothing to do with 287(g)

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:38 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off

“I am considering being a part of it — only on the detention side,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. “I would never do the enforcement. I won’t even help.”

Bus company ordered to pay $5.2 million in bus crash case

Sep 012009
 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:34 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off
Bus company ordered to pay $5.2 million in bus crash case

An Hidalgo County jury has entered a $5.2 million judgment against a Mexican bus company it deemed partially responsible for the 2007 deaths of three Edinburg women, their family’s attorney said Monday. Virginia Salinas, 28, and her 71-year-old grandmother, Irene Garza, died Nov. 10 of that year, when a truck they were riding in collided with a bus operated by Monterrey-based Autobuses Del Noreste. Salinas’ 9-year-old daughter — Veronica — was also killed in the crash. Evidence presented during the week long trial suggested that bus driver Victor Torres overshot a stop sign outside of Los Herreras, N.L. — a ….Read More

Mexico replaces Customs Agents, upgrades border security

Aug 172009
 
 17/08/2009  Posted by PMC at 20:34 on 17/08/2009 1 Response »
Mexico replaces Customs Agents, upgrades border security

Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties. The shake-up — part of a broader effort to root out corruption and improve vigilance at Mexican ports with new technology — doubled the size of Mexico’s customs inspection force. The inspectors were replaced with 1,400 agents who have undergone background checks and months of training, Tax Administration Service spokesman Pedro Canabal said Sunday. He said the previous inspectors were not fired. Instead, government did not rehire them when ….Read More

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