Mexico Builds Border Wall To Keep Out US Assholes
21/06/2009
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In a “letter of intent” signed Monday between the United States and Mexico, U.S. border agents will start checking vehicles entering Mexico for guns and drug money. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens committed their countries to strengthen co-operation in both law enforcement and trade compliance. “Our view is that we can either point fingers at each other or we can work together,” said Napolitano. “People traveling south across the border will see more license-plate scanners and more canine teams in place.” Part of the package includes working towards producing a single customs form ….Read More
Jan 172009
17/01/2009
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Two Mexican soldiers and a security guard were temporarily detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing into United States on Friday at the Paso del Norte Bridge in Downtown El Paso, a CBP spokesman said. The guard and uniformed soldiers, who were armed, were stopped about 2 p.m. near the foot of the bridge on the U.S. side, said Roger Maier, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. The type of firearm carried by the soldiers was not immediately available. The three detainees were interviewed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, released without charges and returned ….Read More
13/01/2009
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Last Tuesday Mayor John Cook vetoed a unanimous city council resolution asking the U.S. Government to have a serious discussion about legalizing narcotics. On Tuesday, city council will have an opportunity to overturn the veto. City Councilman Beto O’Rourke put the item back on the agenda. The amendment to have the drug discussion is part of a bigger resolution introduced by the Border Relations Committee. The idea of the resolution was to show support for Mexico during this violent time. However, the committee says once O’Rourke’s amendment was added to the equation everything else in the resolution, like cracking down ….Read More
12/11/2008
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International truck freight will cross the border in Laredo more efficiently starting Jan. 5 when the World Trade Bridge expands operations to 24 hours a day, five days a week in a six-month U.S.-Mexico pilot test program. The main beneficiaries will be grocery stores in Texas and Mexico because of more timely deliveries of perishable goods, and factories that operate around the clock and need just-in-time deliveries. “The benefit will be seen all up and down the supply chain,” said Roger Creery, Laredo Development Foundation executive director. A formal announcement of the bridge’s expanded hours will be made today ….Read More
20/10/2008
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Starr County commissioners this morning, accepted the resignation submitted by Starr County Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra over the weekend County Judge Eloy Vera said said the sheriff’s office would for now be under the command of Chief Deputy Rene Fuentes, who is next in the chain of command. Since Guerra was running unopposed in the Nov. 4 election, he effectively starts a new term as sheriff in January, Vera said. It is not yet known whether he plans to withdraw his candidacy. “At that time the topic will come up again,” Vera said. U.S. Magistrate Dorina Ramos had expressed concerns ….Read More
17/10/2008
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What is without a doubt, the most stupid announcement to be made on the border this century, authorities announced a larger Border Patrol presence and that more heavily armed deputies will be authorized to return fire across the Mexican border. A larger Border Patrol presence? No problems with that. but cowboys with automatic weapons authorized to fire across an international border into a sovereign country? Operation “River Freedom Denial” will target areas along the Rio Grande in the southern tip of Texas where violence has risen lately with more ground and air resources, said Border Patrol sector chief Ronald Vitiello
07/10/2008
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry has been indicted in San Antonio for trying to smuggle marijuana and cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint north of Del Rio. Alex Moses Jr., 28, was indicted Wednesday on one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute it and with one count of importation of cocaine. According to a probable cause affidavit on file in the U.S. District Clerk’s Office here, Moses was arrested at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 277 about 30 miles north of Del Rio on Sunday, ….Read More
Sep 242008
24/09/2008
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Border Patrol recruits “Bubba’s” in South Carolina, Georgia The U.S. Border Patrol brings its hiring blitz South this weekend. The agency recruits in four locations on Saturday in South Carolina and Georgia. Two years ago, President Bush said he wanted to hire 6,000 more Border Patrol agents by the end of 2008. The agency needs to hire more than 800 by Dec. 31 to meet the goal. The agency is responsible for patrolling 7,000 miles of border. Starting pay ranges from $36,000 to $46,000 a year. In South Carolina, recruiting is set in North Charleston at the Embassy Suites at ….Read More