Good and the bad about DHS
Over the last four years, a half dozen Mexican families have suffered the loss of one of their family members as a result of Border Patrol shootings. All of the fatalities were of unarmed men, were Mexican and in Mexican territory. The Supreme Court will likely decide the fate of legal efforts to hold the … Read more…
Today on the front page of El Universal, the declaration of a protected witness in the federal (PGR) case against El Chapo Guzman says that the US Border Patrol escorted trucks of weapons to the border, abandoned the vehicles and assisted members of the Sinaloa Cartel who then took the guns into Mexico. The declarations come … Read more…
An autopsy report released to the media Thursday proves that 16 year old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was wantonly and maliciously murdered by a still unidentified US Border Patrol agent as he was walking along a street in Nogales Sonora that parallels the border fence. The report, provided to media outlets by the attorney for the … Read more…
A surveillance camera overlooking the area where US Border Patrol agents wantonly murdered a 16 year old Mexican national was operational and recorded the entire incident according to a statement released Saturday by the agency. “There was camera footage and it was turned over to the FBI. It’s now considered evidence, so it was turned … Read more…
Once again, with blatant disregard for a human life, human rights or an allied nations sovereignty, US Border Patrol agents have murdered a Mexican teenager in another cross border shooting. The agents in Nogales, Ariz., had responded to reports of two suspected drugs smugglers near the border at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The agents watched … Read more…
The city of El Paso Texas will be testing an innovative pilot program aimed at reducing the crossing wait times at the Zaragosa international bridge in El Paso. The city of El Paso entered into a $195,000.00 contract with Secure Origins, Inc. to initiate a 90-day pilot program using a technology system known as Project 21 … Read more…
Another US trucker has been caught trying to smuggle more than 9,000 rounds of prohibited ammunition and arms into Mexico. The latest person arrested is Atanacio Gonzalez Torres, 43, an American citizen living in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He is scheduled to be brought before a U.S. magistrate judge in Laredo this … Read more…
Earlier this year, we reported on the story of the attempted murder of Mexican trucker by US Border Patrol agent Abel Canales and how, like most Border Patrol agents who murder, or attempt to murder migrants in either country, Abel Canales was not charged for his crimes. Instead, about a month later, he was indicted … Read more…
Jesus Castro Romo is a father of two who lives with his wife in Nogales Mexico across the border from Nogales Arizona. Until about a year and a half ago, Jesus was a dump truck driver in Mexico and when work was slow would cross into the US to do landscape work to support his … Read more…
The outcome of the case against the US trucker charged with smuggling 268,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico last week could be further complicated by the conclusions of an investigationreleased by the US Department of Justice on Friday. On June 7, 2010, Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mara Jr, according to witnesses and video, without provocation … Read more…
OOIDA finally got something at least “half-right” concerning the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program when they said in a recent comment; FMCSA intends to give special treatment to Mexico–domiciled motor carriers under the proposed pilot program, not ‘national treatment’ as required under NAFTA. The Texas Department of Public Safety is set to put into service … Read more…
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin expressed strong confidence Wednesday in San Diego at a seminar to mark the 10th anniversary of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, most commonly known by its acronym C-TPAT, that Mexican trucks and the Mexican trucking program will be secure and successful. C-TPAT was started after the 9/11 terrorist … Read more…
LAREDO — Border agents found 48 illegal immigrants in the back of a tractor trailer during a routine stop at a checkpoint in south Texas. The trailer was refrigerated, according to the driver’s attorney, and all of those in the trailer declined medical treatment, immigration officials said. The driver, Wayne West of Balch Springs, was … Read more…
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. … Read more…
Blaine, Wash. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a 43-year-old Surrey, British Columbia, man on October 10 for allegedly attempting to export 192 pounds of cocaine, worth more than $3 million. Sukhvinder Shoker, a Canadian citizen, was originally en route to Canada driving a commercial shipment of household goods when he was encountered … Read more…
MEXICO CITY – The three Mexicans who were injured when U.S. federal agents opened fire on several vehicles to prevent them from entering the United States illegally are out of danger and have received consular protection, the Foreign Relations Secretariat said. “The Consulate General of Mexico in San Diego is carrying out actions to protect … Read more…