Mexican Forensic team examines the body of 15 year old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca, murdered in cold blood by a cowardly US Border Patrol officer Jesus Mesa Jr. who sent multiple rounds across the Mexican/US border.
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 shot and killed 15 year old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca who was standing behind a bridge pillar on Mexican soil.
The US Department of Justice launched an investigation and the results of that investigation were released on Friday
In essence, it said that Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mara Jr. “did not act inconsistently with CBP policy or training regarding use of force.” and that ” there was insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal charges against Border Patrol agent Jesus Mara Jr.”
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This new "super coop" scheduled to open in the summer of 2012 will continue the Texas DPS and FMCSA policy of inspecting each and every truck crossing the border in Texas
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 the first of it’s kind “Super Coop” at the Colombia border crossing in Laredo Texas this summer. This will be the first of it’s kind within the state of Texas and has been built to inspect “all trucks” crossing into the United States from Mexico.
This must be the “special treatment” that OOIDA unwittingly mentioned in a recent article.
The inspection stations, which a CBP officer and former Federal DOT officer described as “a tremendous waste of money and a testament to stupidity” features 4 pull though inspection bays, 2 haz-mat trap pits, weight in motion and static scales and a large parking area for Mexican drivers to park and conduct their business with the troopers.
The facility has been built about a 1/4 mile from the old inspection facility and once in operation, will be fully staffed and operational during the hours the commercial crossing is open, as is required under congressional rules.
Special treatment for the Mexicans? You bet your ass and nothing in the NAFTA truck rules prescribes this treatment. And there is nothing remotely resembling this for our Canadian cousins who cross the northern border at will.
So the inspection of “each and every truck” that crosses the southern border in Texas, specifically Laredo, will continue at an much higher rate and frequency. And as the same CBP officer I spoke with further stated, “The stupidity of it is that it’s not needed. The trucks we see crossing here are in better shape than what you guys are driving”. I couldn’t agree with him more.
So remember kiddies and kiddettes, the next time Hoffa says something about those “dangerous, dirty, unsafe Mexican trucks” or OOIDA mentions something about the Mexicans getting special treatment or being giving “waivers” of our safety rules, and even when Dale “Trucking Bozo” Sommer’s and other radioheads regale you with tales of no regulations in Mexico, Mexican CDL’s available on street corners and no databases in Mexico, they’re all taking advantage of you ignorance and blowing smoke up your asses as they have been for the past 15 years.
CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin
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 attack in New York as a way to keep the global supply chain flowing and while securing the country from an outside attack. Seven companies were involved with the program when it began as a method in which global shippers share cargo data and enact security strategies as they build a level of “trust” in Customs officials. Today, more than 10,000 trucking companies have C-TPAT certification.
During his speech, Bersin gave his approval to the recent agreement between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to resolve the longstanding dispute over America’s compliance with our NAFTA obligations.
In his speech, Bersin said;
“The president agreed there would be a program whereby in a very certified way, in a very careful and deliberate way, Mexican long-haul trucks would be able to travel with their cargo across the border and on into the states.
It’s a big breakthrough for NAFTA, for North American competitiveness, for support of the Mexican economy and the US economy”
Despite claims to the contrary by opponents of Mexican trucking and Mexico in general, Mexican trucking companies have been eligible to join the C-TPAT program since 2008 and a good number of them have joined the program. Bersin expects the C-TPAT program to play an even stronger role at the US-Mexico border.
Bersin went on to say;
“C-TPAT is an important way to approach the problem. For that reason, we are cooperating with Mexican Customs to help Mexico to establish its own version of C-TPAT. Mexico’s Alliance for Secure Business is adopting many of the security strategies and principles of C-TPAT.
Downstream, I expect that we will be able to have mutual recognition — that is that a company recognized by C-TPAT will be recognized by the Mexican program and visa versa.”
Like the majority of truckers caught hauling contraband, American trucker Wayne West of Balch Springs Texas was doing it to make a few extra bucks
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 charged with transporting illegal immigrants, according to court documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Laredo. He’s scheduled for a detention hearing on Friday.
His attorney, Russell Jordan, said he couldn’t say much about the case because the investigation is still being done, but he noted that the trailer was refrigerated and no one was injured.
An inspection dog alerted border agents to the presence of people or drugs in the trailer during the stop, authorities said.
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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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US-Canada border crossing at Blaine Washington
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 by CBP officers of the Blaine Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team working in concert with agents of the Border Enforcement Security Task Force at the Pacific Highway port of entry. A narcotic detector dog named “Mac” was used to search the truck and trailer and gave a positive alert to the presence of a narcotic odor.
During a detailed inspection of the trailer officers discovered a secret compartment concealing 24 cardboard boxes which contained a total of 76 bricks of an unknown substance which field tested positive for cocaine.
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CBP agents with one of the vans involved in the border incident at San Ysdiro POE
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 the Mexicans who were affected by the incident” Tuesday afternoon at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the secretariat said in a statement.
The border crossing, which links San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was shut down around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday after the U.S. agents opened fire on three vans believed to be carrying illegal immigrants that tried to evade inspection.
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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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