CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin says cross-border trucking will be secure

Mar 312011
 
 31/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 20:12 on 31/03/2011 Comments Off
CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin says cross-border trucking will be secure

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 ….Read More

Stolen Canadian Plane Invades US Airspace – Pursued by USAF F-16′s

Apr 072009
 
 07/04/2009  Posted by PMC at 11:47 on 07/04/2009 Comments Off
Stolen Canadian Plane Invades US Airspace - Pursued by USAF F-16's

While the loons have had our attention focused on the southern border using their fear tactics of imminent invasion by hordes of cartel members, Hazbollah, Al-queda and anything else they can think of to stoke our fears, a stolen Cessna 172 crossed into US airspace from Canada, and made it all the way to Missouri escorted by a pair of F-16 Interceptors. In Missouri, it landed on a highway in Elsinore Missouri and the pilot fled on foot only to be apprehended by Missouri Highway Patrol officers. Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado (NORAD), ….Read More

Borders Secure against nuclear and bio-hazards says Chertoff

Jul 162008
 
 16/07/2008  Posted by PMC at 22:15 on 16/07/2008 Comments Off
Borders Secure against nuclear and bio-hazards says Chertoff

“We also scan 100 percent of truck cargo entering the United States from Mexico and more than 90 percent of the truck cargo entering the United States from Canada. Just a few years ago, we didn’t scan any of this cargo for radiation” – Michael Chertoff
Secretary of Homeland Security

One dead in gun battle between Military and Narcos in Cd. Mier

May 022008
 
 02/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:46 on 02/05/2008 Comments Off
One dead in gun battle between Military and Narcos in Cd. Mier

NUEVO LAREDO – A gunfight between military forces and alleged drug traffickers that lasted more than an hour in the predawn hours Wednesday left one soldier dead and at least three others injured, authorities confirmed Thursday.An unknown number of traffickers also were killed and injured, authorities said. The assault occurred in Ciudad Mier, about 60 miles east of Nuevo Laredo, at about 1 a.m. Wednesday, said Gen. Rigoberto García Cortés, head of the border military forces headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, at a news conference Thursday. The national Defense Department reported that after the gunfight, soldiers searched two sport utility vehicles ….Read More

Rick Flores takes it back; Sheriff wins by 133 votes

May 022008
 
 02/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:25 on 02/05/2008 5 Responses »

Webb County Sheriff\'s Office – Laredo Texas More than 14 hours after the recount of the ballots cast in the April 8 runoff for the Webb County sheriff’s race began, a new victor has emerged.Sheriff Rick Flores was declared the winner over challenger Martin Cuellar by 133 votes. Flores garnered 13,128 votes to Cuellar’s 12,995. Flores initially was reported to have lost the contest by 37. A packed house at the Webb County Justice Center waited until well past 10 p.m. for any sign that the more than 26,000 ballots cast had been finished being recounted when a smiling Flores ….Read More

Military occupation of US Border to end in August

Mar 222008
 
 22/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 14:16 on 22/03/2008 Comments Off

TUCSON, Ariz. — A program that has rotated thousands of National Guardsmen along the Mexican border to augment U.S. Border Patrol agents comes to a close in four months, despite calls by at least one border governor to extend the Guard’s mission. Operation Jump Start began in mid-2006, deploying up to 6,000 troops at a time during the first 12 months in non-enforcement roles that freed up Border Patrol agents for front-line duty. Through January, the National Guard Bureau spent more than $1 billion on the program — nearly $212 million in the 2006 fiscal year, $687 million in fiscal ….Read More

Senate GOP pushes strict bills on immigration enforcement

Mar 052008
 
 05/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:14 on 05/03/2008 Comments Off

Editors Notes: What utter crap! With our economy in the crapper, Bush’s Iraq fiasco. And now this meaningless piece of legislation, which with luck, will never clear committee. Let’s see, 2 years imprisonment for crossing the border a second time, as if our prisons are not already overcrowded. Can’t open bank accounts when most don’t have bank accounts and have no desire for one, and the kicker, speak English when dealing with a Federal Agency, as if they have any dealings with Federal Agencies other than the Border Patrol?  And one wonders why the GOP is getting their ass kicked ….Read More

No to a border wall in Laredo – It will not help

Mar 022008
 
 02/03/2008  Posted by PMC at 09:44 on 02/03/2008 Comments Off

A border wall does nothing but represent racism and fear, said David Almaraz, president of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, at a protest Saturday morning.Almaraz was one of approximately 75 Laredo residents who marched from San Agustin Plaza to City Hall in protest of a border wall. Alongside the residents were several city and county officials, all of whom expressed strong opposition to the federal government’s move to build a fence. “All the walls we know in history have come tumbling down,” said District III Councilman Michael Landeck. As the protesters marched their way down the streets of ….Read More

Mexico Crackdown – Federal forces in control of border

Jan 232008
 
 23/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 10:00 on 23/01/2008 Comments Off
Mexico Crackdown - Federal forces in control of border

They have us (stunned). If they know who to take, then they should fulfill their responsibility,” said one officer, who asked not to be identified. “They have lists. They have been working for some time on gathering intelligence and they know the bad officers.”

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