1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The story behind the story

Aug 212011
 
 21/08/2011  Posted by PMC at 13:50 on 21/08/2011 Comments Off
1 million truck violations cited at border crossing? The story behind the story

Today’s El Paso Times has a piece out titled “1 Million Truck Violations Cited at Border Crossing”by Diana Washington who has in the past been a reputable reporter on things concerning the US/Mexico border in El Paso. But the story is misleading and just the sort of thing we expect OOIDA to jump on first thing tomorrow morning. So let’s defuse this bomb before they have a chance to use it. The story reads in full; Texas state inspectors in El Paso have found thousands of safety violations in trucks coming from Mexico, including bad brakes, flat tires, axle problems ….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

Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

Jan 242009
 
 24/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 10:54 on 24/01/2009 Comments Off
Drug-related kidnappings in El Paso hard to pin down but ICE stands by 6

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings last year while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. Three major law enforcement agencies are in disagreement over the number of kidnappings in El Paso last year that were connected to the drug trade and ongoing cartel war in Juarez. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency counts six kidnappings while the El Paso Police Department contends there were none at all. “We have not had one kidnapping related to anything going on in Mexico reported to the El Paso Police Department,” Officer Chris Mears, ….Read More

El Paso City Council To Debate Legalizing Drugs

Jan 132009
 
 13/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:44 on 13/01/2009 Comments Off

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

U.S.-Mexico drug war: We’re clucking like chickens

Jan 112009
 
 11/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 09:11 on 11/01/2009 2 Responses »

By showing true mettle and grit — by standing with staid backbones — Beto O’Rourke and the seven other city representatives sent others running for the proverbial hills, like chickens, Tuesday. Mayor John Cook and U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes couldn’t run fast enough, bwaak, bwaak. It boiled down to simply asking Congress to at least discuss the feasibility of making drug use legal as a way of breaking the backs of drug cartels. At issue is the war zone that is Juárez, and figuring out how to stop the mobster drug lords and their armies, who rule that city of ….Read More

U.S.-Mexico border fence is deja vu all over again

Jan 042009
 
 04/01/2009  Posted by PMC at 00:15 on 04/01/2009 1 Response »

One of the most interesting things about years passing and thinking that we progress from year to year is finding out how little some things really change. An Associated Press article out of Washington that appeared in the May 21, 1942, El Paso Herald-Post. The headline “Senate Okays $50,000 For E.P. Border Fence.” “The senate voted $50,000 today to build a 25-mile long barbed-wire fence along the Mexican border west of El Paso, although Minority Leader McNary questioned the wisdom of using essential materials for such a project. How does this jibe with our good neighbor policy toward Mexico?’ McNary ….Read More

Otero County NM sheriff ordered to halt illegal raids and traffic stops

Sep 232008
 
 23/09/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:33 on 23/09/2008 Comments Off
Otero County NM sheriff ordered to halt illegal raids and traffic stops

EL PASO — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction banning Otero County NM sheriff’s deputies from making unlawful stops, intimidation and other unlawful actions targeting undocumented immigrants in Chaparral NM. The decision was issued Friday by Chief U.S. District Judge Martha Vázquez of the New Mexico district. The ruling was a victory for the Border Network for Human Rights represented by the Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project, which filed a lawsuit in October alleging civil rights violations committed by deputies in the semi-rural community north of El Paso. The injunction was requested in March. “This is an ….Read More

Soldiers detained for taking guns into Mexico, released in Cd. Juarez

May 312008
 
 31/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:24 on 31/05/2008 Comments Off
Soldiers detained for taking guns into Mexico, released in Cd. Juarez

“I have no bad feelings, but I just want to go home,” he said. “I have no bad feelings against Mexico or the people of Mexico.”

El Paso commissioners pass anti-border wall resolution

May 062008
 
 06/05/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:28 on 06/05/2008 Comments Off

EL PASO — County commissioners are opposing construction of a wall along the nation’s southern border with a resolution. The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted 3-1 Monday in favor of a resolution that calls for stopping the building of the border wall and says local law enforcement officials should not enforce federal immigration laws. The resolution also emphasizes placing a moratorium on immigration raids, ensuring the enforcement of labor laws and civil protection regardless of a worker’s immigration status and stopping programs that criminalize immigrants. Commissioner Veronica Escobar said the commissioners aren’t advocating having open borders or not enforcing ….Read More

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