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Phoenix’s branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on Friday it took 18 automatic weapons bound for Mexico off Arizona streets before they got south of the border.
The guns were heading to drug cartels in Mexico from the U.S., said William Newell, special agent in charge, ATF, Phoenix field division.
Newell said [...]

Vigilantes on U.S. border say they’re compassionate, even save illegal immigrants’ lives
The “Viagra Vigilantes” aka The Minutemen want you to know they are humanitarians, and they can be quite persuasive.
They say they are not vigilantes or racists. They understand the impulse to come to America, to feed a family. They might do it themselves [...]

An interesting and neutral article regarding the renewed attempts to free convicted felons Ramos and Compean appeared in todays San Antonio Express News
The article confirms what I have said all along here about the involvement of Ignacio Ramos’ father in law in successfully having this case tried in the court of public opinion which did [...]

The violations discovered in the bus belonging to Angel Tours that crashed in Sherman Texas Friday morning points to the stupidty and ignorance of a small percentage of people obsessed with ending the Cross Border Pilot Program, which has operated safely for the past 11 months, while ignoring American common carriers who flaunt and ignore [...]

Previously, Mexico Trucker reported on the beating death of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, Department of Justice (DOJ) Spokeswoman Jamie Hais announced that the FBI and the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ have started investigations into the beating death of Ramirez. The opening of these investigations follows [...]

The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down it’s ruling yesterday in the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean and Justice was affirmed. US Judge Katherine Carbone was foud to have run a fair trial and the verdict hinged on who the Jury or 12 chose to believe. The Prosecution or the [...]

The circuit court said today that “the trial of the case was conducted fairly and without reversible error.” It affirmed the men’s convictions on five counts each, including counts of discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence, which the court said carries a minimum term of

The latest wave of sick and perverted hatred from the nativists who seem to control elements of talk radio comes in the form of Jon Justice a wannabe talk show host on 104.1 The Truth, an FM talk station in Tucson Arizona.
It began with a rally against Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio stepped up [...]

How ironic is it that one of the anti immigrant groups, Americans for Legal Immigration, whose agenda, despite their seemingly innocent name, is to force upon the American public their protectionist, racist and nativist agenda, have allegedly been doing the very thing, they wrongly accuse illegal immigrants of doing, EVADING TAXES!
And the trolls that ALIPAC [...]

The governing idea behind NAFTA is to remove trade restrictions so as to encourage the free-flow of goods and services across the North American continent. Along the U.S. – Mexican border, however, the reality is that the ground transportation of such goods remains highly congested and drawn out. Long-haul trucks from Mexico are restricted from [...]

EL PASO — Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents arrested a San Elizario, Texas man on Thursday after he was indicted on sex tourism charges, authorities said.
A federal grand jury indicted Gustavo Solis-Martinez, 35, on July 16 for allegedly traveling out of the country with the intent of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a [...]

For the past few years, Lou Dobbs has led anti-immigrant forces against amnesty, against illegal Mexicans, against Mexico, against his own government, and against the truth.
His rants have been less than truthful; once almost causing a panic in the United States when he brought forth on his show the issue of illegal Mexicans coming over [...]

“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

World Net Daily is reporting that Judicial Watch a so called “watchdog” group has filed suit against the US Government in an attempt to obtain details on the immunity agreement given Osvaldo Aldrete-Davilla for his testimony against ex Border Patrol Agents and convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean who without provocation, shot him in [...]

With the addition of the Mexican state of Coahuila to the list of cleared states on the Center for Disease Controls list of approved retailers, evidence is pointing away from Mexico as a source of the contamination for the recent salmonella outbreak.
Mexico is the major source of tomatoes for US consumption during the winter months. [...]

Yesterday was the tenth month of the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program and an assessment of the performance of the participants reveals no surprises, at least for me. For those who oppose the program, the results might be an eye opener disputing Jimmy Hoffa’s claims of “dangerous Mexican trucks”. Ironically, it coincided with Byron Dorgan’s [...]

RAMOS ARIZPE,Coahuila, Mexico (MTN) — A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot, Lon Macintosh of Middletown Ohio, and severely injuring the co-pilot, Christopher Martin.
The plane crashed before dawn Sunday half a mile (one kilometer) from the runway in Ramos Arizpe, [...]