The U.S. Border Patrol is preparing to implement tougher punishments on undocumented immigrants entering the United States from Mexico, to change the revolving door policy that has been in place for years. Instead of simply being sent back across the border to try again, immigrants captured on the U.S. side will now face harsher consequences for [...]
Federal authorities captured a Mexican motorboat with over a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles early Wednesday, arresting 10 suspects in the latest of a growing number of West Coast maritime smuggling attempts. U.S. Border Patrol agents found the 27-foot craft packed with numerous bales of marijuana on the coast of Ventura County shortly before dawn, according to [...]
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
Arrests of illegal migrants crossing the US-Mexico border have plunged to levels not seen since the early ’70s, according to tallies released by the US Department of Homeland Security, a major change which could affect the debate over immigration reform. The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers in fiscal year 2011, numbers not seen since [...]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency added a second Predator B aircraft in Texas in October and will soon deploy another based in Arizona, bring total active drones on the Mexico border up to six by the end of the year. Since they were first deployed six years ago, the unmanned aircraft are credited [...]
Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora, point man for that nation’s ongoing war against violent drug cartels, died Friday when his helicopter crashed route to a meeting of judicial officials. He was 45. Blake Mora was President Felipe Calderon’s sword bearer in the bloody military and law-enforcement push against traffickers, frequently traveling to violence-racked cities [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon this week accused the United States of dumping criminals at the border to avoid the cost of prosecuting them, and claimed the practice has increased violence in Mexico’s border region. US officials have reported a record number of deportations in fiscal year 2011, and said the number deported with criminal convictions [...]
Mexican authorities have reported that a minimum of 20 prisoners were killed and 12 injured in Saturday rioting at a prison housing drug gang members in the violent border city of Matamoros. According to the Tamaulipas state government’s public security office, fighting broke out between two inmates but quickly spread among dozens more. Federal and [...]
Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
Governors along the U.S.-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to study the possibility of shared databases to exchange suspect DNA and other biometric data in order to curb the flow of guns and drugs between the two countries. The agreement was announced at the end of an annual conference of regional leaders from both sides of [...]
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