Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
The abductors, who were not apprehended in Tuesday night’s rescue, were seeking between $8,000 and $10,000 from [...]
2010 Sep 03 | Posted in
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A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday.
The marines fought the cartel gunmen [...]
This week, California became the first state to be provided with resources to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico. The move is a part of a promise from the Obama administration to secure the border. Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was proud to be the first state to [...]
SAN DIEGO — The federal government is expanding a multi-agency policing program at the U.S.-Mexico border to improve security at the nation’s sea ports.
John Morton, the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the announcement Tuesday at the annual meeting of the program, called the Border Enforcement Security Task Force.
Morton says the program has [...]
The Cartel Alliance between “Sinaloa” and ”La Familia” is strongly anchored in five states of the mexican Pacific Coast. The recent death of druglord Nacho Coronel consolidated the leadership of “Chapo” Guzman within the Sinaloa Cartel and its alliance with “La Familia”. The mexican authorities believe that these groups control now the inputs of materials for [...]
2010 Aug 15 | Posted in
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Human Trafficking is a global industry that transcends borders, regions, and cultures. Within the Western Hemisphere trafficking is an important issue that arguably helps to shape relations between Latin American and the United States. In June 2010, the State Department Report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) included, for the first time, in its ten year [...]
In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
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PHOENIX — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had inflamed the national debate over immigration.
Judge Susan Bolton of Federal District Court issued a preliminary injunction against sections of the law, scheduled [...]
July 29th could be a turning point as far as immigration laws are concerned in the United States. On that day State Bill 1070 enters into effect in Arizona. The measure, considered one of the toughest immigration laws in decades makes it a state crime to be an illegal immigrant in that state, said journalist [...]
Criminal organizations in Europe and Asia have set up a network of trafficking women for prostitution from Brazil and Paraguay into developed countries, says the United Nations (UN) report last Thursday. It is suspected that the Russians have a decisive role in this prostitution network.
Between 2005 and 2007, a thousand Brazilian women were victims of [...]
