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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.
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Gunmen kill 8 at Mexican border city rehab center 16 Aug 2008 11:42 AM (16 years ago)

The Associated PressCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Officials say gunmen killed eight people at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in this border city.Police say five others were wounded in the Wednesday night attack across the border from El Paso.Police spokesman Cesar Ramirez says the people were listening to a pastor's sermon when the gunmen barged in and opened fire. He says police found 61

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Agents find body of smuggler killed by bandits 16 Aug 2008 9:16 AM (16 years ago)

Aug. 15, 2008 10:28 AM Associated Press TUCSON- U.S. Border Patrol agents say they've found the body of a man believed to have been killed by bandits west of Green Valley while he was smuggling marijuana into the country. Agency spokesman Rob Daniels says the agency began looking for the man's body after survivors of the attack reported it

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Border Patrol Arrests Illegal Aliens in Fake Construction Vehicle 16 Aug 2008 9:15 AM (16 years ago)

Friday, August 15, 2008San Diego - Yesterday afternoon, Border Patrol agents in San Ysidro uncovered an alien smuggling scheme that involved a pickup truck replicated to appear to be from a major construction company.The pickup truck was disguised as a vehicle from Kiewit Corporation, a company currently working on a large border construction project.Upon spotting the truck on Dairy Mart Road at

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Andrade CBP Officers Intercept Narcotics Worth Nearly $400,000 16 Aug 2008 9:11 AM (16 years ago)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008Andrade, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Andrade, Calif. port of entry seized nearly $400,000 in cocaine and methamphetamine Tuesday and arrested one person in connection with the failed smuggling attempt.The incident occurred at about 7 a.m. when a 1999 Plymouth Grand Voyager was referred to the secondary inspection area for an intensive

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CBP Thwarts Run of Drug Smuggling Attempts at Calif. Port 16 Aug 2008 9:09 AM (16 years ago)

Monday, August 11, 2008Calexico, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the downtown port of entry intercepted six narcotic smuggling attempts in three days last week, officials announced today. Seized drugs had a street value of more than $2 million.CBP officers discovered the narcotics in six vehicles after they entered the U.S. from Mexicali, Mexico. Seven individuals, six

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Tijuana Police Try to Restore Public Trust 14 Aug 2008 8:38 AM (16 years ago)

By Dan Keane ASSOCIATED PRESS 5:31 p.m. August 12, 2008 TIJUANA, Mexico – People have so little confidence in the police here that the army invited citizens to report crimes to soldiers instead. Officers are so mistrusted that federal authorities even took their guns away for a time last year. Now Tijuana is campaigning to regain that trust with an accountability campaign to break the

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Mexican drug gang turns to kidnapping in U.S. 14 Aug 2008 8:26 AM (16 years ago)

Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:34pm EDT By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - American businesswoman Veronica was stepping out of her car in California when two men forced her into the passenger seat at gunpoint, pushed her teenage daughter into the back and drove them into Mexico. Taking advantage of lax Mexican security at the San Diego border, and with U.S. authorities focused mainly on those

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Bloody Monday death toll reaches 15 in Juárez violence 14 Aug 2008 8:17 AM (16 years ago)

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times Article Launched: 08/13/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT Related: Find more on the violence in Juárez. EL PASO -- A narco-message was left by the body of a man killed in Juárez on Monday, which finished with a death toll of 15, making it one of the bloodiest days this year. The note was next to Jose Luis Trujillo Ramirez, 24, who was found shot to death soon after 10:

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Deport yourself plan isn't going to work 14 Aug 2008 8:09 AM (16 years ago)

Squads of immigration agents are going around the country knocking on doors, scouting out street corners for day laborers, stopping cars driven by foreign-looking people and raiding factories in search of undocumented immigrants. It's literally a manhunt that is not only taking a toll on immigrant families but is draining the resources of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. So now

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Official: Mexico nabs 6 drug snitches in AG office 14 Aug 2008 8:06 AM (16 years ago)

ALEXANDRA OLSON Published: 08.14.2008 MEXICO CITY - Six federal agents have been arrested on suspicion of passing information to a group of powerful drug lords, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. The agents worked for the anti-drug-trafficking intelligence unit of the Attorney General's office, the spokesman told reporters on condition of anonymity because his office

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Census: Diversity to reign by 2042 14 Aug 2008 8:04 AM (16 years ago)

PAUL OVERBERG and EMILY BAZAR Published: 08.14.2008 The number of minorities in the United States is growing so briskly that non-Hispanic whites will lose their majority status in 2042, years before demographers had previously projected, according to Census data released today. The population is surging on almost all fronts, the new figures show. There will be 400 million people in the U.S. in

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Border agent wounds man near Mexican border 14 Aug 2008 7:59 AM (16 years ago)

Aug. 13, 2008 01:21 PMAssociated Press SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area, authorities said Wednesday. Edgar Israel Ortega Chavez, 22, was hospitalized with a bullet wound in his right torso after Mexican authorities found him alongside the dry, concrete-lined Tijuana River basin, Tijuana

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Immigrant's death splits blue-collar town 14 Aug 2008 7:58 AM (16 years ago)

Aug. 14, 2008 07:53 AMChicago Tribune SHENANDOAH, Pa. - Under an elliptical moon, the sight of an illegal Mexican immigrant alone with a 15-year-old hometown girl seemed to push the beer-fueled high school football players into deadly violence. "Isn't it a little late for you guys to be out?" one teen reportedly asked Luis Eduardo Ramirez, 25, and the girl as they walked near a park after 11

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Sheriff takes illegal immigration sweeps west 14 Aug 2008 7:46 AM (16 years ago)

by Veronica Sanchez - Aug. 14, 2008 06:09 AM12 News Last week, he promised he's do things differently and he did. Sheriff Joe Arpaio vowed to stop illegal immigrants but this time he went west to the Surprise and El Mirage area. His first ever human smuggling and illegal immigration operation in the west Valley began around 4 p.m. Wednesday. By 5 p.m. Latino activists claimed deputies had

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Disclosed Customs policy says you can be searched for no reason 14 Aug 2008 7:43 AM (16 years ago)

BY STEPHANIE SANCHEZ, SUN STAFF WRITERAugust 12, 2008 - 5:30PM When crossing the border into the United States, things such as your laptop computer, cell phone or iPod can be temporarily impounded and examined by any federal agent seeking information about drug smuggling, terrorism or national security matters.The policies have actually been in effect for a number of years but were disclosed

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Mexico to establish 5 anti-kidnapping centers 12 Aug 2008 8:22 AM (16 years ago)

ASSOCIATED PRESS3:23 p.m. August 11, 2008MEXICO CITY – Mexico is establishing five national anti-kidnapping centers and pushing for a cleanup of police forces after authorities were implicated in the deadly abduction of a prominent businessman's son.The Public Safety Department's intelligence coordinator, Luis Cardenas, says the centers will staffed by 300 federal police and open 24 hours a day.

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Lawyers for Mexican say execution violates treaty 12 Aug 2008 8:21 AM (16 years ago)

By Michael GraczykASSOCIATED PRESS12:57 a.m. August 5, 2008HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Condemned prisoner Jose Medellin looked to the federal courts to keep him from the death chamber Tuesday for his part in the gang rape, beating and strangling of two teenage girls 15 years ago.The Mexican-born Medellin, 33, faced lethal injection in a case that has drawn international attention after he raised

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Mexican police, migrant smugglers open fire: 2 die 12 Aug 2008 8:19 AM (16 years ago)

ASSOCIATED PRESS5:01 p.m. August 4, 2008VERACRUZ, Mexico – Two people are dead after a shootout between Mexican police and smugglers driving a truck carrying illegal immigrants.Police caught up with the truck near the town of Agua Dulce in southeast Mexico. The town's police chief, Jose Atenedoro, says the smugglers then opened fire on officers, starting a shootout and car chase. The chase ended

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Mexican soldiers enter Arizona, hold agent briefly 12 Aug 2008 8:14 AM (16 years ago)

By Arthur H. Rotstein ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:44 a.m. August 6, 2008 TUCSON, Ariz. – Federal authorities say four Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona and briefly held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico. Border Patrol spokeswoman Dove Crawford says the incident early Sunday on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, about 85 miles

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Mexican agents found with cash could face jail 12 Aug 2008 8:12 AM (16 years ago)

By Sandra DibbleUNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER7:29 p.m. August 1, 2008Two Mexican federal police agents found with more $500,000 in cash at a residence in suburban Los Angeles could face up to four years in a U.S. prison, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said yesterday. Carlos Cedano Filippini, 34, a Baja California-based commander with the Agencia Federal de Investigacion, or AFI, was one

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ICE takes 10,000th violent gang member off U.S. streets 12 Aug 2008 8:07 AM (16 years ago)

Effort shows ICE's commitment to target transnational gang violence WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working in conjunction with federal, state and local law enforcement partners across the United States, have arrested the 10,000th gang member under operation Community Shield. This ongoing operation started in 2005 to curb gang violence and weed out transnational

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El Paso Border Patrol Agents Arrest Convicted Sex Offender 12 Aug 2008 8:05 AM (16 years ago)

Friday, August 08, 2008 Fort Hancock Texas – Border Patrol agents of the El Paso sector Friday arrested a convicted sexual offender with an extensive criminal history, who had been previously ordered removed from the United States. At approximately 7 a.m., agents assigned to the Fort Hancock Border Patrol Station, on routine patrol, noticed three suspicious subjects near the Fort Hancock

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CBP Officers Thwart 6 Marijuana Smuggling Efforts in a Day 12 Aug 2008 8:03 AM (16 years ago)

Friday, August 08, 2008 San Diego – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers had their hands full on Wednesday, August 6, after they seized a total of 720 pounds of marijuana concealed in six vehicles that entered the United States from Mexico at the Otay Mesa, Calif. passenger port of entry. CBP officers became suspicious after a 60-year-old male U.S. citizen driver arrived at the port at

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CBP Officer in Arizona Thwart 4 Cocaine Smuggling Attempts in a Day 12 Aug 2008 8:01 AM (16 years ago)

Friday, August 08, 2008 Tucson, Ariz. — In four different events on Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Arizona entries of Douglas and Nogales stopped $2.3 million in cocaine from being smuggled into the United States, arresting four people in connection with the attempts. The largest seizure happened Monday morning at around 6:30 a.m., when officers at the Douglas

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Doll House Has Too Much Grass 12 Aug 2008 7:57 AM (16 years ago)

CBP Officers in N.M. Find Marijuana Hidden in Children’s FurnitureFriday, August 08, 2008 Santa Teresa, N.M. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Santa Teresa port of entry seized 436 pounds of marijuana late Wednesday night. The drugs were concealed in children’s furniture. Two New Mexico residents were taken into custody in connection with the failed smuggling attempt

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