Border Violence

Breakaway Drug Gang Dissolved Victims' In Vats Of Acids: Prosecutor

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Border Violence, Video, David Valencia Trial, San Diego, Jose Olivera Beritan Trial, Corpses Dissolved in Acid, Jose Olivera Beritan, Bodies Dissolved in Acid, David Valencia, California Crime, Crime News

SAN DIEGO — The government's case against two men accused of dissolving corpses in vats of acid for a Mexican drug gang hinges on flawed witness...

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Another Fast And Furious Link To The Bush Administration

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 01.04.2012

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WASHINGTON — A briefing paper prepared for Attorney General Michael Mukasey during the Bush administration in 2007 outlined failed attempts by f...

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Hacked Report Contradicts Republicans' Border Violence Claims

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Border Violence, Jan Brewer, John McCain, Arizona Police Hacked Documents, Arizona Police, Lulz Security, Hacked Documents, Arizona Police Hacked, Crime News

NEW YORK — A trove of internal Arizona state police documents released by a hacker group last week contains a confidential federal report that contr...

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Pushing For Answers

The Huffington Post/AP | Andrea Rael | Posted 07.20.2011

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Colorado's elected government officials threw their support behind Tiffany Hartley today in a letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and Sec...

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WATCH: Almost A Year Later, Man Presumed Shot By Mexican Gang Still Missing

AP/HuffPost | By P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Border Violence, Mexican Drug Gangs, Video, Falcon Lake Shooting, Tiffany Hartley, Texas Border Lake Shooting, Mexican Border, David Hartley, Falcon Lake, Denver News

By P. SOLOMON BANDA, Associated Press DENVER -- A Colorado woman is demanding that the U.S. government do more to find the body of her husband, six...

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Truck Them and Stereotype Them -- It's All Good in Popular Culture

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Worker, Immigration Reform, Border Violence, Human Smuggling, Iphone, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, Illegal Alien, Immigrants, Undocumented Immigrant, Chirla, Human Trafficking, Smuggle-Truck, Los Angeles News
Jorge-Mario Cabrera

The developers of "Smuggle Truck" claim the iPad game attempts to mock our nation's inhumane and impractical immigration laws. Sadly, the effort falls flat.

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Economic Security or Border Security: Immigration and the New Congress

Vicki Gass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vicki Gass

People make the difficult decision to migrate to the United States because of the lack of employment and the absence of long-term public policies to address poverty in their home countries.

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Robert Krentz Murder Suspect Is American, Not Illegal Immigrant

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Border Violence, David Gowan, Illegal Immigration, sb1070, Mexico, Borders, Immigration, Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona, J.D. Hayworth, Robert Krentz, Politics News

UPDATE: The Arizona Daily Star now reports that the nationality of Robert Krentz's murder suspect is unknown. An earlier version of the story reported...

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U.S.-Mexico Border Safety: Area Is One Of Safest Parts Of America

AP | MARTHA MENDOZA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY (Associated Press) — It's one of the safest parts of America, and it's getting safer. It's the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as poli...

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Juarez Shootouts Kill At Least 13 In Northern Mexico

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said. ...

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90 Percent of Mexican Crime Guns Come From U.S., Says GAO

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Border Violence, National Rifle Association, Illegal Gun Trafficking, Violence Policy Center, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border, Gun Trafficking, Gao, Calderon, Vpc, Mexico Violence, BORDER ISSUES, Nra, Wayne LaPierre, Government Accountability Office, World News
Josh Sugarmann

So much for NRA chief Wayne LaPierre's oft-repeated claim that Mexican gun traffickers don't bother to "trifle with paperwork at U.S. gun stores."

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More Feds To Combat Border Violence: Source

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to send reinforcements to the Southwest border to help contain the rampant violence of the Mexican d...

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