Mexico Border

Cockfight Shooting Believed To Be Sloppy Hit

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 04.21.2012

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McALLEN, Texas -- Frantic calls to emergency responders described a chaotic scene with people frightened, wounded and fleeing in all directions after ...

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Shootout Near Texas Border Kills 11 Gunmen

AP | Posted 02.11.2012

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines captured a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel Monday, the navy announced. Marines arrested Raul Luci...

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Drug Violence Drives Residents Out Of Border Town

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 02.05.2012

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CIUDAD MIER, Mexico (AP) -- Schoolchildren once again chatter and scamper across the town plaza where drug gang gunmen last year torched the police st...

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Government Detaining All Mexican Papayas At Border

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 10.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The government is detaining all papaya imports from Mexico after testing showed high rates of salmonella contamination in the fruit...

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Border Patrol? Border Crossing? There's An App For That

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 10.22.2011

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The battle between border crosser and border patrol just got a little nerdier. While Homeland Security estimates that nearly four million Mexican m...

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The Flow of Undocumented Migrants Entering The U.S. Has Nearly Stopped, But Not for the Reasons You May Think

Kristian Ramos | Posted 09.14.2011

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Illegal Migration into the United States has all but stopped, and not entirely for the reasons you may think. It is not just because the United States has put unprecedented levels of resources along the border.

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High-Tech Border Fence Axed

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech border fence project that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to i...

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25 Killed In Mexican City's Deadliest Day In 3 Years

AP | OLIVIA TORRES | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two ye...

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Governor: Mexico Border Areas Paralyzed By Violence

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Some areas of Mexico along the U.S. border have been paralyzed economically by drug violence, and the governor of the border state...

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FBI: Mexican Security Chased Away U.S. Border Patrol Agents After Shooting

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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EL PASO, Texas — Mexico condemned the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent Thursday through diplomatic correspondence and...

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14-Year-Old Boy Killed By US Border Patrol Agent

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and OLIVIA TORRES | Posted 05.25.2011

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw ro...

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Obama Border Plan Resembles Bush's

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHOENIX — President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border quelled demands that he mu...

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National Guard Troops On Mexico Border: Stalemate Frustrates Lawmakers

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Homeland Security and Pentagon officials are at loggerheads over a plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, ev...

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US-Mexico Border Arrests Drop To 1970s Levels As Economy Suffers

Los Angeles Times | Richard Marosi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arrests of illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen to levels unseen since the 1970s as the ailing U.S. economy and enhanced enforceme...

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