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Shocking Autopsy Result For Mexican Teen Shot By Border Patrol

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 02.08.2013 | Latino Voices

PHOENIX -- An autopsy report indicates a Mexican teen who apparently was shot to death by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in October was struck by at least...

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Just Another Expensive, Inefficient Weapon In War On Drugs

| Posted 01.19.2013 | Los Angeles

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Andrew Becker U.S. Customs and Border Protection last month received its latest unmanned airc...

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Mayor Says Teen Was Shot Seven Times By Border Patrol Agent

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 10.13.2012 | Latino Voices

PHOENIX -- A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across t...

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Teen Throws Rocks, Is Shot Dead

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 12.12.2012 | Latino Voices

PHOENIX — A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a group of people throwing rocks from across the Mexican border, killing a teenage boy and e...

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U.S. Investigating Reported Fatal Border Shooting

AP | JUAN CARLOS LLORCA | Posted 11.06.2012 | Latino Voices

EL PASO, Texas — The FBI and Border Patrol are investigating after the Mexican government said a Mexican citizen was killed when a U.S. agent pa...

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Former Arizona Governor Detained At Border Checkpoint

AP | Posted 07.05.2012 | Latino Voices

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PHOENIX -- Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state's first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Pat...

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Want To Reduce Illegal Immigration? Stop Looking At The Border

| Andrew Becker | Posted 03.18.2013 | Los Angeles

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Andrew Becker U.S. policies and laws aimed at improving the nation's immigration system have ...

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Arizona Restaurant Offers 'Border Patrol Burrito'

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 02.24.2012 | Latino Voices

Tacho's Tacos in Arizona added a new item to its menu to better accommodate the majority of its clientele: the border patrol burrito. Situated four...

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Border Patrol Station To Open In New Mexico's Lawless, Unguarded Bootheel

AP | By RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 01.21.2012 | Latino Voices

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ANIMAS, N.M. -- The U.S. Border Patrol Friday announced it is building an outpost in New Mexico's Bootheel, one of the last unguarded regions between ...

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Border Patrol To Toughen Policy

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.18.2012 | Latino Voices

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SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a revolving-door policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment. The age...

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Horses Are Not Going to Keep Drugs Out Of U.S.

Tony Newman | Posted 02.04.2012 | Politics

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No disrespect to the horses efforts, but it's is time for the U.S. and Mexico to find an exit strategy from this unwinnable war.

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Cross-Border 'Fire Fight' Erupts During Drug Bust By U.S. Agents

AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a t...

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Firm Packed With Ex-Customs and Border Officials Lands Contract

G.W. Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Government Contractors, Immigration, U.S. Border Patrol, Border Security, Homeland Security, Government Corruption, Politics News

The U.S. Border Patrol's announcement that it was seeking to hire a contractor for "strategic consulting" services first raised eyebrows in July. Perhaps it wasn't much of a surprise that the contract went to a firm loaded with former government insiders.

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No Federal Help in Arizona, Gov. Brewer? That's a Laugh

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in signing last week's bill that makes potential criminals out of people with a swarthy complexion, said indignantly that citizens of her state "have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act."

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

Los Angeles Times | Richard Marosi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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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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