Posts Tagged ‘border’
Friday, February 5th, 2010
South Texas Border Patrol agents are asking for the public’s help in identifying the sources of homemade road spikes used by smugglers to flatten the tires of pursuing law enforcement vehicles.
In 2009, in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector, the homemade spikes were used 15 times, damaging 33 vehicles. There was only one incident the previous year, and there have already been four in 2010.
In some cases, the spikes, which often look like nails welded together, were put out in anticipation of law enforcement responding to smugglers. The Border Patrol says none of the incidents have resulted in injuries, but the spikes pose a threat to agents and private citizens.
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Legislators have killed a provision that would have required the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to build 300 new miles of pedestrian fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of next year.
The provision was stripped from the department’s appropriations bill.
The amendment, passed by the U.S. Senate in July, would have discounted the approximately 300 miles of vehicle barriers built along the border. It also would have required that tall fencing to stop illegal immigrants on foot account for all of the nearly 700 miles of barriers the government promised to build.
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, sponsored the original amendment.
The Government Accountability Office says about 633 miles of pedestrian and vehicle barriers had been completed on the border as of the end of June.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Three people face federal charges in connection with a scheme to bring illegal immigrants into a South Texas beach resort aboard Jet Skis.
Americans Anthony and Andy Rodriguez and Mexican citizen Beatriz Manzano-Luna were arrested Friday. The U.S. Coast Guard had alerted Border Patrol that personal watercraft were ferrying people from Boca Chica Beach just south of the mouth of the Rio Grande in Mexico to jetties at Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island.
KGBT-TV reports that Border Patrol spokesman John Lopez said seven illegal immigrants were intercepted by local police.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
A U.S. Customs officer in Brownsville faces charges of bribery and letting an illegal immigrant into the country in exchange for $4,800.
Court documents show Javier Cavazos allegedly stamped immigration documents for a French citizen at his home the day before he let the man through his border post without running his name through government databases.
The 50-year-old veteran customs officer was arrested Tuesday by agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Responsibility. Alleged accomplice, David de la Fuente, made an initial court appearance Wednesday on charges that he received $200 to help the Frenchman.
Customs and Border Protection spokesman Eduardo Perez said Cavazos was no longer with the agency, but could provide no other details.
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Gov. Rick Perry says teams of Texas Rangers supported by about 200 Texas National Guard members will be deployed to the Mexican border to deal with increasing violence there because the federal government has failed to address the problems.
Perry says the teams will be sent to “hot spots” and will be paid for with money approved by Texas lawmakers. The governor early this year asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for 1,000 National Guard troops and renewed his call last month in a letter to President Barack Obama. The request is bogged down over who will pay for the troops and how they will be deployed.
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