Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If the Arizona-Mexico border is any indication, fewer immigrants are dying and getting arrested. Fox News reports a 16% decline in arrests at the Arizona border and a 40% drop during the present fiscal year. Between Oct. 1 and March 1, about 42,600 immigrants were detained, compared with 50,900 during this period…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Border Patrol agent who smuggled bundles of marijuana from the Arizona-Mexico border is set to be sentenced today, The Republic reports. Anaya, who also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm while committing a drug offense, was caught on surveillance loading bundles of pot into his patrol car between Yuma…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Arizona in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near the Arizona-Mexican border in 2010, the Associated Press reports. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes said he and others snuck into the U.S. a week before the shootout to rob marijuana smugglers, stashing guns and food…
