Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man in southern Arizona following a struggle between the pair, the Associated Press reports. Authorities were tracking a group of people Thursday night on suspicion of being in the country illegally. While two of the suspect were apprehended, a third escaped. He was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Tunnel systems that run between the U.S. and Mexico border are used to transport drugs, people, weapons and other illegal material. Now, Border Patrol agents are using robot technology to detect tunnels, the Associated Press reports. Agents in Tucson, Ariz., plan to demonstrate the “tunnel robots” Tuesday. According to CBP, tunnels are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Opening an investigation into the costly price tag for housing for Border Patrol agents in Arizona, the Homeland Security Department has sent inspectors to the former mining town, the Arizona Republic reports. The $15 million housing project caused an uproar among residents, who say the federal government spent far too much money…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents find some of the most bizarre ways that people smuggle humans into the U.S. But a recent discovery surprised even veterans in the field, the Phoenix Times reports. A Phoenix man headed back to the U.S. from the port entry of Nogales tried to smuggle a Thai woman…
By Editorial Board The Arizona Republic You might shrug off concerns about how the Border Patrol operates. After all, it’s just the border. Migrants. Smugglers. Lawbreakers. It’s not about you and me. Well, yes it is. We hold police to high standards to protect everyone’s civil rights. Exempting the nation’s largest police force…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents are accused of using excessive force and conducting illegal searches on people in southern Arizona, the Arizona Republic reports. The ACLU claims the abuses are occurring without any explanation and said scores of people have complained. The ACLU is delivering an administrative complaint Thursday morning. The complaints come just…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Felix Chavez, who served as deputy division chief of operations for Border Patrol at Washington headquarters, is returning to the Tucson Sector to take the job as deputy chief patrol agent, Tucson News reports. As an added bonus, Chavez is intimately familiar with the development and implementation of the 2012-16 National Border…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Add environmentalists to the groups of people opposing the growth of the Border Patrol. The inundation of 20,000 agents could irrevocably damage the Southern Arizona’s deserts and wildlife, according to the Siera Club Borderlands, which has a Tucson office. Border Patrol is not subject to environmental laws along the international border, creating…
