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…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than 175 people trying to find freedom in America were rescued while trying to traverse the scorching Arizona border over the past month, the Associated Press reports. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector made the rescues. The AP wrote that more than 250 agents also are trained as EMTs and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A van being pursued by the Border Patrol this weekend flipped over and killed five people in southern Arizona, the Associated Press reports. Authorities found 22 people in the van Saturday between Tucson and Benson, Ariz., the AP reported. The remaining 17 were rushed to a hospital for a variety of injuries….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP officials warned Congress that failing to prevent the planned sequester Friday would force the agency to cut hours by the equivalent of a quarter of its workforce – or 5,000 full-time workers, the Arizona Republic reports. That will mean reduced border security and longer waits at airports and border entries, the CBP…
