Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An off-duty Border Patrol agent vacationing with his family was shot and killed during a robbery in Texas, the Border Patrol said Sunday. “Another one of these typical robbery things,” Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said. “People fishing, people drive by, turn around, come back, pull weapons and rob them. “In this…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent has been extradited to the U.S., Reuters reports. Ivan Soto-Barraza is accused of killing Agent Brian Terry in 2010 during a gun battle near the Mexican border in Arizona. Soto-Barraza and five others have been charged in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than 10 militia groups are patrolling the Texas-Mexico border despite objection from the federal government, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The newspaper obtained more than 30 photos showing the armed militia members in camouflage, tactical gear and masks. CBP responded that it does not “endorse or support any private group or…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Special Agent Chris Combs has been busy since taking over the FBI’s San Antonio office in April. Combs, who opened the San Antonio office for a media tour on Monday, covers a large area of South Texas and also works out of offices in Austin, Waco and along the border, KSAT 12…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP plans to hire 2,000 new agents thanks to funding provided in the 2014 budget, KTAR reports. The hiring of agents to secure the air, land and sea ports has nothing to do with the current immigration crisis involving unaccompanied Central American children, officials said. “This was in the pipeline,” said CBP…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A union representing Border Patrol agents charge that the TSA is allowing undocumented immigrants to board American planes without a passport or other official identification, Fox News reports. TSA strongly denies claims that the TSA is allowing immigrants to board planes with a “Notice to Appear” in lieu of proper identification. “This…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent pointed a gun at the head of a Boy Scout and threatened to arrest him for snapping a picture of an agent near the Canadian border, KCCI reports. The Iowa Boy Scout troop was on a three-week trip to Alaska when the incident happened, Troop 111 leader Jim…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents came under heavy fire from the Mexican side of the border Friday night, Fox News reports. Authorities believe .50-caliber rounds were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank near Rincon Peninsula across from Reynosa, Mexico. Sources told Fox News that the gunfire likely came from Mexican drug cartels….
