Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted – for the second time in a superseding indictment. Raimundo Borjas was issued with a revised indictment that charges whim with 10 counts of money laundering on top of the original charges of trying to avoid detection of deposited funds, the Arizona Daily…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alarming number of immigrants who are sex offenders are captured in South Texas. Since October 2013, Border Patrol has apprehended nearly 180 immigrants who have prior convictions for sex offenses, KZTV Action 10 reports. A majority of the offenders sexually assaulted children in the U.S. Just this weekend, Border Patrol arrested…
By The Arizona Republic Editorial The Border Patrol’s opaque approach to law enforcement and its reckless lack of accountability does not just affect undocumented border crossers. It’s your problem, too. The latest example of how bad things are comes from the American Immigration Council, which examined 809 complaints of abuse filed against the Border Patrol….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com So many immigrants crossed into South Texas illegally recently that Border Patrol flew many of them across the state for processing in El Paso Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. More than 100 detainees were flown from Brownsville in an effort to speed up processing following an average of 1,000 arrests a day…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New CBP documents raise more pressing questions about how the federal government is handling complaints of abuse by Border Patrol agents, the Arizona Republic reports. The reports show that only 13 of 809 complains of abuse filed against agents from January 2009 to January 2012 resulted in CBP action. Of those, one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A scathing new book argues that Border Patrol agents have squandered the rights of undocumented immigrants by resorting to rogue tactics after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The U.S. Border Patrol is not just the ‘men in green,’ it is a much larger complex and industrial world…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Medical marijuana cardholders in New Mexico are running into trouble in New Mexico courtesy of the Border Patrol. The Albuquerque Journal reports that patients are afraid to travel in the state because of Border Patrol checkpoints and crackdowns of marijuana, which is still illegal nationally. The crackdown comes as the Justice Department,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent is accused of exchanging nude photos with a 15-year-old girl via email, the El Paso Times reports. Agent Abel Michael Quiroz, 26, was arrested Tuesday on child pornography charges after a search warrant was executed at his La Cruce home. The search allegedly turned up sexually explicit…
