Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After blanket denials, Mexican officials are admitting that two Mexican soldiers – not smugglers – were in a standoff with Border Patrol agents in January, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mexico had denied soldiers were involved but finally came clean about the Jan. 26 confrontation. The soldiers claimed they were looking for drug…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent opened fire, shooting two U.S. citizens, after a truck tried to ram him, KVOA.com reports. The incident happened shortly after 12:15 a.m. Monday at the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation in Arizona. According to the agency, the agent was standing near his marked car when the driver of a…
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 bipartisan bill in Congress is aimed at addressing questions about the use of force by Border Patrol agents. AZCentral.com reports that the bill is designed to increase oversight of CBP and the Border Patrol following widespread criticism of deadly confrontations with immigrants at the border. But political experts said the bill…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ACLU is urging CBP to require its agents to wear body cameras to improve accountability and transparency, Valley Central reports. In the past four years, CBP agents have killed about 19 people. “We know there is a lack of oversight, accountability and training at the same time and that should be…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, including the Border Patrol, would be subjected to greater oversight and accountability under a bill promoted by a pair of congressmen representing districts on the Mexican border, the Global Post reports. The goal of the Border Accountability and Stakeholder Engagement Act is to create…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An American citizen died in U.S. Border Patrol custody after paramedics erroneously concluded that he was faking a seizure, according to a medical examiner’s report, Al Jazeera reports. Steven Keith, 58, died on Christmas at a Southern California checkpoint facility about 20 miles from the border. The cause of Keith’s death is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Family members of a Border Patrol agent who killed himself after allegedly assaulting three immigrant women are having trouble processing the news. “It’s really hard to believe,” Susana Manzanares said of her ex-husband Esteban Manzanares, who shot himself after authorities say he sexually assaulted three women on Wednesday. Manzanares described her husband…
