Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com All Sophia Cruz wanted was be a mom and a Border Patrol agent. But those plans were derailed, she claims, when she was fired in April after being pressured to work against her doctor’s orders while caring for her baby, KOB Eyewitness News 4 reports. “All I wanted to do was nurse…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol employees already make big sacrifices for their job. But Tucson News Now reports that Border Patrol workers in Tucson, Ariz., recently donated more than $335,000 to charities as part of the Arizona Combined Federal Campaign. The charities ranged from helping children with cancer to supporting local food banks. But 30…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Details of the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near the Arizona-Mexico border in 2010 were largely unknown – until now. The Associated Press reports that armed men had sneaked into the U.S. to rob marijuana smugglers when the attack happened, according to an account given by prosecutors. Watching the men from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Disturbing images have surfaced showing Border Patrol staff teaching children to shoot paintball guns at an effigy of an illegal immigrant, the San Diego Free Press reports. “The target is dressed to resemble a migrant and is located within 100 feet from Virginia Avenue where actual persons have been killed by Border…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP is grounding its remaining fleet of nine drones after one of them crashed off the Southern California coast because of mechanical problems, Reuters reports. Monday’s crash was the second involving the agency’s drones since it began using them in 2006. “While on patrol off the Southern California coast, the unmanned aircraft,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Roberto Carlos Perez’s first mistake was getting behind the wheel drunk. But his second mistake was maybe more perplexing – hitting a van with five Border Patrol agents inside and deciding to flee, the El Paso Times reports. Perez struck the van and drove off in his 1995 Chevrolet Corsica in El…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Texas is ground zero for Border Patrol arrests, the Associated Press reports. Of the 420,789 apprehensions during the Border Patrol’s fiscal year that ended in September, 235,567 of the arrests were made in Texas. Arizona, which often is the busiest border, saw 125,942 arrests. Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said the increase…
Controversy surrounds this video of a Border Patrol agent arresting an undocumented immigrant. The video was captured by resident Jose Guzman, who was arrested after turning over his cell phone video to a TV new station.
