Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol employees will lose up to 40% of their pay if they are forced to take 14 days of unpaid leave and eliminate overtime, Tucson News Now reports. The agency released a statement: “In order to address the more than half a billion in budget cuts imposed by sequestration, U.S. Customs…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CPB employees will be furloughed for up to 14 days each because of the spending cuts known as the sequester, the Washington Post reports. Employees will be issued official notices beginning Thursday, the Post wrote. Union leaders of warned a serious impact. “The smuggling organizations are keenly aware of what our…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents in Northern Ohio are accused of targeting Latinos and using racial slurs to describe them, WXYC NBC 3 reports. The station reported that two federal lawsuits claims Latinos are targeted solely based on their race or appearance. “Agents…are engaged in a pattern or practice of restraining, interrogating, and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The environmental group, Sierra Club, has released a video that shows untold damage from Border Patrol roads cut into the desert through the Organ Pipe National Monument and the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Activists say the Border Patrol has far more road than is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent who was injured in a two-car accident while responding to a call in his government-issued SUV Thursday morning collapsed while trying to help the driver of the other car in Corpus Christi, Texas, witnesses told KRIS TV. Immediately after the crash, which appears to be the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents have abused illegal immigrants and systematically denied them the opportunity to contact the Mexican Consulate, according to a report by a pro-immigration reform group, The Arizona Daily Star reports. The report by the Kino Border Initiative says one in four illegal immigrants surveyed said they were abused in some…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An immigration activist who tried to intervene in a traffic stop by Tucson Police on Sunday was arrested and pepper-sprayed after authorities say he crawled under a Border Patrol car, News 4 Tucson reports. The activist, Paul Ochoa, laid under the car after police pulled over a father of six, News 4…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A jury acquitted two Border Patrol agents Monday of committing a lewd act at a crowded Cirque du Soleil show in Del Mar, Calif., U-T San Diego reports. The only intimacy was hugging and kissing, Kallie Helwig, 25, and 35-year old Gerald Torello said during the trial. The jury deadlocked on a…
