Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol is shifting much of its attention from Arizona to Texas as increasing numbers of Mexican gangs smuggle people and drugs into the country, The Guardian reports. Authorities believe the agency’s success in tightening the borders in Arizona has prompted gangs and other lawbreakers to gain access in remote areas of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Detained immigrants were forced to sit in freezing holding cells without toilets and beds while their lips turned blue and cracked because of the cold, according to a series of lawsuits that makes numerous allegations of abuse against Border Patrol, the USA Today reports. The suits were filed on behalf of 10…
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…
