Hiring More Women As Border Patrol Agents Is About More Than Equality
The Border Patrol’s unprecedented campaign to hire more women is not just about equality.
The Border Patrol’s unprecedented campaign to hire more women is not just about equality.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man charged in the death of a Border Patrol agent won’t face the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, The Arizona Daily Star reports. Rosario Burboa-Alvarez agreed to plead guilty Monday in the first-degree murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The sentencing recommendation calls for…
A Border Patrol sector that covers North Dakota and Minnesota has a new leader.
Border Patrol officials are accused of ordering sheriff’s deputies in Ohio to release an undocumented immigrant who then murdered a 60-year-old woman, tried to kill another woman and attempted to rape a teenage girl.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A jet-setting model thought she’d distract Border Patrol officers by flirting with them, but her actions were so over-the-top that they raised suspicions and ultimately led to her arrest. Fox News Latino reports that they found $134,000 worth of cocaine insider the 39-year-old woman’s Mercedes at an Arizona border crossing. Anett…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The controversial deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by a Border Patrol agent in 2011 is headed to a civil trial in Douglas, Ariz. in what will be a closely watched case, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Carlos LaMadris was 19 when he was shot in the back while climbing a…
Either the Constitution means something or it doesn’t.
By Editorial Board The Dallas Morning News Thousands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers face a difficult mission as they work daily to halt illegal immigration and drug smuggling on America’s southern frontier. But there’s no excuse for the dozens of suspicious shootings and other abuses in recent years by minimally accountable border officers….