Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sen. John McCain, one of the leading voices in the immigration debate, sharply criticized how the border is patrolled, the Washington Times reports. The Arizona Republican said Homeland Security needs to devise a way to measure the effectiveness of its border protection. “I have concluded that not only is the border unsafe,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents at the northern border are taking a new approach to tightening security, the Associated Press reports. Instead of spending most of their time at border stations, agents are spreading out into communities and assisting local police. The idea is to work more closely with other law enforcement agencies to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hundreds of Chinese immigrants are crossing the Texas border annually, prompting the Border Patrol to erect signs in Mandarin, Fox San Antonio reports. “We have had on occasion a number of Chinese in the groups that we have called in and reported to border patrol,” said Jim Gibson, with the Texas Border…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The December 2010 slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry shed light on the U.S. government’s botched gun-smuggling investigation, Operation Fast and Furious, The Washington Times reports. Now a third suspect is in custody in the shootout that left Terry dead in the Arizona borderlands. Police in Sinaloa, Mexico, arrested suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than 175 people trying to find freedom in America were rescued while trying to traverse the scorching Arizona border over the past month, the Associated Press reports. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector made the rescues. The AP wrote that more than 250 agents also are trained as EMTs and…
By Allan Lengel tickelthewire.com David J. Johnson, who headed the FBI’s Salt Lake City division, is shifting gears a bit to the west and taking over the San Francisco office. Johnson began his career with the FBI in 1991, and was first posted a Violent Crime Squad in the San Jose Resident Agency. In 1994,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Private landowners may play a key role in the battle to crack down on human and drug smugglers along the Mexican border, Reuters reports. Texas officials announced an initiative Thursday to allow landowners to equip their property with hundreds of small, motion-activated cameras. Many landowners already have an incentive. “Our farmers and…
