Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol has been under fierce criticism for its use of force. That criticism is only expected to get louder after a Border Patrol agent trying to avert an illegal crossing at the Mexican border Tuesday shot and killed a man after being struck in the head with a rock, the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Guatemalan man who stabbed a Border Patrol dog in the neck was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday, The Monitor reports. Luis Gilberto Cruz Solis also will be deported. Solis was with a group of about 30 people who illegally crossed the border in May, according to the Monitor. As…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents who were trying to prevent a group of undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S. over the weekend came under attack, the El Paso Times reports. The agents spotted eight people illegally crossing the border in El Paso on Sunday, sparking a rock attack. Luckily none of the agents…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 19-year-old man Guatemalan pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally crossing the U.S. border and stabbing a Border Patrol dog in the neck, the Associated Press reports. Luis Gilberto Cruz-Solis could be sentenced up to a year in prison next month. He pleaded guilty to willfully and maliciously harming a police animal and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New unmanned spy aircraft that flies over remote stretches of desert shows the U.S.-Mexico border isn’t as secure as the agency has claimed, the Center for Investigative Reporting reports. Records show more than 7,000 border crossers were detected by drones, but only 410 people were apprehended. Of those, 52 led to arrests,…
