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No Surprise: Senate Report Says U.S. Guns Going to Mexican Drug Traffickers at Alarming Rate; Makes Recommendations

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Certainly this comes as no surprise. A Congressional report released Monday concludes that American military-style weapons are arming Mexico’s violent drug organizations at an alarming rate and policy makers are not adequately responding. “Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style…

Mexico Cartels Using Bullet-Proof Trucks Known as “Monsters”

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drug cartels are using bullet-proof trucks known as “monsters”, according to CNN. CNN reports that the trucks are built on a three-axle truck bed and include such features as swiveling turrets to shoot in any direction,a reinforced steel battering ram in front to demolish vehicles and walls and a one-inch-thick…

Senate Report Urges Obama Administration to Do More to Fight Mexican Cartels

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A just-released Senate report on Mexico drug trafficking urges judicial and police reforms in Mexico and calls for the Obama Administration to provide more resources to its southern neighbor and to do more to starve Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations of the money that fuels them. The report, issued by The U.S….

FBI Says Corrupt U.S. Border Agents a Serious Threat

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Wounded ICE Agent Still not Back to Work; Wants to Testify Before Congress

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ICE agent Victor Avila Jr. who was shot in February in an ambush in Mexico along with agent Jaime Zapata is moving about, but has yet to return to work, said the agency spokesman Brian P. Hale. Zapata did not survive the shooting. Hale said Avila is in daily…

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20-Year-Old Mexican Police Chief Seeks Asylum in U.S. Following Death Threats From Cartels

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Sophisticated Drug Tunnel Found at Mexico-Az Border

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Drug tunnels continue to pop up along the U.S.-Mexican border. The latest: The Associated Press reports that authorities discovered in Nogales, Az., a fairly sophisticated 250-foot-long unfinished tunnel underneath the U.S.-Mexico border that had electricity, water pumps and ventilation. AP reported that Chief Border Patrol Agent Randy Hill says the tunnel…

Gun Dealer Was Concerned About ATF’s Gun-Walking Program

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A controversial ATF gun-walking program apparently concerned an Arizona gun dealer, who like many others, had been encouraged by ATF to keep selling weapons to straw purchasers, all with the hopes agents would trace them to the higher levels of the Mexican drug cartels. Problem was some of those…