By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The White House just can’t seem to pull the trigger. James V. Grimaldi of the Washington Post reports that White House budget officials once against delayed a decision for at least two months on an emergency request that would require gun dealers along the Mexican border to report people…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite the contentious political rhetoric, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said crime and illegal crossings along the Mexico-U.S. border have dropped sharply. She attributed the change to an intensified focus on border enforcement and a “smart and effective approach to enforcing immigration laws.” “We have strengthened the Southwest border in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Smugglers never seem to run out of ways to get drugs into the U.S. The latest: U.S. authorities tipped off Mexicans officials that some smugglers were using a catapult to launch marijuana packages from Mexico into the U.S. The Associated Press reported that National Guard troops in Arizona spotted the catapult…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s certainly not the first government boondoggle and it certainly won’t be the last. Nonetheless, it appears it was waste of time and money. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday decided to cut off the ambitious, problem-plagued billion-dollar program SBInet to build a high-tech fence along the Arizona…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph Evans, regional director for the DEA’s North and Central Americas Region in Mexico City, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed Of The Year for 2010. Faced with one of the more daunting tasks in the DEA — battling the violent Mexican Drug Cartels — Evans is credited with developing key partnerships…
By The Chicago Tribune Editorial Jack Riley left El Paso, Texas, to become the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s top man in Chicago. Even though he’s 1,500 miles from the border now, Mexico’s war against drug cartels still matters to him. It should matter to all of us. More than 90 percent of the marijuana, cocaine…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Good or bad, one thing is certain: The WikiLeaks documents are pretty fascinating. One of the latest ones of interest has surfaced in some publications including the Washington Post, which reports that Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli was trying to put the squeeze on the DEA to wiretap his political…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF has asked the White House to ok an emergency order to require gun dealers along the Mexico border to report sales of two or more rifles to the same person within five days, the Washington Post reported. The measure is part of an ongoing crackdown on the flow…
