Central Americans Rush to Cross Border Because of Trump’s Threat to Build a Wall
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall has triggered a surge of Central American families flowing into the U.S. to escape poverty and warlike conditions.
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Smugglers Increasingly Using Drones to Drop Drugs over U.S.-Mexico Border
Smugglers are increasingly using drones to drop drugs over the U.S-Mexico border.
Border Patrol Agents Track Down Horses Used to Smuggle Drugs into U.S.
Drug smugglers are known to use boats, tunnels and other means to bring drugs across the U.S. border.
FBI Foils 4 Attempts by Russian-Linked Gangs to Smuggle Nuclear Material
The FBI has foiled four attempts by Russian-linked gangs to smuggle nuclear material to other countries.
Southwestern Ranchers Say Border Patrol Won’t Protect Them from Smugglers, Others
Southwester ranchers are complaining that Border Patrol isn’t doing enough to protect them from smugglers and others who illegally cross the Mexican border.
Under Gov. Perry, Texas Creates Own Version of Border Patrol with Game Wardens
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The primary responsibility of Texas game wardens used to be pretty routine – crack down on drunken boaters and investigate fishing tournament cheaters. Now a team of them is patrolling the Rio Grande in search of suspected smugglers and undocumented immigrants, trading in their white cowboy hats for camouflage, the New York…
Expensive Lifestyle Caught Up with Convicted Former Border Patrol Agent
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The high life is expensive. Just ask Lorne Leslie “Hammer” Jones, a former Border Patrol agent. Jones was found guilty Friday of helping smugglers enter California from Mexico to help finance his ritzy lifestyle, UPI reports. Feds say Jones took as much as a half-million dollars in payoffs in exchange for aiding…
Report: New Border Patrol Initiative Is Not Keeping Migrants from Re-Entering the U.S.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A strategy to send migrants back to Mexico in areas far from where they entered isn’t working as initially planned, according to a new study that monitored the agency’s efforts, the Associated Press reports. Lateral repatriations, as the strategy is called, are used to make it tough for migrants to reconnect with…
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