By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two U.S. citizens were stopped and questioned by a Border Patrol agent last week at a northern Montana gas station in the town of Havre because they were speaking Spanish, KRTV reports. Ana Suda, a native of Texas who lives in Havre, stopped with a friend at a Town Pump store…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Mexican immigrants think of the Border Patrol, they often think of agents in green uniform with a gun, handcuffs and a baton. Intimidating figures. Now the agency is taking a more humanitarian approach and is urging immigrants to dissuade others from crossing the border because it is more dangerous and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s efforts to reach out to Spanish-speaking residents for help fighting crime appears to be working, the FBI announced Tuesday. Two years ago this month, the bureau launched a Spanish-language website on www.fbi.gov. Since then, the site has been viewed more than 160,000 times, according to the FBI. The bureau has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s one thing the FBI always needs more of: folks with foreign language skills. The agency is conducting a contract Linguist Job Fair on Friday, Nov. 4 and Sat. Nov. 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seattle University Student Center at 901 12th Avenue, Seattle. The pay? $29…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Last October in Orlando, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the heads of the ATF field offices gathered for a SAC meeting. It was there where it was announced that William Newell, head of the Phoenix office, would become the ATF’s attache to Mexico. Newell, an up and comer…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As part of its ongoing battle against a host of crimes including cyber crime, terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, corruption, kidnapping and civil rights violations,the FBI in Chicago is looking to recruit contract linguists with foreign language skills. The bureau is hosting a foreign language career fair on March 12 at the offices…
