Archive for April, 2010

• Democratic lawmaker: Arizona immigration law like apartheid

  Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

  When we first released BORDER, I warned of the coming drug war. I was called a fearmonger. Now I listen to the words that our elected officials are throwing around:
  “Apartheid. Nazi!”
  Really?!
  The AZ law mirrors federal legislation. Do these lawmakers really have a problem with the law, or just the reality that in AZ it will [...]

• Rep Wants AZ Immigration Law in Texas

  Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

  Chris says: “It looks like Arizona has taken point on exercising states right. Attorney General Holder may make a legal challenge to the AZ legislation.”
  A Republican Texas lawmaker plans to introduce a tough immigration measure similar to the new law in Arizona, a move state Democrats say would be a mistake.
  Rep. Debbie [...]

• Hundreds Apply for Jobs Formerly Held by Illegal Immigrants

  Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

  PHOENIX — Job hunters turned out in the hundreds to fill recently-vacant positions at Pro’s Ranch Market stores, where a federal audit led to the firing of some 300 workers.
  Roxanne Nieves, one of the many that came out in search of a job, said she came to apply [...]

• Man Set On Fire For Not Paying Border Smugglers

  Friday, April 23rd, 2010

  SEATTLE (AP) — A man who was seriously burned in Seattle reportedly was set afire for failing to pay men who illegally brought him and his girlfriend from Mexico.
  Police spokeswoman Renee Witt told KING-TV that the girlfriend told investigators her boyfriend was taken to “teach him a lesson” for not paying $6,000.
  The 21-year-old man told [...]

• New adversary in U.S. drug war: Contract killers for Mexican cartels

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — A cross-border drug gang born in the prison cells of Texas has evolved into a sophisticated paramilitary killing machine that U.S. and Mexican officials suspect is responsible for thousands of assassinations here, including the recent ambush and slaying of three people linked to the U.S. consulate.

  The heavily tattooed [...]

• 18 Gunmen Killed in Attacks on Mexican Army Bases

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP)  Dozens of gunmen tried to blockade two army
  garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18
  attackers, the army said Wednesday in announcing what appeared to be a
  rare drug cartel offensive. Only one soldier was wounded.
  While drug gunmen frequently shoot at soldiers on patrol, they seldom
  target army bases, and even [...]

• Next Battle: Immigration

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  After the health-care fight, we can expect the Obama administration to use the same template to pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” That is a euphemism for permanently ceasing construction of the still-incomplete border fence; institutionalizing a large guest-worker program; treating illegal residents as de facto citizens in terms of receiving earned-income [...]

• States Boost Border Security as Pleas to Washington Go Unmet

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer listens to a question as she testifies during a U.S. Senate committee meeting on border violence April 20, 2009, in Phoenix. (AP Photo) Border states are looking to take matters into their own hands, boosting law enforcement to patrol for illegal immigrants while their pleas [...]

• Rancher’s Murder Exposes Deadly Gaps in Border Policing, Tancredo Says

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, reacting to the murder of a well-known Arizona rancher by an assailant authorities believe was an illegal immigrant, said violence on the border has spiraled out of control and the federal government seems powerless to stop it.
  Tancredo, who has called on the Obama administration to deploy the [...]

• Fear Now a Way of Life in Border Towns

  Monday, April 5th, 2010

  12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
  Paul J. Weber, The Associated Press
  FORT HANCOCK, Texas – Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700,
  about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, epicenter of that
  country’s bloody drug war.
  School enrollment in Fort Hancock, Texas, which is about 50 miles from
  Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has been growing [...]