Archive for June, 2010

• How Much Abuse Should Officers Take?

  Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  For all those hand-wringers out there who are shaking their collective heads in disbelief that a fifteen-year-old Mexican boy was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent because he was attempting to brain the guy with a rock, let’s be clear. A rock, colliding with your skull, can kill you just [...]

• Clinton: Obama wants immigration reform passed this year

  Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week told an Ecuador television reporter that President Barack Obama is courting lawmakers’ support for immigration reform and wants it to happen this year.
  “He’s working very hard to get that support and I know he wants to do it in the next months,” Clinton told NTN24 reporter Gabriella [...]

• Mexico anger high as US Border Patrol kills teen

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Mexicans are seething over the second death of a countryman at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in two weeks, an incident near downtown El Paso that is threatening to escalate tensions over migrant issues.
  About 30 relatives and friends gathered late Tuesday to mourn Sergio [...]

• FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol

  Thursday, June 10th, 2010

  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
  The killing of the Mexican by U.S. [...]

• Feds Sentence Two Illegal Immigrants for Carrying Nearly 150 Assault Rifles Into U.S.

  Friday, June 4th, 2010

  McALLEN, Texas — Two Mexican nationals caught in Texas with 147 assault rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, high-capacity magazines and bayonets have started serving short federal sentences after pleading guilty to entering the U.S. illegally.
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