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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Mexican border

Mexican border stories: 38 news summaries

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Work Begins on Controversial San Diego Border Fence

Critics charge $57M fence isn't worth cost or  environmental damage

Aug 16, 08 4:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Construction crews have launched work on a controversial section of the US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, AP reports. The Smuggler's Gulch canyon will be filled with dirt and a fence built at a cost of $16 million a mile. Critics charge the fence is no longer vital and the... More »

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Mexican border • San Diego • Border Patrol • illegal immigration • Tijuana • border security • border fence

Drug Addiction Shoots Up
in Mexico

Traffickers thwarted
at border sell crack, heroin, meth to locals

Jul 23, 08 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drug addiction is skyrocketing in Mexico, which used to be simply a transit point for illegal drugs rather than a major consumer market, reports USA Today. As increased border security foils smugglers along the American border, the drugs end up being sold to Mexicans. Crack cocaine use has risen sharply,... More »

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Mexico • drug addiction • heroin • cocaine • Mexican border • crack cocaine • drug traffickers

 15 Dead in 
 Tijuana Shootout 

Mexico sends in thousands of troops to quell further fighting

Apr 26, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gunfight between Tijuana drug cartel rivals left 15 dead and eight wounded near the US border today, Reuters reports. The worst violence in Mexico's 3-year drug war, it filled a city road with bodies and took the lives of two top hit men from the Arellano Felix cartel. "... More »

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War on Drugs • Mexico • Mexican border • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • Tijuana • gun violence • shootout • Arellano Felix Organization

Mexico Bans All Car Imports— Except '98s

New law allows only 10-year-old jalopies across the border

Mar 3, 08 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - For used-car shoppers in Mexico, 1998 is about to become a very popular year. Starting today, only 10-year-old cars—nothing newer, nothing older—can be imported in Mexico, a move designed to curtail the flood of “vehiculos chatarra,” or jalopies, clogging the streets. Before the change, imports needed... More »

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Texas • Mexico • imports • trade • Mexican border • car dealers • used cars • jalopies • cars

Glitches Delay 'Virtual' Border Fence 3 Years

Unmanned "fence' failed to perform in 28-mile pilot program

Feb 28, 08 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Plans to build a high-tech "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border have been set back at least 3 years after serious problems emerged in the pilot project, the Washington Post reports. The 28-mile fence south of Tuscon, which included unmanned surveillance towers equipped with radar linked to computers, didn't... More »

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Mexican border • Border Patrol • radar • border security • border fence • virtual fence

'Virtual Fence' Cleared For Arizona Border

Troubled system already operational

Feb 22, 08 12:14 PM CST
(Newser) - The government has just given the green light to a 28-mile “virtual fence” along the Arizona/Mexico border, the AP reports. The system, which uses cameras, radar, and other sensor devices to detect border jumpers, is already partially constructed, and working. Last week Border Patrol caught 38 would-be illegal immigrants... More »

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illegal immigrant • border control • Boeing • Mexican border • Department of Homeland Security • Michael Chertoff • Border Patrol • border fence • virtual fence

Big Apple Opens Arms to Euros

Stores taking foreign currency as weak dollar encourages tourists

Feb 7, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - The falling dollar has made the US a travel bargain, and some merchants in New York City have flung open their doors—and their tills—to the sudden influx of foreign currencies, Reuters reports. The euro, up 12% against the dollar in the past year, is particularly common. "Money... More »

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New York City • exchange rate • Mexican border • euro • US dollar • weak dollar • Big Apple • Canadian border • foreign currency

Citing US Troubles, Illegal Immigrants 'Self-Deport'

Immigrants face tougher law enforcement and worsening economy

Dec 25, 07 10:04 PM CST
(Newser) - More illegal immigrants in the US are "self-deporting" back to their home countries in the face of stricter immigration enforcement and a worsening economy, Reuters reports. "The situation has got so tough that there don't seem to be many options left for us," said a Mexican immigrant.... More »

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immigration • illegal immigrant • Mexican border • deportation • US economy • relocation

Immigration
Fervor Could
Burn GOP

Rollback of Bush’s Hispanic-friendly
stance is risky

Dec 13, 07 1:19 PM CST
(Newser) - The GOP contenders embracing anti-immigrant fervor may be sorely miscalculating, Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker, in a piece looking at the party's dramatic turn from the Bush strategy of cultivating immigrants in 2000 and 2004. The nativist passions Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have been fanning appeal... More »

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Mitt Romney • immigration • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Mexico • Mike Huckabee • Mexican border • Tom Tancredo • Hispanic • border security

Texas Cracks Down on Illegals

In Laredo, no more 'catch and release'—everyone gets jail time

Nov 25, 07 7:05 PM CST
(Newser) - In Laredo, Texas, the border patrol is getting serious about illegal immigration. The longstanding “catch-and-release” policy was scrapped this month, in favor of a zero tolerance program that has clogged jails and strained courts. The Houston Chronicle looked in on a federal courthouse recently, as judges tried and sentenced... More »

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illegal immigrant • Mexican border • Border Patrol

Good Fences Make Good Borders

New designs aim to
exclude, but not offend, Mexican neighbors

Nov 16, 07 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Pity the designers of the new border fence with Mexico: They'd been asked to come up with a design that will keep out the most determined immigrants but doesn't read as unfriendly. The government has mandated the fence be "aesthetically pleasing" to folks in Mexico, who are, after all,... More »

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Mexico • Mexican border • border fence

Mexican Fence & More Guards Will Stop Illegals: Rudy

'You can stop them
at the border'

Oct 25, 07 7:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican White House candidate Rudy Giuliani said that if he's elected president he would stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country by building a high-tech fence along the Mexican border, boosting patrols 50% and stationing guards at 50-mile intervals. "You can stop them at the border,"... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • New York City • Mexican border

Mexican Border Fence Grows

US is quickly expanding the barrier to include rural areas

Sep 30, 07 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a slow start, the federal government has ramped up construction of the fence along the Mexican border in recent weeks. The steel barrier now reaches far into rural areas for the first time, in response to a shift in smugglers' strategy, the Los Angeles Times reports. Workers have finished... More »

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Mexico • Mexican border • Border Patrol

Teamsters to Mexican Truckers: Hit the Road, Jack

Union rips deal opening US roads to foreign rigs

Sep 7, 07 3:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Teamsters are protesting the launch this week of a program allowing Mexican trucks to travel anywhere in the US, rather than just 20 miles inside the border. Union officials argue that Mexican trucks aren't safe because they're subject to different environmental and inspection standards, and that regulations regarding shifts and... More »

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Mexico • unions • trade • Mexican border • NAFTA • truckers • teamsters

Mexico Calls for Eco-Friendly Border Fence

Environment minister warns US against proceeding with plan

Jul 31, 07 5:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Citing environmental concerns, Mexico is calling on the US to revise its plan to expand border fences. The current layout threatens fragile ecosystems in the Sonora Desert area and could wipe out endangered species like the Mexican black bear, a new report shows. Mexico is ready to take the US... More »

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immigration • endangered species • illegal immigrant • Mexico • border control • environmentalism • ecology • Mexican border • fence • Sonora Desert

Border Patrol: OK to Shoot
Fleeing Subjects?

Congress probes case
of jailed agents

Jul 18, 07 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that the president is in the business of commuting sentences, some lawmakers would like to see him turn his attention to two border patrol agents who drew more than 10 years in prison for shooting a fleeing, unarmed drug trafficker in the back. By federal law, agents are allowed... More »

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Mexican border • deadly force • Border Patrol • Ignacio Ramos • Alonso Compean

Cartels Come Down Hard on Mexican Cops

Local law enforcement wages drug war
within and without

Jul 9, 07 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the Mexican government's vow to crack down on drug cartels, local police forces are outmanned, outmaneuvered, and outgunned by the more sophisticated trafficking organizations, the Los Angeles Time reports. The ill-prepared and often corrupt community police have emerged as the weakest link in the offensive against drug trafficking on... More »

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drugs • Mexico • Arizona • Mexican border • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war

High-Tech Towers Could Seal Border

Towers with sophisticated cameras could create a virtual border without walls

Jun 23, 07 10:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A series of towers equipped with high-tech cameras now being tested along the Arizona-Mexico border could be the first step towards a "virtual border" for the US, the Los Angeles Times reports. The system, being tested in the busiest corridor for illegal immagrants entering the country,  could obviate... More »

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Bush administration • illegal immigrant • Mexican border

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