BORDER NEWS WATCH

 

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DEA Issues Carfentanil Warning to Police and Public - Dangerous opioid 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl

 

 

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BORDER SECURITY MATTERS

 

Mexico Ambassador: We Are Not Paying for the Wall

 

Overwhelmed Border Patrol Agents Stuck Serving Burritos to Illegal Immigrants

 

Attacks on border agents up 200% this year

EOIR Takes a Small Step in the Right Direction to Cut Backlog

It Will Take More Than a Wall to Solve Border Crime

 

Trump's 'wall' at Mexico border vanishing

 

The Building Blocks of a U.S.-Mexico Wall

 

Border Asylum Claims Up Tenfold Since 2009

Human Smuggler with Chinese Immigrants in Mexico Trying to Beat Trump’s Wall

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents discover five illegal migrants in two separate incidents

Border Patrol Arrests Previously Convicted Criminals

Immigration Checkpoint Discovery Leads to 4 Arrests

 

Border Patrol Agents: The Chief Obama Gave Us Is a Disgrace

 

Obama Diverts Border Patrol from Fighting Drug Smuggling to Serving Burritos to Illegals

 

Assessing Southern Border Security – Inst. for Defense Analyses

 

Homeland Security Chairman: Yes, We're Going to Put Mexico on a 'Payment Plan'

 

Why Trump picked a retired general for Homeland Security

 

Israel Shows How to Stop Terrorists

 

Damning Report Shows Only Half Of Illegal Aliens Are Caught

 

Travel Tips: A Mexico Border Crossing Road Trip Guide For Americans

 

US Border Patrol uses desert as ‘weapon’ to kill thousands of migrants, report says

 

The Surge of Migrants at the Border Never Stopped

 

10 detained at Arizona checkpoints in human-smuggling cases

Border Patrol Arrests 3 Sex Offenders in 3 Hours

 

The strange ways smugglers use everyday foods to conceal illegal drugs

 

Sen. Flake on CBP HiRe Act

NBPC Congratulates President-Elect Donald J. Trump

 

The truth about America's border with Mexico

 

Trump’s border patrol guy calls BS on Flynn claim Arabic signs are guiding ‘radicalized Muslims’ to US

Securing US Border May Cause Crisis in Mexico - Problems with immigration, drugs, criminals, and cartels will grow worse

 

A First-Gen Mexican Immigrant Explains Why He Wants Trump To Build A Wall

 

This is how to stop Border Patrol killings with impunity, ex-officials say

 

Border Patrol seizes $1M in marijuana, teen arrested

 

Feds busts teens cross-border drug smuggling via air cannon

 

Más de 17 mil migrantes extranjeros han ingresado a Honduras este 2016, la mayoría haitianos

 

44 migrantes guatemaltecos son detenidos en México

 

¿Qué celebrar en 20 años?

 

Grounded Surveillance Operation Nabbed 110,000 Illegal Immigrants at Border

 

Ex-internal affairs chief criticizes Border Patrol training

 

Life as a Mexican American on the Border Patrol: 'The system is not broken'

 

If we hire them, they will come: The demand side of border security

 

Texas wages a war on drugs at the border. That might be the wrong place.

 

DEA: 224 Mexican Cartel Border Tunnels Found Since 1990

 

BORDERING ON INSECURITY

 

With Trump in D.C., Texas might spend less on border

 

Fake News: The Guardian Publishes Border Story Riddled with False Claims

 

How Breitbart and the conservative right opened a new front in the war over fake news

 

Life as a Mexican American on the Border Patrol: 'The system is not broken'

 

Ex-Internal Affairs Chief Says Border Patrol Agents Receiving Inadequate Training

 

AZ Border Patrol agent assaulted near Douglas; shoots suspect in leg

 

Borderland crisis: Activists warn that Arizona border checkpoints put more migrants in danger

 

A backpack, a Coke bottle and fake cocaine: Inside a Border Patrol agent’s smuggling arrest

 

Voters Not Fooled by Democrats' Dangerous Immigration Agenda - There's a new sheriff in town.

 

Trump team surveying border - Transition team instructed Border Patrol to suggest locations for border wall

 

40,000 Haitian, African and Middle Eastern immigrants expected to descend on U.S. border

 

Numbers spike at local respite center - More than 7,500 passed through facility in November

 

Haitians, Africans, Asians

 

Crossing the Darién Gap

 

Technology 'the way forward' to control UK borders after Brexit

 

Just how much would Trump's proposed border wall cost? British firm uses historical data for estimate

 

Traversing the Rio Suchiate

 

Commentary: The future of U.S.-Mexico security cooperation

 

Éxodo de niños a EU, sin freno; reportan 32 mil 293 en 11 meses

 

Ruger girl' keeps border ranching heritage alive

 

The Enemy Within: Bribes Bore a Hole in the U.S. Border

 

New search effort for crossers who died yields discovery of 4 remains

 

Building Walls and Fences: Technology and Border Security

 

United States: Orrick Appellate Team Files Amicus Brief In Major U.S. Supreme Court Case Involving U.S. Border Patrol Shooting

 

Big local marijuana bust adds to Stonegarden numbers    

 

Five border security priorities for Trump in his first 100 days

 

 

 

ILLEGAL AND LEGAL IMMIGRATION, VISA AND AMNESTY MATTERS

 

1,000 faith leaders to Obama: Pardon all illegal aliens - Soros-backed group also urges cities, states, churches to create 'sanctuaries' for illegals

 

Phoenix mayor promises to stand with ASU, support DACA students

 

Undocumented immigrants face deportation under Trump

How Trump's Plan to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens Would Work

Texas Makes MASSIVE Illegal Immigration Move In Obama’s Final Days… Wow

 

Immigration 'Law and Order' Starts at State Department - Trump admin can crack down on illegal immigration and protect Americans by reforming visa programs

 

Unaccompanied Alien Children eating up Health and Human Service’s agency budgets

 

How Trump Could Ruin His Presidency

 

Senators Working To Make It Harder For Trump To Deport Illegal Immigrants

 

Will Rep. Tom Price rein-in refugee program, so far no sign he is inclined that way

 

If Continuing Budget Resolution (as is) extends to late March, ORR will run out of money

 

Trump Urged to Crack Down on ‘Chain Migration’ - Stopping illegal immigration not as important as reducing ballooning legal migration, advocate says

 

Feds halt new citizenship approvals after Obama admin’s gaffe on background checks

 

TX Gov. Abbott to Cut Funding to State Colleges Which Offer Sanctuary

 

Department of Homeland Security Overwhelmed by Green Card Catastrophe

 

Amnestarian Lindsey Graham: Another Reason Why We Elected Trump

 

Senators Durbin and Graham Crafting Bill to Make Obama’s Dreamer EO Law

 

Fake U. S. Embassy Shut Down in Ghana

 

Trump handed 'trigger' to end sanctuary cities - 'Hand over dangerous criminals or get your checkbook out'

 

Ohio State Stabbing and the Rise of Immigrant-Related Terrorism

 

The Brown-Becerra Axis For Illegals - Radical new California Attorney General will defy federal law.

 

White House Admits an Obama Pardon Can't Give Legal Status to Immigration Violators

 

Trump allies warn: No compromise on immigration

 

O'Reilly: Trump Won Because Americans Believe They're Being Conned On Immigration

 

Big business warns Trump against mass deportation

 

Worrisome comments from 'man of the year' - Trump: 'We're going to work something out' on Dreamers

 

Trump taps open borders zealot to head Department of Labor

 

Levin: Trump Has ‘Now Walked Back His Position on Immigration’

 

Donald Trump’s administration could deport millions of undocumented immigrants, using a system perfected under Barack Obama

 

Illegal Alien Deported 8 Times Killed Two Women In Drunken Hit-And-Run

 

The other face of immigration from Mexico is African

 

A First-Gen Mexican Immigrant Explains Why He Wants Trump To Build A Wall

 

Sanctuary Cities and their Liberal Mayors

The coming sanctuary cities crackdown

Trump vows to enforce visa restrictions that could affect Indians

 

How Donald Trump Can Put an End to Sanctuary Cities - at least 170,000 convicted criminal illegal immigrants who have been ordered to be deported remain at-large

 

Labor Force Participation Shows Little Improvement - Findings May Help Explain Donald Trump's Appeal

 

ICE spends $100 million ferrying illegal immigrant children around U.S., watchdog says

 

Labor Secretary Nominee Moving Closer to Donald Trump’s Populist Priorities

 

Obama Admin: Requiring Employees in US Speak English Is Discriminatory

 

Arizona universities ask Trump to protect immigrant students

 

Board of Regents asks Trump to protect DACA students

 

Arizona regents to Trump: Here's how to keep 'Dreamers' here as in-state students

 

Mild Rapture: A Federal Agency Cracks Down on Crappy Colleges

 

Young DREAMer immigrants warned not to be abroad when Trump's sworn in

 

Tackling Sanctuaries, Prioritizing Public Safety - New report released at National Press Club event

 

Record number of Somalis entering America as refugees, but where does Tillerson stand?

 

Illegal migration hits new high in November as families surge across border

 

U.S. immigrant deportations fall to lowest level since 2007

 

Tragedy of Illegal Aliens and Multiple Deportations Continues

 

Borders, immigration laws are meaningless in California | Reagan

 

For Asians in the U.S. illegally, ‘there’s more shame and more quiet’

 

Chicago City Council approves $1M legal fund for immigrants

 

Responding to Trump, L.A. proposes $10-million legal defense fund for immigrants facing deportation

 

Tucson City Council passes immigration rights resolution

 

Cities Launch Legal Defense Fund for Illegal Aliens

 

Given Our Own Immigration Dysfunction, Berlin Christmas Market Attack Could Happen Here

 

Roundup Nets 71 Illegal Aliens Now Facing Deportation

 

Conway: No Immigration Policies Based on Religion

 

Roundup Nets 71 Illegal Aliens Now Facing Deportation

 

Immigration reform group lists recommendations during Presidential transition

 

Police And Illegal Immigration: What Our Neighbors Do

 

Our New Year's Immigration Resolution -- TIME TO REDUCE

 

Tackling Sanctuaries

 

Working the system is easy for undocumented immigrants

 

They gambled, and lost

 

AMERICANS, WATCH OUT, ISLAMIC “REFUGEES” WILL CONTROL YOUR STREETS, IF NOT SENT PACKING! ENSLAVING.

 

Immigration Hawk Tapped To Write Trump’s Inaugural Address

 

Obama: I Got Rid Of That Tracking Registry

 

Mexican man accused of rape had 19 deportations, removals

 

Immigration challenges Trump will face on day one

 

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Means Ending Chain Migration

 

Giving Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens Makes Illegal Voting a Real Possibility

 

 

 

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT

 

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH - LOTS OF DAILY ADDITIONS THERE

 

'Secret' refugee resettlement transforming America - 'If they're not assimilating, then we're creating a huge Trojan horse'

 

See undercover video of 'no-go zones' for women in France - Should be 'wake-up call' for U.S. cities importing Muslim migrants

 

Record number of Somalis entering America as refugees, but where does Tillerson stand?

 

Ohio State Somali slasher family’s refugee case contained many red flags apparently ignored by Obama DHS

 

Voters Not Fooled by Democrats' Dangerous Immigration Agenda - There's a new sheriff in town.

 

After Refugee Terror Attack in Germany, Obama Brings More In!

 

AMERICANS, WATCH OUT, ISLAMIC “REFUGEES” WILL CONTROL YOUR STREETS, IF NOT SENT PACKING! ENSLAVING.

 

Nearly 100,000 Bhutanese refugees later we help UN clean out camps in Nepal

 

Welfare Jihad: ISIS fighters receiving unemployment benefits as they ‘need assistance’

 

Danish gov’t pays ISIS jihad terrorists welfare assistance

 

Obama administration now bringing in 290 Muslim migrants every day

 

Refugees with low education levels needed for jobs like meatpacking

 

 

 

VETTING/SCREENING OF IMMIGRANTS AND RESETTLED REFUGEES

 

Obama Admin Fails to Check Immigrants Against FBI Databases, Approves Citizenship

 

600 ‘underage’ asylum seekers in Denmark are adults: report

 

OSU attacker was terror-recruitment target – DHS turned blind eye - Obama allowing Somali Muslims to enter U.S. 'from all over world'

 

Germany has 7,000 jihad terror suspects, can’t keep track of them all

 

Obama administration scraps National Security Entry-Exit Registration System for migrants from Muslim countries

 

Mitchell’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ a must read

 

Mitchell’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation:’ “Violent jihad is the religious duty of every True Muslim”

 

Obama: I Got Rid Of That Tracking Registry

 

 

 

ILLEGAL DRUG AND RELATED MATTERS

 

VISIT CUSTOMS BORDER PROTECTION NEWSROOM MEDIA RELEASES – Their releases will no longer be individually listed here.  The borders are busy with LOTS of daily seizures and arrests, a fraction of the actual illegal crossings

 

Pink: Stronger Than Heroin, But Legal In Most States

 

2016 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary

 

Obama’s Soros-funded Pro-Dope Policy in Peril

 

Heroin-Related Causes Are Killing More Americans Than Gun Homicides

 

The other terror threat: ISIS wants to destroy the US, this group already is

 

100,000 dead, 30,000 missing: Mexico’s war on drugs turns 10

 

Mexico’s decade of murder and grief - As Mexico's drug war turns 10, it's time to pull the soldiers

 

Texas wages a war on drugs at the border. That might be the wrong place.

Former HSI Agent Accused of Stealing Drug Money

 

US Arrests Drug Company Execs for Allegedly Fueling Opioid Epidemic

 

Synthetic Opioid Deaths Surge 72 Percent, Ravage States Across US

 

DEA agent explains what it's like to infiltrate Mexican and Colombian drug cartels

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS TRANS-BORDER DEFENSE MATTERS

 

Is Ciudad Juárez on the brink of a new gang war?

 

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Mexican Cartel at Border Preps to Incinerate Victims’ Hacked Bodies, Plays Soccer with Head

 

Proposed Law in Mexico Could Expand Military Role in Drug War

 

20-to-1 exchange rate is unsavory threshold

 

Fitch Revises Outlook for Mexico From Stable to Negative After Trump's Win

 

Slayings in Juárez in 2016 on pace to pass 500

 

'Impunity has consequences': the women lost to Mexico's drug war

 

Mexican Congressmen Look to Regulate Army Patrolling of Streets

 

Mexico’s War on Crime: A Decade of (Militarized) Failure

 

Report: 2nd tunnel had to be built to release 'El Chapo' after 1st one came up in wrong cell

 

Mexico launches program to legalize foreign-born citizens

 

Securing US Border May Cause Crisis in Mexico - Problems with immigration, drugs, criminals, and cartels will grow worse

 

Mexicans Capture Drug Kingpin’s Mother to Release Kidnapped Kin

 

Mexico: Economy to suffer a mild recession in 2017 - Wells Fargo

 

Army sergeant in Texas admits funneling weapons to cartel

 

Capture of Mexico Crime Boss Could Spur Further Violence

 

Guatemala's Mafia State and the Case of Mauricio López Bonilla

 

Massacres, Drugs, and Money: Mexico’s Disastrous Drug-War Decade

 

Guatemala's Mafia State and the Case of Mauricio López Bonilla

 

Where have all the ‘paisanos’ gone?    

 

John McCain afirma que el TLC es un éxito; 'no abogaría por un cambio'

 

5 Cartel Gunmen Killed Near Texas Border

 

 

 

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

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IN SIGHTCRIME ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE AMERICAS

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SECURE BORDER INTELLIGENCE
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US CBP TUCSON SECTOR

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US CBP SECTOR MAP

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US CBP TUCSON SECTOR STATIONS

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CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES

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NUMBERS USA

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FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM

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REFUGE RESETTLEMENT WATCH

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THE REMEMBERANCE PROJECT

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SOUTHERN ARIZONA NEWS-EXAMINER

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BORDER ISSUES: MEXICO

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WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

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M3 REPORT

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SOUTHERN ARIZONA CATTLEMEN'S WEEKLY

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SUGGESTED READING

 

FEATURED WESTERN AUTHOR: J.P.S. BROWN

J.P.S. Brown Webpage

 

J.P.S. Brown Bio Page

 

J.P.S. Brown - Masterpieces of Fiction

 

J.P.S. Brown - To Order Books

 

Articles about JPS Brown by Leo Banks: Tasty Serial and J.P.S. Brown's Last Stand

 

Wolves At Our Door a novel by J.P.S. Brown 

 

Review of 'Wolves at Our Door' by Jon Shumaker

 

Article about J.P.S. Brown by Richard Grant

 

Articles about J.P.S. Brown by Kathy McCrane

 

J.P.S. Brown on Facebook

 

‘Guns across the Border’ one of ‘Best of 2013’

 

 

The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious by John Dodson

 

Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up

 

Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy

 

Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016

Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategy for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism

The Reapers Line - Life and Death on the Mexican Border by Lee Morgan II - Very enjoyable read, and highly recommended for LEOs.


SIXTY MILES OF BORDER: AN AMERICAN LAWMAN BATTLES DRUGS ON THE MEXICAN BORDER by Terry Kirkpatrick


The SHADOW CATCHER: A U.S. AGENT INFILTRATES MEXICO'S DEADLY CRIME CARTELS  by Hipolito Acosta

 

Beneath the Same Sky: An Interview with Author David Ramirez 

 

Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All

 

Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood Movement in America – Largely for law enforcement at all levels.  Will open your eyes even more.

 

 

OTHER READING TO CONSIDER:

 

The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton

 

Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A. Rodriguez

 

The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer


"Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery) by Marc Thiessen

 

No Easy Day by Mark Owen

 

2010 BOOK: Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

 

Broken Borders, Broken Promises by Todd Staples

 

The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border – Robert Lee Meril

 

Border Insecurity – Why Big Money, Fences and Drones Aren’t Making Us SaferLongmire Consulting

 

Opiate Heroin Awareness Toolkit

 

 

Defense is everyone’s business. 

 

At what cost, America, “Cheap” Labor, Plentiful Drugs and Votes?

 

What crosses the border from ALL OVER THE WORLD, ends UP HERE.

 

Truly informed legislators/citizens make informed and intelligent decisions.

 

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