BORDER NEWS WATCH
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for 9-29-2014 to 10-5-2014
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Border Security Matters
Surprise: After Illegal Immigration Wave, Tuberculosis
Plagues El Paso Hospital
Mass Migration Contingency Plans Weren’t Activated
The Leaky Sieve - Why the Rio Grande Valley is flooded with
migrants
Mosquito Virus Spreads in USA...
Local Law Enforcement Prepare as Extra Border Agents
Depart...
WHITE HOUSE: 'Screening Procedures In Place At Our
Border'...
DHS Visa Security Program Lacks Measures to Determine
Effectiveness
Report: Border Patrol Agent Says Classified Intel Proves
Terrorists Infiltrate U.S.
Bulletin: ISIS Eyes Southern Border
Michael Savage blames 'President Obola' for virus in U.S.
WH Brushes Off Plight of U.S. Marine Jailed in Mexico
DEA Administrator Statement on Capture of Hector
Beltran-Leyva
9,862 Aliens From Terror-Linked States Apprehended in FY13
Obama Admin Refusing to Tell Congress Where Illegal Children
Went
Poll: Latinos Support Strong Border Security
Mexican town where missing Texas girl was found reportedly a
hotbed for human trafficking activity
Immigration Expert: Obama Admin Responsible for Letting
Ebola Patient into U.S.
Dallas Ebola Patient Was Another Visa Mistake
10/3/2014 InSight Crime – Organized Crime in the Americas
Can We End the Crazy Diversity Visa Lottery Yet?
CDC Chief: ‘Even If We Tried to Close the Border, It
Wouldn’t Work’
CBP Completes Upgrade of Aerostat Surveillance System
Lack of Border Security
Increases Threat to Public Health
Smugglers concerned with airborne counter-scout operation
I-19 Checkpoint study highlights faults, drives toward
improvements
AK-47 among weapons BP seizes from smugglers
Texas Congressman Creates Caucus to Toughen Border Security
Short Story: Refusal To Secure Our Borders Invites Ebola . . . And Worse
Immigration Matters
Illegals blow off immigration hearings, govt. conceals it
Iowa Senate clash over immigration, amnesty in first
debate...
Teens who crossed US-Mexico border entering schools
Schools scramble to help teens who crossed border
Americans forced out of US military; illegal aliens allowed
to enlist
New from the Center for Immigration Studies, 9/29/14
Gallup Poll: President Obama’s Support Among Hispanics Is
Eroding
The Number of American Adults Struggling with English is
Skyrocketing and That’s Not Good News
Feds Could Stop 50,000 Deportations a Year by Carving Out
Traffic Offenses
School Districts Create Separate ‘Newcomers Programs’ For Immigrants
DOJ to ban religious, racial profiling in national security
probes
FEDS PLACE ILLEGALS IN EVERY STATE...
Mexican Consulate issues ID cards to Nationals living in
Wisconsin...
WH: Obama will 'make good' on exec amnesty pledge...
Obama Silent on Amnesty in Address to Congressional Black
Caucus Dinner
One-fifth of U.S. workers were laid off in past five years,
study says
DHS Changed Regulation That May Have Stopped Machete Murder
REFUGEE STATUS GIVEN TO CENTRAL AMERICAN MINORS...
Hispanics promised Obama will act on immigration by year’s
end
Illegal Aliens Sue U.S. for Returning Child to Guatemala
Center for Immigration Studies Immigration Events, 9/30/14
Obama Regime Spends $4 Million On Lawyers For Illegal
Immigrant Minors…
Feds to spend $9 million defending illegal aliens in
immigration court
Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2013
Judicial Watch Sues DHS For Information Surrounding Release
of 36,000 Criminal Aliens
If Obama Acts Alone on Immigration, House Judiciary Chairman
Vows Court Challenge
Obama to Take Unilateral Action on Immigration One Week
After Midterm Elections?
Fired Up Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth
Can Stop Us'
Obama Tells Hispanic Caucus He 'Rode Over' From WH With 2
Illegal Aliens
Obama Fails to Arrest Criminals Riding with Him
Obama tells frustrated Latinos: ‘I’m going to need you to
have my back’
Hoyer on Surge of Central Americans into US: ‘Not a Border
Security Issue’
Dem: Surge in Central Americans Crossing Border ‘Similar’ to
European Immigrants
By the Numbers: Surging Immigrant Population Sets Record - As a share of the U.S. population, immigrants now account
for the highest percentage in 93 years.
Illegals Getting Free Legal Service Paid for by You and Me
Has Obama Enforced Immigration Laws?
Obama Administration
Puts Public at Risk - Releases 36,000 Criminal Aliens
Immigrants, Kicked Off Obamacare For Not Proving Legal
Status, Are Now Suing
Proposed Bill In NYC To Not Turn Over Violent Criminal
Illegal Aliens To Feds
Iowa schools see growth in
Arabic-speaking students
Center for Immigration Studies Immigration Events, 10/5/2014
Department of Homeland Security official took bribes in cash
and egg rolls
More jails refuse to hold inmates for federal immigration
authorities
Record 61.8 million U.S. Residents Speak
Foreign Language at Home - Spanish, Chinese
& Arabic speakers grew most since 2010
Illegal Drug Matters
'Meth' candy leaves sour taste on New Mexico school
playground
Democrats Think Medical Marijuana Will Get "Liberal
Thinking Voters" To the Polls
ONE IN 12 AMERICANS USE ILLEGAL DRUGS..
STUDY: Antidepressants rapidly alter brain architecture...
10 Percent of Americans Have Come to Work High on Marijuana
Chinese restaurant owner admits serving opium-laced noodles
in effort to hook customers
Libertarian and Medical Marijuana Could Decide Hot Florida
Governor's Race
CBP Seize Nearly $600K in Hard Drugs
Marijuana Smoke Gets in Your Rights
Driver Caught at Border With $1.67M Worth of Pot
Mexico says alleged drug cartel capo caught in raid
Reputed cartel member to change plea in US court
CBP Arrests Heroin Smuggler at Port
Are Stoners the Next Hot Voting Bloc? Jimmy Kimmel
Investigates
Laredo CBP Officers Seize More than $330,000 in Heroin at
Gateway to the Americas Bridge
Border Patrol Agents Confiscate Liquid Meth and Heroin
Border Patrol Tracking Skills Lead To Drug Smugglers In New
Mexico
Laredo CBP Officers Seize More than $330,000 in Heroin at
Gateway to the Americas Bridge
Miscellaneous Matters
CBP Seizes $500K in Fake Goods
Gone 42 years, a 1954 Harley-Davidson Finally Goes Home
Mexican Army Captures Head of BLO Cartel Near Popular
Tourist Town
Three countries or one continent?
ICE cracks down on massive money laundering scheme
connecting cartels to LA fashion district
Mexico announces homicide charges in army killings
SITREPS
10/1/2014: 1. Last
week: Nogales Municipal Policia seized 10,560 lbs. of marijuana, scales
and weapons in a stash house in Nogales, Sonora, Mex.
2. Three gunmen
arrested by Nogales Policias, in Nogales, Son., Mex.; all three were identified
as Mexican nationals who reside in the USA:
--Aurelio Estrada (29),
Nogales, AZ
--Julio Gonzalez-Vasques
(34), Nogales, AZ
--Amador Bosco-Carpio
(22), Phoenix, AZ
3. Forty (40)
Sonora Judicial Policias have been deployed to Altar, Son., Mexico, in
anticipation of the upswing in marijuana trafficking, and cartel activity as
the harvest season begins (MJ & poppies) and cooler temps encourage illegal
crossers. They are reported to be SpecOps trained (SWAT).
4. Vicam, Son.--
Body of Francisco A. Delgado-Romo (32) found in shallow grave; hands bound /
signs of torture.
OTHER NEWS / MEXICO:
5. Mexico, DF --
Mex. Military line up 22 people and gun them down. Claim it was a
firefight, but photo evidence indicates that they were detained for some time,
before being lined up against a warehouse and shot by uniformed SEDENA military
personnel. It is under investigation.
6. Tamaulipas -
Theft of PEMEX products by the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas exceeds $1 billion
dollars. They directly tap the pipelines and fill up stolen gas tankers,
later selling the product on the black market.
7. Also in
Tamps.-- 2 Montessori schools (preschool age children) close down, due to
extortion and threats of violence. School owners fled to the USA.
10/1/2014 23:44 CST - 24
hr. update / SitRep: Since yesterday, the following is reported (besides
the 3,300 lbs MJ at the NOG POE):
1. Cd. Obregon -
Saul Fidel Villegas-Rodriguez (age 26) gunned down inside his residence.
Narco-cartel related.
2. 396 lbs. of
marijuana located abandoned along the Caborca- Punto Penasco Hwy.
3. Tucson - 18
lbs. of heroin seized from a vehicle, by local authorities; suspect vehicle
driven my Mexican national / courier, Victor A. Esparza-Arvayo (24).
10/4/2014 15:05 CST -
SitRep (past 24-48 hrs):
1. The body of an adult male was found in a
brushy area, on the outskirts of Nogales, Son.,Mex.; hands/feet bound, evidence
of torture.
2. A second body found in Col. Alamos, Nogales,
Son.; hands/feet bound; face skinned/peeled off.
3. Approx. 430 lbs. of marijuana found in
abandoned vehicle, Nogales, Son., Mex.
4. Two seizures totaling 54 lbs. of heroin at
the NOG POE.
5. Also, 5 lbs. Meth., and 5 lbs. cocaine app'd
at the NOG POE.
6. San Luis -- 30 lbs cocaine app'd at POE.
Note: All four couriers in 4,5,6 above were adult
Mexican males.
OTHER NEWS:
7. Tijuana - 6 tons
(12,000 lbs) of Marijuana discovered in a stash house located in an upscale
gated community. Guards out front.
8. East Los Angeles, CA - 2,600 lbs. of
marijuana discovered in a stash house.
Eight individuals arrested at the stash house.
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Articles
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Article about J.P.S.
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‘Guns across the Border’
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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
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Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How
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SIXTY MILES OF BORDER:
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The SHADOW CATCHER: A U.S.
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Beneath the Same Sky: An
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Life Inside the Bubble: Why a
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Raising a Jihadi Generation: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood
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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 Safer – Longmire Consulting
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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