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Border Patrol assault suspect in Canadian custody
2008-07-08 17:52:00
DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) ? A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec line has been arrested in Canada, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. The suspect was taken into custody Monday night in Stanstead, Quebec, hours after a Border Patrol agent shot at four people after being assaulted in Derby Line, ...
Border governors worried about National Guard pullout
2008-06-20 19:27:00
McALLEN, Texas (AP) ? The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, ...
Pulled by the Border Patrol!
2008-06-06 07:40:00
THURSDAY, JUNE 5Unfortunately there is only one post for today.  Real life has interfered with blogging.  I know, it’s weird, but there are times when life happens!I’ve had a long, windy day.  My mother had a worse day.  She did 3 hrs of nuclear medicine in Las Cruces.  They are looking for some sort of aortal blockage.  That’s the last thing she needs. While she was having her tests, I was shopping.  I’m out of condition (shopping condition).  I didn’t do bad, thought.  On the way home we were going through the Border Patrol checkpoint on highway ...
Border Patrol Contract Workers Allegedly Released Illegals
2008-06-05 07:21:00
SAN DIEGO â?? Two Border Patrol contract workers were arrested for allegedly conspiring to shuttle illegal immigrants from San Diego to Los Angeles for $2,500 apiece instead of returning them to Mexico. Christopher Saint Lucero and Manley Lamont Smith work for Wackenhut Corp., which holds a Border Patrol contract to escort illegal immigrants to Mexico after ...
Border Patrol Agent Seize Half Ton of Marijuana During Past Week
2008-05-21 00:00:00
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana, in five separate incidents, over the past week.
Government Jobs: U.S. Border Patrol Recruitment Day May 17th
2008-05-18 00:00:00
U.S. Border Patrol national recruiters are conducting an intensive recruiting event on Saturday, May 17 at the Chicago Marriott O?Hare, 8535 West Higgins Road, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  The Border Patrol is searching for qualified men and women in the Edinburg area to join their ranks in U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest law enforcement agency in the country.
El Paso commissioners pass anti-border wall resolution
2008-05-06 14:28:00
EL PASO ? County commissioners are opposing construction of a wall along the nation’s southern border with a resolution. The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted 3-1 Monday in favor of a resolution that calls for stopping the building of the border wall and says local law enforcement officials should not enforce federal immigration laws. The resolution ...
Border Patrol Agents To Use Paintball Guns To Fend Off Illegals
2008-04-26 15:43:00
I wish I was surprised but Im not. Also not surprising is some "human rights" advocates even oppose the use of paint ball guns on people invading our country illegally. TUCSON - Some surprising news came from the United States Border Patrol.The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence. Surveillance video from an incident last year in El Paso shows a Border Patrol agent retreating after people pelt him with rocks. Some could argue the same about being hit by a paintball without protective gear, where a projectile from a paintball gun leaves a small welt on the flesh.Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense. SOURCE
Border Patrol?s virtual fence canceled for not being as good as a fence
2008-04-24 07:58:00
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe last we heard of DHS's "Project 28" plan to build a 28-mile stretch of virtual fencing along the US / Mexico border in Arizona, it had been postponed until at least 2011 because the towers didn't quite work. Well, it appears that on further review, the system is even more of a total failure, and it's being scrapped entirely: according to Kelly Good, deputy director of the administration's Secure Border Initiative program, Project 28 "hasn't come close" to meeting Border Patrol's goals. Tests of the virtual fence didn't lead to nearly as many arrests as designers had hoped, and the lag from sensor detection to transmission of an image to border agents was apparently a big part of the problem. Boeing, which won the $860M contract to build the system, is now being told to replace it all with upgraded towers, but there's no word on when that's happening or what it'll cost taxpayers on top of the $20M already paid out. We're expecting trillion-dol...
Border Patrol Drops HS Graduate Requirement - Recruiting Problems
2008-04-03 00:45:00
In hopes of attracting more applicants to join the Border Patrol so that they can be prosecuted for doing their job, the US Border Patrol has dropped the requirement of having a High School or equivalent GED to join them....
Border Patrol Intercepts MS-13 Member on Border, Deported Six Years Ago
2008-03-20 14:07:00
Good work, folks: The 34-year-old Salvadoran national was caught Monday afternoon near the Tecate border crossing, along with an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, said Border Patrol spokesman Mark Endicott. The Salvadoran, whose name was not released, is both an admitted and documented member of Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. He has a lengthy criminal history and was deported in February 2002 after serving time in Nassau County jail in Long Island, N.Y., Endicott said. The Guatemalan had no ties to MS-13, Endicott said. The Salvadoran told investigators he had been a member of Mara Salvatrucha since age 18, and had been fully involved with the gang in New York City. He is being held ?in permanent Homeland Security custody, pending prosecution,? Endicott said. I wrote about MS-13 before in my series on illegal immigration. This is a very serious, very violent threat to America. The more border partol agents we have on the border, the more of these guys we can keep out of th...
U.S. Border Patrol and Racism.
2008-03-02 21:48:00
Immigration and border patrol’s have now been more focused on catching illegal immigrants at bus stops and at train stations. Yesterday I witness the way they treat people who don’t seem to have the write papers to prove they are legal in the country. When I got in an Amtrak train, border patrol was checking ...
$1.2 billion fence adds little or no security
2008-02-11 04:42:00
Luis Alberto Urrea The Border Patrol agent was a 30-year veteran. He walked me across a patch of desolation to the Mexican border. There was no border fence there yet. Just Arizona desert, a dusty dry creekbed, and Mexican desert beyond, indistinguishable from the United States. If you want to hear philosophical reflections from an agent, you ...
Mexico extradites corrupt former US Border Patrol Agent!
2008-02-01 00:17:00
MEXICO CITY .- The government of Mexico extradited to the United States, an agent of the United States Border Patrol, accused of collaborating with drug traffickers for the entry of Mexican drug shipments into the United States through El Paso, Texas. With the surrender of former CBP agent Arturo Arzate Jr.. aka “Tury”, this brings ...
Arrest Made in Border Patrol Agent?s Killing
2008-01-24 18:10:00
Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff on the Arrest of a Suspect in the Killing of Border Patrol Agent Aguilar  Mexican authorities have announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar. I have communicated with Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño to thank him for Mexico?s quick action in locating and apprehending the ...
Suspect apprehended in death of Border Patrol Agent
2008-01-24 15:48:00
Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man in northern Mexico in the weekend killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar. Jesus Navarro Montes, 22, was arrested in the northern state of Sonora on Wednesday, said a spokesman for Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s office who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department ...
Tancredo using death of Border Patrol agent to push agenda
2008-01-24 15:37:00
Tancredo should be ashamed of using the death of this agent to push forward his on short sighted agenda. At least he's out of the field for the White House. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson also.
Illegal Aliens Kill Border Patrol Agent
2008-01-21 01:16:00
When are we going to start taking this seriously: The death, the first for the Border Patrol in 2008, drew a sharp response from U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who called the incident a “heinous” act. “Dangerous criminal groups have chosen to respond to our tougher security posture at the border with increased violence,” Chertoff said in a statement. “They mistakenly believe that we will give way in the face of violence. We will continue to show them how wrong they are.” The incident was being investigated by the FBI, as well as officials from the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the statement said. Schappell said Border Patrol agents spotted a Hummer and a second vehicle that had crossed the border from Mexico illegally and chased them west on Interstate 8. The people inside the vehicles apparently saw they were being followed and turned into the dunes toward Mexico. The agent was attempting to stop them ...
Border Patrol agent dies, struck by fleeing vehicle in SoCal
2008-01-20 05:05:00
YUMA, Ariz. ? A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said. The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border that is popular with off-road ...
In the line of duty - Border Patrol officer killed by fleeing vehicles
2008-01-20 02:52:00
YUMA, Az — A Border Patrol officer was run over and killed on Saturday as he attempted to lay a spike strip to stop a speeding Hummer in the sand dunes of Imperial County. Authorities in El Centro and Yuma, Ariz. said the agent was killed in the line of duty along the Mexican border in ...
CBP Expedites Hiring Process For Border Patrol Agents
2008-01-17 21:28:00
From FEDagent.com Individuals interested in becoming Border Patrol Agents now have an opportunity to jump-start the process. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has announced that it is conducting expedited hiring events, which allow successful applicants to begin their new career within 30 days. Applicants begin the process by registering for the exam on-line. They then prepare ...
Ex Border Patrol Agent, wife, BUSTED!
2008-01-13 05:02:00
A former Border Patrol agent and his wife, who also own the restaurant Burger Patrol, were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants.An indictment unsealed in federal court Friday alleges that on three occasions in 2007, David Cruz, 32, and Susana Lopez-Portillo De Cruz, 35, conspired to transport illegal immigrants by motor ...
Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers
2007-12-20 03:08:00
No doubt President Bush would have the Border Patrol agents that were protecting themselves prosecuted for this. Johnny Sutton would volunteer for that duty I am sure. ~RJH Fox News article link Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers Monday , December 17, 2007Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. The counteroffensive has drawn complaints that innocent families are being caught in the crossfire."A neighbor shouted, 'Stop it! There are children living here," said Esther Arias Medina, 41, who on Wednesday fled her Tijuana, Mexico, shanty with her 3-week-old grandson after the infant began coughing from smoke that seeped through the walls.A helmeted agent on the U.S. side said nothing as he stood with a rifle on top of a 10-foot border fence next to the three-room home...
Border Patrol Agents Face Massive Increase in Assaults
2007-12-19 23:28:00
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video SAN DIEGO ? The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been assaulted 250 times along the Mexican border since Oct. 1, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from the same period last year. Officials say the rising violence indicates smugglers are frustrated ...
Border Patrol Agents See Sharp Rise in Attacks
2007-12-19 17:09:00
Here’s the latest news from our southern border. The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been assaulted 250 times along the Mexican border since Oct. 1, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from the same period last year. Officials say the rising violence indicates smugglers are frustrated and more desperate as it has become more difficult to cross the border illegally. Agents have been attacked with rocks, vehicles and Molotov cocktails. “Criminals are discovering they can no longer operate with impunity in certain areas and are systematically being prevented from using the border for their criminal activities,” Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said in a news release. [source] Despite cold hard facts, there are a lot of people in this country who side with the criminals. I recently had someone tell me, and it’s a direct quote, “national borders are illusionary. people should be able to travel and work wherever they wish”. You...
Abuse on the border
2007-12-18 17:55:00
U.S. Border Patrol should stop its tear-gas assaults in Tijuana   What would Americans think if Mexican officials routinely fired pepper spray and tear gas into California neighborhoods as a way to root out, say, smugglers who were operating from the U.S. side of the border? How would we, as Americans, feel if our houses were damaged, ...
Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico
2007-12-17 23:41:00
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. The counteroffensive has drawn complaints that innocent families are being caught in the crossfire. “A neighbor shouted, ‘Stop ...
Exclusive: Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman Set Free!
2007-12-10 23:34:00
Have just received an e-mail from Cactus Wren of American Freedom Riders. Unjustly imprisoned Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman has been released. Justice has prevailed. And his future is promising to be a bright one. Gary’s Story: Life After Sutton 12-10-07 Gary Brugman’s new life begins Monday, December 10, 2007 and his excitement is almost uncontrollable. On ...
Border Patrol Agents Ramos And Compean Appeal Hearing - Will They Get Out?
2007-12-04 14:07:00
Lawyers for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean spoke for 30 minutes yesterday at a hearing regarding whether the two agents should be set free pending their appeal. The session was held before 3 District Judges of the 5th Circuit...
Border Patrol Agents Case In Court Today
2007-12-03 19:18:00
What’s going on A panel of federal appeals court judges will hear arguments today in the controversial case of two former U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting a suspected drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up. The hearing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New ...
Ramos & Campeon - Loya Spin machine going ?balls to the wall?!
2007-12-01 02:57:00
The spin machine of Fred Loya, father in law of convicted felon and former Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos is kicking into high gear as the time nears Monday for the appeal of their conviction to be heard before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. This would be a non issue and these ...
Border Patrol Agents Upset Over Slow Indictment
2007-11-24 19:27:00
And they have good cause to be Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were indicted two months after shooting a drug-smuggling suspect as he fled back into Mexico, but it took the Justice Department more than two years to bring charges against the suspect, and the head of the National Border Patrol Council wants to know why. “The ...
Border Patrol Delays Canadian Firefighters
2007-11-14 04:12:00
In a spectacular display of “Homeland Security” über alles, U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Rouses Point, NY border crossing detained Québec firefighters racing to assist fellow firemen battling a blaze at the Anchorage Inn on Lake St. in Rouses Point on Sunday evening. The blaze, which started about 11:00 p.m., burned throughout the night, destroying the inn.
Open Borders Activists Beaten Back By Border Patrol After Inciting Violence
2007-11-13 11:38:00
Open borders proponents and anti-war activists participated in a 6 day even called the No Borders Camp near the border in Calexico. On the last day of the event these open borders proponents decided it would be a good idea...
Border Patrol agents brutalize protestors during No Borders Camp closing.
2007-11-12 18:37:00
At the end of a bi-national march from the site of the No Borders Camp and rally at the Mexicali/Calexico port of entry, around 100 Border Patrol officers and attacked a group of about 30 demonstrators on the u.s. side and with pepper gas pellets, tazers, and batons. 2-3 people were severely beaten and more suffered from the use of chemical weapons read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Former Texas Border Patrol Agent Sentenced for Civil Rights Violations
2007-11-06 02:21:00
WASHINGTON ? Pablo Rosario, a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent stationed in El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in El Paso to 24 months imprisonment for violating the civil rights of two illegal aliens. After release from prison, Rosario will be on federal supervised release for one year. Rosario worked as a ...
CBP El Paso sector makes largest seizure of the year
2007-11-01 00:25:00
Border Patrol agents in Fort Hancock, Texas made the El Paso Sector’s largest marijuana seizure of the year after a motorist lost control of his vehicle and flipped his trailer on FM Road 192, spilling over 3,000 pounds of marijuana Tuesday, announced U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials today. According to officials the incident occurred ...
The forgotten border, open to all!
2007-10-29 01:26:00
But hey, they’re english speaking white folk! Northern border riddled with holes Smugglers exploit back roads linking Canada to U.S., agents say ALBURGH, VT. ? The United States ends where Blair Road becomes “Chemin 4eme Concession.” But for someone headed north on the gravel road into Noyan, Quebec, there is nothing to mark the international divide other than two ...
Mexican Military Travels Inside U.S., Confronts Border Patrol Officers With
2007-10-18 15:56:00
Sounds like an unbelievable headline, doesn’t it? That is, it WOULD sound unbelievable under any other sitting U.S. President in this nation’s history, but in the case of President Bush; a President who has turned his back upon the American People in order to tend to the people of Iraq, this is quickly becoming ...
Former Border Patrol admits smuggling illegal immigrants
2007-10-16 18:00:00
SAN DIEGO ? A former U.S. Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty Friday to taking $100 for each carload of illegal immigrants that he helped get past one of his agency’s highway checkpoints.Jose Olivas Jr. admitted scouting a Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 5, north of San Diego, in his personal vehicle and then calling an ...
Former Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman, Victim Of Johnny Sutton, Needs You
2007-10-09 04:26:00
Former Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman, prosecuted and sent to jail for doing his job by Johnny Sutton, needs our help! Gary has been dubbed the "forgotten Border Patrol Agent" because having been one of the first victims of Johnny...
Job Opportunities: USA Border Patrol
2007-09-28 15:46:00
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Nothing like a good laugh to start the morning!
2007-09-27 14:57:00
Mexicali-(MT) A U.S. Border Patrol agent in California is still trying to explain what happened after he stopped three young boys driving a pick-up truck along a remote highway near the Mexican border city of Mexicali last weekend. He suspected they were carrying a load of pot, and decided to check the vehicle, handcuffing the ...
Man Calls Border Patrol After Losing Cocaine
2007-09-20 18:18:00
Leroy Carr, 46, called Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on August 7 to report that two backpacks he had stashed near the border containing 31 kilograms of cocaine were missing. Department of Justice spokeswoman Emily Langlie said Carr asked the agents to put out a press release saying the drugs had been seized so that the ...
Border Patrol Chief Insist Job is NOT to Stop Illegal Immigrants
2007-08-27 19:01:00
Our country has been over-run by illegal immigrants.  I think we just found out why - - the border patrol doesn't know it's still their job to stop it.  This is another horrific side-effect of 9-11.  The Border Patrol's mission has been at the center of debates within the agency since the September 11 attacks.  Carlos X. Carrillo, (pictured on right) Border Patrol chief of Laredo, Texas, one of the nation's most dangerous Southwest border crossings says the agency's mission doesn't include apprehending illegal aliens or seizing narcotics — perplexing front-line agents and angering a congressional critic of illegal immigration.  "I've said it before and I'll say it again," he told guests at a town-hall meeting Thursday. "The Border Patrol's job is not to stop illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol's job is not to stop narcotics. ... The Border Patrol's mission is not to stop criminals. "The Border Patrol...
Border Patrol Agent In El Paso Shoots And Kills Illegal Alien Drug Smuggler
2007-08-10 19:56:00
An El Paso Border Patrol Agent shot and killed an illegal alien drug smuggler along the Mexican border after the illegal alien threatened him with a rock and bolt cutters. Jose Alejandro Ortiz Castillo, 23, has been caught at least...
Sport Shooting - Border Patrol agent in El Paso kills suspect
2007-08-10 01:21:00
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a suspected smuggler at the fence that separates El Paso from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, authorities said today.Jose Alejandro Ortiz Castillo, a 23-year-old man who had been caught crossing the border 28 times since 1999, died in Mexico shortly after the Wednesday night shooting, Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier ...
U.S.Border Patrol Agent Charged with Murder
2007-08-09 16:56:00
Arizona: Cochise County Justice of the Peace, David Morales, has ordered that United States Border Patrol Agent, Nicholas Corbett, be bound over for trial on the charge of second degree murder. Corbett shot and killed a Mexican Citizen after the man crossed the border illegaly near Douglas, Arizona. Corbett said that when he tried to apprehend the man, he attacked him with a rock. Lawyers for Corbett said the charges won't stand. It is obviously a case of self defense. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1.1 million illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border last year. The Border Patrol says that violent attacks against it's agents are increasing dramatically as they tighten the border. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS.....AND MORALES...LET CORBETT GO BACK TO WORK..!! A man has the right to defend himself. If the Mexicans stay home, they won't get shot.
House Panel to Probe Mexico's Role in Ramos-Compean Affair
2007-07-31 19:22:00
Update at the end of this :In an update to my piece Border Agents Were Charged With 'Non-Existent Crime', CNS News has learned of the following;A congressional panel will Tuesday try to establish whether the Mexican government played a role in the prosecution of two former Border Patrol agents serving lengthy prison terms for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight will hold a hearing on the case of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. In prison since January, they face 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively, for shooting and wounding Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila in February 2005 and then trying to cover up the incident.This supports the actions by Judicial Watch in their Corruption Chronicles announced last week.I have many issues with Senator Dianne Feinstein BUT, as I look into this issue more and more, I see a side of her that I like and that is the look of Justice Will Prevail. Politics aside,...
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