By:
James Jay Carafano
11/14/11 11:33 PM
Last month, President Barack Obama announced that the 1,200 U.S. troops working security on the Mexican border will stay through the end of the year. More than 17,000 border patrol agents are on duty along the 2,000-mile border, so the military’s contribution is relatively insignificant.
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By:
James Jay Carafano
11/07/11 11:35 PM
Rolling south across the Lincoln-Juarez International Bridge, the 2009 Honda CRV looked much like all the other vehicles headed for Mexico. Who knew there was $300,000 in cash stuffed behind the dashboard? Certainly not the Customs and Border Protection officers who pulled the Honda over for a “secondary examination” on Oct. 27.
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WHAT: Project Gunrunner, a joint federal task force, was supposed to follow automatic weapons being smuggled to Mexican drug cartel higher-ups. However, at least 1,000 guns got lost across the border.WHY IT’S OUTRAGEOUS: The weapons used to kill Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry were among those being tracked by Project Gunrunner.
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WHAT: Marisol Valles-Garcia, 20, made international headlines by becoming police chief of a bloody Mexican border town last October. But now, numerous death threats and an attempted kidnapping have driven her to seek asylum in the U.S.WHY: Drug violence has transformed the 8,500-person township of Praxedis G. Guerrero into a lawless no-man’s land. Two rival gangs are battling to control its lone highway, a lucrative smuggling route into Texas.
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