Where the tunnels are: Nogales, not Douglas

Where the tunnels are: Nogales, not Douglas...Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol, a non-governmental border watch group in Hereford, noted the border area near Naco, Arizona, does not provide many opportunities for tunneling from Naco, Sonora. -- "There are not a lot of private residences and private buildings in Naco where a tunnel could exit," he said. -- "But, there is no need to dig a tunnel under Naco if they can bring drugs through the San Pedro Riparian Area

http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2011/06/25/208942

Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption

Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption...Former CIA Asset Claims U.S. Special Forces Assisted Mexican Soldiers In Assault on Stash Site...The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M. — where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges. The Mexican stash site was raided this past Wednesday evening, June 15, according to former CIA contract pilot and New Mexico resident Tosh Plumlee, who was present at the scene taking photos.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2011/06/raided-mexican-ranch-linked-us-drug-war-corruption

Eloy, AZ: Mexican Man (illegal???) had nearly $350,000 worth of drugs in car

Eloy, AZ: Mexican Man (illegal???) had nearly $350,000 worth of drugs in car...Abraham Campos-Serna, 28, of Sonora, Mexico, was stopped on Interstate 10 near Eloy for a "moving violation," according to Bart Graves, a DPS spokesman. Officers obtained written permission to search the vehicle, and a department K-9 (GOOD DOGGIE) helped officers find 18 packages of narcotics, Graves said. The packages included 16 pounds of methamphetamines and 5.5 pounds of heroin

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/06/23/20110623arizona-drug-bust-man-arrested-eloy-abrk.html

Corruption adds to problems on border

Corruption adds to problems on border...Even as it works to beef up security, the U.S. government is turning up hundreds of agents who may already be compromised... Smugglers have become "more creative and clever in their illicit activities..They have turned to tempting DHS employees to assist in smuggling efforts for private gain." Only 22 percent of new hires are subjected to lie detector tests amid expanding enlistments and shortages of polygraph specialists. The agency is expanding the number of polygraphers from 35 to 52, but it will be at least 2013 before it can polygraph all new hires.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7617531.html

Mexico Gangs Spread Tentacles Abroad

Mexico Gangs Spread Tentacles Abroad... Mexico's drug gangs are increasingly developing ties to mafias around the world, from Japan to India, Russia, and Western Europe.

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/06/mexico-gangs-spread-tentacles-abroad.html

Tucson, AZ: CBP Seizes $11.4M in Narcotics, $574K in Cash, 2,390 illegal aliens Last Week

Tucson, AZ: CBP Seizes $11.4M in Narcotics, $574K in Cash, 2,390 illegal aliens Last Week... The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Arizona Joint Field Command is reporting the seizure of more than 18,300 pounds of narcotics with an estimated value of nearly $11.4 million and the apprehension of 2,390 illegal aliens at the Arizona border for the period of June 6–12. The narcotics seizures consisted of more than 18,113 pounds of marijuana, 76 pounds of methamphetamines and 114 pounds of cocaine. CBP also intercepted and seized $564,451 in illegal outbound currency, eight weapons and seized 21 vehicles used for illicit purposes.

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/local/06162011_4.xml

TX - U.S. law enforcement exchanges fire with gunmen across border

TX - U.S. law enforcement exchanges fire with gunmen across border...Drug smugglers opened fire on U.S. law enforcement officers Sunday morning near the Anzalduas International Bridge after Mission police intercepted a 500-pound load of marijuana, police Chief Leo Longoria said...U.S. law enforcement officers shot back, Longoria said, and no injuries were reported. Details remained hazy Sunday afternoon, and Longoria couldn’t give further information about the brief shootout.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/bridge-51903-chase-fired.html

TX. Border Patrol Confiscate 4.5 Tons of Pot in 4 Days

TX. Border Patrol Confiscate 4.5 Tons of Pot in 4 Days...During a 4 day period agents seized nearly $11 Million dollars worth of pot.

http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Border-Patrol-Confiscate-4-5-Tons-of-Pot-in-4-Days/9sMod3pWWEuS8ZPv_62kOg.cspx

Mexican teenage girls train as drug cartel killers

Mexican teenage girls train as drug cartel killers...Rising youth unemployment, easy access to drugs and the quick cash cartels offer recruits are all blamed for felling
the delinquency that has cast a shadow over Mexico's future. "Organized crime has become a job provider for a section of the population who don't have a lot of other options,"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/17/us-mexico-drugs-teenagers-idUSTRE75G5F820110617

Smugglers target Arizona for two of every three illegal border tunnels

Smugglers target Arizona for two of every three illegal border tunnels... AZ has more than 90 illegal tunnels under its border with Mexico, the most discovered in any state in the Southwest, law enforcement officials told senators this week.
Investigators have uncovered 88 in Nogales, Ariz., alone since the 1990s, accounting for more than half of the 153 tunnels found on the border..DHS said that since 1990, officials have found 42 tunnels into San Diego, 12 to Calexico, Calif., and two to Tierra Del Sol, Calif....Feinstein said she will introduce a bill next week to strengthen the existing Border Tunnel Protection Act of 2006 by making “the use, construction or financing of a border tunnel a conspiracy offense.”

http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2011/06/smugglers-target-arizona-border-for-two-of-three-illegal-tunnels-officials-say/

Phoenix, AZ: 22 Arrested in 5-State Drug Sting

Phoenix, AZ: 22 Arrested in 5-State Drug Sting...Operation Special Delivery ...Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, along with a special agent from the DEA, announced the results from their latest joint operation. Deputies served arrest warrants in Maricopa and Pinal County, as DEA agents made arrests in New York City, Cleveland, Ohio, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Los Angeles, California. After a year-long investigation into a major marijuana trafficking ring, 22 people have been arrested, 17 in the valley...Two of those arrested Wednesday were UPS employees. The rest of the suspects were mainly in their 30s or 40s, some of them in the country illegally

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/crime/sheriff-joe-heads-up-another-crime-sweep-in-the-valley-06152011

El Paso, TX: Railroads fined when cartels hide drugs on trains

El Paso, TX: Railroads fined when cartels hide drugs on trains..A border security program to X-ray every train rolling into the country has prompted as much as $400 million in fines against U.S. railroads, which are held responsible for the pungent bales of marijuana, tight bundles of cocaine, and anything else criminals cram into the boxcars and tankers as they clickety-clack through Mexico. Union Pacific, the largest rail shipper on the U.S.-Mexico border and the largest recipient of fines, refuses to pay what now amounts to more than $388 million in fines, up from $37.5 million three years ago when the screening began. In federal litigation the railroad argues that it's being punished for something it cannot control: criminals stashing illegal drugs in rail cars in Mexico.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Railroads-fined-when-cartels-hide-drugs-on-trains-1425390.php

FL: Deputies: Lakeland heroin ringleader (illegal alien) used food stamps

FL: Deputies: Lakeland heroin ringleader (illegal alien) used food stamps...There are still a lot of unanswered questions about how 43 year-old Pablo Borgen, who the Polk County Sheriff's Office says is in this country illegally, was able to qualify for $900 a month in food stamps... pulled in thousands of dollars a month heading up a heroin operation.. the operation was a family affair. After a 14 month investigation they arrested 33 people including Borgen's wife and sister. Judd says some of the other suspects were also collecting food stamps. "They're stealing from the people that need it. They steal when they sell the drugs. They steal when they go after stuff they don't qualify for. You know if you're bringing in $70,000 a month you don't need $900 in food stamps."

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/196986/8/Deputies-Lakeland-heroin-ringleader-used-food-stamps

Mexico - Narco gangster reveals the underworld

Mexico - Narco gangster reveals the underworld..The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death. In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficker claims fellow gangsters have kidnapped highway bus passengers and forced them into gladiatorlike fights to groom fresh assassins. In an in-person interview arranged by intermediaries on the condition that neither his name nor the location of his Texas visit be published, the trafficker also admitted to helping push cocaine worth $5 million to $10 million a month into the U.S..

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/topstory/7607122.html#ixzz1PHB8YOwR

TX: 67 arrested in Dallas-Fort Worth area during 5-day ICE-led anti-gang operation

TX: 67 arrested in Dallas-Fort Worth area during 5-day ICE-led anti-gang operation...Of those arrested, 47 are U.S. citizens, 15 are from Mexico, two are from El Salvador, and two are from Honduras, one is from Cuba. They range in age from 17 to 54 years old; two of those arrested were women..represent the following 18 gangs: 18th Street, Aryan Brotherhood, Crips, East Side Latin Kings, Havana Boys, How High Krew, La Familia, Love Field Tango, Mexican Klan Locos, MS-13, Raza Unida, Southside, Surenos, Sur-13, Tango Blast, Barrio Northside, Webb Chapel Crips and West Side Six.

http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1106/110614dallas.htm

AZ: New video of smugglers loading drug-filled packs inside Arizona (during the day)

AZ: New video of smugglers loading drug-filled packs inside Arizona (during the day)
Several days before the murder of New Mexico resident Larry Link, Border Invasion Pics caught illegal smugglers carrying loads of drugs inside the U.S. borders loading dope filled backpacks into a waiting pickup truck; not once, but twice in the same day, on the same trail...without a secure southern border fence, there is simply too much territory to cover and not enough resources to apprehend all the bad guys.

http://www.examiner.com/county-political-buzz-in-san-diego/breaking-video-of-drug-smugglers-loading-pot-inside-arizona-borders?CID=examiner_alerts_article

NC: Illegal Alien Woman arrested for resisting Henderson County deputies

NC: Illegal Alien Woman arrested for resisting Henderson County deputies...Claudia Lizet Vazquez-Hernandez was arrested for resisting officers..While being booked, Vazquez-Hernandez gave deputies multiple counterfeit I.D.'s including Social Security cards, Dept. of Treasury and IRS Individual Taxpayer identification number cards, permanent resident alien cards, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Medicaid identification card and N.D. electronic benefit transfer card. “An inquiry through the 287g program showed that Vazquez-Hernandez had been previously removed from the U.S. for convictions of felonies involving possession and purchase for sale of cocaine, transportation or sale of narcotics and use of a compartment for controlled substances,”. “At this discovery, sheriff's deputies reported their findings to the ICE Criminal Apprehension Program Unit for their review and possible prosecution as a re-entry aggravated felon.”

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20110610/NEWS/110619992/1008/sports?Title=Woman-arrested-for-resisting-Henderson-County-deputies

San Diego, CA: Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near San Diego/Tijuana Border

San Diego, CA: Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near San Diego/Tijuana Border... A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established ANOTHER home base across the border in Mexico. "They are recognized by many experts as the 'A' team of Muslim terrorist organizations," a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News. The former agent, referring to Shi'a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, "They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings." Now, the group is blending into Shi'a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana. Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/

TX: Game wardens, TX Rangers and Border Patrol run into drug runners

TX: Game wardens, TX Rangers and Border Patrol run into drug runners...We expect to learn more today about a shootout between drug runners and U.S. authorities near Chimney Park south of Mission. Dozens of Texas state game wardens descended on Chimney Park along with Border Patrol agents and Texas Rangers. They saturated the area after a shootout between game wardens and drug smugglers. Authorities in Austin have released only basic information, saying a suspicious vehicle was spotted on the U.S. side of the river around 6 Thursday morning. They then saw two cartel drug recovery boats loaded with people and what appeared to be marijuana. As they approached, that's when gunfire broke out. Gunmen on the Mexican side opened fire on American boats. Game wardens aboard returned fire, injuring three of the smugglers. We're told Mexican authorities were made aware of the incident.

http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Border-Shootout-Under-Investigation/H8joNF_znEWCuaX14l-9EQ.cspx

Don't sacrifice services to protect illegals

Don't sacrifice services to protect illegals...We are being invaded. Not by a foreign country or aliens from another world, but by people who want free education, free health care and jobs — with a few potential terrorists and drug smugglers thrown in. -- TV news constantly shows death and destruction on the Mexican side of the border. It often is caused by power struggles between drug cartels. This drug war is overflowing into the United States

http://beta.coastalcourier.com/section/4/article/32757/