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Over 40 Murders Reported this Week CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - New details on a deadly discovery across the border from El Paso. This morning police in Ciudad Juarez say at least 12 masked gun men opened fire inside an upscale seafood restaurant and killed at least eight people. The attack comes a day after seven men were found executed in a school soccer field in an upper class neighborhood in Juarez. In all, 40 murders were reported over the holiday week along the border near El Paso. Police say the men were armed with AK-47 and fired off more than...

Nearly 300 people have been killed since late-September – many mutilated, tortured and beheaded in gruesome terror tactics copied from Iraq's brutal conflict. In the past week alone, there has been an attack in a nightclub popular with students that left five young people dead or dying; a hit squad stormed a private hospital and killed a patient who was being treated for gunshot wounds; and armed men opened fire on a car parked outside a popular US-owned discount warehouse, killing a woman and seriously injuring a man. Mexico's drug war death tally of more than 4,000 this year –...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers looking for drug traffickers found $6 million in cash inside a truck near the U.S. border and arrested five men at the scene, the army said on Friday. Army drug squads in the northern state of Tamaulipas, a smuggling hot spot over the border from Texas, found the U.S. currency stuffed into eight suitcases as they inspected a tractor trailer and smaller truck parked along a highway. They also found four pistols, the army said in a statement. Army and federal police units deployed in President Felipe Calderon's 15-month-old crackdown on drug cartels are...

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug hitmen have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, the latest murder among musicians who sing "narcocorrido" ballads glorifying drug traffickers. The body of Jesus Rey David Alfaro, known as "The Little Rooster," was one of six that turned up tortured, murdered and pinned with threatening messages for Mexico's army last week in the border town of Tijuana near San Diego. "We believe Alfaro had links to the Arellano Felix cartel," said an official with the Baja California state attorney general's office who...

Canadian Border "Guards" Flee Posts After Security Scare That's weird because I thought guards were there specifically in the event there was a security threat. Silly me. Guards walk off job at four B.C. border crossings Canadian border guards at four crossings in the Lower Mainland of B.C. have walked off the job in response to a security scare. CTV Vancouver reported Sunday night that lineups at four crossings into Canada are massive. Gary Barndt reported from the station's helicopter that the lineups appeared to be several kilometres long at one crossing...This was the first time she could recall all...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//video/2006/05/31/VI2006053100445.html The above video is of two radio talk show hosts with very different opinions regarding illegal immigration. Please view the video and decide if there is any bias, and/or agenda.

US authorities shot dead a person apparently trying to illegally cross into the United States from Mexico, police said. The victim was apparently in a car trying to drive past the San Ysidro border control post in southern California when border patrol officers fired, Gary Hassen, a spokesman for nearby San Diego police, said. The San Ysidro post, between the Mexican city of Tijuana and San Diego, is one of the busiest in the world, with 14 million cars and 40 million people crossing into the United States every year. The shooting comes amid a heated debate in the US...

Link To Article Print Article Email Article Police face Mexican military, smugglers Armed standoff along U.S. border By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers • Read more articles • See more video • Hear more audio • Share your views Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

Gang plots border attack Department of Homeland Security document reveals MS-13 plan By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers OTHER INCIDENTS Along with a plot to launch coordinated attacks against law enforcement officers along the border, several attacks against Border Patrol agents are documented in a Jan. 20 Department of Homeland Security document obtained by the Daily Bulletin. • In May 2005, someone was seen climbing down from a tree carrying a high-caliber rifle with a "large" scope while an attempted smuggling operation was under way along the Rio Grande, the river border between Texas and Mexico....

Federal agents believe they've intercepted intelligence from the notorious Mara Salvatruchas gang who seem to be planning to assassinate federal and local police in the coming days. They have forwarded a safety memo to area authorities. In the intelligence bulletin obtained by Action 4 News, a confidential informant in Virginia claims the Mara Salvatruchas have designated October 30 as "Kill A Law Enforcement Officer Day". The memo cites the informant as someone who's provided reliable information in the past. Reliable or not, Valley police aren't taking chances. In Hidalgo, chief Vernon Rosser believes everyone has their guard up. "Along the...

BROWNSVILLE - Twenty-five men and women stood at the back of a crowded federal courtroom one morning last month, and in a single emphatic voice pleaded guilty to immigration charges in a mass hearing. After each was sentenced, most to time served, the "cattle call" was over in little more than an hour. They included a Mexican youth who washes windshields for tips on Brownsville streets — and had logged 29 previous arrests for illegal entry — and a group of men who waded the Rio Grande. In years past, Border Patrol agents would have taken names and snapped photographs,...

Mr. President - issues are mounting and it's time for you to take 'Executive Action' - by decree. 1.) Take Federal action to secure the borders. 2.) Step forward and back the construction of new refineries. - Oil be damned - we need refinery capacity. 3.) Start Driling for Oil (Alaska, Florida, California). Forget your brothers politics - this country needs to be energy independent. Start drilling today. Step up and take charge Mr. President - we're all waiting to see your leadership happen.

Religious and political leaders say changes would end the appeal of border watchers A group of religious and political leaders made an urgent call for immigration reform Tuesday while also denouncing the Minutemen. The leaders, including Catholic Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza and City Councilmen Gordon Quan and Adrian Garcia, said a congressional program allowing workers to come here legally would eliminate the need for groups like the Minutemen to monitor illegal immigrants. They called on area members of Congress to take the lead on the issue. "We have a serious problem here in our community and across the United States,"...

Border is a blurring lineThere is no sign announcing Annunciation House. Unless a person knows differently, the old brick building in El Paso, Texas, almost looks abandoned. The windows are covered. All the doors have been blocked except for one, which remains locked. But knock on the door and it will open wide to the smells of Mexican cooking and laughing voices of people speaking dialects of Spanish ranging from Northern Mexico to the remote corners of Central America. In a residential neighborhood that is a 10-minute walk from the U.S. border, Annunciation House acts as a waystation for people...

Take a moment to consider all of the pressing issues facing America today. There is a war we are waging, and rightfully so, to rid the threat of Islamo-Fascist terror. That might rightfully, be placed right at the very top of our national concerns. After all tax-cuts, spending, education, and Social Security reform will take a back seat very quickly if terrorists were to strike here in America. So let us agree, for the purpose of this column, to assume the war on terror is the pre-eminent issue facing America. Now let us examine how the Bush administration has handled...

The flow of migrants to the United States has become prey to organised criminal gangs. That is a problem for Mexico as well as for its neighbour EDDY was shambling along the side of a highway a few miles inside the American border south of Tucson, Arizona, when he was picked up by the United States Border Patrol just before Christmas. Aged 20, and from Guerrero in southern Mexico, he was exhausted after wandering for two nights alone through the desert. With just $2 on him, he had become separated from friends during their illegal crossing of Mexico's northern border....

Good evening. In August, The Investigators on Eyewitness News 4 first reported the possible threat of terrorists using the Arizona/Mexico border to cross into the U.S. While local government officials and immigration advocates questioned the validity of such a threat, our report, "Terrorist Alley," gained national attention. Just a few weeks ago, high-level sources told a Washington newspaper that Chechen terrorists have entered the U.S. through our state. Now, we've uncovered even more evidence that the threat along our border is real. "The story you did was 100% accurate. It showed what's happening on the border on a daily basis....

Ridge: No sign of terrorists trying to cross border Associated Press NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) -Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Monday that he's seen no sign of terrorist efforts to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and that the United States is not going to start militarizing it. ``We have a long tradition with our friends to the north and south. We're very fortunate that we've never had to assign military to our borders, and we're not going to start that now,'' Ridge said. ``We don't militarize our borders with friends.'' Ridge said that he had seen nothing from any intelligence sources...

Anderson Examines Devastating Impact of Invasion, Life on the Border By Dennis Durband, Editor In the interior of Mexico, there is a labor shortage. There are no Americans available to do the jobs that Mexicans won't do. However, the travel industry is thriving. And these are great days for “coyotes” – human smugglers – and those in drug trafficking. Travelers from South and Central America, Mexico and other nations are traveling in great numbers up through Hermosillo, Mexico and to northern staging locations near the U.S. border. These people can go to a Catholic church in one of the Mexican...

AJC print edition headline for this story: Mexican ID cards await Treasury nod T. Levette Bagwell / AJC Benjamin Osorio-Santiago, who is from Ejutla, Oaxaca, in Mexico, shows his ID card. He is at El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad, one of several banks in Georgia that accept it. A U.S. Treasury Department decision to review government rules regarding an identification card issued by Mexico to its nationals overseas is threatening to exacerbate tensions between Washington and Mexico City.The Mexican government says it stands firmly behind its matricula consular, a small plastic card that has been increasingly accepted by banks and...

More than 100 police officers, some in full riot gear, fought, used pepper spray and arrested several students who had gathered in a crowd of about 1,000 outside Montwood High School on Wednesday morning to protest a class scheduling proposal. At least 20 students, four officers and four school security officials suffered minor injuries in what El Paso police described as a riot. "Things just got out of control. The police started hitting everybody, boys and girls." said Laura Manriquez, 15, a freshman. "The students were throwing paper at them, but the police were spraying and chasing kids down in...

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) _ Since the Sept. 11 anniversary, more than 14,000 foreign visitors have been fingerprinted at U.S. border crossings and 179 have been arrested, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursd`y* Standing a few feet away from the roaring American Falls, Ashcroft called the entry-exit program now in place at ports of entry around the country ``a vital national security shield'' to winnow out potential terrorists. ``We are confronted now with a new adversary, one who enters our country quietly,'' Ashcroft said. ``They enter disguised in the form of business persons or tourists or students. ``The challenge we...

Last week a U.S. Border Patrol agent was fired upon by what appeared to be a Mexican army humvee with three soldiers in it. The agent escaped harm but his vehicle was hit and the rear window shattered. The Mexican government claims that it was probably smugglers disguised as soldiers because the Mexican army had no record of military operations in the area. Well, duh! Of course they can say that because none of the people who committed this act of aggression were caught! On wonders what the story would have been like if, after the shooting, a couple of...

By Diana Lynne © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Foreign-born Islamic terrorists have used almost every conceivable means of entering the United States, according to a study released today, which concludes every aspect of the immigration system has been penetrated and, therefore, needs reform. Contrary to the recent uproar over INS slip-ups with temporary visas, which was prompted by the fact that the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the country on temporary visas, more militant Islamic terrorists in the U.S. since 1993 have been naturalized citizens and legal permanent residents, reports The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit, non-partisan research organization. The CIS study...