Friday, January 28, 2005
Borders, Priorities Blur Along the 'Wild Frontier'
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&u=/latimests/20050123/ts_latimes/bordersprioritiesbluralongthewildfrontier&printer=1
January 23, 2005
Border agents say they have run into heavily armed Mexican soldiers inside the U.S.
New Mexico arrested 48,633 illegal immigrants; in 2004 the number rose to 61,374. The Deming station saw apprehensions jump 26% last year, while the Lordsburg sector 60 miles west had a 109% increase. Border checkpoints like the one at Antelope Wells in far southwest New Mexico once averaged a single drug seizure a year. In 2004, it had seven. This month, border agents found 4,400 pounds of marijuana inside a pickup truck.
New Mexico has 425 agents to patrol 14,000 square miles. Much of the border is unmarked and open — no fences, boundary lines or roads to show which side is which.
The Southwest New Mexico Border Security Task Force, a group of New Mexico and federal law enforcement agencies, issued a report in 2003 saying it didn't have the resources to adequately protect against drug dealers, illegal immigrants and "potentially weapons of mass destruction" crossing the border.
January 23, 2005
Border agents say they have run into heavily armed Mexican soldiers inside the U.S.
New Mexico arrested 48,633 illegal immigrants; in 2004 the number rose to 61,374. The Deming station saw apprehensions jump 26% last year, while the Lordsburg sector 60 miles west had a 109% increase. Border checkpoints like the one at Antelope Wells in far southwest New Mexico once averaged a single drug seizure a year. In 2004, it had seven. This month, border agents found 4,400 pounds of marijuana inside a pickup truck.
New Mexico has 425 agents to patrol 14,000 square miles. Much of the border is unmarked and open — no fences, boundary lines or roads to show which side is which.
The Southwest New Mexico Border Security Task Force, a group of New Mexico and federal law enforcement agencies, issued a report in 2003 saying it didn't have the resources to adequately protect against drug dealers, illegal immigrants and "potentially weapons of mass destruction" crossing the border.
Staged Auto Crash for Abduction
"Dallas police Thursday found the body of a businessman abducted in
broad daylight more than a week ago in a staged car crash.
The body of Oscar Sanchez was found under a pile of construction
debris in a remote area of southeast Dallas during a search, The
Dallas Morning News reported.
Police searched the area after interviewing a suspect captured Sunday
in Chicago. Jose Felix was arrested as he prepared to board a plane
for Mexico.
A second suspect, Edgar Richie Acevedo, eluded officers by flying to
Mexico a day earlier than Felix. He remains at large, apparently in
Mexico.
Sanchez, whose family owns three Dallas restaurants, was abducted
Jan. 18 after a staged car crash only blocks from his home.
The kidnappers made ransom demands after Sanchez was abducted, but
they never showed up to claim the money at the drop spot, police
said."
Source:
Kidnap Victim Found Dead in Dallas
DALLAS, Jan. 27 (UPI) --
broad daylight more than a week ago in a staged car crash.
The body of Oscar Sanchez was found under a pile of construction
debris in a remote area of southeast Dallas during a search, The
Dallas Morning News reported.
Police searched the area after interviewing a suspect captured Sunday
in Chicago. Jose Felix was arrested as he prepared to board a plane
for Mexico.
A second suspect, Edgar Richie Acevedo, eluded officers by flying to
Mexico a day earlier than Felix. He remains at large, apparently in
Mexico.
Sanchez, whose family owns three Dallas restaurants, was abducted
Jan. 18 after a staged car crash only blocks from his home.
The kidnappers made ransom demands after Sanchez was abducted, but
they never showed up to claim the money at the drop spot, police
said."
Source:
Kidnap Victim Found Dead in Dallas
DALLAS, Jan. 27 (UPI) --
Web site seeks Missing in Mexico
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050120/news_1n20missing.html
January 20, 2005
MONTERREY, Mexico – Relatives of young Americans who vanished while visiting a Mexican border city last year have set up a Web site to draw attention to what they say is a growing number of abductions in Nuevo Laredo.
Set up this month:
http:// www.laredosmissing.com seeks information on two women and three men ages 18 to 27 who disappeared during visits to the crime-ridden city just south of the Rio Grande. All are from Laredo, Texas.
January 20, 2005
MONTERREY, Mexico – Relatives of young Americans who vanished while visiting a Mexican border city last year have set up a Web site to draw attention to what they say is a growing number of abductions in Nuevo Laredo.
Set up this month:
http:// www.laredosmissing.com seeks information on two women and three men ages 18 to 27 who disappeared during visits to the crime-ridden city just south of the Rio Grande. All are from Laredo, Texas.
U.S. Travel Alert Irritates Mexico: Blow-Back On Condi
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_us_travel_alert&e=1
The public announcement was issued because of an upswing of killings and kidnappings linked to battles between drug gangs in towns along the Mexican side of the border, but Mexico's top Cabinet officer, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, insisted that the U.S. statement "went too far."
The outburst of Mexican irritation came on the day that Rice took over and as the Bush Administration is preparing to change leadership at the Homeland Security and Justice Departments, which deal with issues of drug trafficking, immigration and security along the long Mexican border
The public announcement was issued because of an upswing of killings and kidnappings linked to battles between drug gangs in towns along the Mexican side of the border, but Mexico's top Cabinet officer, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, insisted that the U.S. statement "went too far."
The outburst of Mexican irritation came on the day that Rice took over and as the Bush Administration is preparing to change leadership at the Homeland Security and Justice Departments, which deal with issues of drug trafficking, immigration and security along the long Mexican border
