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Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 28th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gustavo de la Viña, who changed the patrol’s philosophy from interdiction to deterrence of immigration, died Monday of natural causes.

U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Deaths Are A Humanitarian Crisis, According To Report From The ACLU And CNDH – Death Rate Climbs Despite Economic Decline And Drop In Migration And Apprehensions

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 29th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Former Border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes Now a Major Player in New Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Complex

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

New GAO Report: Border Patrol: Checkpoints Contribute to Border Patrol’s Mission, but More Consistent Data Collection and Performance Measurement Could Improve Effectiveness

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 12th, 2009

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 24th, 2009

Tunnel Network Sends Border Patrol Underground

Illegal Entry At A 36 Year Low, But Comprehensive Immigration Reform Still a Must

U.S. border czar Alan Bersin visits Border Patrol Museum as agency celebrates 85 years

Caning the Border Patrol – Barrio de Colores and the plan to use herbicide to get rid of cane on the Rio Grande

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Thousands of Mexican soldiers took a tighter grip on policing in the violence-scarred border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday and the retired general in charge of police emphasized the military dominance by announcing city officers will be stripped of their weapons while on patrol.

News Summaries for February 1st, 2009

Need a job? Try the Border Patrol – That’s the message this weekend in a 15-city job fair sponsored by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is seeking to hire more than 11,000 people this year. No experience necessary.

News Summary – January 23rd-26th, 2009

Border Patrol uses tunes to warn of crossing dangers: Migracorridos catchy but tragic

News Summary for January 21st, 2009

Outside of conservative talk radio, Lou Dobbs and Fox News, the media has given little coverage to the crimes committed by two Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. So they’ve scrambled to get the details on the story today, as President Bush commuted their sentences.

In his final acts of clemency, President Bush on Monday commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited fierce debate about illegal immigration.

Border Fence Project Surpasses 500-Mile Mark Pedestrian, Vehicle Fence Installed Along the Border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas + Fact Sheet

News Summaries for Friday – December 12th, 2008 – includes Business & Entertainment

Arizona prosecutors will not retry Border Patrol agent for the third time in fatal shooting of an illegal immigrant in the desert two years ago.

News Summary for Friday – December 5th, 2008

New England Border Patrol chief charged with hiring illegals

Border Patrol swells to more than 18,000

New Summary for Wednesday – December 3rd, 2008

Discovery en Espanol the ‘Human Body: Pushing The Limits’ Reveals the Human Body as You Have Never Seen it Before!!!

Tougher patrol of Mexican border cuts crossing attempts

News Summary for Tuesday – November 18th, 2008

A Wal-Mart truck driver and two women were arrested, accused of attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint in the rig’s trailer.

News Summary for Monday – November 17th, 2008

Politics of Humanity: ICE’s and Border Patrol’s Child Abuse Policy

News Summary for October 28th – November 3rd, 2008

Immigrants and drug smugglers have been playing cat and mouse with the US border patrol in El Paso for more than a century, but recently the game has become much more dangerous

Border visits no longer will be day at beach – The federal government’s effort to slam the door on illegal immigration, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism means a new secondary fence will be built in the park, creating a 90-foot-wide no-man’s land of patrol roads and security lights that extends to the sea. – Southern California

Documentary ‘Border’ Delivers Rarely Seen Side of Illegal Immigration

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008

Blogante Essential News for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008

Border Patrol roadblock rattles small Washington town

Questions surrounding man’s death in Border Patrol custody remain unanswered six weeks later

Blogante News Summary for Monday – August 11th, 2008

U.S. officials have determined that part of a barrier constructed by the Border Patrol in a storm-water tunnel beneath Nogales is in Mexico — and must be torn down.

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – August 7th, 2008

Four Mexican soldiers crossed into Arizona and held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint before realizing where they were and returning to Mexico, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Blogante News Summary for Monday – August 4th, 2008

Border Patrol hits Massachusetts with its pitch – Recruits agents to boost force, fulfill mandate

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – July 30th, 2008

Blogante News Essentials for Wednesday – July 30th, 2008

Hispanics profiling victims by Border Patrol in West Palm, group says

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – July 29th, 2008

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the U.S. Border Patrol was not negligent in the 2003 fatal shooting of 19-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant Juan Patricio Peraza near Downtown El Paso.

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – July 24th, 2008

Mexico has lodged a formal complaint against the United States for flood damage it claims was caused by a concrete barrier erected by the Border Patrol in a storm-water tunnel beneath Nogales.

Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – July 23rd, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Wednesday – July 23rd, 2008

Border Patrol NOT Checking Documentation of Valley Evacuees – Texas

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – July 22nd, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – July 22nd, 2008

Hurricane potential off S. Texas coast leaves some wondering if Border Patrol will make good on threat to screen for undocumented (Latina Lista)

Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

U.S. Border Patrol aims to recruit new agents – Indiana

Lone Star State Young Voters Talk Immigration

Group files complaint against U.S. Rep. Reyes over role in getting kidnapped relative released

Blogante News for Thursday – July 10th, 2008 (most posts)

Blogante Essentials for Thursday – July 10th, 2008 (no rss)

Border Patrol sued for hurriance policy

Silvestre Reyes: Straight talk on immigration – Where does John McCain stand?

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 24th, 2008

Six bodies found in desert by Border Patrol agents

Immigrant deaths are down in Yuma sector

Border governors worry about pullout of National Guard

Blogante News for Monday – June 23rd, 2008

National Guard is already missed at U.S.-Mexico border

Border Patrol seeks to add more black agents – Agency, which has just 158, tries to raise its profile

Border unit treats those crossing desert – BORSTAR

Cuban immigrants reach Texas after being snatched by gunmen in Mexico

Plainclothes border agent at Washington ferry terminal

Blogante News for Wednesday – June 11th, 2008

Border Patrol implements zero-tolerance policy for illegal immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley – Some fear ‘Streamline’ could overburden federal courts

DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address

Border contractors jailed in illegal-immigrant case

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 3rd, 2008

Immigrants face hurricane dilemma – (more on the Border Patrol and hurricane evacuation)

E-mail ‘bloodbath’ threat paralyzes Mexican city of Juarez

Taqueria del Sol: Mexico, Memphis meet in Atlanta – Southern cooking melds with south of the border at this metro area mini-chain

Mexican town offers illegal immigration simulation adventure

Paying the Price of the Immigration Crackdown – Are Americans willing to pay for the intensifying crackdown on immigrants?

As Border Efforts Grow, Corruption Is on the Rise – Border Agents, Lured by the Other Side

Casa Amiga director to film documentary on border – New Carlisle, Ohio

Border agents won’t slow hurricane evacuations – BUT no clarification on whether or not illegal immigrants taken to shelters during a hurricane will be allowed to return home or if they will be deported.

Group mans 90 water stations for border crossers – goes through 1,500 gallons a week in Southern Arizona

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 21st, 2008

Homeland Security Stands by Its Fence – (great graphic from the NY Times as well)

Migrant deaths down along border, but high heat looms – Arizona

Hurricanes, Citizenship, and the Makings of an Unnatural Disaster

Blogante News for Tuesday – May 20th, 2008

When fleeing deadly hurricanes in S. Texas, Border Patrol agents say undocumented won’t be allowed to evacuate (Latina Lista)

Border agent accused of human smuggling denied bail – Texas

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