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The crowd lined a three mile parade route in El Paso Thanksgiving morning; indeed, organizers of the 73rd annual Sun Bowl Parade prepared for 300,000 spectators. It was a holiday tradition with a Southwest twist, with some surprises for...
Tags: UTEP, El Paso, University of Texas at El Paso, Sun Bowl, Brut Sun Bowl Game, Sun Bowl Parade, Southwest, Thanksgiving, Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go!, Fort Bliss, Sesame Street, US Border Patrol, ROTC, allnews, Sport, Texas, Parade, El Paso County, bowl parade
The seaplane burst out of nowhere Tuesday in the skies above Lake Memphremagog, swooping low across the Canadian border and banking over a stand of bare trees. In the past, such a flight over the still waters might have attracted little notice. But on...
Tags: illegal crossings, Newport, US Border Patrol, borders patrol, Vermont, Swanton, Canada ¬タモ United States border, Borders of the United States, Mexico ¬タモ United States relations, Mexico ¬タモ United States border, United States Border Patrol, Military Police Corps, Interstate 91, Lake Memphremagog
A suspect in custody near Tecate, Mexico, in the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas has been identified as Ernesto Parra Valenzuela, police said. Commissioner Elias Alvarez Hernandez, head of Mexico's federal police in Baja California, told...
Tags: US Border Patrol, patrol agent, Robert Rosas, Mexico
Some surprising new facts appeared in this week's news. Regarding how many Mexicans are coming to the US: The number of Mexican immigrants entering the US has fallen sharply. It has hit a 10-year low (in the 12 months...
Tags: immigration, migration, illegal immigration, Latinos, joblessness, remittances, US Border Patrol, population trends, Hispanic workers, on-the-job deaths
The Department of Homeland Security reported their numbers last month. They haven't apprehended so few illegal aliens since 1973. One wonders: Why is that? Is it the U.S. economic downturn? Or could it be beefed-up enforcement efforts?...
Tags: illegal immigration, migration, border enforcement, US Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, Wayne Cornelius, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, economic downturn
"There's been very much a double standard in dealing with the two borders," an expert on immigration issues declared recently. If the federal government erected the kind of fences and barricades across the U.S-Canada border that now line...
Tags: Jim Kolbe, US Border Patrol, illegal immigration, border security, border fence, border wall, Obama Administration, comprehensive immigration reform, poverty, drug cartel war, drug-dealing gangs, drug violence, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, US-Mexico Border, US-Canada Border
Lou Dobbs, journalist and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN, has made himself famous for his relentless opposition to illegal immigrants, the H-1B visa program and guest worker programs. Wikipedia describes his focus as: "primarily on the southern...
Tags: Lou Dobbs, The Peace Park, U.S.-Mexico border, international borders, US Border Patrol, surveilance cameras, H-1B visa, illegal immigration, guest worker programs, drugs, CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight
Alarmists may twist facts. Journalists perhaps sensationalize news. Many, including U.S. Senators, may have false impressions. This week, Sen. John Kerry and two others from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee visited El Paso, Texas on...
Tags: John Kerry, Silvestre Reyes, El Paso Times, spillover violence, drug cartel war, U.S.-Mexico border, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, National Guard, US Border Patrol
In a major setback to the environment last night, the Laredo TX city council voted to allow the Border Patrol to aerially spray the US-Mexico border with the toxic herbicide Imazapyr, a substance which begins to kill all vegetation immediately...
Tags: environment, US Border Patrol, US-Mexico border, Attorney General Eric Holder, Imazapyr, carrizo, Rio Grande River, Rio Grande International Study Center, US Department of Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency, Jay J. Johnson-Castro Sr., activist