Border Control
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 00:00
Hefty roads running through once-remote ranchlands now enable loaded-down tractor-trailers and pickups to avoid Border Patrol highway checkpoints
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 00:00
It was the second, major incomplete tunnel discovered in the San Diego-Tijuana area in two days and the fourth along the U.S.-Mexico border since Saturday.
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 00:00
The huge drug quantities heading across the border could also be explained by a surge in marijuana production in Mexico and, in particular, Baja California, where Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel has been expanding its influence.
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 00:00
The "fully operational" tunnel is a 755-foot passageway, tall enough for a 6-foot person to walk through, that burrows under the border fence, a park and a water canal.
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 00:00
One expected witness is Humberto Navarrete, whose grainy cellphone video at the San Ysidro port of entry captured audio of a man believed to be Hernandez pleading for help and passersby asking that he be left alone.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 00:00
According to the indictment unsealed Monday, the suspects allegedly entered the United States illegally as part of a plan to rob drug traffickers but instead encountered Terry and other Border Patrol agents.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 00:00
The Mexican Foreign Ministry said late Sunday that a citizen had been killed by a gunshot fired by a U.S. agent at the Los Tomates-Veterans international bridge.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 00:00
Mexico's defense secretariat says the tunnel linked a soon-to-be-opened ice and purified water business in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora to a business in San Luis, Arizona.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 00:00
One of the agents, Brian Terry, was fatally wounded, and it later emerged that two guns found at the scene had been bought by someone suspected of being a straw buyer for a smuggling network in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation.
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 00:00
Drug Enforcement Administration officials say the bust was part of "Operation Nayarit Stampede" aimed at attacking a drug trafficking organization that stretched across the Mexico border and into Arizona.