Border Control
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
On Oct. 20, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludham sentenced Diaz to 24 months in prison for depriving a 15-year-old Mexican citizen of his constitutional rights under color of law
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Border Patrol officials say that in 2005 more than 120,000 undocumented immigrants were caught in the in the sector; in 2007, 75,464 apprehension were made. Last year, there were 12,251 arrests
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 00:00
Dozens of environmental laws were waived for the building of the border fence, and activists say this is just another conservative attempt to find an excuse to do away with environmental protections
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 00:00
American farmers, ranchers and rural residents are under attack by cartels that rely daily on tactics such as murder, kidnapping, the smuggling of humans, drugs and arms, and blackmail
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 00:00
Homeland Security officials say they ultimately hope to deploy 18 to 24 drones along the borders
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 00:00
While it is true that security has much improved along our southern border, no law enforcement expert believes that we have done enough
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 00:00
Building a physical fence along the entire border with Mexico was one of the dumbest ideas I heard when I was commissioner
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 00:00
Along with another planned for Arizona, the drone brings CBP's total to six on the Southwest border
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 00:00
There has never been an impenetrable border though that indisputable fact did nothing to prevent Congress, in 2006, from passing a bill that set an impossible target
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 00:00
U.S. Customs agents stationed miles away will remotely scan travelers' documents, allowing visitors to pass easily between Big Bend and the Mexican village of Boquillas del Carmen