Showing posts with label Border Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Border Wars. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

New GAO report on border corruption among federal customs agents

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From a GAO report published earlier this month related to corruption in border security operations: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (C...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Is Texas border crime "overwhelming" or at historic lows?

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In an item titled " Texas police face continuing border crime problems ," we learn from KPRC-TV that Brooks County has ceased rece...
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Friday, November 02, 2012

The sharpshooter who wasn't

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A DPS sharpshooter in a helicopter aiming to take out the tires of a fleeing pickup truck missed and killed two undocumented immigrants in H...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

GEO Group employees implicated in straw purchases of guns for cartel

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Good heavens! Reported AP : Six of the seven Laredo residents who pleaded guilty to illegally buying guns Monday worked at a federal deten...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Fast and Furious, Rick Perry's chutzpah, and the politics of executive privilege

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Governor Rick Perry today compared Barack Obama to Richard Nixon for using executive privilege to conceal documents in Congress' "...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Spillover corruption: Texas companies laundered bribes to Mexican politicos

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Grits continues to maintain that the most significant " spillover " of violence and corruption along the Texas-Mexico border, at l...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Blogging border violence

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After the body count from the Mexican cartel wars has ramped up over the last five years, there's finally beginning to be more consisten...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Police informant use contributes to tolerating crimes, solving them, and testing community loyalties

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Via Alexandra Natapoff's Snitching blog , I ran across several items on the subject of confidential informants (aka, "snitches...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Mexican presidential elections and border security

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What makes the escalation of the drug war in northern  Mexico so disoncerting - and also explains the impotence of the military and the fede...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Poor Mexico: Reports from the cartel wars

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A number of stories related to Mexican drug cartels and their relationship with US-side prison gangs, as well as other articles about US-sid...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Roundup: Lightning strikes, news flashes, and principle ducks for cover

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A few odds and ends for your holiday reading pleasure: When lightning strikes Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley told the D...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Anatomy of a sweet smelling cartel money laundering front

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Earlier this year, Grits argued in a post both lauded and criticized that money laundering of drug profits artificially boosted Texas' ...
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Monday, October 03, 2011

Lies, damn lies and border security rhetoric: New study aims to fabricate fear

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In order to justify massive amounts of border security pork and to bolster the Governor's anti-immigration bona fides, since 2006 the Go...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Surprise to no one: Drug smuggling increased after border wall built

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Drug smuggling in the Rio Grande Valley increased after the much-touted border wall went up in the area, a Sheriff's lieutenant told a c...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

State oversight of homeland security grants criticized in federal audit

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke some new ground on Sunday with a story by Darren Barbee voicing federal criticisms of the state's ma...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

I want to see Rick Perry debate Gary Johnson on border security

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One thing I'm looking forward to as Gov. Rick Perry prepares for his presidential run is seeing him debate former New Mexico Gov. Gary J...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Mexican drug war roundup

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A pair of recent stories about Congressional testimony last week, including from Texas DPS chief Steve McCraw related to Mexican drug cartel...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Gangs evolve, eschew 'turf' wars, thanks to Mexican drug trade

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The Austin Statesman yesterday reported on a presentation to the city's Public Safety Commission on gang activity in the state capitol....
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Monday, July 18, 2011

The real secret behind Texas' economic boom: Drug trafficking

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Brilliant observation, and true: What's the secret ingredient to Texas' much-ballyhooed job creation boom that you'll never hear...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

'Borderline Paranoia': Did visions of 'spillover' cause pointless border shooting?

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Grits has argued repeatedly that, despite the raging cartel wars south of the Rio Grande, the concept of "spillover" violence into...
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