• Federal officials say they've uncovered something disturbing along the U.S.-Mexico border: more underground tunnels, used by drug traffickers and immigrant smugglers to evade tighter border enforcement. (kmuw.org)
  • Say what you want about international drug smugglers, but you have to admit - they are a creative bunch. (cbc.ca)
  • Smugglers in Mexico are now literally shooting drugs across the American border with cannons . (cbc.ca)
  • By actually shooting it over the fence, they don't have to worry about mules or smugglers actually backpacking it across," Kyle Estes, a Border Patrol public affairs officer in Arizona, told a local paper . (cbc.ca)
  • As crazy as all this sounds, smugglers have tried some pretty bizarre stuff in the past to get drugs into the U.S. - mainly to avoid having to go through a border checkpoint. (cbc.ca)
  • In October, two smugglers to drive a jeep full of drugs over the border fence by using a makeshift ramp. (cbc.ca)
  • And last year, U.S. authorites caught smugglers on video using a catapult (like out of medieval times) to launch bales of pot across the border. (cbc.ca)
  • Drug smugglers used a catapult to fire contraband over the border between Mexico and Arizona near Naco, authorities said Wednesday. (nbcnews.com)
  • Mexican authorities disrupted the operation, but the alleged smugglers fled the scene in a Humvee, leaving the catapult behind - along with 45 pounds of marijuana and an SUV. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Mexican government declared war against drug smugglers in 2006, and the resulting conflict has left more than 30,000 people dead. (nbcnews.com)
  • Smugglers in SUVs loaded with drugs then drive across these mobile truck-bridges into Arizona without ever touching the fence. (nbcnews.com)
  • Drug smugglers use such tunnels to transport contraband from Mexico to the United States. (blastingnews.com)
  • It seems drug smugglers have used tunnels in the past. (blastingnews.com)
  • Those who enforce the law know that drug smugglers use various methods to move the contraband into America and tunnels are one option. (blastingnews.com)
  • According to CBS News, while the US Customs and Border Protection force tightens security at the border, drug smugglers in Mexico keep innovating. (blastingnews.com)
  • His intention was to deter drug smugglers and illegal migrants from entering America. (blastingnews.com)
  • Alongside half-mile tunnels and submarines, catapults have been added to the list of odd devices used by smugglers to get drugs over the U.S.-Mexican border. (bloomlegal.com)
  • Quadcopters are a new tool for drug smugglers. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Although the smugglers and their techniques had changed, the southern border remained the primary route to import drugs. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Smugglers have also continued the tried-and-true method of employing a "mule" to carry drugs across the border, but such employees require profit-cutting, per-trip payments, and pose the risk of testifying to authorities in plea bargains if they are caught. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The video below shows 25 minutes of the never ending flow of "human smugglers, drug cartel members and illegal immigrants crossing into the US. (redstate.com)
  • The videos show an unrelenting stream of alleged cartel scouts, drug mules and human smugglers - known as coyotes - using secret trails to work their way into the interior of the state. (redstate.com)
  • A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot by smugglers in a remote section of Chilton's ranch in June, according to The Washington Times. (redstate.com)
  • As the US has increased border security, drug cartels and human smugglers have innovated. (redstate.com)
  • The more sophisticated our border infrastructure has become, the more the smugglers have upped their game. (redstate.com)
  • Our No. 1 task since Sept. 11 has been anti-terrorism and the interdiction of weapons of mass destruction, but the drug smugglers can't think that we've lowered our guard," he said, referring to recent discoveries of tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border, including one found near Calexico this week. (customscorruption.com)
  • When Chris Cabrera joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 2003, the job involved cruising through vast open stretches of the Rio Grande Valley trying to catch drug smugglers and migrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border. (vice.com)
  • The Department of Homeland Security opted to focus on fencing off the border around populous places, hoping to force migrants and smugglers into remote areas with rough terrain, where it's more difficult to cross. (vice.com)
  • Federal agents seized $29.6 million worth of illegal drugs from a tunnel used by smugglers to enter San Diego from Mexico, a cross-border passageway so sophisticated that it had ventilation, lighting and an underground rail system, authorities said Tuesday. (gqbuzz.app)
  • It was not immediately clear if the drug smugglers dug the tunnel before or after the new border wall was constructed. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Authorities have recently reported that the pandemic is causing drug smugglers to become more brazen in their methods. (15h15min.fr)
  • Newser) - Splash Mountain it ain't: One of the attractions at Mexican amusement park Parque EcoAlberto is a re-creation of an illegal US-Mexico border crossing, complete with smugglers, dogs, sirens, and border patrol agents, PBS reports. (newser.com)
  • Now Mexican drug smugglers have resorted to cannons, authorities say. (newser.com)
  • Smugglers used a pneumatic cannon to shoot containers of pot over the border into an Arizona field, reports the Yuma Sun . It. (newser.com)
  • The unfinished tunnel - which Mexican federal officials said was meant for smugglers to bring drugs into San Diego from Mexico - was being constructed no more than 50 or so feet from a new National Guard base opened last year in Tijuana. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • When U.S. border security was tightened after September 11, 2001, drug traffickers actually began to dig tunnels under the Mexico-U.S. border! (pbase.com)
  • Vast resources are expended for a limited result: at best merely inconveniencing the traffickers but doing little to actually stem the flow of where to get weed online drugs into a country. (pbase.com)
  • With Mexican authorities relying more heavily on the military to combat drug smuggling, traffickers have responded in kind, forming large forces of assailants and arming them with frightening arrays of weaponry. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • It's a bit silly, because the worst drug traffickers have no reason to leave Mexico. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • If you're concerned about immigration, note that our drug war incentivizes traffickers to dig tunnels and cut holes in the fence. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • A Mexican tank destroyed 3,091 rifles, 3,697 guns,21 grenades and 456,308 bullets of different calibres seized from alleged drug traffickers, during an operation at a military zone on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez February 16, 2012. (barnorama.com)
  • Nothing can stop drug traffickers. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • April 26 - 15 people are killed in a gun battle between the Tijuana Cartel and a rival drug cartel. (wikipedia.org)
  • October 26 - The Mexican army captures drug lord Eduardo Arellano Félix after a shootout in Tijuana. (wikipedia.org)
  • The tunnel stretches from a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to the warehouse in San Diego, federal officials said. (ktvq.com)
  • NPR's Carrie Kahn reports on two "hot spots" for tunnels -- the border at San Diego and Tijuana, and between the California border town of Calexico and Mexicali. (kmuw.org)
  • Authorities have uncovered a 2,400 foot tunnel under the US-Mexico border near Tijuana. (blogspot.com)
  • And huge tunnel systems have been uncovered in the past few months connecting San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial area with Tijuana, Mexico, producing some of the largest marijuana seizures ever in the United States. (nbcnews.com)
  • Photo: The view inside a tunnel discovered last November between Tijuana and San Diego. (thehollowearthinsider.com)
  • The 600-yard tunnel - which features a rail system, lighting and ventilation - connects a warehouse in Tijuana with one in the Otay Mesa industrial area of San Diego, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack. (theboxhouston.com)
  • About five tons were found by the Mexican military inside the Tijuana warehouse and the tunnel, officials said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • The 30 tons is considered significant by U.S. and Mexican authorities even though Mexican authorities seized 105 tons of marijuana in Tijuana last month, the largest Mexican bust in recent years, Mack said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • That tunnel also connected warehouses in Otay Mesa and Tijuana. (theboxhouston.com)
  • The sophisticated tunnel fitted with all amenities runs from Tijuana in Mexico and lies about 15 miles from San Diego. (blastingnews.com)
  • It starts in a small industrial building in Tijuana, Mexico, according to United States officials. (blastingnews.com)
  • Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico's border with California. (methproject.org)
  • Authorities said that the average depth of the tunnel, which connected warehouses in Otay Mesa and Tijuana, Mexico, was 31 feet. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Investigators on the multi-agency San Diego Tunnel Task Force continued sifting through evidence Wednesday at a warehouse in Otay Mesa's industrial park housing the U.S. entrance to a sophisticated passageway that runs beneath the border to a warehouse more than 400 yards away in Tijuana, Mexico. (securitytoday.com)
  • Meanwhile, Task Force officers alerted authorities in Mexico, who made entry into the Tijuana warehouse, resulting in the seizure of another five to six tons of marijuana. (securitytoday.com)
  • Soon, she finds herself enmeshed in the seedy world of Mexican drug dealers who operate just across the border in Tijuana. (freeebooksblog.com)
  • Mexican federal authorities seized illegal marijuana from a tunnel discovered Thursday in a Nueva Tijuana home located across the border from Otay Mesa in San Diego. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • Neighbors said the home where the most recently discovered tunnel was located - near the streets Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and José López Portillo streets in the Nueva Tijuana colonia of Otay - had been guarded by elements of the Mexican Army since at least Tuesday. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • In January 2020, the then-national Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo, along with top Mexican military officials such as Secretary of Defense Luis Crescencio Sandoval, traveled to Tijuana to open the National Guard barracks. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • The warehouse is located about 300 feet north of the U.S.-Mexico border, just east of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. (ktvq.com)
  • About 26 tons of marijuana had been transported through the tunnel to San Diego, and 10 of those tons were intercepted Tuesday by authorities as a tractor trailer was transporting the load from the Otay Mesa warehouse, officials said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Under the corrugated steel plates that divide the U.S. and Mexico in Otay Mesa, dozens of clandestine cross-border tunnels slash through the soil. (druglord.com)
  • The tunnel's entrance was not far from a newly constructed border wall that President Donald Trump visited in September in the Otay Mesa section of San Diego. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Authorities confirmed the existence of the tunnel Tuesday evening after obtaining a federal warrant to search the warehouse located at 8851 Kerns Street, near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. (securitytoday.com)
  • The Tunnel Task Force recently began conducting surveillance on the Otay Mesa warehouse after observing possible suspicious activity at the site. (securitytoday.com)
  • He said the vehicles, stash house, and warehouse were searched, resulting in the arrests and seizure of boxes of drugs. (ktvq.com)
  • CBP also announced the seizure of nearly 54,000 pounds of drugs nationwide in January 2020 - over 50,000 pounds were seized on the Southwest border. (cbp.gov)
  • We've seen eight straight months of decline, but as we see from the seizure of the longest-ever tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico and significant drug seizures, much work remains. (cbp.gov)
  • The seizure was also one of the largest on the California-Mexican border, officials said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • There has been a rise in the seizure of various types of drugs over the past five years but they keep coming. (blastingnews.com)
  • Valle and Elias were convicted in the country's first seizure of a narcodrone, an uncrewed vehicle transporting illegal drugs from Mexico to the United States. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The discovery of the first tunnel resulted in the discovery of 30 tons of marijuana, the single largest drug seizure associated with a border tunnel. (archives.gov)
  • They said the seizure was one of the largest hauls of illegal drugs found in a single tunnel in recent memory. (gqbuzz.app)
  • This significant cross-border drug seizure and tunnel discovery by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force is an excellent example of the effective collaboration among law enforcement agencies in San Diego," said Paul Beeson, chief patrol agent for the San Diego Border Patrol Sector. (securitytoday.com)
  • The seizure of marijuana coupled with the loss of yet another tunnel will deal a heavy blow to those responsible for constructing this tunnel. (securitytoday.com)
  • December 29 - The entire police force in the town of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, is disarmed under suspicions of collaborating with drug cartels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Karen Herrera, 23, and her infant son Ivan, on the border in San Diego, California, talking to family members on the Mexican side. (univision.com)
  • More than 20 cross-border tunnels have been discovered in California since the turn of the century. (blogspot.com)
  • The assault is believed to be one of the largest in Baja California, and is the latest in a series of precisely executed paramilitary operations that have beset Mexican cities as drug cartels escalate their battles to control key smuggling routes. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, the top organized crime prosecutor in the Mexican attorney general's office, has taken over the investigation of the Baja California beheadings. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • Vote To Legalize MJ is a Step in Right Direction Posted by CN Staff on October 15, 2010 at 10:44:26 PT By Edward Schumacher-Matos Source: Washington Post Boston -- In the upcoming California referendum on legalizing marijuana for recreational use, Mexican President Felipe Calder n and U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske have something in common. (cannabisnews.com)
  • U.S. authorities have discovered about 30 tons of marijuana that were part of a smuggling operation using a tunnel under the California-Mexico border, officials said Wednesday. (theboxhouston.com)
  • In the past four years, 75 smuggling tunnels have been discovered on the U.S.-Mexican border, most of them in California and Arizona, authorities said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Agents followed the truck to a Border Patrol checkpoint at Temecula, California, and authorities found 10 tons of marijuana hidden in cardboard boxes on pallets, said ICE director John Morton. (theboxhouston.com)
  • The task force became the first of its kind in 2003, when it was assembled to deal with a growing number of underground smuggling routes on the California-Mexico border. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Since then, authorities have come more underground routes along the southern border from Texas to California. (blastingnews.com)
  • Late on the night of April 24, 2015, 19-year-old Brayan Valle stood in a farm field half a mile north of the Mexico border near Calexico, California. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The California National Guard provided important support to ICE agents in finding two tunnels under the border in November 2010. (archives.gov)
  • If cartels keep spending millions of dollars building tunnels, we will keep finding and filling them," Robert S. Brewer Jr., U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, said in a statement Tuesday. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. (securitytoday.com)
  • Last night's operation again highlights the importance of collaborative efforts among our law enforcement partners along the southwest border," said Sara Simpson, senior special agent in charge for the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. (securitytoday.com)
  • In the last four years, federal authorities have detected more than 75 cross-border smuggling tunnels, most of them in California and Arizona. (securitytoday.com)
  • U.S. Border Patrol agents say they seized more than 30 cans - each filled with 2.5 lbs of marijuana -that were launched from Mexico into Arizona. (cbc.ca)
  • Burns went on to argue that marijuana was not a medicine, that legalizing medical marijuana would lead to an increase in teen drug use, and that it's just not a good idea, darn it! (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • According to recent polls, Californians are on the verge of approving the legalization of marijuana and overthrowing nearly a century of failed American drug prohibition. (cannabisnews.com)
  • The study suggested that Mexican cartels derive 15 to 26 percent of their income from marijuana, and not the 60 percent often cited. (cannabisnews.com)
  • This week has seen a number of drug charges for out of state residents with a Virginia woman's attempt to transport 81 pounds of marijuana on I-12 and an Alabama man's hotel room meth lab. (bloomlegal.com)
  • DENVER (CN) - A Mexican man who pleaded guilty to distributing more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana for the Sinaloa Cartel sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the U.S. District of Colorado on Thursday for subjecting him to overly harsh supermax prison conditions and solitary confinement after he refused to provide intelligence. (courthousenews.com)
  • In November 2005, the U.S. charged Paredes-Machado with conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of marijuana in order to extradite him from Agua Prieta, Mexico, detain him under U.S. custody and extract intelligence from him. (courthousenews.com)
  • During the 1980s, small, private airplanes loaded with cocaine or marijuana became notorious for wave-hopping over the Gulf of Mexico or cactus-dodging as they flew across the Mexican border-flying under the radar on their way to sleepy airports, clandestine airstrips, and deserted drop zones. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Colombian cartels faded under withering pressure, and the Mexican middlemen developed their own cartels and began to produce and ship heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Another 20 tons of marijuana were seized upon the discovery of a second tunnel. (archives.gov)
  • The stockpile of drugs included 1,300 pounds of cocaine, 86 pounds of methamphetamine, 17 pounds of heroin, 3,000 pounds of marijuana and more than 2 pounds of fentanyl, the San Diego Tunnel Task Force said. (gqbuzz.app)
  • assaulted him and stole a quarter-pound of marijuana and Oct 26, 2021 · BOISE, Idaho - The suspect in a Boise mall shooting that killed two people and injured four others has died, 3 arrested in Avondale drug bust after 35K fentanyl pills, 0K in cash seized. (15h15min.fr)
  • By the way Marijuana and Cocaine are two main drugs that are smuggled. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • Larry C. Paredes, 28, was charged with possession and distribution of more than 50 grams marijuana, other drug offenses, improper use of high beams and a cracked windshield, PAPD spokesman Joe Pentangelo said. (dailyhudson.com)
  • The tunnel was discovered after a package of marijuana was found on the street outside the house. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is regarded as the first major retaliation made against the cartel violence, and viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war between the government and the drug cartels. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2017, after the capture of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and his extradition to the U.S., turf wars between Sinaloa and CJNG escalated as did the number of homicides in Mexico. (wikipedia.org)
  • A total of more than 60 Mexican soldiers and more than 100 police officers, and 500 cartel gunmen are killed in the operation. (wikipedia.org)
  • September 17 - Over 200 people across Mexico, Guatemala, Italy and the United States, including members of the Gulf Cartel and the 'Ndrangheta are arrested in a major anti-drug trafficking operation called Operation Solare. (wikipedia.org)
  • October 22 - Police capture boss Jesús Zambada García of the Sinaloa Cartel after a shootout in Mexico City. (wikipedia.org)
  • October 24 - Mexican criminal investigator Andrés Dimitriadis is shot dead by cartel gunmen (sicarios) in his car on his way home. (wikipedia.org)
  • French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's new movie Sicario is a crime thriller dealing with the top-secret efforts of American intelligence forces to take down a powerful Mexican drug cartel. (wsws.org)
  • She is subsequently recommended by her boss Dave Jennings (Victor Garber) to a flippant, cynical Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) for what turns out to be a CIA operation against a drug cartel boss. (wsws.org)
  • The defection of an anti-drug commando unit, the Zetas, from the Mexican military to the Gulf cartel in the late 1990s paved the way for military-style assaults, experts say. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • The army arrested Elias Valencia, head of the Valencia drug cartel…The Army and various police organizations began a large-scale counter-drug operation in Michoacan state on December 11. (strategypage.com)
  • Obviously this is a cartel and organized drug smuggling of the highest order," Morton added. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Authorities weren't able to identify Wednesday which cartel was behind the tunnel operation, he said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Marco Paredes-Machado said the U.S. arranged for him to be arrested and tortured to extract information about the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, run by the drug kingpin known as El Chapo. (courthousenews.com)
  • The Sinaloa Cartel was led by Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, also known as El Chapo , who was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by a federal judge in 2019. (courthousenews.com)
  • The Drug Enforcement Agency thought Paredes-Machado would be able to provide information on other people of interest in the cartel, including Benjamin Leopoldo Jaramillo-Feliz, known as Nene, Julian Aguirre-Aguirre, called Censio, and Manuel Avendano, who went by El Meno. (courthousenews.com)
  • The Mexican drug lord has watched from his seat in a Brooklyn courtroom as prosecutors have brought out cartel cohorts, a Colombian kingpin, and even a mistress to testify against him. (insider.com)
  • Former Colombian kingpin Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia testified how his Norte del Valle cartel used planes and ships to bring cocaine to Mexico, where the Sinaloa cartel would smuggle it to the US under the direction of Guzman. (insider.com)
  • Key hiring cities for domestic drone production personnel-Mexico City, Querétaro, Guadalajara, and Nuevo León-suggest Sinaloan and Los Zetas cartel involvement at a minimum. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • 7 Of concern are future Mexican cartel UAV evolutionary potentials related to a) sensor payload use for reconnaissance and surveillance functions and b) weapons payload use for small arms and IED attack capabilities. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The warning echoes Breitbart Texas's Cartel Chronicles reports on the bloody war occurring at the border between a faction of the Mexican Gulf Cartel and Mexican authorities. (druglord.com)
  • The Reynosa faction of the Mexican Gulf Cartel recently lost its leader and the group is engaging in open warfare with Mexican authorities and possibly with rival factions or other transnational criminal groups. (druglord.com)
  • His career was nearly tarnished in 1997 when CBS' "60 Minutes" wrongly suggested he was linked to a drug cartel. (customscorruption.com)
  • 20 years after being charged with orchestrating shipments for the Sinaloa drug cartel pleaded guilty Wednesday in San Diego federal court to cocaine Jun 17, 2019 · Informant Status: Worked as an informant in the anarchist/environmental/animal rights movements since at least 2003 (during the FTAA protests in Miami). (15h15min.fr)
  • SAN DIEGO - An exit point to a sophisticated, cross-border tunnel that federal officials described as "fully operational" was discovered early Friday in a warehouse, leading to six arrests and about 1,762 pounds of cocaine seized. (ktvq.com)
  • Mexican authorities searched their side of the border, but no arrests have been made. (cbc.ca)
  • Meridian drug investigation leads to raid, 7 arrests. (15h15min.fr)
  • The discovery came a little over two months after a 4,309-foot-long tunnel was found in the same area, one that federal agents said was the longest tunnel ever found along the southwestern border of the United States. (gqbuzz.app)
  • It was also in the same approximate location where federal border agents discovered a 4,309-foot long tunnel in August 2019 , which they described as one of the "longest, most sophisticated cross-border drug tunnels in history. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • Officials could not say how long the tunnel has existed or whether the warehouse was used for anything else. (ktvq.com)
  • The people of Arizona opposed it and there were protests, petitions to the government, lots of meeting with the Border Patrol where residents told the officials about their problems and concerns," said Ochoa O'Leary. (univision.com)
  • Officials say that if drugs and illegal aliens can come across, terrorists or even "dirty bomb" components could get smuggled across just as easily. (kmuw.org)
  • Mexican officials found the catapult after it was abandoned. (cbc.ca)
  • Acting Commissioner Morgan's January trip involved meetings with a wide array of leaders and law enforcement officials on issues such as border security, human trafficking, asylum agreements, customs systems, enhanced trade opportunities, and reducing illegal migration. (cbp.gov)
  • Huge amounts of weapons are being bought in border states and shipping to drug cartels, American and Mexican officials say. (nbcnews.com)
  • The declaration will enable Mr. Trump to divert $3.6 billion budgeted for military construction projects to the border wall, White House officials said. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials reported on Tuesday afternoon that 396,579 migrants were apprehended during the fiscal year that ended on September 30. (druglord.com)
  • Rudy Camacho, one of the nation's top customs service officials, is retiring after more than three decades with the federal border law enforcement agency. (customscorruption.com)
  • Border Patrol agents like Cabrera, local police, elected officials, and people who live with the existing wall in their backyards say it has been an epic boondoggle. (vice.com)
  • Notorious regional TCOs continue to sell drugs worldwide, kill with impunity, bribe local officials, terrorize communities, and build deadly international partnerships with Italian, Russian, and Albanian criminals. (dialogo-americas.com)
  • According to U.S. officials, it has no exit on the San Diego side of the border. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • The more rudimentary tunnels are just big enough to smuggle people into the country, Mack said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Rudimentary tunnels, or "gopher holes," are cheaply made and stretch short distances, maybe 50 feet. (druglord.com)
  • The new cartels have used air-conditioned tunnels and semi-submersible boats, but those approaches require major investments in technology and a significant amount of time to become operational. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • While cartels used to use foreign-made drones, the new reliance on home-grown technology and construction is more cost-effective -- the method is cheaper than the construction of cross-border tunnels or the use of semi-submersible vessels, according to El Universal's report. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • As President Trump looks to build new barriers along the border, criminal organizations in Mexico are improving the tunnels they use to smuggle people and drugs under the border fence - making them smaller and maintaining a high level of sophistication, featuring electricity and railways. (druglord.com)
  • Declines show effective Trump Administration initiatives to control border crossings while CBP helps seize longest cross-border drug tunnel in history. (cbp.gov)
  • WASHINGTON - CBP enforcement actions on the Southwest border in January 2020 included the discovery of the longest cross-border tunnel in history, said Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan today in announcing overall January enforcement numbers. (cbp.gov)
  • President Obama on Tuesday signed a bill that imposes stiffer penalties for the construction of illicit cross-border tunnels. (thehollowearthinsider.com)
  • Cross-border tunnels represent one of the most significant threats to our national security," Aaron M. Heitke, a chief Border Patrol agent, said in a statement Tuesday. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Formed in 2003, the Task Force uses a variety of techniques to detect cross-border tunnels, from state-of-the-art electronic surveillance to old fashioned detective work. (securitytoday.com)
  • The fact that this is the third sophisticated cross border tunnel found within a year's time demonstrates the cartels will stop at nothing to smuggle their drugs into the United States," said William R. Sherman, acting special agent in charge for the DEA in San Diego. (securitytoday.com)
  • Our ability to pool resources and expertise to identify, investigate and dismantle sophisticated cross border tunnels sends a powerful message to criminal organizations involved in drug smuggling, human trafficking and other illegal activities. (securitytoday.com)
  • Cross-border tunnels have long been used by transnational criminal organizations to illegally move drugs and people into the United States. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • The drug cartels mistakenly believe they can elude detection by taking their contraband underground, but, again and again, we've been able to find these tunnels and shut them down. (securitytoday.com)
  • Route of a recently discovered tunnel used to smuggle drugs from Mexicali to Calexico, with a little help from storm drains on the U.S. side of the border. (kmuw.org)
  • Authorities recently discover a 415 yard tunnel underneath a home in Calexico, CA. The tunnel stretched all the way to a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico where drug dealers were using it to smuggle pot back and forth across the border. (barnorama.com)
  • Tunnels come in handy for not just drug smuggling but also for the movement of illegal migrants . (blastingnews.com)
  • Border Patrol agents also have to handle the issue of illegal migrants at the southern border. (blastingnews.com)
  • BREITBART) - U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 400,000 migrants who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry during Fiscal Year 2018. (druglord.com)
  • and smuggle an unprecedented number of illegal Chinese migrants crossing the U.S. border through Latin America. (dialogo-americas.com)
  • Many Mexican migrants bring drugs to USA . (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • And in recent times there's been a huge influx of migrants coming over this border. (petersantenello.com)
  • These experts estimate that in New York city alone, at least one percent of the population-80,000 plus-spends $200 on illicit drugs (on a weekend). (cairco.org)
  • Still, those totals are likely just a fraction of the illicit drugs entering the U.S. (vice.com)
  • Would a 2,000-mile-long border wall even work? (univision.com)
  • Most legal drugs come to the United States across its 2,000 mile long southern border with Mexico. (cairco.org)
  • The task force consists of agents from ICE, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Border Patrol, and they also work with Mexican authorities, Mack said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Cartels have begun hiring local workers from companies in Mexico to develop custom drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), suited to their needs, according to an unnamed Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) source consulted by El Universal . (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Since 2012, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has documented about 150 of these confirmed UAV intrusions. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The task force is made up of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Border Patrol, which said the 2,000-foot-long tunnel was discovered March 19. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Tunnels like this show the determination of drug trafficking organizations to subvert our border controls and smuggle deadly drugs, such as fentanyl, into our country," said Kameron D. Korte, a supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • Other innovative efforts have included catapults, ultralight aircraft and tunnels. (methproject.org)
  • Camacho, 52, for the past two years has been the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection's southwest border executive director, coordinating efforts among federal, state and local agencies involved in narcotics interdiction. (customscorruption.com)
  • Customs and Border Protection's acting internal affairs head has told journalists he doesn't know of any terminations or. (newser.com)
  • Mexican drug cartels make an estimated $19-$29 billion a year on drug sales in the United States . (cairco.org)
  • That would make it pretty hard for Trump to build his wall in many stretches of the border, says Tony Payán, who heads the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center and teaches on both sides of the border. (univision.com)
  • Huge underground drug tunnel stretches across U.S.-Mexico border. (blastingnews.com)
  • The militarization of the drug war in many ways on the side of law enforcement has corresponded with the militarization of tactics and personnel on the criminal side,' said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • At the time, Colombian cartels dominated the drug business, and Mexican criminal groups were essentially middlemen. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Mexican criminal organizations have been using UAVs since at least 2010 , but the relatively small amount of drugs transported per trip on the drones registered by the DEA helps explain why the cartels want to develop larger, specially tailored UAVs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This groundbreaking agreement will improve tracking and help disrupt the transnational flow of illegal guns used by drug trafficking and other criminal organizations. (archives.gov)
  • ATF developed Project Gunrunner, a national initiative which seeks to detect, disrupt, and dismantle illicit firearms trafficking schemes and networks operating within the United States on behalf of Mexican transnational criminal organizations. (archives.gov)
  • Project Gunrunner uses a three-pronged approach that includes targeted criminal investigations, outreach and partnership with the firearms industry and licensed firearms dealers, and training of state, local, tribal, and Mexican law enforcement partners in state-ofthe-art firearms-trafficking techniques, firearms tracing, explosive post-blast and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) investigation. (archives.gov)
  • Criminal organizations can use these tunnels to introduce anything they want into the U.S. This is especially concerning during a global pandemic. (gqbuzz.app)
  • Federal agents said the 3-foot-wide tunnel had existed for several months and was discovered after the task force had learned of a narcotic smuggling operation by a transnational criminal organization. (gqbuzz.app)
  • This undoubtedly fosters a safer and more secure border environment that advances our goal to dismantle and defeat the transnational criminal organizations that threaten the safety of our country. (securitytoday.com)
  • And yes, they do use ladders, but ergo you have cameras, you have sensors, it does slow down that criminal element, so that Border Patrol can actually respond and get there to be able to apprehend it. (petersantenello.com)
  • Congress approved the construction of a border fence in 2006. (univision.com)
  • In fact, treaties between the United States and Mexico forbid the construction of a fence or wall on both the river and along the riverbed. (univision.com)
  • The border fence also affects desert wildlife, including jaguars, along parts of the border like the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona. (univision.com)
  • They also found a tank with carbon dioxide, which would've been used to shoot the pot over the border fence to someone waiting to pick it up, who likely didn't show up in time. (cbc.ca)
  • National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system on Friday evening saw several people using the device beside a border fence near the town of Naco, and Border Patrol agents contacted Mexican authorities, NBC station KVOA of Tucson reported, citing U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (nbcnews.com)
  • These trucks pull up next to the barbed-wire border fence and lower one of the ramps over to the U.S. side, while the other ramp slides down the back of the vehicle. (nbcnews.com)
  • Ultralight planes have been used by daring pilots to fly over the fence to drop drug loads on the U.S. side. (nbcnews.com)
  • As Trump noted during the final presidential debate, Hillary Clinton has also supported creating a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico: She was one of 25 Democratic senators to vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. (vice.com)
  • Construction of the wall here, long a dream project of Republicans and border hawks, was initiated by President George W. Bush initiated in 2006 when he signed the Secure Fence Act. (vice.com)
  • The resulting fence, which cost more than $15 million per mile in some places and $6 billion total, now spans approximately 650 miles of the U.S.-Mexico boundary. (vice.com)
  • Bush said the fence would "help protect the American people" and "make our borders more secure," but even combined with cameras, drones, sensors, and other surveillance technology, the wall isn't working. (vice.com)
  • The Secure Fence Act set out to establish "operational control" over the border, not to seal off the entire thing. (vice.com)
  • Nor did driving over the border fence with a makeshift ramp. (newser.com)
  • But it makes it easier for Customs and Border Protection to deal with it because they can set up the infrastructure on the fence. (petersantenello.com)
  • In December 2018, newly incoming President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged to bring down gang-fueled violence and on January 30, 2019, Obrador declared the end of the Mexican war on drugs. (wikipedia.org)
  • CBP enforcement on the Southwest border decreased by 10% in January as compared to December, representing a 74.5% decrease since the peak of the humanitarian and border security crisis in May 2019. (cbp.gov)
  • Nov 03, 2021 · The Idaho Statesman reported that she is being held without bail due to accusations of her violating parole from a 2019 drug case. (15h15min.fr)
  • Though many neighbors said they were too afraid to give their name for an interview, several noted the irony of the tunnel being constructed right under the noses of the National Guard, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's landmark federal armed security forces that were first deployed in July 2019. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • Before this latest discovery, the last tunnel found in the Southern District was in March 2020. (ktvq.com)
  • Back in January, investigators uncovered the operation at an apartment Sep 23, 1995 · A Mexican immigration official has been arrested after crossing the border with 233 pounds of cocaine hidden in his car, the U. Charges: POSS OF METH OR COC W PURP TO DEL Aug 11, 2020 · About 2 p. (15h15min.fr)
  • 43. Feb 27, 2020 · A ruthless Mexican drug lord's empire is devastating families with its grip on small-town USA With unparalleled speed, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or CJNG, has set up shop in cities POSS DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. (15h15min.fr)
  • Of those, Border Patrol agents apprehended 107,212 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) and 50,036 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). (druglord.com)
  • Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) of South Texas are being warned about risks posed to them on the border by "open warfare" including grenade attacks occurring on the Mexican side. (druglord.com)
  • Recent events in Tamaulipas, Mexico, specifically in and around the city of Reynosa, pose a special risk to U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the region. (druglord.com)
  • Border Patrol agents working the line in any station's area of operations immediately across the largely open border from Reynosa, Mexico, are advised to employ extra caution in the performance of their duties. (druglord.com)
  • The number of Border Patrol agents has increased more than fourfold since the early 1990s, and that 300,000 figure is the lowest recorded since 1971, meaning that the border is as secure as it has been in nearly five decades. (redstate.com)
  • In addition, if the number of Border Patrol agents quadrupled in the 1990s, why aren't we apprehending more people? (redstate.com)
  • The wall has a ways to go, but we're building it at breakneck speed," Trump said at the time, surrounded by Border Patrol agents and construction workers. (gqbuzz.app)
  • However, many American people and even border patrol agents on the other hand say that a lot of Mexican immigrants are usual people, they are honest and just want to find a better job. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • As Border Patrol agents say that although most of them are grown up in Columbia, Peru and Bolivia they all mostly brought into the USA through Mexican border. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • You figure this last federal fiscal year in Yuma County, just on the river corridor, there were over 310,000 people that were apprehended and processed by Border Patrol Agents. (petersantenello.com)
  • Prosecutors say Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman used tunnels like this one to smuggle drugs under the U.S. border. (courthousenews.com)
  • Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is on trial in Brooklyn, charged with 17 counts of having links to drug trafficking in the US and Mexico. (insider.com)
  • Guzman pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges connected to claims that he built a multibillion-dollar fortune by smuggling cocaine and other drugs across the Mexico-US border. (insider.com)
  • In opening arguments for the case, Assistant US Attorney Adam Fels described the amount of cocaine Guzman was accused of trafficking over the border. (insider.com)
  • DEAN BECKER: I hear those stories also coming out of Chicago, that the main supplier of the drugs to your fair city is one Chapo Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison a couple of months ago to continue his attack on our nation, right? (drugtruth.net)
  • The longest tunnel discovered, found in 2006, had a length of seven football fields. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Drug cartels in Mexico utilize drug mules, tunnels…and couriers to get illegal drugs into America. (cairco.org)
  • But the Department of Homeland Security reported in 2011 that the border was still "vulnerable to illegal activity, including the smuggling of people and illegal drugs," according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). (univision.com)
  • On the drug education side of things Narconon reaches young people in their tens of thousands every year with a highly successful drug education curriculum that really communicates a drug-free message to the young, frequently receiving rave reports from pupils and teachers like. (pbase.com)
  • If a $25 billion wall keeps $60 billion in drug money in the the United States, then the wall is paid for in a year and the people of the United States have at least $30 billion more to spend on other infrastructure projects. (cairco.org)
  • In Nuevo Laredo, on the Texas border, a raging turf war between the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels has killed more than 230 people in the last 18 months. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • The people crossing the border are poor folks who come here for economic opportunities, less-overt corruption, and white picket fences that don't have severed heads impaled on them. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • In 2007, for example, about 500,000 people were in jail on drug charges.Yet, while drug preferences go in and out of style, total use by Americans of all stripes remains virtually unchanged.The toll in Latin America, and especially Mexico today, is even more tragic. (cannabisnews.com)
  • Border agents are alive to the problem and routinely patrol the area to deter people from entering the United States illegally. (blastingnews.com)
  • The trial has exposed secret escape tunnels, naked escapes, bribes, and people within the Mexican government have been accused of accepting bribes. (insider.com)
  • It used to be that prohibition would collect politicians' votes by selling this snake oil, "We're going to save your kids from drugs," and people know we've got more drugs instead of less after all these years of drug war. (drugtruth.net)
  • We have drug prohibition, zero tolerance in place, which encourages people to go into the drug business. (drugtruth.net)
  • In some ways, the border is porous - more than 300,000 people were apprehended last year for crossing into the country illegally. (redstate.com)
  • How many people were not apprehended crossing the border illegally? (redstate.com)
  • Surely, in the last 50 years, people have become more knowledgeable about how best and where to cross the border. (redstate.com)
  • Also in 2010, the President authorized the temporary deployment of up to 1,200 additional National Guard troops to the border to contribute additional capabilities and capacity to assist law enforcement agencies as a bridge to longer-term enhancements in the efforts to target illicit networks' trafficking in people, drugs, illegal weapons, money, and the violence associated with these illegal activities. (archives.gov)
  • But people who actually live along the border in the Rio Grande Valley are extremely skeptical. (vice.com)
  • Newser) - US border officers and agents have killed dozens of people, including Americans, since 2004, but it appears they haven't faced any discipline for their actions, the Arizona Republic reports. (newser.com)
  • A lot of people say that American Mexican border is a very big issue. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • For example in Nogales about 80% of population is Mexican people and only 20% are Americans. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • One may think that all is easy: people just pass the border with drugs for profit. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • Sometimes people have nothing to lose so they have a gun and ready to kill agents just for passing the border. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • The cartels have designated locations along the border they allow people to cross. (petersantenello.com)
  • Since 2012, the DEA has registered around 150 narco drones crossing the border, transporting in total approximately two tons of cocaine and other drugs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • How Many Drones Are Smuggling Drugs Across the U.S. Southern Border? (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Because the DJI drones were inexpensive and easy to fly, not long after their appearance, reports began to appear in the press of their use to carry cellphones and small quantities of drugs across fences into prison yards. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Border authorities, however, were unconcerned with the trend: The drones were too small to carry a significant payload. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • He said it was not the first time they had seen drones used for smuggling drugs across the border. (methproject.org)
  • Mexico 's drug cartels are reportedly commissioning custom-made drones to transport narcotics across the US border, illustrating the continual development of innovative new technologies and methods used to traffic drugs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • As drone technology worldwide becomes increasingly accessible and cost effective, commissioning custom-made drones in Mexico is the next logical step for cartels. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Cárteles del narcotráfico están fabricando en México sus propias aeronaves no tripuladas o drones para traficar droga hacia los Estados Unidos, para lo cual están utilizando a trabajadores de empresas que tienen ensambladoras de drones en territorio mexicano, según información de la Agencia Antidrogas de Estados Unidos (DEA). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • In Apatzingan, in the central state of Michoacan, four men were killed and a police officer and four bystanders wounded in an Aug. 18 shootout between rival drug gangs that involved dozens of paramilitary gunmen in 10 vehicles. (ww2aircraft.net)
  • Calderon feared the drug gangs were on the verge of carving out "drug duchies" similar to those in Colombia. (strategypage.com)
  • The drug gangs had lots of cash to bribe politicians as well as local and state police. (strategypage.com)
  • Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, promised he would take action against the drug gangs. (strategypage.com)
  • In the most horrendous instance, drug lord gangs busted into a nightclub, toting rifles, and rolled five heads across the dance floor, terrifying onlookers. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • In all, about 125 tunnels have been found since the early 1990s, when authorities began keeping count, with just one of them on the U.S.-Canadian border, Mack said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Sophisticated tunnels can stretch for long distances (the longest ever found was equivalent to the length of eight football fields) and are often equipped with lighting, electricity, ventilation, water pumps, railways and more. (druglord.com)
  • Evidence found inside the warehouse leads investigators to believe the tunnel was only recently completed. (securitytoday.com)
  • Newser) - The 11-year-old Guatemalan boy's body was found about a mile from Texas' southern border on June 15, his brother's Chicago phone number scribbled on his belt buckle and a white rosary around his neck. (newser.com)
  • David House, a fundraiser for Chelsea Manning's legal defense fund, found that out the hard way in November 2010, after a trip to Mexico. (newser.com)
  • State and federal investigators at the scene said they could not say the amount or estimated street value of the drugs found. (borderlandbeat.com)
  • In Mr. Trump's case, he is defining a longstanding situation at the border as an emergency even though illegal crossings have actually fallen in recent years. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • Newser) - Unauthorized border crossings from Mexico to Tucson are so 2012. (newser.com)
  • We continue to see positive results because of the steps taken by the Trump Administration to control the border and uphold the rule of law," said CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan. (cbp.gov)
  • President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border while at the same time undercutting his own case for doing so. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • WASHINGTON - President Trump declared a national emergency at the border on Friday to access billions of dollars to build a border wall that Congress refused to give him , transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a fundamental confrontation over separation of powers. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • In a televised announcement in the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said he would sign the declaration to protect the country from the flow of drugs, criminals and illegal immigrants coming across the border from Mexico, which he characterized as a profound threat to national security. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • Combined with the $1.375 billion authorized for fencing in a spending package passed by Congress on Thursday night, Mr. Trump would then have about $8 billion in all to advance construction of new barriers and repairs or replacement of existing barriers along the border this year, significantly more than the $5.7 billion that Congress refused to give him. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • Trump insists Mexico will foot the bill - Mexico has said it won't - but even if all goes according to his plan, there's ample evidence to suggest the wall would do nothing to stop drug smuggling, one of his stated goals. (vice.com)
  • You know, as we continue to tighten the border more and more, they'll find every method they can explore to get their drug loads over," Agent Estes said. (cbc.ca)
  • The only real way to find tunnels is through human intelligence, or snitches. (blogspot.com)
  • We find these tunnels and they're usually abandoned. (theboxhouston.com)
  • However, those who deal in drugs appear to find tunnels a more convenient and safer option to carry on their activities. (blastingnews.com)
  • First, illegals are merely "passing through" these border counties, as John Chilton explained, to find their way into the interior of the state and beyond. (redstate.com)
  • Attorney Wendy J. Dec 14, 2021 · Find Drug Bust Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Drug Bust and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV. (15h15min.fr)
  • Armed with drills and ground-penetrating radar, U.S. border authorities are busy looking for tunnels running under the fences that separate the two countries. (kmuw.org)
  • US Customs and Border Protection have facilities in the form of ground-penetrating radar devices to locate tunnels. (blastingnews.com)
  • In a span of a few hours, agents watched five vehicles come and go from the stash house and this warehouse, we allege that the defendants were driving into the garage and loading or dropping off cardboard boxes full of drugs to further the movement or distribution of drugs throughout the United States, the federal agents were watching the whole time," said Grossman. (ktvq.com)
  • Thousands of U.S. agents already patrol the border region where billions of dollars have been spent. (univision.com)
  • Once they reach the border, the conspicuous black SUVs carrying the American agents are escorted by Mexican police in vehicles outfitted with machine guns. (wsws.org)
  • From there, the convoluted plot involves the American agents torturing Diaz and locating a tunnel under the US-Mexico border used for mass drug transportation. (wsws.org)
  • This past summer, U.S. federal agents discovered an underground 755-foot tunnel, running from a business in San Luis, Arizona to a business in Mexico. (cbc.ca)
  • Also this year, border agents chased a go-cart that was "painted beige and fitted with knobbly off-road tires" through the Arizona desert. (cbc.ca)
  • In August, U.S. agents seized nine bundles of pot that had been dropped from an ultra-light aircraft flying from Mexico. (cbc.ca)
  • The task force uses robots to scout out a newly discovered tunnel before agents are sent into it. (theboxhouston.com)
  • Federal agents are trained like miners on how to negotiate confined spaces, and the San Diego-Mexico region is even used to test the latest ground-penetrating technology to detect tunnels, including by the U.S. military, Mack said. (theboxhouston.com)
  • According to the complaint, Mexican SSP agents told him "Si no cooperas tu señora le va llevar a la chingada y ahorita vas a ver como va a gritar," translated to "If you don't cooperate there will be horrible consequences for your woman, and soon you will see how she will scream. (courthousenews.com)
  • Neither of them knew that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had picked them up on a remote camera. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • The warning was issued by the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) to agents in the RGV Sector. (druglord.com)
  • Their support has allowed CBP to bridge the gap and hire additional agents to support the Southwest border, as well as field additional technology and communications capabilities that Congress provided. (archives.gov)
  • However soon, agents had to move to other areas of the border. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • Agents of Border Patrol say that very often someone who you know in Texas for example is connected with somebody outside of the USA. (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • The Rio Grande marks the border between Texas and northern Mexico for 1,254 miles. (univision.com)
  • Part of the problem is that Texas has 1,254 miles of border but only about 100 miles of wall. (vice.com)
  • Chilton told reporters he installed the cameras to show the government that the barbed wire fences installed along much of the US border with Mexico do little to stop the flow of illegals. (redstate.com)
  • They are used to smuggle humans or small quantities of drugs under the border. (druglord.com)
  • Six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft. (methproject.org)
  • She covers Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. (kmuw.org)
  • Various anti-immigration bloggers are now citing these incidents as evidence that our borders must be secured, for fear that Mexicans will come to America and start cutting peoples' heads off. (stopthedrugwar.org)
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between official ports of entry. (cbp.gov)
  • The signing of the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012, "is one more step in the Obama Administration's efforts to strengthen our nation's border security to deter and prevent smuggling, trafficking, and illegal immigration, while safeguarding and encouraging the efficient flow of lawful trade, travel and immigration," read a White House statement. (thehollowearthinsider.com)
  • January 21 - Mexican security forces capture drug lord Alfredo Beltrán Leyva. (wikipedia.org)
  • June 30 - The Mérida Initiative, a US$1.6 billion security cooperation agreement between the US and Mexico, announced on October 22, 2007, is signed into law. (wikipedia.org)
  • The U.S. government has already been reinforcing security along its southern border for the past 20 years. (univision.com)
  • I've never seen the point of doing any security, especially TSA Airline searches, if you are going to let 500K folks walk over the border every year. (blogspot.com)
  • We're going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we're going to do it one way or the other," he said. (outsidethebeltway.com)
  • An official for Homeland Security said the tunnel is proof that those who are behind it have invested their time and resources to give it a shape. (blastingnews.com)
  • Along the U.S. Southern border, this process has been prompted by increased U.S. homeland security activities. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • He paid, reportedly, $50 million to get out of a high security Mexican prison, by digging a tunnel that was, he didn't dig the tunnel of course, but they had to turn off the seismographic meters because exploding is going on as they build this tunnel. (drugtruth.net)
  • It was the latest in a long line of violent incidents that prove border security is not a priority for the government, according to Chilton , who is a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump's efforts to build a border wall. (redstate.com)
  • Without a nationally agreed-upon way of measuring border security, we are stuck in a political debate as much about semantics as substance. (redstate.com)
  • Camacho is retiring from the customs service while the federal agency is being challenged to tighten border security without interrupting the flow of legitimate traffic. (customscorruption.com)
  • Implementation of the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy will also be significantly advanced by the latest step in the Administration's comprehensive approach to securing the Southwest border: the Emergency Supplemental for Border Security (Public Law 111-230) signed by President Obama in August of 2010. (archives.gov)
  • The discovery of this tunnel is a tribute not only to the effectiveness of our joint investigative efforts, but also to the significant benefits we're gaining by using new technology to target this kind of smuggling activity," said Derek Benner, special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego. (securitytoday.com)
  • I was chairwoman of the Border and Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Committee. (upf.org)
  • The passageway uncovered Tuesday is the sixth large-scale drug smuggling tunnel discovered in the San Diego since 2006. (securitytoday.com)
  • When a drone launched in Mexico buzzed out of the darkness, Valle used a radio controller to command the commercial-grade, multirotor aircraft to drop a seven-pound bundle enclosed in bubble wrap. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • As Valle collected the bundle, the drone flew back to Mexico. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • In a process that took hours to complete, the Mexican drone returned three times to drop additional seven-pound bundles. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Although the teens wound up in prison, the drone and its Mexico-side pilot made a clean getaway. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • By comparison, the $5,000 for a drone is pocket change in the drug-running world, and a drone reveals nothing without sophisticated forensics. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. (methproject.org)
  • US and Mexican authorities have identified Queretaro, Guadalajara, Nuevo Leon and Mexico City as the drone production points, where cartels pay professionals two to three times their normal salary for this custom technology. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • A former Colombian kingpin who altered his face to hide his identity explained international drug trafficking to the court. (insider.com)
  • Former Colombian drug lord Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia. (insider.com)
  • As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • In the four decades since President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs," the toll of prohibition includes at least $1 trillion in taxes spent, according to the Wall Street Journal. (cannabisnews.com)
  • Jul 14, 2007 · Locally, it was the largest drug bust in decades. (15h15min.fr)
  • If Aug 20, 2007 · Locally, it was the largest drug bust in decades. (15h15min.fr)
  • We hope that Congress will finally act to address the ongoing crisis on the Southwest border and pass meaningful legislation to strengthen our immigration system. (cbp.gov)
  • Clinton has promised in this campaign to implement comprehensive immigration reform, and she has also said the U.S. needs "to have secure borders, and what that will take is a combination of technology and a physical barrier. (vice.com)
  • The problem is that a lot of Mexicans go to the USA and cross the border illegally . (onlineclassmentor.com)
  • As 2017 begins, the military remains one of the most highly trusted institutions in Mexican society. (strategypage.com)
  • Jan 13, 2022 · A nurse holds the hand of a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Boise drug bust Dec 15, 2017 · 6 arrested in Blaine drug-trafficking bust After five-month investigation, defendants face life in prison. (15h15min.fr)
  • One tunnel a year used to be the average, but since a border crackdown after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, more than 10 passageways have been discovered. (kmuw.org)
  • November 25 - Popular singer Valentín Elizalde is ambushed and gunned down along with his manager (and best friend) Mario Mendoza Grajeda, and driver Reynaldo Ballesteros, in the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last year, local investigators identified two highly sophisticated tunnels in the area, one on Election Day and one three weeks later on Thanksgiving. (securitytoday.com)
  • May 31 - The United States announces it is implementing a drug trafficking law to impose financial sanctions on Mexican drug cartels. (wikipedia.org)
  • The drug cartels also turned their guns on one another as they fought "turf wars" for control of drug trafficking routes to the U.S. Mexican citizens were often caught in crossfires. (strategypage.com)
  • He is charged with 17 counts of having links to drug trafficking in the US and Mexico. (insider.com)
  • The Mexican cartels have engaged in a three phase evolutionary process of aerial narcotics trafficking from conventional aircraft (both converted airliners and light craft) to ultralight aircraft to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Border regions are important transit zones for drug trafficking organizations. (archives.gov)
  • In recognition of the Southwest border's significance in domestic drug trafficking, the Administration drafted the 2009 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy . (archives.gov)
  • This Strategy sets specific operational priorities to more effectively respond to the threats posed by drugs and drug trafficking in the southwestern United States. (archives.gov)
  • These tunnels show the determination of drug trafficking organizations to subvert our border controls and smuggle deadly drugs into our community," John W. Callery, a DEA special agent in charge, said in a statement Tuesday. (gqbuzz.app)
  • You can anonymously report drugs by calling 392-4411 or emailing our drug watch program at reportdrugs@co. 15 Des 2021 A Boise man is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday for drug trafficking charges. (15h15min.fr)
  • Jan 05, 2022 · Boise Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking. (15h15min.fr)