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ABP Shines at BP Open House
Border Camera in Action
Sierra Vista Herald / Review -- May 13
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| CNN camera records action as Mike Christie tracks border intruders using border cam. ABP's Melissa Jaramillo is seen to the right. Also see this photo and this photo. |
Officials say more border fence on the way, hear concerns from public
A public open house on the construction of tactical infrastructure, such as fencing and roads, along the border in the region was held at the Windmere Hotel and Conference Center in Sierra Vista. [...]
During the open house, American Border Patrol representatives set up screens displaying live camera footage along the border.
At one point, two unidentified vehicles drove on to Spencer's ranch near Palominas. He alerted a U.S. Border Patrol agent, and a vehicle was sent to the scene. It is not clear if the suspects were found.
After that incident, Spencer boasted that his camera system is "effective." He said it is much better than the government's efforts.
"They spent $20 million on strategic border initiative to control 28 miles of border," he said. "I could effectively control 28 miles of border for $2 million. But we would use volunteers. We would use this up-to-date technology. Americans want to participate... and they are free." |
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Associated Press sc
Feds bust L. A. drop house holding 61 illegals
Federal officials say they have taken into custody 61 [illegal aliens], including three toddlers, found in a South Los Angeles drop house filled with piles of trash and rotting food. -- ICE spokeswomen Virginia Kice says agency investigators raided the two-story home at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday during a human-smuggling probe.  |
Baltimore Sun
Illegal alien to plead guilty again in drunken-driving crash
Eduardo Morales-Soriano, an illegal [alien] charged with killing a Marine and his date in a drunken-driving car crash on Thanksgiving Day 2006 in Columbia, will plead guilty to two counts of negligent manslaughter, his attorney said in Howard County Circuit Court this morning... |
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American Patrol Report
ABP releases survey data at DHS event
Citizens attending a Department of Homeland Security open house in Sierra Vista yesterday were given an extra treat. When they arrived they saw a display by American Border Patrol in the lobby outside the DHS meeting room... |
Fox News
DHS Official says 3 top Mexican cops seeking asylum in the U. S.
Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press. -- In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives... |
U. S. Rep. Tom Tancredo
Tancredo attempts to block foreign aid to Mexico and Central America
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo today put forth an amendment in the House Foreign Affairs Committee attempting to block foreign aid under the Merida Initiative to Mexico. The amendment would block all funding until the President of the United States has certified that the Mexican government has met a list of requirements. |
Des Moines Register
Concerns over access to lawyers are raised
...Jorge Ernesto Espejel Montes, consul of the Mexican consulate in Omaha, said he is concerned that the about 90 Mexican citizens in detention won't be paid for their work in the days leading up to the raid; that they'll be separated from their children for a long time; and that they could experience rights violations. |
WOWK-TV -- Huntington, West Virginia
Three Mexican illegals arrested in Kanawha County
A traffic stop on Interstate 79 ended with the arrest of three [illegal aliens] from Mexico . Trooper B.L. Meeks and Trooper. M. J. Napier stopped a Chevrolet pickup truck with Missouri registration Tuesday afternoon near exit 1 for following too closely, according to a release from State Police. |
Paul Weyrich -- Townhall.com
Assimilation of immigrants and the imperative of pride in America
When my father came from Germany as a 19-year old the very first thing he did was to enroll in a class taught at a local public school to learn English. My aunt told me that he became proficient in English in only six weeks. He wanted to be an American and to do so he had to learn the language... |
Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch
Two Mexicans face immigration counts
A federal grand jury will consider immigration-related criminal charges against two of the 33 workers arrested last week in a raid of the construction site for the new federal courthouse in downtown Richmond. -- After preliminary hearings yesterday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Magistrate Judge M. Hannah Lauck found... |
KTAR -- Phoenix
'Suspicious man' leads police to drop house
Forty-two illegal [aliens] and eight human smugglers were found Tuesday after an alert police officer followed a suspicious man to a house in west Phoenix, authorities said. -- Dozens of illegal [aliens] found in the house near 65th Avenue and Thomas Road were wearing nothing but shorts or underwear... |
Kansas City Star
Impasse over employment verification leaves legislation uncertain
Missouri lawmakers appear to be headed for a showdown over illegal immigration in the final days of the session. -- When the smoke clears, it’s possible no bill at all will be left standing. -- A wide-ranging Senate bill thought to be the ideal vehicle for new restrictions to deter illegal immigration suffered a potentially crippling defeat yesterday... |
KSWO-TV -- Lawton, Oklahoma
Prosecutors want hefty fine against saddle maker
Muskogee, Okla. -- Federal prosecutors want a Sulphur saddle maker fined $100,000 for hiring illegal [aliens]. -- Billy Cook Harness and Saddle Incorporated pleaded guilty last year to a charge of providing false Social Security information... |
Trenton (New Jersey) Times
7 suspected illegal aliens detained
Federal immigration officers detained seven [suspected illegal aliens] who work as cleaners at Rider University in a raid in Chambersburg yesterday morning. -- The [aliens] are employees of a cleaning contractor called Unico, Rider spokesman Daniel Higgins said... |
Associated Press
12 family members arrested on charges of marriage fraud
Dallas -- Authorities say a dozen family members spanning three generations were arrested today in connection with a marriage fraud ring. -- Authorities say foreign nationals paid up to $12,000 each to marry U.S. citizens.... |
KTAR -- Phoenix
Border fence plans subject of feds' open house in Arizona
Customs and Border Protection officials say some 44 miles of new border pedestrian fencing is in the works in Arizona, above another hundred miles of such fencing and vehicle barriers already built. -- And 45 more miles of new vehicle barriers are to be added, the officials said at an open house Tuesday... |
Denver Post
AG: Sushi bar enslaved immigrant workers
A couple who owned and ran a sushi bar in Denver have been arrested for allegedly threatening immigrant employees with deportation and forcing them to work without pay, federal authorities said. -- Young Jo Kwon, 43, and his wife, Jessie Kwon, 41, who owned Osaka Sushi, have been charged with five counts of theft and forgery... |
Gadsden (Alabama) Times
Albertville police chief wants training for officers
Police Chief Benny Womack talked with the Albertville City Council at its work session Monday night about sending members of his department to take ICE training. -- Womack said his department has been talking with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for a year and a half or more... |
Des Moines Register
N.Y. workers were in U.S. illegally, plant owners said
The owners of the Postville meatpacking plant where 390 workers were arrested Monday admitted in court last year that many of the workers in its New York distribution center were in the United States illegally. -- That admission is getting new attention in the wake of the raid this week that rounded up 40 percent of the Iowa plant's 968 workers. |
Associated Press
Prosecutor taken off Jamiel Shaw murder case
Los Angeles -- The community solidarity that followed the killing of high school football star Jamiel Shaw Jr. did not last. -- A prosecutor has been pulled from the case after clashing with Shaw's parents, who are demanding hate-crime charges against the suspect, believed to belong to a violent Hispanic gang... |
Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson
House fails to override immigration veto
The state House failed to get enough votes Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Janet Napolitano of a measure to require police and sheriff's departments to do more to crack down on illegal immigration. -- Rep. Russell Pearce was able to get just 30 votes for the move, 10 short of the two-thirds needed for the override. |
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
Latest news from south of the border
In an obvious criticism of his predecessor, President Felipe Calderón made clear that, despite the recent wave of violence, the strategy to combat organized crime will not be changed, but only improved and that his government will not give in to the abandonment, the cowardice, the complicity that allowed Mexico to... |
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