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Published: 04/13/11

Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits

By  not in system - AOL News
Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said investigators are searching for more bodies at the pit found late Tuesday. The bodies were taken to a morgue in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Hours earlier, investigators in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found at least a dozen skeletal remains in a series of ...

Published: 12/15/10

Authorities Hunt Suspect After Border Patrol Agent Killed

By  Hugh Collins - AOL News
Authorities Hunt Suspect After Border Patrol Agent Killed

(Dec. 15) -- Authorities in Arizona have four suspects in custody and are hunting for a fifth man after a shootout that killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the town of Nogales. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was fatally shot Tuesday night after he and other agents encountered a group of suspected bandits in a remote area outside Nogales, near the Mexican border, CNN reported. "Agent Terry's murder is a tragic reminder of the ever-present dangers U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, Air & Marine and Border Patrol agents face as they protect our nation's borders," U.S. Customs and ...

Published: 04/23/10

Arizona's Immigration Fight Fueled by Anger and Fear

By  Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics Daily
Arizona's Immigration Fight Fueled by Anger and Fear

Arid, sun-baked and conservative -- and the nation's busiest and bloodiest border corridor for human and drug smugglers -- Arizona has gone on the attack, coming up with the most sweeping and harshest anti-illegal immigration legislation in the land, giving state officials new powers to stop and arrest people they suspect are undocumented immigrants. Or to put it crudely, it's now open season on Latinos in Arizona. Since Senate Bill 1070 was passed by the heavily Republican legislature on Monday, immigration-reform advocates across the nation have mounted a loud campaign to press Gov. Jan ...

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