Brad Poole Reuters May 10, 2011 TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics. A group of lawyers from [...]
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Liberals in southern Arizona seek to form new state
Posted: May 10, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal Immigration, US News0
Arizona now accepting donations to complete border fence
Posted: May 9, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationNina Mandell NY Daily News May 9, 2011 Arizona lawmakers have launched their latest attack on illegal immigration: an online fundraising campaign to build more fencing along the state’s border with Mexico. State Sen. Steve Smith, sponsor of a new bill aimed at bankrolling the additional fence, said the goal is to use online donations [...]
Governor Brewer signs bill that starts border fence construction
Posted: May 2, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationSan Tan Valley Today May 2, 2011 Governor Brewer has signed SB 1406 into law. Sponsored by Republican Senator Steve Smith, SB 1406 allows for the construction and maintenance of a fence along the Arizona-Mexico border. The legislation provides for an interstate compact, which will allow the Governor to work with other states to build [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds’ No-Apprehension Policy
Posted: April 23, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationJana Winter Fox News April 23, 2011 An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. “Upper management has advised supervisors to have [...]
U.S. Border Patrol Spends $1 Million Making a Videogame Simulating Their Job
Posted: April 6, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal Immigration, US NewsJoel Johnson GIZMODO April 6, 2011 Researchers at a government-funded laboratory have built a giant touchscreen video game that simulates the capture of illegal aliens. In a statement made to Kotaku by an official spokesman, the entire project and underlying systems cost “in the ballpark of $10 million [worth] of internal investments,” with the Department [...]
MMA Fighter Among 2 Americans Murdered at Tijuana Border Crossing
Posted: April 5, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationKTLA News April 5, 2011 TIJUANA, Mexico (KTLA) — Mexican authorities have identified the two American men who were murdered in Tijuana as 25-year-old Sergio Salcido Luna (Moon) — a mixed martial arts fighter — and his friend 28-year-old Kevin Joel Romero. The men were gunned down while sitting in their white pickup truck at [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Federal Agents Told to Reduce Border Arrests, Arizona Sheriff Says
Posted: April 4, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationJana Winter Fox News April 4, 2011 An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce — at times even stop — arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. [...]
Obama on Non-Criminal Illegal Aliens: We Don’t Want to Deport Them; ‘We Want Them To Succeed’
Posted: March 30, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal Immigration, US NewsEdwin Mora CNS News March 30, 2011 (CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama on Monday told a student who has received a deportation notice that he does not want to deport her — he wants people like her to succeed. The exchange happened during a town hall event sponsored by the Spanish-language television network Univision at [...]
13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in California Wearing U.S. Marine Uniforms
Posted: March 22, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationJoshua Rhett Miller Fox News March 22, 2011 Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at [...]
America’s Third War: Texas Farmers Under Attack at the Border
Posted: March 5, 2011 in Border Control & Illegal ImmigrationKris Gutiérrez Fox News March 5, 2011 In Texas, nearly 8,200 farms and ranches back up to the Mexican border. The men and women who live and work on those properties say they’re under attack from the same drug cartels blamed for thousands of murders in Mexico. “It’s a war, make no mistake about it,” [...]
