Latest Mexico – United States border Stories
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Mexican citizen charged with conspiracy to smuggle drugs through a 2,400-foot (730-meter) tunnel under the Mexico-U.S. border appeared in court on Monday and was held without bail. Carlos Eugenio Cardenas-Calvillo, who was arrested over the weekend by immigration and customs agents, has ties to the warehouse in Otay Mesa, California, under which one of the tunnel entrances was located, investigators said in court documents. The tunnel, which had ventilation,...
By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico denied on Wednesday that its troops were involved in a border incident in Texas where police chased drug smugglers, apparently dressed in Mexican army uniforms, who became stranded in the waters of the Rio Grande. It was the latest point of friction between the two estranged neighbors who have fought over illegal immigration, border security and drug violence for the last year. The U.S. envoy to Mexico accused the government of failing to...
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a mother and her 15-year-old daughter after they crossed illegally into Texas from Mexico, the FBI said on Monday. Police arrested patrol agent Pablo Rosario, 31, in El Paso, Texas, on Friday. He faces two counts of sexual assault in the March 2004 attack and two charges of making false statements. FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons was unable to confirm the nationalities of the...
By Bob Tourtellotte PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Amid all the glitz at the Sundance Film Festival's debut weekend, three obscure filmmakers managed to win fans with their work on illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border. The paparazzi chased "Friends with Money" star Jennifer Aniston, and the comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" fetched around $10 million from distributor Fox Searchlight to become the first major movie sale at the festival. But it was Mexican documentarian Tin...
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - This dusty frontier town caters to smugglers and illegal migrants. It's a stone's throw from Mexico, across the brown waters of the Suchiate river. In a way, it is also the southernmost border of the United States. "Make no mistake, this river is not an obstacle, none whatever, " said Father Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest who runs the Casa del Migrante, a hostel for migrants. "The obstacle is across the...
By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - This dusty frontier town caters to smugglers and illegal migrants. It's a stone's throw from Mexico, across the brown waters of the Suchiate river. In a way, it is also the southernmost border of the United States. "Make no mistake, this river is not an obstacle, none whatever, " said Father Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest who runs the Casa del Migrante, a hostel for migrants. "The obstacle is across the...
By Bernd Debusmann, Special CorrespondentTECUN UMAN, Guatemala -- This dusty frontier town caters to smugglers and illegal migrants. It's a stone's throw from Mexico, across the brown waters of the Suchiate river. In a way, it is also the southernmost border of the United States."Make no mistake, this river is not an obstacle, none whatever, " said Father Ademar Barilli, a Catholic priest who runs the Casa del Migrante, a hostel for migrants."The obstacle is across the river....
By Tim Gaynor EAGLE PASS, Texas (Reuters) - A pilot program that jails all illegal immigrants crossing into this Texas border town from Mexico has led to a dramatic fall in numbers attempting the journey, the U.S. Office of Border Patrol said on Friday. A program known as Operation Streamline II, instituted on December 12, is aimed mostly at non-Mexican illegal immigrants who were arrested and released because Border Patrol agents did not have sufficient space to jail them. The blanket...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Border Patrol agents have come under fire twice along the Rio Grande in Texas in recent days amid rising tension on the frontier with Mexico, although no one was reported wounded, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. A Border Patrol spokesman said unknown gunmen fired on agents on patrol in Brownsville, Texas, late on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if the shots came from Mexico or from within the United States. "Shots were fired, no one was injured...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Border Patrol used a "dum-dum" bullet, banned in international war but standard issue for border agents, to kill an 18-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant whose death last week angered Mexico. The hollow-point bullets, designed to expand on impact, cause much more tissue damage and bleeding than standard rounds. A Border Patrol spokesman said on Wednesday the bullet fired into Guillermo Martinez after he crossed the U.S. border near San Diego on...
Latest Mexico – United States border Reference Libraries
The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin that is largely surrounded by the continent North America and the island of Cuba. It’s bordered on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, towards the southwest and south by Mexico, and towards the southeast by Cuba. It’s often referred to as the “Third Coast” in Texas and Louisiana, in comparison with the U.S. Pacific and Atlantic Coasts. The shape of its basin is more or less, an oval and is about 1,500...
