'Guerrilla-style' attack at local grocery store

Written by kxxv.com Wednesday, 03 October 2012 01:57

WACO - Three men have been arrested for kidnapping a local grocery store employee and trying to rob the store while armed with military gear and weapons early Friday morning. Police called the crime a "guerrilla-style" attack.

Police said 29-year-old Marco Polo Medina-Gonzalez, 20-year-old Josias Chavez and 24-year-old Julio Cesar Figueroa Medina followed the assistant store manager of the Super Plaza Grocery Store at 1320 N. 25th St. to an intersection near 18th St. and Bosque Blvd. There the suspects crashed into the victim's car, then pulled in front and blocked him.

http://www.kxxv.com/story/19665400/elaborate-kidnapping

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border

Written by businessinsider.com Wednesday, 03 October 2012 01:53

Leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor cite a Mexican diplomat who says the U.S. government works with Mexican cartels to traffic drugs into the United States and has sided with the Sinaloa cartel in an attempt to limit the violence in Mexico.

Many people have doubted the quality of Stratfor's intelligence, but the information from MX1—a Mexican foreign service officer who doubled as a confidential source for Stratfor—seems to corroborate recent claims about U.S. involvement in the drug war in Mexico.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz28CGQlfsi

Romney says he will honor temporary visas for young immigrants

Written by nydailynews.com Wednesday, 03 October 2012 01:51

AZBD Note: This is where the "shakeup" comes in from Mitt "Etch-a-sketch" Romney.

Romney told The Denver Post that he plans to put a comprehensive immigration reform plan into place before the two-year visas created by President Obama expire.

 After side-stepping the issue for months, Mitt Romney now says that if he’s elected he would honor work permits granted to undocumented immigrants under a controversial program launched by President Obama.

The Republican presidential contender had taken a hard line toward illegal immigrants when he was courting conservative voters in the GOP primaries.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/romney-honor-young-immigrant-visas-article-1.1172690#ixzz28CFhHlGg

2 US border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug corridor in Arizona

Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 October 2012 01:59 Written by Fox News Wednesday, 03 October 2012 00:50

Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area in south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said.

Border Patrol identified the slain agent as 30-year-old Nicolas Ivie.

The shooting occurred at the Brian Terry Station near Naco, Ariz., which is just south of Tucson. The station was named after an agent who was killed in the line of duty in December 2010. The area is considered a remote part of the state and sources tell Fox News that the shooting occurred at 1:50 a.m. local time and about 8 miles from the border.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/02/2-us-border-agents-shot-1-killed-near-major-drug-cooridor-in-arizona/?test=latestnews

Paul Ryan: Eric Holder must go over Fast and Furious

Written by dailycaller.com Monday, 01 October 2012 05:06

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s call for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign, or for President Barack Obama to fire him, over Operation Fast and Furious, a Ryan spokesman told The Daily Caller.

“The congressman agrees with the governor,” Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck told TheDC on Sunday, referring to Mitt Romney’s call for Holder’s resignation or termination over the gunwalking scandal last December.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/30/paul-ryan-eric-holder-must-go-over-fast-and-furious/#ixzz281M2bb00

Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels

Written by abcnews.go.com Monday, 01 October 2012 04:58

 On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.

Indirectly, the United States government played a role in the massacre by supplying some of the firearms used by the cartel murderers. Three of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), according to a Mexican army document obtained exclusively by Univision News.

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/fast-furious-scandal-details-emerge-us-government-armed/story?id=17352694#.UGkiHVEoqe8

FAST AND FURIOUS: Under the Radar and Above the Law

Last Updated on Monday, 01 October 2012 04:54 Written by Fleming Fuller Monday, 01 October 2012 04:52

This is the opening for a documentary in production on the ATF's covert operation FAST AND FURIOUS.

 

 

Citizens Take to Web to Prove Border Not Secure

Written by breitbart.com Sunday, 30 September 2012 05:51

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has claimed the US/Mexico border is very secure, but regular citizens are contradicting her with their own experiences.

The Texas Department of Agriculture has a 16-part web series called “Texas Traffic” on their website. It’s about “true stories of drug and human smuggling” from citizens and law enforcement alike. If federal Border Patrol won’t help them, they say, they’ll take matters into their own hands.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/29/Citizens-Take-To-The-Web-To-Prove-Border-Is-Not-Secure

Napolitano: Executive Orders Replacing Congress' Inaction

Written by breitbart.com Saturday, 29 September 2012 05:12

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/28/Napolitano-President-Executive-Order-To-Protect-The-Country-If-Hes-Frustrated-Congress-Wont-Act

Border Patrol agent fatally shoots woman in Chula Vista

Written by 10news.com Saturday, 29 September 2012 05:02

CHULA VISTA, Calif. - A woman rammed a plainclothes U.S. Border Patrol agent with a car on a residential South Bay road on Friday, hurling him onto the hood of the vehicle and prompting him to fatally shoot her through the windshield in self-defense, authorities reported.

The lawman was in southwestern Chula Vista with other undercover personnel to serve a felony arrest warrant when the dark-green Honda Accord struck him in the 600 block of Moss Street about 1 p.m., according to police and federal officials.

http://www.10news.com/news/shooting-reported-in-chula-vista

Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever dies in crash

Written by azstarnet.com Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:38

Longtime Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever is dead at 60 after his truck went off the road in Northern Arizona while on a family hunting trip.

In his 16 years as sheriff of a border county located in one of the busiest smuggling corridors in the country, Dever, a Republican, rose to national prominence as an advocate for stronger border enforcement.

Dever was known for having a measured response to border issues, but he sharpened his tone in 2010 after his friend, rancher Robert Krentz, was killed on his land northeast of Douglas. Dever blamed the killing on the unsecured border, deducing that it was probably carried out by a cross-border criminal. The crime has yet to be solved.

http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/cochise-county-sheriff-larry-dever-dies-in-crash/article_575099c0-025e-11e2-9e0d-0019bb2963f4.html

'Fast and Furious' report excuses Holder, slams others in Justice Dept.

Written by azstarnet.com Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:38

Officials high in the Justice Department and its Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives endangered the public with their lax oversight of Operation Fast and Furious, a new report concluded.

However, the report says Attorney General Eric Holder was not one of those officials who had an early opportunity to intervene in the flawed, Phoenix-based gun-trafficking investigation, says the report by the department's Office of Inspector General.

Holder did not learn until February 2011 that agents allowed the sales of hundreds of firearms to suspected gun traffickers, the report concludes. By that time, the operation was over.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/fast-and-furious-report-excuses-holder-slams-others-in-justice/article_b2417dee-0287-11e2-9938-0019bb2963f4.html

Governor Brown, please veto immigration bill AB 1081

Written by Jamiel Shaw Sr. - foxnews.com Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:36

In 2008, my 17-year-old son Jamiel Jr., was brutally murdered just a few feet from his front door by an illegal alien.

Pedro Espinoza was not just any ordinary illegal alien. He was a member of the notorious 18th Street Gang and a member of a subgroup of that criminal organization noted for carrying out murders, often at random.

But the senselessness of Jamiel’s murder doesn’t stop there. Just 36 hours before he gunned down my son, Espinoza had been released from the Los Angeles County jail in spite of the fact that he had a long history of violent crimes. Rather than handing him over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for removal from the country, county authorities released him back onto the streets of Los Angeles and ultimately to the street on which my family had lived for almost 40 years.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/19/gov-brown-please-veto-ab-1081/#ixzz26yulLbOh

Brian A Terry Border Patrol Station will house agents, Terry's legacy

Written by kgun9.com Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:21

NACO, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) – Hundreds of people gathered at the new Border Patrol station in Naco Tuesday for its grand opening in honor of fallen Agent Brian Terry. They remembered his bravery, service and dedication.

The naming of the now “Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station” is a solemn salute to Terry, whose life, death and memory has reverberated across the nation.

“We are here today together in this cause honor a fine Border Patrol agent and the mission to which he swore in oath,” said Chief Patrol Agent Richard Barlow during the Tuesday ceremony.

http://www.kgun9.com/news/local/170267286.html

Community college to offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants

Written by kgun9.com Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:20

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Come January, Maricopa Community Colleges will offer in-state tuition to students who are granted work permits under President Barack Obama's deferred action program.

“We spent a considerable amount of time having serious discussions about this, both the Obama administration policy change and what the law required of us, and this was the conclusion we reached,” said Tom Gariepy, director of Marketing and Communications at Maricopa Community Colleges.

He says the federally issued work permits are already on a state-approved list of documents accepted as proof of residency.

http://www.kgun9.com/news/local/170275566.html

Illegal alien charged with killing pregnant woman and her baby in Virginia

Written by Dave Gibson - examiner.com Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:52

On Saturday, a funeral was held at Horizon Funeral Home in Culpeper for Zulma "Carly" Alvarez, 20, and her newborn baby. The two were killed on September 6, when their van was hit head on Eggbornsville Road by a Jeep Cherokee that crossed the center line.

Alvarez was nine months pregnant. She and her baby both died at Culpeper Regional Hospital a short time after the crash, according to a Culpeper County Sheriff's Office press release.

The driver of the Jeep, Orlando A. Cruz, 36, was reportedly intoxicated at the time of the fatal wreck.

http://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-alien-charged-with-killing-pregnant-woman-and-her-baby-virginia?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Family of Brian Terry Honors His Memory With Benefit Dinner

Written by Katie Pavlich - townhall.com Tuesday, 18 September 2012 00:50

It has been nearly two years since Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in the Arizona desert and weapons provided to his killers by the Department of Justice through Operation Fast and Furious were left at the scene. Tonight, his family will hold a benefit dinner in Tucson, Ariz. to remember his sacrifice and to honor his memory. Proceeds from the event will go to the Brian Terry Foundation and donations are being accepted from people who cannot attend.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/09/17/family_of_brian_terry_honors_his_memory_with_benefit_dinner

Mexican Senate urges arrest for border killing of Mexican

Written by chicagotribune.com Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:44

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate urged President Felipe Calderon's administration on Tuesday to pressure the United States to find and extradite the U.S. border patrol agent Mexico blames for the fatal shooting of a Mexican on the border with Texas last week.

The killing on September 3 was the second time in two months Mexico complained of one of its nationals being shot over the frontier by U.S. border agents.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-11/news/sns-rt-us-mexico-shooting-usabre88b04u-20120911_1_mexican-senate-border-patrol-agent-mexico-s-senate

Medellin Cartel Gets Fast and Furious Guns

Written by latino.foxnews.com Wednesday, 12 September 2012 02:07

Guns walked in the ATF operations “Castaway” and “Fast and Furious” have found their way to drug dealers in Colombia's second-largest city, according to Colombian daily El Tiempo.

The paper’s investigative unit reported Tuesday that the ATF sent a commission to Medellín to check the serial numbers of guns walked by the ATF against weapons found after the arrest of a leader of the Oficina de Envigado cartel — and some of them matched.

Now, every time authorities in Medellín confiscate a weapon, the ATF investigates, an unidentified source in Medellín’s police force told El Tiempo.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/11/atf-fast-and-furious-guns-appear-in-colombia/#ixzz26DWsOEyw

EXCLUSIVE: Long-awaited 'Furious' report places blame on ATF, Justice

Written by foxnews.com Wednesday, 12 September 2012 02:05

Dozens of senior-level U.S. government officials turned a blind eye to public safety as they pursued an ill-conceived and poorly managed investigation into gun trafficking in Mexico, according to a long-awaited inspector general's report on Operation Fast and Furious.

Portions of the Justice Department IG report, which has not been made public, were obtained exclusively by Fox News Channel.

The report and accompanying accounts cite a failure in leadership and a lack of accountability and oversight up and down the chain of command at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Justice Department itself and other offices. It says many senior executives knew the U.S. was helping traffic guns to Mexico that killed people but did nothing to stop it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/11/exclusive-long-awaited-furious-report-spreads-blame-across-agencies/#ixzz26DWXo250