Prosecutors Give Account of 2010 Fatal Shooting of Border Patrol Agent; Mexican Government Says 314 Flu Deaths Have Occurred; Violence Tests Brazil Ahead of World Cup

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Prosecutors Give Account of 2010 Fatal Shooting of Border Patrol Agent, Seek 30-year Sentence


http://tinyurl.com/nt2wn9m

Holder begs court to stop document release on Fast and Furious
http://tinyurl.com/ayto3tj

New immigration exemptions putting US at risk?
good interview with Mike Cutler
http://tinyurl.com/pewh23f

Manhunt Underway For Mexican National Who Raped Teen Girl 70 Times
http://tinyurl.com/pa8a3qq

Drug cartels recruiting US military veterans
http://tinyurl.com/lvnj8sa

Pelham High grad missing in Mexico, on way to recreate scene in ‘Shawshank’
(an American on a motorcycle)
http://tinyurl.com/ktwk48r

Mexican border town sees spike in drug violence
http://tinyurl.com/k765utb

ICE Data Shows Mexicans Get Special Treatment
http://tinyurl.com/lqvq4s4

US Foreign Policy in Latin America Leaves an Open Door for China
http://tinyurl.com/otvbs4d

Drug Bust Shows Presence Of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel In Northern California, Authorities Said
http://tinyurl.com/l64vpg5

Man’s murder, decapitation stymies Wyoming police
http://tinyurl.com/lgtqqtp

Heroin Use Increases Despite Deadly Consequences
(as the cartels increased their heroin flow to the US, I predicted it would become plentiful and cheap, as cartels need addicts to keep the profit flowing in to them-parents watch your kids, per my grand daughter, a lot of teens are now using it due to ready availability-Ed.)
http://tinyurl.com/qh59nsw

Funeral services set for slain Utah County sheriff’s sergeant
(illegal alien suspect in fatal deputy shooting dies of wounds)
http://tinyurl.com/nwgfwe8

Television show glamorizing cartel leader to be shown in U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/pbtaanw

U.S. immigration bill ‘in doubt’ this year, Republican Ryan says
http://tinyurl.com/lkdht8x

Immigration Officials Warn Of Amnesty ‘Overload’
http://tinyurl.com/obxsltr

ICE Union Boss Urges GOP: Don’t Ignore Immigration Officers
http://tinyurl.com/ofpteo9

Group Says REAL ID Enforcement Needs To Include Tough Measures To Intercept Counterfeit Driver’s Licenses
http://tinyurl.com/oa685vo

Licensed to drive-Hawaii
http://tinyurl.com/mrcc7tv

10 Reasons Why Biometric Exit May Advance in 2014
http://tinyurl.com/lun78lu

More states grant in-state tuition
http://tinyurl.com/m33pop6

The U.S.-Central American Border
http://tinyurl.com/pg5wow6

Rising US interest rates cause market, currency trouble in other nations
http://tinyurl.com/pm7f5ke

New US Coast Guard facility to enhance Caribbean operations
http://tinyurl.com/ntvexhq

Arizona lawmaker seeks $30M ‘virtual fence’ near US-Mexico border
http://tinyurl.com/kcgfv86

Losing Steam? Americans Don’t Think Immigration Reform Is Absolute Priority
http://tinyurl.com/k43ggc5

Homeland Security blacked out recommendation on Border Patrol restraint
http://tinyurl.com/n3r9fla

“Partnership for a New American Economy” Ganging up on American Families-Mike Cutler
http://tinyurl.com/nufjnff

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents no longer performing courthouse sweeps
http://tinyurl.com/q7446dg

Illegal immigrant college-aid bill now backed by the WA State Senate
http://tinyurl.com/oyho5w5

Puerto Rico Prison Guard Sentenced to 67 Years for Aiding Drug Traffickers
http://tinyurl.com/lgfhq2b

U.S. Seizes Ton of Cocaine South of Dominican Republic (VIDEO)
http://tinyurl.com/mfjq26z

Killer Arrested Trying to Sneak Into Texas
http://tinyurl.com/lvssgks

WA
U.S. Border Patrol Blotter, Blaine Sector
China, India, Nepal, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, Eritrea nationals caught
http://tinyurl.com/ko8jemy

Chicago Strike Force chases ‘perfect storm’: Gangs linked to Mexican heroin cartels
http://tinyurl.com/pub8ge4

IA
Former Slaughterhouse Manager Gets 41-Months In Prison For Exploiting Immigrants
http://tinyurl.com/oqddpbs

TX
Juarez consulate killings: Witness says Barrio Aztecas were trained by Zetas cartel
http://tinyurl.com/nwlmwse

CA/AZ
New technique to smuggle drugs increasing along the border
http://tinyurl.com/oj2lahf

Man Smuggles 40,000 Piranhas
http://tinyurl.com/mejt86a

CA
3 plead guilty to smuggling migrants by plane
http://tinyurl.com/m9a7eht

AZ
Nogales CBP Officers Seize $297k of Hard Drugs
http://tinyurl.com/pqst9ov

TX
U.S. says it busted worker smuggling ring
indicted are immigrants from China
http://tinyurl.com/m2xyuun

TX
Agents arrest man on sexual assault charge
http://tinyurl.com/qahsskb

TX
31 people detained in San Juan stash house bust
http://tinyurl.com/ngmwfq6

CA
2 Men arrested when trying to smuggle drugs, $51,000 in cash
http://tinyurl.com/qafewml

CA
Border Patrol Canine Team Sniffs Out Guns Hidden in Car
http://tinyurl.com/ppxpyn9

CA
18 kilos of cocaine found in car
http://tinyurl.com/lkapglr

CA
Border Patrol seizes nearly $500,000 in narcotics
http://tinyurl.com/n4fh953

TX
CBP Locates Deeply Concealed Cocaine Load
http://tinyurl.com/prh3zsm

NY
North Man Faces Prison, Fine After Smuggling Conviction
http://tinyurl.com/qbhcheb

Manhunt Underway For Mexican National Who Raped Teen Girl 70 Times
http://tinyurl.com/kq2lh8e

TX
Agents seize nearly $6 million of marijuana
http://tinyurl.com/m63qvh3

WA
Two Wanted for Crimes Against Minors Arrested by CBP
http://tinyurl.com/okt93e9

AZ
Border Patrol agents arrest convicted sex offender in Ariz; Previously faced charges in Iowa
http://tinyurl.com/lax7vof

Four MS-13 Leaders Sentenced
Serious Threat Removed from Atlanta Streets
http://tinyurl.com/nze5xjt

FBI Shuts Down Virginia Bribery Scheme for Illegal Alien Driver Licences
http://tinyurl.com/o5gzxve

California: Mexican Wrestler Battles ‘Border Patrol’ Bad Guys for Illegal Alien Audience
http://tinyurl.com/qdzye7t
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La Prensa Gráfica San Salvador, El Salvador 2/4/14
features a news item from the U.S. reporting that the Sheriffs’ Association of the State of New Mexico visited the state capitol last week to demand more resources for their members who must face border related problems. Jack LeVick, executive director of the association, said that the heads of the Sheriffs’ Departments consider that the border “is not secure” and that they still confront problems ranging from the activities of the Mexican drug cartels to searching for immigrants suspected of being in the country without legal authorization.

LeVick added that the group opposes converting an area of Doña Ana County (a NM county that borders Mexico just to the west of El Paso, TX) to a National Monument because the law enforcement chiefs believe this would help the cartels to open up new traffic routes open up.

http://tinyurl.com/ovn7ysq (Original Spanish item in El Salvador paper)
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MEXICO

Coahuila’s Clandestine Grave Body Count Rises to 500
http://tinyurl.com/nsyrvcz

20 Years on, Mexico is NAFTA’s Biggest Lie
http://tinyurl.com/njjxykq

Mexican Government Says 314 Flu Deaths Have Occurred This Year
http://tinyurl.com/jwqc53b

Zapatista’s Warning Over NAFTA Rings True 2 Decades Later
http://tinyurl.com/nhwrhox

Zetas Cartel Is Mexico’s Most Violent Gang, Author Says
http://tinyurl.com/lqzuo8d

Government Unveils Strategy to Fight Kidnapping in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/p5yngrb

Troops Clash With Cartel Gunslingers In Northern Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/obzwypt

Mexican president pledges help for troubled Michoacan state
http://tinyurl.com/l3nahzg

Mexican Vigilantes Beat Back Ruthless Knights Templar Cartel
http://tinyurl.com/mn3of2j

Will Mexico’s Successful Anti-Cartel Militias’ Seek Systemic Change?
http://tinyurl.com/qgte9ew

Mexican Government Signs Agreement with Vigilante Group
http://tinyurl.com/pl5at8a

Sexual slavery in Mexico – a pimp tells his story
Sex trafficking entraps thousands of Mexican women every year. A jailed pimp, who claims to be reformed, explains his role.
http://tinyurl.com/mva8mvg

Breakfast with…Adrian Alejandrez, a pastor fighting against drug trafficking in Michoacan, Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/ovhbncm

Tens of thousands in Mexico protest energy reform
http://tinyurl.com/nplslyl

Mexican consul general ‘angered’ by CBSA in-custody death
http://tinyurl.com/nnq54fc

Mexico energy reform could bring $1.2 trillion to border towns
http://tinyurl.com/pokgh33

Mexico’s Economic Activity Grows 0.39%
http://tinyurl.com/ohtbusy

Castaway pleads to return home to Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/p23na76

Edmonton teen witnesses terrifying robbery on Mexican bus
http://tinyurl.com/khnx4qz

Mexican plane destroyed in Venezuela belonged to drug cartel
http://tinyurl.com/q3uh5rx

Major Increase Of Illegal Oil Siphoning In Mexico Leads To Losses In The Millions
http://tinyurl.com/ok9hdpx

Security Forces Find 2 Human Heads in Community in Western Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/o2ehdv7

Police reporter kidnapped in southern Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/oaxuopr

Mexican journalist abducted
http://tinyurl.com/qffrl7t
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Proceso Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2/3/14

Migrants Intercepted Going to the United States

A Central American newspaper reports that Mexican officials have just intercepted a total of 245 “undocumented” emigrants by checking northbound passenger buses in the states of Puebla and Queretaro.

The total includes 178 males and 67 females, including one who is pregnant; there were also 20 minors, 5 of whom were traveling alone. One of the minors is an eight month old child.

The nationalities represented are : Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua and El Salvador. (Note: the current U.S. administration has done away with passenger bus/other transportation immigration control checks.)
http://tinyurl.com/o9gfe5p (Spanish)

Prensa Libre Guatemala City, Guatemala also reports on the 245 northbound “undocumented” Central Americans and Cubans caught in Mexico.
http://tinyurl.com/m9qpv8j (Spanish)
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CENTRAL AMERICA

President Runoffs Seen for El Salvador, Costa Rica
http://tinyurl.com/ogp2c9k

Former guerrilla leader ahead in El Salvador’s presidential election
http://tinyurl.com/py8enod

Costa Rica in a tough battle against dengue
http://tinyurl.com/pfg9mlw

65 Police Slain in Honduras in 2013
http://tinyurl.com/q54trwh

Is Nicaragua’s Economic Growth Reaching the Poor?
http://tinyurl.com/ne3fvca

No clear leader as Costa Ricans vote for new president
http://tinyurl.com/k7vxm8k

Drug trafficking driving deforestation in Central America: study
http://tinyurl.com/o722vcu
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La Hora Guatemala City, Guatemala 1/31/14

This editorial deals with the debate on immigration reform in the U.S. from that country’s perspective.

Sadly, it’s a vital issue.

The debate in the United States about immigration reform ought to be an issue pertaining to the North Americans due to the significance of the legalization of millions of persons who entered without complying with the legal requirements to reside and work in the country. However, it turns out that few countries have as much interest in that debate as does Guatemala, a country that has “exported” almost two million of fellow citizens who didn’t find opportunities to improve their living standard here and who traveled with the hope of supporting their families with hard work that would provide a more proper income.

It turns out that it isn’t only the migrants’ families that are following the debate, but that all of society and the more important members of the economy are doing so because one must acknowledge that lacking a solid growth of our productivity and internal demand we depend in large measure on the individual monetary remittances (trans. note: funds sent to foreign countries by persons in the U.S. many of whom are here illegally) which have become the engine of our economy, reaching more significant levels than the product of traditional and non-traditional exports, which confirms my thesis in the sense that Guatemala’s main export product is its own people who, contrary to what happens here, are well valued for their abilities and kills for all kinds of work and the ease they show to become technical workers when they get the opportunity to do so.

Unfortunately, the Temporary Protection Status was not extended. It has been of great benefit to citizens of other Central American countries who have had storms and misfortunes such as the ones that have affected Guatemala, especially hurricane Mitch, the same one that made it possible for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans to obtain the TPS due to their governments’ request. The one of Guatemala decided that it wasn’t needed and that finally produced the deportation of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens who could not be part of that benefit.

Guatemala has a small maneuvering room to lobby in the main centers of power of the United States, especially because surrounding the immigration issue there are ideological considerations that are deeply divided among members of Congress. But it’s important for the Guatemalans who may benefit from the reform to be organized and properly informed about what they must do to not be marginalized, because lack of care can be the difference between the achievement of legal status and obtaining a work permit and facing the risk of deportation.

Given that there are also among the emigrants tensions and special interests from the operating activists’ groups, it is essential that the government, by means of the Embassy and the standard Consulates, plus the mobile ones that ought to be created, ought to have a close contact with the community of emigrants so that they may receive precise and specific information about the status of the reform project and about the documents which will be needed in all cases by the ones who live in the United States to receive the benefits that may finally be decided. If we depend so much on the effort and money from the Guatemalans who work abroad, the least we can do is to assist them to make sure that no one misses out from the advantages of the reform.

http://tinyurl.com/qbk8ggb (Spanish)
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SOUTH AMERICA

Violence Tests Brazil Ahead of World Cup
http://tinyurl.com/m2pwcgv

Catholic priest who ran right-wing death squad arrested in Colombia
http://tinyurl.com/mcaa2aa

Colombia’s coffee farmers impatient with ‘unwilling government,’ set deadline for new strike
http://tinyurl.com/nmekrgz

Colombian Rebels Burn Canadian Oil Company Vehicles
http://tinyurl.com/pppjoac

Bolivia: Flood Emergency Declared
http://tinyurl.com/ldtr558

As Argentine Peso Falters, President Keeps a Low Profile
http://tinyurl.com/qfah57s

Venezuela, Cuba Aim to Cement Economic Cooperation
http://tinyurl.com/m57k3or

10 Die in Colombia Prison Fire
http://tinyurl.com/kdcso65

Venezuelan journalists protest over paper shortage
http://tinyurl.com/pxkll4h

Colombia rural leader claims existence of $150K reward to kill him
http://tinyurl.com/mskyecb

Venezuela Oil Price Jumps Higher
http://tinyurl.com/oefecn6

500 Dolphins Die in Northern Peru
http://tinyurl.com/lsrfub8

Gunmen rob patients in Brazilian hospital
http://tinyurl.com/kebm4ar

Brazil Letter Carriers Get Police Escorts
http://tinyurl.com/oxqqsx4
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CARIBBEAN

22 Undocumented Cubans en Route to U.S. Detained in Honduras
http://tinyurl.com/ndvp655

Dominica says its time to end the US economic, trade embargo of Cuba
http://tinyurl.com/kwps8z9
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ELSEWHERE

UNITED KINGDOM
Bath Starbucks branch used in Columbian cocaine smuggling plan
http://tinyurl.com/nyzt7ff

CANADA
Mother ordered deported without baby
http://tinyurl.com/qx46ma8

PHILIPPINES
PNP maintains Mexican drug cartel operates in Philippines
http://tinyurl.com/qjyh89s
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