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ndian Cops Violently Beat A Cow SMUGGLER after naked him. this is a viral video ,this have reported at the border of india-bangladesh .ndian Cops Violently Beat A Cow SMUGGLER after naked him. this is a viral video ,this... more
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Tunisia’s border with Libya has been a major lifeline, keeping residents in Ben Guerdane economically afloat - so when the vital trade route is blocked by the municipality or by protestors, tempers flare.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56843Tunisia’s border with Libya has been a major lifeline, keeping residents in Ben... more
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ERICA WERNER
Associated Press
Obama mocks GOP as never being satisfied, always changing conditions for border security
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- In search of Hispanic votes and an immigration overhaul, President Barack Obama on Tuesday stood at the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since winning the White House and declared it more secure than ever. He mocked Republican lawmakers for blocking immigration over border security alone, saying they won't be happy until they get a moat with alligators along the border.
"They'll never be satisfied," he said.
Stymied by both chambers of Congress, the president ditched lawmakers in favor of voters who might pressure them, making an appeal to the public on a hot and dusty day far outside the beltway. He told a friendly El Paso, Texas, crowd that it's up to them to tell Congress to pass legislation providing a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.
The approach also allowed the president to make clear that it's Republicans - not him - standing in the way of immigration legislation. As his re-election approaches it's a message he wants broadcast loud and clear to Latino voters who don't like his administration's heavy deportations and feel he never made good on his promise to prioritize immigration legislation during his first year in office.
"I am asking you to add your voices to this," Obama said in El Paso. "We need Washington to know that there is a movement for reform gathering strength from coast to coast. That's how we'll get this done."
Countering Republican calls to focus on border security before moving to a comprehensive overhaul, Obama boasted of increasing border patrol agents, nearing completion of a border fence, and screening more cargo, among other steps.
"We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement," Obama said. "But even though we've answered these concerns, I gotta say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time."
"Maybe they'll need a moat," he said derisively to laughter from the crowd. "Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat."
"The question is whether those in Congress who previously walked away in the name of enforcement are now ready to come back to the table and finish the work we've started," he said.
Obama also tailored his argument to the times, making his case for immigration reform in newly sharpened economic terms. He said that the middle class would benefit from bringing illegal immigrants out of an underground economy and drawing on the abilities of immigrants educated in American universities. Obama also noted that it's not just Latinos who want an immigration remake, but also police chiefs, business owners, educators and others.
His speech broke no new policy ground, though, and he declined to offer a bill or call on Congress to send him one by a particular deadline - a bow to political realities on Capitol Hill. Republicans who control the House are hostile to overhaul legislation.
And as if to underscore how faintly his call for immigration reform would resonate in Congress, two key border state Republicans immediately shot back with a statement demanding to know: "President Obama speaks about our broken immigration system; but what about our broken borders?" The statement was from Republican Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain of Arizona, the latter Obama's 2008 presidential opponent and a one-time supporter of comprehensive overhaul legislation.
Obama's personal pitch was the latest step in a visible campaign to build support and pressure on Republicans to act. He went so far as to encourage people to sign up to help him at the White House website. He said it was up to the American people to drive the debate and isolate areas where both parties can agree.
Politically, Obama sought to have it both ways.
He said he would lead a "constructive and civil debate" on the issue but publicly questioned the motives of Republicans and their ability to keep their word.
And it remained unclear how mocking Republican calls for border security would get Obama any closer to his goal of bipartisan legislation.
Just across the Rio Grande from the Chamizal National Park, where Obama spoke Tuesday, the Ciudad Juarez park that shares the same name has been used by criminals to dump the bodies of rivals. A nearby entertainment district, within sight of a major bridge into the United States, has been the scene of numerous shootouts among rival cartels and authorities.
The president made his pitch in a state he lost by more than 10 percentage points in 2008 and is unlikely to pick up in 2012. But Hispanic voters are critical to the president's re-election. Latinos accounted for more than 7 percent of voters in the 2008 presidential election, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, and their numbers are greater in certain swing states like Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Florida.
The trip had a more overtly political component, too: From El Paso the president headed to the relatively liberal bastion of Austin to raise money for the Democratic National Committee at two events Tuesday night.
The president wasn't able to get immigration legislation through Congress last year that would have provided a route to legal status for college students and others who were brought to the country as children. The so-called DREAM Act passed the House, then controlled by Democrats, but was blocked by Senate Republicans.
The Senate is now even more heavily Republican, and Republicans control the House. That means immigration reform can't happen unless they cooperate. Nonetheless, Senate Democrats plan to reintroduce the DREAM Act on Wednesday, with their counterparts in the House following suit. Given Republican opposition the bills likely won't get far, but Obama will try to make certain voters know who to blame.
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Associated Press writers Ben Feller, Suzanne Gamboa, Jim Kuhnhenn and Alicia Caldwell in Washington contributed to this report.
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Associated Press
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The New 806 foot-long pedestrian bridge in San Ysidro (U.S. / Tijuana Border) is to replace the old one and to enhance the traveling public's experience and safety, as well as increase Customs and Border Protection's ability to conduct their operations. Check out my video.
Order of appearance
Vannarity Tomom Jr. - GSA
Albert Marquez
Chris Maston - U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionThe New 806 foot-long pedestrian bridge in San Ysidro (U.S. / Tijuana Border) is to... more
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Artist Ron English went to the US-Mexico border for April Fool's day and pulled a few pranks. The above sign is one of them.
Unfortunately this piece of sociopolitical satire is going to backfire because the Tea Party will find out about it and demand that it be permanently installed at every border crossing.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/02/artist-ron-englishs.htmlArtist Ron English went to the US-Mexico border for April Fool's day and pulled a... more
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This week on the Tijuanapress.com Week in Review.
Politics heats up.
Tijunana’s former police chief is going to take over in Juarez.
And we talk to the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute David Shirk PhD about their new report of drug violence in in Mexico, drug violence in Tijuana, and if America’s parents should let their college age children go to Mexico (and Tijuana) for spring break.
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Tijuana Press Week In Review 2-27-11
This week::::
More Tijuana law enforcement could go to Juarez
Doctors feel they are being targeted by kidnappers
Two teenagers arrested with $250 USD
and a hunger strike at Tijuana’s prison.
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Nearly all of us are descended from immigrants, of course. But in recent years, as living standards have stagnated or declined for all but the wealthiest and most fortunate Americans, the political pressure to choke off illegal migration has exploded. Billions of dollars are spent on higher, stronger fences, sophisticated sensing technology and more border patrol agents.
Tighter security has pushed would-be migrants to try more and more remote and treacherous areas along the nearly 2,000-mile US/Mexico border. Fewer get through. More die on the way. Yet hundreds of thousands try it every year. This year, officials say, more people have died in the desert on American soil than ever before.
To understand what crossers go through for a shot at the American dream, I went to the small Mexican town of Altar, a hotbed of human smuggling, where migrants pay coyotes—smugglers—to take them across. On assignment for Current TV’s documentary series, Vanguard, I found a coyote willing to allow me to accompany him across the border and into southern Arizona desert.
The trip frequently takes three or four days to reach a road north of the border. The coyotes restrict each traveler to two gallons of water, which often isn’t enough to survive. Authorities have found the remains of more than 250 people already this year, and they estimate that for every body they discover many more lie unfound under the brutal southern sun.Nearly all of us are descended from immigrants, of course. But in recent years, as... more
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When your countries economy is floundering and has reached astronomical debt you get desperate. Obama plans on taxing Canadians for visiting the good ole US of A and spending their hard earned dollars. Fortress America, say good bye to your cousin from the north who drops over on the weekends. You suck! http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/02/16/obama-budget-canada-fee.htmlWhen your countries economy is floundering and has reached astronomical debt you get... more
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WASHINGTON -- An Arizona anti-illegal immigration activist was convicted on Monday of killing two Latinos during a 2009 raid: nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul Flores. The killer, Shawna Forde, is a member of the Minutemen, which patrols the southern border vigilante-style to detect illegal entry into the country.
Although the shootings were never classified as a hate crime, Latino groups argue the murders reflect growing anti-immigrant sentiment within the United States. The details are chilling: Forde and two others entered the Flores home, allegedly looking for a million-dollar drug stash that never materialized, and shot both of Brisenia Flores' parents before turning the gun on the child.
As her mother played dead, Brisenia Flores said, "Please don't shoot me," before being shot twice in the head.
A jury convicted Forde of planning and executing the raid that led to the deaths of Raul and Brisenia Flores, and of the attempted murder of Gina Gonzales, the child's mother (she survived the attack). Forde was also convicted on two counts of aggravated assault and counts of burglary, armed robbery and aggravated robbery.
The jury will announce Forde's sentence on Thursday; her alleged accomplices, Albert Robert Gaxiola and Jason Eugene Bush, still await trial.
Joaquin Guerra, campaign director for Latino activism group Presente.org, told HuffPost the conviction is "justice for a little girl whose death was ignored by the mainstream media." The case largely escaped the notice of major news outlets until a few weeks ago, when a number of national news sources covered Forde's trial.
Few politicians spoke out against the murders, which occurred in a state that later passed the hotly-contested SB1070 immigration law and is now considering a bill that would deny citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants.
Latinos organized to bring attention to the Flores killings, including a campaign by Presente.org to shed light on the case.
"What we have shown is that Latinos are watching, and if people and parties want the Latino vote, they will have to speak out against things like this," Guerra said. "We hope her death wasn't in vain and that it serves as an example of what can happen when the types of conditions that are in Arizona are allowed to go unchecked and are legitimated as serious policy issues."WASHINGTON -- An Arizona anti-illegal immigration activist was convicted on Monday of... more
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We have summed up some of the big stories coming out of Tijuana for the week of February 6th through February 11th.
THIS WEEK…
Mexican Solders are under arrest
Tijuana’s party politics heats up
Mexico’s First Lady is in Tijuana
And a new video game about immigrant smuggling to hit the market.
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Drug smugglers in Mexico have been caught on video using a device to catapult drugs over the border and into the USDrug smugglers in Mexico have been caught on video using a device to catapult drugs... more
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Summary: Nancy Davis was shot by gunmen in a black pickup, police say
Missionary, husband had been attempting to outrun gunman
Davises lived in Mexico since 1970s; they worked with Gospel Proclaimers mission
"They breathed Mexico. That's their love," friend said of the couple
An American missionary was fatally shot in Mexico on Wednesday, police said.
The preliminary investigation indicated that Nancy Davis, 59, and her husband were traveling on a Mexican highway near the city of San Fernando, Mexico, when they were confronted by gunmen in a black pickup, the Pharr Police Department in Texas said. San Fernando is south of the border city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas state.
"The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them," the police statement said. "At a certain point the gunmen discharged a weapon at the victim's vehicle and a bullet struck the victim Nancy Shuman Davis on the head."
Davis' husband, identified as Sam Davis by family friends, drove their truck "at high rate of speed" to the Pharr International Bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande. Nancy Davis was taken to a hospital in nearby McAllen, Texas, where she was pronounced dead about 90 minutes later.
Pharr Police said they had been in touch with Mexican authorities, who said they were investigating the shooting. The Texas Department of Public Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection are also assisting, police said.
Merton Rundell, a professor in the missions department at Indiana's Union Bible College & Academy and a family friend, told CNN the couple had lived in Mexico since the 1970s and worked with the Gospel Proclaimers mission in Mexico.
Maryanne Wheeler, another friend who worked with the Davises in the 1990s, said Nancy Davis' death was a great loss.
"They breathed Mexico," Wheeler said. "That's their love.
"For 40 years she has gone around Mexico, trying to be there as a nurse, a friend, as a spiritual adviser and has loved them. They lost the best," she said. "They had a petite lady who had the tenacity of a bulldog and was there for you."
Wheeler said the couple had been shot at before and knew the dangers of the border area.Summary: Nancy Davis was shot by gunmen in a black pickup, police say
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Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a journalist agrees to escort an American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. http://www.monstersthemovie.com release date in uk cinemas December 3, 2010.Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a journalist agrees to escort an... more
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Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a journalist agrees to escort an American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
http://www.monstersthemovie.com. Release date in uk cinema December 03, 2010.Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a journalist agrees to escort an... more
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