A conviction in the murder of a US Border Patrol agent is focusing additional attention on the debate over a border wall. On Tuesday, Heracio Osorio Arellanes was convicted in federal court in Tucson, Arizona of first degree murder for the 2010 shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Terry was ambushed and killed by […]
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U.S. soldiers plead guilty in military human smuggling ring
Two U.S. Army soldiers caught with two illegal immigrants in their vehicle last June have reportedly plead guilty to human smuggling. Marco Antonio Nava, Jr. and Joseph Cleveland were arrested last June. They told authorities it wasn't the first time they'd smuggled illegal aliens into the U.S. for payments of $1,000 or $1,500. They named other military […]
Did terrorist-linked man sneak across U.S.-Mexico border last November?
There’s a startling follow up to my report from last November about a group of citizens from Pakistan and Afghanistan who illegally snuck across the Mexican border into Arizona three days after the Paris attacks and four days after a double suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. Now, seven months later, U.S. Customs and Border Protection […]
Who controls our southern border? Us or them?
Multiple law enforcement officials have told me that the U.S. is no longer calling the shots on our southern border between Arizona and Mexico. They say Mexico's drug cartels decide who crosses. Sunday on Full Measure, we travel to the border to show you America's erratic approach to border control. In regions heavily trafficked by the […]
Afghan, Pakistanis caught illegally entering U.S. at Mexican border, say agents
Updates: Border Patrol today confirmed the report issuing this statement: “U.S. Border Patrol agents in Sonoita, Arizona, apprehended five Pakistani nationals and one Afghan national Monday. Agents also arrested two smugglers accompanying the group. As a standard procedure, agents processed the six individuals and checked their identities against numerous law enforcement and national security related databases. […]
Terror's southern border access
It's a good time to revisit a report I did for CBS News Sunday Morning Jan. 13, 2013 about the fear FBI and Border Patrol agents express: that terrorists can easily slip in across the southern U.S. border. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-the-line-fighting-corruption-on-our-border/ (Excerpt) ...But investigators say what worries them even more is the serious threat to national security […]
Brian Terry Murder Suspect Extradited From Mexico
Just a coincidence that on the day it's announced that a federal court has ordered the Justice Department to initiate the process of turning over withheld Fast and Furious documents, the Justice Department announces another defendant in Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder has been extradited to face charges. According to a Justice Department news release, Ivan […]
