Border Control and Customs

Jalapeños Still Not Good for Hiding Thousands of Pounds of Weed, Mexican National Finds

Today in Found at the Border: For the second time in two weeks, a Mexican national was busted trying to smuggle weed into the United States by hiding the product in jalapeños.Whereas the Mexican national who attempted to bring more than 3,300 pounds of weed on May 27 stuffed the pot inside cans of ... More >>

Two Teens Caught Smuggling More Than 300 Pounds of Weed In Separate Attempts

Now that school is out for the summer, teens find themselves with more time on their hands. Apparently two teens living in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora, decided to find summer jobs smuggling dope over the border. In two separate and unrelated seizures, U.S. Customs and Border Protection c ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Flip-Flop: MCSO Suddenly Not Arresting "Illegals," but Rescuing Thirsty Men

Sheriff Joe Arpaio suddenly no longer is an anti-immigrant tough guy, at least according to his newest press release, which is extraordinarily politically correct.Usually, a press release from Arpaio will describe how many "illegals" were arrested by the MCSO's Human Smuggling Unit, with their names ... More >>

Family Guy Blasts Arizona's No-Love-for-Mexicans in Valentine's Day Episode

Family Guy fans are no doubt familiar with Consuela, the Griffin family's dutiful Mexican housekeeper. And Family Guy creators are clearly familiar with Arizona and its anti-immigrant reputation. In last night's Valentine's Day episode, watched by millions of people across the country, they took ... More >>

Should Construction Start on the 528-Foot Border Fence?

See also: Arizona Legislators Want Construction to Start on Border FenceArizona's "Joint Border Security Advisory Committee" is looking to start building the dang fence on the border as soon as possible, and they've got enough money to build a good 528 feet of it.The committee is not even close to t ... More >>

Raul Castro's Treatment by Border Patrol an Argument for BP's Elimination

I despise the United States Border Patrol. One-hundred miles from the U.S. Border, the entire U.S. border, they are a law unto themselves, in what the ACLU refers to as a "constitution free zone," that encircles the entire contiguous United States.They regularly treat U.S. citizens with contempt. Th ... More >>

J.T. Ready's Work for "U.S. Border Guard" Detailed in U.S. Border Patrol Documents

The U.S. Attorney's Office blew two chances to prosecute J.T. Ready for pulling guns on illegal immigrants months before the neo-Nazi gunned down four people in Gilbert, records show.The documents were released by Nick Martin of Talking Points Memo (and former Valley reporter), who broke the story a ... More >>

Why Authorities Could've Prevented J.T. Ready's Murder Spree

Russell Pearce Is Actually Going to Defend SB 1070 Before Senate Subcommittee

​Ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce is actually going to defend Senate Bill 1070 before a US Senate Subcommittee in April.The spokesman for ​New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer just sent the information over, saying Pearce will answer questions before the Senate Subcommittee on ... More >>

Jan Brewer Not Planning to Testify Before Senate Subcommittee on SB 1070, but Russell Pearce Raises His Hand

​New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer last week, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070. Schumer's office said the point of Brewer's testimony would be "to hear whether she still believes the law ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 15th, 2011

State Senator Steve Smith Meets With Governor Jan Brewer to Discuss Harebrained Scheme to Build "Border Fence" Several Miles From Border

Getty Images Steve Smith wants more of this -- several miles north of the border.​Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation earlier this month to create a state border fence with Mexico. The bill she penned, sponsored by Maricopa Republican state Senator Steve Smith, does not designate Arizon ... More >>

Barack Obama Holds Immigration Dog And Pony Show With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bloomberg, But No Members of Congress

White House Left, right, or center: Don't hold your breath waiting for "immigration reform."​President Barack Obama is hosting a meeting to outline his views on immigration reform this afternoon with top cabinet officials and national politicians, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloo ... More >>

Iowa Senator Says Justice Department Policy May Have Led to Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's Shooting Death

Brian Terry was shot and killed in southeastern Arizona on December 14. ​Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley accuses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of instructing Arizona gun dealers to sell firearms that eventually landed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels -- a stra ... More >>

Christian Discrimination Alleged in Lawsuit by Customs and Border Protection Vehicle Mechanic

​   An auto mechanic for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in Tucson says in a lawsuit that the agency and fellow employees are discriminating against him because he's a Christian. David Stanford, who's worked for the CBP's Tucson Sector Garage for about two yea ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, To Lecture Arizona Senate Committee

walkingthelinefilm.comWhat, me a raving racist anti-Semite? You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist "organization" American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he' ... More >>

Lines and Shadows

Arizona Ranchers Not Happy With Janet Napolitano's Border Plan for Rural Areas -- or Lack Thereof

Arizona ranchers are not fans of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano. ​The Arizona Cattleman's Association is not impressed with a speech given by Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano this week, in which, the group says, she "abandoned her mantra of the past year that the U.S. Me ... More >>

Book Glamorizing Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert

www.funnypicturesofanything.com​Department of Homeland Security officials confirm that a book glamorizing suicide bombers was found in the Arizona desert earlier this week. The book, "In Memory of Our Martyrs," was found Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent from the Casa Grande substation who wa ... More >>

Border Agents Find 22 Pounds of Heroin in Truck Engine

www.icanhascheezburger.com​We don't claim to be well-versed in the black tar heroin trade, but a pound of heroin seems like a lot. That said, 22 pounds of heroin seems like a shit load -- and that's exactly how much of it border agents found in the engine of a pickup truck that tried to cross into ... More >>

Woman From Sells, Arizona Facing DUI, Negligent Homicide Charges In Death Of Border Agent

​If you needed a reminder not to drink and drive this holiday weekend ...A 40-year-old woman from Sells, Arizona is facing negligent homicide, criminal damage and driving under the influence charges in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Cops said that based on field sobriety ... More >>

Worse Than Joe Arpaio? Tucson Police Department Turns Over Mom and Dad To Border Patrol as Kids Cry

Standard practice by the Tucson PD, as captured by Three Sonorans Although activists are normally up in arms about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio separating mothers from their children and otherwise breaking up families during his anti-immigration sweeps, this video by Tucson's Three ... More >>

ILLEGAL Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone (Chapter 6)

Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and the U.S. Border Patrol Collaborate on Drug Bust?

Ready, with what appears to be a U.S. Border Patrol vehicleThe latest round of photographs from neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's patrols in the Arizona desert shows the Mesa storm trooper getting chummy with the U.S. Border Patrol, even leaning on a Border Patrol vehicle at one point.There's a photo ... More >>

Few Illegal Immigrants Removed Twice by ICE in Arizona; Repeat "Removals" Only 4 Percent in 2009

    ​New info obtained by ICE show that the Arizona's border isn't quite the revolving door some may think it is. Of the illegal immigrants "removed" from Arizona by the U.S. Immigration and Customs bureau in 2009, only 4 percent of those individuals had also been removed in 20 ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Claim Four More Migrants, the ADL Responds

Just Another Day... The latest from neo-Nazi Harry Hughes' blog... The neo-Nazis are claiming to have "rescued" four more suspected illegal aliens in the desert. This comes via a Sunday, July 18 post to National Socialist Harry Hughes' blog "Just Another Day..." Hughes has posted more p ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Nab More Migrants in the Arizona Desert

Just Another Day... Neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes on a recent "illegal immigrant" patrol in the desert Arizona neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes have apparently been busy to judge by a recent item on Hughes' blog "Just Another Day... " There, he's posted photos of Ready, himself ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Scrapbook: One Dead Body, One Live Migrant

NSMA man the neo-Nazis say they turned over to Border PatrolNational Socialist Movement regional director Jeff Hall has filed an "after action report" on the NSM Web site with photos and video of the dead body that Mesa swastika-licker J.T. Ready said he and fellow brownshirts (and assorted fellow t ... More >>

Tucson Border Patrol HQ Protested by Activists, Half-Dozen Cited by Tucson PD

from FiresNeverExtinguishedProtesters occupied Border Patrol HQ in Tucson Friday...At least six activists were cited Friday after occupying Tucson's Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base in an act of civil disobedience similar to that which occurred on April 20 at the Arizona sta ... More >>

Borderline Personality

Blane De St. Croix stands on both sides of the fence

Borderline Personality

Blane De St. Croix stands on both sides of the fence

On Ignant Racism and a Donkey Leaning Against a Cactus

Blood's Thicker Than Water: As Thousands Die in the Arizona Desert as a Result of U.S. Border Policy, an Army of Activists Intervenes

No Room for Arpaio at the Wells Fargo Inn; and a Hispanic Homemaker Bears Witness Against ICE and the MCSO

Joe Arpaio and ICE's Joint Victim: Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez, and Why ICE Should Not Be Partnering with MCSO's Jails

A pack of MCSO detention officers -- some of them 287(g)-trained -- walk Garcia-Martinez into a room to get her fingerprint on an ICE document.I recently watched with great skepticism and annoyance ICE honcho John Morton's videotaped remarks to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. There, on ... More >>

Minuteman Chris Simcox's 2007 Female Trouble

from Simcox for SenateDespite his good looks, the "Little Prince" has not always had luck with women...In doing research on Chris Simcox -- the minuteman posterboy currently waging a quixotic campaign for the 2010 GOP U.S. Senate primary nod against the ancient, lizard-skinned Senator John McCain -- ... More >>

Fiesta of Independence Naturalization Ceremony

"Border Czar" Alan Bersin Meets with State AG, Calls Arizona "Most Lawless Corridor" on Border

So-called "Border Czar" Alan Bersin and other Homeland Security officials met with state Attorney General Terry Goddard today to discuss how to get different agencies working better together. During the meeting, Bersin (pictured above) reportedly called Arizona, "the most lawless corridor on the S ... More >>

"Liquid Meth" Seized Near Border; California Man Arrested

A California man tried to drive through the international border at Naco last week with about 13 pounds of liquid meth in his pickup's windshield washer reservoir. The find is part of an ongoing trend in the world of illegal drugs to package methamphetamine in ways that make smuggling easier and gi ... More >>

Pastor Tased and "Beaten" at Checkpoint Plans to Sue; Admits He's Been Resisting at Checkpoints for Months

Criminal charges have been filed against Steven Anderson, a local pastor we wrote about yesterday who claims he was brutalized at an Interstate 8 checkpoint. Anderson, however, says he's the victim and that he plans to sue the authorities involved in the incident. His family's personal Web site ... More >>

Pastor Claims Abuse at Border Patrol Checkpoint on Interstate 8

  A local Baptist pastor who was left bloodied and indignant Tuesday night after a stop at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on eastbound Interstate 8 wonders in a recent video, "Why is this happening in the United States of America?" New Times readers who remember our February 2008 ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 16, 2008

Paul Newman, Corporation Commission Candidate, Reportedly Toked Up in '04

The Mexican on la migra, Germany, and cousin Jeff

Dems, activists at state convention demand Gov. Janet Napolitano veto HB 2807. (w/UPDATE: GUV COMPLIES, VETOES BILL.)

Border Patrol checkpoints near Yuma nab hordes of pot users headed back from the beach

Alien Autopsy

Publisher wins right to print photos of immigrants who died after entering U.S.

Border Censors

Scott Stanley wants to publish photos of illegal immigrants who died in the desert; Pima County said no, then sued him

Inspectors Can Do Little to Stem Tide of Smuggling

LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY

THE FEDS DESPERATELY WANTED THE CROATION IMMIRANT TO BE AN ILLEGAL GUNRUNNER. WHEN HE REFUSED, THEY BUSTED HIM ANYWAY.