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Search results for "U.S./Mexico border" ...
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Gangster Rep
Federal agents and officers hired to protect the U.S-Mexico border too often succumb to the temptation of fast, easy money, sex and power.
Tags: Border protection; Mexico; Smugglers
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Lalo: The Killer Informant
WFAA tells the story of Guillermo Ramirez-Peyro, a paid U.S. government informant who continued to participate in and witness "a five-month killing spree along the U.S.-Mexico border." The 12 murders occurred at a house in Juarez, operated by a cartel. Ramirez supervised the first murder and audio-taped it, but the government's reaction was not to reprimand him, but to tell him to stop making tapes. The government, which had paid Ramirez $225,000 for his services, never took action against him, even promising him $1 million more before this story broke.
Tags: Informant; Federal government; murder; killing spree; U.S.-Mexico border; homicide; torture
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Immigrant Nation, Divided Country
In this 10 month investigation, Hinojosa looks at the effects of illegal immigration in this country through the eyes of four Georgian families. This broadcast tells the story of not only everyday citizens who came to this country for a better life, but also people who are very much against immigration.This story demonstrates that illegal immigration is affecting not only this country's economy, but also dividing neighbors with heated debates.
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¿Dónde está la frontera? Where is the border?
Millions try each year to slip into the United States through its "soft underbelly" --the U.S. - Mexico border. It's no longer just Mexicans and Central Americans who attempt to cross from Mexico. The article talk about the INS attempts to globalize their polices.
Tags: INS; undocumented immigrants; migration
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Torpedoed G-man unit rising like phoenix from its ashes
A San Antonio Business Journal investigation discovers that inspectors of the U.S. Customs are linked to Mexican drug traffickers. The package of stories reveals the covered-up findings of a federal task force that was originally created to investigate law-enforcement corruption in Arizona, but several years later was hastily disbanded. Conroy examines how the suppressed cases are connected to the suspected murder of a former Customs supervisor.
Tags: U.S./Mexico border; law enforcement; Department of Justice; FBI; special agents; intelligence; federal agencies; whistleblowers
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Truck Stop
"Why hasn't the U.S.-Mexican border been opened to long-haul trucks as NAFTA intended?" That's the question the National Journal examines in this investigation. A focus on how politics plays into the situation is discussed, as well as the difference in U.S. and Mexican trucks.
Tags: NAFTA; Mexico; U.S.-Mexico relations; Border issues
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The Border
Business Week explores the booming economy of the U.S.-Mexico border, the problems and benefits of the trade agreement that created this boom, and who has been most affected.
Tags: NAFTA; Third World; free trade; poverty; global economy; manufacturing; assembly plants; Tijuana Sony; Samsung; Matsushita; Lucent Technologies; pollution; electronics
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Cocaine Corruption
The series investigates the cocaine industry and documents the historic shift of cocaine smuggling routes from the Caribbean to the Southwest some eight years ago. As the industry makes its way northward, on the U.S.-Mexico border INS and Customs inspectors have gotten ensnared in the drug-money corruption that has enveloped whole nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Oct. 13 - 14, Oct. 20, 22, 1996)
Tags: Lewis Freedman Cocaine Corruption Contest entry Border inspection FOIA 20 pgs.
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Houston Chronicle spends six months investigating life on the U.S. Mexico border; topics include pollution in the Rio Grande, NAFTA, dismal public health and crowded slums, October 1993.