Posts Tagged border
Bridge expansion top project in la frontera
January 19th, 2012
By ROBERT HALPERN
CIUDAD CHIHUAHUA, Mex. – The international vehicle bridge expansion between Ojinaga and Presidio is a top priority for economic developers in the state of Chihuahua this year, a member of the group said this week.
Retired U.S. Customs Service officer and Realtor Bob Wright of Marfa took part in the annual meeting of Consejo …
Illegal immigrant apprehensions down, narcotics seizures up
December 15th, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC, MARFA – U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week released the agency’s fiscal year 2011 summary of CBP enforcement and border management efforts. The Big Bend Border Patrol Sector and the El Paso Field Office, which includes the Presidio port of entry, also released summaries.
“In 2011, CBP has contributed to our nation’s homeland …
Firm seeks high-level nuke dump site nearby
November 17th, 2011
By ANDREW STUART
The Hudspeth County Herald
HUDSPETH COUNTY – Hudspeth County officials were approached this week about the possible storage of massive quantities of high-level nuclear waste at a site near Fort Hancock. If the project were to move forward, the Hudspeth County location would become the repository for some 70,000 tons of radioactive waste, including …
Customs gets 2nd drone
November 3rd, 2011
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has received a second Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Predator-B at the Naval Air Security (NAS) Operations Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, the first of two UAS’s funded through the FY 2010 Southwest Border Security Bill Supplemental.
The UAS will provide critical aerial surveillance for U.S. Border Patrol …
House GOP works to waive environmental laws on US borders
October 27th, 2011
by ROB HOTAKAINEN
WASHINGTON — In a move aimed at improving national security, House Republicans want to give the U.S. Border Patrol unprecedented authority to ignore 36 environmental laws on federal land in a 100-mile zone stretching along the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Under the GOP plan, the Border Patrol would have free rein to do such …
Boquillas border crossing to reopen, this time with a port facility
October 27th, 2011
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK – Park enthusiasts and travelers, get your passports ready: construction of a new border crossing facility from Big Bend National Park to Boquillas, Mexico is underway.
Once upon a time, an informal border crossing allowed U.S. and Mexican citizens to cross between the two countries from the park and …
Boquillas Border Crossing
October 25th, 2011
A ceremony was held in Big Bend National Park on Monday to announce a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico. The Cooperative Action for Conservation in the Big Bend/Rio Bravo Region was signed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Mexican Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada as …
U.S. citizen held at port of entry but reason passport revoked a mystery
October 20th, 2011
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
PRESIDIO – An Odessa man who said he was born in Presidio was detained last week at the Presidio Port of Entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents who failed to provide much information as to the detention, his Midland attorney said.
Demetrio Porras Baeza was visiting his mother, who lives …
Steven Seagal is out for justice as newest Hudspeth County deputy sheriff
October 20th, 2011
SIERRA BLANCA – Movie star Steven Seagal, who made a career with bone-breaking, barroom-clearing, butt-kicking action movies, is now a deputy with the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office.
Seagal was sworn in last week by Sheriff Arvin West after Seagal contacted West’s office in August about working on the Mexican border in Hudspeth County, sheriff officials said.
Deputy …
Interior secretary to break ground at Boquillas crossing
October 13th, 2011
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK – Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, will take part in a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new international border crossing at Boquillas at 11am Monday, October 24.
When completed next spring, the crossing will restore the ‘good neighbor’ element of Big Bend National Park that fell victim …
