National frustration with the United States' immigration policy has been increasing rapidly over the past decade. Society often blames immigrants, legal and illegal, for local increases in drug use, crime, and job loss. Partly due to these factors, the presence of private, volunteer border-patrol groups has increased on the United States-Mexico border. The Minuteman Project is one of these citizen border-patrol groups. This Note presents a hypothetical situation in which a member of the Minuteman Project encounters an alien in the United States and violates her constitutional rights. This Note looks critically at the actions of volunteer border-patrol groups and concludes that, among other claims, the hypothetical undocumented migrant would have a valid Bivens cause of action against th...
Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi- automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show. A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were "patrolling" the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to "intentionally and forcibly assault" Border Patrol agents.
A Border Patrol agent's duty includes the apprehension of terrorists, detection of terrorist activity and weapons of mass destruction and the enforcement of immigration laws. The training at the Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, NM includes passing several tests in Spanish, criminal and immigration law, and others that use researched, realistic scenario training in dealing with check points, freight trains, buses and other vehicles. The Guard is now taking part in entry identification teams; repairing vehicles; operating cameras; monitoring remote surveillance systems, including ground-based search radar; providing lighting and sensors to detect illegal entry; and maintaining and constructing the tactical infrastructure such as roadways and fences.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent attempting to arrest bandits who prey on illegal immigrants was killed during a gunfight about 10 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Rio Rico, Ariz., 60 miles south of Tucson. Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was waiting with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales late Tuesday when the gunbattle with the bandits erupted. None of the other agents was injured, but one of the suspects was wounded.
In a report released on Wednesday, the New York Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol of going far beyond its mandate of border protection in conducting raids on buses, trains and roads in upstate New York. The report, written by representatives from the New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic, the NYCLU and Families for Freedom, accuses the agency of overly aggressive tactics and violating the constitutional rights of travelers in the Rochester and upstate New York area.
GILA BEND, Ariz. | Two Border Patrol agents rushing to help capture suspected illegal immigrants were killed Thursday when their SUV entered a marked railroad crossing and was struck by a freight train. The agents - Eduardo Rojas Jr. and Hector Clark - were trying to position themselves on a road north of some other agents who were trying to capture a group of suspected illegal immigrants, said agent Kenneth Quillin, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Yuma sector. The suspects were on foot, and none of them have been arrested, Quillin said.
Officials backtrack on raid claim MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials on Thursday rejected claims that the nation's navy had seized a cache of powerful explosives in a boarding house in the nation's capital. What marines at first thought was nitroglycerine - - a dangerous explosive -- turned out to be glycerin -- a harmless moistening agent-- according to the federal Attorney General's Office. Mexico's navy announced a day earlier that marines had raided a hostel in the bohemian Roma neighborhood and seized 45 pounds of powerful explosives. It credited U.S. officials with giving information that helped lead to the raid, which officials said might be linked to organized crime. The four people arrested in the raid were released on Thursday. EL PASO, Texas - Mexico condemned the shooting of ...
WASHINGTON - 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 along the Canadian and Mexican borders. If the legislation is approved, the Border Patrol would not have to comply with the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act and 32 other federal laws in such popular places as Olympic National Park, Glacier Park, the Great Lakes and the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area.
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