Fox News Latino: The Texas Department of Public Safety recently added six new “gunboats” to patrol the Rio Grande River, which serves as an international boundary between the United States and Mexico. The boats will also patrol the inter-coastal waterway, which divides Texas from South Padre Island.
The purpose is to cut down on the crossings of undocumented immigrants, drugs and weapons, along with keeping violence from Mexico’s drug war from spilling over into the U.S.
"We're not turning over one inch of Texas to the cartels, or transnational gangs that support them," said Steve McGraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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