U.S. Mexican border News

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Border Patrol Agent Fatally Shoots Mexican Teen

MEXICO CITY (June 9) -- The killing of a Mexican teen by a U.S. Border Patrol agent raised tensions between the U.S. and Mexico as President Felipe Calderon calls for better protection of migrants' rights and President Barack Obama has announced plans to dispatch additional troops to the border. The border patrol agent,...

Mexicans Differ Over National Guard Buildup

MEXICO CITY (May 26) -- President Barack Obama's decision to dispatch 1,200 further National Guard troops to the Mexican border and spend $500 million to step up border patrols gets the approval of the Mexican government, but many in Mexico see it as a northern reflection of a failed policy of militarization south of the...

U.S. Mexican border News From the Web

05/13/12 Mexico Drug War: Deadliest Days In Mexican Drug... Source: The Huffington Post Forensic experts examine the area where dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012.
09/29/10 Mexican Mayors Blame Rise in Country'sâ¦ Source: FOX - KASA 2 - Albuquerque NM A coalition of Mexican mayors has asked the United States to stop deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. to Mexican border cities, saying the deportations are contributing to Mexican border violence.
07/20/10 Shooting war at the U.S. Mexican border Source: American Chronicle On June 7, during a scuffle with some rock-throwing Mexican teenagers in a concrete drainage canal near El Paso, Texas, a U.S. Border Patrol officer shot Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, in the head, killing him.

Background on U.S. Mexican border

The United States–Mexico border is the international border between the United States and Mexico. It runs from Imperial Beach, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east, and traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts.

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