Nearly 300 Fort Campbell soldiers deploy to US-Mexico border for 2nd time this year
Nearly 300 Fort Campbell soldiers deploy to U.S. Southern border, only a month after some were deployed to California ...
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Soldiers Aren’t Border Police: the perils of using troops against migrants
Soldiers are trained for combat. They exist to defend a state against aggression, or to keep order in extreme emergencies.
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Army sending another 1,000 troops to US-Mexico border
Another 1,140 soldiers working in support and sustainment jobs will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal agents, ...
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Criminal Violence in Mexico
In the 1980s, Mexico’s criminal groups and drug traffickers ... Felipe Calderon launched an initiative to combat cartels using military force. In 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto revised ...
Trump choice for Mexico ambassador hints at military action if US citizens at risk
President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Thursday did not rule out unilateral U.S. military action ...
Police chief shot dead days after activist, wife and daughter killed in Mexico
Mexico City's police operations chief was killed in the ... since the government of then-president Felipe Calderon launched a ...
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The old man: Mexico arrests 'El Viejon,' reputed Sinaloa cartel boss for Valley of Juárez
He was called "El Viejon" — the old man — and was reputed to be the Sinaloa drug cartel's regional leader in the Valley of Juárez. Border drug cartels: El Paso CBP officer arrested for human ...
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Mexico’s drug corruption has more to do with US demand than crooked politicians
From the 1930s onwards, political bosses, police chiefs and military commanders in Mexico’s so-called “golden triangle” states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua taxed illicit opium ...