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Federal officers arrested a 21-year-old man accused of trying to smuggle an AK-47 assault rifle into Mexico, stomach authorities said Tuesday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working southbound operations at the Progreso International Bridge encountered the pedestrian as he attempted to walk from the U.S. into Mexico, click according to a news release. The [...]
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned U.S. gun laws as “mistaken” and urged Washington to review them after a shooter killed 12 people and injured more than 50 others at a U.S. movie theater on Friday. In comments posted on his Twitter account on Saturday, Calderon offered his condolences to the United States after a gunman [...] Authorities made a rare disclosure Monday linked to the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious aka Gunwalker, revealing the identities of and requesting the public’s help in capturing four fugitives accused in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent 18 months ago. The announcement comes in the wake of pressure [...] Mexico asked the UN to regulate the arms trade to prevent their diversion to illicit markets accountable to producers, approved traders and end users and include all conventional weapons, approved parts, components, ammunition and technology. By participating in the UN Diplomatic Conference for the adoption of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT for its acronym in [...] The GOP-led House voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to provide key information pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, clinic making Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt. The vote was 255-67, story with 17 Democrats breaking ranks to side with Republicans in [...] “President Obama stunned the nation when he announced that he would be implementing the chief provisions of the ‘DREAM Act’ through executive fiat” wrote Kansas Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach last week in the New York Post. Mr. Kobach is the co-author of the Arizona and Alabama illegal-immigration statutes now under scrutiny by the [...] The parents of murdered border agent Brian Terry told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that they think Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials are “hiding something” in their response to the botched anti-gunrunning operation Fast and Furious. The operation let illicit guns “walk” in the hope of tracking them to bigger [...] A judge has set a new trial date for the man accused of murdering U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The trial of Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, medical which had been scheduled to start Tuesday, patient now is set for Nov. 6, 2012. U.S. District Judge David Bury ordered the new trial date on May 31, [...] With the House committee voting Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, the stalemate between the Obama administration and Congress ultimately boils down to about 1,300 documents. Congress wants to know who prepared a February 4, 2011 letter where the Obama administration claimed that the U.S. did not knowingly help smuggle guns to [...] Fast and Furious Wiretap Information Obtained by Congress By Sharyl Attkisson The lead House Republican investigating Operation Fast and Furious, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), today said senior Justice Department officials had specific information that their federal agents were using controversial “gunwalking” tactics. Justice Department officials have consistently denied that was the case. But today in [...] |
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