U.S. ups border gun checks as Mexico drug deaths jump
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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey promised Mexico tougher controls on guns flowing illegally over the border on Wednesday as Mexican drug cartels have slain 115 people already this month.
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EL PASO - People who live along the US-Mexican border suffer diabetes at a rate somewhat higher than the national averages in either country, according to a study released Wednesday.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The United States has found a half-built smuggling tunnel running under a border crossing checkpoint between Mexico and Arizona, the second discovery of a tunnel in less than a week, U.S. border officials said on Tuesday.
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Mexico's new government announced Monday that it was sending more than 6,500 soldiers, marines and federal police to the western state of Michoacan to crack down on a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings that have left hundreds dead.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The number of illegal  migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border fell 4.4  percent in the last year, the U.S. government said on Monday.
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The world&#039;s busiest border crossing reopened early Friday following a nine-hour closure that occurred after federal authorities shot and killed the driver of a sport utility vehicle headed for Mexico, officials said.
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Mexico's government, which complains violent drug cartels are battling each other with firearms bought in the United States, slammed slack U.S. gun laws as absurd on Thursday.
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Mexico has formally requested the United States investigate recent incidents in which Border Patrol officers fired tear gas onto the Mexican side of the border, the government said Thursday.
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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza told Mexican leaders Wednesday he is concerned that growing drug-related violence and kidnappings on the border between the two countries will have a "chilling" effect on trade and tourism.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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Mexico asked the U.S. government on  Tuesday to formally explain the use of pepper guns by Border  Patrol agents against illegal Mexican migrants, the government  news agency said.
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The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Suspected drug gunmen killed three senior policemen and some of their relatives in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, a week after the government beefed up security against drug gangs, police said on Tuesday.
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The United States asked Mexico on   Thursday to send federal security forces back to the border   city of Nuevo Laredo, which is still struggling with drug   violence despite a security crackdown last year.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash.  - The U.S. government is  stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with  Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor  illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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The United States and Mexico sought to defuse their spat over a U.S. alert about drug-gang violence along the border, issuing a joint statement Saturday in which Washington said its announcement was not meant to keep Americans from traveling south of the border.
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A police chief and a councilman were shot and killed Thursday in a Mexican border state where drug-fueled violence has increased and a string of law enforcement officers have been killed.