U.S. agents under greater attack on Mexico border
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LAREDO, Texas  - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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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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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Hundreds of heavily armed  federal police patrolled cities near Mexico's border with Texas  on Monday in an assault on drug cartels that have defied  President Vicente Fox's government with a spate of killings.
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Law enforcement officials in the Phoenix area are using new tactics to cut off illegal immigration: They are going after used-car salesmen who sell vehicles to smugglers, and arresting operators of safe houses where immigrants stay after crossing the border.
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NACO, Mexico -- The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border.
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MEXICO CITY -- Deadly assaults on two police stations by criminals wearing soldiers' uniforms have raised the pressure on Mexico's new president, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, to demonstrate that his much flaunted military-led crackdown on organized crime can stand up to the nation's powerful drug cartels.
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U.S. intelligence agencies on Tuesday warned that al Qaeda would intensify efforts to put operatives inside the United States and said there was a heightened threat of attack.
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Militants from Nigeria's oil-producing delta are planning to expand their attacks on foreign nationals beyond the Niger Delta region, the U.S. consulate said in a warning on Friday.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by  Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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U.S. federal agents guarding the American team at South America's top soccer tournament were insulted as "terrorists" and threatened with arrest by Venezuelan officials, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday.
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When U.S. security chiefs look  south at Latin America, they see porous borders and an ugly mix  of drug traffickers and Marxist rebel groups who they fear  could cut a deal with Islamic radicals like al Qaeda.
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Powerful drug gangs still control parts of Mexico despite a wide-ranging crackdown involving thousands of federal troops, a top security official said Thursday.
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The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $600 million to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants.
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MEXICO CITY - Hundreds of police and federal agents stormed a town on the Mexican capital&#39;s southern outskirts last night, breaking down doors in an effort to collar leaders of a mob that burned two federal agents to death in the area.
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Attacks against U.S. forces have increased following a call earlier this month from al-Qaida in Iraq's leader to target the Americans, the top U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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ALIR JEGK, Ariz. -- Elsie Salsido was breast-feeding her baby when Border Patrol agents walked into her house unannounced this summer. "Are you Mexicans?" they demanded.