New BLM efforts to guard Arizona desert-Rangers brought in to keep smugglers from trashing the land

by Daniel Gonzalez- May.  8, 2012 11:36  PM The Republic | azcentral.com Since October, the Bureau of Land Management has expanded its operations at  two national monuments in southern Arizona, trying to crack down on smugglers  and illegal immigrants who trample and trash the pristine desert on their way  north from Mexico.   BLM efforts [...]

Fighting drugs and border violence at Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: What about the ranger’s M14 rifle, Yogi?

ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. — On a hot desert morning last week, a group of 20 tourists gathered in the visitor center in Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to attend a mandatory safety briefing before taking a guarded van tour to Quitobaquito springs. The springs is part of the 69 percent of [...]

Hezbollah Operatives Running Vast Drug Ring With Mexican Cartels

Report: Hezbollah Operatives Running Vast Drug Ring With Mexican Cartels December 14, 2011-Buck Sexton (The Blaze/AP)– A Lebanese national who U.S. authorities say is the ringleader of a vast international drug smuggling ring with links to the militant group Hezbollah has been indicted on drug and money laundering charges after allegedly reaping more than $850 [...]

Hezbollah Terrorist Training Camps on U.S. Border – Funded by Drug Bucks

Hezbollah, Terrorist Group, Training Operations On US Border Hezbollah Considered To Be More Advanced Than Al-Qaida       SAN DIEGO — A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist [...]

Agents Uncover ‘Most Sophisticated’ Drug Tunnel in Years

By LEE FERRAN | ABC News – 21-1-11 Federal agents in California have uncovered the “most sophisticated” drug tunnel in years, the latest discovery in what an official said had become a “major phenomenon” in the war on drugs. A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement declined to give details on the tunnel which [...]

Third tunnel in a week found under U.S.-Mexico border

By Tim Gaynor | Reuters 11-22-11 TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – Border police in Nogales, Arizona, uncovered a drug smuggling tunnel from Mexico, the latest in a spate of illicit passageways found under the border in recent days. The U.S. Border Patrol said the 319-foot long tunnel was discovered on Monday. It measured three feet wide [...]

Officials Find More Tunnels Along Arizona Border

 8-29-11 Law-enforcement officials called to a housein Douglas last week found an unusual sight: a large hole in the floor of one room and mounds of dirt piled high in other rooms. The hole was the opening of a tunnel that drug smugglers were burrowing from the United States to Mexico.   It was the [...]

Drug smuggling tunnel found near Arizona border

Aug. 17, 2011 04:59 PM Associated Press NOGALES, Ariz. – Federal authorities say they’ve shut down a drug smuggling tunnel found in the Arizona border city of Nogales. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents identified the tunnel Tuesday after seizing more than 2,600 pounds of marijuana from three suspected drug smugglers. The tunnel is approximately [...]

THE TUCSON BATTLEFIELD TODAY

Ranchers 75 miles from Tucson say bad border policies have resulted in a daily invasion of drugs, death, pollution and violence by Leo W. Banks Lyle Robinson’s Tres Bellotas Ranch sits in a cradle of hills right on the Mexican border. It’s a pretty place. Sprawling Mulberry trees shade the brick house and oak trees–bellotas in [...]

Hezbollah Gaining Strength in Latin America

The Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah is expanding its influence in Latin America with the aid of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, according to testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security. At a July 7 committee meeting, Roger Noriega — former American ambassador to the Organization of American States — said Hezbollah has been establishing alliances with Mexican [...]