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...well, homeland security still needs an upgrade. The Administration plans to hire 800 more customs agents to police the borders but still lacks a system for tracking whether immigrants who enter legally overstay their visas, which three of the Sept. 11 hijackers did. Ridge, who will visit the U.S.-Mexican border this week, has proposed the sensible reform of getting the various border-control agencies--Customs, ins, Border Patrol and Coast Guard--to operate under a single command and work off the same technology. But he lacks the power to make it happen. Despite calls for the Federal Government...
Jose Guzman did the right thing. On a chilly night in the rock-and-sand wasteland of Canon de la Marrana on the Mexican border, he gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years...
...arrest was made by a military unit vetted for honesty and supplied with training and intelligence by the U.S. The CIA has been supplying the Mexican special operations forces with intercepted communications of the drug traffickers and other timely data, but it was not immediately clear whether the intelligence that led to the house in Puebla came from the U.S. or had been developed by the Mexican authorities themselves...
...Hutchinson would say only that the lead was a product of good law enforcement by the Mexicans, and that "it was the government of Mexico that followed up on the lead and made the arrest." The arrest comes at the best possible moment for the often rocky relations between the neighboring nations. President Bush is due to visit his Mexican counterpart on March 20. Laying groundwork for that visit, Hutchinson went to Mexico two weeks ago to meet with Attorney General Macedo and other top officials. There, he says, he reemphasize that the Bush administration placed top priority...
...Hutchinson wants Arellano-Felix extradited to the U.S. to face trial. He acknowledges that the government of President Vicente Fox can't achieve this quickly, as the case must pass through Mexican judicial system, which has been loathe to extradite Mexican nationals. But, he adds, "I know of no extraordinary hurdle" that would stand in the way of eventual extradition. The Mexican government might actually wish to rid itself of Benjamin Arellano-Felix, who has commanded a sizable private army of heavily armed loyalists. At present, says Hutchinson, he is being held in a Mexican military compound rather than...