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Texas sheriffs also want aid to fight border drug violence

                   
freerepublic.com
04-Jul-2008
        
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San Antonio Express-News ^ | 07/04/2008 | Stewart M. Powell Posted on 07/04/2008 6:27:25 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch WASHINGTON — Besieged Texas sheriffs have vowed to press the White House and Congress to deliver emergency assistance to law enforcement officers battling drug cartels along the Mexican border to match the $400 million on its way to Mexico. The sheriffs said they were frustrated that President Bush and Congress agreed to provide assistance to Mexico as part of the Merida Initiative, without offering additional federal help to their departments. The officers said they'd seek direct federal assistance, as well as changes in Department of Homeland Security restrictions to permit local law enforcement departments to use homeland security funds to hire more officers. Regulations now require local police and sheriff's... [read full story]                    

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 signonsandiego.com 05-Jul-2008
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canoe.ca
04-Jul-2008
        

By Steve Mertl, THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Illicit guns that make their way across the U.S. border into Canada are a serious problem but a relative nuisance compared with the desperate battle being fought on the U.S.-Mexico...

                   

Illicit U.S. guns fuel Mexican drug wars

canoe.ca
04-Jul-2008
        

By Steve Mertl, THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Illicit guns that make their way across the U.S. border into Canada are a serious problem but a relative nuisance compared with the desperate battle being fought on the U.S.-Mexico...