Read more Mexican border stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3454/mexican-border.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70051/busiest-us-mexico-crossing-closed-after-gunfight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA coordinated effort to get illegal immigrants into the US devolved into a gunfight today in San Diego, and shut down the busiest US-Mexico border crossing. Four people were injured after US agents opened fire on three vans attempted to speed through the San Ysido Port of Entry from Tijuana...http://www.newser.com/story/70051/busiest-us-mexico-crossing-closed-after-gunfight.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 21:13:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65015/mexican-immigrants-stay-put-despite-recession.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe recession hasn’t sped the return of Mexican immigrants home from the US, a Pew report finds, though the number of Mexicans entering the US has continued to decline. Some 433,000 people returned to Mexico last year, versus 479,000 two years before, the Washington Post reports. But another...http://www.newser.com/story/65015/mexican-immigrants-stay-put-despite-recession.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 10:01:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64713/drug-smugglers-head-to-sea-on-surfboards.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagImproved security along the US-Mexico border has pushed enterprising smugglers to the sea in any manner of craft, the New York Times reports. Authorities have been catching twice as many illegal immigrants as usual—and seized 7 times the typical quantity of drugs—in recent months from boats and beaches,...http://www.newser.com/story/64713/drug-smugglers-head-to-sea-on-surfboards.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Jul 2009 8:12:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61845/two-minutemen-leaders-held-in-ariz-slayings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo of three people arrested in the Arizona murder of a 9-year-old and her father were involved with a small anti-illegal immigrant group, the AP reports. Shawna Forde, the founder of Minutemen American Defense, and Jason Bush, its operations director, were charged with murder, assault, and burglary in the home...http://www.newser.com/story/61845/two-minutemen-leaders-held-in-ariz-slayings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Jun 2009 10:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61662/massive-drug-tunnel-found-under-mexico-border.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Border Patrol has uncovered one of the biggest and most sophisticated smuggling tunnels under the Mexican border it has ever seen, CNN reports. The 83-foot tunnel to Arizona from Nogales, Mexico, was still under construction when it was found after a tipoff from somebody who heard construction sounds....http://www.newser.com/story/61662/massive-drug-tunnel-found-under-mexico-border.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 12 Jun 2009 1:46:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61359/dude-busted-for-smuggling-pot-on-surfboard.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Mexican surfer off a California beach was busted for trying to smuggle 24 pounds of pot on his board, reports the Los Angeles Times . When suspicious cops on the beach close to the Mexican border ordered the surfer to come ashore, he heaved a duffel bag into the water....http://www.newser.com/story/61359/dude-busted-for-smuggling-pot-on-surfboard.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Jun 2009 2:11:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61033/11-mutilated-bodies-found-in-arizona-van-in-mexico.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican police have found the shot and mutilated bodies of 11 men in a stolen van with Arizona plates near the US border, Reuters reports. The arms and legs of most of the bodies had been hacked off. Threatening messages believed to be from a drug cartel were left with...http://www.newser.com/story/61033/11-mutilated-bodies-found-in-arizona-van-in-mexico.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Jun 2009 3:18:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60896/us-fears-al-qaeda-bioattack-from-mexico.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUS counterterrorism officials are worried that al-Qaeda may mount a biological attack from Mexico and could even seek to collaborate with domestic terrorists, the Washington Times reports. The fears are bolstered by a February video from Kuwait al-Qaeda recruiter Abdullah al-Nafisi. In the video, Nafisi boasted that anthrax “carried by...http://www.newser.com/story/60896/us-fears-al-qaeda-bioattack-from-mexico.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Jun 2009 13:52:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59445/border-tribes-land-a-drug-smugglers-paradise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLaw enforcement expects to seize $1 billion worth of pot along one stretch of southern Arizona this year, and that’s just 20% of the marijuana they believe will be smuggled into the area from Mexico. But there’s little they can do about it, NPR reports; the region is rugged, sparsely...http://www.newser.com/story/59445/border-tribes-land-a-drug-smugglers-paradise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 19 May 2009 9:00:00 CDT