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Mexican troops crossed the border into the United States Thursday, KGNS-TV reported Friday.

A convoy of three military trucks loaded with soldiers and weapons crossed the border at Bridge No. 2 in Laredo, Texas, the station reported.

Customs and Border Protection investigators told KGNS-TV they spoke with Mexican authorities after being alerted that the military convoy was heading in their direction.

Mexican officials say the soldiers didn't know the area and got lost.

An investigation into the incident is continuing.



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Yea, well just wait till the Mexican narco-war crosses the border...

U.S. border cities prove havens from Mexico's drug violence
15 July`11 - The picture painted of America's southwestern border with Mexico is a bloody one, in which the drug violence decimating northern Mexico has spilled onto U.S. soil and turned the region into a war zone.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has warned of human skulls rolling through her state's deserts. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, says violence on the U.S. side of the border is "out of control." Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., has suggested sending a military brigade to protect Americans. "Of course there is spillover violence along the border," Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said during a recent congressional hearing. "It is not secure and it has never been more violent or dangerous than it is today. Anyone who lives down there will tell you that."

That's not actually the case, according to a USA TODAY analysis that draws upon more than a decade of detailed crime data reported by more than 1,600 local law enforcement agencies in four states, federal crime statistics and interviews along the border from California to Texas. The analysis found that rates of violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border have been falling for years — even before the U.S. security buildup that has included thousands of law enforcement officers and expansion of a massive fence along the border.

U.S. border cities were statistically safer on average than other cities in their states. Those border cities, big and small, have maintained lower crime rates than the national average, which itself has been falling. The appearance of an out-of-control border region, though, has had wide-ranging effects — stalling efforts to pass a national immigration reform law, fueling stringent anti-immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, and increasing the amount of federal tax dollars going to build more fencing and add security personnel along the southwestern border.

The perception of rising violence is so engrained that 83% of Americans said they believe the rate of violence along the southwestern border is higher than national rates, according to a recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 999 adults. The findings "are contrary to conventional speculation that the border is an out-of-control place," said Steven Messner, a criminologist and sociology professor at the University at Albany-SUNY, who reviewed USA TODAY's analysis.

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Mexican narco-war affects families on this side of the border...

On border, peaceful U.S. side is torn by Mexican strife
17 July`11 — Before the invitation to his 9-year-old niece's confirmation in Mexico was extended, David Saucedo knew how he would — must — respond.

The truth is, the girl's mother, Saucedo's sister, knew he wouldn't be coming to celebrate the sacred Catholic rite of passage for the same reasons he has been missing from birthday parties, family reunions, even trips to check on the four commercial properties the 46-year-old businessman owns in his native Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. "It is very hard not to be there," says Saucedo, who lives and works in neighboring El Paso. "I have to say no, because to do otherwise, I feel, would be putting my life in danger and my family's lives in danger."

In Mexico's grinding drug war, the casualties — which stand at a staggering 34,000 dead since President Felipe Calderón launched a military offensive against the violent cartels nearly five years ago — do not account for such collateral damage as Saucedo's broken family and lost business opportunities. What makes the physical suffering and loss in Mexico most extraordinary is that it is taking place in the shadow of unusual peace. A USA TODAY analysis of crime data reported by 1,600 law enforcement agencies in four border states found that violent crime rates on the U.S. side of the southwestern border have been falling for years. The analysis concluded that U.S. cities near the border are statistically safer, on average, than others in their states. El Paso has one of the lowest crime rates among major U.S. cities.

Yet unrelenting violence, though confined largely to Mexico, is unmistakably altering a unique culture that has bound generations on both sides of the vast southwestern border. From Matamoros, near the Gulf of Mexico, to Tijuana, on the Pacific Ocean, Mexican produce markets, restaurants, nightclubs, tile makers, pharmacies and medical practices thrived before the cartel violence erupted. Every day, the lure of cheap goods, services and entertainment drew thousands of U.S. customers who regarded Mexico as little more than a colorful extension of their own border towns.

But even in sleepy places such as Del Rio and Eagle Pass, Texas, and Nogales, Ariz., visiting Mexico is no longer an option. So few people now visit Ciudad Acuna, Del Rio's Mexican sister city, that the town's near century-old institution, Ma Crosby's Restaurant and Bar, has been shuttered. Bobby Paul, 67, a Del Rio rancher who has spent much of his life on the border, said the transformation has been sad and swift. "All along Acuna's main street, where there used to be bars, shops and restaurants, there are now for-sale and rent signs in the windows," Paul says, referring to Hidalgo Street, once a neon-lighted magnet for U.S. visitors. "Anybody who had any money and the ability to leave (Acuna) is gone."

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2 Mexican Tourists Die In Acapulco Gun Attack
7.16.11 -- Authorities in Acapulco say two Mexican tourists have been killed in a gun attack at a restaurant on the main oceanfront avenue in the tourist zone of the Pacific resort. Two other people are wounded.

State police say an undetermined number of attackers fired assault rifles and 9-mm pistols early Saturday into El Zorrito. That's a traditional Mexican restaurant on the city's main Miguel Aleman boulevard.

The attack came a day after a gunman standing near the shoreline avenue fired at swimmers in the bay, scattering panicked vacationers across the beach. Authorities say he fired at least 10 shots.

A 38-year-old woman visiting from Mexico City was wounded in the right leg and taken to a hospital. Police say the gunmen escaped.

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Granny says dey gettin' ready to invade us...

Uniformed Mexican Soldiers Cross Into South Texas
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - Almost three dozen uniformed Mexican soldiers in four military vehicles crossed the Rio Grande into South Texas near McAllen without authorization.

The incident happened Tuesday afternoon on the new Donna-Rio Bravo International Bridge over the Rio Grande, about 15 miles southeast of McAllen.

Federal officials were releasing little information on the incident. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Rick Pauza said the crossing was inadvertent and that no gunfire or injuries were reported.

Pauza said "occasionally these incidents do occur" and CBP has procedures in place for handling them. He said the soldiers were interviewed and all were returned to Mexico.

Pauza declined to comment on what the soldiers were doing when they crossed the border, referring those inquiries to Mexican military officials.

Uniformed Mexican Soldiers Cross Into South Texas | CNSnews.com

 

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