Border Control and Customs

Mikkail Antonio Jimenez: Feds Say Dude Swallowed 53 Pellets of Cocaine

In what we're guessing was just a simple misunderstanding, federal prosecutors in Houston have charged a Dominican citizen with importing drugs after he was allegedly caught flying into Bush Intercontinental Airport with 53 pellets of cocaine in his belly. Mikkail Antonio Nolasco Jimenez, 27, was ... More >>

Jose Cabrera-Pastor: Swims Across Ship Channel With 98 Pounds of Pot Strapped to His Back

Maybe Jose Guadalupe Cabrera-Pastor of Matamoros, Mexico misinterpreted the meaning of "wet marijuana," which stoners sometimes call straight off the plant/not dried pot. At approximately 10 p.m. Saturday night, the 47-year-old man was detained by the United States Border Patrol for possessing 98 ... More >>

Azzie Caldwell & Indira Doorga: 500 Grams Of Coke In The Stomach & Vagina

Packing for international travel can be such a hassle -- who wants to use the overhead bins, for instance? Luckily, God has provided humans, especially females, with carry-on facilities of their very own. The trouble is what you put in them. Two women decided their stomachs and vaginas were just t ... More >>

Monica de Guzman: Three Kilos Of Heroin In Nine Packages Of Powdered Drink Mix

Let's see, the three steps of Gatorade greatness in the G Series are 10 Prime, 2) Perform and 3) Recover. In the heretofore unknown H Series, the process also includes 4) Blissfully nodding out to Lou Reed. That's the takeaway we get, anyway, from the arrest and charges filed today against Guatema ... More >>

Happy Meal: Sunday Ogbonu's Stomachful Of Heroin Weighs In At Two Pounds, Three Ounces

Ah, the glamorous life of a Customs and Border Protection agent: waiting around for someone to crap out the kilogram of heroin they've ingested in order to get the junk into the U.S. Most recently on the bowl was Nigerian citizen Sunday Okechukwu Ogbonu, 47, who arrived at Bush Intercontinental Air ... More >>

Crossing The Line: Days of Rage

The U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience.

Domingo Quezada-Hernandez: Tries to Cross into U.S. with $610K in Spare Tire

Travel books tell you to take some extra cash for emergencies when making a trip, but try telling that to the Customs and Border Protection officers in Brownsville. Domingo Quezada-Hernandez was coming across from Mexico to visit our fair land and -- no doubt hearing we are a backward country that ... More >>

Friends Like These

Woman sexes hospitalized pal's teen.

Bootleg Clacker Balls!! The Feds Make Huge Seizure In Houston

The eagle-eyed inspectors at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have prevented Houston from suffering a scourge of unimaginable proportions: clacker balls. You may be too young to remember, but an entire generation of baby boomers was almost wiped out by playing with clacker balls. two balls on ... More >>

Rene Huerta Jr.: Guesses Border Cops Will Forget the Secret Ammo-Holding Compartment In His Dashboard, Guesses Wrong

Hey, it's worth a shot.​It's difficult to say whether Rene Huerta Jr. was ballsy, dumb or maybe forced to do something against his will. But he dodged a huge bullet (ha HA!) in November 2010 when Customs and Border Protection inspected his car as it crossed over from Mexico to Brownsville. Th ... More >>

David Aric Ladewig: Child Porn-Laden Laptop Doesn't Make It Through Customs At Bush

Ladewig apparently didn't think feds wouldn't mind his massive child porn stash​David Aric Ladewig is an American citizen who lives and works in Cancun. On a return trip to the states, he brought along his laptop and an external hard drive. Which probably wasn't the brightest of ideas, becaus ... More >>

Nationwide ICE Crackdown Nets 91 Illegal-Immigrant Arrests In Houston

ICE nets some bad guys​The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced today that more than 2,400 criminal illegal aliens or fugitives had been arrested in a nationwide crackdown last month, and 91 of them were in Houston. "All of the criminal aliens taken into custody had pr ... More >>

An Even Crazier 4Loko Coming Soon from the Mexican Drug Cartels

When 4Loko just isn't enough, try meth-laced Corona.​Caffeinated beer is for amateurs. The really powerful stuff appears to be just starting to seep across the Mexican border right now. Saturday night U.S. Customs and Border Protection working the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridg ... More >>

Rudy Soliz, Sex-Bribed Border Patrol Officer: We Hope It Was Worth Two and a Half Years in Prison

Thirty months in prison to remember his tryst​Oh, former Customs and Border Protection agent Rudy Soliz III, we can only hope -- for your sake -- that she was unbelievable in bed. But unless you were Matt Dillon in the middle of the Neve Campbell/Denise Richards Wild Things sandwich, we're gu ... More >>

First "Coke Strapped to the Thighs" Bust of the Year!!

Thighs have many uses​Cigars wrapped on the thighs of Cuban virgins are the stuff of legend, but cocaine warmed by the nervous sweat of female Hispanic smugglers is oh so real. But at least one load of it is not making its way to your neighborhood. The Customs and Border Protection agency ha ... More >>

Cloaked Brutality

The feds bury border patrol abuses of immigrants, but what’s been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle and doesn't work.

Cash Smuggling: Growing Problem For Mexican Gangs?

Smuggling large piles of cash ain't easy​Sure, running a drug ring is the road to riches. You bring the stuff over the borde, you get tons of money.But then you have to get that money back over the border. And as banks -- including those in Mexico -- get better about finding and reporting suspicio ... More >>

Seized

Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Rudy Trace Soliz III: Sweet, Sweet Sex Was Why Border Agent Let Illegals In

Another victim claimed​Just as jury selection was about to begin in his trail late yesterday, Rudy Trace Soliz III, a former Customs and Border Protection, pleaded guilty to alien smuggling and bribery, the U.S. Attorney's office announced today.Soliz, 28, let a female co-conspirator bring illegal ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher.

Badlands

From Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

SPECIAL MINUTEMAN PROJECT EDITION

Thank God He's An Idiot

Child-porn producer pleads guilty

Thank God Joseph Montross Is A Blithering Idiot

​Sure, Joseph Montross is a sick individual -- he not only enjoys child pornography, he produces it, and being a sick individual is pretty much a prerequisite for that. But, luckily for the rest of society, Montross is also inutterably stupid.Or maybe we're judging him too harshly.Let's say you're ... More >>

PETA Be Buggin' About Blinged-Out Border Beetle

Photo courtesy CBP​Contraband along the Texas-Mexico border flows both ways. Drugs tend to come north. Desperados on the lam tend to flow south. But every now and then there's a novelty like this woman and her strange pet. The Brownsville Herald picks up the tale: It wasn't marijuana, co ... More >>

The Sheriff Of Crosby, N.D Protects His Citizens From Terror Better Than Adrian Garcia

​Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet wi ... More >>

Nasty, Destructive Little Bug Discovered On A Ship In Houston

Courtesy US Customs & Border ProtectionThe dead skin of a Khapra beetle, found in HoustonCustoms officials in Houston made a pretty startling discovery while inspecting a furniture shipment last week. They found some cast-off skins from Khapra beetles among the straw brooms and burlap sacks in t ... More >>

Amazingly, There Are Some Flaws In Rick Perry's Plan To Secede

As the whole blogosphere knows by now, Rick Perry -- the only governor Texas has at the moment -- has talked of the possible need to secede from the United States.This apparently counts as pro-America rhetoric at a tea party; the logic of that escapes us. (Oh yeah, it's no longer "America" when ther ... More >>

Former Houston Prosecutor's Most Famous Case Gets Thrown Out By Bush

The right-wing got the gift it had been howling for -- today President Bush commuted the sentences of two Border Patrol agents who shot an illegal alien and then tried to cover up the incident.Conservatives have made the case a cause celebre for years, saying the agents had been railroaded.Not every ... More >>

Somali Refugee Locked Up For No Good Reason In Texas

Border Patrol Amps It Up This Weekend

Foreigners Now More Welcome At Bush Intercontinental

No Honest Players Among Human Smugglers

Illegal immigrants are subject to pain and death at the hands of their "rescuers" if they don't pay up in full

Ivory Smugglers Get Nabbed

Mexicans, Germans, the Border Patrol and Jeff

Immigration: Cubans Enter U.S. at Texas-Mexico Border

The Minutemen Are Happy Karl Rove Is Leaving. We're Not Sure How to Feel About That.

Killing Fences: Totally Misconstrued

The department of homeland security is doing its best to get its message across

Border Fence May Destroy Wildlife Habitat

U.S. Fish and Wildlife services spent $80 million to reclaim wildlife habitat in South Texas. Now Homeland Security is ready to wipe that out.

What You Call Hell, He Calls Home

Wally World

Migrants and Minutemen

Two exhibitions at DiverseWorks explore both sides of a hot-button issue

At the Ready

The Minutemen have come to Texas

Pepper-Spraying José

A "Bubba Mexican" polices the border in Buford Gomez

Best Place to Pretend You're South of the Border

Canino Produce Inc. Farmer's Outlet

Soldiers of Misfortune

Ranch Rescue finds its welcome mat withdrawn

Exploring the Subcontinent

"Border Crossings" will tell you more about South Asia than CNN will

The Bored Patrol

Border Patrol agents in South Texas contend they are getting paid to stay put as illegal immigrants go around them. Is this how the much-hyped crackdown along the Rio Grande is supposed to work?