Tasered man dies after scuffle with feds at border

A critically injured 32-year-old Mexican national was fighting for his life Sunday after being shot with a stun gun in a fight with federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing, authorities said. The fight took place about 9:15 p.m. Friday at the U.S. Border Patrol facility at the port of entry, said San Diego police Capt. Jim Collins. Collins said Border Patrol agents arrested the man and his brother on Otay Mountain about two hours earlier on suspicion of entering the United States i...

BP Agent Discovered Asleep at Border

While Americans argue and debate over immigration laws, civil liberties and additional troops in connection with the U.S./Mexico border, a lone agent with the U.S. Border and Customs Protection rolled his vehicle up onto a hillside -- just a 7-iron shot away from the same border everyone's been yelling about -- and fell asleep. The problem is, the agent was in a "company" vehicle with the engine on and was awakened by a television news crew. The crew, in the area just north of the San Ysid...

VoiceofSanDiego.org: The Deportation of Josefina Perez

For three months, Josefina Perez and her family have been making it by a thread. On March 2, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at the Linda Vista apartment where she lived with her family and arrested and deported Manuel Guzman -- her partner of 20 years, the father of her three children, and her family's main breadwinner. A deportation order had been issued against Guzman, who had been trying to renew his work permit and other immigration documents, Perez said. ICE arrive...

Imperial Valley News Posts Letter to the President

San Diego, California - Letter to President Obama: "Border communities who had hoped for a rational and accountable border policy from the Obama Administration are deeply disappointed at the news of the authorization to deploy National Guard troops to the border. We are also deeply disappointed by calls from Congress to deploy as many as 6,000 National Guard troops to the border. Proposals to deploy the National Guard are ill-conceived and motivated by electoral politics rather than border re...

Arizona Sheriff Making Unfounded Claims About Border Violence

If you’ve seen Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in any of his TV appearances, you know he repeats several statements about border-related crime. In our interview with him last week for our Sunday story, I asked him where he gets the information for these often-repeated claims. I wasn’t able to fit much of these conversations in our story, so I wanted to post it here to provide a more ample picture of where Babeu gets his information and how he formulates his views. As you’ll see below, the ...

Arizona immigration law will boost crime in U.S. cities, police chiefs say

By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 26, 2010; 12:50 PM Arizona's new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state's and the nation's largest cities said Tuesday. The new Arizona law will intimidate crime victims and witnesses who are illegal immigrants and divert police from investigating more serious crimes, chiefs ...