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  • It's also the case that 20,000 border patrol officers just aren't enough to cool the ongoing national furor over illegal immigration and drug-cartel violence, even if the estimated price tag of each new hire is $160,000 for background checks, salaries, night-vision goggles and additional necessities.

    G.W. Schulz: With Border Surveillance in Trouble, a New Defense Contractor Lines Up G.W. Schulz 2010

  • It's also the case that 20,000 border patrol officers just aren't enough to cool the ongoing national furor over illegal immigration and drug-cartel violence, even if the estimated price tag of each new hire is $160,000 for background checks, salaries, night-vision goggles and additional necessities.

    G.W. Schulz: With Border Surveillance in Trouble, a New Defense Contractor Lines Up G.W. Schulz 2010

  • MEXICO CITY—The Mexican navy said Friday it captured eight alleged members of a drug-cartel death squad dubbed the Zeta Killers that is suspected in the killings of at least 67 people in the past two weeks in the strategic Gulf of Mexico port city of Veracruz.

    Mexico Captures Alleged 'Zeta Killers' José de Córdoba 2011

  • It's also the case that 20,000 border patrol officers just aren't enough to cool the ongoing national furor over illegal immigration and drug-cartel violence, even if the estimated price tag of each new hire is $160,000 for background checks, salaries, night-vision goggles and additional necessities.

    G.W. Schulz: With Border Surveillance in Trouble, a New Defense Contractor Lines Up G.W. Schulz 2010

  • The Mexican navy said it caught eight alleged members of a drug-cartel death squad dubbed the Zeta Killers.

    What's News: World-Wide 2011

  • A Mexican soldier turned drug-cartel leader emerged as a possible suspect in the killing of a U.S. immigration agent.

    What's News: World-Wide 2011

  • "But if there isn't a forensic investigation whose results are made known to the public quickly, there will be rumors that it was a drug-cartel hit," he said.

    Mexican Interior Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash David Luhnow 2011

  • His brother Otilio, who is set to plead guilty to the same charges next week, bought the Romarm-Cugir Draco 7.62 pistol that Mexican drug-cartel members used in a February ambush that killed Jaime Zapata, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey.

    Texan Guilty in Disputed Gun Probe Ana Campoy 2011

  • Mexico's government, under pressure for its failure to rid the country of drug-cartel violence, is coming under new criticism for a not-so-subtle bid to win the drug war in a different venue: on TV.

    Mexican Ministry Paid for Cop Show David Luhnow 2011

  • It's also the case that 20,000 border patrol officers just aren't enough to cool the ongoing national furor over illegal immigration and drug-cartel violence, even if the estimated price tag of each new hire is $160,000 for background checks, salaries, night-vision goggles and additional necessities.

    G.W. Schulz: With Border Surveillance in Trouble, a New Defense Contractor Lines Up G.W. Schulz 2010

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