THE BORDER REPORT

I don’t know why this hasn’t been reported in the U.S. media, but both Nogales, Sonora, newspaper are reporting that three migrants, including a child, were found dead in the desert yesterday.

U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the body of the migrant child after an apprehended border crosser told them where to look.

The boy, 15 years old, had apparently died of exposure, same as most of the 100 others who’ve been found dead this year.

Then, an 18-year-old young man was found dead after he tried calling 9-1-1 on his cellphone for help.

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THE BORDER REPORT

After four years of silence, it finally fell to a U.S. Army staff sergeant to expose an operation gone wrong during the FBI’s cocaine sting, Operation Lively Green.

Lively Green was supposed to be the biggest public official sting in years, netting more than 30 cops, soldiers, airmen, federal agents and prison guards in Arizona, all who believed they were working for a drug cartel to smuggle coke.

But something went horribly wrong in September 2002 and, as often happens, a renegade informant screwed up. It was finally exposed by Staff Sgt. Derreck Curry in testimony in military court at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

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THE BORDER REPORT

Stories about declining numbers of crossings are flying out to a metronome beat of war drums.

That’s precisely what the Bush Administration is aiming for and the mainstream media is happily going for it, chasing after the easy story (officials say the number is dropping) and ignoring realities (those same officials refuse to say how many people they actually catch).

The misinformation comes in the form of migrants fearing the National Guard presence on the border and that’s dropping the number of illegal border crossings.

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THE BORDER REPORT
June 10, 2006

Glad to know someone’s reading The Border Report.