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THE BORDER REPORT

UPDATE: A good friend in Sasabe, Ariz., tells me the Americans closed the port of entry there early citing bad weather …

That port is only open until 8 p.m., and they closed at about 7:30, she says, but the unexpected closure leaves about 20 people stranded in Sasabe tonight. It’s a town with a population of 25 people, it’s not like there’s a hotel for them to drive to and Tucson’s an hour away. I could be wrong but I’ve never heard of the Americans closing the port because of weather conditions; frankly, I wonder if it wasn’t because of the fight last night in Saric pero quien sabe.

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THE BORDER REPORT

Here’s a story I did on the situation in Tubutama for the Nogales International.

By now, the entire border world, from Nogales, Sonora, cops to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the radio stations to me, now know that a convoy of some 30 vehicles pulled into Nogales late Wednesday night. Everybody seems to know this except the Calderón and Padrés Administrations, apparently.

According to a source at the FBI, nobody’s sure whether the convoy is there to back the Sinaloans who got stomped trying to take out Gilo in the hills or whether these are Gilo’s reinforcements.

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Justice Department officials in Arizona are now saying the tally of the dead in northern Sonora is 21, and possibly included in those, Raúl “El Negro” Sabori Cisneros.

Meanwhile, a source within CISEN, the Mexican intelligence agency, and a cartel familymember I talk to in Tucson are both reporting at least another ten dead in Altar, Sonora. The hospital in Caborca, the closest hospital to the area, is filled with wounded. My guy in Tucson says an additional 40 people were wounded, enough that the wounded in Altar are being taken to houses to recover, there’s simply no room for them in Caborca.

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A high-level official in the U.S. Border Patrol was removed from his position after carrying on an affair with a subordinate’s wife. The official, one of the highest-ranking agents working along the Southwest border is apparently facing reassignment elsewhere. Infidelity doesn’t seem to be a punishable offense in the Homeland Security Department but lying to investigators who ask you about it, apparently is. Naming the guy would be no fun, so let’s just leave it at that.

Messy, messy, messy but that’s how we like it here.