THE BORDER REPORT

I honestly thought she would go the other way, but U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton struck down four of the key provisions of Senate Bill 1070 this morning, marginalizing what’s been construed as the toughest state enforcement of federal immigration law in the country. The four key elements she blocked are:

1. Arizona will not be able to require cops to check the immigration status of someone they stop or arrest.

2. The segment of the law making it a crime to fail to carry immigration papers.

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Couple things then I’m going straight back to work: Much has been about this recent carbomb in Juárez, the Colombianization of Mexico, the up-tick in violence, the changing game. None of which is true.

The Beltrán Leyvas used car bombs in Sinaloa when they were attacking the Sinaloa Federation’s safe houses in Culiacán. Yes, this carbomb that killed two federal cops, a medic and wounded seven others was more sophisticated, bomb, battery series and cellphone, while those in Sinaloa were merely gasbombs, and those were meant to target specific people within the Sinaloa syndicate. In this case, the point seemed to be pure intimidation and the propagation of fear (and guess what, it worked). Who would have had the motive to set off the bombs?

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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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Update: Milenio has a story saying Beltran’s people attacked Chapo’s people in Tubutama. But fue al contrario, no? Los Jabalines attacked Felix the Ice Cream Man, which means Chapo and the Sinaloa Federation attacked (and lost) to the Beltrans. Que dice la raza?

A … hitchhiker … from Sasabe tells me “it was a complete ass kicking on the guys who came in via auto,” suggesting that Los Jabalines got smoked, which would mean the Sinaloans took the worst of it, yes?

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So I received this email from Google late last night.

Apparently they have a blanket policy against gore on Web sites. While Google has the right to dictate whom they wish to advertise with, I guess I have a few rights, too, starting with the right to tell an advertiser to piss off. To my way of thinking, intent must be considered before considering photos as pornographic. So I’ll continue posting photos of whom and what I please and Google can keep their (low-end) few hundred dollars a year.

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