THE BORDER REPORT

Assuming everyone was in on the job, you can imagine the back-end dealings that went into this quiet negotiation. The Space Shuttle Discovery that's set to launch will be carrying at least two flags onboard, the green, blue and yellow of the U.S. Border Patrol and the red, white and green of México.

The Border Patrol, that golden-haired child of the American federal law enforcement agencies, is riding high, shipping its colors off into outer space onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, then sending the returning flag to the Border Patrol museum.

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THE BORDER REPORT

The Mexican government is trying to get the United States to drop its charges on a Phoenix kidnapper and send the man back to Mexico to stand trial there. It's a bit of a reverse extradition and it grabbed my attention when I started looking at this case a few months ago.

Then I found who the guy supposedly worked for in Mexico, the Tijuana area to be precise, and suddenly there's a whole new level of story to tell here.

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THE BORDER REPORT

Just came across a year old CISEN report on the Beltrán Leyvas:

"Los hermanos Alfredo, Amberto y Carlos Beltrán Leyva utilizan los seudónimos “Arturo”, “Marco Arturo” y “Arturo de Culiacán”, bajo los cuales son buscados por la DEA por la introducción de droga a Estados Unidos a través de aviones .... "

Really? Alfredo, Amberto and Carlos are known as Arturo, Marco Arturo and Arturo de Culiacán? So who's Amberto and is Carlos, Botas Blancas or isn't he?

THE BORDER REPORT

Cd. Juárez – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is being investigated on possible corruption charges after running an informant network that has imploded throughout the El Paso law enforcement community, a Mexican law enforcement source in Juárez said this morning.

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THE BORDER REPORT

The Associated Press has a wrap-up story on corruption within the border law enforcement agencies that is billed as an investigation but does little more than touch on spot cases of rot within the ranks of border cops. On a closer inspection, the numbers The AP uses actually make agencies like the Homeland Security Department look pretty good.

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