U.S. Push Not Halting Guns Headed Across Border to Mexico
Sunday Gazette-Mail › March 07, 2011
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Federal agents are barely able to slow the river of American guns flowing into Mexico.
In two years, a new effort to increase inspections of travelers crossing the border has netted just 386 guns - an almost infinitesimal amount given that an estimated 2,000 slip across each day.See the full content of this document
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U.S. Push Not Halting Guns Headed Across Border to Mexico
The problem came into sharp focus again last month when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed on a northern Mexican highway with a gun that was purchased in a town outside Fort Worth, Texas.
Stopping the flow of American guns, bullets and cash has long bedeviled authorities on both sides of the border.At a White House news conference in ...See the full content of this document
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