Guest Blogger Char Miller: Caning the Border Patrol

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Apr 13

Caning the Border Patrol
By Char Miller
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world,” anthropologist Margaret Mead once asserted. “Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
One such micro organization, Barrio de Colores, may not have changed the world when it took on the mighty U.S. Border Patrol (BP), [...]

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Laredo’s “Agent Orange” Controversy Update

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Apr 09

If you recall, a couple of weeks ago, US Customs and Border Protection wanted to use the herbicide imazapyr, Habitat, to defoliate the carrizo cane along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank. Once news spread like wildfire, Mexican government and Texas border officials and environmentalists began protesting over the concern about possible side [...]

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Imazapyr: Laredo’s “Agent Orange”

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Mar 26

As I mentioned, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stopped the aerial spraying of the herbicide, imazapyr, on the Carrizo cane along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank, according to the Laredo Morning Times.
Border Patrol was hoping to eliminate the invasive Carrizo cane to improve the visibility along the border. The plan was [...]

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Laredo’s ‘Agent Orange’ Controversy

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Mar 23

Along the border, rhetoric is high. As if there were not enough things to worry about here at home US, there is however, one more issue that may create the final perfect storm: Mexico.
The violence in Mexico that has spun out of control so quickly in 2008 has created a political reaction. It is hard [...]

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