‘We Can’t Just Pull Out Our Gun’: Border Patrol Alters Training

by | Aug 18, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Border Patrol (US), Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Customs and Border Protection (US), Economics, Finance, Illegal Immigration, Kerlikowske, R Gil, New Mexico, Non-Bank Loans, Smuggling, Spanish Language, United States Politics and Government, Working Capital

By RON NIXON August 18, 2017 ARTESIA, N.M. — In a classroom on the campus of the Border Patrol Academy here at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Andrew Andrade, an instructor, is guiding a group of future Border Patrol agents through an...

Big Rigs, a Human Smuggling Mainstay, Often Become Rolling Traps

by | Jul 30, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Border Patrol (US), Bradley, James M Jr, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Economics, Finance, Illegal Immigration, Non-Bank Loans, Smuggling, Texas, Williams, Tyrone M, Working Capital

By MANNY FERNANDEZ, NICHOLAS KULISH and SUSAN ANASAGASTI July 30, 2017 SAN ANTONIO — In one truck, the migrants crouched in the dark in a three-foot crevice between the trailer’s ceiling and the top of medical-supply boxes. In...

Survivors of Smuggling Trip Could Gain Entry to U.S. by Becoming Witnesses

by | Jul 26, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Bradley, James M Jr, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Citizenship and Immigration Services (US), Economics, Finance, Illegal Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US), Justice Department, Non-Bank Loans, Smuggling, Working Capital

By CAITLIN DICKERSON July 26, 2017 As the authorities work to identify the immigrants who died in an overheated tractor-trailer in Texas and investigate the smuggling network that put them there, attention is now turning to another complicated question: What...

Coast Guard Faces Challenges at Sea, and at the Budget Office

by | Jul 4, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Drug Cartels, Economics, Finance, Maritime Crime, Non-Bank Loans, Smuggling, United States Coast Guard, United States Politics and Government, Working Capital

By RON NIXON July 4, 2017 ALAMEDA, Calif. — Vice Adm. Fred Midgette, commander of Coast Guard operations in the Pacific Area, has a challenge almost as vast as the ocean he patrols in search of drug traffickers, with responsibilities for an area that...