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Effects of Mexican police arrests are being weighed

The arrests on Thursday of dozens of officers accused of drug trafficking and organized crime - the largest operation of its kind in years for Baja California - has created ripples of reaction on both sides of the border. Ref. Source 4

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Gulf of Mexico `Dead Zone' Grows as Spill Impact Is Studied:

The Gulf of Mexico faces a renewed and enlarged threat to marine life: a low-oxygen "dead zone" about the size of Massachusetts, caused by chemical runoff into the Mississippi River that flows into the sea. Ref. Source 3

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Obama signs $600 million bill for border

President Barack Obama signed a $600 million bill Friday aimed at strengthening security along the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico, a move some experts see as a step toward a long-term solution for illegal immigration, drug trafficking and other binational challenges. Ref. Source 2

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This was a last spur movement by the congress to make the Democrats look good before the mid-term elections that are coming up in a few short weeks. I think this is too little too late.

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Obama Signs $600M Bill to Increase Militarization of US-Mexico Border

President Obama has signed into law a $600 million bill to deploy some 1,500 new Border Patrol agents and law enforcement officials along the border, as well as two aerial surveillance drones. The bill was quickly passed by Congress in a rare display of bipartisanship. We speak to Arnoldo García of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Ref. Source 5

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25,000 pot plants worth up to $100 million seized in North County

Sheriff's helicopter pilots on Tuesday ferried load after load of marijuana off a remote hilltop north of Julian, where narcotics task force agents found an estimated 25,000 plants, worth as much as $100 million, on a farm believed run by Mexican drug cartels. Ref. Source 1

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East County blaze caused by illegal immigrants setting signal fire

Two illegal immigrants called Mexico's emergency dispatch system Thursday and said that they had been lost for two days and were stranded and dehydrated and were going to set a signal fire Ref. Source 3

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Cross-border kidnappings down, but still a threat

Cross-border kidnappings have dropped this year with the arrests of cartel members and persistent pressure from the U.S. And Mexico. But local law enforcement officials say this is not the time to let their guard down. Ref. Source 1