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Border Control and Customs

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Border Patrol Seizes 3,614 Dangerous Hair Dryers at Port of Miami

    ​You can thank U.S. Costums and Border Patrol for the fact that you won't blow your face off next time you're trying to blow your weave out. The Department of Homeland Security agency recently seized a shipment of potentially killer hair dryers at the Port of Miami.

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    ICE snitch Angel Jose Perez duped the FBI and got rich

    ​You can thank U.S. Costums and Border Patrol for the fact that you won't blow your face off next time you're trying to blow your weave out. The Department of Homeland Security agency recently seized a shipment of potentially killer hair dryers at the Port of Miami.

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    $7.6 Million Worth of Pot Seized at Port of Miami

    ​U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they haven't made a huge pot bust at the Port of Miami for months, but sometimes you just have to wait. Authorities report they discovered 3,837 pounds of marijuana, nearly two tons, stuffed inside shipping containers at the port last Friday.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    You Won't Have to Take Your Shoes Off at MIA Anymore -- if You're Special

    ​With the eventual aim of shortening screening lines and easing some security procedures, the TSA unveiled a new program today at four airports across the country, including Miami International, that allows passengers to go through security checkpoints without taking off their shoes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Monkey Cannibals: Robert Conyers Charged With Animal Cruelty UPDATE

    L.A. City Attorney's OfficeIsn't this how 28 Days Later begins?​Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

    L.A. City Attorney's OfficeIsn't this how 28 Days Later begins?​Miami freight shipper Robert Matson Conyers was charged with animal cruelty yesterday after a tri-continental shipment of monkeys turned into a cannibalistic simian catastrophe.Guyanese animal supplier Akhtar Hussain hired Conyers to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Telmo Ricardo Hurtado, 'Butcher of the Andes,' Finally On Trial In Peru For 1985 Massacre

    Hurtado in the 1980s, when he was an officer in the Peruvian military.​For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him as a quiet, middle-aged Per ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    800 Pounds of Pot Seized in Boat Two Miles Off Miami

    ​Rakontur is currently finishing up Square Grouper, their documentary on Miami's pot smuggling heydays, but that's not all in the past. The South Florida US Attorney's Office announced that they recently found a boat just miles off the coast of Miami packed with 800 pounds of pot. Four arrests hav ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Operation Streamline treats migrants like cattle

    ​Rakontur is currently finishing up Square Grouper, their documentary on Miami's pot smuggling heydays, but that's not all in the past. The South Florida US Attorney's Office announced that they recently found a boat just miles off the coast of Miami packed with 800 pounds of pot. Four arrests hav ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2010

    ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

    Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

  • News

    June 10, 2010

    Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher

    Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands: From ground zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

    Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    $5.2 Million Worth of Designer Knock-Offs Seized at MIA

    ​We're pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we're all "recessionistas" ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Thousands of Fake Viagra Pills Seized, Thousands of Boners Relieved

    The lengths men will go to get it hard knows few limits, yet thousands of guys don't have the balls to tell their doctors they can't get it up. So enter the booming illegal Viagra trade, and like so many drugs sold illicitly, you never know if what you're getting is authentic.Today, U ... More >>

  • Film

    February 26, 2009

    Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

    Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

  • News

    November 27, 2008

    Homeland Security, No!

    Janet Napolitano's sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Obama's cabinet.

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    The Hand of Justice

    Lost in the immigration morass and mangled by the system.

  • News

    January 5, 2006
  • News

    July 1, 2004

    The Question That Won't Die

    A mild-mannered U.S. Customs inspector is shot to death. Police call it suicide. Friends and family say that’s inconceivable.

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    MIA: A User's Manual

    Is our airport the most user-unfriendly in America? No, just one of four really unhappy landing sites.

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    Closing in on Baba

    Is our airport the most user-unfriendly in America? No, just one of four really unhappy landing sites.

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    News of the Weird

    Is our airport the most user-unfriendly in America? No, just one of four really unhappy landing sites.

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    The Baba Chronicles

    For some people, African millionaire Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko was a dream come true. For others he was a nightmare.

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    Freezer Burned

    Chilly weather and a sluggish bureaucracy have left Dade's farmworkers out in the cold

  • News

    November 13, 1991

    Chong Feature

    Chilly weather and a sluggish bureaucracy have left Dade's farmworkers out in the cold

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