Border Control and Customs

Chong Feature

Crossing Over Is Borderline Offensive

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

Homeland Security, No!

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

The Hand of Justice

Lost in the immigration morass and mangled by the system.

Letters from the Issue of January 5, 2006

Readers get their war on

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.

MIA: A User's Manual

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

Closing in on Baba

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

News of the Weird

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

The Baba Chronicles

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

Freezer Burned

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

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 >>

$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 >>

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

​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 >>

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

​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 >>

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.

Operation Streamline treats migrants like cattle

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.

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 >>

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 >>

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

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 >>

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 >>

You Won't Have to Take Your Shoes Off at MIA Anymore ...If You're Special

​With the eventual aim of lessening 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 check points with out taking of their s ... More >>

$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.

ICE snitch Angel Jose Perez duped the FBI and got rich

​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.