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Officers of the US Border Patrol check vehicles in a control ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:18:02 GMT

(AFP/File) - Officers of the US Border Patrol check vehicles in a control facility in Falfurrias, Texas, in 2008. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States fell by seven percent last year to 10.8 million, coinciding with the country's financial crisis, a Department of Homeland Security report said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jose Cabezas)

A suspect man wearing a police officer uniform who alleged was ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:17:02 GMT

(AP) - A suspect man wearing a police officer uniform who alleged was working for a drug cartel in Tijuana, center, is guarded by federal police as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The man was arrested yesterday in Baja California, along with other alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Alleged members of a drug cartel operating in the border town ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:39:04 GMT

(AP) - Alleged members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana are guarded by federal police as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', is escorted ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:36:09 GMT

(AP) - Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', is escorted by federal police officers after his presentation to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Garcia, who was arrested yesterday in Baja California, is alleged a key member of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', left, ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:31:10 GMT

(AP) - Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', left, and Raydel L�pez Uriarte, also known as 'El Muletas', are guarded by federal police as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Garcia and Lopez, who were arrested yesterday in Baja California, are alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', left, ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:30:11 GMT

(AP) - Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', left, and Raydel L�pez Uriarte, also known as 'El Muletas', are presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Garcia and Lopez, who were arrested yesterday in Baja California, are alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', center ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:29:38 GMT

(AP) - Manuel Garc�a Simental, also known as 'El Chiquil�n', center left, and Raydel L�pez Uriarte, also known as 'El Muletas', center right, together with two unidentified men, are guarded by federal police as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Garcia and Lopez, who were arrested yesterday in Baja California, are alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Soldiers take part in an operation in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:53:00 GMT

(AP) - Soldiers take part in an operation in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Mexican authorities arrested Raydel Lopez Uriarte and Manuel Garcia Simental, two suspected gang leaders of a drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, in La Paz, a city in the southern end of the Mexican Baja California peninsula, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A soldier walks past a shop window displaying Valentine's Day ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:52:36 GMT

(AP) - A soldier walks past a shop window displaying Valentine's Day items during an operation in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Mexican authorities arrested Raydel Lopez Uriarte and Manuel Garcia Simental, two suspected gang leaders of a drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, in La Paz, a city in the southern end of the Mexican Baja California peninsula, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Soldiers take part in an operation in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:40:47 GMT

Soldiers take part in an operation in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:39:17 GMT

Customs and Border Protection officer Ballard inspects the trunk ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:20:18 GMT

(Reuters) - Customs and Border Protection officer Ballard inspects the trunk of a car at the San Ysidro border crossing between Mexico and the US in San Ysidro, California January 31, 2008. REUTERS/Fred Greaves

FILE - This 2005 file photo provided the Mexican Federal Police ...

(AP) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:56 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This 2005 file photo provided the Mexican Federal Police shows Miguel Angel Caro Quintero, 46, a Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade. He was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, to 17 years in prison by a U.S. District Judge in Denver for trafficking drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Caro Quintero pleaded guilty last fall to one count of racketeering in Colorado and one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Arizona. (AP Photo/Federal Police, File)

FILE - In this undated file picture provided by the U.S. Customs ...

(AP) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:55:08 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this undated file picture provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a prototype of a tower for a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at a test facility in Playas, N.M. Government officials overseeing the construction of a 'virtual fence' along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border hope to turn over the first segment to the Border Patrol in January, while beginning construction on a second stretch in coming weeks. By using cameras, ground sensors and radars mounted on a series of towers, the system allows a small number of dispatchers to track illegal border-crossers on a computer monitor. They'll be able to zoom in with cameras to see whether it's a person or animal moving, and decide whether the movement requires sending Border Patrol agents to the scene. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, File)

FILE - This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and ...

(AP) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:54:48 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a prototype of a tower for a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at a test facility in Playas, N.M. Government officials overseeing the construction of a 'virtual fence' along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border hope to turn over the first segment to the Border Patrol in January, while beginning construction on a second stretch in coming weeks. By using cameras, ground sensors and radars mounted on a series of towers, the system allows a small number of dispatchers to track illegal border-crossers on a computer monitor. They'll be able to zoom in with cameras to see whether it's a person or animal moving, and decide whether the movement requires sending Border Patrol agents to the scene. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, File)

FILE - This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and ...

(AP) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:54 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a prototype of a tower for a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at a test facility in Playas, N.M. An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a 'virtual fence' of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

A gray whale calf swims in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon in Guerrero ...

(AP) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:07:46 GMT

(AP) - A gray whale calf swims in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon in Guerrero Negro in Mexico's Baja California state, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Ojo de Liebre lagoon is one of three primary breeding lagoons that the whales seek in the Baja California peninsula and is located 450 miles south the United States-Mexico international border. Hunted to the edge of extinction in the 1850's after the discovery of the calving lagoons, and again in the early 1900's with the introduction of floating factories, the gray whale was given full protection in 1947 by the International Whaling Commission. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

A couple walks on the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border as the ...

(AP) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:13:25 GMT

(AP) - A couple walks on the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border as the third of fourth storms hitting Southern California this week approaches to Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

This image taken from video shows American soccer star Landon ...

(AP) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:24:51 GMT

(AP) - This image taken from video shows American soccer star Landon Donovan wearing a poncho and speaking to a Mexico border guard in a television commercial for the new soccer lottery 'GanaGol', being run by Mexico TV giant Televisa. Donovan is so famous in Mexico that he's appearing in a new TV commercial for a product he'd never be promoting in the United States — gambling on a soccer lottery. (AP Photo/GanaGol Lottery)

Soldiers stand on guard at a check point in Tijuana, Mexico, ...

(AP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:48:14 GMT

(AP) - Soldiers stand on guard at a check point in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. The Mexican government stepped up its fight against drug cartels, sending 860 more soldiers to Tijuana border city where violence has been rising in recent months.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A woman with children walk next to a soldier near a military ...

(AP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:46:56 GMT

(AP) - A woman with children walk next to a soldier near a military checkpoint in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Mexican government stepped up its fight against drug cartels, sending 860 more soldiers to Tijuana border city where violence has been rising in recent months. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A combination of undated police photos show Benjamin (L) and ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:51:35 GMT

(Reuters) - A combination of undated police photos show Benjamin (L) and Ramon Arellano Felix. The brothers took over the business after Mexican police and DEA arrested Felix Gallardo and moved up to Tijuana on the U.S. border to smuggle cocaine into California. To match SPECIAL REPORT - DRUGS-MEXICO/CAPOS REUTERS/Mexican Attorney General's Office/Handout (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY HEADSHOT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the long-time head of the Juarez cartel ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:46:14 GMT

(Reuters) - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the long-time head of the Juarez cartel over the border from El Paso, Texas, is seen in this undated police handout. Brother of drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who flew airliners full of Colombian cocaine into Mexico in the 1970s, Vicente took over the cartel after Amado's death during a clandestine plastic surgery operation. Mexico's drug cartels are multi-billion dollar businesses run like major corporations with operations from Mexico to West Africa and Italy. To match SPECIAL REPORT DRUGS-MEXICO/CAPOS REUTERS/Courtesy of the Procuraduria General de la Republica/Handout (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW HEADSHOT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

An undated police handout sketch shows Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:45:09 GMT

(Reuters) - An undated police handout sketch shows Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, long-time head of the Juarez cartel over the border from El Paso, Texas. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is the brother of drug lord Amado Carillo Fuentes and took over the cartel after Amado's death.REUTERS/Courtesy of the Procuraduria General de la Republica (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY HEADSHOT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

An undated police handout picture shows Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:39:45 GMT

(Reuters) - An undated police handout picture shows Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, long-time head of the Juarez cartel over the border from El Paso, Texas. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is the brother of drug lord Amado Carillo Fuentes and took over the cartel after Amado's death. To match SPECIAL REPORT - DRUGS-MEXICO/CAPOS REUTERS/Courtesy of the Procuraduria General de la Republica (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW SOCIETY) BLACK AND WHITE ONLY. QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS

Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:08:22 GMT

(Reuters) - Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo" or "Tres Letras" a member of Tijuana cartels to the media in Mexico City January 12, 2010. Mexican police on Tuesday captured Garcia Simental, a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana, police said. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:07:17 GMT

(Reuters) - Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo" or "Tres Letras" (L) and Diego Raimundo Guerrero, members of Tijuana cartels, in Mexico City January 12, 2010. Mexican police on Tuesday captured Garcia Simental, a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana, police said. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Mexican Federal Police escort Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:05:03 GMT

(Reuters) - Mexican Federal Police escort Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo" or "Tres Letras" (L) and Diego Raimundo Guerrero members of Tijuana cartels after being presented to the media in Mexico City January 12, 2010. Mexican police on Tuesday captured Garcia Simental, a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana, police said. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:56:10 GMT

Mexican Federal Police escorted Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:50:29 GMT

(Reuters) - Mexican Federal Police escorted Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo" or "Tres Letras" a member of Tijuana cartels before being presented to the media in Mexico City January 12, 2010. Mexican police on Tuesday captured Garcia Simental, a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana, police said. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Mexican Federal Police present Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:49:23 GMT

Mexican Federal Police escort Teodoro Garcia Simental, known ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:47:03 GMT

(Reuters) - Mexican Federal Police escort Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo" or "Tres Letras", a member of Tijuana cartels after being presented to the media in Mexico City January 12, 2010. Mexican police on Tuesday captured Garcia Simental, a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern border city of Tijuana, police said. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY)