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Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., border officials said. Two U.S. citizens in the van also were arrested.

Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., border officials said. Two U.S. citizens in the van also were arrested. After the suspicious white van was subjected to secondary inspection, it was determined that the driver of the vehicle and its front seat passenger were U.S. citizens who were attempting to smuggle...

The Mexican government is giving its consulates in the U.S. wide latitude to ramp up a campaign to toughen their defense of immigrants and plans to give them more resources as well, officials familiar with the strategy said. The move comes as deportations reach an all-time high in the toughest crackdown in decades by the U.S. government and police authorities. Among the actions under discussion are the creation of an anti-defamation league similar to that focused on protecting Jews; budget increases for some of the 47 consulates, especially in regions such as North Texas, where Mexican migration has been swift...

Roughly 200 people stood in front of the Bush Presidential Conference Center on Monday evening, hoisting pickets and chanting in a mixture of English and Spanish for Harvard professor Samuel Huntington to go home. The professor was greeted inside the auditorium as he warned of a possible future America split into two dominant cultures, caused in large part by the current flood of Mexican immigrants. "We've seen a decline in stability in many aspects of American life," he said. "Americans have become very seriously divided over what are called the culture issues." Huntington, said Monday that America was settled by...

Soldiers stationed in Corpus Christi with Zachary Taylor's army - from August 1845 to March 1846 - found that wild mustangs could be had cheap. Lt. Ulysses S. Grant, who was a fine rider and loved horses, soon had four mustang ponies. A free black man named Valere, whom he and another officer had hired to prepare their meals and keep their tent clean, was taking Grant's horses to water and they got away. Capt. W.W. Bliss, Gen. Taylor's adjutant, joked, "I heard that Grant lost five or six dollars' worth of horses the other day." The men seemed to...