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Security & Strategic Review - December 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO-US: Texas National Guard to remain deployed along the border
The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, made headlines on 15 December with an announcement that National Guard troops would remain posted along the border with Mexico and that patrolling would be intensified on land, in the air and on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo to the Mexicans). The decision was ostensibly taken in response to the publication by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of figures showing that in October and November the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border had risen to 10,595, or about twice as many as in the same months a year earlier. It attracted tetchy responses from the governments of Mexico and Guatemala; both countries placed their consular resources on alert.
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- CENTRAL AMERICA-US: Rifts as flow of Cuban migrants causes bottlenecks
- MEXICO-US: Texas National Guard to remain deployed along the border
- MEXICO: Court ruling triggers cannabis liberalisation debate
- MEXICO: ‘Size is not the only thing that matters’
- POINTERS
- COLOMBIA: Two big steps towards peace, two to go
- BOLIVIA: Behind successes, some discouraging signs
- POINTERS
- ARGENTINA: ‘Emergency’ declared, Iran-AMIA case revived
- URUGUAY: New mass surveillance system (almost) ready to operate
- EL SALVADOR: Violence reaches an all-time peak in 2015
- POINTERS