U.S., Mexican Federal and State Authorities Discuss Border Violence and Enforcement Cooperation

On June 14-15, 2007, the states of Arizona and Sonora and U.S. and Mexican border enforcement officials met near Tucson, Arizona to discuss strengthening border enforcement cooperation following violent firefights among rival drug cartels and the police in the small Sonoran mining town of Cananea, about 95 miles south of Tucson. Nearly two dozen people were killed. The meeting also occurred in the context of border violence involving illegal migration and an immigration bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate … [more]