international border is between texas and mexico.
international border is between texas and mexico.
what kind of border is between texas and mexico?
international border
following the mexican federal victory at the battle of celaya in april 1915, mexican rebel pancho villa led the remnants of his once large army back to northern mexico. by 1916, villa and his men were in desperate need of food and provisions to continue their revolution, so they devised a plan to raid the american border town of columbus, new mexico. on the early morning of march 9, 1916, approximately 500 mounted villistas attacked and burned the town, though not long after that they were encountered by some 300 american troops. after a pitched battle, the villistas were defeated and pursued back into mexico, having lost nearly 200 killed, wounded, or captured. eighteen americans died in the engagement, including ten civilians and eight soldiers, an outrage that incited president woodrow wilson to authorize a punitive expedition into mexico to capture or kill villa. the pancho villa expedition, as it became known, was under the command of gen. john j. pershing and it lasted from march 14, 1916, to february 7, 1917. starting from various camps and forts along the border, pershing headed into chihuahua where his men engaged the villistas on multiple occasions. pershing was able to capture or kill several rebel commanders but pancho villa got away, and his rebels continued to launch raids on u.s. territory while american troops were in mexico. tension along the international border between texas and mexico was high during the mexican revolution. raids into southern texas were very common, so to help protect the big bend region, president wilson allowed troops to occupy the area in june 1915.
raid on glenn springs
according to the sheriff, after the death of flores borrego in september 2011, a gang in the united states were given orders by their mexican superiors to recover a drug load that had been taken from the gulf cartel. the process did not go as planned and the gang members ended up kidnapping a group of dealers, leading to a shootout incident. the sheriff said that this "represents the only direct spillover" case of mexico's drug war in south texas, but stated that it was not directly related to mexico. after this incident, todd staples, a republican party commissioner of the texas department of agriculture, set up a website asking the federal government to back state efforts to curb illegal activities along the mexican border, and especially drug trafficking. in a report, staples asked two decorated military generals to take on the assignment, and stated in september 2011 that "living and conducting business in a texas border county is tantamount to living in a war zone.” staples announced that mexican drug cartels are seeking to create their own turf in the united states, but especially on the south texas, which they consider "vulnerable." the statement sparked criticism among local officials who argued that many of the texan border cities have lower crime rates than cities like houston, that are not along the border. henry cuellar, a democratic party member and a u.s. representative, strongly disagreed with staples' assessment that the texas border is a war zone or an area overrun by the mexican criminal groups, and claimed that such claims simply create "confusion" and unnecessary alarmist reactions. on early november 2011, greg abbott, the texas attorney general, informed media outlets of a letter he sent to president barack obama on his failure to protect the border, and warned him that the drug violence from mexico is increasingly "spilling over" the border, and urged obama to "immediately dedicate more manpower to border security." in the letter, abbott wrote about the shootings and kidnappings that have been occurring in the rio grande valley, and how these incidents are a "threat to national security."
infighting in the gulf cartel