Sentences with phrase «cartels along the border»

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Heroin trafficking has increased along much of the US southwest border, with much of it coming through areas that border Sinaloa cartel - controlled territory.

«He was also in charge of the cartel in Costa Rica and along the US - Mexico border.»

(CNN)- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will name a «border czar» on Wednesday to help deal with the drug cartel violence that has exploded along the U.S. - Mexico border, according to several administration officials.

Hundreds of miles north, Tim «Nailer» Foley, a leathery vet with a proudly defiant worldview, leads Arizona Border Recon, a paramilitary squad dedicated to stopping the cartels from crossing into the States, along with the «scouts» who work for them.

One of the best documentaries I've ever seen at Sundance is Cartel Land, an intimate and remarkable look at the tensions along the US - Mexico border.

His 2015 documentary, Cartel Land, about American and Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels along the US - Mexican border, features stomach - churning examples of Heineman putting himself in danger to film extreme close - ups of shootouts and other menacing encounters.

The cartels escalate the tensions along the U.S. - Mexico border when they begin trafficking terrorists in this sequel to the 2015 crime drama.

From there, Cartel Land follows the «good guys,» first with ex-soldier Tim Foley as he tries to establish order along the Arizona border with his Arizona Border Recon unit, then secondly with Dr. Jose Mireles, a figurehead of the Mexican «Autodefensas»border with his Arizona Border Recon unit, then secondly with Dr. Jose Mireles, a figurehead of the Mexican «Autodefensas»Border Recon unit, then secondly with Dr. Jose Mireles, a figurehead of the Mexican «Autodefensas» Team.

But Heineman, whose «Cartel Land» intrepidly plunged into vigilante groups along the U.S. - Mexico border, appears more at home on the battlefield than distant from the action.

While the director tags along with Foley and his compatriots on a few desert - mountain excursions, one of which results in a bland confrontation with border - smuggling mules, these sequences add little other - side - of - the - story context to Cartel Land, mainly because Foley comes across as little more than an anti-government extremist infatuated with fantasies of defending his beleaguered nation from invading hordes.

Matthew Heineman's slick, troubling documentary, «Cartel Land,» takes place along the US - Mexican border, but it really unfolds in an immense gray area of morality and intent.

Heineman's film focuses primarily on the high - risk activities of two men on either side of the U.S. - Mexico border: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder: American Tim «Nailer» Foley of the paramilitary group Arizona Border Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coBorder Recon, whose members work to disrupt the activities of the Mexican drug scouts and couriers who ply their trade along the border; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to coborder; and José Mireles, a Michoacán physician who, at the time of filming, was the leader of an equally well - armed Mexican vigilante group called the Autodefensas, whose mission was to uproot the drug cartels that his country's own law enforcement officers seem unable or unwilling to control.

In that order. - Sacrifice When Mexican drug cartels fight for control along the border, Juarez becomes the murder capital of the world.

If you're not familiar, it tells the story of a few vigilante groups along the US / Mexico border who are currently at war with the cartels.