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UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
Senate confirms Gorsuch to serve Trump: He will serve with distinction By Ed O’Keefe and Robert Barnes WA S H INGT ON P O ST
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, capping more than a year of bitter partisan bickering over the ideological balance of the nation’s highest
court. On a vote of 54 to 45, senators confirmed Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court Gorsuch of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and
is scheduled to be sworn in Monday. Gorsuch replaces former justice Antonin Scalia, whose sudden death in February 2016 sparked a year-long partisan fight over the ideological balance of the court. Gorsuch will be thrust into the final weeks of the Supreme Court’s term. The last Gorsuch continues on A10
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Vice President Mike Pence leaves the Senate floor after the vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday.
US AND MEXICO RELATIONS
TALES FROM THE BORDER
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
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Raymundo Del Bosque Jr. spoke about bullying at Zapata County Community Coalition of the Serving Children and Adults in Need.
Chief speaks about bullying prevention By César G. Rodriguez THE ZAPATA TIME S
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In this March 24 photo, Cuban Elaide Vilchez carries her one-month-old daughter Emily Melania Garcia during a religious procession adapted to reflect the plight of immigrants, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, across the border from Laredo, Texas.
Writer: we talked to anyone willing to open up By Christopher Sherman A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
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IJUANA, Mexico — The smells and sounds of Tijuana smack us as soon as we open the doors of our bug-splattered rental, a Jeep Renegade: food stalls selling roasted corn, churros and hot dogs; a near-empty bar blaring the oompa-oompas of norteno, Mexico's answer to polka. This is our last stop. We have just logged 3,000 miles from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, crisscrossing back and forth across the world's 10th-longest border 22 times over two weeks and blogging about the experience . We have traversed the terrain through which President Donald Trump would build a 30-foot-high wall; we have talked to anyone and everyone who was willing to open up to us. We've seen a father and daughter speak through the bars of the border fence, and talked to an Arizona rancher who supports the wall but who has
installed taps at every well on his desert property so migrants can drink. In Ciudad Juarez, we watched Mexican children throw rocks across the fence at railroad maintenance vehicles in the U.S. In Tijuana, we met a U.S. Army veteran who crossed the border, in her words, to "hide" from life for a few hours. What we've found, from the nearempty migrant shelters of Tamaulipas state in Mexico to the drug-running corridors of the Sonoran desert, is a Tales continues on A10
Bullying happens anywhere but people can change that, said Raymundo Del Bosque Jr., chief of the Zapata County Sheriff’s Office. Del Bosque was the guest speaker Thursday at the Zapata County Community Coalition of the Serving Children and Adults in Need meeting. The Sheriff’s Office said the presentation shared a focus on how to work together to eliminate bullying from schools, and creating safer environments. “Bullying can happen anywhere from schools to our workplace, but it is up to us to change it,” Del Bosque said in a Facebook post. “I had the opportunity to share some educational material on bullying that I've considered to be very helpful in the fight against bullying.” Del Bosque further mentioned that the Sheriff’s Office is constantly finding new ways to educate the youth and the community in the fight against bullying and create friendly environments. “Sheriff Alonso M. Lopez and the Zapata County Sheriff's Office continue to move forward toward community involvement and public education in an effort to improve the county's quality of life,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.