U.S./Mexico Border: Various Articles

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Illegal Immigrants Using Torches, Bungee Cords To Cross Border

http://www.witntv.com/home/headlines/17569709.html

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BORDER AND DEPORTATION NEWS

http://www.visalaw.com/99mar/10mar99.html

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Border Barrier Sends The Wrong Message. In Addition, It Won't Work


Last February, I found myself in the difficult position of explaining American insecurity to a group of Mexican undergraduates at a college in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of the border at Brownsville, Texas. I was taking questions after delivering a lecture on the long-term prospects of Mexican immigrants being accepted into U.S. society. A neatly dressed young man in the back stood up to ask a pointed question. "How," he said politely in Spanish, "could such a rich and powerful country be so self-centered as to build a wall on its border to keep people out?"

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5695937.html

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Build Mexico instead of putting up a wall
Europeans have offered us a model for spreading trade benefits to the poorest workers

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5695940.html

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NMSU

Border & Latin American Information

http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/

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Border Run
Beach-N-Biker Fest participants ride to Mexico
April 11, 2008 - 11:44PM
By EDWINA P. GARZA/Valley Morning Star

NUEVO PROGRESO - Sipping Tecate beer, smoking cigars and cigarettes, bikers from all over the Rio Grande Valley strolled the streets of Nuevo Progreso, Mexico, Friday afternoon after rolling in for the 5th annual Beach-N-Biker Fest.

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/mexico_23826___article.html/run_bikers.html

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Pharr pursues second international bridge

April 9, 2008 - 9:28PM

The Monitor

PHARR - The city intends to build a second bridge to Reynosa to alleviate the volume of southbound commercial traffic crossing the existing 14-year-old span over the Rio Grande.

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/bridge_23587___article.html/pharr_second.html

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Woman held in smuggling of 6 kids

A woman was arrested Wednesday on suspicion that she tried to smuggle six children into the United States through Nogales using phony documents, according to a news release.

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/234042.php

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NAFTA has had green effect

About 17 years ago, a New England business reporter answered the phone and found a friendly Texan on the other end. She had recently written about how local manufacturers were coping with Environmental Protection Agency rules that sharply curbed what they could throw down their drains. Compliance was costing them.

The caller hailed from McAllen, near the Rio Grande crossing to the Mexican city of Reynosa. He matter-of-factly said that the factories would have no waste-disposal problems south of the border. He'd help relocate them.

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/opinion/story.asp?ID=240379

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Activists to cross U.S.-Mexican borders

A group of four Virginia activists will travel to Mexico this week and cross back into the United States on Saturday without carrying government identification.

The action by The People United is designed to draw attention to what its organizers see as the base cause for illegal immigration.

http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/local/article/activists_to_cross_us_mexican_borders/13869/

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Travel Alert

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs

This information is current as of today, Wed Apr 16 07:44:57 2008.

Mexico

April 14, 2008

This Travel Alert updates information for U.S. citizens on security situations in Mexico that may affect their activities while in that country. This supersedes the Travel Alert for Mexico dated October 24, 2007, and expires on October 15, 2008.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html

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Mexico's President Calderón to speak on immigration in Dallas

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-calderon_17met.ART0.North.Edition1.460a075.html

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Study: Deportation major fault in U.S. immigration policy

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - As many as 80 percent of Illegal immigrant criminals deported to countries like Guatemala are likely to come streaming back across the border, a Georgetown Law School study has concluded.

http://www.examiner.com/a-1349443~Study__Deportation_major_fault_in_U_S__imm igration_policy.html

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North American leaders to meet this week

NEW ORLEANS, April 20 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush and leaders from Canada and Mexico will meet this week to tackle such thorny issues as free trade and immigration, officials said.

Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in New Orleans Monday and Tuesday for their fourth annual three-nation summit, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Sunday.

In addition to security, the trio is also expected to discuss ways to make their economies more competitive in the global marketplace and their food products safer, the newspaper said.

Observers say Calderon is eager to tout the role his 30,000 countrymen played in the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said New Orleans is a good place for Calderon to remind Bush of Mexican workers' contributions to the U.S. economy.

"I will expect the president to touch on the economic contributions of migrants to the U.S. economy, particularly to an area like New Orleans, where I understand a big part of the cleaning and reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina has been done by immigrants -- not just Mexicans, but immigrants in general," Alday said.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/20/upi_newstrack_topnews/8400/

Mexico's President Calderón to hear immigrant leaders' concerns at Dallas conference

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/042108dnintime.3e7ea56.html

Mexican Consulate opens Monday
by David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
Friday April 18, 2008, 8:37 PM

President Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon will reopen one of the first Mexican consulates in the United States in downtown New Orleans on Monday, U.S. and Mexican officials said Friday.

The two presidents will be in New Orleans for the fourth annual North American Leaders' Summit, joining Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/mexican_consulate_opens_monday.html

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Pima County works to catch smugglers en route to Mexico

Green Valley - Thousands of border agents, dozens of checkpoints and hundreds of miles of barriers are set up to stop contraband and illegal immigrants getting into the United States.

But little more than a chance roadside inspection stops smugglers going the other way.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/23/20080423borderteam23.html

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Amateurs use video cameras to watch the border for illegals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/border_cameras_1;_ylt=AvRKvBy1mpJp1B0hU467ck1Quk0A

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MEXICO

U.S. slowdown likely to drive Mexican workers north

As the U.S. economy slows down and Mexican factories are shuttered, more workers may cross the border to look for jobs.

http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/509908.html

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U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

U.S.-Mexico border fence unlikely to hit target

The U.S.-Mexico border fence project is far from completion, and officials fear it won't be finished in eight months.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/511254.html

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Smugglers make a gate in U.S.-Mexico border fence

This video

from Reuters this morning shows some of the tactics smugglers of illegal immigrants are using to get past the border fence separating the two countries.

According to this video dispatch, one group of smugglers cut a hole in the fence and built a gate to use at their own convenience, leaving the Border Patrol to discover and seal up.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/05/smugglers-make.html

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Gangs ditch tattoos, go for college look

Facing harsh crackdowns, Central America’s gangs try to lower their profile.

http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2007/12/18/2007-12-18_gangs_ditch_tattoos_go_for_college_look_.html

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Border dogs find 51 Mexicans in avocado truck

Reuters | Friday, 30 May 2008

US border police has they had found 51 illegal Mexican immigrants, among them a five-year-old boy, hidden inside a refrigerated trailer carrying avocados into the United States.

Border agents said they found the Mexicans crammed into the back of the truck on Wednesday when police dogs sniffed humans among the avocados at a checkpoint just north of the US-Mexico border near Laredo, Texas.

The truck was a chilly 14degC, US border patrol spokesman Eugenio Rodriguez said.

"The illegals were thinly clothed. They could have begun to suffer hypothermia if they had been in there any longer," Rodriguez told Reuters by telephone.

The Mexicans were being detained at a border patrol detention centre while a US judge decided whether to deport them or send them to jail, he said.

Tougher border security has forced migrants to take more dangerous routes to cross into the United States, often finding elaborate hiding places to avoid detection and frequently paying to be taken over the border.

Migrant rights groups say at least 4500 Mexicans have died trying to cross since the United States sharply stepped up controls in late 1994 to stem illegal immigration.

Last year in Texas, a truck driver was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the deaths of 19 of 70 illegal immigrants locked in a sweltering tractor-trailer in 2003, in the deadliest human smuggling attempt in US history.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelsonmail/4566029a6418.html