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Mexican Charities are Solution to Immigration Debate
 Dick Hughes
Hogar Infantil in southernmost Mexico is far from the immigration debate that rages in the United States. But it strikes me that places like Hogar and other Mexican organizations are part of the immigration solution.
Answering to No One
 Walter F. Mondale
Since the Carter administration left office, we have been criticized for many things. Yet I remain enormously proud of what we did in those four years, especially that we told the truth, obeyed the law and kept the peace.
NAFTA Truck Delay Insulting to Mexico
 San Antonio Express-News
The continuous and disingenuous delay of even a limited test lays bare the obvious insult to Mexico. It's an affront that violates U.S. treaty obligations and hurts American businesses and consumers.
US Court Sends Private Information To Mexico
 Judicial Watch
The state court in one Southern California county uses a company in Mexico to do the data entry of traffic tickets, regularly sending the confidential personal information of U.S. citizens south of the border.
No Exit Strategy
 The New York Times
The American people have only one question left about Iraq: What is President Bush's plan for a timely and responsible exit? That is the essential precondition for salvaging broader American interests in the Middle East. And it is exactly the question that Mr. Bush, his top generals and his diplomats so stubbornly and damagingly refuse to answer.
Mexico’s Debate Over Values
 Allan Wall
Disagreement over gay marriage? Arguing over sex education? Fighting over abortion in the court and Congress? Are we talking about the United States? We could be, but nowadays we could also be talking about Mexico.
Mexico's President Must Protect Freedom of Expression
 Joel Simon & Carlos Lauría
Mexico's powerful drug cartels have repeatedly targeted Mexican journalists fueling a culture of self-censorship, particularly along the border. Despite a constitutional mandate to safeguard freedom of the press, Mexico's federal government has done little either to protect journalists or ensure the free circulation of information.
The 'Emigration Widows' of a Mexican Town
 NewsPost
Hualahuises, a municipality in northern Mexico that appears well on its way to becoming a ghost town thanks to an exodus of workers seeking greener pastures in the US, now has a higher percentage of 'emigration widows' than any other community in the country.
Human Sacrifice and a New Discovery
 Allan Wall
Mexico's wealth of pre-Hispanic archaeological sites are sometimes discovered by accident. In 1978, workers in Mexico City accidentally discovered the "Templo Mayor" Aztec temple. In 2007, another accidental discovery revealed a gruesome example of child human sacrifice.
Immigration Reform: Waiting Until Next Time
 Domenico Maceri
Although undocumented workers “lost” in the failed attempt at immigration reform, they in fact may have gained since the bill was not that immigrant friendly, but certainly much better than the nasty Congress bill of 2005.
While Europeans Holiday, Americans Toil
 Marie Cocco
If you're reading this while on vacation, great for you. If you're reading this at work, having just finished a vacation or a five-day weekend cobbled together around last week's celebration of Independence Day, I hope the time off was as spectacular as the fireworks.
Races of Mexico and the Mexican Genome
 Allan Wall
A friend of mine was visiting in Europe, and there encountered a white tourist. Upon finding she was from Mexico, my friend blurted out “But you don’t look like a Mexican!” So what does a Mexican look like?
USA: Bilingual or Multilingual?
 Domenico Maceri
Multilingualism reflects the energy of America which in spite of all its problems continues to attract people from all over the world. Once America achieves full monolingualism it will mean immigration has ended. America’s decline will therefore begin.
"Supporting the Troops" Means Withdrawing Them
 Nieman Watchdog
General William Odom writes that opponents of the war should focus public attention on the fact that Bush's obstinate refusal to admit defeat is causing the troops enormous psychological as well as physical harm.
Mexico's Troubles Also Ours
 Randy Scholfield
The U.S. Senate's failed effort to pass U.S. immigration reform failed to address a principal player in the problem: Mexico. No effort to solve America's immigration woes can ignore what's happening south of the border.
By the Grace of Bush
 Le Monde
George W. Bush is no ingrate. Even though he has always professed that offenders must be punished by the courts with the greatest possible severity, he has just granted his "clemency" to a close collaborator of his vice president.
When Crossing the Border Becomes a Game for Mexicans
 Ségolène Allemandou
Every night, about 20 try to cross the border, advancing on tenterhooks, moving so as not to get picked out by the frontier patrols' search lights. The "Border Patrol" prowls, ready to let loose its dogs ... Welcome to Adventure Park EcoAlberto! Thrills guaranteed.
Can Mexico's Officers Pass Corruption Test?
 San Antonio Express-News
Guided by the philosophy that preventing a fire is easier than stopping one, Mexican officials are taking a new approach to corruption: They are trying to stifle it on the front end.
Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants?
 Domenico Maceri
Undocumented workers living in the US typically stay away from doctors and hospitals for fear that the information they provide will be used to deport them. Yet, in spite of their precarious residential status, undocumented workers have basic rights which include some form of healthcare.
The Grand Collapse
 NYTimes
The defeat of immigration reform in the Senate last week was appalling, not so much because an ambitious bill died, but because of how stubbornly, to the bitter end, the process remained disconnected from reality.
Fiscal Reform in Mexico: What are the Prospects?
 Allan Wall
President Felipe Calderon has sent his long-awaited fiscal reform proposal to the Mexican Congress, and negotiations have begun. But this is not like the old days of the one-party state, when the Congress was a rubber stamp for the executive.
Mexico Corruption Soils Visa Program
 San Antonio Express-News
Crossing a river that represents a broad chasm between hope and despair, illegal immigrants fall prey to the human smugglers called coyotes. For some immigrants, however, working within the legal system provides no guarantee against exploitation.
Cheney: "Oh, How I Wish He'd Go Away!"
 Michael Winship
Cheney is the archetypal man who wasn't there (but is), not only because of his legendary secrecy but also his insistence that he can keep the lid closed on anything he wants because the office of the vice presidency is unique - not part of the executive or the legislative branches of government. It is both and/or one. Or the other.
Hemispheric Echoes: The Reverberations of Latin American Populism
 Larry Birns & Dr. Nicholas Birns
Outside observers once saw Latin American populism as hyperbolic rhetoric that might win elections and ignite occasional political ruckuses, but not as a particularly serious governing creed. Recently, however, populism has come to the fore in a new way.
Is Mexico's Drug War "Calderon's Iraq"?
 Drug War Chronicles
Almost as soon as he took office late last year, incoming Mexican President Felipe Calderon tried to win public support by sending out the military to take on the drug cartels. Now, six months into Calderon's anti-drug offensive, Mexicans are starting to ask if it's all worth it.
The Cry of the Disappeared
 Roger Cohen
To disappear became a transitive verb in Latin America. Military dictatorships "disappeared" their opponents. That is to say, they kidnapped, tortured, murdered and disposed of them, leaving only an inconsolable absence in the place of a human being.
No Market, No Drug Problem
 Times Argus
If there's a path to success in the war on drugs, politicians and the police will surely have their roles to play. But the solution must also involve a dramatic change of behavior by the drug users among us.
"Like Outlaws, Like Rustlers, Like Thieves"
 David Bacon
"They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves." Those were the words Woody Guthrie used to describe the braceros of the 1940s, as he sang about the plane carrying them back to the Mexican border, which fell out of the sky over Los Gatos Canyon, killing all the nameless deportees aboard. Today Congress is creating more workers displaced like the braceros of old.
History of Migration Shows Pattern Of Mutual Opportunism
 Ashley Pettus
The recent political sparring over immigration reform has included scant mention of cross-border diplomacy. Despite the growing interdependence of the U.S. and Mexican economies over the past few decades, the governments of the two nations have shown little interest in cooperating on the thorny issue of human migration.
Mexican Standoff
 Reformer.com
As long as Mexico gets treated as a place for American corporations to plunder, Mexicans will do whatever it takes to cross the border and find a better life here. But the best immigration control measure might just be improving the economies of our neighbors so that their citizens will stay put.
A Failure of Leadership
 NYTimes
The immigration compromise collapsed on the floor of the Senate Thursday night. Leadership was desperately needed to stop Republicans from dragging the immigration bill off one of its pillars — the one that would put 12 million people on a path to legal status. It didn’t show up.
The Mexican Connection
 Matthew Quirk
Though mass migration from Mexico to the United States is a relatively recent phenomenon, it has grown through century-old social networks linking specific immigrant communities in America to their hometowns in Mexico.
Global Migration Woes
 Victor Davis Hanson
Why do millions of border-crossers head to Europe, the United States or elsewhere in the West? Easy. Stable democracies and free markets ensure economic growth, rising standards of living and, thus, lots of jobs.
Mexico, Central America and USA Security Accords
 Barnard R. Thompson
Those who spend their awakened hours degrading and condemning Mexico and/or the United States need to wipe the stupor from their eyes — and to broaden their myopic horizons.
Most Crucial Race in Years has Two Parties Vexed
 John Farmer
The 2008 US presidential election will be the most important one since the close of the Cold War almost two decades ago. The two Clinton elections in 1992 and 1996 and the first victory for Bush in 2000 were, in effect, freebies. In each instance, the stakes were relatively small.
Mexico’s Drug War: Soldiers vs Narco-Soldiers
 Alex Sánchez
Today, Mexico is a country that cannot defend itself against a pathological danger that has rendered its citizens completely vulnerable to what is little better than a state within a state.
What Mexico Wants
 Jorge G. Castañeda
No nation is as involved in United States immigration as Mexico, and no government's cooperation will be as necessary as Mexico's if immigration reform is to succeed.
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