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Prosecutor Lied in Ianiero Case, CTV Says
 Greg Mcarthur & Marina Jimenez
The Mexican prosecutor investigating the unsolved slayings of a Canadian couple has lied publicly in order to cast suspicion toward innocent Canadians and away from a suspected Mexican killer, an upcoming CTV documentary alleges.
Bill Richardson: The 'Other' Western Candidate
 Yvonne Wingett
Richardson is the son of a wealthy American banker and a Mexican mother. He was born in Pasadena, Calif., and grew up in a suburb of Mexico City, where his father ran a branch of what is now Citibank, Richardson wrote in his autobiography, Between Worlds, The Making Of An American Life.
Will Mexico’s Drug Cartel Violence Ever Stop?
 Allan Wall
The Mexican war on drugs continues. In a recent international summit in Campeche, Mexico, Mexican President Calderon and Colombian president Alvaro Uribe pledged to work together to fight the drug cartels.
Flawed System May Hurt Disabled Soldiers
 Hope Yen
The Army might be shortchanging injured soldiers by rating the severity of their disabilities with a system that is both unwieldy and inconsistent, the head of a special commission said Thursday.
The Other Side
 Clint Rainey
Illegal immigrants feel the animosity that some Americans have for them, and they give it right back. But the opportunities offered by the rich neighbor to the north are too much to pass up.
Dog's Day
 Nick Lewis
There is still hope that Duane (Dog) Chapman, a 53-year-old American bounty hunter made famous by a reality show on A&E, will not have to face extradition charges to Mexico in the infamous Andrew Luster case.
In Five-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of US Voter Fraud
 Eric Lipton & Ian Urbina
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Ultimately, Economics will Decide Immigration
 Rebeca Chapa
We all know the real answer to the immigration problem. It lies in achieving an economic equilibrium that provides Mexicans with decent wages and living standards in their country so they don't succumb to the "push-and-pull" northward.
Death in the Desert; a Mexican Migrant’s End
 Kate Thompson
Veronico Esparza Campos set out for his new life dressed as if for a country dance: a light fleece jacket, a cotton shirt tucked into jeans and held in place by a tooled leather belt with a large buckle.
Immigrants: No More Living in Fear
 Kate Nash
Maria Garcia, a 30-year immigrant from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, who has lived in Albuquerque for almost 14 years, is afraid for members of the immigrant community who are like her.
The FBI's Terrorism Trade-Off
 Paul Shukovsky, Tracy Johnson & Daniel Lathrop
Thousands of white-collar criminals across the country are no longer being prosecuted in federal court - and, in many cases, not at all - leaving a trail of frustrated victims and potentially billions of dollars in fraud and theft losses.
CPJ Urges President to End Attacks on Press
 cpj.org/ifex.org
Journalist executed in Acapulco after receiving death threats; CPJ urges president to end attacks on press. Periodista ejecutado en Acapulco tras recibir amenazas de muerte; CPJ insta al presidente a poner fin a los ataques contra la prensa.
US Immigration Reform Will Not Happen
 Angie C. Marek
Calling immigration reform "a matter of deep conviction for me," President Bush loosely outlined an immigration-reform proposal on this week that would include a guest-worker plan and some way for people in the country to legalize their status after paying what he called a "meaningful penalty."
US Poverty Moves to the Suburbs
 Eyal Press
America's suburbs evoke images of dream homes, plush lawns and neighborhood BBQs, not low-wage jobs and houses under foreclosure. Yet for the first time ever, more poor Americans live in the suburbs than in all our cities combined.
Mexican Anti-Pedophile Crusader Puts Her Life on the Line
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
A crusade against pedophiles has made Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, recently honored by Amnesty International, one of Mexico's most celebrated and imperiled journalists. She is a target in a country where at least 17 journalists have been killed in the past five years.
Immigrants: 50,000 March for Immigration Reform
 Stewart A. Alexander
More than 50,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates filled the streets of Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 7, 2007, to rally support for fair legislation for immigrants; and to protest against the recent White House plan that will further restrict the rights of immigrants across America.
Scandal Puts Spotlight on Christian Law School
 Charlie Savage
The title of the course was Constitutional Law, but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened, a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk, completed with "amens," about the need to preserve their Christian values.
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Shares Immigration Research
 Howard Hewitt
Dr. Jorge Bustamante, a sociology professor at Notre Dame and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, told a Wabash College audience that research clearly shows a strong dependence on immigrants in U.S. agriculture.
Coming to America
 Darlene Ramos
Leaving one’s homeland to tread into the unknown has never been for the faint of heart. Most Americans, wherever they live, can thank their American forebears for their sense of fitting naturally into this good land called home.
Mexico: Prosperity at Least 20 Years Away
 El Universal
Imagine: If jobs that paid $40,000 in the U.S. were worth $160,000 in Canada, how many Americans would hop in their SUVs and stream northward? That´s what we´re dealing with.
US House Tackles "Femicide" in Latin America
 William Fisher
Introduced by Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis and 84 co-sponsors, and unanimously approved by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Resolution 100 urges the US government to bring pressure on Guatemala to address the unsolved murders of more than 2,000 women and girls since 2001.
An Ill Wind is Blowing In from the Mexican Left
 Barnard R. Thompson
Mexican left-wingers, following the lead of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, maintain that they will do anything and everything possible to remove President Felipe Calderón from office before his six year term ends on November 30, 2012.
US-Mexico Border Activism in Full Throttle
 Kent Paterson
With spring in the air, activists from different social movements are once again taking their struggles to the streets in the Paso del Norte region.
Security at Mexican Oil Facilities Remain Vulnerable to Attack
 Kevin G. Hall
When a group claiming to be part of al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia called in February for jihadists to strike Mexican oil installations in a bid to cripple the U.S. economy, Mexico announced that its navy had gone on alert and had stepped up surveillance of offshore oil platforms and port facilities.
Battle Grows Over Renewing Landmark US Education Law
 Sam Dillon
When President Bush and Democratic leaders put together the bipartisan coalition behind the federal No Child Left Behind Act, they managed to sidestep, override or flat out ignore decades of sentiment that education is fundamentally a prerogative of state and local government.
Report: Over 1 Million on Mexico Voter Rolls Already Dead
 Jorge Herrera
The names of the dead are not being removed from the official voter rolls, federal election authorities revealed on Saturday. Though not considered a problem at present, the situation "could represent a serious concern in the near future," says a new report
Arizona County Helping Illegals, Critic Charges
 Bob Unruh
The population of illegal aliens already in the United States has been estimated at 12-20 million, with a crowd of another two million arriving each year, including thousands through the lengthy and largely remote border Pima County, Ariz., shares with Mexico.
Christian Right Lawyers Waging War on the Constitution
 Sarah Posner
On a dismal, rainy afternoon, over tea and Pepsi and a plate of fries at the Bob Evans restaurant in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, Bill Scaggs told me why he thinks that homosexuality is the greatest threat to America.
Fighting Words
 Alex Eichler
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, possible contender for the Republican presidential ticket and one of the country’s most prominent conservative personalities, has a problem with Spanish.
Mexican Bishop: “If You Vote to Legalize Abortion – You Excommunicate Yourself from the Church”
 Meg Jalsevac
A second Mexican bishop has issued an explicit warning to Mexico City’s legislatures cautioning them that, should they vote in favor of proposed legislation that would legalize abortion, they would be automatically excommunicated upon the death of the first baby under the new law.
Mexico’s Cárdenas Talks Politics
 Joe Katz
After recent defeats in several critical electoral contests, Latin American leftists from Ciudad Juárez to Caracas to Concepción have been reexamining their priorities and their place in politics.
Questions Linger About Bushes and BCCI
 Lucy Komisar
Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush's statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Poverty and Starvation Bring on US Immigration "Crisis"
 Karen Nakamura
CNN's Larry King interviewed James Edward Olmos during last summer's Latino workers' demonstrations. King was discussing illegal immigration when Olmos suggested that maybe people were flooding across the border because there were few jobs at home, small farms were going under and people were starving.
The Giant Who Ate a Nation
 brisbanetimes.com.au
The giving away of personal fortunes is a relatively new practice in Mexico - in contrast to the US, where philanthropy has long been expected of the very rich - and over recent years Carlos Slim has become good at it.
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