Mexicans flee drug violence at US border.
No one knows how many residents have left the city of 1.4 million since a turf battle over border drug corridors unleashed an unprecedented wave of cartel murders and mayhem. Business leaders, citing government tax information, say the exodus could number 110,000, while a municipal group and local ( Read more... )

The nation of Mexico is issuing threats to the state of Arizona over the recent law that makes it a state as well as federal crime to be in the country illegally ( Read more... )

You know it is going to be mentioned in every news report about drug wars and Mexico: the false claim that the US is the number one supplier of guns to the drug lords.
Mexico is the main hub for cocaine and other drugs entering the U.S., and the United States is the primary source of guns used in Mexico's drug-related killings.

The truth, of course ( Read more... )

As I have mentioned, this is nothing more than a scare campaign designed to increase support for banning guns. Not only that, the "90%" figure is a lie.
There's just one problem with the 90 percent "statistic" and it's a big one ( Read more... )

Smoot Hawley, meet Obama-Pelosi-Reid!

Mexico has reacted to the Obama administration's unilateral abandonment of the North American Free Trade Agreement by hiking tariffs on numerous goods.
The specific goods, a combined $2.4 billion in exports to Mexico in 2007, mostly face import duties of 10% to 20% of their value. Fresh grapes will face a 45% ( Read more... )

Mexicans fear that rising number of Americans in Mexico will ruin their way of life.
Not everyone is rolling out the welcome mat to Americans. Many Mexicans complain about the rapid growth of the American population in their neighborhoods, the threat they see to Mexican culture and language, and the possible drain on Mexico's inexpensive health ( Read more... )

It is too bad this was not being reported as news years ago.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - President Bush on Thursday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration ( Read more... )

Not quite, and only of sorts.

The House voted to build a partial fence along the border with Mexico:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border, part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters ( Read more... )

Which is worse: the US government informing Mexico about the location of border watch groups or referring to illegal immigrants as "migrants" with "rights"?
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they ( Read more... )

Activists on all sides of racial and immigration policies were left scratching their heads after Vicente Fox uttered the following:
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox came under criticism Saturday after saying Mexicans were willing to take jobs "that not even blacks want to do in the United States ( Read more... )