New York Times, 12/24/2008
The career of an international beauty queen may have come to an abrupt end on Tuesday when the police announced that she had been arrested in suburban Guadalajara in a Toyota Cruiser stuffed with guns and cash (watch video). Laura Zúñiga Huizar, 23, winner of her home state’s Miss Sinaloa contest, placed [...]
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El Universal, 12/24/2008
The number of detentions of undocumented migrants on Mexico’s boder with Texas and New Mexico has decreased significantly this year to the lowest level in a decade, according to statistics released by the Border Patrol. Ramiro Cordero, spokesman for Border Patrol, said that this year there has been a special emphasis on assistance [...]
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Brookings Institution, 12/24/2008
Can you name one way that Michigan and Florida are alike? A correct answer would be that both states lost more migrants than they gained last year, among persons moving within the United States. So says the U.S. Census Bureau in its newly released population picture.
No surprise that Michigan lost population in light [...]
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