Border Wall Successfully Halting Illegal Immigration (Of Wildlife)

The Christian Science Moniter, 7/31/2009
Those who wish to secure America’s borders from ocelots, pronghorn antelopes, gray wolves, and bighorn sheep scored a victory earlier this month, as an amendment to a Homeland Security bill passed by the House mandates an additional 369 miles of fence that will prevent these animals from crossing the border.
The border [...]

Mexican Immigration to US Has Declined by 40 Percent, Study Finds

em>The Georgia Bulletin, 7/31/2009
Mexican immigration to the U.S. has continued to dwindle this year after being down at least 40 percent from 2005 to 2008, according to a July analysis released by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization. Despite the decrease, the study shows no increase in the flow of immigrants returning to [...]

Mexico Shuts Cancun Beach, Alleges Sand Was Stolen

Associated Press, 7/31/2009
Surprised tourists found their little piece of Cancun beach paradise ringed by crime-scene tape and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.
Environmental enforcement officers backed by Mexican navy personnel closed off hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in front of a hotel accused of illegally accumulating sand on its beach.
Mexico spent $19 million [...]

21 Indicted in Major Mexico-Bay Area Heroin Smuggling Ring

em>Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune, 7/31/2009
Federal authorities charged 21 suspected members of a drug-smuggling ring that brought millions of dollars worth of heroin into the Bay Area from Mexico and used stash houses located next to several elementary schools, according to a five-count grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday afternoon.
One of the drop-off points in Oakland was [...]

Mexico Police Figures Slain in Separate Attacks

Los Angeles Times, 7/30/2009
The lead investigator in the slaying of a prominent Mexican journalist was killed when gunmen intercepted him as he arrived home, authorities said Wednesday.
In a separate incident, gunmen also killed a police commander and his family, including four children. They opened fire on the man’s house as the family slept, then pummeled [...]

Immigrant Detainees Hunger Strike Over Conditions

Associated Press, 7/30/2009
A group of detainees at a Louisiana immigration detention center have begun three-day hunger strikes to protest poor conditions there, immigrant advocates said.
The news comes just days after Department of Homeland Security officials dismissed a report critical of conditions at its immigration holding centers nationwide.
About 100 detainees contributed to a report released Thursday [...]

OECD Says Mexico May Need to Cut Rates Further

em>Reuters, 7/30/2009
Mexico’s struggling economy may benefit from further interest rate cuts despite signals from the central bank that it is done easing monetary policy for now, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Thursday.
The country, whose fate is tightly linked to its neighbor the United States, is on track for its worst recession [...]

Arizona Cops Find 97 Migrants in Refrigerated Truck

em>Reuters, 7/30/2009
Arizona police pulled over a refrigerated truck and found 97 illegal immigrants in the back among near-freezing produce, police said on Thursday.
No one was harmed. The immigrants were handed over to Border Patrol agents, who processed them for deportation.
“These people were treated like cargo. They were crammed inside this truck and subjected to near [...]

Bar: Mexican Athletes Names Used to Seek Visas

em>Pamela Manson, Salt Lake City Tribune, 7/30/2009
Although a South Salt Lake plastering company hired attorney James Hector Alcala to prepare applications for work visas for its seasonal foreign employees, immigration officials spotted a problem.
Some of the prospective employees at Los Sauces Stucco & Plastering apparently shared the names of prominent Mexican athletes.
The discovery led [...]

Analysis: Procampo Accentuates Poverty (In Spanish)

El Universal, 7/30/2009
The purging of registration lists of the Program for Direct Assistance to the countryside, announced by the secretary of Agriculture, will have little impact on the future of the Mexican countryside.
The system of payments and subsidies from these programs will multiply levels of extreme poverty in rural areas and will eventually increase [...]