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Mexico's "Most Powerful Drug Baron" Arrested, Suspected of Cocaine Traffickin...

EDUARDO Areillano-Felix, suspected by police of being a prominent leader of one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world, has been arrested, it has been revealed, after a shoot out in Tijuana.  He is...

Mexico drug gang clashes kill 15 in border city of Tijuana

"Gun battles between rival factions of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border with the US.Police said all the dead were from the Arellano Felix cartel, which has come under pressure from a rival gang.Two were wearing...

Member of Arellano Felix cartel arrested in Baja 250 San Felipe off road race

Off road Class 1 on the news again?Read previous story; helicopter-crash-baja-road-race "New York, March 17, 2008—Mexican federal police arrested a member of the Arellano Félix drug cartel on Saturday...

Gunmen steal body from morge

In a scene from the Godfather… Twenty heavily-armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a dramatic helicopter crash, police say. The gunmen killed two policemen as they took the corpse from the morgue in the...

Illegal Activist Deported

"LOS ANGELES - Illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano has been deported to Mexico after taking refuge in a Chicago church for a year, the church's pastor said. Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist...

Mexico Senate takes up migrant's cause

"A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. The committee also approved a scholarship to...

Most Dangerous Illegal in U.S. Deported

It's good to know those brave ICE agents are busy deporting the real dangerous immigrants like Elvira Arellano not even bothering with those pesky critters like the ones that murdered the students in Newark. You...

Immigration Activist Has Been Deported

Its been confirmed she has now been deported.     http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8R4OQQ80&show_article=1 The woman who made international headlines by defying US law and securing...

Elvira Arellano already was deported to Mexico (use google translation tool)

"The activist pro immigrant Elvira Arellano already touched Mexican earth. Towards the 10 p.m. was given by the agents of the Office of Control of Immigration and Customs (IT HOISTS) to civil employees of the...

Second-grader fights mom's deportation (AP)

" CHICAGO - From a second-floor bedroom in a storefront church, Elvira Arellano scanned the Internet for news of her son — a 7-year-old boy who had traveled to Mexico to ask that nation to help his family and others like them. Dozens of Web site links flashed on her...

Mexico passes resolution on deportation (AP)

" MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Congress was swayed Tuesday by a 7-year-old boy on a mission to save his mom. Second-grader Saul Arellano, a U.S. citizen, appeared in Mexico's 500-member Chamber of Deputies to plead for help in lobbying Washington to stop the deportation of his...

Boy in deportation flap heads to Mexico (AP)

" CHICAGO - The 7-year-old son of an immigration activist who took refuge in a church to avoid being deported is heading to Mexico on Sunday to seek the support of national legislators. Saul Arellano, who is an American citizen, is scheduled to meet with members of the...

Elvira Arellano: Go Home

Illegal immigrants have turned around the lives of many Americans, altering our communities for the worse, wasting our tax dollars and transforming our public schools. It's time to turn out of office those politicians who refuse to deport illegal immigrants.

Feds catch drug kingpin while fishing (AP)

" By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Coast Guard caught Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix deep-sea fishing off Mexico, decapitating a murderous cartel that dug smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said...

Immigration activist faces deportation

A woman who has become one of Chicago's most visible advocates for illegal immigrants now faces deportation herself.

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