Illegal Immigrants News

"The Senators who sold out the American public for corporate interests and who do not deserve to be reelected voted *yea*" (see list)

Maps of Southwest U.S.A.

Also other information about the southwest region.

Local View: Address root of border troubles first

"America faces a stark reality: Uncontrolled borders and illegal entry are serious threats to our national security and good immigration policy."

GOP to hold 3 immigration reform hearings in Texas

"House GOP leaders Thursday announced a new round of field hearings on immigration reform — including three in Texas. The hearings, to be held over the next month, will focus on an immigration reform bill passed by the Senate and opposed by House Republican leaders who call...

Till death, or living in America, do us part

"America's immigrants have more enduring marriages than U.S. citizens, but experts say they cannot be considered reinforcements in the battle to maintain the traditional family in this country. Once here, immigrants get caught in America's culture of divorce."

Special Science issue examines HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

"Over the course of nine months, Cohen traveled to 12 countries in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, visiting clinics, brothels, laboratories, shooting galleries, ministries of health, gay sex clubs, universities, slums, migrant way stations, prisons...

Minutemen dispute Reuters report of attack

"The second paragraph of a Reuters story by Michelle Nichols said Minuteman members *pushed and shoved members of an immigrant rights group that showed up at the event.* In fact, Gilchrist told WND, it was the radical activist group that launched an assault while he was...

Immigration hearing scheduled in Hamilton in August

"House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, held a press conference Thursday to announce that House Republican chairmen and members of nine committees will hold 21 hearings on immigration in 13 states during the August recess."

Rare Disease Reported in Transplants

"The infected organs came from one person born in Central America and another who had traveled to Mexico"

New Evidence In Espinoza Murder Trial

"Prosecutors do not have a motive. They have suggested jealousy among family members and illegal immigrant smuggling as possible motives."

Martyred priest is unofficial patron of Mexican migrants

"SANTA ANA DE GUADALUPE, Mexico - As the United States calls out the National Guard and prepares to build new fences along the border, some migrants in this deeply Catholic area are seeking assistance - but not from some ordinary coyote or guide."

Goddard in Nogales to discuss area crime

"The problem is so big, the attorney general for Sonora, Mexico asked us to develop a system of communication to help authorities there. If policemen pulled over a vehicle, it was very difficult and time consuming for the officer to get cross border information telling him if...

Many immigrants cross the border in search of a better life, but find the roa...

"A bucket of 100 garlic cloves could garnish $1 and if the pickers worked faster, after a five-hour shift, $50 would be considered a great day's pay. Reuben Arreola was 11 years old when he first started working in the agricultural farms in and around Taft."

New troops at US border, but the task is vast

"Spc. Anthony Maielli of the National Guard is posted in the back of a pickup truck, parked on a San Diego hill called Arnie's Point. He points the lens of a giant infrared scope, which will allow him to see when darkness falls, south over the US-Mexican border."

Mexican gangs, drugs are growing worries

"As debate heats up about illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande, I suspect our perspectives are influenced by one's history and by one's proximity to the Mexican border." Copy & Click this...