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 Foreign-born athletes take Olympic stage for USAs the U.S. struggles with immigration policy, Americans will get a chance next month to see their melting-pot nation through the prism of foreign-born athletes competing in USA uniforms at the Beijing Olympics.
Millions to improve Texas colonias go unspent
During a recent afternoon storm, brothers Angel and Salvador Badillo sat under a tin roof with a couple of friends, sipping beers as the open drainage ditch in front of their clapboard house filled like a moat.  Border fence concerns Rio Grande defendersThe federal government's border fence plans in South Texas have been attacked by property owners, wildlife advocates and land conservationists. The next wave of opponents could come from the water - and they're carrying paddles.
More seeking asylum on U.S.-Mexico border
Dozens of Mexicans - including police officers, businessmen, at least one prosecutor and a journalist - are asking for political asylum in the U.S. in a desperate and probably hopeless bid to escape an unprecedented wave of drug-related killings and kidnappings south of the border.
Texas border city actually embraces fence idea
This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas.
Plutonium pit plan for N.M. lab faces opposition
The market at the heart of this little village is stuffed with locally grown produce. Fat, red radishes practically fly out of the display basket next to the cash register hours after leaving the field.
Mexican soldiers on American soil
On June 22, Mexican soldiers clad in full-body armor and armed with AR-15 assault rifles invaded a private home, firing an estimated 100 rounds and killing its occupant. But this didn’t happen in Juarez, where a bloody power struggle between competing drug cartels has now spread to busy downtown streets. It happened in Phoenix.
Mexican soldiers on American soil
On June 22, Mexican soldiers clad in full body armor and armed with AR-15 assault rifles invaded a private home, firing an estimated 100 rounds and killing its occupant. But this didn't happen in Juarez, where a bloody power struggle between competing drug cartels has now spread to busy downtown streets. It happened in Phoenix. Police officials initially claimed there was "no credible evidence" that members of the Mexican Army were involved. But Mark Spencer, president of the Phoenix Police Enforcement Association, said officers on the scene reported that at least one suspect admitted "he was Mexican military" whose "group targets drug dealers and their stash houses," including the one on Cypress Street in Phoenix.  Border fence would cut through Texas universityThe steel fence that the U.S. government wants to build along the Mexican border would do more than slice through the University of Texas' Brownsville campus and cut off the golf course from the rest of the school.
Migrant deaths up sharply in South Texas
The number of dead immigrants found in South Texas has already surpassed last year's total heading into the two hottest months of 2008. |
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