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The UN human rights chief on Friday condemned the murder of 72 presumed migrants in Mexico, saying the case underlined the "critical situation" of migrants in the country. "I am deeply shocked about these killings, which highlight the critical situation ...

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Illegal aliens are often excused as they stroll across the Mexican border but violent felons are seized and placed in facilities where they are given dancing lessons, bingo nights and other forms of luxury living. These shocking policies were ...

A wounded migrant stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in Mexicos bloody drug war: A room strewn with the bodies of 72 fellow travellers, some piled on top of each other, just ...

Immigration enforcement officials have started to cancel the deportations of thousands of immigrants they have detained, a policy they said would pare huge case backlogs in the immigration courts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the ...

Cynics might identify the tragedy as the mirroring image of a failing state. On a ranch in Mexicos Tamaulipas, just south of the US border, state authorities yesterday found the dead bodies of 72 migrants. The identification of the bodies is in ...

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Americans can be forgiven for growing cynical of government when the rhetoric of politicians fails to match their actions. In the heated debate on illegal immigration, those in favor of granting amnestyincluding the Obama Administrationhave tried ...

The current U.S. immigration system is broken in numerous ways. Todays patchwork policies admit illegal immigrants while stopping legal immigrants at the borderall while local policies fragment this socially sensitive and economically critical ...

SAN FERNANDO Seventy-two people found murdered on a ranch in northeast Mexico are believed to have been migrants bound for the United States, officials said, in one of the most horrific examples of Mexican violence in years. Marines discovered the bodies ...

Drug gang victims were on their way from Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil and elsewhere to try to get into United States. ...

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., says it is "an outrage" the Obama administration has stopped building the double-layered border fence needed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Babeu is shown here speaking at a Capitol Hill news conference on ...

pm By Brenda Norrell Photo: California border by Brenda Norrell. The 72 people murdered at a ranch in Taulipas State, about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, are believed to be migrants. A survivor from Ecuador, shot in the neck, said those murdered ...

(El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- About 100 representatives from 22 Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agents met in El Paso today to refine their response strategy for violence on the border. They participated in ...

SAN FERNANDO, Mexico Working under heavy security in a region controlled by a brutal drug gang, authorities and diplomats began the gruesome task Thursday of identifying 72 Central and South American migrants killed just 100 miles from their destination ...

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SAN DIEGO -- The speedboat is about three miles offshore when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cuts the engine to drift on the current in quiet darkness, hoping for the telltale signs of immigrant smuggling - a motor's whirr or sulfur exhaust ...

The Washington Post's William Booth and Nick Miroff have filed a must-read report about the billions of dollars that successfully cross the U.S. border into Mexico each year, representing one of the leading sources of foreign currency in that countrry. ...

Some people think we could solve the gasoline problem by linking it to the illegal immigration problem. One (on the surface) hairbrained solution is to continue the ?catch & release? - but by deporting 15 million illegal immigrants to war zones to fight, ...

The sole survivor - an Ecuadorean who escaped and stumbled wounded to a marine checkpoint on a highway - told authorities that his captors had identified themselves as Zetas, a drug gang whose control of parts of the northern state of Tamaulipas is so ...