illegal immigration mexico

• Mexico's drug problem: a deadly battle against Mexico's drug cartels has overtaken illegal immigration and trade as the top issue between Mexico and the United States.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The small Mexican border town of Praxedis--long terrorized by drug cartels battling for control of smuggling routes--made hea...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 143 Nbr. 12, April 2011

• Scenes from the border: illegal immigration from Mexico continues to be a big issue in the U.S. But who is crossing the border--and why--may surprise you.

Promised Land? Looking through the fence that divides Tijuana, Mexico, from San Diego, California From the moment he was arrested in Seattle for d...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 144 Nbr. 8, January 2012

• Border Security with Mexico Costs $90 Billion in 10 Years, Ap Finds: ; Illegal Immigration May Have Slowed, but Drugs Havent

HIDALGO, Texas - Perched 20 feet above a South Texas cabbage field in a telephone booth-sized capsule, a National Guardsman passes a moonlit Sunday night with a gun strapped to his hip, peering through heat detector lenses into an adjacent orange grove. Deployment of 1,200 National Guard soldiers for one year: $110 million.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• June 27, 2011

• The Rush to America; Illegal Immigration From Mexico Surges in Advance of Changes

SASABE, Mexico - After a four-year decline, illegal immigration from Mexico is spiking as several thousand migrants a day rush across the border in hopes of getting work visas under a program President Bush proposed. Many also are trying to beat tighter security to come in June. The U.S. Border Patrol told The Associated Press that detentions which it uses to judge illegal migration rates jumped 25 percent to 535,000 in the six months ending March 31 compared to a year ago.

• The Columbian
• April 28, 2004

• Agents Say Fences Dont Stop Illegal Crossings

CALEXICO, Calif. - A decade ago, when illegal immigration from Mexico was at an all-time high, this stretch of border was as good a place as any to sneak into the United States. Migrants and smugglers could slip through the alfalfa fields outside town or plow their pickup trucks through the desert, where the biggest worries were stuck tires and getting safely across the irrigation canals.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 04, 2012

• Fewer Arriving From Mexico -- Illegal Immigration Drops Sharply As Border Security Tightens

TECATE, Mexico - Mexican shelters, usually the last stop for northbound migrants, are filling with southbound deportees. Fewer migrants are crossing in the wind-swept deserts along an increasingly fortified border. Far to the north, fields are empty at harvest time as workplace raids become more common. Mexicans are increasingly giving up on the American dream and staying home, and the federal crackdown on undocumented workers announced Friday should discourage even potential migrants from taking the risks as the United States purges itself of its illegal population.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 14, 2007

• Down Mexico way: illegal immigration is suppressing Tar Heel wages, but this boon to business also is creating a new underclass.

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• Business North Carolina
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 5, May 2006

• Mexico Warns Citizens to Beware of Arizona Law On Illegal Immigration

The Mexican government took the unusual step Tuesday of issuing a travel alert urging Mexicans working, studying or otherwise spending time in Arizona to use extreme caution. The warning was issued in response to that state's tough new immigration measure, which, once it takes effect, will require people in Arizona to carry proof of their legal right to be in the United States and allow police to check for it.

• Buffalo News
• April 28, 2010

• 'Difficult, Not Impossible'

ON THE BORDER FOLLOWING N.M.-CHIHUAHUA COMPROMISE TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, LAS CHEPAS, MEXICO, IS STILL A MAJOR POINT OF ENTRY

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• October 13, 2005

• Mexico & the U.S.: what kind of border? A new fence to deter illegal crossings from Mexico symbolizes the intense debate in the U.S. over immigration.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During this period of controversy over immigration--with federal agents routing out illegal workers from meat-processing plan...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 141 Nbr. 7-8, December 2008