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Voter Apathy in America Unprecedented

2012- the year that everything changes...

(SALEM) - Something really did change in America after Barack Obama was elected, it is our simple ability to hope and have faith and believe in our national leaders.

Traveling this road of life, we've seen the final blowout of a tire packed with hot air known as "U.S. politics". People are growing wiser.

The Mexico We Have Found.. Two Years Later

Community input is taken seriously here. An obnoxious neighbor can actually be voted out of the neighborhood.

(SAN BLAS, Mexico) - "They come up here with no money, they can't speak the language, and they expect to find work and a comfortable life. Maybe you should go down to Mexico with no money, not speaking any Spanish, and see if they welcome you with open arms... you wouldn't last six months let alone a year, and that's if you weren't killed first!"

That advice/idea I received while arguing with an anti-immigrant racist in Oregon, May 2008.

The Land of the Chile Pilgrims

The chile pilgrims who come to Hatch every year get a glimpse of a rural society that has changed in many respects but still has passed on certain traditions.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As the winter sky rehearsed a coming storm, noisy gulls out for cheap pickings swooped low over a McDonalds’ parking lot on the edge of New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir.

A half hour downriver in the village of Hatch, green and red Christmas decorations mimicked the colors that pump life into the community every year...

Border Bank Funds Projects

Growing out of the negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement and based in San Antonio, Texas, the NADB is a mechanism to fund vital infrastructure and environmental projects in the underdeveloped US-Mexico border region.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The Board of Directors of the North American Development Bank (NADB) has approved more than $136 million in new financing for environmentally-related initiatives on both sides of the US-Mexico borderline.

In an announcement this month, the San Antonio-based bank listed four new projects that will receive NADB loans and grants.

Legal Challenges to State Immigration Laws Mount

“This challenge is necessary to send a message to anti-immigrant groups that their efforts to pass Arizona-style legislation in the Midwest are not welcome and will be resisted” - Alonzo Rivas, MALDEF Midwest Regional Counsel

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexico has joined with 13 other Latin American nations in supporting Washington’s legal fight over the Utah immigration law.

The countries have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case against HB 497, the state law passed earlier this year that empowers local police to investigate the immigration status of persons detained by officers.

Suspect in Fast and Furious-Related Murder of U.S. Agent Extradited

Defendant Charged with Alleged Participation in Murder of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the Attempted Murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as “Piolin,” has been extradited from Mexico to the United States to face charges for his alleged participation in the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata.

He also faces charges in the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila on Feb. 15, 2011, in Mexico.

Border Crossers Encounter New Delays

“The principal mission of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is anti-terrorism” - agency statement

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In an e-mail to constituents this month, El Paso Congressman Silvestre Reyes lauded the November opening of a new, high-tech pedestrian crossing system at the Paso del Norte (Santa Fe) Bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso.

With assistance from the Unisys Corporation, the maze-like system uses a combination of revolving doors, hand-held mobile devices and radio frequency identification (RFID) to process US passports; ten fingerprint biometric capture devices were also installed for inclusion in the system, according to Unisys.

The Pending Second U.S. Revolution?

The cops will push too far and somebody is going to fire back.

(SALEM) - It seems inevitable that Americans will soon be engaged in a revolutionary war the likes of which has never been imagined, and I say the 99% will win, and the government will lose. Of the people, by the people, for the people...

In spite of all the technology and military hardware, the government is vastly outnumbered by the people and if it has to be anarchy, then so be it, because the government is not America, the people who comprise this country are.

Hanging Tough in Juarez

“In the 50’s, when the romantic songs like ‘Viajera’ invaded the radio stations, the ladies wore wide skirts, the men used big shoulder jackets and pour grease on their hair...

(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) - Under the circumstances, even the most stubborn personalities steeled in adversity would probably call it quits.

Inside the corridors of the big marketplace, an odd tranquility reigns as the vendors wait for customers. Outside, the day is broken by the occasional sound of ambulances rushing off probably to attend the latest shooting victim.

U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program for Mexican Cartels Exposed Four Years Ago

Information about Fast and Furious was in Homeland Security's hands four years ago, it should have saved the lives of two U.S. federal agents.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - This memo represents the first time that the U.S. Border Patrol knew about guns going across the border at Columbus, New Mexico.