Climate change could spur Mexican migration to US: study
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| WASHINGTON (AFP) – Global warming could drive millions more Mexicans into the United States in search of work by 2080 due to diminishing crop yields in Mexico, a study released Monday showed. "Depending on the warming scenarios used and adaptation levels assumed... climate change is estimated to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million adult Mexicans (or two percent to 10 percent of the current population aged 15-65 years) to emigrate as a result of declines in agricultural productivity alone," the study said. Researchers led by Michael Oppenheimer of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University estimated... |
Forty-Three Defendants with Ties to Mexican Drug Cartel Charged with Racketeering Influenced and
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| Individuals Allegedly Responsible for State and Federal Crimes, Including Murder, Kidnapping, Firearms and Drug-Trafficking Violations SAN DIEGO, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging 43 defendants with participating in a federal racketeering (RICO) conspiracy. The RICO conspiracy alleged in the complaint involves the commission of both state and federal crimes, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, drug trafficking and money laundering offenses. As set forth in the complaint, the defendants are members and associates of the Fernando Sanchez Organization (FSO), an offshoot of the Arellano-Felix drug-trafficking... |
Mexican murder suspect: US consulate infiltrated
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| MEXICO CITY – The drug-cartel enforcer told an unsettling story: A woman who worked in the Mexican border's biggest U.S. consulate had helped a rival gang obtain American visas. And for that, the enforcer said, he ordered her killed. Nonsense, says a U.S. official, who said Friday the motive for the slaying remains unknown. The employee, Lesley Enriquez, and two other people connected to the U.S. consulate in the city of Ciudad Juarez were killed March 13 in attacks that raised concerns that Americans were being caught up in drug-related border violence. |
Singer Murdered After Denying He Was Dead
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| Mexican singer Sergio Vega was murdered while on a national tour at the weekend, just hours after denying reports of his death, local media reported. The 40-year-old singer, known as El Shaka, was driving his red Cadillac to a concert in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Saturday when his car was intercepted by unidentified shooters in a truck, reports said. His murder came just hours after he told entertainment website La Oreja that online reports of his death were wrong. "It's happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I've been killed,... |
Man ordered to repay $3M in Calif employment fraud
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| A former Marysville resident has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner says 31-year-old Manuel Mejia Ordonez was sentenced Friday to eight years and one month in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft. |
Holder Announces FBI Probe of Border Patrol After Shooting of Mexican Boy
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday announced that the FBI is investigating whether excessive force was used by Border Patrol after an agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy on the banks of the Rio Grande. The attorney general expressed "sincere regrets about the loss of life" and said the relationship between the United States and Mexico remains "strong." |
"This is a wakeup call to the United States of America to take back your government!"
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| Audio clip from conservative talk show host Dave Weinbaum's weekly radio show. |
BYRON YORK: As economic worries worsen, White House puts on the glitz
Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:32 PM
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| You know the basics. The unemployment rate is 9.9 percent. Jobs are still being lost. Worries about the global economy are causing breathtaking volatility on Wall Street. And millions of Americans who still have jobs are worrying more than ever about the safety of their retirement savings. What you may not know is that, during this moment of terrible economic anxiety, the Obama White House found the time -- and the money -- to turn itself, at least for a night, into a showcase of glitzy extravagance. On May 19, the White House held a state dinner for Mexican President... |
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