House and Senate Pass New Military Aid to Mexico
Poor Mexico has suffered a series of hard blows lately. From elections that left a bitterly divided populace, to a blood-soaked drug war, to the economic crisis, to the swine flu epidemic, nothing seems to be going right. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and Mexican Sec. of Public SecurityGenaro Garcia Luna stand in front of [...]
Read more →May Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program
By ruizmarrero
1. Mexico: Swine Flu and Industrial Farm Animal Production 2. New Report on Agrofuels 3. No to Monoculture Forests 4. Genetically Modified Soy Can Never Be "Responsible" 5: Brazil: Genetically Modified Sugar Cane Mexico: Swine Flu and Industrial Farm Animal Production Since the last week of April the news media has been inundated with updates, [...]
Read more →Swine Flu: Health, Agriculture, and Trade Implications; Immigration and the Wars on Crime and Drugs; Bolivia’s Plan 3000; Impunity in Atenco; Mexican Human Rights Groups against Military Aid
By CIP Americas
This Week in the Americas Dear Readers, It has been a strange couple of weeks here in Mexico City. Finally the kids went back to school, restaurants and bars opened, and people venture out with noses and mouths uncovered. Americas Program analysts have been working overtime to research, understand, and explain the epidemic and what [...]
Read more →Criminal Alien Funding and the Immigrant-Based Criminal Justice Complex
By Tom Barry
There is no good financial justification for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). Yet the Obama administration, which says it will no longer fund the program, is drawing heavy fire from representatives in states and communities that have benefited from the crime-control assistance program. There is a clear and persuasive logic to the program: [...]
Read more →Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
By Tom Barry
Apprehensions of illegal immigrants by the Border Patrol have been dropping precipitously over the past couple of years, but Border Patrol seizures of illegal drugs—mostly marijuana—are dramatically higher. Over the past eight years, Congress and the Bush administration more than doubled the number of Border Patrol agents to keep the homeland protected against terrorists and [...]
Read more →Swine Flu Reveals Flaws in Global Public Health System
The governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz has called for an independent investigation into the operations of Carroll Farms, the livestock company co-owned by Smithfield Foods and AHMSA of Mexico. The massive industrial farm animal production facilities are located near the village where the first case of the swine flu outbreak was confirmed in [...]
Read more →"War on Crime" Targets Immigrants
By Tom Barry
Immigrants have reenergized the flagging "war on crime." Charges against immigrants are clogging federal courts, and new prisons and detention centers are opening to accommodate immigrants. The Obama administration is asking for more money to expand the dragnet for "criminal aliens" and to crack down on drugs and crime along the border. Violent crime has [...]
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