North of the Border
Puerto Vallarta based Aviana Productions, which bills itself as a strategic media company, has been awarded two prestigious Aurora Awards for messaging videos produced for two highly successful San Francisco Area Non-Profit groups.
As you well know, the primary election season is now well underway in the United States. What you may not know is that President Obama signed into law the MOVE Act (Military Overseas Voter Empowerment Act) that requires “all overseas and military voters must re-register for every election cycle, instead…
Jorge Torres, a Mexican scientist doing research at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has discovered that depleting a certain protein called STARD9 could be a successful method to battle cancer.
The Supreme Court of the United States said this morning, that it would review the controversial immigration law of Arizona, known as SB1070.
American Airlines, once the world’s biggest airline, and its parent company AMR Corporation, filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court of New York, earlier this morning.
Mexico’s attorney general, Marisela Morales, told Mexican congressmen that she has asked the United States to extradite six suspects of providing guns to drug cartels.
US News & World Report has published its ranking of World’s Best Places to Visit, and Puerto Vallarta was the only Mexican city to make the list (sorry Cancun!).
Luciano DiTacchio, an American School of Puerto Vallarta graduate, is part of a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies that recently discovered a gene responsible for starting the biological clock every morning.
For the last couple of weeks, something is been taking place at the financial hearth of the world but, surprisingly (or maybe not), the #OccupyWallStreet movement has been mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
Paul Babeu, sheriff of the county of Pinal, Arizona, had some strong words for the agencies in charge of the “Fast and Furious” operation, during an interview with Anderson Cooper of CNN.
The Obama Administration has filed a suit in Alabama’s Northern District against the validity of a new immigration law known as HB56, signed last June, by Governor Robert J. Bentley.
The State of Arizona launched a web site yesterday at www.buildtheborderfence.com. The implementation of this fund raising tool is the first act under SB-1406, a bill that authorizes the use of private donations and inmate labor to build a fence along the U.S. - Mexico border.
New Gun Regulation Seeks to Stem Flow of Semi-Automatic Rifles to Cartels, NRA Vows to Appeal Policy
The Obama administration has ordered gun dealers operating in four states that border Mexico to report multiple sales of AK-47s and other semi-automatic weapons. The directive comes in the wake of revelations around the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) sting operation "Fast and Furious", which is alleged to have involved…
As agreed in a meeting between country leaders back in March, the United States has opened its border to Mexican trucks in a pilot program that began yesterday. In return, Mexico will lift tariffs on American goods. The program is an attempt to solve a dispute between the countries that…
The Obama administration has issued a direction to immigration officials advising them to use "prosecutorial discretion" in their deportation decisions in what some say is a workaround to achieve goals set out in the defeated DREAM Act.
In late May 2011, Gray Line Tours of Tucson took a group of 12 passengers on their first "Border Crisis: Fact and Fiction" tour, a day-long excursion to the U.S./Mexico border. Working in conjunction with guide Bob Feinman, Gray Line is hoping to provide something not readily-available in this heated climate:…
In a feature that ran today in the New York Times, former Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas revealed that he is an undocumented immigrant. The article comes on the heels of President Obama's speech on comprehensive immigration reform and in the midst of a national…
On May 10, 2011 in speech delivered in the border town of El Paso, Texas, American President Barack Obama called for comprehensive immigration reform. Read on for the full text, via The New Civil Rights Movement.
At a recent gala event in Washington D.C., Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for a more collaborative approach between the U.S. and Mexico in dealing with the security of the countries' shared border. He went on to criticize the U.S. immigration system, characterizing it as "broken".
Last Thursday, Arizona's governor Jan Brewer signed two new state laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants to the state. The bills will allow for the formation of a civilian milita under the command of the governor, and will allow citizens to raise private funds for construction of…
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