Postcards - and video - from the edge
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CNN Lou Dobbs - video:
There are two Mexicos, one of abject party. Twenty percent of the population lives below the poverty line and nearly 10 percent lives on less than a dollar a day, according to figures from the United Nations. The other Mexico is thriving. Pesos and dollars abundant. The world of the elite class. Among them is Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire who according to Reuters has a bigger fortune than even Bill Gates, making him now the richest man in the world. Mexico's wealth gap has been closing in the last decade, but not fast enough. The North American Free Trade aAreement led to farmers leaving for factories in the north, only for those job opportunities it close off when jobs moved to lower wage countries like China. The nation's poverty crisis is fueling illegal immigration to the United States. The group NumbersUSA calls it exporting poverty, a trend that cannot continue. Roy Beck of NumbersUSA said: "What we saw in the Senate last month was that workers in the working neighborhoods in the United States rising up and saying, no more. We are not going to pay the cost of Mexico's mismanagement of their economy. You're not going to be able to offload forever." Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has recently instituted new anti-poverty programs. But policy experts say until Mexico takes charge of its own future with structural changes, reforming its education system and ending corruption, Mexico will continue to be a divided country.
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John O. Edwards -- NewsMax.com
America is finished. -- Mexico and Canada are gone too. -- In their place: One massive country, the North American Union (NAU), bordered by the Bering Sea to the north and Guatemala to the south, the Atlantic to the east and the Pacific to the west. -- NAU citizens no longer spend dollars or salute Old Glory...
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Asociated Press
San Antonio -- A sport utility vehicle packed with at least 19 suspected illegal [aliens] crashed after a high-speed chase with authorities, killing three [aliens] and sending 12 others to hospitals. -- The chase started in Natalia, about 30 miles southwest of San Antonio, and reached San Antonio around 2 a.m. at speeds over 100 mph...
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Steve Sailer -- VDare.com
Steve Sailer -- VDare.com
The Main Stream Media's normal lack of interest in Mexico, our southern neighbor, was briefly interrupted last week. There was a flurry of news reports that Bill Gates has been dethroned as the world's richest man by a fellow with an improbable name: Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican telephone monopolist...
The costs to the people of the United states of illegal aliens has been huge estimated recently to be over 89 billion. The ever-climbing costs include massive health care expense, incarceration, gang control, border patrol, corruption, underground economy, depressed wages, missing taxes, social security fraud...
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Columbia, Tenn. -- He waves at everyone. -- The man on the motorcycle gets a wave. The young auditor gets chitchat. The lady walking into the County Commission room receives a hug. -- You get the feeling that Maury County Sheriff Enoch George knows every resident in Columbia...
Adrian Flores was working the identity theft beat as a police detective in Los Angeles County when he realized that he too had become a victim. --- The majority of immigrants using fake identification don't know that the Social Security numbers belong to real people, said Marielena Hincapié of the National Immigration Law Center...
Three city men were injured early this morning following a high-speed ride down Liberty Street that ended when the driver went the wrong way through the Armory Street Rotary over Interstate 291. -- State police said the driver, an illegal alien from Mexico, now faces six charges along with a visit from federal immigration authorities.
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"Our sovereignty is under direct attack," warns a commanding voice emanating from a pool of light in the corner of an otherwise dark airplane hangar. Dan Howard, an airplane salesman by day, is in the middle of his weekly two-hour radio show titled Outraged Patriots, a nighttime broadcast devoted entirely to the topic of illegal immigration.
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Greeley (Colordo) Tribune
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Greeley (Colordo) Tribune
Most of northern Colorado has seen explosive growth in the past two decades. -- But Greeley stands out in one particular way: Much of the growth has occurred in the Latino population. -- While Loveland and Fort Collins' populations are about 10 percent Latino, in Greeley it is 30 percent and climbing...
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