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Border Patrol to add 265 agents to New Mexico

Snip: The Border Patrol is adding 185 agents at its Deming and Lordsburg stations, plus 80 in Alamogordo and Las Cruces. Richardson declared a state of emergency on New Mexico's border in August.

That freed state money for local governments and law enforcement to cope with what's been described as increasing crime and problems related to illegal immigration.

Mexico overstepping boundaries on immigration

Snip: After pressing us to educate Mexico's citizens, give them food stamps, deliver their babies, provide them with hospital beds and police their neighborhoods, the Mexican government also expects us to help preserve their loyalty — to Mexico.

Each of Mexico's 47 consulates in the United States has a mandate to introduce Mexican textbooks into schools with significant Hispanic populations. The Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles showered nearly 100,000 textbooks on 1,500 schools in the L.A. Unified School District this year alone.

Iran body launches drive to recruit suicide bombers

Snip: A film on “martyrdom-seeking operations” is planned to be shown at the gathering and a debate will be held regarding the guidelines for suicide operations from both Sunni and Shiite Islam’s perspectives and their impact on “the enemy”, the source added.

Earlier this month, radical fanatics signed up for suicide operations in Tehran to mark the end of the month of Ramadan. Samadi said that 40,000 volunteers for suicide bombing operations had already enlisted to attack targets on the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Application forms for suicide volunteers to sign up were distributed at the gathering. The group’s organisers previously said that their targets were three-fold; U.S.-led forces in Iraq, Jews in Israel, and Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against his head issue by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Two churches set ablaze in Pakistan

Snippets: LAHORE: Hundreds of Muslims attacked and burned two churches in Pakistan following reports that a Christian man had desecrated Islam's holy book.

Dogar said the allegations were apparently leveled by people who lost money while gambling with the Christian man Friday, but police had detained him and were investigating.

More than 1/2 of illegal El Salvadorans came in through South Texas

Snip: Federal authorities say more than three-thousand undocumented Salvadoran immigrants have been detained in the U-S Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector so far this fiscal year. They account for about 54 percent of the national figure of more than 57-hundred.

Salvadorans now account for the largest group of illegal immigrants detained in the U-S aside from Mexican nationals. Previously, Brazilians and Hondurans had been among the largest groups immigrating through the Rio Grande Valley.