This is not a marketplace. This is not an economy. We're not consumers, we're not just workers, we're citizens.
Congress has moved so far away from the idea that this is a nation, a country, and looking upon all of us as either consumers or workers rather than citizens. I get very nervous about that.
Snip: Police in Columbus, Dayton and Mansfield have found a painkiller-laced heroin that has killed addicts in Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia. Fentanyl turned up in six of 10 batches of heroin confiscated by Mansfield police, said police laboratory director Anthony Tambasco. The lab started testing for the drug just before Memorial Day, after officials heard of numerous recent deaths in the Detroit area, he said.
The DEA says heroin distribution is increasing in Ohio, with the drug being shipped directly from Chicago, Detroit, New York and the Mexican border. A recent case involving fentanyl was traced from Pittsburgh to a lab in Mexico, Tambasco said.
As Mexico sees it, a UN report on migrant rights
Snip: Around 85 per cent of Mexican migrants in the United States have resided there for more than three years; only one in five has been naturalized. Mexicans are the largest migrant group in the United States and in 30 of the 51 states in that country, accounting for 30 per cent of all foreign residents.
Another Snip: In the period 2001-2003, most temporary migrants were undocumented, in that 75 per cent did not have authorization to cross the border and 79 per cent did not have permission to work in the United States (compared with 48 per cent and 51 per cent, respectively, in 1993-1997), yet 82 per cent of them were in work during this period.
Even Another Snip: Mexico has a database with photographs of 10.6 million foreigners who have entered the country by air over the past year and a half. Through the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS), Mexico receives information in real time on passengers arriving at the country’s international airports before the aircraft has taken off from its place of origin.
Before passengers arrive, the migration authorities already know their name, registration document details, age, migration status, airline and flight number. Once on national territory, their passport is scanned and entered in the SIOM database.