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As a Californian and a student studying public health, I find the whooping cough resurgence in California extremely troubling ["Whooping cough makes a comeback," Health and Science, Sept. 28]. People who refuse to be vaccinated, though misguided, are easy scapegoats, but they are not the driving force behind this trend. In the short term, more needs to be done to encourage booster vaccines in teens and adults to protect the most vulnerable: infants too young to be vaccinated.

EAST COUNTY — A fire that had burned more than 800 acres by Friday night was caused by two stranded illegal immigrants who set a signal fire for help, Cal Fire officials said. Dubbed the Cowboy Fire, the blaze began about 1:15 p.m. Thursday near the Pacific Crest Trail southwest of Lake Morena. It burned in an area between Campo and Potrero. The two illegal immigrants called C4, Mexico’s emergency distress system, on Thursday and said they had been lost for two days and were dehydrated, said Cal Fire spokeswoman Roxanne Provaznik. They said they were going to light a...

NEW YORK (AP) - Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday that the United States is letting racism dictate its policies, especially when it comes to immigration. "The xenophobics, the racists, those who feel they are a superior race ... they are deciding the future of this nation," he said, without naming names, in an interview with The Associated Press. In his first interview to promote his new book, "Revolution of Hope," Fox applauded President Bush's desire to pass an immigration accord that would allow more Mexicans to work legally in the U.S. But he criticized Bush for failing to...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon said on Thursday the flow of illegal workers to the United States would not stop, saying the two countries needed to work together to solve the problem. A court this week named Calderon winner of the July presidential election after throwing out fraud claims by his leftist rival. Calderon, from the same conservative party as President Vicente Fox, is expected to be a U.S. ally in Latin America, but he warned that U.S. lawmakers should recognize that illegal immigration was a fact of life. "We can't ignore it. We can't make it...

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Nelson wants to fence off Mexico BY HENRY J. CORDES WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER There's a growing consensus in Washington that before Congress can address comprehensive immigration reform, it must first crack down at the nation's borders, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson said Friday. Sen. Ben Nelson Nelson this week introduced a new border security bill, one that would go even further than the proposal he first outlined in September. Among the provisions added since September is the construction of a $5 billion, two-layer reinforced fence that would stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico along the 1,900-mile U.S.-Mexico...

About half of the people caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally last month through Arizona were apprehended in Cochise County, authorities said. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, 19,643 undocumented migrants were found in Cochise County in August. Another 468 illegal immigrants were apprehended at Fort Huachuca in August, military officials said. The figure accounts for more than half of the 38,483 people apprehended last month in Arizona in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, which covers most of the state. So far this fiscal year, nearly half of all undocumented migrants apprehended by agents from the Border Patrol's Tucson...