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"Immigration Reform or More Massacres." That's the provocative headline of today's column in the Mexican daily Reforma by Jorge Castaneda, who as Mexico's foreign secretary from 2000 to 2003 pushed the Bush administration to pass "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation. He is now Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Castaneda believes that unless the U.S. accepts the inevitability of large-scale migration of low-wage workers, it will be at fault for more slaughter like last week's horrific massacre of 72 illegal immigrants in the border state of Tamaulipas. Castaneda's thesis is that the...

January 2, 2009 Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0901/090102phoenix.htm Four men plead guilty to firearms charges in ICE human smuggling case Smugglers face up to 30 years in prison for using firearms during violent crime PHOENIX - Four men from Mazatlan, Mexico pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation into a hostage situation at an Avondale, Ariz., human smuggling drop house in March 2008. The guilty pleas were entered in federal court in Phoenix during the last two weeks of December before U.S. District Judge...