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A congresswoman has been sending staff members to Mexico to coach asylum seekers on a loophole in the immigration system, according to a new report. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) has sent aides to Juarez, just across the border, to speak to migrants who have been taken there after arriving at the United States under the recent policy change that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their case to finish. Aides to Escobar are telling migrants that they should pretend not to speak Spanish because the policy requires that migrants waiting in Mexico must speak Spanish, according to the...

A number of reports have surfaced in the last few weeks that corroborate a story Judicial Watch broke in mid-April verifying that ISIS is operating in a Mexican border town just eight miles from El Paso, Texas. This includes the startling development over the weekend that the Islamic terrorist group claimed responsibility for a shooting at a “Muhammad Art Exhibit” near Dallas because it was considered to be anti-Islam. JW’s report was based on intelligence from a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police inspector and was met with denials from both the U.S. and Mexican government...

Mexico's Murder City ruled by fear (Link only, per FR rules)

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – As violent crime surges, this border city and international manufacturing center is deploying security forces to create safe commuter routes for U.S. executives and others who work in industrial parks. Ciudad Juárez is home to 380 maquiladoras, factories where Mexican workers assemble products for foreign companies. Most are U.S.-owned or subsidiaries. The factories employ more than 230,000 people. So officials created special commuter routes leading to and from industrial parks to protect workers and managers. "The maquila industry is about 60 percent of the economy. And we know how important it is," Mayor Jesús Reyes Ferris...

Mexico invited to G-8 summit MEXICO CITY — This nation said Monday it has been invited to attend the G-8 summit of industrialized nations to be held in Scotland in July, along with Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The G-8 includes the United States, Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Russia and Japan, which together account for the lion's share of the world's economic output. The summit is expected to focus on issues such as climate change, trade and financing for development. Woman was raped,tortured, stabbed MONTERREY, Mexico — A woman whose body was found in an irrigation ditch in...