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On a recent Wednesday morning in Mexico City’s International Airport, family members gathered anxiously for the latest slew of arrivals. The cordon can be a place for joyful reunions, but on three days each week a more somber drama unfolds: Here, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, about 130 deported Mexican citizens arrive home. The minutes ticked by slowly until finally the deportees stumbled in, clutching their meagre belongings and their crumpled deportation documents. Each had a plastic bag containing a sandwich and a bottle of juice. For many of the younger arrivals, this was their first experience of Mexico. Walking...

International treaty used in motion to dismiss molestation case By Daniel Silliman dsilliman@news-daily.com Published: June 13, 2007 11:05 pm Even the defense attorney admitted it was a long shot. Citing an international treaty, Stephen Mackie argued charges of aggravated child molestation, aggravated battery and cruelty to children should be dismissed because police didn’t tell the accused man he could seek advice from the Mexican consulate. According to the Vienna Convention, signed in 1963, “foreign nationals” have to be advised of their right to seek legal council from their country’s consulate, when they are arrested. Mackie said the requirement -- sort...

Immigration reform will take center stage in the senate next week as lawmakers hope to have a new bill completed by Memorial Day. The deal includes granting quick legal status to illegal immigrants already in the U.S., creating a temporary worker program for new arrivals, and it calls for new high-tech enforcement measures to verify that workers are here legally. Part of that is the Z Visa, a document that illegal immigrants would apply for in order to gain citizenship. They would also have to pay $5,000 in fines. That aspect of the new immigration deal is drawing mixed reactions...

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Police could enforce immigration law Costa Mesa mayor wants city's police to be trained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to apply federal rules. By Alicia Robinson, Daily Pilot Costa Mesa could become the first city to ask its police officers to enforce federal immigration laws if the City Council agrees to a proposal Mayor Allan Mansoor will make Tuesday. A 1996 law allows state and local jurisdictions to enforce federal immigration laws. Under Mansoor's plan, Costa Mesa police would be trained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws in the course of their normal duties. advertisement...

INVASION USA Homeland Security bill lets illegals go free Without more detention facilities, 'other-than-Mexicans' must be released Posted: May 22, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The president of a labor organization representing Border Patrol employees and a Texas congressman are criticizing the House's recently passed Homeland Security bill for failing to fund construction of new detention facilities to hold illegal border-crossers from countries other than Mexico, resulting in their automatic release pending a later hearing date. HR 1817, the Department of Homeland Security authorization bill passed last Wednesday by the House, approved adding 2,000 new Border Patrol agents,...