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PHOENIX (AP) - Mexican Embassy officials are voicing concerns over what they call the potentially dire effects an immigration bill pending in the Arizona State Senate may have on the civil rights of Mexican nationals. Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday said initiatives that exclusively criminalize immigration create opportunities for an undue enforcement of the law through racial profiling.

Mexican authorities have been sending more alleged criminals north to the U.S. for trial since President Felipe Calderon took office. Now a Mexican official is worried about a flow in the other direction. Rommel Moreno, attorney general of Baja California state, expressed concern Friday about a plan in California to release thousands of inmates from that U.S. state's overcrowded prisons as a way to help relieve a budget crunch. Moreno noted many inmates in the California prison system are undocumented migrants, and some could be deported once released. A statement issued by his office said that "the repatriation of ex-convicts...

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, capped a trip to New Mexico and Texas in Brownsville Tuesday, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first consulate office from Mexico in this city. The site of the event was the Stillman House Museum on Washington Street where Espinosa was joined by Mexico's Consul Victor Manuel Treviño Escudero and local and area dignitaries as the Mexican Flag was raised. Espinosa noted that it was only fitting that the commemoration be in the heart of the historic community and expressed the strong ties that have joined Mexico and the U.S. for years....

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is protesting what it says is a whopper of an insult. An advertisement for Burger King's Texican Whopper burger that has run in Europe shows a small wrestler dressed in a cape resembling a Mexican flag. The wrestler teams up with a lanky American cowboy almost twice his height to illustrate the cross-border blend of flavors. "The taste of Texas with a little spicy Mexican," a narrator's voice says

Mexico says it will increase tariffs on about 90 U.S. products in retaliation for decision to cancel program that allowed some Mexican trucks to transport goods within the U.S.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The World Court said on Friday it will rule next week on a Mexican request that it seek a delay of the imminent U.S. executions of five of its citizens, who Mexico argues were denied consular assistance. One of the five on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas, prompting Mexico to make its petition last month for urgent action. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will issue its decision on July 16. The ICJ in The Hague ruled in 2004 that the United States had violated international law by failing...